November 23

November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 38 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
• 1174 – Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain.
• 1248 – Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
• 1499 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
• 1510 – First campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack the capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
• 1531 – The Second war of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
• 1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
• 1733 – The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
• 1808 – French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela.
• 1810 – Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins – Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops.
• 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
• 1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
• 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
• 1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
• 1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
• 1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
• 1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1924 – Edwin Hubble's scientific discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula within our galaxy, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe, was first published in a newspaper.
• 1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
• 1936 – Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
• 1940 – World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
• 1943 – World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
• 1943 – World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
• 1946 – French bombing of Hai Phong, Viet Nam, kills thousands of civilians.
• 1955 – The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
• 1959 – French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals".
• 1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell), which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.
• 1971 – Representatives of the People's Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
• 1972 – The Soviet Union makes its final attempt at successfully launching the N-1 rocket.
• 1974 – 60 Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
• 1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
• 1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
• 1980 – A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 3,000 people.
• 1981 – Iran-Contra Affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• 1985 – Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
• 1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• 1993 – Rachel Whiteread wins both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.
• 1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
• 2001 – The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
• 2003 – Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
• 2004 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.
• 2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.
• 2006 – A series of bombings kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
• 2007 – MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
• 2009 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines
• 2010 – Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 marines on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea.
• 2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
• 2013 – The 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who simulcasts in 94 countries, setting a Guinness World Record for the largest simulcast for a TV drama in TV history.

