November 7

November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 54 days remaining 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.
• 1426 – Lam Sơn rebels emerge victorious against the Ming army in the Battle of Tốt Động – Chúc Động taking place in Đông Quan, in now Hanoi, Viet Nam.
• 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.
• 1913 – The first day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, a massive blizzard that ultimately killed 250 and caused over $5 million (about $118,098,000 in 2013 dollars) damage. Winds reach hurricane force on this date.
• 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 – Iraq War: 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 and scholar (d. 1069)
• 1598 – Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
• 1619 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French author and poet (d. 1692)
• 1650 – John Robinson, English bishop (d. 1723)
• 1683 – Anton thor Helle, German-Estonian clergyman, author, and translator (d. 1748)
• 1687 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist and physician (d. 1765)
• 1706 – Carlo Cecere, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1761)
• 1728 – James Cook, English captain, navigator, and cartographer (d. 1779)
• 1750 – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (d. 1819)
• 1805 – Thomas Brassey, English engineer (d. 1870)
• 1818 – Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician and physiologist (d. 1896)
• 1832 – Andrew Dickson White, American historian, academic, and diplomat, co-founded Cornell University (d. 1918)
• 1838 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French author and playwright (d. 1889)
• 1846 – Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1907)
• 1851 – Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (d. 1913)
• 1858 – Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian academic and activist (d. 1932)
• 1860 – Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)
• 1861 – Jeff Milton, American police officer (d. 1947)
• 1867 – Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
• 1872 – Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (d. 1956)
• 1876 – Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
• 1878 – Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (d. 1968)
• 1879 – King Baggot, American actor, director, and screenwriter (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 and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1890 – Jan Matulka, Czech-American painter (d. 1972)
• 1893 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
• 1893 – Margaret Leech, American historian and author (d. 1974)
• 1896 – Esdras Minville, Canadian economist and sociologist (d. 1975)
• 1897 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1953)
• 1897 – Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator (d. 1976)
• 1898 – Margaret Morris, American actress (d. 1968)
• 1898 – Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (d. 1963)
• 1899 – Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli journalist and poet (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, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• 1903 – Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
• 1905 – William Alwyn, English composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1985)
• 1906 – Eugene Carson Blake, American minister and educator (d. 1985)
• 1908 – Marijac, French author and illustrator (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Ruby Hurley, American activist (d. 1980)
• 1913 – Albert Camus, French journalist, author, and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
• 1913 – Alekos Sakellarios, Greek director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
• 1914 – Archie Campbell, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1987)
• 1914 – R. A. Lafferty, American soldier, engineer, and author (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Philip Morrison, American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2005)
• 1915 – M. Athalie Range, American activist and politician (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Titos Vandis, Greek actor (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Paul Aussaresses, French general (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Billy Graham, American evangelist and minister
• 1918 – Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese singer (d. 1993)
• 1919 – Ellen Stewart, American director and producer (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Max Kampelman, American lawyer and diplomat (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Lisa Ben, American singer-songwriter and journalist
• 1921 – Jack Fleck, American golfer
• 1922 – Al Hirt, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1999)
• 1923 – Gene Callahan, American art director and production designer (d. 1990)
• 1926 – Joan Sutherland, Australian-Swiss soprano (d. 2010)
• 1927 – Ivor Emmanuel, Welsh singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Richard G. Scott, American engineer and religious leader
• 1929 – Jesús de Polanco, Spanish publisher and businessman (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Eric Kandel, Austrian-American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1930 – Rudy Boschwitz, American soldier and politician
