November 15
Events
Pre-1600
- 655 - Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
- 1315 - Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morgarten.
- 1532 - Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Incan Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging for a meeting in the city plaza the following day.
- 1533 - Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1601–1900
- 1705 - Rákóczi's War of Independence: The Habsburg Empire and Denmark win a military victory over the Kurucs from Hungary in the Battle of Zsibó.
- 1760 - The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
- 1777 - American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
- 1806 - Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is later named Pikes Peak in his honor.
- 1842 - A slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation commences.
- 1849 - Boilers of the steamboat Louisiana explode as she pulls back from the dock in New Orleans, killing more than 150 people.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea through Georgia towards the city of Savannah.
- 1884 - The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 met on 15 November 1884, and after an adjournment concluded on 26 February 1885, with the signature of a General Act, regulating the European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.
- 1889 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is Pedro II of Brazil|deposed in a military coup].
- 1899 - Second Boer War: Battle of Chieveley, a British armored train is ambushed and partially derailed. British lose the battle, with 80 soldiers captured, along with war correspondent Winston Churchill.
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 1922 [Guayaquil general strike|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 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 1976 [Quebec general election|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.
- 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.
- 1994 - A 1994 [Mindoro earthquake|magnitude 7.1 earthquake] hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro, killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to high.
- 2000 - A chartered Antonov An-24 2000 ASA Pesada [Antonov An-24 crash|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.
- 2020 - Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers' title, equalling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher.
- 2022 - The world population reached eight billion.
Births
Pre-1600
- 459 - Bʼutz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king
- 1316 - John I, king of France and Navarre
- 1397 - Nicholas V, pope of the Catholic Church
- 1498 - Eleanor of Austria, queen of Portugal and France
- 1511 - Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet and author
- 1556 - Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal
1601–1900
- 1607 - Madeleine de Scudéry, French author
- 1660 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian and orientalist
- 1661 - Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss-American settler and author
- 1692 - Eusebius Amort, German poet and theologian
- 1708 - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain
- 1738 - William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer
- 1741 - Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet and physiognomist
- 1746 - Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer
- 1757 - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic
- 1776 - José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican journalist and author
- 1784 - Jérôme Bonaparte, French husband of Catharina of Württemberg
- 1791 - Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German lawyer, jurist, and politician
- 1793 - Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic
- 1849 - Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and educator
- 1852 - Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler
- 1859 - Christopher Hornsrud, Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Norway
- 1862 - Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1865 - John Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania
- 1866 - Cornelia Sorabji, Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer
- 1867 - Emil Krebs, German polyglot
- 1868 - Emil Racoviță, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer
- 1873 - Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic
- 1874 - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner
- 1874 - August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1879 - Lewis Stone, American actor
- 1881 - Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author
- 1882 - Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist
- 1886 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author
- 1887 - Marianne Moore, American poet, critic, and translator
- 1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator
- 1888 - Artie Matthews, American pianist and composer
- 1890 - Richmal Crompton, English author and educator
- 1891 - W. Averell Harriman, American businessman and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce
- 1891 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal
- 1892 - Naomi Childers, American actress
- 1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
- 1895 - Antoni Słonimski, Polish journalist, poet, and playwright
- 1896 - Leonard Lord, English businessman
- 1897 - Aneurin Bevan, Welsh journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Health
- 1897 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English author and critic
- 1899 - Avdy Andresson, Estonian-American soldier and diplomat, Estonian Minister of War
1901–present
- 1903 - Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach
- 1905 - Mantovani, Italian conductor and composer
- 1906 - Curtis LeMay, American general and politician
- 1907 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel
- 1908 - Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth
- 1912 - Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic
- 1912 - Yi Wu, Japanese-Korean colonel
- 1913 - Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach
- 1913 - Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet
- 1914 - V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge
- 1916 - Nita Barrow, Barbadian nurse and politician, 7th Governor-General of Barbados
- 1916 - Bill Melendez, Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer
- 1919 - Carol Bruce, American singer and actress
- 1919 - Joseph Wapner, American judge and television personality
- 1920 - Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1922 - Francis Brunn, German juggler
