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November 9 in history

219 sourced entries recorded on November 9, from 324 CE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 324Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome.source
  • 694King Ergica of the Visigoths accuses the Jews of aiding the Muslims, and sentences all Jews to slavery.source
  • 924Byzantine co-Emperor Romanos I Lekapenos concludes a treaty with the Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria and provides the Bulgarian monarch with "gold and silver shields and lances."source
  • 1180Battle of Fujigawa: Minamoto forces, numbering around 30,000 and commanded by Minamoto no Yoritomo, defeat a Taira army under Taira no Koremori near the Fuji River. The Taira forces retreat in disorder, though Koremori manages to escape.source
  • 1225Frederick II marries the 14-year-old Queen Yolande, heiress to the kingdom of Jerusalem, and adds the Crusader States to his dominions.source
  • 1303Edward I Longshanks, King of England spends the winter at Dunfermline Abbey where he plans the attack on Stirling Castle. He stations an army in the field and operations continue throughout the winter. An English force (some 1,000 men) raids and plunder into Lennox as far as Drymen. Meanwhile, Lord John Botetourt raids Galloway in strength, with four bannerets (some 3,000 men).source
  • 1313Battle of Gammelsdorf: German forces led by Louis IV the Bavarian" defeat his cousin Frederick the Fair, at Gammelsdorf, who is supported by Leopold I the Glorious, Duke of Austria. During the battle, Louis' smaller force does not pursue Frederick's defeated army. He is forced to renounce his tutelage over the young dukes of Lower Bavaria (Henry XIV, Otto IV and Henry XV). The conflict causes a stir within the Holy Roman Empire.source
  • 1317William II, son of King Frederick III of Sicily, becomes the new Duke of Athens upon the death of his older brother, Manfred of Sicily.source
  • 1330November 9–12 – Battle of Posada: The Wallachians, under Basarab I, defeat the Hungarians, though heavily outnumbered, thus making a firm statement towards the independence of Wallachia.source
  • 1372Trần Duệ Tông succeeds his brother Trần Nghệ Tông as King of Vietnam.source
  • 1403Waleran III, Count of Ligny, a relative in France of the late King Richard II of England, informs King Henry IV (who killed King Richard) of plans to lead an attack on England.source
  • 1417In what is now the Mediterranean coast of Spain, six-year-old Muhammad VIII becomes the new Sultan of the Emirate of Granada upon the death of his father, the Sultan Yusuf III.source
  • 1422At the opening of the English Parliament, the House of Commons elects Roger Flower as its speaker.source
  • 1425Kale Kye-Taung Nyo becomes King of Ava by having his lover, Queen Shin Bo-Me, assassinate his 8-year-old nephew, King Min Hla.source
  • 1431The Hungarians defeat the Hussite army at the Battle of Ilava.source
  • 1469King Louis XI, having taken back the Duchy of Normandy from the control of his inept younger brother, Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry, pledges at Rouen that the Duchy will never be ceded again. In a ceremony before the Exchequer of Normandy, the Duchy's administrative court, King Louis places the ducal ring (symbolic of the office as a ring worn by the Duke) upon an anvil and the ring is smashed.source
  • 1487The second parliament of King Henry VII assembles at Westminster with John Mondurant as Speaker of the House of Commons. The parliament lasts for slightly more than five weeks.source
  • 1494The Medici Bank becomes insolvent and the House of Medici is expelled from Florence.source
  • 1520Stockholm Bloodbath: The execution of 82 Swedish noblemen and clergymen, having been sentenced to death for their involvement in the Swedish resistance against the Danish invasion, is completed after two days of beheading.source
  • 1542King James V of Scotland writes a letter to Pope Paul III and notes that he defied Henry VIII's attempts to convert him to the Protestant faith.source
  • 1563The Army of Sweden, under the command of King Eric XIV, suffers a severe defeat in the Battle of Mared against the Army of Denmark, commanded by King Frederik II. In the battle, near what is now the city of Oskarström in Sweden, the Swedes suffer at least 2,500 casualties. The Swedish Army is able to retreat and rebuild, but the Danes plunder the village of Övraby, which is never rebuilt.source
  • 1563Danish victory at the Battle of Maredsource
  • 1569The Rising of the North begins in England as the Earl of Westmorland and the Earl of Northumberland, both Catholic nobles, set off from Brancepeth Castle in County Durham with 700 men, in hopes of overthrowing Queen Elizabeth I and placing the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne.source
  • 1572Siege of Sancerre: Catholic forces of the king lay siege to Sancerre, a Huguenot stronghold in central France. The fortified city holds out for nearly eight months, without bombard artillery. This is one of the last times that slings are used in European warfare.source
  • 1572Supernova SN 1572 is first observed in the constellation Cassiopeia, by Cornelius Gemma.source
