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November 5 in history

236 sourced entries recorded on November 5, from 425 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 1124Gutierre Fernández de Castro and his wife Toda receive half of the lands owned by her grandmother, Teresa, at Quintanilla Rodano, Quintana Fortuno and Sotopalacios.source
  • 1138Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Đại Việt at the age of two, starting a 37-year reign.source
  • 1219Siege of Damietta: The Crusaders enter Damietta and find it abandoned. Seeing the Crusader standards flying from the towers, Al-Kamil hastily abandons his camp at Faraskur and withdraws to Mansoura. Survivors in the city are either sent into slavery or held as hostages to trade for Christian prisoners. On November 23, the Crusader army captures the city of Tinnis.source
  • 1311Eight days after the signing of the Concord of Palencia, John of Castile violates his promise to his nephew Ferdinand IV and enters into an alliance with Juan Núñez II de Lara.source
  • 1327In Barcelona, Prince Alfonso "the Kind" becomes the new King of Aragon upon the death of his father, King Jaime II, and is enthroned as King Alfonso IV.source
  • 1380The English parliament assembles, and the House of Commons re-elects Sir John Guildesborough as its speaker.source
  • 1402The Republic of Genoa resumes control of Monaco, deposing Louis Grimaldi. Genoese control lasts for more than 16 years.source
  • 1415In an attempt to resolve the Brandenburg–Pomeranian conflict in Germany, Frederick I of Brandenburg pledges his 3-year-old daughter, Magadalene for a future marriage to Wartislaw IX, the 15-year-old Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast. Magdalene and Wartislaw marry other people after they grow up.source
  • 1439The Council of Basel elects its own pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, and selects Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (considered an antipope), who takes the regnal name Felix V.source
  • 1472Duke Nicholas of Lorraine and Duke Charles of Burgundy agree that the engagement between Nicholas and Charles's daughter can be called off without jeopardizing the alliance between the two duchies.source
  • 1479Grand Admiral Gedik Ahmed Pasha of the Ottoman Navy gives the order to ravage the Greek island of Zakynthos, at the time a territory of the Republic of Venice, and the Ottoman troops destroy most of the island's churches and monasteries and many of its dwellings.source
  • 1486At Enniskillen, capital of the Kingdom of Fermanagh in what is now County Fermanagh on the Republic of Ireland's border with Northern Ireland, King Éamonn mac Thomáis Óig abdicates and is succeeded briefly by his brother Thomáis Óg mac Thomáis Óig, who is deposed by Seánn mac Pilib meic Thomáis Mhóir before the end of the year.source
  • 1486At Enniskillen, capital of the Kingdom of Fermanagh, currently County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, King Éamonn mac Thomáis Óig abdicates and is succeeded briefly by his brother Thomáis Óg mac Thomáis Óig, who Seánn mac Pilib meic Thomáis Mhóir deposes before the end of the year.source
  • 1499The Catholicon is published in Tréguier (Brittany). This Breton–greek–Latin dictionary had been written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first dictionary of either French or Breton.source
  • 1499The Catholicon is published in Tréguier (Brittany). This Breton–French–Latin dictionary had been written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first dictionary of either French or Breton.source
  • 1513Pope Leo X issues the decree Dum suavissimos, reviving Sapienza University of Rome.source
  • 1514Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of France by the Bishop of Bayeux at the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis.source
  • 1514Mary Tudor is formally crowned as the Queen consort of France.source
  • 1530St. Felix's flood devastates Zeeland: a large part of the Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal is lost leading to decline of the city of Reimerswaal.source
  • 1531Christian II`s invasion force arrives in Oslo.source
  • 1538The siege of the Indian city of Diu ends as the Gujarat and Ottoman forces withdraw from the Portuguese held city.source
  • 1547Catherine Parr, the former Queen consort of England and widow of King Henry VIII, publishes her book The Lamentation of a Sinner.source
  • 1556Second Battle of Panipat: Fifty miles north of Delhi, a Mughal army defeats the forces of Hemu and recaptures Delhi for the Mughal Empire, guaranteeing Akbar's rule.source
  • 1556The Mughals defeat Hemu in the Second Battle of Panipat and recapture Delhi.source
  • 1559In Scotland, Crichton Castle, home of the powerful Earl of Bothwell, is besieged and captured in an attack by the Earl of Arran.source
  • 1562Battle of Corrichie in Scotland: The rebellion of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly is crushed by James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray.source
