November 27

November 27 is the 331st day of the year (332nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).

Events

• 25 – Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.
• 176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
• 395 – Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
• 511 – King Clovis I dies at Paris ("Lutetia") and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve. The Merovingian dynasty is continued by his four sons, Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I, who divide the Frankish Kingdom and rule from the capitals at Metz, Orléans, Paris and Soissons.
• 602 – Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself; their bodies are thrown into the sea and their heads are exhibited in Constantinople.
• 1095 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
• 1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
• 1727 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.
• 1807 – The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.
• 1810 – The Berners Street hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London.
• 1815 – Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
• 1830 – Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands.
• 1835 – James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.
• 1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
• 1856 – The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
• 1868 – American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
• 1886 – German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.
• 1895 – At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
• 1896 – Also sprach Zarathoustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
• 1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established.
• 1912 – Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
• 1924 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
• 1940 – In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents, including former Prime Minister Nicolae Iorga.
• 1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
• 1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
• 1944 – World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
• 1945 – CARE (then the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) was founded to a send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II.
• 1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
• 1963 – The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
• 1968 – Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.
• 1971 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
• 1973 – Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On December 6, the House will confirm him 387–35).
• 1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
• 1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
• 1978 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.
• 1983 – Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.
• 1984 – Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
• 1987 – On a routine flight between Taiwan and Mauritius, South African Airways Flight 295 experiences an in-flight fire, apparently starting at around 23:48 on the 27th. After just under 16 minutes (leading into the early hours of November 28), the plane crashes and kills all 159 on board.
• 1989 – Avianca Flight 203: A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel will claim responsibility for the attack.
• 1991 – The United Nations Security Council adopts Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.
• 1992 – For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela.
• 1997 – Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
• 1999 – The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
• 2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
• 2004 – Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
• 2005 – The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
• 2006 – The Canadian House of Commons approves a motion tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada.
• 2009 – Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.
• 2015 – An active shooter in a Planned Parenthood facility in the American city of Colorado Springs, Colorado shoots at least four members of the Colorado Springs Police Department with one officer later dying. Two civilians were also killed, and six were injured. The shooter later surrendered.

Births

• 111 – Antinous, Greek favourite of Hadrian (d. 130)
• 1127 – Emperor Xiaozong of Song (d. 1194)
• 1576 – Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyo (d. 1638)
• 1582 – Pierre Dupuy, French historian and scholar (d. 1651)
• 1630 – Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria (d. 1665)
• 1635 – Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, French wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)
• 1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (d. 1744)
• 1710 – Robert Lowth, English bishop and academic (d. 1787)
• 1746 – Robert R. Livingston, American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary for Foreign Affairs (d. 1813)
• 1746 – Increase Sumner, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1799)
• 1754 – Georg Forster, German-Polish ethnologist and journalist (d. 1794)
• 1759 – Franz Krommer, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1831)
• 1779 – Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1865)
• 1804 – Julius Benedict, German-English conductor and composer (d. 1885)
• 1809 – Fanny Kemble, English actress, playwright, and poet (d. 1893)
• 1814 – Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French politician and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (d. 1886)
• 1833 – Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897)
