November 7

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November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 54 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 335 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
• 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
• 1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
• 1619 – Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
• 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
• 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
• 1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
• 1811 – Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
• 1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
• 1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
• 1885 – The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
• 1893 – Women's Suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
• 1900 – Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
• 1907 – Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
• 1907 – Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.
• 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
• 1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
• 1912 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
• 1914 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
• 1914 – The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
• 1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
• 1917 – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
• 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
• 1918 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
• 1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
• 1919 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.
• 1920 – Patriarch Tikhon issues a decree that leads to the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
• 1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
• 1931 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
• 1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
• 1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.
• 1941 – World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
• 1944 – A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill. 16 people are killed and 50 are injured.
• 1944 – Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
• 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
• 1949 – The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
• 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
• 1957 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
• 1963 – Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
• 1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
• 1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
• 1973 – The U.S. Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
• 1975 – In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Col. Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brig. Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman. The day is occasionally observed as the National Revolution and Solidarity Day.
• 1983 – 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.
• 1987 – In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
• 1987 – Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line was opened, starting with train services between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh stations.
• 1989 – Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
• 1989 – David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected mayor of New York City.
• 1989 – East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
• 1990 – Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
• 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
• 1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
• 1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
• 2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although she was actually still the First Lady.
• 2000 – Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
• 2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
• 2001 – SABENA, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt.
• 2002 – Iran bans advertising of United States products.
• 2004 – War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
• 2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
• 2012 – An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.

Births

• 630 – Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)
• 994 – Ibn Hazm, Arabian philosopher (d. 1069)
• 1598 – Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
• 1619 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French author (d. 1692)
• 1650 – John Robinson, English bishop (d. 1723)
• 1683 – Anton thor Helle, German-Estonian clergyman and translator (d. 1748)
• 1687 – William Stukeley, English antiquarian (d. 1765)
• 1706 – Carlo Cecere, Italian composer (d. 1761)
• 1728 – James Cook, English navy officer, explorer, and cartographer (d. 1779)
• 1750 – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
• 1805 – Thomas Brassey, English engineer (d. 1870)
• 1818 – Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
• 1832 – Andrew Dickson White, American educator and diplomat, co-founded Cornell University (d. 1918)
• 1838 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French author (d. 1889)
• 1846 – Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist (d. 1907)
• 1851 – Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (d. 1913)
• 1858 – Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian activist (d. 1932)
• 1860 – Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)
