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Acontecimientos
- 284Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
- 762During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
- 1194Palermo is conquered by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1407John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, agree to a truce, but Burgundy would kill Orléans three days later.
- 1441The Peace of Cremona ends the war between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan, after the victorious Venetian enterprise of military engineering of the Galeas per montes.
- 1695Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.
- 1739Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
- 1776American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.
- 1789New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
- 1805Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, premieres in Vienna.
- 1815The Second Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1790 extent, imposing large indemnities, and prolonging the occupation by troops of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia for several more years.
- 1820An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this incident.)
- 1845Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
- 1861American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
- 1873Garnier Expedition: French forces under Lieutenant Francis Garnier captured Hanoi from the Vietnamese.
- 1900The French actress Sarah Bernhardt receives the press at the Savoy Hotel in New York at the outset of her first visit since 1896. She talked about her impending tour with a troupe of more than 50 performers and her plans to play the title role in Hamlet.
- 1910Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
- 1917World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
- 1936José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
- 1940World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
- 1943World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
- 1945Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
- 1946Indonesian National Revolution: 96 Indonesian including I Gusti Ngurah Rai were killed during the Battle of Margarana with Dutch forces.
- 1947The Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen) marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 1959The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
- 1968A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.
- 1969Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
- 1969Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.
- 1974The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
- 1974The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.
- 1977Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
- 1979Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6,000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from French special forces to put down the uprising.
- 1980Lake Peigneur in Louisiana drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
- 1985Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released.
- 1989Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
- 1990Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings.
- 1991An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend District of Azerbaijan.
- 1992In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
- 1993Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
- 1993North Macedonia's deadliest aviation disaster occurs when Avioimpex Flight 110, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near Ohrid Airport, killing all 116 people on board.
- 1994The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)
- 1996A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.
- 1998A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
- 1998The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- 2003After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
- 2015Following a hostage siege, at least 19 people are killed in Bamako, Mali.
- 2016Jimmie Johnson wins his seventh NASCAR Cup Series championship to tie Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for the most all-time.
- 2022The 2022 FIFA World Cup begins in Qatar. This is the first time the tournament was held in the Middle East.
Nacimientos
- 270Maximinus II, Roman emperor (died 313)
- 939Emperor Taizong of Song (died 997)
- 1545Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania (died 1592) las demás fuentes: 2 nov 1545
- 1602Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (died 1686) juliano y gregoriano
- 1603Fasilides, Ethiopian emperor (died 1667) juliano y gregoriano
- 1620Avvakum, Russian priest and saint (died 1682)
- 1625Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (died 1654)
- 1629Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (died 1698)
- 1660Daniel Ernst Jablonski, Czech-German theologian and reformer (died 1741)
- 1688Gyeongjong of Joseon, 20th king of the Joseon Dynasty (died 1724)
