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November 19 in history

194 sourced entries recorded on November 19, from 461 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 461Libius Severus, Roman senator from Lucania, is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire.source
  • 465Pope Hilarius convokes a synod at Rome's Church of Santa Maria Maggiore.source
  • 569In Poitiers the "Vexilla Regis" is first sung during the Procession.source
  • 636November 16–19 – Battle of al-Qādisiyyah: The Muslim Arab army defeats the Persian forces under Rostam Farrokhzād, at Al-Qādisiyyah (Southern Mesopotamia).source
  • 756Tang General Fang Guan is defeated at Xianyang. The imperial forces consisted of two thousand oxcarts with cavalry and foot soldiers on two fronts, but the rebels took advantage of their upwind position and attacked with fire. Imperial forces killed or wounded numbered more than 40,000 men.source
  • 1124Archbishop Adelbert I of Mainz acknowledges ownership by Odo of the Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims, as wellas the churches around Kusel, of the Church of Kusel, Altenglan, Konken and Pfeffelbach.source
  • 1202November 10–24 – Siege of Zara: The Crusaders under Boniface of Montferrat besiege and conquer Zara (modern-day Zadar) in Dalmatia. Despite letters from Innocent III forbidding such an action, and threatening excommunication. The leading citizens of Zara hang banners of crosses along the outer walls, professing their Catholic faith. Nevertheless, the Crusaders breach and sack the city, killing many.source
  • 1309Pope Clement V reverses the excommunication of Flemish hero Willem van Saeftinghe and grants him absolution, but requires him to join the Knights Hospitaller in their crusade at the island of Rhodes.source
  • 1383(10th waning of Nadaw 745 ME) The Pegu army of Smin Maru is driven back by the rebel Nwe, while General Zeik-Bye declines to intervene.source
  • 1387By order of the Lords Appellant, Sir Robert Tresilian, Chief Justice of the King's Bench of England, is arrested along with other nobles loyal to King Richard II, and charged with treason for malfeasance in office, with trial to take place four months later at Parliament in February.source
  • 1392(5th day of the leap month of Meitoku 3) Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu, in order to end the nanboku-cho period of conflict between the Northern and Southern imperial courts.source
  • 1404The St. Elizabeth's flood of the North Sea devastates parts of Flanders, Zeeland and Holland.source
  • 1406Chinese troops commanded by General Zhang Fu cross into Vietnam from Guanxi while those of Mu Sheng cross from Yunnan.source
  • 1413The alliance between the Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Duchy of Pomerania-Wolgast against the Duchy of Pomerania-Stettin is renewed.source
  • 1414The Third Parliament of King Henry V of England opens at Westminster and passes numerous laws, including the Suppression of Heresy Act 1414, the Riot Act 1414, and the Safe Conducts Act 1414.source
  • 1416At Nanjing, China's Emperor Cheng Zu bestows gifts at a grand ceremony to princes, civil officials, military officers, and the ambassadors of 18 countries.source
  • 1417The coronation of Elizabeth Granowska as Queen consort of Poland takes place after King Wladyslaw receives a special dispensation from the Council of Constance.source
  • 1421November 17–19 – St. Elizabeth's flood: The coastal area near Dordrecht in the Netherlands is flooded, due to the extremely high tide of the North Sea; 72 villages are drowned, killing about 10,000 people, and the course of the Meuse is changed.source
  • 1455The Duke of York is reinstated as Lord Protector, acting as regent for the King.source
  • 1493Christopher Columbus lands on the coast of the island of Borinquen, which he renames San Juan (modern-day Puerto Rico).source
  • 1502The "Cantino planisphere", a precise copy for an Italian spy of Portugal's secret Padrão Real map of the New World, is acquired by Alberto Cantino, agent for Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, at a cost of 12 golden ducats.source
  • 1531Charles V issues decree reorganizing the Council of Luxembourg.source
  • 1541(1st waxing of Tazaungmon 903 ME) King Tabinshwehti of Burma, having concluded the Buddhist Lent, leads the attack on the Kingdom of Prome with 17,000 troops and 1,400 boats.source
  • 1578Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Ralegh set out from Plymouth in England, leading an expedition to establish a colony in North America. They will be forced to turn back six months later.source
  • 1586English Separatist Puritan Henry Barrowe is imprisoned.source
  • 1591Queen Elizabeth I grants a royal charter founding Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, a boys' school; the institution, now known as Queen Elizabeth's School, later develops into an independent day school.source
  • 1594The siege of Fort Crozon by English and French soldiers ends with a massacre of all but 13 of the nearly 400 Spaniards living there, including women and children.source
  • 1600the future King Charles I of England and Scotland, son of James VI, is born in Dunfermline Palacesource
  • 1608In Budapest, the coronation ceremonies take place for Matthias to be crowned as King Mátyás II of Hungary.source
