November 15
November 15 this yearin various calendars Akan Nkyikwasi Armenian 28 Trē 1476 Aztec Tlacaxipehualiztli 4, 11 Ōlīn Babylonian 4 Arakhsamna, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Kajeng, Jaya, Umanis, Urukung, Redite of Ukir, Kala, Gigis, Pandita Bengali 30 Kartik , BS 1433 Chinese Yin Water Snake ・Room Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 10 , Day 7 (Lidong , 7 days until Xiaoxue )Common Era 15 November 2026 CE Coptic 6 Hathor , AM 1743Egyptian 3 Pharmuthi , 2775 NE Ethiopian 6 H̱edār, 2019 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade III, Quartidi de Brumaire de l'Année 235 de la République Gregorian 15 November , AD 2026 Hebrew 5 Kislev , AM 5787 Hindu Uttarāṣāḍha ・Śūla Solar: 29 Kārtika , 1948 SE Lunisolar: Ṣaṣṭhī , Śukla pakṣa of Kārtika , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5127 KY ・1,872,894 Icelandic Sunnudagur, 23 Gormánuður 2026 Islamic 4 Jumada al-thani , AH 1448 (using tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W46-7 Japanese 7 Kannazuki , Reiwa 8 (Rittō , 7 days until Shōsetsu ) Julian 2 November , AD 2026 (AM 7535)Julian day 2461360 Korean 7 Dwaejidal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.14.1.17 10 Ceh , 11 Caban Roman ante diem IV Nonas Novembres , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 24 Aban , SH 1405 Tibetan 6 smin drug, me pho rta 2153 or 1772 or 1000
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Day of the year
November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 46 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1901–present
1917 – Eduskunta declares itself the supreme state power of Finland , prompting its declaration of independence and secession from Russia .
1920 – The first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva , Switzerland.
1920 – The Free City of Danzig is established.
1922 – At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil , Ecuador.
1928 – The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsizes in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
1933 – Thailand holds its first election .
1938 – Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht .
1942 – World War II : The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1943 – The Holocaust : German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps ".
1951 – Nikos Beloyannis , along with 11 comrades, is sentenced to death for attempting to reestablish the Communist Party of Greece .
1955 – The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
1957 – Short Solent 3 crashes near Chessell .
1959 – Four members of the Clutter family are murdered near Holcomb, Kansas , by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock , a crime later detailed by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood .
1965 – Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph (966.574 km/h) in his car, the Spirit of America , at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah .
1966 – Project Gemini : Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean .
1967 – The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert .
1968 – The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport .
1969 – Cold War : The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea .
1969 – Vietnam War : In Washington, D.C. , 250,000–500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war , including a symbolic "March Against Death".
1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor , the 4004 .
1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence .
1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo , Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C. , forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence; it is only recognized by Turkey .
1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald .
1986 – Israeli yeshiva student Eliahu Amedi is murdered in the Old City of Jerusalem by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine .
1987 – In Brașov , Romania , workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu .
1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713 crashes during takeoff from Stapleton International Airport in Denver , Colorado, killing 25.
1988 – In the Soviet Union , the uncrewed Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
1988 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict : An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council .
1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar , is launched in the Netherlands .
1990 – The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
1990 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-38 , a classified mission for the Department of Defense .
1992 – An Aero Caribbean Ilyushin Il-18 crashes on approach to Gregorio Luperón International Airport in Puerto Plata, killing 34.
1994 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro , killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to 8.5 m (28 ft) high.
2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda , Angola, killing more than 40 people.
2000 – Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India , formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar .
2001 – Microsoft launches the Xbox game console in North America .
2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2003 – The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings , in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, kill 25 people and wound 300 more.
2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh , killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans .
2010 – A fire in a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai, China kills 58 people.
2012 – Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2016 – Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament .
2017 – A flood a few miles outside of Athens results in the death of 25 people.