- 1715Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (died 1799) las demás fuentes: 23 nov 1715
- 1717George (Konissky), Orthodox archbishop, preacher, philosopher and theologian (died 1795)
- 1726Oliver Wolcott, American politician (died 1797) juliano y gregoriano
- 1733Philip Schuyler, American general and senator (died 1804)
- 1737José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, Spanish-Mexican scientist and cartographer (died 1799) las demás fuentes: 21 nov 1737
- 1739Jean-François de La Harpe, French writer and literary critic (died 1803)
- 1748Jean-François de Bourgoing, French diplomat, writer and translator (died 1811)
- 1750Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (died 1799) fecha discutida
- 1752Thomas Chatterton, English poet (died 1770)
- 1753Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 1st Prince of Wagram (died 1815)
- 1755Stanisław Kostka Potocki, Polish noble, politician and writer (died 1821)
- 1761Pope Pius VIII (died 1830)
- 1776Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Austrian violinist (died 1830) las demás fuentes: 20 jul 1776
- 1781Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German captain and jurist (died 1854)
- 1781Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver (died 1835)
- 1782Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, Dutch painter (died 1861)
- 1783Georgios Sinas, Greek entrepreneur and banker (died 1856)
- 1784Marianne von Willemer, Austrian actress and dancer (died 1860)
- 1787Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, German firearms inventor and manufacturer (died 1867)
- 1788Félix Varela, Cuban-born Roman Catholic priest (died 1853)
- 1794Eduard Rüppell, German naturalist and explorer (died 1884)
- 1801Mungo Ponton, Scottish inventor (died 1880)
- 1808Albert Kazimirski de Biberstein, French orientalist (died 1887)
- 1813Franz Miklosich, Slovenian linguist and philologist (died 1891)
- 1830Mikhail Dragomirov, Russian general (1905)
- 1834Franjo Kuhač, Croatian conductor and composer (died 1911)
- 1841Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (died 1901)
- 1841François Denys Légitime, Haitian general (died 1935)
- 1841Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1919)
- 1850Joseph Samuel Bloch, Austrian rabbi and deputy (died 1923)
- 1850Charlotte Garrigue, wife of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (died 1923)
- 1851Mikhail Albov, Russian writer (died 1911)
- 1851John Merle Coulter, American botanist (died 1928)
- 1851Margherita of Savoy, Italian Queen consort (died 1926)
- 1853Oskar Potiorek, Austro-Hungarian Army officer (died 1933)
- 1855Josiah Royce, American philosopher (died 1916)
- 1857Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (died 1938)
- 1858Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
- 1860José Figueroa Alcorta, President of Argentina, (died 1931)
- 1861Camillo Laurenti, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1938)
- 1862Georges Palante, French philosopher and sociologist (died 1925)
- 1862Edvard Westermarck, Finnish philosopher and sociologist (died 1939)
- 1864Percy Cox, British Indian Army officer (died 1937)
- 1866Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge (died 1944)
- 1866Maria Letizia Bonaparte, daughter of Prince Napoléon Bonaparte (died 1926)
- 1867Patrick Joseph Hayes, American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (died 1938)
- 1867Gustav Giemsa, German chemist and bacteriologist (died 1948)
- 1869Zinaida Gippius, Russian writer and editor (died 1945)
- 1869Josaphata Hordashevska, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic nun (died 1919)
- 1871William Heard Kilpatrick, American pedagogue (died 1965)
- 1871Augusto Weberbauer, German naturalist (died 1948) las demás fuentes: 26 nov 1871
- 1873Ramón Castillo, Argentine politician (died 1944)
- 1873William Coblentz, American physicist (died 1962)
- 1873Georges Caussade, French composer (died 1936)
- 1873Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer and music critic (died 1953)
- 1874James Michael Curley, American lawyer, politician, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts, and criminal (died 1958)
- 1875Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German diplomat (died 1944)
- 1876Rudolf Koch, German designer (died 1934)
- 1877Herbert Pitman, English sailor (died 1961)
- 1880Walter Brack, German swimmer (died 1919) las demás fuentes: 20 dic 1880
- 1881Irakli Tsereteli, Georgian politician (died 1959) juliano y gregoriano
- 1882Ernestas Galvanauskas, Lithuanian engineer and politician (died 1967)
- 1883Edwin August, American actor and director (died 1964) juliano y gregoriano
- 1883Tony Gaudio, Italian American cinematographer (died 1951)
- 1884Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (died 1968)
- 1885George Holley, English footballer (died 1942)
- 1885Kaarlo Vasama, Finnish gymnast (died 1926)
- 1886Robert Hunter, American golfer (died 1971)
