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November 24 in history

197 sourced entries recorded on November 24, from 62 CE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 380Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.source
  • 847847 Damascus earthquake.source
  • 1128Waverley Abbey is founded by Bishop William Giffard in the south of England. The first abbot and 12 Cistercian monks are brought from L'Aumône Abbey in Normandy.source
  • 1190The 18-year-old Isabella I, half-sister of Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem, marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre making him de facto king of Jerusalem (as Conrad I). He has the support of her mother Maria Comnena and stepfather Balian of Ibelin, as well as Reginald of Sidon and other major nobles in the Crusader States.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
  • 1221Battle of the Indus: Left with some 20,000 men, Jalal al-Din Mangburni has headed for the Indus River where Genghis catches up with him. In a desperate battle the Khwarezmain forces are destroyed, completing the Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire, while Jalal al-Din flees across the river and escapes into India.source
  • 1224Representatives of King Louis VIII of France and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, sign a treaty at Catania, providing that neither of the monarchs would harbor rebels from the other.source
  • 1248November 24–25 – In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapses, in one of the largest historical rock slope failures.source
  • 1331David and his wife are crowned at Scone.source
  • 1396The Transit of Venus, the last not to be part of a pair, is possibly observed by Aztec astronomers.source
  • 1411The Swiss canton of Appenzell enters into an alliance with most of the cantons of the Swiss Confederacy.source
  • 1419The Timurid ruler of Persia, Mirza Shahrukh (r. 1404–1447), sends a large embassy to the court of Emperor Cheng Zu of China. The group arrives in China on 29 August 1420. One of the Persian envoys, Ghiyāth al-dīn Naqqāsh, keeps a diary of his travels throughout China, which soon becomes widely known throughout Iranian and the Turkic Middle East, thanks to its inclusion into historical works by Hafiz-i Abru, and Abdur Razzaq. Naqqash writes about China's wealthy economy and huge urban markets, its efficient courier system as compared to that in Persia, the hospitality of his hosts at the courier stations in providing comfortable lodging and food, and the fine luxurious goods and craftsmanship of the Chinese.source
  • 1429Joan of Arc besieges La Charité.source
  • 1440The "Black Dinner" takes place at Edinburgh Castle as Lord Chancellor of Scotland William Crichton conspires with the James Douglas, uncle of the late Archibald Douglas (who had served as regent for King James II) to invite Archibald's two sons, 16-year old William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas and David Douglas to dinner with King James. At the dinner, the two boys are taken hostage and murdered, the members of Clan Douglas besiege the castle, and James Douglas inherits the Earldom.source
  • 1498In the Kingdom of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Diego de Deza, Bishop of Jaén, is commissioned as the Grand Inquisitor for the Crown of Castile, the Kingdom of León, and for Granada. His power is expanded in September to include the rest of Spain.source
  • 1501A large army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow overruns Livonia during the Second Muscovite–Lithuanian War.source
  • 1505The Treaty of Salamanca is signed by Spain's King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Philip, Duke of Burgundy, agreeing that the two will serve as co-regents for Joanna the Mad, Queen of Castile.source
  • 1507Portuguese Admiral Tristao da Cunha, with 12 ships, attacks a fleet of 13 Muslim merchant ships leaving the Indian port of Ponnani, and is confronted by the forces of Kutti Ali. The Portuguese win the battle.source
  • 1530Tabinshwehti succeeds his father Mingyi Nyo as king of the Toungoo dynasty, following the latter's death.source
  • 1542Battle of Solway Moss: An English army invades Scotland, and defeats a Scottish army.source
  • 154224 November 1542 – A Scottish army led by Oliver Sinclair is defeated in England at the Battle of Solway Moss.source
  • 1544Rüstem Opuković Pasha, son-in-law of the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, is appointed as the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, replacing Hadım Suleiman Pasha.source
  • 1552Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury and top cleric of the Church of England, delivers the proposed Forty-two Articles to the Privy Council of King Edward VI.source
  • 1583Philippe Hurault de Cheverny is appointed as the new Chief Minister of France by King Henri III upon the death of René de Birague, who had governed for nine years. Hurault will serve until 1589.source
  • 1584Albert Fontenay sends an enciphered letter to Mary, Queen of Scots that will become the chief evidence against her in her trial for treason during the Babington Plot. After becoming a witness for the English government in return for immunity from prosecution, Jérôme Pasquier will decipher the letter in 1586, leading to Mary's conviction for an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth and to overthrow the English government.source