  • 1609Archduke Matthias of Austria is formally crowned in Budapest as Mátyás II, King of Hungary, after having been appointed on June 26, 1608.source
  • 1614Hostilities resulting from an attempt by Toyotomi Hideyori to restore Osaka Castle begin. Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the shōgun, is outraged at this act, and leads three thousand men across the Kizu River, destroying the fort there.source
  • 1620The Tranquebar Treaty is signed with the Nayak of Tanjore, giving Denmark possession of Tharangambadi (Danish: Trankebar) and the right to construct Fort Dansborg.source
  • 1660James, Duke of York, as Lord High Admiral of England, proclaims that use of the newly restored Union Jack is reserved to ships of the Royal Navy and merchant ships should fly the Red Ensign.source
  • 1663Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy is appointed by King Louis XIV of Frances as the new Governor General of the French West Indies as the colonies of Saint-Domingue, Saint Martin, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Saint Barthélemy, and Saint Croix are put under a unified rule for the colonies in the Caribbean Sea for the first time since 1651.source
  • 1671Lê Gia Tông, age 10, is installed as the figurehead Emperor of Vietnam (a kingdom known as Đại Việt or Annam) by the warlord Trịnh Tạc, after the death, three days earlier, of Lê Huyền Tông. He reigns until his death on April 3, 1675.source
  • 1682fire at Wapping makes 1,500 homeless.source
  • 1684Richard Keigwin, who had arrested the East India Company's Governor of Bombay in 1683, Josiah Child and had taken over as the unauthorized administrator of Bombay, turns control back to the company and its envoy, Sir Thomas Grantham, receiving a general pardon.source
  • 1688November 19 (November 9 OS) – William of Orange captures Exeter, after the magistrates flee the city.source
  • 1724The Dutch East India Company frigate Slot ter Hooge strikes rocks and sinks off Porto Santo Island, Madeira, with the loss of 221 of the 254 people on board.source
  • 1724according to legend, that day emperor Peter I of Russia rushes into the cold Neva to save the drowning soldiers while inspecting ironworks. This icy water rescue is said to have exacerbated Peter's bladder problems and caused his death in February 1725.source
  • 1747November 17–19 – The Knowles Riot breaks out in Boston, Massachusetts, protesting impressment into the British Royal Navy.source
  • 1761A separate peace treaty is signed between the Cherokee Indians and the Colony of Virginia, bringing the Anglo-Cherokee War to a close.source
  • 1767Under the coercion of Russian occupation armies, the legislature of Poland follows the wishes of Russian Minister Nicholas Repnin and agrees to allow the kingdom to become a Russian protectorate.source
  • 1769Blackfriars Bridge across the River Thames in London opens to traffic.source
  • 1792France's National Convention passes a resolution pledging French support for the overthrow of the governments of other nations.source
  • 1794The United States and Great Britain sign the Jay Treaty (coming into effect in 1796), which attempts to clear up some issues left over from the American Revolutionary War and secures a decade of peaceful trade between the two nations. Britain agrees to evacuate border forts in the Northwest Territory (roughly the area north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi) and thereby end British support for the Indians.source
  • 1794Britain and the United States sign the Jay Treaty (coming into effect 1796), which attempts to clear up some issues left over from the American Revolutionary War and secures a decade of peaceful trade between the two nations.source
  • 1794The United States and Great Britain sign the Jay Treaty (coming into effect 1796), which attempts to clear up some issues left over from the American Revolutionary War and secures a decade of peaceful trade between the two nations. Britain agrees to evacuate border forts in the Northwest Territory (roughly the area north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi) and thereby end British support for the Indians.source
  • 1800The first copper coins are circulated in New South Wales. To prevent their removal from the colony they were issued at double their face value, that is a coin valued at one penny in England was deemed to represent twopence in New South Wales.source
  • 1806Akbar II Akbar Shah, Mughal Emperor ascended to the throne of Delhi.source
  • 1808The naval frigate HMS Owen Glendower is launched.source
  • 1813George William Evans, assistant surveyor, set out to confirm the earlier discoveries of Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth.source
  • 1814The Active attempts to leave Sydney but is forced to turn back by bad weather.source
  • 1816The University of Warsaw is established.source
  • 1819The Museo del Prado opens in Madrid. Initially, it has 311 significant paintings.source
  • 1822An earthquake near Valparaíso in Chile kills around 200 people, causes a tsunami and raises the coastal area.source
  • 1824Edward Kernan appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, in succession to James Murphy, an office he will hold until 1844.source
