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November 2 in history

204 sourced entries recorded on November 2, from 82 BCE to 2023 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 82 BCESulla slaughters the Samnite prisoners in the Villa publica; the senate rejects his proscription plan.source
  • 1160Betrothal of 5-year-old Henry the Young King of England and 2-year-old Marguerite, daughter of Louis VII of France; she brings Norman Vexin to the English crown as a dowry.source
  • 1164Thomas Becket, having contended with Henry II over the power of secular courts, is found guilty of contempt of court, and exiled to France.source
  • 1239An expeditionary force (some 4,000 knights) under Theobald I sets out from Acre for the Egyptian frontier, detachments from the military orders and several local barons accompany the Crusaders. While marching to Jaffa, a Crusader column led by Peter of Brittany and his lieutenant Raoul de Soissons with two hundred knights, lay an ambush and attacks a rich Muslim caravan.source
  • 1254German forces under Manfred start an anti-papal revolt against Innocent IV and seize Lucera in the Tavoliere Plains. He defeats the papal army at Foggia and gains the loyalty of Apulia, on December 2.source
  • 1322Scotland's King Robert the Bruce ends his "Great Raid" campaign after six weeks, and withdraws his troops from northern England.source
  • 1322Dmitry of Tver, nicknamed "Dmitry of the Fearsome Eyes", Grand Prince of Tver in Russia, becomes the new monarch of the Grand Principality of Vladimir.source
  • 1389Pietro Tomacelli Cybo of Naples is elected as the successor of the late Pope Urban VI, and takes the name Pope Boniface IX.source
  • 1390The Treaty of Pyzdry is signed between King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland and Wartislaw VII, Duke of Pomerania with the Duke pledging his support to the King in the Polish-Teutonic War.source
  • 1391At Chambéry (now in France), Amadeus the Peaceful becomes the new Count of Savoy at the age of 8 upon the death from tetanus of his 31-year-old father, Amadeus VII, the Red Count, who was injured in a hunting accident. Bonne of Bourbon, the mother of the older Amadeus, serves as regent for her grandson until 1397.source
  • 1400The Mamluk Sultanate surrenders the city of Aleppo and Tamerlane's Army massacres many of the inhabitants.source
  • 1401The Battle of Tuthill takes place at Caernarfon in Wales as Owain Glyndŵr loses 300 soldiers in an attack by the English Army.source
  • 1410A temporary halt to the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War in France is reached with the signing of a truce at Bicêtre, near Paris.source
  • 1439A Great Ordinance is adopted by the French Estates-General. This measure grants the king the exclusive right to raise troops, and establishes the taxation measure known as the taille, in support of a standing army.source
  • 1439A Great Ordinance is adopted by the Estates-General, granting the king the exclusive right to raise troops, and establishing the taxation measure known as the taille, in support of a standing army, foundation of the Compagnie d'ordonnance.source
  • 1440The Old Zurich War begins as the Canton of Zurich, led by the burgomaster Rudolf Stüssi, is expelled from the Swiss Confederation (Corpus helveticum) by the leaders of the other cantons (Bern, Glarus, Lucerne, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Uri and Zug). Stüssi makes an alliance with Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and a war which will last more than five years begins.source
  • 1462King Edward IV issues a charter guaranteeing the right of clergy to be tried in the ecclesiastical courts rather than by the royal judicial system set for most of the English inhabitants, despite the general limitation of ecclesiastical courts to church matters.source
  • 1474An alliance pact is signed between the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Florence.source
  • 1485The Peace of Bourges temporarily stops the civil war in France, dubbed "the Mad War". (la Guerre folle)source
  • 1489After years of conquests within Central Europe, King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and his army are routed at the battle of Uherský Brod and forced to retreat back to Hungarysource
  • 1598Admiral Yi Sunsin of the Korean Navy attempts to bombard the Suncheon Castle, two days after the joint Chinese and Korean land assault is driven back. Korea and China lose 39 ships when a large number of the fleet gets stuck in the shallow waters at low tide and the vessels are attacked by the Japanese. Yi Sunsin calls off the siege the next day.source
  • 1622After a siege of 13 days, the German city of Mannheim is captured from England by a force of Spanish and Imperial Holy Roman troops led by Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly.source