  • 1566Queen Elizabeth I of England addresses the English Parliament and champions English nationalism, asking "Was I not born in this realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country? Is there any cause I should alienate myself from being careful over this country? Is not my kingdom here?"source
  • 1574Edmund Tanner (died 1579 in Ireland) is appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork and Cloyne and consecrated in Rome.source
  • 1583Willem IV van den Bergh, the Stadtholder of Guelders for the Dutch Republic is arrested along with his family and charged with treason on suspicion of having allowed the Spanish Army to seize Zutphen. Imprisoned for five months, he is released in March after promising to retire from public service.source
  • 1605November 5 (O.S.) – The Gunpowder Plot, a scheme to bomb England's Palace of Westminster during the opening of Parliament, is foiled after Sir Thomas Knyvet is tipped off, and finds Catholic plotter Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building. Knyvet orders a search of the area and 36 barrels of gunpowder are found. Fawkes is arrested for trying to assassinate King James I and the members who had been scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day.source
  • 1616Bishop Lancelot Andrewes preaches the annual Gunpowder Treason sermon before King James I of England at Whitehall, both having been intended victims of the plot.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
  • 1636English theologian Henry Burton preaches two sermons on Guy Fawkes Day, heavily critical of the Anglican bishops, and is soon summoned before the Star Chamber.source
  • 1686Bar Convent in York established, making it the oldest surviving active Catholic convent in England.source
  • 1687An annular solar eclipse is visible from Arabia across the Indian Ocean and across the south of Australiasource
  • 16885 November (15 November NS) – Glorious Revolution begins: William lands at Brixham; James is prevented from meeting him in battle because many of his officers and men desert to the other side.source
  • 1692Mohamed bin Hajj Ali Thukkala becomes the new Sultan of the Maldives as Muhammad Ali IV.source
  • 1705The Dublin Gazette in Ireland publishes its first edition.source
  • 1705The Dublin Gazette, the official newspaper of the British Government in Ireland, publishes its first edition.source
  • 1711The southwest spire of Southwell Minster in Nottinghamshire, England is struck by lightning, resulting in a fire that spreads to the nave and tower, destroying roofs, bells, clock and organ.source
  • 1711the southwest spire of Southwell Minster in Nottinghamshire is struck by lightning, resulting in a fire that spreads to the nave and tower, destroying roofs, bells, clock and organ.source
  • 1725The fourth and final treaty of the 1725 Peace of Vienna is signed to create an alliance between Austria and Spain.source
  • 1734The Dzików Confederation is created in Poland.source
  • 1736King Theodore of Corsica flees the island after a reign of seven months and the kingdom reverts to Genoese control.source
  • 1743Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.source
  • 1757Seven Years' War: Battle of Rossbach – Frederick defeats the French-Imperial army under the Duc de Soubise and Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen, forcing the French to withdraw from Saxony.source
  • 1757Seven Years' War – Battle of Rossbach: Frederick defeats the French-Imperial army under the Duc de Soubise and Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen, forcing the French to withdraw from Saxony.source
  • 1768The Treaty of Fort Stanwix is signed between the five nations of the Iroquois Confederacy (the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca) relinquishing their claims to territory south of the Ohio River to the British.source
  • 1781John Hanson is elected President of the Continental Congress.source
  • 1799Hunter is recalled and Philip Gidley King is named as his successorsource
  • 1799HMS Sceptre is driven ashore and wrecked in a storm in Table Bay, South Africa, with the loss of 349 and 41 survivors.source
  • 1799HMS Sceptre is wrecked in a storm in Table Bay, South Africa, with the loss of 349 and 41 survivors.source
  • 1802Marc Isambard Brunel begins installation of his blockmaking machinery at Portsmouth Block Mills.source
  • 1804Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson arrives at Outer Cove, leading the Buffalo, the Lady Nelson and two schooners, under instructions from London to form a settlement in the north of Van Diemen's Land.source
  • 1810Jean Baptiste Bernadotte is formally adopted by Charles XIII.source
  • 18121812 United States presidential election: James Madison defeats DeWitt Clinton.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
  • 1815The Ionian Islands become a British protectorate, the United States of the Ionian Islands.source
  • 1817Third Anglo-Maratha War breaks out with the Battle of Khadki.source
  • 1824Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first technological university in the English-speaking world, is founded in Troy, New York.source
  • 1829The Chalmers University of Technology is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden.source
  • 1829Technical University of Denmark (DTU) opens.source