  • 1834The first permanent European settlement on the north coast of Bass Strait is established at Portland by Edward Henty.source
  • 1846Banco de Portugal establishedsource
  • 1850the barque Edmond sinks off Kilkee with the loss of 98 of the 216 aboard.source
  • 1861Battle of Round Mountain in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma).source
  • 1863U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address, at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.source
  • 1867Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns the shogunate.source
  • 1869The Hudson's Bay Company surrenders its claim to Rupert's Land in Canada, under its letters patent, back to the British Crown.source
  • 1869The Deed of Surrender recognizes the purchase of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the Hudson's Bay Company: the lands are placed under the direct control of the Crown, but do not yet formally belong to Canada.source
  • 1869the Hudson's Bay Company surrenders its claim to Rupert's Land in Canada under its letters patent back to the British Crown.source
  • 1873November 18–21 – Irish Home Rule movement: The Home Government Association reconstitutes itself as the Home Rule League.source
  • 1879Battle of San Franciscosource
  • 1881A meteorite strikes the Earth near the village of Großliebenthal, a few kilometers southwest of Odesa, Ukraine.source
  • 1885November 14–28 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Serbia declares war against Bulgaria, but is defeated in the Battle of Slivnitsa on November 17–19.source
  • 1889The modern-day flag of Brazil is adopted by the Provisional Government of the Republic.source
  • 1898In U.S. college football, Harvard University defeats Yale University, 17 to 0, to close the season unbeaten.source
  • 1904SMS Deutschland (battleship)source
  • 1908Women's suffrage is passed in Victoria, Australia.source
  • 1910A cyclone strikes the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing 40 people and destroying 20 houses.source
  • 1916Ruth Law sets a new distance record for cross-country flight by flying 590 miles (950 km) non-stop from Chicago to New York State. She flies on to New York City the next day.source
  • 1922Abdülmecid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire, is elected Caliph.source
  • 1924Major-General Sir Lee Stack, British Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, is shot in Cairo by a gang of Egyptian nationalist students, dying the following day.source
  • 1926Establishment of Anadia FCsource
  • 1929Torleiv Hannaas, philologist (born 1874)source
  • 1933Second Spanish Republic: General elections result in a victory by the right-wing parties.source
  • 1936November 19 and 20 – Buenaventura Durruti, a major Spanish anarchist, is fatally shot in Madrid, dying the following day.source
  • 1936Dowlais Ironworks ceases steel production at its original Dowlais works. On a visit to the depressed areas of the South Wales Valleys King Edward VIII comments that "These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again." The remark is much misquoted.source
  • 1937Hubert Opperman completes an epic bicycle ride from Fremantle, Western Australia to Sydney, taking 13 days, 10 hours and 11 minutes.source
  • 1940The Central Legislative Assembly rejects the Finance Bill.source
  • 1941WWII: Battle between HMAS Sydney and German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran – Both commerce raiding German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran and Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney sink following a battle off the coast of Western Australia. There are no survivors from the 645 Australian sailors aboard Sydney.source
  • 1942WWII: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counter-attacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.source
  • 1942The Romania Third and Fourth Armies come under attack by the Soviet Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad.source
  • 1943The Holocaust: Inmates of Janowska concentration camp, near Lwów (at this time in German-occupied Poland), stage a failed uprising, after which the SS liquidates the camp, resulting in at least 6,000 deaths.source
  • 19461946 Romanian general election: The Romanian Communist Party wins 79.86% of the vote, through widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud.source
  • 1950Alexandru Todea is secretly consecrated bishop of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church.source
  • 1955C. Northcote Parkinson first propounds 'Parkinson's law', in The Economist.source
  • 1958Maritime Commission appointedsource
  • 1961Rebellion of the Pilots: A military uprising overthrows the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic.source
  • 1964The United States Department of Defense announces the closing of 95 military bases and facilities, including Fort Jay, the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the Brooklyn Army Terminal.source
  • 1967The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.source
  • 1969Vietnam War: A Cleveland, Ohio newspaper, The Plain Dealer, publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.source
  • 1969Richard Oakes returns with 90 followers to Alcatraz Island and begins a 19 month long occupation, lasting until June 1971.source