  • 1625November 1–7 – Cádiz Expedition: English forces commanded by Admiral George Villiers (which set out from Plymouth on October 8) are decisively defeated by the Spanish at Cádiz.source
  • 1667In India, Assam troops led by General Lachit Borphukan, dispatched by King Supangmung, captures the Mughal Empire city of Guwahati after a victory in battle at Itakhuli.source
  • 1675Commissioners of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Plymouth Colony (which are later merged into Massachusetts) begin a 10-day discussion on organizing a united force to attack the Narragansett tribe.source
  • 1692Anne Palles is convicted of witchcraft and sentenced to death. The execution of her takes place on 4 April 1693. She becomes the last person executed for witchcraft in Denmark.source
  • 1698The Darien scheme Scottish settlers land in Panama and establish their ill-fated colony; 80% of them would die within the first year.source
  • 1701King Philip V of Spain marries for the first time, to 13-year-old Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy, who serves as Queen Consort until her death from tuberculosis at the age of 25.source
  • 1713Princess Ulrika Eleonora appointed regent of Sweden in her brothers absence.source
  • 1719the Toleration Act ("For exempting the Protestant Dissenters of this kingdom from certain penalties to which they are now subject"), passed by the Parliament of Ireland, receives Royal Assent.source
  • 1721November 2 (October 22 Old Style) – The Romanov and architect of the Great Northern War Peter I, is proclaimed the first Emperor of All the Russias. This replaces the 174-year-long Tsardom of Russia with the Russian Empire, which will collapse almost 200 years later in 1917.source
  • 1772American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.source
  • 1773The Sunnmøre Practical Agricultural Society was founded.source
  • 1779The North Carolina General Assembly carves a new county from Dobbs County, North Carolina and names it Wayne County, in honor of United States General Anthony Wayne.source
  • 1783In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, United States General George Washington gives his Farewell Address to the Army.source
  • 1789Decree on the goods of the clergy placed at the disposal of the Nation passed by the National Constituent Assembly.source
  • 1795French Revolution: The French Directory takes power; the influence of the Sans-culottes declines.source
  • 1795French Revolution: The French Directory takes power; the influence of the Sans-culottes declines.source
  • 1810A peace treaty in Haiti confirms its division between the northern State of Haiti, ruled autocratically by the gen de couleur Henri Christophe, and the southern Republic, ruled by mulatto Alexandre Pétion.source
  • 1813October 24–November 5 – Persia and Russia sign the Treaty of Gulistan at the end of the Russo-Persian War, by which Persia loses modern-day Georgia, Dagestan and most of Azerbaijan to Russia.source
  • 1813Lord Charles Henry Somerset is appointed Governor of the Cape.source
  • 1813Richard Parry Price, heir to the Puleston estates, is created a baronet.source
  • 1819Bagyidaw is crowned as Emperor of Burma, at the imperial capital of Inwa.source
  • 1830Jacques Laffitte succeeds the Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister of France.source
  • 1832December 5 – Andrew Jackson defeats Henry Clay in the U.S. presidential election.source
  • 1834The ship Atlas docks in Mauritius carrying the first group of laborers (from Calcutta) under the Indian indenture system to work on sugar plantations following the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.source
  • 1840Construction of The Causeway across the Swan River in Perth begins.source
  • 1851legislative election.source
  • 18521852 United States presidential election: Democrat Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire defeats Whig Winfield Scott of Virginia.source
  • 1861American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Frémont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.source
  • 1867The first issue of the women's fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar is published. It is issued weekly, but later monthly.source
  • 1868New Zealand Mean Time adopted throughout the colony; New Zealand may be the first country to have adopted a standard time throughout the country.source
  • 1868Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time, to be observed nationally.source
  • 1874The first issue of Japanese-language newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun is published in Tokyo, Japan.source
  • 1876October 28-November 5 - Hagi Rebellionsource