  • 1575Ferhad Pasha Sokolović returns to Constantinople in triumph with the head of General Auersperg as a trophy after his September 22 victory at Budecka.source
  • 1576Shah Ismail II of Iran begins the execution of all persons whom he believes are a threat to his rule, starting with his half-brothers Suleiman Mirza, Governor of Shiraz, and Mustafa Mirza. Over the next seven months, Ismail arranges the execution of six other half-brothers, Mustafa, Junayd, Mahmud, Qoli, Ahmad, and Murza.source
  • 1592The Sixto-Clementine Vulgate, an updated edition of the Latin language translation of the Bible, is promulgated by the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1595In India, Prince Man Singh I, Maharaja of Amber within the Mughal Empire, becomes the Mughal Governor (subahdar) of Bengal in what is now Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. He lays the foundations of a new capital of Bengal, Akbarnagar (now Rajmahal, Jharkhand state).source
  • 1607King Philip III of Spain announces that his government had run out of money and that it is suspending payments on its foreign debts. effectively declaring the state bankrupt. The decision in the wake of the destruction of most of the ships of Spain's Navy at the April 25 Battle of Gibraltar.source
  • 1641Maren Spliid, probably the best known alleged victim of the persecution of witches in Denmark, is burned.source
  • 1670Bushel's Case, following the trial of Penn, establishes that members of a jury may not be punished for delivering a verdict according to their conscience even if contrary to the view of the judge.source
  • 1671The Duke of York's Theatre is opened at Dorset Garden in London by the players of the Duke's Company.source
  • 1671The Duke of York's Theatre is opened in London by the players of the Duke's Company, rivals to the "King's Company" at the Theatre Royal, which burns down two months later. The site is now the Dorset Garden Theatre.source
  • 1673King Charles II of England removes Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, from his position as Lord Chancellor.source
  • 1673the King removes Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, from his position as Lord Chancellor.source
  • 1690Near South Mimms, England, several highwaymen stop a convoy carrying taxes from the Midlands to London and take £15,000.source
  • 1696A total lunar eclipse is visible in North and South America.source
  • 1710November 9 − Archduke Charles evacuates Madridsource
  • 1715The Battle of Preston begins, with Jacobite forces under Thomas Forster surrounded by government troops under Charles Wills.source
  • 1715Silvanus Bevan marries Elizabeth, daughter of royal clockmaker Daniel Quare.source
  • 1716In London, Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales, gives birth to a stillborn son, Prince Augustus George of Wales.source
  • 1718Theophilus Evans is ordained by the Bishop of St David's.source
  • 1719Treaties of Stockholm (Great Northern War): In a treaty with Hanover, Sweden cedes the Duchies of Bremen and Verden (in northern Germany) to Hanover.source
  • 1719Peace between Sweden and Hannover.source
  • 1724At the Greenland Parade, two Greenlandic Inuit, Pock and Keperock, who had been sent to Copenhagen by Hans Egede earlier that year, are presented to the general public when they sail through the canals around Christiansborg Palace in their kayaks accompanied by barges with musicians and dignitaries.source
  • 1729The Treaty of Seville is signed between Great Britain, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic.source
  • 1729France signed The Treaty of Seville with Britain and Spain bringing an end to the Anglo-Spanish War started in 1727.source
  • 1729Treaty of Seville signed between Great Britain, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic.source
  • 1747Rioters in Amsterdam demand governmental reform.source
  • 1749Battle of Penfui on Timor: A large Topass army is defeated by a numerically inferior Dutch East India Company.source
  • 1752Richard Trevor becomes Bishop of Durham.source
  • 1764Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.source
  • 1767At the new King's College medical school in New York City (later the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons), Dr. John Jones gives the first lecture by a surgical professor in North America.source
  • 1772A Pawnbroker of the state is founded in Stockholm.source
  • 1793George Washington visits Philadelphia to announce end of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia; around 5,000 people have been killed by the fever.source
  • 1799Coup of 18 Brumaire: Napoleon overthrows the French Directory in a coup d'état, which ends the French Revolution.source
  • 1809The Brothers, Captain Robert Mason sailing for Campbell & Co of Sydney, leaves what is now the coast of Dunedin having landed eight men, including William Tucker, on "The Isle of Wight" and three more on "Ragged Rock", perhaps modern Green Island and White Island respectively, to hunt for seals. The gang leader is Robert Brown. The men stay in the area and the ship does not return until the following year.source
  • 1819Marsden leaves at the end of his second visit.source
