November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 46 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
- 1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
- 1923 – The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter Inflation in the Weimar Republic.
- 1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
- 1928 – The RNLI Lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
- 1935 – Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines.
- 1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
- 1942 – World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
- 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
- 1943 – Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (see Porajmos)
- 1945 – Venezuela joins the United Nations.
- 1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
- 1951 – Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
- 1959 – Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
- 1966 – Gemini program: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1966 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
- 1967 – The only fatality of the 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.
- 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".
- 1969 – In Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's restaurant.
- 1971 – Intel releases 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 favour of independence.
- 1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
- 1979 – A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
- 1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognised only 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.
- 1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
- 1987 – In Braşov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
- 1988 – In the Soviet Union, the unmanned 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 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
- 1990 – The People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
- 2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.
- 2000 – Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
- 2003 – The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
- 2005 – Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.
- 2007 – Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
Births
- 459 – B'utz Aj Sak Chiik, king of Palenque
- 1316 – John I of France (d. 1316)
- 1397 – Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455)
- 1498 – Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)
- 1511 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (d. 1536)
- 1556 – Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (d. 1618)
- 1559 – Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (d. 1621)
- 1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1701)
- 1660 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (d. 1746)
- 1661 – Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in Americas (d. 1743)
- 1688 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (d. 1757)
- 1692 – Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (d. 1775)
- 1708 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778)
- 1738 – William Herschel, German-born astronomer (d. 1822)
- 1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, German philosopher (d. 1801)
- 1746 – Joseph Quesnel, French Canadian composer and playwright (d. 1809)
- 1757 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon (d. 1830)
- 1784 – Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia (d. 1860)
- 1791 – Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (d. 1869)
- 1793 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician (d. 1880)
- 1852 – Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (d. 1892)
- 1859 – Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)
- 1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel laureate (d. 1946)
- 1868 – Emil Racovita, Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica (d. 1947)
- 1874 – Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (d. 1941)
- 1874 – August Krogh, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1949)
- 1879 – Lewis Stone, American actor (d. 1953)
- 1881 – Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (d. 1960)
- 1882 – Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1965)
- 1886 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951)
- 1887 – Marianne Moore, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (d. 1986)
- 1888 – Artie Matthews, songwriter, pianist, & ragtime composer (d. 1958)
- 1890 – Richmal Crompton, British author (d. 1969)
- 1891 – Averell Harriman, American businessman (d. 1986)
- 1891 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal, "The Desert Fox" (d. 1944)
- 1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1895 – Antoni Słonimski, Polish writer (d. 1976)
- 1897 – Aneurin Bevan, British politician (d. 1960)
- 1897 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (d. 1988)
- 1899 – Avdy Andresson, Estonian statesman (d. 1990)
- 1903 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1974)
- 1905 – Mantovani, Italian-born composer (d. 1980)
- 1906 – Curtis LeMay, U.S. Air Force general (d. 1990)
- 1907 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German, leader of failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler (d. 1944)
- 1913 – Guy Green, English film director (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
- 1919 – Joseph Wapner, American judge
- 1920 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor (d. 1999)
- 1922 – Francis Brunn, German juggler (d. 2004)
- 1922 – David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist
- 1925 – Howard Baker, American political advisor
- 1925 – Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (d. 1988)
- 1927 – Gregor Mackenzie, British politician (d. 1992)
- 1928 – C. W. McCall, American singer
- 1928 – John Orchard, British actor (d. 1995)
- 1928 – Seldon Powell, American soul jazz, swing and R&B tenor saxophonist and flautist (d. 1997)
- 1929 – Ed Asner, American actor
- 1929 – Joe Hinton, American soul singer (d. 1968)
- 1930 – J. G. Ballard, British author (d. 2009)
- 1931 – Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya
- 1931 – Pascal Lissouba, President of the Republic of the Congo
- 1932 – Petula Clark, English singer
- 1932 – Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972)
- 1932 – Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher
- 1933 – Theodore Roszak, American scholar and author (d. 2011)
- 1934 – Joanna Barnes, American actress
- 1934 – Irén Pavlics, Slovene authoress in Hungary
- 1936 – H. B. Bailey, American racecar driver (d. 2003)
- 1936 – Wolf Biermann, German writer
- 1936 – Tara Singh Hayer, Canadian journalist (d. 1998)
- 1937 – Little Willie John, American singer (d. 1968)
- 1937 – Yaphet Kotto, American actor
- 1939 – W. C. Clark, blues musician known for his influence on the Austin, Texas blues scene
- 1940 – Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer
- 1940 – Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor
- 1940 – Sam Waterston, American actor
- 1941 – Rick Kemp, English bass player, songwriter, vocalist and record producer
- 1942 – Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-born conductor and pianist
- 1945 – Roger Donaldson, Australian producer/director
- 1945 – Bob Gunton, American actor
- 1945 – Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Swedish singer (ABBA)
- 1946 – Vasilis Goumas, Greek basketball player
- 1947 – Bill Richardson, American politician, 9th United States Secretary of Energy, and 30th Governor of New Mexico
- 1950 – Graham Parker, English singer-songwriter
- 1950 – Egon Vaupel, German politician
- 1951 – Beverly D'Angelo, American actress
- 1952 – Zoltán Buday, Hungarian actor
- 1952 – Randy Savage, American professional wrestler (d. 2011)
- 1953 – Alexander O'Neal, American R&B singer
- 1954 – Herbert Heidenreich, German footballer
- 1954 – Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former President of Poland
- 1954 – Randy Thomas, American Christian musician and record producer (Sweet Comfort Band, Allies)
- 1955 – Georgie Born, English academic, anthropologist and musician (Henry Cow)
- 1955 – Henry Corra, American documentarian
- 1956 – Michael Hampton, American guitarist (Funkadelic)
- 1956 – Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (d. 2003)
- 1957 – Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist
- 1957 – Harold Marcuse, American historian
- 1957 – Ray McKinnon, American film actor/director
- 1957 – Michael Woythe, German footballer
- 1958 – Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Australian actor and television director
- 1962 – Mark Acres, American basketball player
- 1962 – Judy Gold, American stand-up comic and actor
- 1963 – Andrew Castle, English television presenter and former tennis player
- 1963 – Benny Elias, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1964 – Stelios Aposporis, Greek footballer
- 1964 – Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer (d. 2011)
- 1965 – Nigel Bond, English snooker player
- 1965 – Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer
- 1966 – Rachel True, American actress
- 1967 – Greg Anthony, American basketball player
- 1967 – Pedro Borbón, Jr., Dominican baseball player
- 1967 – E-40, American rapper
- 1967 – Dom Joly, British comedian and journalist
- 1967 – François Ozon, French film director
- 1967 – Gustavo Poyet, Uruguayan footballer
- 1968 – Fausto Brizzi, Italian screenwriter and film director
- 1968 – Jennifer Charles, American singer-songwriter
- 1968 – Uwe Rösler, German footballer
- 1968 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (d. 2004)
- 1969 – Shane Mack, American politician
- 1970 – Ilija Aračić, Croatian footballer
- 1970 – Jack Ingram, American singer and songwriter
- 1970 – Patrick Mboma, Cameroonian footballer
- 1971 – Jay Harrington, American actor
- 1971 – Martin Pieckenhagen, German footballer
- 1972 – Ngô Bảo Châu, Vietnamese mathematician, Fields medalist
- 1972 – Jonny Lee Miller, English actor
- 1973 – Jesse Merz, American actor
- 1973 – Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress
- 1974 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer (Nickelback)
- 1975 – Scott Henshall, British fashion designer
- 1975 – Yannick Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 – Boris Živković, Croatian footballer
- 1976 – Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian
- 1976 – Virginie Ledoyen, French actress
- 1977 – Sean Murray, American actor
- 1977 – Peter Phillips, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II
- 1977 – Robaire Smith, American football player
- 1977 – Logan Whitehurst, American musician (d. 2006)
- 1978 – Floyd Womack, American football player
- 1979 – Brooks Bollinger, American football player
- 1979 – Josemi, Spanish footballer
- 1979 – Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist
- 1980 – Ace Young, American singer
- 1981 – Jordan Buckley, American heavy metal guitarist, Every Time I Die
- 1981 – Drew Hodgdon, American football player
- 1981 – Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
- 1982 – D. J. Fitzpatrick, American Football League kicker
- 1982 – Joe Kowalewski, American football player
- 1982 – Benjamin Krause, German rugby player
- 1982 – Lofa Tatupu, American football player