  • 1615King Louis XIII of France marries Princess Ana María Mauricia, the 14-year-old daughter of King Philip III of Spain. The two had been legally united in a marriage by proxy on October 18.source
  • 1615Louis XIII marries Anne of Austriasource
  • 1638New Haven, the first planned city in America, is founded when local Indians make a deed of Quinnipiac to Theophilus Eaton and other English settlers.source
  • 163924 November (4 December in Gregorian calendar) – Lancashire astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree are the first and only scientific observers of a transit of Venus, predicted by Horrocks.source
  • 1642Abel Tasman and his crew become the first Europeans to discover "Van Diemen's Land", later the Australian island and state of Tasmania, and the island is claimed for the Netherlands on December 3 at what becomes Prince of Wales Bay.source
  • 1643Thirty Years' War: Battle of Tuttlingen – France is defeated by forces of the Holy Roman Empire.source
  • 1648Coronation of Queen Sophie Amalie. By that time, the triumphal arch has already been dismantled, giving rise to various speculations and rumors, particularly relating to Corfitz Ulfeldt and his party.source
  • 1649The first phase of the Siege of Waterford begins as Cromwell's New Model Army attempts to take on the strategically-located Irish city's defenders with his own exhausted army. Cromwell is forced to call off the siege after eight days and his army retreats to its winter quarters at Dungarvan on December 2.source
  • 1650City of Antwerp prohibits the shooting of firearms within the city after the ringing of the bell for the closing of the city gates.source
  • 1651In China, Qing dynasty forces led by Shang Kexi capture the city of Guangzhou from the Southern Ming and then carry out a massacre of the population, killing as many as 70,000 people over 11 days ending on December 5.source
  • 1651City of Liège issues regulations on hunting, fishing, and keeping pigeonssource
  • 1655Anglican services prohibited by Cromwell.source
  • 1655English Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell announces measures against the Laudian party, which are enforced starting on January 1.source
  • 1663The General Court of Commissioners for Rhode Island and Providence Plantations convenes for the final time, meeting in Newport to formally receive the Rhode Island Royal Charter issued on July 8 by King Charles II.source
  • 1670Louis XIV inaugurates the construction of Les Invalides, a veterans' hospital in Paris.source
  • 1670Louis XIV authorises work to commence on construction of Les Invalides, the veterans' hospital in Paris.source
  • 1672Five-year-old Sikandar Adil Shah is enthroned as the last Sultan of Bijapur (located in southwestern India in what is now the Karnataka state) upon the death of his father, the Sultan Ali Adil Shah II. In 1686, the sultanate of Bijapur is conquered and annexed by the Mughal Empire.source
  • 1697The elaborate burial of the late King Charles XI of Sweden takes place more than seven months after his April 5 death, with interment at the Riddarholmen Church on the island of Riddarholmen near Stockholm.source
  • 1705An earthquake is recorded in Syria, northeast of Damascus.source
  • 1710Francisco di Ratta and his two nephews Giuseppe di Ratta and Luigi di Ratta is given the title Marquis of Mandal.source
  • 1749The Province of South Carolina House of Assembly votes to free African-American slave Caesar Norman, and to grant him a lifetime pension of 100 British pounds per year, in return for Caesar's agreement to share the secret of his antidote for poisonous snake venom. Caesar then makes public his herbal cure of juice from Plantago major (the common plantain) and Marrubium vulgare (horehound), combined with "a leaf of good tobacco moistened with rum".source
  • 1753José Alfonso Pizarro completes more than four years as the Spanish Viceroy of New Granada (which comprises modern-day Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador) and is succeeded by José Solís Folch de Cardona.source
  • 1755The company now known as Iver C. Weilbach & Co. A/S is founded when flag, sail and compass maker Iver Jensen Borger sets up his own maritime supplier business in Copenhagensource
  • 1763Bayes' theorem is first announced.source
  • 1763Thomas Bayes's theorem is first announced (posthumously).source
  • 1767Ernelinde, princesse de Norvège, a three-act operatic tragédie lyrique, composed by François-André Danican Philidor, was first performed by the Paris Opera at the Salle des Machines in the Palais des Tuileries in Paris.source
  • 1783In Spain, the Cedula of Population is signed, stating that anyone who will swear fealty to Spain and is of the Roman Catholic faith is welcome to populate Trinidad and Tobago.source
  • 1783Royal Cedula of Populationsource
  • 1806The last major Prussian field force, under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, surrenders to the French near Lübeck. Frederick William III has by this time fled to Memel in East Prussia.source