  • 1969Pelé scores his 1,000th goal for Santos, beating Vasco da Gama 2–1 at the Maracanã Stadium.source
  • 1969Professional footballer Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.source
  • 1969Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms"), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.source
  • 1970The six European Economic Community nation prime ministers meet in Munich to begin the new programme of European Political Cooperation (EPC), a unified foreign policy for a future European Union.source
  • 1972Seán Mac Stíofáin, a leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, is arrested in Dublin after giving a radio interview to RTÉ and charged with being a member of the IRA.source
  • 1975The United States Congress approves the Clark Amendment, ending aid to the FNLA and UNITA.source
  • 1976General Zia took over the powers of Chief Martial Law Administrator, leaving President Sayem with only ceremonial function.source
  • 1977Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit to Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.source
  • 1977TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes at Madeira Airport, Funchal, Portugal, killing 131 and leaving 33 survivors.source
  • 1983An attempted hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 6833 in Soviet Georgia results in several dead and wounded.source
  • 1984A series of explosions at the Pemex Petroleum Storage Facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec, in Mexico City, ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.source
  • 1984San Juanico disastersource
  • 1985Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.source
  • 1985The Memali Incident took place in the remote village of Memali near Baling, Kedah. About 14 civilians and four policemen were killed, including Islamic sect leader, Ibrahim Mahmud (Ibrahim Libya).source
  • 1986The law "On Individual Labor Activity" is adopted, approving the use of private enterprises to manufacture some consumer goods.source
  • 19891989 North Korean local electionssource
  • 19911991 Chocó earthquake.source
  • 1993November 17–22 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes the legislative houses in the United States, Canada and Mexico.source
  • 1994Weightlifter Halil Mutlu broke 3 world records in 54 kgsource
  • 1996Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) established.source
  • 1996STS-80: Space Shuttle Columbia conducts the longest mission of the Space Shuttle program.source
  • 1996Martin Bryant is sentenced to 35 consecutive sentences of life imprisonment plus 1,035 years without parole for murdering 35 people in a shooting spree in Tasmania earlier this year.source
  • 1997In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies are born alive, and the first in which all survive infancy.source
  • 1998Valve Corporation releases their first-person shooter video game Half-Life to critical acclaim. The game would be deemed one of the most influential titles of its genre, and one of the greatest video games of all time.source
  • 1999Wie is de Mol? was first broadcast on Dutch television.source
  • 2001President George W. Bush signs the Aviation and Transportation Security Act into law, shifting airport security from private contractors to a federal workforce.source
  • 2004November 14–26 – Typhoon Muifa kills 600 people in the Philippines.source
  • 2006Nintendo releases the Wii.source
  • 2007Israel releases 450 Palestinian Arab prisoners as a goodwill gesture to the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, ahead of the 2007 Mideast peace conference with the Palestinian Authority.source
  • 2007The European Union imposes tougher sanctions on Burma, including an embargo on gemstones, metal and timber, and a tighter visa ban against members of the State Peace and Development Council.source
  • 2008Claudia Castillo of Spain becomes the first person to have a successful trachea transplant using a tissue-engineered organ.source
  • 2012November 14–21 – Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Palestinian-governed Gaza Strip, killing Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari. In the following week 140 Palestinians and five Israelis are killed in an ensuing cycle of violence. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is announced by Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after the week-long escalation in hostilities in Southern Israel and the Gaza Strip.source
  • 2019Google enters the video game market with the launch of Stadia.source
  • 2020The Brereton Report into Australian war crimes during the War in Afghanistan is released.source
  • 2020Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart wins the 2020 Booker Prize.source
  • 2022The 2022 Malaysian general election results in a hung parliament, which is the first in the country's history. Long-time opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is appointed by Yang di-Pertuan Agong Abdullah as prime minister five days later to break the political deadlock and form a unity government.source
  • 2022November 19–November 26 – The 2022 Central American and Caribbean Beach Games are held in Santa Marta, Colombia.source
  • 2024November 11–22 – COP29 is held in Baku, Azerbaijan.source