  • 1822Action of 9 November 1822: USS Alligator engages three pirate schooners off Cuba, as part of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States.source
  • 1822Action of 9 November 1822: USS Alligator engages three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba as part of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the U.S.source
  • 1846Pope Pius IX issues the encyclical Qui pluribus, in response to the growing trend of agnosticism among intellectuals in Europe.source
  • 1857The Western Bank of Scotland (Glasgow) collapses.source
  • 1867The last shōgun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, tenders his resignation to Emperor Meiji.source
  • 1872Great Boston Fire of 1872: In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street (the 2-day disaster destroys about 65 acres of the city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and causes US$60 million in damage).source
  • 1872Great Boston Fire of 1872: In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street. The two-day event destroys about 65 acres (260,000 m 2 ) of city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and causes US$60 million in damage.source
  • 1874The New York Zoo hoax, a supposed breakout of animals from the Central Park Zoo, is perpetrated on the public.source
  • 1874The Sigma Kappa sorority is founded at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, by Mary Caffrey Low, Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Ida Fuller, Frances Mann, and Louise Helen Coburn.source
  • 1875American Indian Wars: In Washington, D.C., Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn is fought in Montana the next year).source
  • 1875Indian Wars: In Washington, D.C., Indian Inspector E. C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn is fought in Montana the next year).source
  • 1880A major earthquake strikes Zagreb and destroys many buildings, including Zagreb Cathedral.source
  • 1881Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 premieres in Budapest with the composer as soloist.source
  • 1888Whitechapel murders: The mutilated body of London prostitute Mary Jane Kelly is found. She is considered to be the fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims. A number of similar murders in England follow, but the police attribute them to copy-cat killers.source
  • 1896November 9-11 – Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas with more than 6,000 soldiers attacked the revolutionaries under Emilio Aguinaldo, resulting to the simultaneous Battle of Binakayan and Battle of Dalahican. It was the first major Filipino victory during the Philippine Revolution.source
  • 1898In the U.S., the racial violence in Phoenix, South Carolina, comes to an end after 12 African-Americans have been lynched.source
  • 1901The electric tramline in Cape Town is extended from Sea Point to Camps Bay.source
  • 1901Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 is premiered in Moscow with the composer playing the solo part.source
  • 1904Bahamian Dr. Allan Glaisyer Minns becomes Mayor of Thetford, the first Black person to hold such an office in Britain.source
  • 1906The Brazilian Flag Anthem ("Hino à Bandeira Nacional"), with lyrics by Olavo Bilac and music by Francisco Braga, is performed for the first time.source
  • 1910Hans Larsen Saakvitne, farmer, bailiff and politician (born 1839)source
  • 1913November 7–11 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 kills more than 250.source
  • 1913November 7–11 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 in North America claims 19 ships, and more than 250 lives.source
  • 1914World War I: Battle of Cocos – The German cruiser Emden, the last active warship of the Central Powers in the Indian Ocean, is sunk by the Australian cruiser Sydney.source
  • 1918Proclamation of the republic in Germany by Philipp Scheidemann in Berlin, on the Reichstag balcony. One of several significant events on 9 November in German history.source
  • 1918Provisional National Council Minister-President Kurt Eisner declares Bavaria to be a republic.source
  • 1918British battleship HMS Britannia is sunk by a German submarine off Trafalgar, with the loss of around fifty lives (the last major naval engagement of WWI).source
  • 1919Felix the Cat debuts in Feline Follies.source
  • 1919Virginia Salinas de Carranza, wife of President Venustiano Carranzasource
  • 1921The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista or PNF) is founded in Italy.source
  • 1923In the Beer Hall Putsch, key members of the Nazi Party and their sympathizers, including Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and Erich Ludendorff, attempt a coup against the German government. The coup attempt is crushed and fifteen Nazis are killed by the Bavarian Landespolizei. The killed would-be putschists are later designated as the movement's key "blood martyrs". The Blutfahne used during the coup attempt becomes a key artifact of Nazi party mythology.source
  • 1924Progressive Republican Party (TCF) was foundedsource
  • 1925Formal foundation date of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in Germany.source
  • 1928November 9 – 16 – Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness (published on 27 July by Jonathan Cape in London, England) is tried and convicted on the grounds of obscenity due to its theme of lesbian love, following a newspaper campaign.source