  • 1807Battle of Abrantes, Portugal: The French under Jean-Andoche Junot take the town.source
  • 1827Voting is completed in elections for France's 430 member Chamber of Deputies. The Ultraroyalistes, supporters of King Charles X, lose their 233-seat majority and finish with 180 seats, the same number as the opposition Doctrinaires.source
  • 1829The Ecclesiastical Courts Act, 1829, is passed, largely at the instigation of Sir John Nicholl.source
  • 1832Nullification Crisis: The U.S. state of South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, challenging the power of the U.S. federal government, by declaring that it will not enforce national tariffs signed into law in 1828 and 1832.source
  • 1832Ordinance of Nullification is passed.source
  • 1848At the Battle of Des, Karl von Urban, with 1.500 men, defeats a Hungarian army of 10.000 led by Katona Miklós.source
  • 1848Pope Pius IX flees Rome in disguise for Naples.source
  • 1859Breve of Pope Pius IX congratulating the Catholic University of Leuven on its twenty-fifth anniversary.source
  • 1859The French Navy's La Gloire, the first ocean-going ironclad warship in history, is launched.source
  • 1859The French Navy's La Gloire ("Glory"), the first ocean-going ironclad warship in history, is launched.source
  • 1859English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, a book which argues for the gradual evolution of species through natural selection (it immediately sells out its initial print run).source
  • 1860A statue of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey is added to the column built in his honour by Thomas Harrison earlier in the century.source
  • 1866Richard Dry becomes Premier of Tasmaniasource
  • 1885November 14–28 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Serbia declares war against Bulgaria, but is defeated in the Battle of Slivnitsa on November 17–19.source
  • 1888The first Saint Verhaegen takes place in Brussels.source
  • 1892The Hotel Zinzendorf catches fire in the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina; 45 people die.source
  • 1898Italy sends an ultimatum to the Sultan of Morocco concerning treatment of Italian residents.source
  • 1904A continuous track tractor is successfully demonstrated by the Holt Manufacturing Company in the United States. The "caterpillar track" will come to revolutionize construction vehicles and land warfare.source
  • 1914Benito Mussolini is expelled from the Italian Socialist Party.source
  • 1915William J. Simmons revives the American Civil War era Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia.source
  • 1917A bomb kills 9 members of the Milwaukee Police Department, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history (until the September 11 attacks in 2001).source
  • 1925The silent film El Húsar de la Muerte is released in Santiago, Chile.source
  • 1926Sri Aurobindo retires, leaving Mirra Alfassa to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry.source
  • 1926Sri Aurobindo withdraws into seclusion following a spiritual realisation, entrusting the supervision of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram to "The Mother".source
  • 1926The village of Rocquebillier, in the French Riviera, is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm.source
  • 1926The village of Rocquebillier on the Riviera is almost destroyed in a massive hailstorm.source
  • 1927Statue of Victory, a monument in Ankara about the Turkish War of Independence (There will be others in the following years)source
  • 1934Atatürk surname for Mustafa Kemalsource
  • 1938The founding of the kibbutz Eilonsource
  • 1940November 20–24 – WWII: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis powers.source
  • 1943November 22–26 – WWII: Cairo Conference ("Sextant") – President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill and Chairman of the National Government of China Chiang Kai-shek meet at Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan in the Pacific War.source
  • 1947McCarthyism: The United States House of Representatives votes 346–17 to approve citations of Contempt of Congress against the "Hollywood Ten", after the screenwriters and directors refuse to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of communist influences in the movie business. The ten men are blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios on the following day.source
  • 19481948 Venezuelan coup d'étatsource
  • 1949The ski resort in Squaw Valley, Placer County, California officially opens.source
  • 1950A phenomenal winter storm ravages the northeastern United States, brings 30–50 inches of snow and temperatures below zero, and kills 323 people.source
  • 1958The Syariah Court is established to tighten divorce processes and safeguard marriages.source
  • 1959The coastal trader MV Holmglen sinks near Timaru with the loss of 15 lives.source
  • 1961The World Food Programme (WFP) is formed as a temporary United Nations program.source
  • 1961Brit Pettersen, cross-country skier.source
  • 1962The first episode of That Was the Week That Was, the groundbreaking satirical comedy program hosted by David Frost, is broadcast on BBC Television in the United Kingdom.source
  • 1964Belgian paratroopers and mercenaries capture Stanleyville, but a number of hostages die in the fighting, among them American Evangelical Covenant Church missionary Paul Carlson.source
