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November 25 in history

216 sourced entries recorded on November 25, from 571 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 571 BCEServius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates his victory over the Etruscans with a Roman triumph.source
  • 885Siege of Paris: Viking forces, under the Norse chieftains Sigfred and Sinric, sail up the River Seine for eastern France, with a fleet of 300 longships (10,000 men). They appear before Paris, and offer to spare the city if they are allowed free passage, by paying them tribute (Danegeld). Their request is denied.source
  • 1034King Malcolm II dies in battle at Glamis. He is succeeded by Duncan I, son of his eldest daughter, rather than Macbeth, who is possibly another grandson of his.source
  • 1120The White Ship sinks in the English Channel off Barfleur. Henry I's only legitimate son, William Adelin, is among 300 (many of them Anglo-Norman nobility) who drown.source
  • 1177Battle of Montgisard: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin.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
  • 1317Treaty of Templin: After ending the war between the Margraviate of Brandenburg and Denmark, Brandenburg is forced to negotiate a truce. King Eric VI, his ally Duke Henry the Lion and Waldemar the Great sign a peace treaty in Templin. Brandenburg agrees to transfer Burg Stargard and Arnsberg castle to Mecklenburg. They also surrender the territories of Schlawe-Stolp, located on the Baltic coast, to Pomerania.source
  • 1341order for examination of exchequer and its officials.source
  • 1343A tsunami, caused by an earthquake, devastates the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.source
  • 1373Philip II, Prince of Taranto hands over the rule of Achaea (modern-day southern Greece) to his cousin, Joanna I of Naples.source
  • 1374James of Baux succeeds his uncle, Philip II, as Prince of Taranto (modern-day eastern Italy) and titular ruler of the Latin Empire (northern Greece and western Turkey).source
  • 1382The nobles of Greater Poland assemble at Radomsko and, not wishing to be ruled by Mary' of Hungarys fiancee, the future Sigismund of Luxembourg, choose Mary's younger sister, Jadwiga, to become ruler of Poland.source
  • 1400(9th waxing of Nadaw, 730 ME) Minkhaung I becomes the new King of Ava, the largest kingdom in what is now northern Myanmar, after a battle for power that follows the assassination of the erratic King Tarabya.source
  • 1402The fourth parliament of King Henry IV of England closes at Westminster after two months and the passage of new laws, including the penal Laws against Wales which stop the Welsh from gathering together, obtaining office, carrying arms and living in English towns. The laws apply to any Englishman who marries a Welsh woman.source
  • 1471Nicolò Tron is elected as the new Doge of the Republic of Venice, 15 days after the death of the Doge Cristoforo Moro, who had governed the Republic since 1461.source
  • 1473On the day set for the scheduled coronation at Trier of Charles the Bold as King of Burgundy, Charles learns that the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick had changed his mind and left overnight, and that the ceremony will never take place.source
  • 1483Buckingham's rebellion comes to an end and most of the conspirators disperse to plan for another uprising.source
  • 1491Completing the Reconquista (the "reconquest"), The Granada War is effectively brought to an end (and the Siege of Granada extended for two months) with the signing of the Treaty of Granada between the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and the Moorish Emir of Granada.source
  • 1500Christopher Columbus and his brothers arrive in Spain at Seville "after one of the longest Atlantic crossings in the Columbian years" (six weeks) and released on their own recognizance.source
  • 1510Afonso de Albuquerque succeeds in conquering Goa and establishes the colony of Portuguese India.source
  • 1520Gustav Vasa escape Stockholm for Dalarna. His adventurous escape is later made national legend, and includes the incident with Barbro Stigsdotter.source
  • 1520Cuauhtémoc becomes the last Aztec Emperor after the death from smallpox of the Emperor Cuitláhuac, who reigned for only 80 days.source
  • 1525Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor acting in his capacity as the King of Spain, issues an edict ordering the expulsion or conversion of the remaining Muslims in the Crown of Aragon, similar to that issued for the Crown of Castile by Queen Isabella in 1502. The order applies to the Kingdom of Valencia and the Principality of Catalonia.source
  • 1542Counties of Meath and Westmeath Act shires these two counties.source
  • 1550Luis de Velasco becomes the second Viceroy of New Spain, which encompasses all Spanish territory in North America and Central America. Velasco succeeds Antonio de Mendoza, the first Viceroy, who has been ordered to become the Viceroy of Peru.source