• 1843 – Elizabeth Stride, Swedish-English victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
• 1843 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1899)
• 1853 – Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator (d. 1928)
• 1857 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)
• 1859 – William Bliss Baker, American painter (d. 1886)
• 1865 – Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovene priest, journalist, and politician (d. 1917)
• 1867 – Charles Koechlin, French composer and educator (d. 1950)
• 1870 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish academic and politician, 7th President of Finland (d. 1956)
• 1871 – Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer (d. 1950)
• 1874 – Charles A. Beard, American historian, author, and educator, co-founded The New School (d. 1948)
• 1874 – Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952)
• 1875 – Julius Lenhart, Austrian gymnast (d. 1962)
• 1878 – Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian poet and critic (d. 1948)
• 1878 – Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach (d. 1969)
• 1885 – Daniel Mendaille, French actor (d. 1963)
• 1885 – Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian author and playwright (d. 1944)
• 1887 – Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (d. 1946)
• 1888 – Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian activist and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 1956)
• 1894 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic (d. 1989)
• 1894 – Katherine Milhous, American author and illustrator (d. 1977)
• 1894 – Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian monk and saint (d. 1971)
• 1897 – Vito Genovese, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1969)
• 1898 – Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (d. 1981)
• 1901 – Ted Husing, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
• 1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
• 1907 – Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet and author (d. 2003)
• 1907 – L. Sprague de Camp, American historian and author (d. 2000)
• 1909 – James Agee, American author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 1955)
• 1909 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1967)
• 1911 – Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and educator (d. 2011)
• 1911 – David Merrick, American director and producer (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Chick Hearn, American sportscaster and actor (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American actor, singer, and television host (d. 1998)
• 1918 – Stephen Elliott, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (d. 1985)
• 1920 – Buster Merryfield, English actor (d. 1999)
• 1920 – Cal Worthington, American captain and car dealer (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Dora Dougherty Strother, American pilot and academic (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Alexander Dubček, Slovak soldier and politician (d. 1992)
• 1922 – Hall Bartlett, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993)
• 1923 – Antonie Hegerlíková, Czech actress (d. 2012)
• 1925 – John Maddox, Welsh chemist, physicist, and journalist (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Marshall Thompson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
• 1925 – Ernie Wise, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1926 – Chae Myung-shin, South Korean general (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 1987)
• 1927 – William E. Simon, American soldier and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor and director (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Josh Kirby, English painter and illustrator (d. 2001)
• 1930 – Joe DeNardo, American meteorologist
• 1930 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean engineer and author (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Alan Simpson, English screenwriter and producer
• 1932 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino journalist and politician (d. 1983)
• 1933 – Jacques Godbout, Canadian journalist, author, director, and screenwriter
• 1933 – Gordon S. Wood, American historian and academic
• 1934 – Ammo Baba, Iraqi footballer and manager (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) (d. 1975)
• 1934 – Gilbert Strang, American mathematician and academic
• 1935 – Les Blank, American director and producer (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Daniel Charles, French musicologist and philosopher (d. 2008)
• 1937 – Gail Sheehy, American journalist and author
• 1938 – John Ashworth, English biologist and academic
• 1938 – Apolo Nsibambi, Ugandan academic and politician, Prime Minister of Uganda
• 1939 – Dave Giusti, American baseball player and manager
• 1939 – Tony Green, English sportscaster
• 1939 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Congolese politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 2001)
• 1940 – John Alderton, English actor and singer
• 1940 – Bruce Lee, American-Chinese actor, martial artist, and screenwriter (d. 1973)
• 1941 – Aimé Jacquet, French footballer, coach, and manager
• 1941 – Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
• 1941 – Louis van Dijk, Dutch pianist
• 1942 – Henry Carr, American football player and sprinter (d. 2015)
• 1942 – Marilyn Hacker, American poet and critic
• 1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Jimmy James and the Blue Flames) (d. 1970)
• 1943 – Nicole Brossard, Canadian author and poet
• 1943 – Jil Sander, German fashion designer, founded Jil Sander AG
• 1944 – Mickey Leland, American activist and politician (d. 1989)