• 1931 – G. Edward Griffin, American director, producer, and author
• 1935 – W. S. Rendra, Indonesian poet and playwright (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano
• 1937 – Mary Daheim, American author
• 1938 – Ian Balding American-English horse trainer
• 1938 – Dee Clark, American singer-songwriter (d. 1990)
• 1938 – Jake Gibbs, American baseball player and coach
• 1938 – Jim Kaat, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1938 – Barry Newman, American actor
• 1940 – Dakin Matthews, American actor, director, and playwright
• 1940 – Antonio Skármeta, Chilean author and academic
• 1941 – Angelo Scola, Italian cardinal
• 1942 – Tom Peters, American businessman and author
• 1942 – Johnny Rivers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1942 – Jean Shrimpton, English model and actress
• 1943 – Michael Byrne, English actor
• 1943 – Silvia Cartwright, New Zealand lawyer, judge, and politician, 18th Governor-General of New Zealand
• 1943 – Stephen Greenblatt, American theorist, scholar, and critic
• 1943 – Boris Gromov, Russian general and politician, Governor of Moscow Oblast
• 1943 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 – Michael Spence, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944 – Waljinah, Indonesian singer
• 1944 – Luigi Riva, Italian footballer and manager
• 1944 – Peter Wilby, English journalist
• 1945 – Earl Boen, American actor
• 1945 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1946 – John Aylward, American actor
• 1947 – Bob Anderson, English darts player
• 1947 – Rebecca Eaton, American television producer
• 1947 – Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1947 – Sondhi Limthongkul, Thai journalist and politician
• 1947 – Holmes Osborne, American actor
• 1948 – Stephen Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint, English businessman and politician
• 1948 – Buck Martinez, American baseball player and manager
• 1948 – Alex Ribeiro, Brazilian race car driver
• 1949 – Stephen Bruton, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2009)
• 1949 – Su Pollard, English actress and singer
• 1949 – Steven Stucky, American composer and academic
• 1949 – David S. Ware, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2012)
• 1950 – Lindsay Duncan, Scottish actress
• 1951 – Lawrence O'Donnell, American journalist, actor, and producer
• 1951 – John Tamargo, American baseball player and coach
• 1952 – David Petraeus, American general, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• 1952 – Modibo Sidibé, Sudanese-Malian police officer and politician, Prime Minister of Mali
• 1952 – Valeriy Zuyev, Ukrainian footballer and manager
• 1953 – Maire Aunaste, Estonian journalist
• 1953 – Christopher Foster, English bishop
• 1953 – Lucinda Green, English horse rider and journalist
• 1954 – Robin Beck, American singer
• 1954 – James Gray, Scottish politician
• 1954 – Guy Gavriel Kay, Canadian author
• 1954 – Kamal Haasan, Indian actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
• 1954 – Gil Junger, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 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 actress, producer, screenwriter, and accordion player
• 1957 – John Benitez, American DJ, songwriter, and producer
• 1957 – King Kong Bundy, American wrestler and actor
• 1957 – Christopher Knight, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1957 – Tony Schiavone, American sportscaster
• 1958 – Rissei Ō, Japanese Go player
• 1958 – Lori Saldaña, American politician
• 1959 – Srinivas, Indian singer-songwriter
• 1959 – Billy Gillispie, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 – Alexandre Guimarães, Brazilian-Costa Rican footballer and manager
• 1960 – Wanda Phipps, American actress and poet
• 1960 – Tommy Thayer, American guitarist and songwriter (Kiss and Black 'n Blue)
• 1961 – Orlando Mercado, American baseball player and coach
• 1962 – Tracie Savage, American actress and journalist
• 1963 – John Barnes, Jamaican-English footballer and manager
• 1963 – Sam Graves, American farmer and politician
• 1964 – Troy Beyer, American actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Gill Holland, Norwegian-American actor and producer
• 1964 – Philip Hollobone, English soldier and politician
• 1964 – Li Nanxing, Singaporean actor
• 1964 – Liam Ó Maonlaí, Irish keyboard player and songwriter (Hothouse Flowers)
• 1964 – Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999)
• 1964 – Bonnie St. John, American skier
• 1965 – Sigrun Wodars, German runner
• 1966 – Calvin Borel, American jockey
• 1967 – Careena Collins, American porn actress and director
• 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)
• 1968 – Greg Tribbett, American singer and guitarist (Mudvayne and Hellyeah)
• 1968 – Mark Preston, Australian engineer
• 1968 – Russ Springer, American baseball player
• 1969 – Michelle Clunie, American actress
• 1969 – Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
• 1969 – Michel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 – Neil Hannon, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Divine Comedy and The Duckworth Lewis Method)