  • 1553Second Margrave War: The city of Kulmbach, near Brandenburg in Bavaria in Germany, is sacked and burned to the ground after its margrave, Albert Alcibiades, makes an unsuccessful attempt to bring all of the Duchy of Franconia under his control.source
  • 1553Italian War of 1551–1559: Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of the Florentine Republic, signs a secret treaty with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor to conquer the Republic of Siena to bring it back into the Empire.source
  • 1564When four divisions of the Burmese Army arrive at Lamphun, 12.5 mi from Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai's defenses flee the city. Bayinnaung spares the life of King Mekuti of Lan Na, and then spends next four months administering the annexed territory.source
  • 1565The army of Burma, under the command of King Bayinnaung conquers Chiang Mai, capital of the Siamese Kingdom of Lan Na, and departs on November 30.source
  • 1596The Cudgel War begins in Finland (at the time part of Sweden), when poor peasants rise up against the troops, nobles and cavalry who have taxed them.source
  • 1596A peasant uprising in the province of Finland results in the Cudgel War.source
  • 1611the nobility and gentry claim the right to have advance sight of bills intended for the Parliament of Ireland.source
  • 1620The wedding of Gustav II Adolf and Maria Eleonora takes place in Sweden.source
  • 1620Wedding of Gustav II Adolf and Maria Eleonorasource
  • 1622King Christian IV of Denmark invites the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic to settle in the newly-built Danish town of Lykstad, promising them the free exercise of their religion without persecution. The city remains part of Denmark until 1864 until it is captured in the Second Schleswig War and is now part of Germany as Glückstadt.source
  • 1640the Earl of Strafford imprisoned in the Tower of London.source
  • 1659Dutch forces under Michiel de Ruyter free the Danish city of Nyborg from Swedish conquest that had taken place earlier in the year.source
  • 1667A devastating earthquake rocks Caucasia and kills 80,000 people.source
  • 1678The Kediri campaign is successfully concluded in Indonesia as Anthonio Hurdt and Sultan Amangkurat II capture Kediri and force the rebel Prince Trunajaya to flee.source
  • 1681Cornelis Speelman of the Netherlands becomes the new Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and concludes an alliance with the Sultan Amangkurat II of the Mataram Sultanate on the island of Java, then uses the Dutch Army to suppress the rebellion started by the Sultan's half-brother, Prince Puger. Puger surrenders on November 28 to the ranking Dutch officer, Jacob Couper.source
  • 1688James's daughter Princess Anne, with the assistance of her favourite Sarah Churchill, flee the royal court at Whitehall and, with their husbands, declare for William.source
  • 1696In England, the House of Commons approves the bill of attainder to convict Sir John Fenwick of high treason for plotting to lead the assassination of and coup d'état against King William III, on its third and final reading, voting 187 to 161 in favor of conviction. The measure then moves to the House of Lords.source
  • 1710following the general election, the fourth parliament of Queen Anne's reign is composed mainly of Tory MPs.source
  • 1728In India, the Maratha Empire's army invades the Mughal Empire's Malwa province, crossing the Narmada River. On November 29, the two armies clash at the Battle of Amjhira; the Maratha troops, commanded by General Chimaji Appa, overcome the defenders of Malwa (now part of India's Andhra Pradesh state) and Malwa's Governor Girdhar Bahadur is killed.source
  • 1731Patrona Halil, an ethnic Albanian and a janissary who instigated a mass uprising in 1730 within the Ottoman Empire that brought Mahmud I to power as the new Sultan, is strangled to death in Mahmud's presence after the rebellion is suppressed.source
  • 1731Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler announces his use of the irrational number e (approximately 2.71828) as the base for the concept of the natural logarithm, describing it in a letter to German mathematician Christian Goldbach.source
  • 1735The largest bell in the world, the 22 foot diameter Tsar Kolokol, is successfully cast in Moscow within the Kremlin.source
  • 1741November 25–26 – War of the Austrian Succession: Franco-Bavarian troops commanded by Maurice of Saxony storm in Battle of Prague city Prague.source
  • 1753The Russian Academy of Sciences announces a competition among chemists and physicists to provide "the best explanation of the true causes of electricity including their theory", with a deadline of June 1, 1755 (on the Julian calendar used in Russia, June 12 on the Gregorian calendar used in Western Europe and the New World).source
