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November 29 in history

217 sourced entries recorded on November 29, from 320 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 528Natural disaster: A second earthquake strikes Antioch, killing thousands.source
  • 539Antioch is struck by an earthquake.source
  • 618Battle of Qianshuiyuan: The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over their rival Xue Rengao.source
  • 903Battle of Hama: Abbasid forces under Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib defeat the Qarmatians near Hama, on the banks of the Orontes River (modern Syria). The Qarmatian army is scattered and pursued by Abbasid troops; Al-Husayn ibn Zikrawayh and other Qarmatian leaders are captured.source
  • 1114A large earthquake damages the areas of the Crusaders in the Middle East. From Antioch and Mamistra to Marash and Edessa are hit by the shocks.source
  • 1218A storm, lasting for 3 days, floods the Crusader camp – devastating the Crusaders' supplies and transportation. To prevent a recurrence Pelagius orders a dyke to be constructed. After the camp is repaired, a serious epidemic strikes the Crusader forces. The victims suffer from a high fever, and at least a sixth of the soldiers die. During the severe winter, the survivors are left enfeebled and depressed.source
  • 1223Pope Honorius III approves the Franciscan Rule (also called "Regula Bullata"). The rule sets regulations for discipline, preaching, and entering the order for Franciscan friars.source
  • 1225The 12-year-old Henry VII, by order of his father Frederick II, marries Margaret of Austria, daughter of Duke Leopold VI the Glorious.source
  • 1226The coronation of Louis IX as King of France takes place at the Reims Cathedral at the direction of Queen Blanche, who also orders the defeated French nobles from the Albigensian Crusade to swear allegiance to her son.source
  • 1394The capital city of the Joseon dynasty (in present-day Korea) is moved from Gaegyeong (now Gaeseong) to Hanseong (now Seoul).source
  • 1396Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, marries Joan Beaufort in England.source
  • 1441(14 Rajab 845 AH) Barakat ibn Hasan learns that he is deposed as Emir of Mecca and leaves that evening.source
  • 1489Arthur Tudor, heir apparent to the throne of England as the son of King Henry VII, is named Prince of Wales.source
  • 1503Pope Julius II, formerly Giuliano della Rovere, adds four new people to the College of Cardinals, including two members of his family, Clemente della Rovere and Galeotto della Rovere. By the time of his death, Julius will have added 27 cardinals to the Roman Catholic Church, five of them from the della Rovere family.source
  • 1508Astronomer Mikołaj Kopernik of Poland is granted benefits by Pope Julius II in order to perform his work.source
  • 1516The "Treaty of Perpetual Peace" is signed in the city of Fribourg in Switzerland, between representatives of the Thirteen Cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy, and King Francis of the Kingdom of France, confirming the French victory in the 1515 Battle of Marignano. The Swiss Confederacy renounces all claims to the French protectorate of Milan in Italy, in for 700,000 gold crowns in compensation.source
  • 1573The Duke of Alva resigns as the Spanish Governor-General of the Netherlands, and is succeeded by Luis de Requesens, who attempts to pursue a more conciliatory policy.source
  • 1574Limahong and Juan de Salcedo quarrel during the Battle of Manila.source
  • 1582Ten years before he begins writing his first known plays, William Shakespeare, 18 years old, marries pregnant 26-year-old Anne Hathaway in England.source
  • 1587Maximilian III withdraws his forces and the siege of Kraków ends.source
  • 1590A truce is signed between representatives of the Holy Roman Empire (ruled by Emperor Rudolf II) and the Ottoman Empire (ruled by Sultan Murad III).source
  • 1599Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow granted its charter by King James VI.source
  • 1609In Japan, a treaty is signed between Spanish nobleman Rodrigo de Vivero, former Governor-General of the Philippines and the former shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, for the establishment of a Spanish factory in eastern Japan.source
  • 1616The first fleet of the Danish East India Company departs from Copenhagen under the command of Ove Gjedde.source
  • 1628English Army Lieutenant John Felton, who stabbed the Duke of Buckingham to death on August 23, is hanged at Tyburn prison.source
  • 1631The Treaty of Höchst is signed between King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and George II of Hesse-Darmstadt, with Darmstadt giving up the fortress of Rüsselsheim in return for Sweden's recognition of Darmstadt's neutrality.source