  • 1931November 4–18 - Jiangqiao Campaignsource
  • 1932Geneva massacre: Military of Switzerland fire on a socialist anti-fascist demonstration in Geneva leaving 13 dead and 60 injured.source
  • 1932A hurricane and huge waves kill about 2,500 in Santa Cruz del Sur in the worst natural disaster in Cuban history.source
  • 1938A technical British committee, known as the Woodhead Commission, rejected the Peel Commission partition plan mostly on the grounds that it could not be achieved without a large forced transfer of Arabs. It proposed "a modification of partition which, ...seems, subject to certain reservations, to form a satisfactory basis of settlement", if the U.K is prepared to provide a "sufficient assistance to enable the Arab State to balance its budget".source
  • 1938Holocaust – Kristallnacht: In Germany, the "night of broken glass" begins as Nazi activists and sympathizers loot and burn Jewish businesses (the all night affair sees 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned, 91 Jews killed and at least 25,000 Jewish men arrested). One of several significant events on 9 November in German history.source
  • 1938Holocaust – Kristallnacht: In Germany, the "night of broken glass" begins as Nazi activists and sympathizers loot and burn Jewish businesses (the all night affair sees 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned, 91 Jews killed, and at least 25,000 Jewish men arrested).source
  • 1939WWII: Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.source
  • 1940Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez for classical guitar and orchestra premieres in Barcelona, Spain.source
  • 1940Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez premieres in Barcelona, Spain.source
  • 1942U.S. serviceman Edward Leonski is hanged at Melbourne's Pentridge Prison, for the "Brown-Out" murders of three women in May.source
  • 1943An agreement founding the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is signed by 44 countries in the White House, Washington, D.C.source
  • 1943Walter Schimana becomes the country's HSSPF.source
  • 1944The House of the Binns (near Linlithgow) becomes the first estate house given to the National Trust for Scotland (by Eleanor Dalyell).source
  • 1945Soo Bahk Do and Moo Duk Kwan martial arts are founded in Korea.source
  • 1947Junagadh is invaded by the Indian army.source
  • 1953Cambodia becomes independent from France.source
  • 1953The Khmer Issarak begins to fight the French Army and Cambodia joins the First Indochina War but the Kingdom of Cambodia is established.source
  • 1953The Laotian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Laos and the Pathet Lao, all the while resuming the First Indochina War against the French Army in a Two-front war.source
  • 1953The Laotian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Laos and the Pathet Lao after Laos gains its independence from France.source
  • 1961Robert White records a world air speed record of 6,587 km/h, in an X-15.source
  • 1962An All Nippon Airways Vickers Viscount plane crashes in Aichi Prefecture while en route to Nagoya Airport, killing all 4 occupants of the aircraft.source
  • 1963Miike coal mine explosion: A coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon monoxide poisoning victims to the hospital.source
  • 1963November 7 – 11 German miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days in what becomes known as the "Wunder von Lengede" ("miracle of Lengede").source
  • 1963Tsurumi rail accident: A triple train disaster in Yokohama kills 161.source
  • 1965Ferdinand Marcos is elected president during the presidential elections.source
  • 1967Apollo program: NASA launches the first Saturn V rocket, successfully carrying the Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy into Earth orbit.source
  • 1970The Soviet Union launches Luna 17 for the moon.source
  • 1971Six small ships constitute the first fleet of Bangladesh Navy.source
  • 1971A Royal Air Force C-130 crashes into the Ligurian Sea near Leghorn, Italy, killing all 51 people on board.source
  • 1975When Spain announced it will not fight for Western Sahara, Morocco's Green March was called off. Moroccan King Hassan II said, "Spain is not only a friendly country, it also is a neighborly and fraternal nation."source
  • 1977Gen. Hugo Banzer, president of the military government of Bolivia, announces that the constitutional democracy will be restored in 1978 instead of 1980 as previously provided.source
  • 1979Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland, detect an apparent massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.source
  • 1979The Carl Bridgewater murder trial ends in England with all four men found guilty. James Robinson, 45, and 25-year-old Vincent Hickey are sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended 25-year minimum for murder. 18-year-old Michael Hickey is also found guilty of murder and sentenced to indefinite detention. Patrick Molloy, 53, is found guilty on a lesser charge of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years in prison.source