  • 1755King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants the Religious of the Virgin Mary in the Philippines royal protection.source
  • 1758Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to the British, who then name the area Pittsburgh.source
  • 1759Near East earthquakes of 1759: The second and stronger event in an earthquake doublet occurs to the east of Beirut, with a surface wave magnitude of 7.4 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying all the villages in the Beqaa Valley.source
  • 1773Walter Siddons marries Sarah Kemble.source
  • 1774Salawat Yulayev, the leader of the Bashkirs rebellion against the Russian government, is captured, bringing an end to the insurrection.source
  • 1783American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City and George Washington triumphantly returns, three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.source
  • 1788Fifty consecutive days of temperatures below freezing strike France, a record that will be unbroken more than 200 years later.source
  • 1797Law of 5 Frimaire confiscates property of all religious colleges, seminaries and confraternities (implementation started 31 December).source
  • 1803William James Hobart Thorne is born at Port Phillip. He is the first white child born in what will later become the state of Victoria. He dies on 2 July 1872.source
  • 1809Benjamin Bathurst, a British diplomat, mysteriously disappears (possibly murdered) in Perleberg, west of Berlin.source
  • 1809Benjamin Bathurst, a British diplomat, mysteriously disappears (having possibly been murdered) in Perleberg, west of Berlin.source
  • 1819A British expeditionary force reaches Ras Al Khaimah in the Persian Gulf, preparatory to the bombardment and invasion of the town, which led to the signing of the General Maritime Treaty of 1820 between the British and what were to become known as the Trucial States.source
  • 1823Opening of The Royal Suspension Chain Pier at Brighton, designed by Captain Samuel Brown, RN, the first pleasure pier on the mainland of England.source
  • 1830Étienne-Modeste Glorieux founds the fraternity in Ronse that would eventually become the Brothers of Our Lady of Lourdessource
  • 1833An 8.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Sumatra in what is now Indonesia.source
  • 1839A disastrous cyclone hits India with terrible winds and a giant 40-foot storm surge, wiping out the port city of Coringa; 300,000 people die.source
  • 1843Mount Etna erupts in Italy, and kills 69 people in the village of Bronte.source
  • 1845the Dublin to Longford passenger boat hit the canal bank and capsized on the Royal Canal outside Clonsilla, Dublin at approximately 4:00pm, drowning 15 peoplesource
  • 1861A tenement collapses in the Old Town, Edinburgh (Scotland), killing 35 people, while 15 others survive.source
  • 1861a tenement collapses in the Old Town, Edinburgh, killing 35 with 15 survivors.source
  • 1863Battle of Missionary Ridge – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the siege of Chattanooga, by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.source
  • 1863the case of Byrne v Boadle introduces the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur into English tort law.source
  • 1867establishment of the Olavarría Partidosource
  • 1872loss of the iron sailing ship Royal Adelaide on Chesil Beach: 60 saved, 7 drowned.source
  • 1874The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party, made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873.source
  • 1876American Indian Wars: Dull Knife Fight – In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River (Montana). The soldiers destroy all of the villagers' winter food and clothing, and then slash their ponies' throats.source
  • 1876Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River. The soldiers destroy all of the villagers' winter food and clothing, and then slash their ponies' throats.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
  • 1890The first Diet session is held.source
  • 1895Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in New York City's Times Square district.source
  • 1897Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy.source
  • 1900Legislative election: The Regeneration Party of Prime Minister Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro wins an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies, taking 104 of the 138 seats available. The Progressive Party wins 28 seats to finish as the second largest party.source
  • 1901Auguste Deter is first examined by German psychiatrist Dr. Alois Alzheimer, leading to a diagnosis of the condition that will carry Alzheimer's name.source
  • 1901Dr. Alois Alzheimer examines Auguste Deter, eventually leading to a diagnosis of the condition that will carry Alzheimer's name.source
  • 1905Haakon VII and his family arrived in Christiania (present-day Oslo).source
  • 1908The Christian Science Monitor newspaper is first published, in the United States.source