  • 1965Congolese lieutenant general Mobutu ousts Joseph Kasavubu and declares himself president.source
  • 1966TABSO Flight 101, from Sofia, Bulgaria, crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.source
  • 19684 men hijack Pan Am Flight 281 from JFK International Airport, New York to Havana, Cuba.source
  • 1969Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to the Moon.source
  • 196975th anniversary of Kuomintang at Taipei City Hall, Taipei.source
  • 1971During a severe storm over Washington State, a man calling himself Dan Cooper (later misreported as D. B. Cooper) parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he had hijacked, with US$200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again.source
  • 1971A Brussels court sentences pretender Alexis Brimeyer to 18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title; Brimeyer has already fled to Greece.source
  • 1974A skeleton from the hominid species Australopithecus afarensis is discovered and named Lucy.source
  • 1975The Swiss Society for the Watch Industry (SSIH) announces the dismissal of 170 people in Bienne and Cornolsource
  • 1975Col. Abu Taher arrested.source
  • 1976Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in East Anatoliasource
  • 1978China starts an experimental "household responsibility system", in Anhui Province.source
  • 1982Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.source
  • 1991The Keppel-Brani causeway is officially opened, making it the first road link between Singapore and an island.source
  • 19911991 North Korean local electionssource
  • 1992In China, China Southern Airlines Flight 3943, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight, crashes, killing all 141 people on board.source
  • 1998The Yasser Arafat International Airport opens.source
  • 1998A declassified report by Swiss International Olympic Committee official Marc Hodler reveals that bribes had been used to bring the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City during bidding process in 1995. The IOC, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, the United States Olympic Committee and the United States Department of Justice immediately launch an investigation into the scandal.source
  • 2004November 14–26 – Typhoon Muifa kills 600 people in the Philippines.source
  • 20072007 Australian federal election: The Labor Party led by Kevin Rudd defeats the Liberal/National Coalition government led by Prime Minister John Howard. Rudd would be sworn in on December 3.source
  • 2009The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is founded in Bucharest, Romania.source
  • 2013Iran agrees to limit their nuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief.source
  • 2015Turkey shoots down a Russian fighter jet on the Turkish–Syrian border in the first case of a NATO member destroying a Russian aircraft since the 1950s.source
  • 2016The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace deal, slowing the Colombian conflict.source
  • 2017A mosque attack in Sinai, Egypt kills 305 worshippers and leaves hundreds more wounded.source
  • 20192019 Busy Bee crash: A plane crashes shortly after takeoff in a densely populated area of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing all 19 people on board and at least 10 more on the ground.source
  • 2021Magdalena Andersson resigns as Prime Minister-elect of Sweden hours after the Riksdag voted her in as Sweden's first female prime minister. She was due to take office on 26 November. Instead, she takes office on 30 November.source
  • 2021NASA launches the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first attempt to deflect an asteroid for the purpose of learning how to protect Earth.source
  • 2021December 12 – Magnus Carlsen beats Ian Nepomniachtchi in the 2021 World Chess Championship. Magnus has been World Chess Champion since 2013.source
  • 2022November 19–November 26 – The 2022 Central American and Caribbean Beach Games are held in Santa Marta, Colombia.source
  • 2023Somalia is admitted as the eighth member of the East African Community, having applied for membership in 2012.source
  • 2024Two motorboats carrying Somali migrants capsize in the Indian Ocean near Nosy Be, killing 25 passengers.source

Births

  • 1273Alphonso, English prince and heir (died 1284)source
  • 1274Catherine I, Latin empress (died 1307)source
  • 1394Charles I, Duke of Orléans, French poet (died 1465)source
  • 1420James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant (died 1461)source
  • 1427John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (died 1473)source
  • 1472Pietro Torrigiano, Italian sculptor of the Florentine school (died 1528)source
  • 1603John, Count of Nassau-Idstein (1629–1677) (died 1677)source
  • 1615Philip William, Elector Palatine (died 1690)source
  • 1632Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (died 1677)source
  • 1655King Charles XI of Sweden (died 1697)source
  • 1712Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French priest and educator of the deaf (died 1789)source
  • 1713Junípero Serra, Spanish Christian missionary (died 1784)source
  • 1713Laurence Sterne, Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric (died 1768)source