2017 – Khabarovsk Airlines Flight 463 crashes on approach to Nelkan Airport, killing six people.
2017 – Argentine submarine ARA San Juan disappears in the South Atlantic off the coast of Argentina while on a training exercise.
2020 – Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers' title , equaling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher .
2022 – The world population reached eight billion .
2025 – Anti-government demonstrations are held across Mexico following the assassination of Carlos Manzo earlier that month.
Births
1601–1900
1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry , French author (died 1701)
1660 – Hermann von der Hardt , German historian and orientalist (died 1746)
1661 – Christoph von Graffenried , Swiss-American settler and author (died 1743)
1692 – Eusebius Amort , German poet and theologian (died 1775)
1708 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham , English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1778)
1738 – William Herschel , German-English astronomer and composer (died 1822)
1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater , Swiss poet and physiognomist (died 1801)
1746 – Joseph Quesnel , French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer (died 1809)
1757 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher , Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (died 1830)
1776 – José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi , Mexican journalist and author (died 1827)
1784 – Jérôme Bonaparte , French husband of Catharina of Württemberg (died 1860)
1791 – Friedrich Ernst Scheller , German lawyer, jurist, and politician (died 1869)
1793 – Michel Chasles , French mathematician and academic (died 1880)
1849 – Mary E. Byrd , American astronomer and educator (died 1934)
1852 – Tewfik Pasha , Egyptian ruler (died 1892)
1859 – Christopher Hornsrud , Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Norway (died 1960)
1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann , German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1946)
1865 – John Earle , Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania (died 1932)
1866 – Cornelia Sorabji , Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer (died 1954)
1867 – Emil Krebs , German polyglot (died 1930)
1868 – Emil Racoviță , Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer (died 1947)
1873 – Sara Josephine Baker , American physician and academic (died 1945)
1874 – Dimitrios Golemis , Greek runner (died 1941)
1874 – August Krogh , Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)
1879 – Lewis Stone , American actor (died 1953)
1881 – Franklin Pierce Adams , American journalist and author (died 1960)
1882 – Felix Frankfurter , Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (died 1965)
1886 – René Guénon , French-Egyptian philosopher and author (died 1951)
1887 – Marianne Moore , American poet, critic, and translator (died 1972)
1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe , American painter and educator (died 1986)
1888 – Artie Matthews , American pianist and composer (died 1958)
1890 – Richmal Crompton , English author and educator (died 1969)
1891 – W. Averell Harriman , American businessman and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (died 1986)
1891 – Erwin Rommel , German field marshal (died 1944)
1892 – Naomi Childers , American actress (died 1964)
1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1918)
1895 – Antoni Słonimski , Polish journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1976)
1896 – Leonard Lord , English businessman (died 1967)
1897 – Aneurin Bevan , Welsh journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Health (died 1960)
1897 – Sacheverell Sitwell , English author and critic (died 1988)
1899 – Avdy Andresson , Estonian-American soldier and diplomat, Estonian Minister of War (died 1990)
1901–present
1903 – Stewie Dempster , New Zealand cricketer and coach (died 1974)
1905 – Mantovani , Italian conductor and composer (died 1980)
1906 – Curtis LeMay , American general and politician (died 1990)
1907 – Claus von Stauffenberg , German colonel (died 1944)
1908 – Carlo Abarth , Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth (died 1979)
1912 – Harald Keres , Estonian physicist and academic (died 2010)