• 1944 – Neddy Smith, Australian criminal
• 1945 – Barbara Anderson, American actress
• 1945 – James Avery, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1945 – Phil Bloom, Dutch model and actress
• 1945 – Alain de Cadenet, English race car driver
• 1945 – Benigno Fitial, Mariana Islander businessman and politician, 7th Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands
• 1946 – Richard Codey, American politician, 53rd Governor of New Jersey
• 1947 – Don Adams, American basketball player (d. 2013)
• 1947 – Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, Ethiopian-Djiboutian lawyer and politician, President of Djibouti
• 1947 – Neil Rosenshein, American tenor and actor
• 1949 – Masanori Sekiya, Japanese race car driver
• 1950 – Gavyn Davies, English journalist and businessman
• 1950 – Gran Hamada, Japanese wrestler and trainer
• 1951 – Kathryn Bigelow, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1951 – Gunnar Graps, Estonian singer and guitarist (Magnetic Band and Gunnar Graps Group) (d. 2004)
• 1952 – Sheila Copps, Canadian journalist and politician, 6th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
• 1952 – Mark M. Davis, Professor of Immunology at Stanford University
• 1952 – Bappi Lahiri, Indian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1952 – Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis and Era)
• 1952 – Jim Wetherbee, American captain, engineer, and astronaut
• 1953 – Curtis Armstrong, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1953 – Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Aquarium)
• 1953 – Tarmo Kõuts, Estonian admiral and politician
• 1953 – Lyle Mays, American keyboardist and composer (Pat Metheny Group)
• 1953 – Richard Stone, American composer (d. 2001)
• 1954 – Patricia McPherson, American actress
• 1954 – Kimmy Robertson, American actress
• 1954 – Arthur Smith, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1955 – Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1955 – Bill Nye, American engineer, educator, and television host
• 1956 – William Fichtner, American actor
• 1956 – John McCarthy, English journalist and author
• 1957 – Kenny Acheson, Irish race car driver
• 1957 – Frank Boeijen, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1957 – Caroline Kennedy, American lawyer and diplomat, 29th United States Ambassador to Japan
• 1957 – Callie Khouri, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Michael A. Stackpole, American game designer and author
• 1958 – Tetsuya Komuro, Japanese singer-songwriter, and producer
• 1958 – Mike Scioscia, American baseball player and manager
• 1959 – Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and songwriter (Simple Minds)
• 1959 – Viktoria Mullova, Russian violinist
• 1960 – Kevin Henkes, American author and illustrator
• 1960 – Ken O'Brien, American football player and coach
• 1960 – Tim Pawlenty, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of Minnesota
• 1960 – Michael Rispoli, American actor
• 1960 – Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Ukraine
• 1960 – Gianni Vernetti, Italian lawyer and politician
• 1961 – Samantha Bond, English actress
• 1961 – Steve Oedekerk, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1962 – Charlie Benante, American drummer and songwriter (Anthrax and Stormtroopers of Death)
• 1962 – Mike Bordin, American drummer (Faith No More, Black Sabbath, and EZ-Street)
• 1962 – Davey Boy Smith, English-Canadian wrestler (d. 2002)
• 1963 – Princess Désirée of Hohenzollern
• 1963 – Fisher Stevens, American actor, director, and producer
• 1964 – Giles Fraser, English priest and journalist
• 1964 – Robin Givens, American actress
• 1964 – Roberto Mancini, Italian footballer and manager
• 1964 – David Rakoff, Canadian-American author and actor (d. 2012)
• 1964 – Hisayuki Sasaki, Japanese golfer (d. 2013)
• 1966 – Dean Garrett, basketball player
• 1966 – Andy Merrill, American voice actor and producer
• 1967 – Shane Embury, English bass player (Napalm Death, Unseen Terror, Meathook Seed, Lock Up, and Venomous Concept)
• 1968 – Michael Vartan, French-American actor
• 1969 – Chin Han, Singaporean actor
• 1969 – Damian Hinds, English politician
• 1969 – Myles Kennedy, American singer-songwriter (Alter Bridge, The Mayfield Four, Citizen Swing, and Cosmic Dust)
• 1970 – Brooke Langton, American actress
• 1970 – Erik Menendez, American murderer
• 1970 – Patricia Zentilli, Canadian actress
• 1971 – Kirk Acevedo, American actor
• 1971 – Larry Allen, American football player
• 1971 – Francesco Malcom, Italian porn actor and director
• 1971 – Iván Rodríguez, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1971 – Nick Van Exel, American basketball player and coach
• 1972 – Shane Salerno, American screenwriter and producer
• 1973 – Twista, American rapper and producer
• 1973 – Tadanobu Asano, Japanese actor and director
• 1973 – Sharlto Copley, South African actor, director, and producer
• 1973 – Samantha Harris, American model and television host
• 1973 – Evan Karagias, American wrestler and actor
• 1973 – Jin Katagiri, Japanese comedian, actor, sculptor, and potter
• 1974 – Wendy Houvenaghel, Northern Irish racing cyclist
• 1974 – Alec Newman, Scottish actor
• 1975 – Bad Azz, American rapper and actor (LBC Crew)
• 1975 – Martín Gramática, Argentinian-American football player
• 1975 – Rain Vessenberg, Estonian footballer
• 1976 – Jean Grae, South African-American rapper and producer
• 1976 – Chad Kilger, Canadian ice hockey player and firefighter
• 1976 – Jaleel White, American actor and screenwriter
• 1977 – Willie Bloomquist, American baseball player
• 1977 – Lee Tae-gon, South Korean actor
• 1977 – Mika Tan, American porn actress and model