Births

• 912 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)
• 1221 – Alfonso X of Castile (d. 1284)
• 1402 – Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)
• 1417 – William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)
• 1553 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (d. 1617)
• 1616 – John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)
• 1632 – Jean Mabillon, French monk and scholar (d. 1707)
• 1641 – Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch politician (d. 1720)
• 1687 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French composer and violinist (d. 1730)
• 1705 – Thomas Birch, English historian (d. 1766)
• 1715 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
• 1719 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
• 1749 – Edward Rutledge, American politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1800)
• 1760 – François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist and activist (d. 1797)
• 1781 – Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German politician, 1st Mayor of Marburg (d. 1847)
• 1785 – Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest, 21st Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1853)
• 1803 – Theodore Dwight Weld, American activist (d. 1895)
• 1804 – Franklin Pierce, American politician, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)
• 1820 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884)
• 1837 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
• 1838 – Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1928)
• 1859 – Billy the Kid, American criminal (d. 1881)
• 1860 – Hjalmar Branting, Swedish politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1925)
• 1861 – Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
• 1864 – Henry Bourne Joy, American businessman (d. 1936)
• 1869 – Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)
• 1871 – William Watt, Australian politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (d. 1946)
• 1875 – Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian politician (d. 1933)
• 1876 – Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)
• 1878 – Frank Pick, English businessman (d. 1941)
• 1883 – José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (d. 1949)
• 1886 – Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and theatre director (d. 1966)
• 1887 – Eduardo Corrochio, Spanish dancer (d. 1943)
• 1887 – Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915)
• 1888 – Harpo Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1964)
• 1889 – Harry Sunderland, Australian sports administrator and journalist (d. 1964)
• 1890 – El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (d. 1941)
• 1892 – Erté, Russian-French illustrator and designer (d. 1990)
• 1896 – Venere Pizzinato, Italian super-centenarian (d. 2011)
• 1896 – Tsunenohana Kan'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna (d. 1960)
• 1897 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bengali−English author (d. 1999)
• 1897 – Karl Gebhardt, German SS doctor (d. 1948)
• 1899 – Nelly's, Greek photographer (d. 1998)
• 1899 – Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial artist (d. 1974)
• 1902 – Aaron Bank, American army officer (d. 2004)
• 1902 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor (d. 1982)
• 1905 – K. Alvapillai, Ceylonese Tamil civil servant (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Betti Alver, Estonian poet (d. 1989)
• 1907 – Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (d. 1986)
• 1908 – Nelson S. Bond, American author (d. 2006)
• 1909 – Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (d. 2000)
• 1912 – George O'Hanlon, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1914 – Roger Avon, English actor (d. 1998)
• 1914 – Donald Nixon, American businessman (d. 1987)
• 1914 – Wilson Tucker, American author (d. 2006)
• 1915 – John Dehner, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1915 – Marc Simont, American illustrator (d. 2013)
• 1916 – Michael Gough, English actor (d. 2011)
• 1916 – P. K. Page, Canadian poet (d. 2010)
• 1920 – Paul Celan, Romanian-German poet (d. 1970)
• 1920 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter
• 1921 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (d. 1960)
• 1922 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Vo Van Kiet, Vietnamese politician and statesman (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Daniel Brewster, American politician (d. 2007)
• 1923 – Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (d. 1986)
• 1923 – Julien J. LeBourgeois, American admiral (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Gloria Whelan, American author
• 1924 – Josephine D'Angelo, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Anita Linda, Filipino actress
• 1924 – Paula Raymond, American actress (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Colin Turnbull, English-American anthropologist (d. 1994)
• 1925 – José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran politician, President of El Salvador (d. 1990)
• 1925 – Johnny Mandel, American composer
• 1925 – Elaine Horseman, English author (d. 1999)
• 1926 – Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher (d. 2011)
• 1926 – R. L. Burnside, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
• 1927 – John Cole, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Guy Davenport, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Angelo Sodano, Italian cardinal
• 1928 – Jerry Bock, American composer (d. 2010)
• 1928 – Kalmer Tennosaar, Estonian singer and journalist (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and author
• 1929 – Gloria Lynne, American singer (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Jack McKeon, American baseball player and manager
• 1931 – Gloria Lynne, American singer (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Michel David-Weill, French banker
• 1933 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor
• 1933 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and activist (d. 1977)
• 1934 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (d. 1994)
• 1934 – Robert Towne, American screenwriter and director
• 1935 – Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
• 1936 – Robert Barnard, English author
• 1936 – Mats Traat, Estonian poet and author
• 1936 – Steve Landesberg, American actor and comedian (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Graham Hearne, English businessman
• 1938 – Patrick Kelly, English archbishop