1912 – Yi Wu , Japanese-Korean colonel (died 1945)
1913 – Jack Dyer , Australian footballer and coach (died 2003)
1913 – Arthur Haulot , Belgian journalist and poet (died 2005)
1914 – V. R. Krishna Iyer , Indian lawyer and judge (died 2014)
1916 – Nita Barrow , Barbadian nurse and politician, 7th Governor-General of Barbados (died 1995)
1916 – Bill Melendez , Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer (died 2008)
1919 – Carol Bruce , American singer and actress (died 2007)
1919 – Joseph Wapner , American judge and television personality (died 2017)
1920 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos , Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1999)
1922 – Francis Brunn , German juggler (died 2004)
1922 – David Sidney Feingold , American biochemist and academic (died 2019)
1922 – Francesco Rosi , Italian director and screenwriter (died 2015)
1923 – Văn Cao , Vietnamese composer, poet, and painter (died 1995)
1923 – Samuel Klein , Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia (died 2014)
1924 – Gianni Ferrio , Italian composer and conductor (died 2013)
1925 – Howard Baker , American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (died 2014)
1926 – Thomas Williams , American author and academic (died 1990)
1927 – Bill Rowling , New Zealand politician, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1995)
1929 – Ed Asner , American actor, singer, and producer (died 2021)
1929 – Joe Hinton , American singer (died 1968)
1930 – J. G. Ballard , English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 2009)
1930 – Olene Walker , American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah (died 2015)
1931 – Mwai Kibaki , Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya (died 2022)
1931 – Pascal Lissouba , Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (died 2020)
1932 – Petula Clark , English singer-songwriter and actress
1932 – Clyde McPhatter , American singer (died 1972)
1932 – Alvin Plantinga , American philosopher, author, and academic
1933 – Gloria Foster , American actress (died 2001)
1933 – Theodore Roszak , American scholar and author (died 2011)
1934 – Joanna Barnes , American actress and author (died 2022)
1935 – Nera White , American basketball player (died 2016)
1935 – Mahmoud Abbas , Palestinian politician
1936 – Wolf Biermann , German singer-songwriter and guitarist
1936 – Tara Singh Hayer , Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (died 1998)
1937 – Little Willie John , American singer-songwriter (died 1968)
1939 – Yaphet Kotto , American actor and screenwriter (died 2021)
1939 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde , Finnish physician and parapsychologist (died 2015)
1939 – Enzo Staiola , Italian child actor (died 2025)
1940 – Roberto Cavalli , Italian fashion designer (died 2024)
1940 – Ulf Pilgaard , Danish actor and screenwriter
1940 – Sam Waterston , American actor
1942 – Daniel Barenboim , Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor
1945 – Roger Donaldson , Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – Bob Gunton , American actor and singer
1945 – Anni-Frid Lyngstad , Norwegian-Swedish singer
1946 – Vassilis Goumas , Greek basketball player
1947 – Bob Dandridge , American basketball player
1947 – Bill Richardson , American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2023)
1947 – Ken Sutcliffe , Australian journalist and sportscaster
1948 – Jimmy Choo , Malaysian fashion designer[ page needed ]
1950 – Egon Vaupel , German lawyer and politician, 16th Mayor of Marburg
1951 – Beverly D'Angelo , American actress, singer, and producer
1952 – Randy Savage , American wrestler (died 2011)
1953 – Alexander O'Neal , American R&B singer-songwriter and arranger
1953 – James Widdoes , American actor, director, and producer
1954 – Kevin S. Bright , American director and producer
1954 – Aleksander Kwaśniewski , Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Poland
1954 – Randy Thomas , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 – Tony Thompson , American R&B, disco, and rock drummer (died 2003)
1956 – Michael Hampton , American guitarist and producer
1957 – Gerry Connolly , Australian comedian and actor
1957 – Kevin Eubanks , American guitarist and composer
1957 – Harold Marcuse , American historian and educator