- 1886Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1982)
- 1886Alexandre Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (died 1934)
- 1887Jean Ducret, French footballer (died 1975) las demás fuentes: 27 nov 1887
- 1888Dennis Fenton, American sports shooter (died 1954)
- 1889Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist (died 1953)
- 1890Robert Armstrong, American actor (died 1973)
- 1890Harald Madsen, Danish actor (died 1949)
- 1890Lauri Tanner, Finnish gymnast (died 1950)
- 1891Reginald Denny, English actor (died 1967)
- 1892James Collip, Canadian biochemist and academic, co-discovered insulin (died 1965)
- 1893André Bloch, French mathematician (died 1948)
- 1893Grace Darmond, Canadian-American actress (died 1963)
- 1894Johann Nikuradse, Georgian-born German engineer and physicist (died 1979)
- 1895Pierre Cot, French politician (died 1977)
- 1896Chiyono Hasegawa, Japanese supercentenarian (died 2011) fecha discutida
- 1896Carl Mayer, Austrian-Jewish screenplay writer (died 1944) las demás fuentes: 20 nov 1894
- 1897Germaine Krull, German photographer and political activist (died 1985) fecha discutida
- 1898Richmond Landon, American high jumper (died 1971)
- 1898Adrian Piotrovsky, Russian dramaturge (died 1937) juliano y gregoriano
- 1899Alicja Kotowska, Polish nun (died 1939)
- 1900Florieda Batson, American Olympic hurdler (died 1996)
- 1900Helen Bradley, English painter (died 1979)
- 1900Chester Gould, American cartoonist and author, created Dick Tracy (died 1985)
- 1901José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (died 1957) las demás fuentes: 22 nov 1901
- 1902Gianpiero Combi, Italian footballer (died 1956)
- 1902Erik Eriksen, Danish politician (died 1972)
- 1902Heini Meng, Swiss ice hockey player (died 1982)
- 1902Jean Painlevé, French photographer and filmmaker (died 1989)
- 1902Philipp Schmitt, German officer of the Schutzstaffel (died 1950)
- 1903Alexandra Danilova, Russian-American ballerina and choreographer (died 1997)
- 1903Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educator (died 1981)
- 1904Arnold Gartmann, Swiss bobsledder (died 1980)
- 1905Minoo Masani, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1998)
- 1906Vera Tanner, English swimmer (died 1971)
- 1907Fran Allison, American entertainer (died 1989)
- 1907Mihai Beniuc, Romanian writer (died 1988)
- 1907Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director, screenwriter and producer (died 1977)
- 1907Anni Rehborn, German swimmer (died 1987) las demás fuentes: 25 ago 1904
- 1908Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, the youngest son of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (died 1968)
- 1908Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist and author (died 2004)
- 1908Jenő Vincze, Hungarian footballer (died 1988)
- 1909John Berger, Swiss cross-country skier (died 2002) las demás fuentes: 31 jul 1909
- 1909Vicente Feola, Brazilian football manager and coach (died 1975)
- 1909Piero Gherardi, Italian costume and set designer (died 1971)
- 1909Samand Siabandov, Soviet Red Army writer (died 1989)
- 1910Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician, pilot, and academic (died 1944)
- 1910Pauli Murray, American civil rights activist, women's rights activist, lawyer, Episcopal priest, and author (died 1985)
- 1911Eduard Kainberger, Austrian footballer (died 1974)
- 1911David Seymour, Polish photographer (died 1956)
- 1911Jean Shiley, American high jumper (died 1998)
- 1911Rupert Weinstabl, Austrian sprint canoeist (died 1953)
- 1911Paul Zielinski, German footballer (died 1966)
- 1912Enrique Garcia, Argentine footballer (died 1969)
- 1912Otto von Habsburg, the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary (died 2011)
- 1913Franz Berghammer, Austrian field handballer (died 1944)
- 1913Charles Berlitz, American linguist (died 2003) las demás fuentes: 20 nov 1914
- 1913Charles Bettelheim, French Marxian economist and historian (died 2006)
- 1913Judy Canova, American actress and comedian (died 1983)
- 1913Kostas Choumis, Greek footballer (died 1981)
- 1913Russell Rouse, American screenwriter, director and producer (died 1987)
- 1913Libertas Schulze-Boysen, German opponent of the Nazis (died 1942)
- 1913Yakov Zak, Soviet pianist (died 1976)
- 1914Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer and politician (died 1992)
- 1914Kurt Lundqvist, Swedish high jumper (died 1976)
- 1915Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)
- 1915Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (died 1989)
- 1916Charles E. Osgood, American psychologist (died 1991)
- 1916Michael J. Ingelido, American general (died 2015)
- 1916Evelyn Keyes, American actress (died 2008)
- 1916Donald T. Campbell, American social scientist (died 1996)
- 1917Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (died 2010)
- 1917Leonard Jimmie Savage, American mathematician (died 1971)
- 1917Erich Leo Lehmann, American statistician (died 2009)