• 1978 – Shy Love, German-American porn actress and director
• 1978 – Eszter Molnár, Hungarian tennis player
• 1978 – Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
• 1978 – Mike Skinner, English rapper, producer, and actor (The Streets)
• 1978 – Radek Štěpánek, Czech tennis player
• 1978 – Tim Yeung, American drummer (Divine Heresy and World Under Blood)
• 1979 – Ricky Carmichael, American motocross racer
• 1979 – Hilary Hahn, American violinist
• 1979 – Shin Hye-sung, South Korean singer (Shinhwa and S)
• 1979 – Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer
• 1980 – Jackie Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Black Crowes)
• 1980 – Veronika Portsmuth, Estonian singer and conductor
• 1980 – Michael Yardy, English cricketer
• 1981 – Bruno Alves, Portuguese footballer
• 1981 – Gary Lucy, English actor
• 1981 – Matthew Taylor, English footballer
• 1982 – David Bellion, French footballer
• 1982 – Tommy Robinson, English activist, co-founded the English Defence League
• 1983 – Professor Green, English rapper
• 1984 – Izumi Kitta, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1984 – Sanna Nielsen, Swedish singer
• 1984 – Domata Peko, American football player
• 1985 – Park Soo-jin, South Korean singer and actress (Sugar)
• 1985 – Alison Pill, Canadian actress
• 1985 – Thilo Versick, German footballer
• 1986 – Misato Nagano, Japanese voice actor
• 1986 – Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer
• 1986 – Steven Silva, American-Filipino footballer, singer, and actor
• 1986 – Xavi Torres, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Oritsé Williams, English singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer (JLS)
• 1987 – Yuria Haga, Japanese model and actress
• 1987 – Gary Wozniak, American skeleton racer
• 1988 – Max Jason Mai, Slovak singer-songwriter
• 1989 – Loveli, Japanese model
• 1989 – Freddie Sears, English footballer
• 1990 – Josh Dubovie, English singer
• 1992 – Ala Boratyn, Polish singer-songwriter (Blog 27)
• 1992 – Park Chanyeol, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor (Exo)
• 1995 – Leonard Proxauf, German-Austrian actor

Deaths

• 8 BC – Horace, Roman soldier and poet (b. 65 BC)
• 395 – Rufinus, Roman politician (b. 335)
• 450 – Galla Placidia, Roman daughter of Theodosius I (b. 392)
• 602 – Maurice, Byzantine emperor (b. 539)
• 1198 – Constance, Queen of Sicily (b. 1154)
• 1252 – Blanche of Castile (b. 1188)
• 1474 – Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer and educator (b. 1397)
• 1570 – Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
• 1592 – Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese commander (b. 1568)
• 1632 – John Eliot, English politician (b. 1592)
• 1661 – Teofila Zofia Sobieska, Polish mother of John III Sobieski (b. 1607)
• 1680 – Athanasius Kircher, German priest, philologist, and scholar (b. 1601)
• 1703 – Henry Winstanley, English painter and engineer (b. 1644)
• 1754 – Abraham de Moivre, French-English mathematician and theorist (b. 1667)
• 1758 – Senesino, Italian actor and singer (b. 1686)
• 1811 – Andrew Meikle, Scottish engineer, designed the threshing machine (b. 1719)
• 1830 – André Parmentier, Belgian-American architect (b. 1780)
• 1852 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1815)
• 1875 – Richard Christopher Carrington, English astronomer and educator (b. 1826)
• 1881 – Theobald Boehm, German flute player and composer (b. 1794)
• 1884 – Fanny Elssler, Austrian ballerina (b. 1810)
• 1894 – Johanna von Puttkamer, Prussian wife of Otto von Bismarck (b. 1824)
• 1895 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and playwright (b. 1824)
• 1899 – Constant Fornerod, Swiss academic and politician, 10th President of the Swiss Council of States (b. 1819)
• 1901 – Clement Studebaker, American businessman, co-founded Studebaker (b. 1831)
• 1908 – Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1827)
• 1916 – Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet and playwright (b. 1855)
• 1919 – Manuel Espinosa Batista, Panamanian pharmacist and politician (b. 1857)
• 1920 – Alexius Meinong, Ukrainian-Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1853)
• 1921 – Douglas Cameron, Canadian contractor and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (b. 1854)
• 1931 – Lya De Putti, Slovak-American actress (b. 1899)
• 1932 – Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
• 1934 – Baby Face Nelson, American criminal (b. 1908)
• 1936 – Basil Zaharoff, Greek-French businessman and philanthropist (b. 1849)
• 1940 – Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1871)
• 1943 – Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian soldier and politician (b. 1916)
• 1944 – Leonid Mandelstam, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1879)
• 1953 – Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1955 – Arthur Honegger, French-Swiss composer and academic (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian politician, Head of State of Bulgaria (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Artur Rodziński, Polish-American conductor (b. 1892)
• 1960 – Frederick Fane, Irish-English cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1960 – Dirk Jan de Geer, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1870)
• 1962 – August Lass, Estonian footballer (b. 1903)
• 1967 – Léon M'ba, Gabonese politician, 1st President of Gabon (b. 1902)
• 1970 – Helene Madison, American swimmer and nurse (b. 1913)
• 1973 – Frank Christian, American trumpet player (Original New Orleans Jazz Band) (b. 1887)
• 1975 – Alberto Massimino, Italian automotive engineer (b. 1895)
• 1975 – Ross McWhirter, English author and activist, co-founded the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