• 1938 – Esko Nikkari, Finnish actor
• 1939 – Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (d. 2001)
• 1940 – Luis Tiant, Cuban baseball player
• 1941 – Alan Mullery, English footballer
• 1941 – Franco Nero, Italian actor
• 1942 – Susan Anspach, American actress
• 1943 – Andrew Goodman, American activist (d. 1964)
• 1943 – Sue Nicholls, English actress
• 1943 – David Nolan, American activist and politician (d. 2010)
• 1944 – Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer
• 1944 – James Toback, American screenwriter and director
• 1945 – Jim Doyle, American politician, 44th Governor of Wisconsin
• 1945 – Keith Hampshire, English-Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1945 – Jerry Harris, American sculptor
• 1945 – Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
• 1945 – Tony Pond, English race car driver (d. 2002)
• 1946 – George Falconer, Scottish footballer (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Giorgos Koudas, Greek footballer
• 1946 – Diana Quick, English actress
• 1946 – Bobby Rush, American politician
• 1947 – Jean-Pierre Foucault, French television host
• 1948 – Bruce Vilanch, American actor and scriptwriter
• 1948 – Frank Worthington, English footballer
• 1949 – Tom Joyner, American radio host
• 1949 – Alan Paul, American singer-songwriter and actor (The Manhattan Transfer)
• 1949 – Sandra Stevens, English singer (Brotherhood of Man)
• 1949 – Jerry verDorn, American actor
• 1950 – Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, Indian writer and Indologist
• 1950 – Carlos Eire, Cuban-born American author
• 1950 – Maik Galakos, Greek footballer
• 1950 – Chuck Schumer, American politician
• 1951 – David Rappaport, English actor (d. 1990)
• 1952 – Bill Troiano, American tuba player
• 1953 – Rick Bayless, American chef
• 1953 – Francis Cabrel, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 – Johan de Meij, Dutch trombone player, conductor, and composer
• 1954 – Pete Allen, English jazz clarinetist
• 1954 – Ross Brawn, English engineer
• 1954 – Glenn Brummer, American baseball player
• 1954 – Bruce Hornsby, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Range, The Other Ones)
• 1954 – Aavo Pikkuus, Estonian cyclist
• 1955 – Steven Brust, American author
• 1955 – Ludovico Einaudi, Italian pianist and composer
• 1955 – Dinos Kouis, Greek footballer
• 1955 – Mary Landrieu, American politician, United States Senator
• 1956 – Shane Gould, Australian former swimmer
• 1959 – Maxwell Caulfield, English-American actor
• 1959 – Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
• 1960 – Robin Roberts, American journalist
• 1961 – Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author
• 1961 – Merv Hughes, Australian cricketer
• 1961 – John Schnatter, American businessman, founded Papa John's Pizza
• 1961 – Peter Stanford, English journalist and author
• 1962 – Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela
• 1962 – Lance King, American heavy metal singer
• 1963 – Mamoru Takuma, Japanese murderer (d. 2004)
• 1964 – Frank Rutherford, Bahamian triple jumper
• 1965 – Jennifer Michael Hecht, American poet and historian
• 1965 – J. T. the Brick, American radio host
• 1966 – Vincent Cassel, French actor
• 1966 – Kevin Gallacher, Scottish former footballer
• 1966 – Jerry Kelly, American golfer
• 1966 – Russell Watson, English tenor
• 1967 – Gary Kirsten, South African cricketer
• 1967 – Salli Richardson, American actress
• 1968 – Rob Denmark, English former Olympic athlete
• 1968 – Hamid Hassani, Iranian scholar and lexicographer
• 1968 – Anthony Sullivan, British former rugby football player
• 1968 – Kirsty Young, Scottish journalist
• 1969 – Mike Lünsmann, German footballer
• 1969 – Robin Padilla, Filipino actor
• 1969 – Üllar Saaremäe, Estonian actor and theatre director
• 1969 – Jonathan Seet, Singaporean-Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Zoë Ball, English television and radio host
• 1970 – Oded Fehr, Israeli actor
• 1970 – Danny Hoch, American actor
• 1970 – Karsten Mueller, German chess player and author
• 1971 – Khalid Al-Muwallid, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1971 – Lisa Arch, American actress
• 1971 – Vin Baker, American basketball player
• 1971 – Chris Hardwick, American comedian, actor, and television host
• 1971 – Sajid Khan, Indian film actor and director
• 1972 – Chris Adler, American drummer (Lamb of God and Blotted Science)
• 1972 – Alf-Inge Håland, Norwegian footballer
• 1972 – Veronica Avluv, American pornographic actress
• 1974 – Juventud Guerrera, Mexican wrestler
• 1974 – Saku Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1974 – Malik Rose, American basketball player
• 1974 – Jamie Sharper, American football player
• 1976 – Page Kennedy, American actor
• 1976 – Murat Salar, Turkish footballer
• 1976 – Kohei Suwama, Japanese wrestler
• 1976 – Tony Renna, American racing driver (d. 2003)
• 1977 – Myriam Boileau, Canadian diver
• 1977 – Adam Eaton, American baseball player
• 1978 – Ali Güneş, Turkish footballer
• 1978 – Alison Mosshart, American singer-songwriter (The Kills, The Dead Weather, and Discount)
• 1978 – Kayvan Novak, English actor
• 1979 – Kelly Brook, English actress and model
• 1979 – Nihat Kahveci, Turkish footballer
• 1980 – Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leonean-American soldier and author
• 1980 – David Britz, American scientist and engineer
• 1980 – Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
• 1982 – Colby Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1982 – Igor Kuzmin, Estonian rower
• 1982 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
• 1983 – Nasser Al-Shamrani, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1983 – Thomas Pridgen, American drummer (The Memorials and The Mars Volta)
• 1983 – Fatih Yiğituşağı, Turkish footballer
• 1984 – Lucas Grabeel, American actor and singer
• 1984 – Amruta Khanvilkar, Indian actress
• 1985 – Viktor Ahn, South Korean speed skater
• 1985 – Scott Brash, Scottish equestrian show-jumper
• 1986 – Maxene Magalona, Filipino actress
• 1986 – Luigi Scaglia, Italian footballer
• 1987 – Snooki, Chilean-American reality television personality and author
• 1987 – Nicklas Bäckström, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1987 – Ossi Kanervo, Finnish figure skater
• 1988 – Saab Magalona, Filipino actress
• 1988 – Sebastian Nachreiner, German footballer
• 1990 – Alena Leonova, Russian figure skater
• 1992 – Miley Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1996 – Anna Yanovskaya, Russian ice dancer
• 1998 – Bradley Steven Perry, American actor