  • 1980November 8–9 – President Marcos issues proclamations declaring a state of public calamity in the provinces of Aurora, Cagayan, Ifugao, Isabela, Kalinga-Apayao, La Union, Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya, Pangasinan, Quirino, Tarlac, and parts of Bulacan and Pampanga, due to the effects of Typhoon Betty (Aring). The cyclone has hit Luzon on November 4, and has killed more than 50 people in a landslide in Santa Fe, Nueva Vizcaya.source
  • 1981Slavery in Mauritania is abolished by Edict No. 81-234.source
  • 1984November 9–11 – The first Hackers Conference is held.source
  • 1985In an all-Soviet match, 22-year-old Garry Kasparov defeats Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest-ever undisputed winner of the World Chess Championship.source
  • 1989Cold War and Fall of the Berlin Wall: East German official Günter Schabowski accidentally states in a live broadcast press conference that new rules for traveling from East Germany to West Germany will be put in effect "immediately". Late this evening, East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany for the first time in decades. In the first week, travel visas will be issued to around 25% of the East German population. One of several significant events on 9 November in German history.source
  • 1989Soviet power in Eastern Europe collapses with the Fall of the Berlin Wall.source
  • 1990The Parliament of Singapore enacts the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act.source
  • 1990Universal Pictures releases Child's Play 2source
  • 1991The British JET fusion reactor generates 1.5 MW output power.source
  • 1993Bosnian Croat forces destroy the Stari Most, or Old Bridge of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, by tank fire.source
  • 1993Fire rages through the National Assembly building, destroying the main chamber. According to PTV, the cause is believed to be an electric short circuit.source
  • 1997BBC News 24 has launched a new channel at 5:30pm, after the final closedown with the last national anthem of God Save the Queen, which occurred at approximately 2:57am for BBC One, following the death of Lady Diana Spencer.source
  • 2004Mozilla releases the Firefox browser.source
  • 2005Venus Express lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.source
  • 2009A light cargo plane crashes at the Wilson Airport, killing two crew members. The plane was carrying miraa to Somalia (main article: 2009 Kenyan Beach 1990D crash)source
  • 2011The first nationwide Emergency Alert System test is conducted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the United States.source
  • 2012Milan Čič, lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic from 1989 to 1990 (born 1932).source
  • 2018An aircraft accident shortly after departure from Cheddi Jagan International Airportsource
  • 2019The Supreme Court of India awards a holy site in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh to Hindus, rejecting a Muslim claim. The move is likely to spur sectarian disputes.source
  • 2019Cyclone Bulbul kills seven in West Bengal, India and seven in Bangladesh. 2,000,000 people are evacuated.source
  • 2021October 31–November 13 – The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Glasgow, after being postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19. A deal is agreed by world leaders, which includes a "phasedown" of unabated coal power, a 30% cut in methane emissions by 2030, plans for a halt to deforestation by 2030, and increased financial support for developing countries.source
  • 2022November 6–November 18 – The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) on climate change mitigation takes place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.source
  • 2023U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.source
  • 2024A suicide bombing at the Quetta railway station in Balochistan, Pakistan kills at least 26 people. The bombing was orchestrated by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), and is the first time that the organization had attacked the center of Quetta.source

Births

  • 955Gyeongjong of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (died 981)source
  • 1376Edmund Mortimer, English nobleman and rebel (died c. 1409)source
  • 1383Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (died 1441)source
  • 1389Isabella of Valois, French princess and queen of England (died 1409)source
  • 1414Albrecht III Achilles, Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (died 1486)source
  • 1455John V, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Stadtholder of Guelders and Zutphen (died 1516)source
  • 1467Charles II, Duke of Guelders, Count of Zutphen from 1492 (died 1538)source
  • 1467Philippa of Guelders, twin sister of Charles, Duke of Guelders, Duchess consort of Lorraine (died 1547)source
  • 1522Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (died 1586)source
  • 1535Nanda Bayin, King of Burma (died 1600)source
  • 1541Menso Alting, Dutch preacher and reformer (died 1612)source
  • 1643Christina Anna Skytte, baroness and pirate (died 1677)source
  • 1666Carl Gustaf Armfeldt, officer (died 1736)source
  • 1691Antonio Francesco Gori, Italian antiquarian (died 1757)source