  • 1633The Ark runs into a more violent storm, but manages to stay afloat and to continue on its journey to America. The Dove turns out to have survived the storms, and both ships will arrive in Maryland on February 24.source
  • 1633Systematic training of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in nursing by their co-founder Louise de Marillac begins.source
  • 1681A storm strikes the Isthmus of Panama and overwhelms the Spanish Navy's Flota de Tierra Firma, sinking the ship Nuestra Señora de Encarnación in the Chagres River. The Encarnación wreckage is not found until almost 340 years later, in 2011, mostly intact and still loaded with most of its cargo.source
  • 1693A fleet of 30 English and Dutch ships captures the French port of Saint-Malosource
  • 1729The Natchez revolt, the worst Native American massacre to take place on Mississippi soil, occurs when Natchez people kill 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie (near modern-day Natchez, Mississippi).source
  • 1729The first (wooden) Putney Bridge is completed, as the only fixed crossing of the River Thames between London Bridge and Kingston, England.source
  • 1729completion of the first (wooden) Putney Bridge as the only fixed crossing of the River Thames between London Bridge and Kingston.source
  • 1733Charles Talbot is appointed Lord Chancellor.source
  • 1751The Cherokee nation signs a treaty with British colonial authorities at the close of the two-week Charlestown Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, with Governor James Glen signing an agreement with Cherokee war chiefs led by the "Old Skiagunsta" of Keowee, the Raven of Hiwasee, Old Caesar of Chatuga and Kittagusta of Joree.source
  • 1754Karim Khan Zand, the King of Persia (now Iran) recaptures the city of Shiraz from Afghan warlord Azad Khan Afghan, who had taken control of much of central Iran since 1749.source
  • 1760French Army Colonel François-Marie Picoté de Belestre formally surrenders Detroit to British Army Major Robert Rogers, and the British Union Jack is raised over Fort Detroit.source
  • 1766Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart returns to Salzburg, after the Mozart family grand tour of Europe.source
  • 1767The Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, in her capacity as Queen of Hungary, issues an edict against the Romani people (commonly called the "gypsies"), prohibiting them from marrying and calling for gypsy children to be taken away by the government so that they can be brought up by Christian families, a proclamation that "produced little or no effect in comparison with the trouble involved".source
  • 1777San Jose, California, is founded. It is the first pueblo in Spanish Alta California.source
  • 1781English slave traders begin to throw approximately 142 slaves taken on in Accra overboard alive from the slave ship Zong in the Caribbean Sea to conserve supplies for the remainder; the Liverpool owners subsequently attempt to reclaim part of their value from insurers.source
  • 1781Henry Hurle officially founds the Ancient Order of Druids in London, England.source
  • 17831783 New Jersey earthquake: An earthquake of 5.3 magnitude strikes New Jersey.source
  • 1783The 5.3 Mfa New Jersey earthquake affects the Province of New Jersey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII ("Very strong").source
  • 1792War of the First Coalition: The Siege of Antwerp ends with the surrender of the Austrian garrisonsource
  • 1807Portuguese Queen Maria I and the Court embark at Lisbon, bound for Brazil. Rio de Janeiro becomes the Portuguese capital.source
  • 1810November 29–December 3 – Invasion of Isle de France: British forces force the French to surrender Isle de France (Mauritius).source
  • 1822Thomas Cochrane leaves the service of the Chilean Navy.source
  • 1827Burke and Hare sell their first corpse for dissection by Robert Knox in Edinburgh.source
  • 1829Alfred Nesbitt Brown arrives in Paihia. He is the third ordained minister in New Zealand.source
  • 1830The Polish November Uprising begins in Warsaw against Russian rule.source
  • 1834P. Hertz is founded by Peter Hertz in Copenhagen.source
  • 1835Population Census: Norway had 1,194,827 inhabitants.source
  • 1850The treaty known as the Punctation of Olmütz is signed in Olomouc. It means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to the Austrian Empire, which takes over the leadership of the German Confederation.source
  • 1850The Punctation of Olmütz was agreed between the Austrian Empire and Prussia. It granted the Austrians leadership of the revived German Confederation.source