Deaths

• 947 – Berthold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 900)
• 955 – Eadred, English king (b. 923)
• 1407 – Louis I, Duke of Orléans (b. 1372)
• 1457 – Ladislaus the Posthumous, Hungarian king (b. 1440)
• 1499 – Perkin Warbeck, Flemish royal imposter (b. 1474)
• 1503 – Bona of Savoy (b. 1449)
• 1503 – Margaret of York (b. 1446)
• 1572 – Bronzino, Italian painter and poet (b. 1503)
• 1585 – Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. 1505)
• 1616 – Richard Hakluyt, English author (b. 1552)
• 1682 – Claude Lorrain, French painter (b. 1604)
• 1763 – Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff, German field marshal and diplomat (b. 1673)
• 1769 – Constantine Mavrocordatos, Greek prince (b. 1711)
• 1803 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (b. 1719)
• 1804 – Richard Graves, English minister and author (b. 1715)
• 1804 – Ivan Mane Jarnović, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1747)
• 1807 – Jean-François Rewbell, French lawyer and politician (b. 1747)
• 1814 – Elbridge Gerry, American politician, 5th Vice President of the United States of America (b. 1744)
• 1833 – Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French army officer (b. 1762)
• 1890 – William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
• 1899 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman (b. 1837)
• 1905 – John Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist (b. 1828)
• 1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862)
• 1923 – Urmuz, Romanian lawyer and author (b. 1883)
• 1927 – Miguel Pro, Mexican priest (b. 1891)
• 1934 – Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
• 1937 – Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
• 1937 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist (b. 1858)
• 1937 – Miklós Kovács Hungarian-Slovene poet (b. 1857)
• 1948 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1956 – William von Wirén, Estonian sailor (b. 1894)
• 1958 – Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
• 1958 – Johnston McCulley, American author (b. 1883)
• 1966 – Seán T. O'Kelly, Irish politician, 2nd President of Ireland (b. 1882)
• 1970 – Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean politician, 1st President of Singapore (b. 1910)
• 1972 – Marie Wilson, American actress (b. 1916)
• 1973 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (b. 1889)
• 1974 – Massacre of the Sixty:
  • Abiye Abebe, Ethiopian politician and army officer (b. 1918)
  • Aklilu Habte-Wold, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1912)
  • Aman Andom, Ethiopian army officer, Chairman of the Derg (b. 1924)
  • Asrate Medhin Kassa, Ethiopian aristocrat and army officer (b. 1922)
  • Endelkachew Makonnen, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1927)
• 1974 – Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 1976 – André Malraux, French author (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress (b. 1911)
• 1979 – Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 1982 – Grady Nutt, American comedian and author (b. 1934)
• 1983 – Juhan Muks, Estonian painter (b. 1899)
• 1983 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor (b. 1938)
• 1984 – Leonard Baker, American writer (b. 1931)
• 1990 – Roald Dahl, Welsh author (b. 1916)
• 1990 – Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1953)
• 1991 – Klaus Kinski, Danzig-born German actor (b. 1926)
• 1992 – Roy Acuff, American singer-songwriter, fiddler, promoter and publisher (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Jean-François Thiriart, Belgian politician (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Art Barr, American wrestler (b. 1966)
• 1994 – Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (Boyce and Hart) (b. 1939)
• 1995 – Louis Malle, French director (b. 1932)
• 1995 – Junior Walker, American singer and saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1996 – Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist (b. 1943)
• 1996 – Art Porter, Jr., American saxophonist and songwriter (b. 1961)
• 1998 – Dan Osman, American rock climber (b. 1963)
• 1997 – Jorge Mas Canosa, Cuban-American activist (b. 1939)
• 2000 – Rayner Unwin, English publisher (b. 1925)
• 2001 – Bo Belinsky, American baseball player (b. 1936)
• 2001 – O. C. Smith, American singer (b. 1932)
• 2001 – Mary Whitehouse, English campaigner (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Pete Franklin, American radio host (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Constance Cummings, American-English actress (b. 1910)
• 2005 – Frank Gatski, American football player (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Jesus Blancornelas, Mexican journalist (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Nick Clarke, English journalist (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Betty Comden, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
• 2006 – Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Willie Pep, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Joe Kennedy, American baseball player (b. 1979)
• 2007 – Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer (b. 1971)
• 2007 – Robert Vesco, American financier (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Pat Walsh, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1936)
• 2009 – José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Juzefas Jurgelevičius, Lithuanian footballer (b. 1947)
• 2010 – Joyce Howard, English actress (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Ingrid Pitt, Polish-English actress (b. 1937)
• 2010 – James Tyler, American composer and author (b. 1940)
• 2011 – Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Veerapandy S. Arumugam, Indian politician (b. 1937)
• 2012 – José Luis Borau, Spanish actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Chuck Diering, American baseball player (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Lawrence Guyot, American activist (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Larry Hagman, American actor and director (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Diana Isaac, English-New Zealand businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Tadeusz Kwapień, Polish skier (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Go Native, Irish race horse (b. 2003)
• 2012 – Nelson Prudêncio, Brazilian triple jumper (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Hal Trosky, Jr., American baseball player (b. 1936)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Alexander Nevsky (Repose, Russian Orthodox Church)
  • Columbanus
  • Felicitas of Rome
  • Pope Clement I (Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and the Lutheran Church)
  • Miguel Agustin Pro (Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church)
  • November 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Earliest day on which Black Friday can fall, while November 29 is the latest; observed on the day after Thanksgiving. (United States), and its related observances.
• Feast of Qawl (Speech) – The first day of the 14th month of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith)
• Labour Thanksgiving Day (Japan)
• Rudolf Maister Day (Slovenia)
• St George's Day or Giorgoba (Georgia)
• International Day to End Impunity

External links

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