  • 1915Albert Einstein presents part of his theory of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.source
  • 1916The entire state apparatus is evacuated from Bucharest to Iași in anticipation of the Battle of Bucharest.source
  • 1918Serbs of Vojvodina declare for Serbia at Újvidék (now Novi Sad)source
  • 1918General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German commander in German East Africa, signs a ceasefire at Abercorn in Northern Rhodesia.source
  • 1918Austrian-Hungarian trade agreement: Hungary provides cereals and animals in exchange for paper, medicine and industrial productssource
  • 1921Crown Prince Hirohito is made regent in place of his ailing father.source
  • 1924The Bucharest government vote one million lei to construct a crematorium.source
  • 1926The death penalty is re-established in Italy.source
  • 1930Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary in England, achieves the first recorded cure (of an eye infection) using penicillin.source
  • 193025 November – 7 December – The Industrial Party Trial is held.source
  • 1930An earthquake in the Izu Peninsula of Japan kills 223 people and destroys 650 buildings.source
  • 1935After 11 years in exile, George II returns to Greek soil as King of Greece at Corfu, from London.source
  • 1936The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Germany and Japan.source
  • 1936The Abraham Lincoln Brigade sails from New York City on its way to the Spanish Civil War.source
  • 1938French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet informs Léon Noël, the French Ambassador to Poland, that France should find an excuse for terminating the 1921 Franco-Polish alliance.source
  • 1940The de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder military aircraft both make their first flights.source
  • 1940Martial law in the European part of Turkeysource
  • 1940Patria disaster: As British authorities attempt to deport Jewish refugees (originating from German-occupied Europe) from Mandatory Palestine to Mauritius, aboard the requisitioned emigrant liner SS Patria at Haifa, the Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah sinks the ship with a bomb, killing around 250 refugees and crew.source
  • 1940Woody Woodpecker makes his debut in the animated short, Knock Knock. It is not until 1941 that his current name is adopted.source
  • 1941Université libre de Bruxelles closes to protest plans to appoint pro-German professors.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
  • 1947The New Zealand Parliament ratifies the Statute of Westminster, and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1947The new Pakistan Army and Pashtun mercenaries overrun Mirpur in Kashmir, resulting in the death of 20,000 Hindus and Sikhs.source
  • 1953Match of the Century (1953 England v Hungary football match): The England national football team loses 6–3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home.source
  • 1956Fidel Castro and Che Guevara depart from Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico, en route to Santiago de Cuba aboard the yacht Granma, with 82 men.source
  • 1958French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French colonial empire.source
  • 1962The 1962 Bavarian state election is held.source
  • 1963State funeral of John F. Kennedy: President Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Schools around the nation cancel classes that day; millions watch the funeral on live international television. Lee Harvey Oswald's funeral takes place on the same day.source
  • 19671967 Australian Senate election: The Liberal/Country Coalition government led by Prime Minister Harold Holt lost two seats, while the Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam failed to make any gains. The Democratic Labor Party won the two seats from the Liberals and gained the sole balance of power in the Senate.source
  • 1970In Tokyo, author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted coup d'état. After Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, including restoration of the powers of the Emperor, he commits seppuku (public ritual suicide).source
  • 1973Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos is ousted in a military coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.source
  • 1973KLM Flight 861 is hijacked on an Amsterdam to Tokyo flight. All 247 passengers on board survive.source
  • 1975Suriname gains independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.source
  • 1975A failed military coup d'état by far-left activists occurs in Portugal.source
  • 1975Israeli Air Force C-130H 203/4X-FBO, c/n 4533, crashes into mount Jebel Halal, 55 kilometers south-southeast of El Arish, in the Israeli-administered Sinai Peninsula. Pilots were Shaul Bustan and Uri Manor.source
  • 1977Benigno Aquino Jr. was found guilty of charges and sentence him to death by firing squad, but the death sentence was postponed.source