  • 1854The Eureka Flag was flown for the first time during the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Ballarat.source
  • 1854Bleeding Kansas: A pro-slavery Democrat, John Wilkins Whitfield, is elected as the congressional delegate for Kansas Territory.source
  • 185529 November The Siege of Kars ends in a Russian victory.source
  • 1864American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre – Colorado volunteers, led by Colonel John Chivington, massacre at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado (where they had been given permission to camp); many of the dead are subsequently mutilated.source
  • 1865Two men die when a coal train falls into the North Dock at Swansea.source
  • 1872American Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.source
  • 1872Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.source
  • 1875Dōshisha English School, predecessor of Dōshisha University, is founded in Kyōto, Japan.source
  • 1876Porfirio Díaz becomes President of Mexico.source
  • 1879Stradey Park opens as the home of Llanelli RFC. It remains the home for Llanelli RFC for nearly 130 years, and later for the regional side Scarlets, but closes in November 2008 when the teams' new home, Parc y Scarlets, opens in nearby Pemberton.source
  • 1888The celebration of Thanksgiving (United States) and the first day of Hanukkah coincide.source
  • 1890The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and its first Diet convenes.source
  • 1890At West Point, New York, the United States Navy defeats the United States Army 24–0 in the first Army–Navy Game of college football.source
  • 1890In West Point, New York, the United States Navy defeats the United States Army 24–0 in the first Army–Navy football game.source
  • 1893establishment of Wuhan Universitysource
  • 1900Herbert Kitchener succeeds Frederick Roberts as commander-in-chief of the British forces in South Africa and implements a scorched earth strategy.source
  • 1910The closing of Nanyang industrial exposition.source
  • 1920Rationing imposed during World War I ends when the restriction on availability of sugar is lifted by the Government.source
  • 1924Tokyo Broadcasting Station, as public associated corporate, was founded, later, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK).source
  • 1927The World Chess Championship, played in Buenos Aires over a period of more than two months, is won by Russian Alexander Alekhine, scoring +6−3=25.source
  • 1929Bernt Balchen, U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Captain Ashley McKinley and Harold June become the first to fly over the South Pole.source
  • 1929Bernt Balchen, U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd, Captain Ashley McKinley, and Harold June, become the first to fly over the South Pole.source
  • 1933Nikka Vonen, educator, folklorist and author (born 1836).source
  • 1939Erling Dahl-Iversen gives the last lecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Surgery on Bredgade in Copenhagen.source
  • 1942The Blue Star Line cargo liner MV Dunedin Star runs aground on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia. Crew and passengers survive, following a 26-day overland trek to Windhoek.source
  • 1942Blue Star Line cargo liner MV Dunedin Star runs aground on the Skeleton Coast of South West Africa.source
  • 1943The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to determine the post-war ordering of the country.source
  • 1944WWII: American submarine USS Archerfish sinks Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano, the largest carrier built to this date, and will remain through the twentieth century the largest ship sunk by a submarine.source
  • 1945Assembly of the world's first general purpose electronic computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer (ENIAC), is completed in the United States, covering 1,800 sq ft of floor space, and the first set of calculations is run on it.source
  • 1946The Central All-Indonesian Workers Organization (SOBSI) is founded in Jakarta.source
  • 1947The United Nations General Assembly votes for the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine which will partition Mandatory Palestine between Arab and Jewish regions, resulting in the creation of the State of Israel.source
  • 1950The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA is founded.source
  • 1951LEO runs the world's first commercial computer program, bakery valuations, for J. Lyons and Co.'s tea shops in the U.K.source
  • 1951LEO becomes the world's first computer to run a full commercial business application, for the bakers J. Lyons and Co.source