- 1917Bobby Locke, South African golfer (died 1987)
- 1918Corita Kent, American nun, illustrator, and educator (died 1986)
- 1918Heinrich Ratjen, German high jumper (died 2008)
- 1919Alan Brown, English race car driver (died 2004)
- 1919Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (died 2012)
- 1920Douglas Dick, American actor and psychologist (died 2015)
- 1921Jim Garrison, American lawyer and judge (died 1992)
- 1923Gunnar Åkerlund, Swedish sprint canoer (died 2006)
- 1923Danny Dayton, American actor and director (died 1999)
- 1923Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematographer (died 2005)
- 1923Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)
- 1924Bill Borthwick, Australian politician (died 2001)
- 1924Timothy Evans, Welshman wrongfully convicted of murder (died 1950)
- 1924Karen Harup, Danish swimmer (died 2009)
- 1924Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (died 2010)
- 1924Michael Riffaterre, French literary critic and theorist (died 2006)
- 1924Henk Vredeling, Dutch agronomist and politician, Dutch Minister of Defence (died 2007)
- 1925June Christy, American singer (died 1990)
- 1925Robert F. Kennedy, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (died 1968)
- 1925Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director (died 2015)
- 1926John Gardner, English soldier and author (died 2007)
- 1926Tôn Thất Đính, Vietnamese general (died 2013)
- 1926Édouard Leclerc, French businessman and entrepreneur (died 2012)
- 1926Miroslav Tichý, Czech photographer (died 2011)
- 1927Vakhtang Balavadze, Georgian wrestler (died 2018)
- 1927Ed Freeman, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2008)
- 1927Estelle Parsons, American actress and director
- 1927Wolfgang Schreyer, German writer (died 2017)
- 1927Mikhail Ulyanov, Soviet and Russian actor (died 2007)
- 1928Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2017)
- 1928Franklin Cover, American actor (died 2006)
- 1928Pedro Ferrándiz, Spanish basketball coach (died 2022)
- 1928John Disley, Welsh athlete (died 2016)
- 1928Pete Rademacher, American boxer (died 2020)
- 1928Genrikh Sapgir, Russian writer (died 1999)
- 1929Jerry Hardin, American actor
- 1929Raymond Lefèvre, French composer (died 2008)
- 1929Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Colombian footballer (died 2020)
- 1929Ron Willey, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2004)
- 1930Christine Arnothy, French writer (died 2015)
- 1930Aarón Hernán, Mexican actor (died 2020)
- 1930Bernard Horsfall, English-Scottish actor (died 2013)
- 1930Choe Yong-rim, North Korean Premier
- 1931Wayne Moore, American swimmer (died 2015) las demás fuentes: 30 nov 1931
- 1932Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host (died 2012)
- 1932Yorozuya Kinnosuke, Japanese kabuki actor (died 1997)
- 1932Sándor Mátrai, Hungarian footballer (died 2002)
- 1932Paulo Valentim, Brazilian footballer (died 1984)
- 1932Colville Young, Governor-General of Belize
- 1934Paco Ibáñez, Spanish singer and musician
- 1934Lev Polugaevsky, Soviet Chess Grandmaster (died 1995)
- 1935Leo Falcam, Micronesian politician and 5th President of Micronesia (died 2018)
- 1935Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (died 2011)
- 1936Hans van Abeelen, Dutch geneticist (died 1998)
- 1936Don DeLillo, American novelist, essayist, and playwright
- 1936Luciano Fabro, Italian sculptor and artist (died 2007)
- 1936Charles R. Larson, American admiral (died 2014)
- 1937René Kollo, German tenor
- 1937Ruth Laredo, American pianist and educator (died 2005)
- 1937Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish skier (died 2013)
- 1937Bruno Mealli, Italian cyclist (died 2023)
- 1937Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian author and screenwriter
- 1938Colin Fox, Canadian actor (died 2025)
- 1939Jerry Colangelo, American businessman
- 1939Copi, Argentine writer and artist (died 1987)
- 1939Dick Smothers, American actor and comedian fecha discutida
- 1939Jan Szczepański, Polish boxer (died 2017)
- 1940Wendy Doniger, American indologist
- 1940Helma Sanders-Brahms, German director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)
- 1940Ediz Hun, Turkish actor and politician
- 1940Arieh Warshel, Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist
- 1941Oliver Sipple, U.S. Marine and Vietnam War veteran (died 1989)
- 1941Dr. John, American singer and songwriter (died 2019)
- 1942Joe Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States
- 1942Bob Einstein, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2019)
- 1942Norman Greenbaum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1942Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer
- 1942Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul (died 2008)
- 1943David Douglas-Home, British businessman and politician (died 2022)
- 1943Veronica Hamel, American actress and model
- 1943Ivan Hrdlička, Slovak footballer
- 1943Suze Rotolo, American artist (died 2011)