  • 1835Christiania Offentlige Theater burns down.source
  • 1838Dissolution of the Federal Republic of Central America: Honduras and Costa Rica follow the example of Nicaragua and secede from the federation.source
  • 1847November 4–8 – James Young Simpson discovers the anesthetic properties of chloroform and first uses it, successfully, on a patient, in an obstetric case in Edinburgh.source
  • 1854Crimean War: Battle of Inkerman – The Russians are defeated.source
  • 1854At the Battle of Inkerman, Hugh Rowlands carries out the actions that lead to his becoming the first Welshman to win the Victoria Cross.source
  • 1861The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.source
  • 1862American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, more than 300 Santee Sioux are found guilty of rape and murder of white settlers, and are sentenced to hang.source
  • 1862Dakota War: In Minnesota, more than 300 Santee Sioux are found guilty of rape and murder of white settlers and are sentenced to hang.source
  • 1866House of Representatives elections: Despite President Andrew Johnson's Swing Around the Circle tour, the Republican Party wins in a landslide.source
  • 1871Wickenburg Massacre: Six men travelling by stagecoach, in the Arizona Territory, are reportedly murdered by Yavapai people.source
  • 1871Wickenburg massacre: Six men traveling by stagecoach are reportedly murdered by the Yavapai Indians in Arizona Territory.source
  • 18721872 United States presidential election: Ulysses S. Grant defeats Horace Greeley.source
  • 1872Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, American suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time (on November 18 she is served an arrest warrant, and in the subsequent trial is fined $100, which she never pays).source
  • 1873Pacific Scandal: the House of Commons of Canada passes a vote of no confidence in Sir John A. Macdonald's government.source
  • 1875Blackburn Rovers F.C. is founded in England by two old-boys of Shrewsbury School following a meeting at the Leger Hotel, Blackburn.source
  • 1876October 28-November 5 - Hagi Rebellionsource
  • 1881The invasion of Parihaka by a colonial militia aiming to clear the non-violent resistance movement and enable the subdivision of land for European settlementsource
  • 1888Belfast is granted city status by Queen Victoria.source
  • 1894Exposition Internationale d'Anvers ends.source
  • 1895George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.source
  • 1898Negros Revolution: Filipinos on the island of Negros revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.source
  • 1898In the U.S., the collapse of a theater under construction in Detroit kills 11 workmen.source
  • 1898In China, an admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy and 40 sailors are denied permission by the Chinese government to proceed from Tientsin to Beijing.source
  • 1899The U.S. Army wins the battle to capture the Philippine Republic's capital at Angeles City, after nearly three months of fighting. It also captures the Philippine stronghold of Magalang.source
  • 1899The Belgian Antarctic Expedition is concluded.source
  • 1901Revenue wins the Melbourne Cup.source
  • 1906Frits Thaulow, painter (born 1847)source
  • 1907Apologue wins the Melbourne Cup.source
  • 1911Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica (confirmed by an act of the Italian Parliament on February 25, 1912).source
  • 19121912 United States presidential election: New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson beats former president Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent president William Howard Taft.source
  • 1912U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger and Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. Taft's base is undercut by Progressive Party candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt, who finishes second, ahead of Taft.source
  • 1913King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.source
  • 1914The Battle of Tanga ends, with the British Indian Expeditionary Force B failing to capture German East Africa defences.source
  • 1916The Kingdom of Poland (1916–18) is proclaimed by a joint act of the emperors of Germany and Austria.source
  • 1916Everett massacre: An armed confrontation in Everett, Washington, between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World results in seven deaths.source
  • 1916Honan Chapel, Cork, Ireland, a product of the Irish Arts and Crafts movement (1894–1925), is dedicated.source
  • 1917November 5 (N.S.) (October 23, O.S.) – Estonian and Russian Bolsheviks seize power in Tallinn, Autonomous Governorate of Estonia, two days before the October Revolution in Petrograd.source
  • 1918Clydebuilt former Cunarder HMS Campania sinks in an accident in the Firth of Forth.source
  • 1929Nightmarch wins the Melbourne Cup.source
  • 1931November 4–18 - Jiangqiao Campaignsource
  • 1933Spanish Basque people vote for autonomy.source
  • 19331933 Basque Statute of Autonomy referendumsource
  • 1937World War II: In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people (recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum).source