  • 2025November 10–21 – The COP30 summit is held in Belém, Brazil, focusing on the role of the Amazon rainforest in climate action.source

Births

  • 1168Emperor Ningzong, Chinese ruler (died 1224)source
  • 1413Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1471)source
  • 1417Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern from 1459 until 1480 (died 1480)source
  • 1464Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (died 1526)source
  • 1503Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (died 1547)source
  • 1563Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (died 1626)source
  • 1600Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1649)source
  • 1600Charles I at Dunfermline Palace, king of England and Scotland (executed 1649 in England)source
  • 1700Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (died 1770)source
  • 1711Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath (died 1765)source
  • 1722Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (died 1810)source
  • 1752George Rogers Clark, American soldier, officer and explorer (died 1818)source
  • 1828Rani Lakshmibai, queen of the Maratha-ruled princely Indian state of Jhansi (died 1858)source
  • 1831James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (died 1881)source
  • 1862Billy Sunday, American baseball player, evangelist and prohibitionist (died 1935)source
  • 1917Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (died 1984)source
  • 1938Ted Turner, American entrepreneur and cable television pioneer (died 2026)source
  • 1954Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President of Egyptsource
  • 1966Nazir Razak – renowned banker, former CIMB Bank Chairman (2014–2020)source

Deaths

  • 498Pope Anastasius II dies after a 2-year reign in which he has tried to conciliate followers of Acacius, late patriarch of Constantinople, who was excommunicated by Felix III.source
  • 930Yan Keqiu, Chinese chief strategistsource
  • 1009Lê Long Đĩnh, emperor of the Lê Dynasty (born 986)source
  • 1034Theodoric II, margrave of Lower Lusatiasource
  • 1092Sultan Malik-Shah I dies after a 20-year reign while hunting. The Seljuk Empire falls into chaos: his brother Tutush I and rival successors carve up their own independent sultanates in the Middle East. Malik-Shah is succeeded by his son Mahmud I, but he does not gain control of the empire.source
  • 1092Malik-Shah I, Seljuk sultan (born 1055)source
  • 1190Baldwin of Forde, English archbishopsource
  • 1266Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah, Mamluk ruler of Delhisource
  • 1267Pedro Gallego, Franciscan scholar and translatorsource
  • 1288Rudolf I, German nobleman and regent (born 1230)source
  • 1299Mechtilde, German noblewoman and mysticsource
  • 1301Johann III, Polish chaplain, bishop and diplomatsource
  • 1350Raoul II of Brienne, Count of Eusource
  • 1432At the Battle of Delebio, Niccolò Piccinino, leader of Milanese Army defeats the Venetian troops of Taddeo d'Este after a two-day battle in which more than 5,300 Venetian cavalry and infantry are killed.source
  • 1449Kunigunde of Sternberg, first spouse of the King George of Podebrady (born 1425)source
  • 1481Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (born 1472)source
  • 1501Amalia of Saxony, Duchess of Bavaria-Landshut (born 1436)source
  • 1523Following the September 14 death of Pope Adrian VI, Cardinal Giulio de' Medici is elected 219th pope as Clement VII. The election of Cardinal Medici begins an unbroken reign of 44 consecutive Italian Popes over the next 455 years.source
  • 1557Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (born 1494)source
  • 1577With defeat coming close in the siege of Shigisan, Matsunaga Hisahide commits suicide.source
  • 1577Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (born 1508)source
  • 1581Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (born 1554)source
  • 1665Nicolas Poussin, French painter (born 1594)source
  • 1665Nicolas Poussin, painter (born 1594)source
  • 1672John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (born 1614)source
  • 1682Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (born 1619)source
  • 1703The so-called Man in the Iron Mask dies in the Bastille. He is buried under the name of "Marchioly".source
  • 1703Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner, among the most famous in French history (born 1640)source
  • 1728Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (born 1694)source
  • 1798Wolfe Tone, Irish republican (born 1737)source
  • 1806Shah Alam II, Mughal Emperorsource
  • 1809Battle of Ocaña: A Spanish army is ridden down, and 4,000 are killed and wounded by French forces.source
  • 1828Franz Schubert, Austrian composer and songwriter (born 1797)source
  • 1850Richard Mentor Johnson, 9th Vice President of the United States (born 1780)source
  • 1887Emma Lazarus, American poet (born 1859)source
  • 1928Edward O'Neill, 2nd Baron O'Neill, politician (born 1839)source
  • 2012Boris Strugatsky, 79, Russian science fiction author, pneumonia.source
  • 2017Charles Manson, 83, American criminal (Tate murders), songwriter (Lie: The Love and Terror Cult) and cult leader (Manson Family), cardiac arrest due to colon cancer.source