- 869 King Edmund of East Anglia
- 967 Aboe al-Faradj al-Isfahani, Arabic author (Book of Liederen), dies
- 1348 Stefano Colonna, Roman senator, dies in battle against Roman revolutionaries by Porta Tiburtina
- 1437 Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, cardinal and lord chancellor (b. 1363)
- 1480 Eleonora van Austrian, translator, dies
- 1518 Marmaduke Constable, English soldier
- 1527 Wendelmoet "Weyntjen" Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic
- 1529 Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio
- 1591 Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540)
- 1612 John Harington, English writer (b. 1561)
- 1651 Mikołaj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)
- 1662 Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614)
- 1669 Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (Cholera), dies at 45
- 1675 Francisco de Moura y Cortereal, Span land guardian of Neth (1664-68)
- 1678 Charles Dujardin, painter/etcher (Learned Dog), dies at about 56
- 1704 Charles Plumier, French botanist (Frangipani genus Plumeria is named after him), dies at 58
- 1713 Thomas Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel), dies at 74
- 1737 Caroline of Ansbach, queen of Great-Britain, dies
- 1741 Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat, Cardinal and poet, dies at 80
- 1750 Wilhelmus Schortinghuis, theologist (Christian religion), dies at 50
- 1764 Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, dies
- 1778 Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit priest and scientist, dies at 52
- 1856 Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 81
- 1863 James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin & Kincardine and Governor (Jamaica), dies at 52
- 1882 Henry Draper, American amateur astronomer (photos of the Moon, Orion Nebula), dies of pleurisy at 45
- 1887 Louis Gallait, Belgian historical painter (Egmont & Receiver), dies at 77
- 1888 Nathaniel Currier, American lithographer (Currier & Ives), dies at 75
- 1898 John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway), dies
- 1899 August Ahlqvist, Finnish poet (Suomalainen Runousoppi), dies at 63
- 1908 Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (Voronoi diagram), dies at 40
Leo Tolstoy
1910 Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich], Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War & Peace), dies of pneumonia at 82
Leo Tolstoy
John Rushworth Jellicoe
1935 John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, British Admiral of the Fleet in World War I (Battle of Jutland), dies of pneumonia at 75
John Rushworth Jellicoe
- 1936 Jose A Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician (founder of Spanish Falange), executed at 33
- 1938 Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (b. 1895)
- 1938 Edwin Hall, American physicist (discovered Hall effect), dies at 83
- 1938 Maud of Wales, Queen of Norway, spouse of King Haakon VII, dies at 68
- 1944 Sekio Nishina, Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine), dies at 21
- 1945 Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1877)
- 1947 Wolfgang Borchert, German writer, dies at 26
- 1951 Thomas Quinlan (impresario) (b. 1881)
- 1952 Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (La Critica), dies at 86
- 1954 Clyde Cessna, American aviator and airplane manufacturer, dies at 74
- 1957 Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist, dies at 82
- 1959 Alfonso López Pumarejo, 16th President of Colombia (Liberal: 1934-38 and 1942-46) and statesman (President of UN security council 1948), dies at 73
- 1960 Ya'akov Cahan, Hebrew poet and writer, dies at 79
- 1962 Jasper McLevy, socialist mayor of Bridgeport Ct, dies
Francisco Franco
1975 Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (1936-75), dies at 82
Francisco Franco
- 1976 Trofim Lysenko, Soviet biologist and agronomist, dies at 78
- 1977 Maxie Wander, writer, dies
- 1978 Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)
- 1978 Giorgio De Chirico, Italian painter (founded the scuola metafisica art movement), dies at 90
- 1981 Rolf Bongs, German writer, dies at 74
- 1984 Trygve Bratteli, Norwegian Prime Minister (Labour: 1971-72, 1973-76), dies at 74
- 1986 William Bradford Huie, American writer and publisher, dies at 76
- 1992 John Foreman, producer (Prizzi's Honor), dies at 67 of heart attack
- 1993 Christopher Frank, French writer, dies at 51
- 1993 Emile Ardolino, American director (Dirty Dancing), dies at 50 of AIDs
- 1994 John Lucarotti, scriptwriter, dies at 68
- 1994 Ali-Akbar Sa'idi Sirjani, Iranian poet and journalist, dies at 64
- 1995 Ahmed Abel-Wadoud Karadawi, academic/activist, dies at 50
- 1996 Bert Geoffrey Achong, electron microscopist, dies at 67
- 1997 Gary Burris, murderer (Kenneth Chambers), executed in Indiana
- 1998 Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician (b. 1946)
- 1999 Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician and prime minister (b. 1908)
- 2000 Mike Muuss, American computer programmer (b. 1958)
- 2000 Kalle Päätalo, Finnish writer (b. 1919)
- 2003 Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (b. 1933)
- 2003 David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)
- 2003 Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur (b. 1923)
- 2003 Roger Short, British Consulate General (b. 1944)
- 2004 David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955)
- 2005 Manouchehr Atashi, Persian poet, dies at 74
- 2005 Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (b. 1934)
- 2006 Zoia Ceauşescu, Romanian mathematician and daughter of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, dies of lung cancer at 57
- 2007 Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
- 2008 Sven Inge, Swedish painter and modern artist (b. 1935)
- 2009 Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
- 2010 Laurie Bembenek, American convicted murderer and fugitive (b. 1958)
- 2010 Chalmers Johnson, American political scholar and author (b. 1931)
- 2013 Peter Griffiths, British politician (C), controversially won his seat (1964), dies at 85
- 2013 Sylvia Browne, American author and self-proclaimed medium dubbed "America's most controversial psychic," dies at 77
- 2016 William Trevor, Irish writer (Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune), dies at 88
- 2018 Aaron Klug, Lithuanian born British biochemist (Nobel prize for Chemistry 1982), dies at 92
November in History
All Eyes on Birthplace of British Rock 'n' Roll
Tommy Steele, Britain's first rock 'n' roll star, was discovered on this day at a coffee bar in central London, appearing live on the BBC's first pop music show.
November 16, 1957Words That Echoed Down The Decades
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, delivered on this day, was as short and simple as it was immensely powerful and memorable.
November 19, 1863Nuremberg War Trials Bring Nazis to Justice
The Trial of Major War Criminals began on this day, the first of a five-year series of hearings at Nuremberg where WW2 Nazis were held to account.
November 20, 1945Bare Bones of the Great Ape-Man Hoax
On this day the Piltdown Man skull, which had been hailed as the missing link proving an evolutionary relationship between man and apes, was revealed as a hoax.
November 21, 1953