  • 1952Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a political campaign promise, by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.source
  • 1953First Indochina War: Battle of Dien Bien Phu – French paratroopers consolidate their position at Điện Biên Phủ.source
  • 1953The National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania opens in Skanderbeg Square, Tirana.source
  • 1963U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy.source
  • 1963Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, killing all 118 on board, the worst air disaster for many years in Canada's history.source
  • 1963Foundation stone for Mirzapur Cadet College is laid in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh).source
  • 1965The Canadian satellite Alouette 2 is launched.source
  • 1966The SS Daniel J. Morrell sinks in a storm on Lake Huron, killing 28 of 29 crewmen.source
  • 1967Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation to become president of the World Bank. McNamara's resignation follows U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop the bombing of North Vietnam, and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam.source
  • 1969Anniken Huitfeldt, politician and Minister.source
  • 1970November 27–29 – Papal visit of Pope Paul VI, the country's first. Upon his arrival at Manila International Airport, he survived an assassination attempt by a Bolivian painter, Benjamin Mendoza (a knife-wielding assailant dressed as a priest).source
  • 1972The "tea house" Mellow Yellow opens on the river Amstel in Amsterdam, pioneering the legal sale of cannabis in the Netherlands.source
  • 1972Atari in the United States release the production version of Pong, one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home console markets, devised by Nolan Bushnell and Allan Alcorn.source
  • 1972The legal sale of cannabis in the Netherlands begins with the opening "tea house" Mellow Yellow, on the Amstel River in Amsterdam.source
  • 19751975 New Zealand general election: The New Zealand National Party led by Robert Muldoon defeats the incumbent New Zealand Labour Party led by Prime Minister Bill Rowling.source
  • 1975While disabled, the submarine tender USS Proteus discharges radioactive coolant water into Apra Harbor, Guam. A Geiger counter at two of the harbor's public beaches shows 100 millirems/hour, 50 times the allowable dose.source
  • 1979After 12 years of environmental controversy and legal action, the Tennessee Valley Authority's Tellico Dam project is completed. It remains the last dam to be built by the agency as of 2023.source
  • 1979The latest edition of El Tarapacá de Iquique circulates.source
  • 1982Michael Jackson releases his sixth studio album, Thriller, in the United States, which will go on to be the best-selling album of all time.source
  • 1987Korean Air Flight 858 is blown up over the Andaman Sea, killing 115 crew and passengers. North Korean agents are responsible for the bombing.source
  • 1987Bombing of Korean Air Flight 858source
  • 1987Korean Air Flight 858 was blown by the detonated bomb by the North Korean agents.source
  • 20022002 Mnet Asian Music Awardssource
  • 2004November 29–December 3 – Typhoon Nanmadol kills 775 people in the Philippines.source
  • 2007Following new legislative elections in Togo, European Union announces lifting of sanctions imposed on country in 1993source
  • 2007The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.source
  • 2008Ambassadors of the European Union issued a joint-statement against the anti-government demonstrators (Yellow Shirtst). The governor of Phuket, Preecha Ruangjan, issues a statement that urges police to crack down on prostitution.source
  • 2008November 26–29 – 2008 Mumbai attacks: Ten terrorists of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based terror group, carry out four days of coordinated bombing and shooting attacks across Mumbai, killing 166 people. One terrorist, Ajmal Kasab, was captured alive and executed in 2012.source
  • 2010November 29–December 10 – The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Cancún, Mexico. Formally referred to as the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), it serves too as the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6).source
  • 2010The European Union agree to an €85 billion rescue deal for Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility, the International Monetary Fund and bilateral loans from the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden.source
  • 2012The UN General Assembly approves a motion granting Palestine non-member observer state status.source