- 1944Louie Dampier, American basketball player and coach
- 1944Wayne Maki, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1974) fecha discutida
- 1944Anthea Stewart, Zimbabwean field hockey player
- 1945Deborah Eisenberg, American writer, actress and teacher
- 1946Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1971)
- 1946Algimantas Butnorius, Lithuanian chess Grandmaster (died 2017) las demás fuentes: 20 feb 1946
- 1946Patriarch Kirill of Moscow
- 1946Samuel E. Wright, American actor, voice actor and singer (died 2021)
- 1947Nurlan Balgimbayev, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (died 2015)
- 1947Eli Ben Rimoz, Israeli footballer las demás fuentes: 20 nov 1944
- 1947Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
- 1948John R. Bolton, American lawyer and diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- 1948Park Chul-soo, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)
- 1948Barbara Hendricks, American-Swedish soprano and actress
- 1948Richard Masur, American actor and director
- 1948Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (died 1978)
- 1948Kenjiro Shinozuka, Japanese race car driver (died 2024)
- 1949Jeff Dowd, American film producer and activist
- 1949Thelma Drake, American politician
- 1949Ulf Lundell, Swedish writer and composer
- 1949Juha Mieto, Finnish cross-country skier
- 1949Nené, Portuguese footballer
- 1950Jacqueline Gourault, French politician
- 1950Gary Green, British musician
- 1951Rodger Bumpass, American actor and singer
- 1951León Gieco, Argentine folk rock singer and interpreter
- 1951Aleksey Spiridonov, Soviet hammer thrower (died 1998)
- 1951David Walters, American businessman and politician, 24th Governor of Oklahoma
- 1952John Van Boxmeer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1953Fábio Jr., Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor las demás fuentes: 21 nov 1953
- 1953Greg Gibson, American wrestler
- 1953Halid Bešlić, Bosnian musician and singer (died 2025)
- 1953Nirmal Selvamony, Indian Tamil academician and ecocritic
- 1954Richard Brooker, English actor and stuntman (died 2013)
- 1954Antonina Koshel, Soviet artistic gymnast
- 1954Frank Marino, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter
- 1954Bin Shimada, Japanese voice actor
- 1955Angela Finocchiaro, Italian actress
- 1955Toshio Matsuura, Japanese footballer
- 1955Ray Ozzie, American software industry entrepreneur
- 1956Bo Derek, American actress and producer
- 1957Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (died 1985)
- 1957John Eriksen, Danish footballer (died 2002)
- 1957Jean-Marc Furlan, French football manager
- 1957Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria
- 1958Rickson Gracie, Brazilian mixed martial artist and choreographer fecha discutida
- 1959Diane James, British politician
- 1959Mario Martone, Italian director and screenwriter
- 1959Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, German prelate of the Catholic Church and theologian
- 1959Sean Young, American actress and dancer
- 1960Ye Jiangchuan, Chinese chess player
- 1961Pierre Hermé, French pastry chef and chocolatier
- 1962Živko Budimir, Bosnian politician
- 1962Rajkumar Hirani, Indian director
- 1962Peng Liyuan, wife of Xi Jinping
- 1962Gerardo Martino, Argentine footballer and manager
- 1963Tim Gavin, Australian rugby player
- 1963Timothy Gowers, English mathematician and academic
- 1963Beezie Madden, American show jumper
- 1963Ming-Na Wen, Chinese-American actress
- 1964Boris Dežulović, Croatian journalist and author
- 1964Andriy Kalashnykov, Ukrainian wrestler
- 1964John MacLean, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1965Mike D, American rapper and drummer
- 1965Nigel Gibbs, English footballer and coach
- 1965Yehuda Glick, American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi
- 1965Jimmy Vasser, American race car driver
- 1965Yoshiki, Japanese musician
- 1966Neil Broad, British tennis player
- 1966Kevin Gilbert, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1996)
- 1966Terry Lovejoy, Australian information technologist
- 1966Jill Thompson, American author and illustrator
- 1967Teoman, Turkish singer
- 1968James Dutton, American astronaut
- 1968Andrei Kharlov, Russian chess player
- 1968David Einhorn, American hedge fund manager
- 1969Kristian Ghedina, Italian alpine ski racer
- 1969Chris Harris, New Zealand cricketer
- 1969Callie Thorne, American actress and producer
- 1970Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates
- 1970Matt Blunt, American lieutenant and politician, 54th Governor of Missouri
- 1970Phife Dawg, American rapper (died 2016)
- 1970Delia Gonzalez, American boxer fecha discutida
- 1970Stéphane Houdet, French wheelchair tennis player
- 1970Geoffrey Keezer, American pianist and educator
- 1971Joey Galloway, American football player and sportscaster
- 1971Joel McHale, American comedian, actor, and producer
- 1972Ed Benes, Brazilian comic book artist
- 1972Corinne Niogret, French biathlete