  • 1713Laurence Sterne, Irish-born English novelist (died 1768)source
  • 1729Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (died 1800)source
  • 1730Alexander Suvorov, Russian military leader, considered a national hero. (died 1800)source
  • 1784Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (died 1850)source
  • 1784Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the U.S. from 1849 to 1850 (died 1850)source
  • 1796Stephan Ludwig Roth, Transylvanian Saxon intellectual, pedagogue, Lutheran pastor (died 1849)source
  • 1849Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American playwright, author (died 1924)source
  • 1876Walter Burley Griffin, American architect (died 1937)source
  • 1887Erich von Manstein, German field marshal (died 1973)source
  • 1894Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (died 1978)source
  • 1898Liu Shaoqi, President of China (died 1969)source
  • 1925William F. Buckley Jr., American journalist, author and commentator (died 2008)source
  • 1942Freddie Webb, actor, basketball player, and politiciansource
  • 1946Ted Bundy, American serial killer (died 1989)source
  • 1968Awie - Malaysia King of Rock, actor and hostsource

Deaths

  • 62Aulus Persius Flaccus, Roman poet (born AD 34)source
  • 654Kōtoku, emperor of Japan (born 596)source
  • 654Emperor Kōtoku dies after a 9-year reign; Kōgyoku (his elder sister) is restored on the throne under the name Saimei.source
  • 1023Eilward, bishop of Dresden-Meissensource
  • 1072Bagrat IV, king of Georgia (born 1018)source
  • 1207Han Tuozhou, Chinese statesman (born 1152)source
  • 1227Leszek I (the White), High Duke of Polandsource
  • 1227Prince Leszek I (the White) is assassinated in an ambush on a council of Polish dukes in the city of Gąsawa, an event which later becomes known as the Gąsawa Massacre.source
  • 1230Matthew II of Montmorency, French nobleman and knightsource
  • 1265Magnús Óláfsson, King of Mann and the Islessource
  • 1305In India, Mahalakadeva, King of Malwa, is killed while attempting to flee the invaders from the Delhi Sultanate. Ayn al-Mulk Multani takes control of the kingdom as the Sultanate's Governor of Malwa.source
  • 1326Hugh Despenser the Younger, English knight (born 1286)source
  • 1426Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter, English Plantagenet noblewoman, daughter of John of Gaunt (born c. 1363)source
  • 1468Jean de Dunois, French soldier (born 1402)source
  • 1468Jean de Dunois, nobleman (b.1402)source
  • 1492Loys of Gruuthuse, Earl of Winchester (born c. 1427)source
  • 1518Vannozza dei Cattanei, mistress of Pope Alexander VI (born 1442)source
  • 1530Mingyi Nyo, founder of the Toungoo Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar) (born 1459)source
  • 1531Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (born 1482)source
  • 1569Celio Secondo Curione, Italian humanist (born 1503)source
  • 1572John Knox, Scottish religious reformer (born 1513)source
  • 1583René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (born 1506)source
  • 1642Walatta Petros, saint in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (born 1592)source
  • 1644Deodat del Monte, Flemish painter, architect (born 1582)source
  • 1689Carey Dillon, 5th Earl of Roscommon, Irish nobleman and professional soldier (born 1627)source
  • 1715Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of King Charles X of Sweden (born 1636)source
  • 1741Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (b.1688)source
  • 1801Franz Moritz von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (born 1725)source
  • 1801Philip Hamilton, son of American soldier and statesman, Alexander Hamilton (born 1782)source
  • 1807Joseph Brant, Mohawk military and political leader (born 1743)source
  • 1848William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1779)source
  • 1870Comte de Lautréamont, French poet, writer (born 1846)source
  • 1885Nicolás Avellaneda, 8th President of Argentina (born 1837)source
  • 1890August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier (born 1816)source
  • 1894Pardal Mallet, novelist and journalist (born 1864; tuberculosis)source
  • 1922Erskine Childers, Irish novelist, nationalist (executed) (born 1870)source
  • 1922Popular author and anti-Treaty Republican Erskine Childers is executed by firing squad in Dublin, after conviction by an Irish Free State military court for the unlawful possession of a gun, a weapon presented to him by Michael Collins in 1920 as a gift.source
  • 1929Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France, leader during World War I (born 1841)source
  • 1940James Craig, the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, dies suddenly. He was the longest continually serving prime minister in Europe.source
  • 1963Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of President John F. Kennedy (murdered) (born 1939)source
  • 1991Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury dies in London from AIDS induced pneumonia. In an unrelated incident, Kiss drummer Eric Carr dies from heart cancer.source
  • 1991Freddie Mercury, 45, British singer (Queen) and songwriter ("Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Are the Champions"), AIDS.source