  • 2012A UN war crimes tribunal acquits former Kosovan Prime Minister and former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army Ramush Haradinaj of war crimes, prompting Serbia to denounce the court.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
  • 2013Shoppers looking for bargains on Black Friday (Viernes Negro) found the discounts were not as competitive as they expected.source
  • 2013A police helicopter crashes into The Clutha, a pub in Glasgow, Scotland, killing 10 people and injuring 31.source
  • 2014In an effort to make the UAE a world leader in innovation, the UAE Cabinet approved the designation of 2015 as the Year of Innovation.source
  • 2025Deposed Guinea-Bissau president Umaro Sissoco Embaló goes into exile in the Republic of the Congo from Senegal following the 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état.source
  • 2025November 27–30 – An ecumenical meeting of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Catholic Church at Nicaea is held to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea.source

Births

  • 826William of Septimania, Frankish nobleman (died 850)source
  • 968Kazan, emperor of Japan (died 1008)source
  • 1310John de Mowbray, English nobleman (died 1361)source
  • 1329John I, Duke of Bavaria (died 1340)source
  • 1338Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence (died 1368)source
  • 1422Thomas Percy, 1st Baron Egremont, English baron (died 1460)source
  • 1427Zhengtong Emperor of China (died 1464)source
  • 1451Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Württemberg (died 1524)source
  • 1463Andrea della Valle, Italian Catholic cardinal (died 1534)source
  • 1469Guru Nanak, Sikh guru (died 1539)source
  • 1484Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist and reformer (died 1551)source
  • 1521Marcantonio Maffei, Italian Catholic archbishop and cardinal (died 1583)source
  • 1528Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, English politician (died 1592)source
  • 1531Johannes Letzner, German Protestant priest and historian (died 1613)source
  • 1627John Ray, English biologist (died 1705)source
  • 1752Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (died 1819)source
  • 1781Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, teacher, philosopher, sociologist (died 1865)source
  • 1797Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (died 1848)source
  • 1799Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher, educator and writer, father of novelist Louisa May Alcott (died 1888)source
  • 1816Morrison Waite, American politician and Chief Justice of the United States (died 1888)source
  • 1818George Brown, Canadian politician (died 1880)source
  • 1820Ferdinand Ludwig Herff, German-American physician (died 1912)source
  • 1825Jean-Martin Charcot, French physician, neurologist (died 1893)source
  • 1832Louisa May Alcott, American author (died 1888)source
  • 1835Empress Dowager Cixi of China (died 1908)source
  • 1854Egas Moniz, neurologist, inventor of the lobotomy, and first Portuguese to be awarded a Nobel Prize (died 1955).source
  • 1856Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (died 1921)source
  • 1874António Egas Moniz, neurologist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1949) (died 1955).source
  • 1898C. S. Lewis, British author (died 1963)source
  • 1899Abol Hassan Ebtehaj, Iranian politician.source
  • 1932Jacques Chirac, President of France (died 2019)source
  • 1969Mariano Rivera, Panamanian-American professional baseball playersource
  • 1973Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballersource
  • 1976Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (died 2020)source
  • 1988Russell Wilson, American football playersource

Deaths

  • 320Saint Illuminata, Roman Catholic religious sister and saintsource
  • 521Jacob of Serugh, Syrian poet and theologiansource
  • 524Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I, ruler of the Maya city of Palenque in what is now the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, dies after a reign of 23 years. The city enters an interregnum which lasts a little over four years.source
  • 524Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I, ruler of Palenque (Mexico) (born 465)source
  • 561Chlothar I, king of the Frankssource
  • 561King Chlothar I ("the Old") dies at Compiègne at age 64. The Merovingian dynasty is continued by his four sons (Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I), who divide the Frankish Kingdom and rule from the capitals at Paris, Orléans, Reims and Soissons, respectively.source
  • 571November 29? – Brendan of Birr, Irish monastic saintsource