- 1972Tatiana Turanskaya, Transnistrian politician
- 1973Angelica Bridges, American actress and singer fecha discutida
- 1973Neil Hodgson, English motorcycle racer and sportscaster
- 1974Daniela Anschütz-Thoms, German speed skater
- 1974Drew Ginn, Australian rower
- 1975Mengke Bateer, Chinese Inner Mongolian basketball player
- 1975Dierks Bentley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1975J. D. Drew, American baseball player
- 1975Davey Havok, American singer-songwriter
- 1976Mohamed Barakat, Egyptian footballer fecha discutida
- 1976DeJuan Collins, American basketball player
- 1976Dominique Dawes, American gymnast and actress
- 1976Tusshar Kapoor, Indian Bollywood actor and producer
- 1976Pascal Roller, German basketball player
- 1976Nebojša Stefanović, Serbian politician
- 1976Doug Viney, New Zealand boxer
- 1976Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer
- 1977Mikhail Ivanov, Russian cross-country skier
- 1977Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer and producer
- 1977Josh Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1978Kéné Ndoye, Senegalese track and fielder
- 1979Maree Bowden, New Zealand netball player
- 1979Kateryna Burmistrova, Ukrainian wrestler
- 1979Naide Gomes, Portuguese heptathlete and long jumper
- 1979Joseph Hallman, American composer and academic
- 1979Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Russian sprint athlete
- 1979Hassan Mostafa, Egyptian footballer
- 1979Shalini, Indian actress
- 1979Arpad Sterbik, Serbian handball player
- 1980Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, Thai boxer
- 1981Carlos Boozer, American basketball player
- 1981Yuko Kavaguti, Japanese ice skater
- 1981Andrea Riseborough, English actress
- 1981Kimberley Walsh, English singer-songwriter and actress
- 1982Dương Hồng Sơn, Vietnamese footballer
- 1982Rémi Mathis, French historian and curator
- 1982Shermine Shahrivar, Iranian model
- 1983Future, American rapper
- 1983Mónika Kovacsicz, Hungarian handballer
- 1984Jeremy Jordan, American actor
- 1984Moe Meguro, Japanese curler
- 1984Florencia Mutio, Argentine field hockey player
- 1984Monique van der Vorst, Dutch cyclist
- 1984Lee Yun-yeol, South Korean gamer
- 1985Greg Holland, American baseball player
- 1985Maria Mukhortova, Russian skater
- 1985Aaron Yan, Taiwanese actor and singer
- 1986Ashley Fink, American actress and singer
- 1986Kōhei Horikoshi, Japanese manga artist
- 1986Oliver Sykes, English singer-songwriter
- 1987Amelia Rose Blaire, American actress
- 1987Mylène Lazare, French swimmer
- 1987Nathan Lyon, Australian cricketer
- 1987Joëlle Numainville, Canadian cyclist
- 1988Marie-Laure Brunet, French biathlete
- 1988Aya Medany, Egyptian modern pentathlete.
- 1988Max Pacioretty, American ice hockey player
- 1988Dariga Shakimova, Kazakhstani boxer
- 1988Dušan Tadić, Serbian footballer
- 1988Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor and director
- 1989Babita Kumari, Indian wrestler
- 1989Cody Linley, American actor and singer
- 1989Sergei Polunin, Ukrainian ballet dancer
- 1989Eduardo Vargas, Chilean footballer
- 1990Haley Anderson, American swimmer las demás fuentes: 20 nov 1991
- 1990Mark Christian, Manx cyclist
- 1990Aleksandra Król, Polish snowboarder
- 1991Irene Esser, Venezuelan actress and model
- 1991Grant Hanley, Scottish footballer
- 1992Amit Guluzade, Azerbaijani footballer
- 1992Zoltán Harcsa, Hungarian boxer
- 1992Kristiina Mäkelä, Finnish triple jumper
- 1992Jenna Prandini, American track and field athlete
- 1993Anna Prugova, Russian ice hockey player
- 1994Timothy Kitum, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- 1995Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete
- 1995Shaolin Sándor Liu, Hungarian short track speed skater
- 1995Kyle Snyder, American wrestler
- 1996Blaž Janc, Slovenian handballer
- 1996Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer
- 1997Levi García, Trinidadian footballer
- 2000Connie Talbot, English singer-songwriter
- 2001Caty McNally, American tennis player
- 2001Adrien Truffert, French footballer
- 2002Madisyn Shipman, American actress
Fallecimientos
- 284Numerian, Roman emperor
- 763Domnall Midi, High King of Ireland (born 743)
- 811Li Fan, Chinese chancellor (born 754)
- 855Theoktistos, Byzantine courtier
- 869Edmund the Martyr, English king (born 841)
- 927Xu Wen, Chinese general (born 862)
- 996Richard I, duke of Normandy (born 932)
- 1008Geoffrey I, duke of Brittany (born 980)
- 1022Bernward of Hildesheim, German bishop (born c. 960)
- 1314Albert II, German nobleman (born 1240)
- 1316John I, king of France and Navarra (born 1316) las demás fuentes: 19 nov 1316
- 1400Elisabeth of Moravia, margravine of Meissen
- 1480Eleanor of Scotland, Scottish princess (born 1433)
- 1518Pierre de la Rue, Belgian singer and composer (born 1452)
- 1559Lady Frances Brandon, English noblewoman and claimant to the throne of England (born 1517)
- 1591Christopher Hatton, English academic and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1540)