- 1922 - David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist and academic
- 1922 - Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter
- 1923 - Văn Cao, Vietnamese composer, poet, and painter
- 1923 - Samuel Klein, Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia
- 1924 - Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer and conductor
- 1925 - Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff
- 1926 - Thomas Williams, American author and academic
- 1927 - Bill Rowling, New Zealand politician, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1929 - Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer
- 1929 - Joe Hinton, American singer
- 1930 - J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist
- 1930 - Olene Walker, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah
- 1931 - John Kerr, American actor, singer, and lawyer
- 1931 - Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya
- 1931 - Pascal Lissouba, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo
- 1932 - Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter and actress
- 1932 - Clyde McPhatter, American singer
- 1932 - Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher, author, and academic
- 1933 - Gloria Foster, American actress
- 1933 - Theodore Roszak, American scholar and author
- 1934 - Joanna Barnes, American actress and author
- 1934 - Peter Dickinson, English pianist and composer
- 1935 - Nera White, American basketball player
- 1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian politician
- 1936 - H. B. Bailey, American race car driver
- 1936 - Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1936 - Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher
- 1937 - Little Willie John, American singer-songwriter
- 1939 - Terry Bradbury, English footballer and manager
- 1939 - Yaphet Kotto, American actor and screenwriter
- 1939 - Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist
- 1939 - Enzo Staiola, Italian child actor
- 1940 - Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer
- 1940 - Tony Mendez, American CIA technical operations officer
- 1940 - Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor and screenwriter
- 1940 - Hank Wangford, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and physician
- 1940 - Sam Waterston, American actor
- 1941 - Rick Kemp, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
- 1941 - Daniel Pinkwater, American author and illustrator
- 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 - Malcolm Ranjith, Sri Lankan cardinal
- 1947 - Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- 1947 - Ken Sutcliffe, Australian journalist and sportscaster
- 1948 - Jimmy Choo, Malaysian fashion designer
- 1948 - Teodoro Locsin, Jr., Filipino journalist, lawyer, politician and diplomat
- 1950 - Egon Vaupel, German lawyer and politician, 16th Mayor of Marburg
- 1951 - Beverly D'Angelo, American actress, singer, and producer
- 1952 - Rick Atkinson, American journalist, historian, and author
- 1952 - Randy Savage, American wrestler
- 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 - Emma Dent Coad, British politician
- 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
- 1955 - Joe Leeway, English pop singer-songwriter and percussionist
- 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 - Mark Acres, American basketball player and educator
- 1962 - Judy Gold, American comedian, actress, and producer
- 1963 - Andrew Castle, English tennis player and television host
- 1963 - Benny Elias, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
- 1963 - Kevin J. O'Connor, American actor
- 1964 - Stelios Aposporis, Greek footballer and manager
- 1964 - Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer, coach, and manager
- 1964 - Tiit Sokk, Estonian basketball player and coach
- 1965 - Nigel Bond, English snooker player
- 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 - Wayne Harrison, English footballer
- 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
- 1968 - Fausto Brizzi, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1968 - Teodoro Casiño, Filipino journalist and politician
- 1968 - Jennifer Charles, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1968 - Uwe Rösler, German footballer and manager
- 1970 - Ilija Aračić, Croatian footballer and coach
- 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 - Scott Henshall, English fashion designer
- 1975 - Yannick Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 - Boris Živković, Croatian footballer
- 1976 - Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian, actor, and stuntman
- 1976 - Virginie Ledoyen, French actress
- 1976 - Sule, Indonesian comedian and actor
- 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
- 1977 - Robaire Smith, American football player
- 1978 - Floyd Womack, American football player
- 1979 - Brooks Bollinger, American football player and coach
- 1979 - Josemi, Spanish footballer
- 1979 - Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist
- 1980 - Ace Young, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1981 - Drew Hodgdon, American football player
- 1981 - Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
- 1982 - D. J. Fitzpatrick, American football player
- 1982 - Rio Hirai, Japanese actress
- 1982 - Joe Kowalewski, American football player
- 1982 - Benjamin Krause, German rugby player
- 1982 - Giaan Rooney, Australian swimmer
- 1982 - Lofa Tatupu, American football player
- 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 - Daniela Seguel, Chilean tennis player
- 1992 - Trevor Story, American baseball player
- 1992 - Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer
- 1993 - Arik Armstead, American football player
- 1993 - Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer
- 1993 - Saaya Irie, Japanese actress and singer
- 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
- 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
- 1136 - Leopold III, margrave of Austria
- 1194 - Margaret I, countess of Flanders
- 1226 - Frederick of Isenberg, German nobleman
- 1280 - Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher
- 1347 - James I of Urgell, Spanish nobleman
- 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
- 1579 - Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania
1601–1900
- 1628 - Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr
- 1630 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician
- 1670 - John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator
- 1691 - Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter
- 1706 - Tsangyang, Tibetan dalai lama
- 1712 - James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire
- 1712 - Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician
- 1787 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer
- 1794 - John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic
- 1795 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter
- 1832 - Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman
- 1836 - Herman of Alaska, Russian missionary and saint
- 1845 - William Knibb, English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary
- 1853 - Maria II, Portuguese queen and regent
- 1892 - Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer
- 1897 - Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania
1901–present
- 1908 - Cixi, China empress dowager and regent
- 1910 - Wilhelm Raabe, German author
- 1916 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1917 - Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher
- 1919 - Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor
- 1919 - Mohammad Farid, Egyptian lawyer and politician
- 1919 - Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1921 - Tadhg Barry, veteran Irish republican and leading trade unionist
- 1922 - Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece
- 1922 - Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece
- 1922 - Nikolaos Stratos, Greek lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece
- 1941 - Wal Handley, English motorcycle racer
- 1942 - Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Swiss author and photographer
- 1945 - Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer
- 1949 - Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
- 1949 - Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
- 1951 - Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator
- 1954 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
- 1956 - Emma Richter, German paleontologist
- 1958 - Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer
- 1959 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1960 - Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer
- 1961 - Elsie Ferguson, American actress
- 1961 - Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic
- 1963 - Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor
- 1966 - Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter and wrestler
- 1966 - William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter
- 1967 - Michael J. Adams, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut
- 1970 - Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician
- 1971 - Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel
- 1976 - Jean Gabin, French actor, singer, and producer
- 1978 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author
- 1980 - Bill Lee, American actor and singer
- 1981 - Steve Macko, American baseball player and coach
- 1981 - Enid Markey, American actress
- 1981 - Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar
- 1982 - Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee
- 1982 - Martín de Álzaga, Argentinian race car driver
- 1983 - John Grimaldi, English keyboard player and songwriter
- 1983 - Charlie Grimm, American baseball player and manager
- 1983 - John Le Mesurier, English actor
- 1984 - Baby Fae, American infant, who received baboon heart
- 1985 - Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet
- 1988 - Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer
- 1988 - Ieronymos I of Athens, Greek archbishop and theologian
- 1994 - Elizabeth George Speare, American author
- 1996 - Alger Hiss, American lawyer and diplomat
- 1997 - Saul Chaplin, American director and composer
- 1998 - Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist
- 1998 - Ludvík Daněk, Czech discus thrower
- 2000 - Edoardo Agnelli, son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli
- 2003 - Ray Lewis, Canadian runner
- 2003 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer
- 2003 - Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation
- 2003 - Speedy West, American guitarist and producer
- 2004 - Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota
- 2004 - John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter
- 2005 - Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author
- 2005 - Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author
- 2006 - David K. Wyatt, American historian and author
- 2007 - Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 2008 - Grace Hartigan, American painter
- 2009 - Serbian Patriarch Pavle II
- 2010 - Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist
- 2010 - Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player
- 2010 - William Edwin Self, American actor, director, and producer
- 2011 - Oba Chandler, American murderer
- 2012 - Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician
- 2012 - Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer
- 2012 - Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player
- 2012 - K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence
- 2012 - Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor
- 2013 - Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer
- 2013 - Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus
- 2013 - Mike McCormack, American football player and coach
- 2014 - Jack Bridger Chalker, English painter and academic
- 2014 - Lucien Clergue, French photographer and educator
- 2014 - Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer
- 2014 - Reg Withers, Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory
- 2015 - Gisèle Prassinos, French author
- 2015 - Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic
- 2015 - Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor
- 2016 - Mose Allison, American pianist and songwriter
- 2017 - Lil Peep, American singer and rapper
- 2023 - Žarko Laušević, Serbian actor
- 2024 - Celeste Caeiro, Portuguese pacifist
- 2024 - Béla Károlyi, Romanian-American gymnastics coach
- 2024 - Jon Kenny, Irish comedian and actor
- 2024 - Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Japanese princess
Holidays and observances
- America Recycles Day
- Christian feast day:
- * Abibus of Edessa
- * Albert the Great
- * Blessed Caius of Korea
- * Didier of Cahors
- * Francis Asbury and George Whitefield
- * Blessed Hugh Faringdon
- * Leopold III, a public holiday in Lower Austria and Vienna.
- * Malo
- * Mechell
- * November 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Day of the German-speaking Community of Belgium
- Day of the Imprisoned Writer
- Independence Day, unilaterally declared in 1988.
- King's Feast
- National Tree Planting Day
- Peace Day
- Republic Proclamation Day
- Shichi-Go-San
- Republic Day
- The beginning of Nativity Fast