  • 997Seongjong, Korean king (born 961)source
  • 1031Al-Qadir, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (born 947)source
  • 1039Adalbero, German noblemansource
  • 1064Al-Kunduri, vizier of the Seljuk Empire (born 1024)source
  • 1198Al-Aziz Uthman, sultan of Egypt (born 1171)source
  • 1217Ibn Jubayr, Andalusian traveller (born 1145)source
  • 1253Otto II, German count palatine (born 1206)source
  • 1311Alboino I della Scala, the Lord of Verona, dies and is succeeded by his brother Cangrande.source
  • 1314Philip IV the Fair, King of France from the House of Capet, in a hunting accident (born 1268)source
  • 1314Louis X ("Louis the Quarrelsome") becomes King of France after his father, King Philip IV, is killed in a hunting accident at Fontainebleau.source
  • 1318Heinrich Frauenlob, German musician and poetsource
  • 1330Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (born 1287)source
  • 1342Michael of Cesena, Italian Franciscan leader (born 1270)source
  • 1378Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1316)source
  • 1378Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, dies in Prague. He is succeeded by his son, Wenceslaus, as King of Bohemia, but the office of Holy Roman Emperor falls into abeyance, until Charles's son Sigismund is crowned in 1433.source
  • 1393King Leo V of Armenia (born c. 1342)source
  • 1396Robert Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Wemme (born 1373)source
  • 1463Marie of Anjou, queen of France, spouse of Charles VII of France (born 1404)source
  • 1521William Rokeby, a leading statesman and cleric in the early sixteenth-century, who held the offices of Bishop of Meath, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.source
  • 1530Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, British statesman (born c. 1473)source
  • 1543Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist, active in Englandsource
  • 1544Jungjong of Joseon (born 1488)source
  • 1569António Ferreira, Portuguese poet (born 1528)source
  • 1577Cuthbert Mayne, English saint (born 1543)source
  • 1594Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (born 1533)source
  • 1614Mogami Yoshiaki, Japanese daimyō of the Yamagata domain (born 1546)source
  • 1632Frederick V of the Palatinate, briefly King of Bohemia (born 1596)source
  • 1643Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (born 1567)source
  • 1646Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, theologian, astronomer and Archbishop of Uppsala (born 1565)source
  • 1682Prince Rupert of the Rhine, German soldier, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (born 1619)source
  • 1694Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (born 1628)source
  • 1695James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (born 1619)source
  • 1716Ofspring Blackall, Bishop of Exeter (born 1655)source
  • 1725William Jones, 49, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford.source
  • 1750Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Manselsource
  • 1759Alamgir II, the Mughal Emperor of India, is assassinated in a conspiracy orchestrated by his Prime Minister, Imad-ul-Mulk. The Shah Alam II, a grandson of the 17th century Emperor Aurangzeb, is made the new Mughal Emperor.source
  • 1780Maria Theresa of Austria dies in Vienna after 40 years of rule, and her Habsburg dominions pass to her ambitious son, Joseph II, who has already been Holy Roman Emperor since 1765.source
  • 1780Empress Maria Theresa of Austria (born 1717)source
  • 1835Princess Catharina of Württemberg, wife of Jérôme Bonaparte (born 1783)source
  • 1872Horace Greeley, American newspaper editor, Democratic presidential candidate (born 1811)source
  • 1872Horace Greeley, President Ulysses S. Grant's opponent in this year's U.S. presidential election, dies. His electoral votes are divided among several candidates.source
  • 1924Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (born 1858)source
  • 1939Philipp Scheidemann, German politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (born 1865)source
  • 1973104 people are killed in a Taiyo department store fire in Kumamoto, Kyūshū, Japan.source
  • 1974Peng Dehuai, Chinese military leader (born 1898)source
  • 1985Gérard Hoarau, exiled political leader from the Seychelles, is assassinated in London.source
  • 1986Cary Grant, 82, English-American actor (North by Northwest, None but the Lonely Heart, Penny Serenade), stroke.source
  • 2023Henry Kissinger, 100, German-born American diplomat and politician, national security advisor (1969–1975), secretary of state (1973–1977) and Nobel Prize laureate (1973), heart failure.source