  • 1979The last cargo of phosphate was shipped from Banaba Island in Kiribati in the South Pacific Ocean, bringing an end to the island's chief industry.source
  • 1981November 25–26 – 1981 Seychelles coup d'état attempt: A group of mercenaries led by Mike Hoare take over Mahe airport. Most of them escape by a commandeered Air India passenger jet; six are later arrested.source
  • 19841984 Uruguayan presidential election: Julio María Sanguinetti is democratically elected President of Uruguay after 12 years of military dictatorship.source
  • 1984Professor Muzaffer Aksoy shares the Ramazzini award with Prof. Enrico C. Vigliani.source
  • 1984Band Aid (assembled by Bob Geldof) records the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in London to raise money to combat the famine in Ethiopia. It is released on December 3.source
  • 19851985 Aeroflot Antonov An-12 shoot-down: A Soviet Aeroflot Antonov An-12 cargo airplane, en route from Cuito Cuanavale to Luanda, is shot down by South African Special Forces and crashes approximately 43 km east of Menongue, the provincial center of the Cuando Cubango Province, Angola, killing 8 crew members and 13 passengers on board.source
  • 1987Category 5 Typhoon Nina smashes the Philippines with 265 km/h winds and a devastating storm surge, causing destruction and 812 deaths.source
  • 1990Lech Wałęsa and Stanisław Tymiński win the first round of the first Polish presidential election.source
  • 1992In a national referendum related to abortion, voters in Ireland reject the proposed Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 1992 but approve the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.source
  • 1996An ice storm strikes the U.S. killing 26 directly and hundreds more from accidents. A powerful windstorm blasts Florida with winds gusts up to 90 mph.source
  • 2002U.S. President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security, in the largest U.S. government reorganization since the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947. Following a several month-long transitional period, it commences operations the following year.source
  • 2002The Hague Code of Conduct is signed to regulate intercontinental ballistic missiles internationally.source
  • 2004November 14–26 – Typhoon Muifa kills 600 people in the Philippines.source
  • 2008Yellow Shirt protesters seize Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi airports. Hundreds of flights are cancelled whilst thousands of tourists are left stranded in Suvarnabhumi airport - the country's main international airport. Many flights were re-directed to U-Tapao airport in Rayong, while others were led to hotels in Bangkok or Pattaya.source
  • 2012November 25–December 9 – Typhoon Bopha, known as "Pablo" in the Philippines, kills at least 1,067 with around 838 people missing. The typhoon causes considerable damage in the island of Mindanao.source
  • 2013Marian Kotleba of People's Party Our Slovakia wins the election of Governor of Banská Bystrica Region. Kotleba's win was described as a "shock" by political analysts, who attributed it to deep anti-Romani sentiments in the region.source
  • 2014A block of flats collapses in Cairo killing at least 10 people.source
  • 2019IPv4 address exhaustion: The RIPE NCC, which is the official regional Internet registry (RIR) for Europe, officially announces that it has run out of IPv4 addresses.source
  • 2019The World Meteorological Organization reports that levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high of 407.8 parts per million, with "no sign of a slowdown, let alone a decline."source
  • 2022November 19–November 26 – The 2022 Central American and Caribbean Beach Games are held in Santa Marta, Colombia.source
  • 2023Anti-mining activists gather outside Panama’s Supreme Court in Panama City as deliberations begin on constitutional challenges to First Quantum Minerals’ contract for the Cobre Panamá mine.source
  • 2025A report published by the United Nations shows that Indonesian capital Jakarta has surpassed Japanese capital Tokyo as the world's largest city, with a population of 42 million people.source

Births

  • 902Tai Zong, emperor of the Liao dynasty (died 947)source
  • 1075Taizong, emperor of the Jin dynasty (died 1135)source
  • 1253Katherine of England, English princess (died 1257)source
  • 1328Antipope Benedict XIII, born Pedro Martínez de Luna (died 1423)source
  • 1350Katherine Swynford, mistress of John of Gaunt (approximate date; d. 1403)source
  • 1454Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (died 1510)source
  • 1467Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre, Knight of Henry VIII of England (died 1525)source
  • 1493Osanna of Cattaro, Dominican visionary and anchoress (died 1565)source
  • 1541Michele Bonelli, Italian Catholic cardinal (died 1598)source
  • 1545Ana de Jesús, Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun and spiritual writer (died 1621)source
  • 1556Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal (died 1618)source