1957 – Michael Woythe , German footballer and manager
1958 – Lewis Fitz-Gerald , Australian actor and director
1958 – Gu Kailai , Chinese lawyer and businesswoman
1958 – Lesley Laird , British politician
1959 – Tibor Fischer , English author
1960 – Dawn Airey , English broadcaster
1961 – Hugh McGahan , New Zealand rugby league player
1962 – Judy Gold , American comedian, actress, and producer
1963 – Benny Elias , Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1964 – Stelios Aposporis , Greek footballer and manager
1964 – Mikhail Rusyayev , Russian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2011)
1965 – Stefan Pfeiffer , German swimmer
1966 – Rachel True , American actress
1967 – Greg Anthony , American basketball player and sportscaster
1967 – Cynthia Breazeal , American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic
1967 – E-40 , American rapper and actor
1967 – François Ozon , French director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – Gus Poyet , Uruguayan footballer and manager
1967 – Jon Preston , New Zealand rugby player
1968 – Ol' Dirty Bastard , American rapper and producer (died 2004)
1968 – Fausto Brizzi , Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Uwe Rösler , German footballer and manager
1970 – Jack Ingram , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 – Alexander Kvitashvili , Georgian-Ukrainian academic and politician, 19th Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare
1970 – Patrick M'Boma , Cameroonian footballer
1971 – Jay Harrington , American actor
1971 – Martin Pieckenhagen , German footballer
1972 – Jonny Lee Miller , English-American actor
1973 – Sydney Tamiia Poitier , American actress
1973 – Alamgir Sheriyar , English cricketer
1974 – Chad Kroeger , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1975 – Boris Živković , Croatian footballer
1976 – Brandon DiCamillo , American comedian, actor, and stuntman
1976 – Virginie Ledoyen , French actress
1977 – Richard Lintner , Slovak ice hockey player
1977 – Steven Miles , Australian politician, 40th Premier of Queensland
1977 – Sean Murray , American actor
1977 – Peter Phillips , English businessman
1979 – Josemi , Spanish footballer
1979 – Brett Lancaster , Australian cyclist
1981 – Lorena Ochoa , Mexican golfer
1982 – Rio Hirai , Japanese actress
1982 – Benjamin Krause , German rugby player
1982 – Giaan Rooney , Australian swimmer
1982 – Kalu Uche , Nigerian footballer
1983 – Dominic Carroll , Gibraltarian runner
1983 – Sophia Di Martino , English actress
1983 – Aleksandar Pavlović , Serbian basketball player
1983 – Fernando Verdasco , Spanish tennis player
1983 – John Heitinga , Dutch footballer and coach
1984 – Asia Kate Dillon , American actor and producer
1985 – Lily Aldridge , American model
1985 – Charron Fisher , American basketball player
1985 – Simon Spender , Welsh footballer
1986 – Winston Duke , Tobagonian-American actor
1986 – Coye Francies , American football player
1986 – Sania Mirza , Indian tennis player
1986 – Jerry Roush , American singer-songwriter
1987 – Sergio Llull , Spanish basketball player
1988 – B.o.B , American rapper, songwriter, and producer
1988 – Quanitra Hollingsworth , American-Turkish basketball player
1988 – Morgan Parra , French rugby player
1988 – Billy Twelvetrees , English rugby player
1989 – Jona Viray , Filipino singer
1991 – Maxime Colin , French footballer
1991 – Shailene Woodley , American actress
1992 – Dylan Bundy , American baseball player
1992 – Sofia Goggia , Italian skier
1992 – Minami Minegishi , Japanese singer
1992 – Kevin Wimmer , Austrian footballer
1993 – Arik Armstead , American football player
1993 – Paulo Dybala , Argentine footballer
1993 – Melitina Staniouta , Belarusian rhythmic gymnast
1994 – Ekaterina Alexandrova , Russian tennis player
1994 – Emma Dumont , American actress and model
1994 – Bryce Cartwright , Australian rugby league player
1994 – Alejandro Saab , American voice actor, YouTuber, and VTuber
1995 – Blake Pieroni , American swimmer
1995 – Karl-Anthony Towns , Dominican-American basketball player
1996 – Kim Min-jae , South Korean footballer
1997 – Paula Badosa , Spanish tennis player
2001 – TyTy Washington Jr. , American basketball player
Deaths
Pre-1600
165 BCE – Mattathias , Jewish resistance leader
621 – Malo , Breton bishop and saint