• 1861 – Jeff Milton, American sheriff (d. 1947)
• 1867 – Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
• 1872 – Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (d. 1956)
• 1875 – Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
• 1876 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
• 1878 – Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist (d. 1968)
• 1879 – King Baggot, American actor (d. 1948)
• 1879 – Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (d. 1940)
• 1886 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Russian-Danish chess player (d. 1935)
• 1888 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1890 – Jan Matulka, American painter (d. 1972)
• 1893 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1893 – Margaret Leech, American author and historian (d. 1974)
• 1896 – Esdras Minville, Canadian economist and sociologist (d. 1975)
• 1897 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter, director, and producer (d. 1953)
• 1897 – Armstrong Sperry, American author (d. 1976)
• 1898 – Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963)
• 1899 – Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli poet and columnist (d. 1954)
• 1901 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1980)
• 1903 – Ary Barroso, Brazilian pianist and composer (d. 1964)
• 1903 – Dean Jagger, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1903 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• 1903 – Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
• 1905 – William Alwyn, English composer (d. 1985)
• 1906 – Eugene Carson Blake, American church leader (d. 1985)
• 1908 – Marijac, French illustrator and writer (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Ruby Hurley, American civil rights activist (d. 1980)
• 1913 – Albert Camus, French author, journalist, and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1913 – Alekos Sakellarios, Greek screenwriter and director (d. 1991)
• 1914 – Archie Campbell, American comedian, actor, and singer (d. 1987)
• 1914 – R. A. Lafferty, American science fiction and fantasy author (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Titos Vandis, Greek actor (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Paul Aussaresses, French general
• 1918 – Billy Graham, American evangelist
• 1918 – Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese singer (d. 1993)
• 1919 – Ellen Stewart, American director and producer (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Max Kampelman, American diplomat (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Jack Fleck, American golfer
• 1922 – Al Hirt, American trumpet player (d. 1999)
• 1923 – Gene Callahan, American production designer (d. 1990)
• 1926 – Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano (d. 2010)
• 1927 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Ivor Emmanuel, Welsh singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Richard G. Scott, American engineer and religious leader
• 1929 – Eric Kandel, Austrian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 – Jesús de Polanco, Spanish businessman(d. 2007)
• 1930 – Rudy Boschwitz, American politician
• 1931 – G. Edward Griffin, American film producer and author
• 1935 – W. S. Rendra, Indonesian poet and playwright (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano
• 1936 – Audrey McLaughlin, Canadian politician
• 1937 – Mary Daheim, American author
• 1938 – Dee Clark, American singer (d. 1990)
• 1938 – Jake Gibbs, American baseball player
• 1938 – Jim Kaat, American baseball player
• 1938 – Barry Newman, American actor
• 1940 – Dakin Matthews, American actor
• 1940 – Antonio Skármeta, Chilean author
• 1941 – Angelo Scola, Italian cardinal
• 1942 – Tom Peters, American author
• 1942 – Johnny Rivers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1942 – Jean Shrimpton, English model and actress
• 1943 – Michael Byrne, English actor
• 1943 – Stephen Greenblatt, American critic
• 1943 – Boris Gromov, Russian general
• 1943 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 – Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 – Silvia Cartwright, 18th Governor-General of New Zealand
• 1944 – Waljinah, Javanese singer
• 1945 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Ken Patera, American wrestler
• 1944 – Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
• 1945 – Earl Boen, American actor
• 1945 – Bob Englehart, American cartoonist
• 1946 – John Aylward, American actor
• 1947 – Bob Anderson, English darts player
• 1947 – Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese baseball player
• 1947 – Sondhi Limthongkul, Thai journalist
• 1947 – Holmes Osborne, American actor
• 1948 – Buck Martinez, American baseball player
• 1948 – Alex Ribeiro, Brazilian race car driver
• 1949 – Stephen Bruton, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2009)
• 1949 – Steven Stucky, American composer
• 1949 – David S. Ware, American saxophonist (d. 2012)
• 1950 – Lindsay Duncan, Scottish actress
• 1951 – Lawrence O'Donnell, American journalist, actor, and producer
• 1951 – John Tamargo, American baseball player
• 1952 – David Petraeus, American military officer, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• 1952 – Modibo Sidibé, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali
• 1952 – Valeriy Zuyev, Ukrainian footballer and coach
• 1953 – Maire Aunaste, Estonian journalist and TV host
• 1953 – Lucinda Green, English horse rider and journalist
• 1954 – Robin Beck, American singer
• 1954 – Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian author
• 1954 – Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