  • 1556Jacques Davy Duperron, cardinal, politician and poet (died 1618)source
  • 1562Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1635)source
  • 1566John Heminges, English actor (died 1630)source
  • 1572Daniel Sennert, German physician, chemist (died 1637)source
  • 1577Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic (died 1629)source
  • 1587Sir Gervase Clifton, 1st Baronet, English politician (died 1666)source
  • 1609Henrietta Maria of France, queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1669)source
  • 1609Henrietta Maria, Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1669)source
  • 1613Philip VII, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen (1638–1645) (died 1645)source
  • 1638Catherine of Braganza, Portuguese princess, queen consort of Charles II of England (died 1705)source
  • 1685Eiler Hagerup d.e., bishop (died 1743).source
  • 1697Gerhard Tersteegen, German Reformed religious writer and hymnist (died 1769)source
  • 1743Jochum Brinch Lund, merchant (d.1807).source
  • 1753Robert Townsend, member of the Culper Spy Ring (died 1838)source
  • 1796Abdollah Mirza Dara, Iranian poet and Qajar prince.source
  • 1835Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist, philanthropist (died 1919)source
  • 1842William Downie Stewart, politiciansource
  • 1844Karl Benz, German automotive pioneer (died 1929)source
  • 1846Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (died 1911)source
  • 1881Pope John XXIII (born Angelo Roncalli), Italian pontiff (1958–1963) (died 1963)source
  • 1914Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (died 1999)source
  • 1915Augusto Pinochet, 31st president of Chile (died 2006)source
  • 1976Donovan McNabb, American football playersource

Deaths

  • 311Peter I, patriarch of Alexandriasource
  • 1034Malcolm II, king of Alba (Scotland)source
  • 1056Flann Mainistreach, Irish poet and historiansource
  • 1120Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (born 1094)source
  • 1120William Adelin, duke and son of Henry I (born 1103)source
  • 1120Matilda FitzRoy, countess and daughter of Henry Isource
  • 1120Ralph of Pont-Echanfray, Norman knight (born 1070)source
  • 1127Minamoto no Yoshimitsu, Japanese samurai (born 1045)source
  • 1185Pope Lucius III dies after a 4-year pontificate in exile at Verona. He is succeeded by Urban III as the 172nd pope of the Catholic Church (until 1187).source
  • 1185Lucius III, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1097)source
  • 1324John Botetourt, English governor and admiralsource
  • 1374Prince Philip II of Tarantosource
  • 1401King Tarabya of Ava (born 1368)source
  • 1418Henry Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset (born 1401)source
  • 1444Martin Gouge, French chancellorsource
  • 1456Jacques Cœur, French merchant (born 1395)source
  • 145625 November Jacques Cœur, merchant. (b.c.1395)source
  • 1462John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton, English baron (born 1400)source
  • 1560Andrea Doria, Italian naval commander (born 1466)source
  • 1565Hu Zongxian, Chinese general (born 1512)source
  • 1626Edward Alleyn, English actor (born 1566)source
  • 1648Daišan, Manchu politician (born 1583)source
  • 1686Nicolas Steno, Danish pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop (born 1638)source
  • 1686Nicolas Steno, 17th-century scientist and bishop (born 1638)source
  • 1694Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (born 1605)source
  • 1748Isaac Watts, English hymn writer (born 1674)source
  • 1748Isaac Watts, hymn writer (born 1674)source
  • 1800Francisco Bouligny, former military governor of Spanish Louisiana (born 1736)source
  • 1800Francisco Bouligny, Spanish Army officer and colonial administrator (born 1736)source
  • 1861At a battle in the Sundarbans of Bengal, the house of Rahimullah of Baraikhali is attacked and he and 33 others are killed.source
  • 1885Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States (born 1819)source
  • 1894Solomon Caesar Malan, Swiss-born orientalist (born 1812)source
  • 1899The Battle of Umm Diwaykarat, a decisive British and Egyptian victory, ends the Mahdist War in the Sudan, as the Khalifa of Sudan, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, is killed.source
  • 1908A fire breaks out on SS Sardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour, resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people.source
  • 1970Yukio Mishima, Japanese novelist (born 1925)source
  • 2005George Best, 59, Northern Irish football player (Manchester United, Northern Ireland), multiple organ failure.source
  • 2007Agnethe Davidsen, 60, politician, Mayor of Nuuk (1993–2007).source
  • 2016Fidel Castro, 90, Cuban politician, Prime Minister (1959–1976), President (1976–2008).source
  • 2020Diego Maradona, 60, Argentine footballer (Barcelona, Napoli, national team), World Cup winner (1986), heart attack.source