  • 1721Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (died 1770)source
  • 1731Benjamin Banneker, African-American astronomer, surveyor of the District of Columbia (died 1806)source
  • 1802Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (died 1837)source
  • 1825A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (died 1865)source
  • 1841King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1910)source
  • 1853Stanford White, American architect (died 1906)source
  • 1868Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (died 1934)source
  • 1877Muhammad Iqbal, Islamic philosopher and poet, one of the founding fathers of All-India Muslims League (died 1938)source
  • 1914Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (died 2000)source
  • 1918Spiro Agnew, Vice president of the United States (died 1996)source
  • 1924Avraham Tamir, Israeli general and statesman (died 2010).source
  • 1934Carl Sagan, American astronomer, writer, and TV presenter (died 1996)source
  • 1970Chris Jericho, American-Canadian professional wrestlersource
  • 1974Alessandro Del Piero, Italian football playersource
  • 2017Johnny Get Angry, Thoroughbred racehorsesource

Deaths

  • 959Constantine VII, Byzantine emperor (born 905)source
  • 959Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos ("born in the purple") dies at Constantinople after a 46-year reign. He is succeeded by his 21-year-old son Romanos II as ruler of the Byzantine Empire.source
  • 1034Oldřich (or Odalric), duke of Bohemiasource
  • 1187Retired-Emperor Gao Zong dies at the age of 80, having abdicated 58 years ago (see 1129) after a reign in which he reestablished the Southern Song dynasty (until 1279).source
  • 1187Gao Zong, Chinese emperor (born 1107)source
  • 1208Sancha of Castile, queen consort of Aragonsource
  • 1231Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, Abbasid physician (born 1162)source
  • 1261Sanchia of Provence, Queen of the Romans, German queen consort (born 1225)source
  • 1284Siger of Brabant, Dutch philosopher (born 1240)source
  • 1301Bolko I ("Bolko the Strict"), Polish nobleman and co-ruler dies and is succeeded by his three minor sons (Bernard, 10; Henry, 9; and Bolko II, 2), with his brother-in-law Herman, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel to serve as regent.source
  • 1312Otto III, Duke of Lower Bavaria and former King of Hungary, dies at his capital at Landshut (Niederbayern). Otto had shared power with his two brothers Louis III (who died in 1296) and Stephen I (who died in 1310), and the only heirs are the minor children of Stephen, 7-year-old Henry XIV and 5-year-old Otto IV, and Otto's 2-month-old son Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria.source
  • 1321Walter Langton, English cleric and bishop (born 1243)source
  • 1333Empress Saionji Kishi of Japan (born c. 1303)source
  • 1415Pierre Girard, cardinalsource
  • 1456Ulrich II, Count of Celje (born 1406)source
  • 1456Ulrich II, Count of Celje, regent for King Ladislas of Hungary and governor of Slavonia, Croatia and Dalmatia, is assassinated the day after he had entered the fortress of Belgrade, apparently at the direction of Ladislaus Hunyadi, son of the late John Hunyadi.source
  • 1492Jami, Persian poet (born 1414)source
  • 1504King Frederick IV of Naples (born 1452)source
  • 1520Bernardo Dovizi, Italian Catholic cardinal (born 1470)source
  • 1545Pietro Lando, the Doge of the Republic of Venice since 1538, dies and Francesco Donato is elected in his place.source
  • 1623William Camden, English antiquarian (born 1551)source
  • 1630Tōdō Takatora, Japanese daimyo (born 1556)source
  • 1638Johann Heinrich Alsted, German theologian (born 1588)source
  • 1641Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo (born c. 1609)source
  • 1677Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (born 1603)source
  • 1701Hui-bin Jang, Korean royal consort (born 1659)source
  • 1778Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (born 1720)source
  • 1854Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, philanthropist, wife of Alexander Hamilton (born 1757)source
  • 1888Mary Jane Kelly, generally considered the fifth and final victim of Jack the Ripper (born 1863)source
  • 1923Oskar Körner, German businessman (born 1875) — among those killed in Munich Beer Hall Putschsource
  • 1923Karl Laforce, German student (born 1904) — among those killed in Munich Beer Hall Putschsource
  • 1924Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (born 1850)source
  • 1932Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (born 1901)source
  • 1937Ramsay MacDonald, British statesman, 2-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1866)source
  • 1940Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1869)source
  • 1952Chaim Weizmann, Jewish biochemist, Zionist leader and Israeli statesman, 1st President of Israel (born 1874)source
  • 1953Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (born 1914)source
  • 1953King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia (born 1875)source
  • 1970Charles de Gaulle, French general and statesman, 98th Prime Minister of France and 18th President of France (born 1890)source
  • 1989Nenad Petrović, chess problemist (born 1907)source