655 – Æthelhere , king of East Anglia
655 – Penda of Mercia , king of Mercia
1037 – Odo II , French nobleman (born 983)
1136 – Leopold III , margrave of Austria (born 1073)
1194 – Margaret I , countess of Flanders
1226 – Frederick of Isenberg , German nobleman (born 1193)
1280 – Albertus Magnus , German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (born 1193)
1347 – James I of Urgell , Spanish nobleman (born 1321)
1351 – Joanna of Pfirt , duchess of Austria
1379 – Otto V , duke of Bavaria
1463 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini , Italian nobleman
1527 – Catherine of York , English princess (born 1479)
1579 – Ferenc Dávid , Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (born 1510)
1601–1900
1628 – Roque González de Santa Cruz , Paraguayan missionary and martyr (born 1576)
1629 – Gabriel Bethlen , Prince of Transylvania (born 1580)
1630 – Johannes Kepler , German astronomer and mathematician (born 1571)
1670 – John Amos Comenius , Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator (born 1592)
1691 – Aelbert Cuyp , Dutch painter (born 1620)
1706 – Tsangyang , Tibetan dalai lama (born 1683)
1712 – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton , Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (born 1658)
1712 – Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun , English politician (born 1675)
1787 – Christoph Willibald Gluck , German composer (born 1714)
1794 – John Witherspoon , Scottish-American minister and academic (born 1723)
1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo , French painter (born 1719)
1832 – Jean-Baptiste Say , French economist and businessman (born 1767)
1836 – Herman of Alaska , Russian missionary and saint (born 1750s)
1845 – William Knibb , English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (born 1803)
1853 – Maria II , Portuguese queen and regent (born 1819)
1892 – Thomas Neill Cream , Scottish-Canadian serial killer (born 1850)
1897 – Alfred Kennerley , English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (born 1810)
1901–present
1908 – Cixi , China empress dowager and regent (born 1835)
1910 – Wilhelm Raabe , German author (born 1831)
1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz , Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1846)
1917 – Émile Durkheim , French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (born 1858)
1919 – Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky , Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (born 1862)
1919 – Mohammad Farid , Egyptian lawyer and politician (born 1868)
1919 – Alfred Werner , French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)
1921 – Tadhg Barry , Irish republican and trade unionist , killed in prison (born 1880)
1922 – Dimitrios Gounaris , Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1866)
1922 – Petros Protopapadakis , Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1854)
1922 – Nikolaos Stratos , Greek lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1872)
1941 – Wal Handley , English motorcycle racer (born 1902)
1942 – Annemarie Schwarzenbach , Swiss author and photographer (born 1908)
1945 – Frank Chapman , American ornithologist and photographer (born 1864)
1949 – Narayan Apte , Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (born 1911)
1949 – Nathuram Godse , Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (born 1910)
1951 – Frank Weston Benson , American painter and educator (born 1862)
1954 – Lionel Barrymore , American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (born 1878)
1956 – Emma Richter , German paleontologist (born 1888)
1958 – Tyrone Power , American actor, singer, and producer (born 1914)
1959 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson , Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1869)
1960 – Robert Raymond Cook , Canadian murderer (born 1937)
1961 – Elsie Ferguson , American actress (born 1883)
1961 – Johanna Westerdijk , Dutch pathologist and academic (born 1883)
1963 – Fritz Reiner , Hungarian-American conductor (born 1888)
1966 – Dimitrios Tofalos , Greek weightlifter and wrestler (born 1877)
1966 – William Zorach , Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (born 1887)
1967 – Michael J. Adams , American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (born 1930)