• 1977 – Mart Laga, Estonian basketball player (b. 1936)
• 1978 – Harvey Milk, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1930)
• 1978 – George Moscone, American lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1929)
• 1980 – F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect, designed the Villa Vizcaya (b. 1882)
• 1981 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)
• 1983 – Kostas Mentis, Greek actor and singer (b. 1913)
• 1985 – Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor (b. 1920)
• 1987 – Sian Kingi, Australian murder victim (b. 1974)
• 1988 – John Carradine, American actor and singer (b. 1906)
• 1988 – Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player and author (b. 1927)
• 1989 – Carlos Arias Navarro, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1908)
• 1990 – David White, American actor (b. 1916)
• 1990 – Basilis C. Xanthopoulos, Greek physicist and academic (b. 1951)
• 1992 – Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1906)
• 1997 – Buck Leonard, American baseball player and educator (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Barbara Acklin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1999 – Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1937)
• 1999 – Alain Peyrefitte, French scholar and politician, French Minister of Justice (b. 1925)
• 1999 – Elizabeth Gray Vining, American author and librarian (b. 1902)
• 2000 – Malcolm Bradbury, English author and academic (b. 1932)
• 2000 – Uno Prii, Estonian-Canadian architect (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Len Shackleton, English footballer and journalist (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Billie Bird, American actress (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Shivmangal Singh Suman, Indian poet and academic (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Joe Jones, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Don Butterfield, American tuba player (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Bebe Moore Campbell, American author and educator (b. 1950)
• 2006 – Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (b. 1951)
• 2006 – Alan Freeman, Australian-English radio host (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Bernie Banton, Australian activist (b. 1946)
• 2007 – Robert Cade, American physician and academic, co-invented Gatorade (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983)
• 2007 – Bill Willis, American football player and coach (b. 1921)
• 2008 – V. P. Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of India (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Al Alberts, American singer-songwriter (The Four Aces) (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Irvin Kershner, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Len Fulford, English photographer and director (b. 1928)
• 2011 – Sultan Khan, Indian singer and sarangi player (Tabla Beat Science) (b. 1940)
• 2011 – Ken Russell, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2011 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1969)
• 2012 – Mickey Baker, American guitarist (Mickey & Sylvia) (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Ab Fafié, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Érik Izraelewicz, French journalist and author (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Marvin Miller, American businessman and union leader (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Jack Wishna, American photographer and businessman, co-founded Rockcityclub (b. 1958)
• 2013 – Lewis Collins, English-American actor (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Herbert F. DeSimone, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General of Rhode Island (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Volker Roemheld, German physiologist and biologist (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Manuel F. Segura, Filipino colonel (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Wanda Błeńska, Polish physician and missionary (b. 1911)
• 2014 – Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (b. 1988)
• 2014 – P. D. James, English author (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Jack Kyle, Irish rugby player and humanitarian (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Stanisław Mikulski, Polish actor (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Fernance B. Perry, Portuguese-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Humza Al-Hafeez, American police officer and activist (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Mark Behr, Tanzanian-South African author and academic (b. 1963)
• 2015 – Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, Swedish actress (b. 1921)
• 2015 – Maurice Strong, Canadian businessman and diplomat (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Garrett Swasey, American figure skater and coach (b. 1971)
• 2015 – Philippe Washer, Belgian tennis player and golfer (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Barlaam and Josaphat, the Christianized version of Buddha
  • Congar of Congresbury
  • Facundus and Primitivus
  • Francis Fasani
  • Humilis of Bisignano
  • Leonard of Port Maurice
  • Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (Roman Catholic)
  • Vergilius of Salzburg
  • November 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest day on which Advent Sunday can fall, while December 3 is the latest; celebrated on the Sunday nearest to St. Andrew's Day (Western Christianity)
• Maaveerar Day (Tamil Eelam)
• Teacher's Day (Spain)
• Native American Heritage Day (United States)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• Today in Canadian History