• 1954 – Gil Junger, American director
• 1955 – Shirley Eikhard, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1955 – Kitty Margolis, American singer and producer
• 1955 – Detlef Ultsch, German martial artist
• 1956 – Denise Jannah, Dutch singer
• 1956 – Jonathan Palmer, English race car driver
• 1956 – Judy Tenuta, American comedian, actress, and accordion player
• 1957 – John Benitez, American musician, songwriter, and producer
• 1957 – King Kong Bundy, American wrestler and actor
• 1957 – Christopher Knight, American actor
• 1957 – Tony Schiavone, American sportscaster
• 1958 – Rissei Ō, Japanese Go player
• 1958 – Lori Saldaña, American politician
• 1959 – Srinivas, Indian singer
• 1959 – Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
• 1959 – Alexandre Guimarães, Brazilian-Costa Rican footballer and manager
• 1960 – Tommy Thayer, American guitarist and songwriter (Kiss)
• 1961 – Orlando Mercado, American baseball player
• 1962 – Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
• 1963 – John Barnes, English footballer
• 1963 – Sam Graves, American politician
• 1964 – Troy Beyer, American actress
• 1964 – Sandra Denton, American rapper and actress (Salt-N-Pepa)
• 1964 – Gill Holland, Norwegian-American film producer
• 1964 – Li Nanxing, Singaporean actor
• 1964 – Liam Ó Maonlaí, Irish keyboard player and songwriter (Hothouse Flowers)
• 1964 – Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1965 – Sigrun Wodars, German runner
• 1966 – Calvin Borel, American jockey
• 1967 – Steve DiGiorgio, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Death, Control Denied, Sadus, and Charred Walls of the Damned)
• 1967 – David Guetta, French DJ and producer
• 1967 – Julie Pinson, American actress
• 1967 – Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress (Texas)
• 1967 – Careena Collins, American porn actress and director
• 1968 – Greg Tribbett, American guitarist (Mudvayne and Hellyeah)
• 1968 – Mark Preston, Australian engineer
• 1968 – Russ Springer, American baseball player
• 1969 – Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
• 1969 – Michelle Clunie, American actress
• 1969 – Michel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 – Neil Hannon, Irish singer-songwriter (The Divine Comedy and The Duckworth Lewis Method)
• 1970 – Andy Houston, American race car driver
• 1970 – Marc Rosset, Swiss tennis player
• 1970 – Morgan Spurlock, American director and producer
• 1970 – Paul Ware, English footballer (d. 2013)
• 1971 – Trivikram Srinivas, Indian Director, and dialogue writer
• 1971 – Jamie Drummond, Scottish-Canadian critic
• 1971 – Robin Finck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Nine Inch Nails and Guns N' Roses)
• 1971 – Matthew Ryan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Strays Don't Sleep)
• 1972 – Christopher Daniel Barnes, American actor
• 1972 – Mike Goldman, Australian radio and television
• 1972 – Danny Grewcock, English rugby player
• 1972 – Jason London, American actor
• 1972 – Jeremy London, American actor
• 1972 – Hasim Rahman, American boxer
• 1972 – Marcus Stewart, English footballer
• 1973 – Catê, Brazilian footballer (d. 2011)
• 1973 – Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress
• 1973 – Martín Palermo, Argentine footballer
• 1974 – Kris Benson, American baseball player
• 1974 – Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaican hurdler
• 1974 – Christian Gómez, Argentine footballer
• 1974 – Chris Summers, Norwegian drummer (Turbonegro)
• 1975 – Venkat Prabhu, Indian director
• 1976 – Rob Caggiano, American guitarist and producer (Anthrax, Boiler Room, and The Damned Things)
• 1976 – Melyssa Ford, Canadian model and actress
• 1976 – Chang Hao, Chinese Go player
• 1976 – One Be Lo, American rapper (Binary Star)
• 1976 – Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
• 1977 – Andres Oper, Estonian footballer
• 1977 – María Sánchez Lorenzo, Spanish tennis player
• 1977 – Anthony Thomas, American football player
• 1978 – Mohamed Aboutrika, Egyptian footballer
• 1978 – Elisabeth Bachman, American volleyball player
• 1978 – Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
• 1978 – Tomoya Nagase, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Tokio)
• 1978 – Barry Robson, Scottish footballer
• 1978 – Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
• 1979 – Mike Commodore, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Will Demps, American football player
• 1979 – Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
• 1979 – Barney Harwood, English television host and actor
• 1979 – Jon Peter Lewis, American singer-songwriter
• 1979 – Joey Ryan, American wrestler
• 1979 – Otep Shamaya, American singer-songwriter and actress (Otep)
• 1980 – Karthik, Indian singer and composer
• 1980 – Sergio Bernardo Almirón, Argentine footballer
• 1980 – Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
• 1980 – James Franklin, New Zealand cricketer
• 1980 – Luciana Salazar, Argentine model and actress
• 1981 – Mark Copani, Jordanian-American wrestler
• 1981 – Anushka Shetty, Indian actress
• 1982 – Pascal Leclaire, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Forrest Kline, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hellogoodbye)
• 1984 – Mihkel Aksalu, Estonian footballer
• 1984 – Jonathan Bornstein, American soccer player
• 1984 – Amelia Vega, Dominican model, Miss Universe 2003
• 1985 – Sebastian Aldén, Swedish motorcycle racer
• 1985 – Lucas Neff, American actor
• 1986 – Andy Hull, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Manchester Orchestra, Bad Books, and Right Away, Great Captain!)