- 1593Hans Bol, Flemish painter (born 1534)
- 1606John Lyly, English poet and courtier juliano y gregoriano
- 1612John Harington, English courtier and author (born 1561)
- 1651Mikołaj Potocki, Polish nobleman (born 1595)
- 1662Leopold Wilhelm, Austrian duke and governor (born 1614)
- 1678Karel Dujardin, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1622)
- 1684Pedro Benedit Horruytiner, governor of Spanish Florida (1646–48, and 1651–54) (born 1613)
- 1695Zumbi, Brazilian king (born 1655)
- 1704Charles Plumier, French botanist and painter (born 1646)
- 1737Caroline of Ansbach, queen of England and Ireland (born 1683) juliano y gregoriano
- 1742Melchior de Polignac, French cardinal and poet (born 1661)
- 1758Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish violinist and composer (born 1694)
- 1764Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician and theorist (born 1690) juliano y gregoriano
- 1773Charles Jennens, English landowner and patron of the arts
- 1778Francesco Cetti, Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician (born 1726)
- 1824Carl Axel Arrhenius, Swedish chemist (born 1757)
- 1856Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (born 1775)
- 1864Albert Newsam, American painter and illustrator (born 1809)
- 1866Otto Karl Berg, German botanist and pharmacist (born 1815)
- 1880Léon Cogniet, French painter (born 1794)
- 1882Henry Draper, American doctor and astronomer (born 1837)
- 1886William Bliss Baker, American painter (born 1859)
- 1889August Ahlqvist, Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic (born 1826)
- 1894Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1829)
- 1898Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer (born 1817) juliano y gregoriano
- 1903Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, French race car driver (born 1867)
- 1903Tom Horn, American scout, cowboy, soldier
- 1907Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (born 1876)
- 1908Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor (born 1829)
- 1908Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (born 1868)
- 1910Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (born 1828)
- 1918John Bauer, Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1882)
- 1923Allen Holubar, American actor and director
- 1923Denny Barry Irish Republican, died on hunger Strike 1923 Irish hunger strikes (born 1883)
- 1924Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman and the father of the Football Association and modern football (born 1831)
- 1925Alexandra of Denmark, Queen Consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Empress Consort of India (born 1844)
- 1930Bill Holland, American track and field athlete (born 1874)
- 1933Augustine Birrell, British politician (born 1815)
- 1934Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1872)
- 1935John Jellicoe, Royal Navy officer and First Sea Lord (born 1859)
- 1936Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish mechanic and activist (born 1896)
- 1936José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician (born 1903)
- 1938Maud of Wales, queen of Norway (born 1869)
- 1938Edwin Hall, American physicist (born 1855)
- 1940Arturo Bocchini, Chief of Police under the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini (born 1880)
- 1940Tim Coleman, English footballer (born 1881)
- 1940Robert Lane, Canadian soccer player (born 1882)
- 1941Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author (born 1901)
- 1944Maria Jacobini, Italian actress (born 1892)
- 1945Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)
- 1946I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Indonesian officer (born 1917)
- 1947Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (born 1921)
- 1950Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (born 1866)
- 1952Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher and politician (born 1866)
- 1954Clyde Vernon Cessna, American pilot and engineer, founded the Cessna Aircraft Corporation (born 1879)
- 1957Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian painter and illustrator (born 1875)
- 1959Sylvia Lopez, French model and actress (born 1933)
- 1960Ya'akov Cahan, Israeli writer and translator (born 1881)
- 1972Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer and journalist (born 1910)
- 1973Allan Sherman, American actor, comedian, and producer (born 1924)
- 1975Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1892)
- 1976Martin D'Arcy, English Jesuit priest (born 1888)
- 1976Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (born 1898)
- 1978Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and sculptor (born 1888)
- 1978Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian soldier and poet (born 1890)
- 1980John McEwen, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1900)
- 1981Frank Sheed, Australian-British Catholic writer and apologist (born 1981)
- 1983Marcel Dalio, French actor and playwright (born 1900) fecha discutida