  • 19401940 United States presidential election: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt decisively defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie, and becomes the United States' first and only third-term president.source
  • 1940November 2–8 – WWII: Greco-Italian War – Battle of Elaia–Kalamas in Epirus: Outnumbered Greek forces repel the Italian Army.source
  • 1943First Bombing of the Vatican – Four bombs are dropped on the neutral Vatican City; the aircraft responsible is never certainly identified.source
  • 1951Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez becomes acting President of Colombia.source
  • 1952The 9.0 Mw Severo-Kurilsk earthquake hits the Kamchatka Peninsula of the Soviet Union with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). A tsunami took the lives of more than 2,300 people.source
  • 1952The 1952 Severo-Kurilsk tsunami kills 2,336 people in the town of Severo-Kurilsk.source
  • 1953David Ben-Gurion resigns as prime minister of Israel.source
  • 1954Japan and Burma sign a peace treaty in Rangoon, to end their long-extinct state of war.source
  • 1955Convention establishing the Interparliamentary Consultative Council of the Benelux.source
  • 1956Sharm el-Sheikh was occupied by Israel and as a result the Gulf of Aqaba was reopened.source
  • 19611961 Elbarusovo school fire killed 110 students and teachers.source
  • 1962West German defense minister Franz Josef Strauß is relieved of his duties over the Spiegel affair due to his alleged involvement in police action against the magazine.source
  • 1962A coal mining disaster in Ny-Ålesund kills 21 people; the Norwegian government is forced to resign in the aftermath of this accident, in August 1963.source
  • 1964Mariner program: Mariner 3 spacecraft is launched from Cape Kennedy but fails.source
  • 1965Martial law is announced in Rhodesia. The United Nations General Assembly accepts British intent to use force against Rhodesia if necessary by a vote of 82–9.source
  • 1967November 4–5 – In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to Rwanda.source
  • 1968Luis A. Ferré of the newly formed New Progressive Party is elected Governor of Puerto Rico by beating incumbent governor Roberto Sánchez Vilella of the People's Party, Luis Negrón López of the Popular Democratic Party and Antonio J. Gonzalez of the Puerto Rican Independence Party; he also becomes the first "statehooder" governor of the Island.source
  • 19681968 United States presidential election: Republican candidate Richard Nixon defeats the Democratic candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and American Independent Party candidate George Wallace.source
  • 1971Senior officials Cubans arrive at the Pudahuel Airport, their photography being forbidden to the media.source
  • 1974The Democratic Party makes big gains nationwide in House, Senate, and Gubernatorial elections.source
  • 1979The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio in the United States.source
  • 1989Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir is attacked by Maronite demonstrators loyal to Michel Aoun and who reject the nomination of Rene Moawad as president of the country. One of the demonstrators asks the Patriarch to kiss the picture of General Aoun raised above his head, and many follow him saying: "Kiss the picture, kiss the picture". The Patriarch refuses. The scene is hysterical and tragic to the point that Archbishop Bechara Boutros al-Rahi leaves the Patriarch's side and heads to the church of the Patriarchate because he can no longer bear the sight.source
  • 1990Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.source
  • 1991China and Vietnam restore diplomatic relations after a 13-year rift which followed the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War.source
  • 1991November 4–5 – End of Apartheid: The African National Congress leads a general strike, demanding representation in the government and an end to the value-added tax.source
  • 1991Tropical Storm Thelma causes flash floods in the Philippine city of Ormoc, killing more than 4,900 people.source
  • 1993The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Railways Act 1993, setting out the procedures for privatisation of British Rail.source
  • 1993Dario Londono Cardona, Vice President of the Senate, and his driver are shot by a group of hitmen in Medellín. This was days after a law he had written parts of, offering leniency to those charged with drug trafficking and other crimes who cooperated with officials, passed. The group “Death to Protectors of the Cali Cartel” claims responsibility. Cardona later dies of his injuries.source
  • 1994A letter by former U.S. president Ronald Reagan, announcing that he has Alzheimer's disease, is released.source
  • 1994American boxer George Foreman wins the WBA and IBF World Heavyweight Championships by KO'ing Michael Moorer becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in history.source
  • 1995The second phase of the Seletar Expressway was opened.source
  • 19961996 United States presidential election: Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton defeats his Republican challenger, Bob Dole and Reform Party candidate Ross Perot.source