- 1983 – Dominic Carroll, Gibraltarian athlete
- 1983 – Sasha Pavlovic, Serbian basketball player
- 1983 – DJ Skee, American DJ/personality
- 1983 – Laura Smet, French actress
- 1983 – Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
- 1984 – Gemma Atkinson, English actress
- 1985 – Lily Aldridge, American fashion model
- 1986 – Coye Francies, American football player
- 1986 – Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
- 1987 – Isaiah Osbourne, English footballer
- 1988 – Zena Grey, American actress
- 1988 – Morgan Parra, French rugby player
- 1988 – B.o.B, American recording artist and producer
- 1990 – Kanata Hongō, Japanese actor
- 1991 – Shailene Woodley, American actress
- 1992 – Minami Minegishi, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
Deaths
- 655 – Penda, King of Mercia
- 1028 – Constantine VIII Byzantine Emperor (b. 960)
- 1136 – Margrave Leopold III of Austria (b. 1073)
- 1280 – Albertus Magnus, German theologian, bishop, and philosopher
- 1463 – Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto and Constable of Naples
- 1544 – King Jungjong of Joseon (b. 1506)
- 1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian religious reformer (b. 1510)
- 1628 – Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (b. 1576)
- 1630 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
- 1670 – John Amos Comenius, Czech writer (b. 1592)
- 1691 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
- 1706 – Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (b. 1683)
- 1712 – James Douglas-Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer (b. 1658)
- 1712 – Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
- 1787 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)
- 1794 – John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1723)
- 1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
- 1819 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
- 1832 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist (b. 1767)
- 1853 – Queen Maria II of Portugal (b. 1819)
- 1908 – Empress Dowager Cixi, Chinese ruler (b. 1835)
- 1910 – Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (b. 1831)
- 1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel laureate (b. 1846)
- 1917 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (b. 1858)
- 1919 – Mohammad Farid, Egyptian politician (b. 1868)
- 1919 – Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866)
- 1922 – Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek politician (b. 1866)
- 1922 – Georgios Hatzianestis, Greek General (b. 1863)
- 1922 – Petros Protopapadakis, Greek politician (b. 1854)
- 1922 – Nikolaos Stratos, Greek politician (b. 1872)
- 1945 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist (b. 1864)
- 1949 – Narayan Apte, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
- 1949 – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)
- 1954 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878)
- 1958 – Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1959 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
- 1961 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
- 1963 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888)
- 1965 – Dawn Powell, American poet (b. 1896)
- 1966 – Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter (b. 1877)
- 1967 – Michael J. Adams, American test pilot (b. 1930)
- 1971 – Rudolf Abel, Soviet spy (b. 1903)
- 1976 – Jean Gabin, French actor (b. 1904)
- 1978 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b. 1901)
- 1981 – Enid Markey, American stage and film actress (b. 1894)
- 1981 – Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani Poet and Scholar(b. 1938)
- 1981 – Steve Macko, American baseball player (b. 1954)
- 1982 – Martín de Álzaga, Argentine racing driver (b. 1901)
- 1982 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian human rights advocate (b. 1895)
- 1983 – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1983 – John Le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912)
- 1988 – Billo Frómeta, Dominican orchestra conductor, arranger and composer (b. 1915)
- 1988 – Ieronymos I, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens (b. 1905)
- 1990 – Alydar, American racehorse (b. 1975)
- 1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
- 1996 – Alger Hiss, American government official and alleged spy (b. 1904)
- 1997 – Saul Chaplin, American composer and musical director (b. 1912)
- 1998 – Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
- 1998 – Ludvik Danek, Czech discus thrower (b. 1937)
- 2002 – Myra Hindley, English murderess (b. 1942)
- 2003 – Ray Lewis, Canadian athlete (b. 1910)
- 2003 – Dorothy Loudon, American actress (b. 1933)
- 2003 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman (b. 1923)
- 2003 – Speedy West, American musician (b. 1924)
- 2004 – Elmer L. Andersen, American politician (b. 1909)
- 2004 – John Morgan, Canadian comedian (b. 1930)
- 2005 – Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author (b. 1931)
- 2005 – Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (b. 1959)
- 2006 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian model (b. 1985)
- 2006 – David K. Wyatt, American historian (b. 1937)
- 2007 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928)
- 2009 – Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, Serbian religious figure (b. 1914)
- 2010 – Larry Evans, American chess grandmaster and journalist (b. 1932)
- 2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- 2010 – William Edwin Self, American actor and television producer (b. 1921)
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