• 1986 – David Nelson, American football player
• 1986 – Doukissa Nomikou, Greek model
• 1986 – Yurizan Beltran, American pornographic actress
• 1987 – Marek Semjan, Slovakian tennis player
• 1988 – Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukrainian tennis player
• 1988 – Simone Favaro, Italian rugby player
• 1988 – Thomas Schneider, German sprinter
• 1988 – Tinie Tempah, English rapper and producer
• 1989 – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Russian singer and activist (Pussy Riot)
• 1990 – Daniel Ayala, Spanish footballer
• 1990 – Matt Corby, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1990 – David de Gea, Spanish footballer
• 1990 – Template:Kurt Townsend, Agricultural Engineer
• 1994 – Haruna Iikubo, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume)
• 1996 – Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter

Deaths

• 644 – Umar, Islamic caliph (b. 590)
• 1225 – Engelbert II of Berg, German archbishop (b. 1186)
• 1550 – Jón Arason, Icelandic bishop (b. 1484)
• 1574 – Solomon Luria, Polish rabbi (b. 1510)
• 1581 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar (b. 1505)
• 1599 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
• 1633 – Cornelis Drebbel, Dutch inventor, invented the submarine (b. 1572)
• 1639 – Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician (b. 1560)
• 1642 – Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English judge and politician (b. 1563)
• 1713 – Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
• 1837 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister and journalist (b. 1809)
• 1872 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
• 1881 – John MacHale, Irish archbishop (b. 1791)
• 1906 – Heinrich Seidel, German engineer and poet (b. 1842)
• 1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, English biologist and geographer (b. 1823)
• 1919 – Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
• 1922 – Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1923 – Ashwini Kumar Dutta, Indian Educationist,Freedom Fighter(1856)
• 1930 – Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (b. 1878)
• 1933 – Harold Weber, American golfer (b. 1882)
• 1941 – Frank Pick, English businessman (b. 1878)
• 1943 – Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1944 – Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
• 1944 – Hannah Szenes, Hungarian army officer (b. 1921)
• 1947 – K. Natesa Iyer, Ceylon Tamil journalist (b. 1887)
• 1952 – Filippos Karvelas, Greek gymnast (b. 1877)
• 1959 – Victor McLaglen, English-American boxer and actor (b. 1883)
• 1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, American politician, 34th First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1965 – Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, Pakistani caliph (b. 1889)
• 1966 – Rube Bressler, American baseball player (b. 1894)
• 1967 – John Nance Garner, American politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1868)
• 1968 – Gordon Coventry, Australian footballer (b. 1901)
• 1968 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
• 1974 – Eric Linklater, Welsh-Scottish author (b. 1899)
• 1978 – Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian politician (b. 1887)
• 1978 – Gene Tunney, American boxer (b. 1897)
• 1980 – Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
• 1981 – Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (b. 1885)
• 1983 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
• 1986 – Tracy Pew, Australian bass player (The Birthday Party and The Saints) (b. 1957)
• 1990 – Lawrence Durrell, expatriate British writer (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Carter Cornelius, American singer (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948)
• 1991 – Tom of Finland, Finnish illustrator (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1993 – Adelaide Hall, American jazz singer and entertainer (b. 1901)
• 1994 – Shorty Rogers, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1924)
• 1995 – Ann Dunham, American anthropologist (b. 1942)
• 1996 – Claude Ake, Nigerian academic (b. 1939)
• 1996 – Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Nimalan Soundaranayagam, Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and politician (b. 1950)
• 2000 – Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Ingrid of Sweden (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
• 2002 – Rudolf Augstein, German journalist, co-founded Der Spiegel (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Howard Keel, American actor and singer (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Harry Thompson, English scriptwriter, producer, and author (b. 1960)
• 2006 – Bryan Pata, American football player (b. 1984)
• 2006 – Johnny Sain, American baseball player (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Earl Dodge, American politician (b. 1932)
• 2007 – George W. George, American film producer (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Smaro Stefanidou, Greek actress (b. 1913)
• 2011 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Carmen Basilio, American boxer (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Aleksandr Berkutov, Russian rower (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Heinz-Jürgen Blome, German footballer (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Ellen Douglas, American author (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Kevin O'Donnell, Jr., American author (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Sandy Pearson, Australian army officer (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Darrell Royal, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Arthur K. Snyder, American politician (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Elliott Stein, American journalist and historian (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Manfred Rommel, German politician (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Engelbert II of Berg
  • Herculanus of Perugia
  • Prosdocimus
  • Vicente Liem de la Paz
  • Willibrord
  • November 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Commemoration Day, the anniversary of Ben Ali's succession. (Tunisia)
• National Day, after Treaty of Pyrenees. (Northern Catalonia)
• National Revolution and Solidarity Day (Bangladesh)
• October Revolution Day (the Soviet Union (former, official), modern Russia (unofficial), Belarus, Kyrgyzstan)
• International Project Management Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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