1970 – Konstantinos Tsaldaris , Egyptian-Greek politician (born 1884)
1971 – Rudolf Abel , English-Russian colonel (born 1903)
1976 – Jean Gabin , French actor, singer, and producer (born 1904)
1978 – Margaret Mead , American anthropologist and author (born 1901)
1980 – Bill Lee , American actor and singer (born 1916)
1981 – Steve Macko , American baseball player and coach (born 1954)
1981 – Enid Markey , American actress (born 1894)
1981 – Khawar Rizvi , Pakistani poet and scholar (born 1938)
1982 – Vinoba Bhave , Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (born 1895)
1982 – Martín de Álzaga , Argentinian race car driver (born 1901)
1983 – John Grimaldi , English keyboard player and songwriter (born 1955)
1983 – Charlie Grimm , American baseball player and manager (born 1898)
1983 – John Le Mesurier , English actor (born 1912)
1984 – Baby Fae , American infant, who received baboon heart (born 1984)
1985 – Méret Oppenheim , German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet (born 1913)
1988 – Billo Frómeta , Dominican conductor and composer (born 1915)
1988 – Ieronymos I of Athens , Greek archbishop and theologian (born 1905)
1994 – Elizabeth George Speare , American author (born 1908)
1996 – Alger Hiss , American lawyer and diplomat (born 1904)
1997 – Saul Chaplin , American director and composer (born 1912)
1998 – Stokely Carmichael , Trinidadian-American activist (born 1941)
1998 – Ludvík Daněk , Czech discus thrower (born 1937)
2000 – Edoardo Agnelli , son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli (born 1954)
2001 – Frances Hawkins , American politician and teacher, member of the Nevada State Assembly (born 1921)
2003 – Ray Lewis , Canadian runner (born 1910)
2003 – Dorothy Loudon , American actress and singer (born 1925)
2003 – Laurence Tisch , American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (born 1923)
2003 – Speedy West , American guitarist and producer (born 1924)
2004 – Elmer L. Andersen , American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (born 1909)
2004 – John Morgan , Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (born 1930)
2005 – Adrian Rogers , American pastor and author (born 1931)
2005 – Arto Salminen , Finnish journalist and author (born 1959)
2006 – David K. Wyatt , American historian and author (born 1937)
2007 – Joe Nuxhall , American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1928)
2008 – Grace Hartigan , American painter (born 1922)
2009 – Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (born 1914)
2010 – Larry Evans , American chess player and journalist (born 1932)
2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick , American baseball player (born 1944)
2010 – William Edwin Self , American actor, director, and producer (born 1921)
2011 – Oba Chandler , American murderer (born 1946)
2012 – Théophile Abega , Cameroonian footballer and politician (born 1954)
2012 – Luís Carreira , Portuguese motorcycle racer (born 1976)
2012 – Maleli Kunavore , Fijian rugby player (born 1983)
2012 – K. C. Pant , Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (born 1931)
2012 – Frode Thingnæs , Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (born 1940)
2013 – Sheila Matthews Allen , American actress and producer (born 1929)
2013 – Glafcos Clerides , Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (born 1919)
2013 – Mike McCormack , American football player and coach (born 1930)
2014 – Jack Bridger Chalker , English painter and academic (born 1918)
2014 – Lucien Clergue , French photographer and educator (born 1934)
2014 – Valéry Mézague , Cameroonian footballer (born 1983)
2014 – Reg Withers , Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory (born 1924)
2015 – Gisèle Prassinos , French author (born 1920)
2015 – Herbert Scarf , American economist and academic (born 1930)
2015 – Saeed Jaffrey , Indian-British actor (born 1929)
2016 – Mose Allison , American pianist and songwriter (born 1927)
2017 – Lil Peep , American singer and rapper (born 1996)
2023 – Žarko Laušević , Serbian actor (born 1960)
2024 – Celeste Caeiro , Portuguese pacifist (born 1933)
2024 – Béla Károlyi , Romanian-American gymnastics coach (born 1942)
2024 – Jon Kenny , Irish comedian and actor (born 1957)
2024 – Yuriko, Princess Mikasa , Japanese princess (born 1923)