  • 18801880 United States presidential election: James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock.source
  • 1882The Great Fire of Oulu destroys 27 buildings in the downtown of Oulu, Finland.source
  • 1884Timișoara, Romania, is the first town in Europe with streets illuminated by electric light.source
  • 1884the "Home Office Baby" is delivered to the Home Office.source
  • 1889North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states, respectively.source
  • 1889English Association football team Wimbledon F.C. plays their first match.source
  • 1892The first football club in Bohemia, Slavia Praha is established, originally under name of Akademický cyklistický odbor Slavia (A.C.O.S.), focusing on cycling.source
  • 1896Transvaal – Krugersdorp to Frederikstad, 52 mi.source
  • 1899The first aviation fatality in New Zealand. Balloonist David Maloney (alias Captain Charles Lorraine) is blown out to sea after taking off from Lancaster Park. The balloon crashes into the sea and although Maloney is seen to survive by the time rescuers arrive there is no sign of him and his body is never found.source
  • 1900The first Romanian opera, Petru Rareș by Eduard Caudella is performed for the first time.source
  • 1902The first Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, organised and led by naturalist William Speirs Bruce, sets out from Troon in the Scotia.source
  • 1903Lyceum Theatre (Broadway) opens, making it the oldest continuously operating legitimate theater in New York City.source
  • 1907A film adaptation of Robbery Under Arms is released.source
  • 1913Second round of Italian general election. The two historical parliamentary factions, the liberal and progressive Left and the conservative and monarchist Right, formed a single liberal and centrist group, known as The Liberals, under the leadership of Giovanni Giolitti, which narrowly retained an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies, while the Radical Party emerged as the largest opposition bloc. Both groupings did particularly well in Southern Italy, while the Italian Socialist Party gained eight seats and was the largest party in Emilia-Romagna.source
  • 1916Prince Hirohito is formally proclaimed Crown Prince and heir apparent.source
  • 1917Zionism: The British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour makes the Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..., it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".source
  • 1917Lansing–Ishii Agreementsource
  • 19201920 United States presidential election: Republican U.S. senator Warren G. Harding defeats Democratic governor of Ohio James M. Cox and Socialist Eugene V. Debs, in the first national U.S. election in which women have the right to vote.source
  • 1920Meiji Shrine, one of many landmark spots in Tokyo, is officially built in Japan.source
  • 1920In the United States, KDKA AM of Pittsburgh (owned by Westinghouse) starts broadcasting as a commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the results of the presidential election.source
  • 1922William Watson appointed Lord Advocate, replacing Charles David Murray.source
  • 1930Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.source
  • 1932The Emu War, a nuisance wildlife management military operation, begins in Australia.source
  • 1934Edmond James de Rothschild (born 1845), French-born Jewish philanthropist and a major supporter of Zionism during the First Aliyah period.source
  • 1934October 20–November 3 – Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first eastward crossing of the Pacific Ocean, from his native Brisbane, Australia, to San Francisco, in the Lockheed Altair Lady Southern Cross. The November 3 Hawaii–San Francisco leg is the first eastward flight from Hawaii to North America.source
  • 1936The BBC launches the world's first regular television service in high-definition (according to contemporary standards).source
  • 1936The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) begins radio in Canada.source
  • 1938Arising from The Munich Agreement, Hungary is "awarded" the Felvidek region of South Slovakia and Ruthenia.source
  • 1939November 1–2 – WWII: Physicist Hans Ferdinand Mayer writes the Oslo Report on German weapons systems, and passes it to the British Secret Intelligence Service.source
  • 1940November 2–8 – WWII: Greco-Italian War – Battle of Elaia–Kalamas in Epirus: Outnumbered Greek forces repel the Italian Army.source
  • 1940German submarine U-69 is commissioned, the first Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, which will become its most numerous class, with 568 commissioned during the War.source
  • 1941The kibbutz of Ramat HaShofet is established.source
  • 1942A USAAF squadron, including B-24 Liberators, intercepts many Luftwaffe patrols off the coast of Oran, Algeria.source