  • 1996Saintly wins the Melbourne Cup giving Bart Cummings his 10th win as a trainer.source
  • 1996Starting with a base of 350 points, the share price index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange rose as high as 3,648.75 points. The following day it started falling and it came down to 462 points in May 1999. The crash left millions of investors penniless.source
  • 1997The Red Cross aids the victims of the Somali flood.source
  • 1999The Astana Zhas Ulan Republican School was founded.source
  • 2004Russia ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.source
  • 2006Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging by the Iraqi Special Tribunal. He is later executed by hanging for crimes against humanity on December 30.source
  • 2012Five bombs exploded in Manama, killing two people.source
  • 2013The uncrewed Mars Orbiter Mission is launched by India from its launch pad in Sriharikota.source
  • 2015In Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, a tailings dam of iron ore collapses, causing 19 deaths and releasing a toxic mudflow to pollute the Doce River.source
  • 201638 Martyrs of the Catholic Church executed by the communist regime in Albania, were beatified by the Vatican in a mass organized at St. Stefan Church in Shkodra.source
  • 2017The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung publishes 13.4 million documents leaked from the offshore law firm Appleby, along with business registries in 19 tax jurisdictions that reveal offshore financial activities on behalf of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders. The newspaper shared the documents with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and asked it to lead the investigation.source
  • 2017Sutherland Springs church shooting: A gunman opens fire in a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, United States, killing 26 people and injuring 20 more. It was the deadliest shooting in an American place of worship in modern history, surpassing the Charleston church shooting of 2015 and the Waddell Buddhist temple shooting of 1991.source
  • 2018November 4–6: President of the Council of State of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel visits North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang.source
  • 2018Two U.S. space probes simultaneously (and coincidentally) reach "opposite" milestones in relation to the solar heliosphere: Voyager 2 passed through the heliopause, the outer limit of the Sun's magnetic field, into interstellar space within hours of the Parker Solar Probe reaching its first perihelion, the closest point to the Sun on its initial orbit.source
  • 201911,000 scientists from around the world publish a study in the journal BioScience, warning "clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency".source
  • 2020Baptism of the Prophetsource
  • 2021Tigray War: The Tigray People's Liberation Front forms a coalition with eight other rebel groups with the aim of defeating the Ethiopian government "by force or by negotiations."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
  • 2021A crowd crush at the Astroworld Festival hosted by Travis Scott in Houston, Texas, kills 10 people and causes 300+ injuries.source
  • 20242024 United States presidential election: Former U.S. President Donald Trump defeats incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris to win a second nonconsecutive term. Trump became the second person in American history to win a second nonconsecutive term, after Grover Cleveland in 1892.source
  • 2024German Chancellor Olaf Scholz dismisses FDP leader Christian Lindner from his position as finance minister, leading to two other FDP ministers resigning and the collapse of the governing coalition.source
  • 2025The Mohammed VI International University Hospital Complex is inaugurated in Rabat by King Mohammed VI and Crown Prince Moulay Hassan.source

Births

  • 1097André de Montbard, French nobleman (died 1156)source
  • 1205As-Salih Ayyub, Ayyubid ruler (died 1249)source
  • 12545 November or 6 December – Beatrice of Castile, marchioness of Montferrat (died 1286)source
  • 1271Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (died 1304)source
  • 1305Robert Clifford, English nobleman and knight (died 1344)source
  • 1326Nawrahta Minye (Anawrahta II of Sagaing), Burmese prince and ruler (died 1349)source
  • 1436Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville, English nobleman, attainted as a Yorkist supporter during the Wars of the Roses (died 1466)source
  • 1494Hans Sachs, German meistersinger ("mastersinger") (died 1576)source
  • 1549Philippe de Mornay, French writer (died 1623)source
  • 1549Philippe de Mornay, Protestant writer and member of the anti-monarchist Monarchomaques (died 1623)source
  • 1569Nils Turesson Bielke, statesman, member of the privy council (died 1639)source
  • 1607Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch painter (died 1678)source
  • 1608Margareta Huitfeldt, noblewomen, estate owner (died 1683).source
  • 1615Ibrahim, Ottoman Sultan (died 1648)source