- 1983Richard Loo, Chinese-American actor (born 1903)
- 1984Carlo Campanini, Italian actor, singer and comedian (born 1904)
- 1984Kristian Djurhuus, Faroese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1895)
- 1984Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Pakistani journalist and poet (born 1911)
- 1989Lynn Bari, American actress (born 1913)
- 1992Raul Renter, Estonian economist and chess player (born 1920)
- 1994Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player (born 1930)
- 1995Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (born 1967)
- 1995Robie Macauley, American editor, novelist and critic (born 1919)
- 1997Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (born 1926)
- 1997Robert Palmer, American saxophonist, producer, and author (born 1945)
- 1998Roland Alphonso, Jamaican saxophonist (born 1931)
- 1998Galina Starovoytova, Russian ethnographer and politician (born 1946)
- 1999Amintore Fanfani, Italian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (born 1908)
- 2000Mike Muuss, American computer programmer, created Ping (born 1958)
- 2000Kalle Päätalo, Finnish author (born 1919)
- 2000Barbara Sobotta, Polish athlete (born 1936)
- 2002Kakhi Asatiani, Georgian footballer (born 1947)
- 2003Robert Addie, English actor (born 1960)
- 2003David Dacko, African educator and politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (born 1930)
- 2003Eugene Kleiner, American businessman, co-founded Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (born 1923)
- 2004Ancel Keys, American physiologist (born 1904)
- 2005Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian journalist and poet (born 1931)
- 2005James King, American tenor (born 1925)
- 2005Chris Whitley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1960)
- 2006Robert Altman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925)
- 2006Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian mathematician and academic (born 1950)
- 2006Donald Hamilton, American author (born 1916)
- 2007Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, NASA manager (born 1919)
- 2007Ian Smith, Rhodesian lieutenant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (born 1919)
- 2009Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (born 1925)
- 2010Chalmers Johnson, American author and scholar (born 1931)
- 2012Kaspars Astašenko, Latvian ice hockey player (born 1975)
- 2012William Grut, Swedish pentathlete (born 1914)
- 2012Pete La Roca, American jazz drummer (born 1938) las demás fuentes: 19 nov 2012
- 2012Ivan Kušan, Croatian writer (born 1933)
- 2013Sylvia Browne, American author (born 1936)
- 2013Dieter Hildebrandt, Polish-German actor and screenwriter (born 1927)
- 2014Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (born 1926)
- 2015Keith Michell, Australian actor (born 1926)
- 2015Jim Perry, American-Canadian singer and game show host (born 1933)
- 2015Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna (born 1953)
- 2016Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer (born 1984)
- 2016Gene Guarilia, American basketball player (born 1937)
- 2016Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Greek statesman (born 1926)
- 2016William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer (born 1928)
- 2017Peter Berling, German actor, film producer and writer (born 1934) las demás fuentes: 21 nov 2017
- 2018James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress (born 1929)
- 2018Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
- 2019Wataru Misaka, American basketball player (born 1923)
- 2020Jan Morris, Welsh historian, author and travel writer (born 1926)
- 2024Ursula Haverbeck, German Holocaust denier (born 1928)
- 2024Andy Paley, American songwriter (born 1952)
- 2024John Prescott, British sailor and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1938)
- 2024Jodi Rell, American politician, 87th Governor of Connecticut (born 1946)
Celebraciones
- 20-N (Spain)
- Africa Industrialization Day (international)
- Black Awareness Day (Brazil)
- Children's Day (World Children's Day)
- Earliest day on which the Feast of Christ the King can fall, while November 26 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday before Advent. (Roman Catholic Church)
- National Sovereignty Day (Argentina)
- Day of the Mexican Revolution (Mexico)
- Royal Thai Navy Day (Thailand)
- Saint Verhaegen (Brussels)
- Teachers' Day or Ngày nhà giáo Việt Nam (Vietnam)
- Transgender Day of Remembrance (LGBTQ community)
Santoral
- Agapius
- Ambrose Traversari
- Ampelus and Caius
- Blessed Anacleto González Flores, José Sánchez del Río, and companions (Martyrs of Cristero War)
- Bernward of Hildesheim
- Dasius of Durostorum
- Edmund the Martyr
- Felec (or Felix) of Cornwall
- Gregory of Dekapolis
- Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
- Solutor, Octavius, and Adventor
- Theonestus of Vercelli
- November 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)