  • 1947In Long Beach, California, United States, designer and airplane pilot Howard Hughes carries out the one and only flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules ("Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built and flown. This flight only lasts 8 minutes.source
  • 19481948 United States presidential election: Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats Republican Thomas E. Dewey, "Dixiecrat" Strom Thurmond and Progressive party candidate Henry A. Wallace.source
  • 19492,000 Bedouin expelled from the Beersheba area to West Bank.source
  • 1950South African Airways inaugurates daily services between Johannesburg and Bulawayo and between Johannesburg and Cape Town.source
  • 19516,000 British troops are flown into Egypt to quell unrest in the Suez Canal zone.source
  • 1954The radio program Hancock's Half Hour, a pioneer in situation comedy, is first broadcast on BBC Radio (a television version will follow in 1956).source
  • 1954The dock workers' strike in the UK comes to an end.source
  • 1959At a ceremony near Toddington, British Minister of Transport Ernest Marples opens the first section of the M1 Motorway, between Watford and Crick, along with two spur motorways, the M45 and M10. Three decades of large scale motorway construction follow, leading to the rapid expansion of the UK motorway network.source
  • 1961Kean opens at Broadway Theater in New York City for 92 performances.source
  • 1962Greville Wynne, a British trader acting as a courier for MI6, is arrested by the KGB in Budapest and imprisoned in Moscow after confessing to espionage.source
  • 19631963 South Vietnamese coup: Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese President.source
  • 1966North Korean commandos ambush a UN command control consisting of 2nd Infantry Division soldiers south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone.source
  • 1966The third wave of by-elections were held in three constituencies, namely Bukit Timah Constituency, Jurong Constituency and Joo Chiat Constituency.source
  • 1966The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residency in the United States.source
  • 19761976 United States presidential election: Jimmy Carter narrowly defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.source
  • 1977The worst storm in Athens' modern history causes havoc across the Greek capital and kills 38 people.source
  • 19788:00 pm – The Republic of Ireland's second television channel RTÉ 2 goes on air (renamed Network 2, 1988; RTÉ Network Two, 1995; N2, 1997; and RTÉ Two in 2004).source
  • 1979Assata Shakur (née Joanne Chesimard), a former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, escapes from a New York prison to Cuba, where she remains under political asylum until her death in 2025.source
  • 1979French police shoot gangster Jacques Mesrine in Paris.source
  • 1983South Africa approves a new constitution granting limited political rights to Coloureds and Asians as part of a series of reforms to apartheid.source
  • 1983First successful kidney transplantation in Istanbul.source
  • 1984November 1–4 – Anti-Sikh mass murder takes place in Delhi and various parts of India following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.source
  • 1988The Morris worm, the first computer worm distributed via the Internet, written by Robert Tappan Morris, is launched from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S.source
  • 1990British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.source
  • 1991Bartholomew I is enthroned as Patriarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, thus becoming the new spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox worldwide.source
  • 1991An IRA bomb explodes in Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast, killing two British Army soldiers and injuring 11 other people.source
  • 1991October 28–November 4 – The 1991 Perfect Storm strikes the northeastern U.S. coast and Atlantic Canada, causing over US$200 million of damage and resulting in 12 direct fatalities.source
  • 1991October 31–November 3 – The Halloween blizzard hits the U.S. Upper Midwest, killing 22 people and causing US$100 million in damage.source
  • 1995The Supreme Court of Argentina orders the extradition of ex-S.S. captain Erich Priebke.source
  • 1995November 2–3 – The most destructive of the series of tropical cyclones, Super Typhoon Angela (Rosing) rampages across southern Luzon with strong winds; devastates half of the country's regions including Bicol Region, the hardest hit, as well as the mainland part of the Southern Tagalog Region, Metro Manila, and Bataan. Final data reports 936 deaths and ₱10.829-billion worth of damages. —"Philippines -Typhoon Angela Information Report No. 4" ReliefWeb. November 14, 1995.source