  • 1642Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642–1709), count, official and diplomat (died 1709)source
  • 1667Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (died 1719)source
  • 1694Ricardo Wall, Irish-born soldier, diplomat and minister in the Spanish service (died 1777)source
  • 1701November 5 or 1702 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (died 1785)source
  • 1704Samuel Pegge, English antiquary and clergyman (died 1796)source
  • 1711Kitty Clive, British actor (died 1785)source
  • 1715John Brown, English divine and author (died 1766)source
  • 1715John Brown, writer (died 1766)source
  • 1722William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English dueller (died 1798)source
  • 1742Richard Cosway, English artist (died 1821)source
  • 1754Alessandro Malaspina, explorer (died 1810)source
  • 1789William Bland, Australian politician (died 1868)source
  • 1789William Bland, Medical practitioner, surgeon and politician (died 1868)source
  • 1818Benjamin Franklin Butler, American lawyer, politician, and general (died 1893)source
  • 1831Anna Leonowens, Anglo-Indian educator (Anna of The King and I) (died 1915)source
  • 1846Joaquim Pimenta de Castro, military officer, mathematician and politician (died 1918)source
  • 1855Eugene V. Debs, American union leader (died 1926)source
  • 1857Ida Tarbell, American journalist (died 1944)source
  • 1892J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist (died 1964)source
  • 1920Kató Havas, violinist (died 2018).source
  • 1931Ike Turner, American singer, songwriter (died 2007)source
  • 1952Bill Walton, American basketball player, commentator (died 2024)source
  • 1959Bryan Adams, Canadian singer and photographersource
  • 1998Takehiro Tomiyasu, Japanese footballersource

Deaths

  • 425Atticus, archbishop of Constantinoplesource
  • 964Fan Zhi, chancellor of the Song Dynastysource
  • 1011Mathilde, German abbess (born 949)source
  • 1168Hugh IX of Lusignan, French noblemansource
  • 1215Philip de Valognes, Norman noblemansource
  • 1219Hugh IX (the Brown), French noblemansource
  • 1235Elisabeth of Swabia, queen consort of Castile and León (born 1205)source
  • 1247Ogasawara Nagatsune, Japanese samurai (born 1179)source
  • 1319Simone Ballachi, Italian monk and friar (born 1240)source
  • 1370Casimir III the Great, King of Poland (born 1310)source
  • 1370Casimir III the Great, king of Poland, dies two months after being injured in an accident while hunting, and is succeeded jointly by his sister, Elizabeth of Kujavia, and her son, Louis I of Hungary, beginning the rule of the country by the Capet-Anjou family.source
  • 1450John IV, Count of Armagnac (born 1396)source
  • 1459John Fastolf, English soldiersource
  • 1515Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (born 1474)source
  • 1526Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician (born 1465)source
  • 1555Hemu (Hemu Vikramaditya), Hindu emperor of north India.source
  • 1605Nyaungyan Min, Burmese king (born 1555)source
  • 1632Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (born 1564)source
  • 1632Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, nobleman, Catholic sympathiser and scientist (born 1564)source
  • 1660Alexandre de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary (born 1591)source
  • 1700Edward Cranfield, English colonial official; Governor of New Hampshire (born circa 1640s)source
  • 1714Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (born 1633)source
  • 1758Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (born 1686)source
  • 1758Hans Egede, Lutheran missionary (born 1686)source
  • 1767John Reading (New Jersey governor), Colonial Governor of New Jersey (born 1686)source
  • 1801Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar (born 1730)source
  • 1807Angelica Kauffman, Swiss painter (born 1741)source
  • 1828Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg), Empress of Paul I of Russia (born 1759)source
  • 1828Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg), Empress of Paul I of Russia (born 1759)source
  • 1879James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (born 1831)source
  • 1895Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisasource
  • 1925Sidney Reilly, Russian spy (executed) (born c.1873)source
  • 1951Jul Bonati - Jesuit, scholar, translator and one of the 38 martyrs of Albania killed during Enver Hoxha's reignsource
  • 1961Luo Zhuoying, 65, general.source
  • 1963Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (born 1902)source
  • 1975A group of anarchists blow up a clock tower to protest a new government tax on looking at the clock. 12 people were injured, and 4 were killed. The anarchists later spray painted the words "killing time" on what was left of the tower.source
  • 1983Byford Dolphin rig diving bell accident: Off the coast of Norway, 5 divers are killed and 1 is severely wounded in an explosive decompression accident.source
  • 1994Influential Afrikaner theologian and critic of apartheid Johan Heyns is assassinated; the killers are never apprehended or identified.source
  • 2009Fourteen people are killed during the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.source