  • 1997Severe Tropical Storm Linda devastates southern Vietnam and Thailand, killing 3,275 people.source
  • 2000Expedition 1 to the International Space Station begins.source
  • 2002An earthquake occurred at 01:26 UTC with a magnitude of 7.3 on the moment magnitude scale with an epicenter just north of Simeulue island and caused three deaths.source
  • 2004George W. Bush is reelected president of the United States, defeating his challenger John Kerry.source
  • 2006No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock becomes the most expensive painting after it is sold privately for $140 million.source
  • 2007Cambodia will build a new rail link to Thailand with US$80 million in funds it received from the Asian Development Bank and OPEC. Work on the 48-kilometer line between Sisophon and Poipet will start early next year and be completed by 2010, transport minister Sun Chanthol says.source
  • 2008October 30–November 4 – Floods affected Northern and Central Vietnam.source
  • 2008In a race won by Brazilian driver Felipe Massa, British driver Lewis Hamilton ends in 5th place in 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix and becomes the first black driver to win the Formula One World Championship, and the second youngest driver to achieve the feat at the age of 23.source
  • 20102010 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, in the middle of Democratic President Barack Obama's first term. Republicans ended unified Democratic control of Congress and the presidency by winning a majority in the House of Representatives.source
  • 2012October 22 – November 2 – Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning 900 miles (1,400 km)), wreaks havoc, resulting in 233 total deaths and $68.7 billion (2012 USD) damage.source
  • 2013Two French journalists are abducted—and later executed—in Kidal by AQIM-linked armed jihadists.source
  • 2014The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the final part of its Fifth Assessment Report, warning that the world faces "severe, pervasive and irreversible" damage from global emissions of CO 2 .source
  • 2016The Chicago Cubs win the World Series for the first time since 1908, ending the longest championship drought in North American sports history.source
  • 2017A new species of orangutan is identified in Indonesia, becoming the third known species of orangutan as well as the first great ape to be described for almost a century.source
  • 2021October 31–November 13 – The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Glasgow, after being postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19. A deal is agreed by world leaders, which includes a "phasedown" of unabated coal power, a 30% cut in methane emissions by 2030, plans for a halt to deforestation by 2030, and increased financial support for developing countries.source
  • 2022November 2–November 3 – Tigray War: The Ethiopian government and the TPLF agree to a formal cessation of hostilities, signing a peace agreement in Pretoria, South Africa.source
  • 2023The Beatles release "Now and Then", the band's last ever song, featuring restored vocals by John Lennon (1940–1980), as well as guitar tracks by George Harrison (1943–2001).source
  • 2023November 1–2 — All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day are celebrated in both the Christian and Haitian Vodou religion.source

Births

  • 1154Constance I, queen of Sicily (died 1198)source
  • 1221Saif al-Din Qutuz, Egyptian military leader (died 1260)source
  • 1226Isabella de Clare, English noblewoman (died 1264)source
  • 1235Henry of Almain, King of the Romans (died 1271)source
  • 1271Gong of Song, Chinese emperor (died 1323)source
  • 1299Alfonso IV ("the Gentle"), king of Aragon (died 1336)source
  • 1418Gaspare Nadi, Italian builder famous for his diary (diario) (died 1504)source
  • 1428Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine (died 1483)source
  • 1428Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine, ruler of Lorraine (d.1483)source
  • 1470King Edward V of England, the elder of the "Princes in the Tower" (died c. 1483)source
  • 1475Anne of York, seventh child of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville (died 1511)source
  • 1534Archduchess Eleanor of Austria (died 1594)source
  • 1549Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (died 1580)source
  • 1636Edward Colston, Bristol-born English slave trader (died 1721)source
  • 1667James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (died 1737)source
  • 1696Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's interpreter and emissary to the Native Americans (died 1760)source
  • 1699Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (died 1779)source
  • 1709Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Hanoverian-born regent of Friesland (died 1759)source
  • 1734Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (died 1820)source
  • 1739Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (died 1799)source
  • 1755Marie Antoinette, Queen Consort of France (died 1793)source
  • 1766Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (died 1858)source
  • 1767Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, member of the British Royal Family (died 1820)source
  • 1782Eustoquio Díaz Vélez, Spanish-Argentine general (died 1856)source
  • 1795James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States (died 1849)source
  • 1795James K. Polk, 11th president of the U.S. from 1845 to 1849 (died 1849)source
  • 18142 November= Julius von Mayer, German physician, physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics (died 1878)source
  • 1815George Boole, English mathematician, philosopher (died 1864)source
  • 18212 November (in Ireland): George Bowen, 5th Governor of New Zealand.source
  • 1865Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (died 1923)source
  • 1877Teixeira de Pascoaes, poet (died 1952)source
  • 1886Gheorghe Tătărescu, twice prime minister, between 1934 and 1937 and between 1939 and 1940 (died 1957).source
  • 1927Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer and artist (died 2018)source
  • 1944Keith Emerson, English keyboardist (died 2016)source
  • 1965Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor, film/television producer and television presentersource
  • 1967Scott Walker, American legislator and politician; 45th Governor of Wisconsin (2011–2019)source
  • 1973Anne Weider Aasen, media executive.source

Deaths

  • 472Olybrius dies of dropsy. During his four months' rule he has been mainly interested in religion.source
  • 619Tang campaigns against the Western Turks: A khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals, with the approval of Emperor Gaozu of Tang.source
  • 843Anthony the Confessor, Byzantine bishop of Thessalinikesource
  • 934Emma, queen of the West Frankish Kingdomsource
  • 1083Matilda of Flanders, queen consort of Englandsource
  • 1148Malachy, Irish archbishop and saint (born 1094)source
  • 1220Radulf II, Scottish monk and abbotsource
  • 1261Bettisia Gozzadini, Bolognese noblewoman and academic lawyer (born 1209)source
  • 1285Peter III (the Great), king of Aragon (born 1239)source
  • 1285Peter III (the Great) dies after a 9-year reign at Vilafranca del Penedès. He is succeeded by his 20-year-old son Alfonso III (the Liberal), who becomes king of Aragon. Peter's other son James II (the Just), is crowned ruler of Sicily. His third son, the 13-year-old Frederick, becomes co-ruler and regent of Sicily.source
  • 1327November 2 or November 5 – King James II of Aragon (born 1267)source
  • 1391Al-Nasir Muhammad Salah al-Din, Imam of the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam in Yemen, dies at San'a from injuries sustained from being thrown off of his mule. Nasir's death is not announced for two months while his son Al-Mansur Ali bin Salah ad-Din becomes the new Imam but three other claimants attempt to claim the office as well.source
  • 1483Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (born 1454)source
  • 1585Tachibana Dōsetsu, Japanese daimyō (born 1513)source
  • 1610Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1544)source
  • 1618Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria (born 1558)source
  • 1677Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, English politician (born 1595)source
  • 1716Engelbert Kaempfer, German traveler, physician (born 1651)source
  • 1736Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, French duke (born 1664)source
  • 1752Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (born 1687)source
  • 1757Louis Coulon de Villiers, military officer.source
  • 1759Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist, 50source
  • 1773John Glas, Scottish minister (born 1695)source
  • 1807Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Prime Minister of King Louis XVI of France (born 1730)source
  • 1810Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, Member of the British Royal Family (born 1783)source
  • 1887Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (born 1820)source
  • 1950George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1856)source
  • 1952Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman Army officer and soldiersource
  • 1963Ngô Đình Diệm, South Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (assassinated) (born 1901)source
  • 1974Mohammad Barkatullah, writer (born 1898)source
  • 2004Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.source