• 1970 – Andy Houston, American race car driver
• 1970 – Marc Rosset, Swiss-Monacan tennis player
• 1970 – Morgan Spurlock, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Paul Ware, English footballer (d. 2013)
• 1971 – Jamie Drummond, Scottish-Canadian journalist and critic
• 1971 – Robin Finck, American guitarist and songwriter (Nine Inch Nails and Guns N' Roses)
• 1971 – Matthew Ryan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Strays Don't Sleep)
• 1971 – Trivikram Srinivas, Indian director and screenwriter
• 1971 – Martin Björk. Swedish television presenter
• 1972 – Christopher Daniel Barnes, American actor
• 1972 – Mike Goldman, Australian radio and television host
• 1972 – Danny Grewcock, English rugby player
• 1972 – Jason London, American actor and producer
• 1972 – Jeremy London, American actor and producer
• 1972 – Hasim Rahman, American boxer
• 1972 – Marcus Stewart, English footballer and coach
• 1973 – Catê, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2011)
• 1973 – Yunjin Kim, South Korean-American actress
• 1973 – Martín Palermo, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1974 – Kris Benson, American baseball player
• 1974 – Brigitte Foster-Hylton, Jamaican hurdler
• 1974 – Christian Gómez, Argentinian footballer
• 1974 – Chris Summers, Norwegian drummer (Turbonegro and Bigbang)
• 1975 – Venkat Prabhu, Indian actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 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 and coach
• 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, Canadian 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 and actor
• 1979 – Joey Ryan, American wrestler
• 1979 – Otep Shamaya, American singer-songwriter and actress (Otep)
• 1980 – Karthik, Indian singer-songwriter
• 1980 – Sergio Bernardo Almirón, Argentinian footballer
• 1980 – Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
• 1980 – James Franklin, New Zealand cricketer
• 1980 – Luciana Salazar, Argentinian model, actress, and singer
• 1981 – Muhammad Hassan, American wrestler and educator
• 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 actress and singer, 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
• 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 – Joelle Hadjia, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1994 – Haruna Iikubo, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume)
• 1996 – Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter

Deaths

• 1225 – Engelbert II of Berg, German archbishop and saint (b. 1186)
• 1550 – Jón Arason, Icelandic bishop and poet (b. 1484)
• 1574 – Solomon Luria, Polish rabbi and educator (b. 1510)
• 1581 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar (b. 1505)
• 1599 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon and educator (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, Lord High Treasurer of The United Kingdom (b. 1563)
• 1713 – Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
• 1837 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister and journalist (b. 1809)
• 1872 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (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 jurist and politician (b. 1863)
• 1922 – Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1923 – Ashwini Kumar Dutta, Indian educator and philanthropist (b. 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, Azerbaijani-German journalist and spy (b. 1895)
• 1944 – Hannah Szenes, Hungarian-Israeli soldier and poet (b. 1921)
• 1947 – K. Natesa Iyer, Indian-Sri Lankan journalist and politician (b. 1887)
• 1952 – Filippos Karvelas, Greek gymnast (b. 1877)
• 1959 – Victor McLaglen, English-American boxer and actor (b. 1883)
• 1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian and politician, 39th 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 lawyer and politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1868)
• 1968 – Gordon Coventry, Australian footballer (b. 1901)
• 1968 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician, cryptographer, and academic (b. 1906)
• 1974 – Eric Linklater, Welsh-Scottish author and academic (b. 1899)
• 1978 – Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian surgeon and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Gujarat (b. 1887)
• 1978 – Gene Tunney, American boxer (b. 1897)
• 1980 – Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (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, Indian-French author, poet, and playwright (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 soldier and politician (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1993 – Adelaide Hall, American-English singer, actress, and dancer (b. 1901)
• 1994 – Shorty Rogers, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1924)
• 1995 – Ann Dunham, American anthropologist (b. 1942)
• 1996 – Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist and academic (b. 1939)
• 1996 – Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian lawyer and politician, Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Ingrid of Sweden (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Nimalan Soundaranayagam, Sri Lankan educator and politician, Indian Minister of Defence (b. 1950)
• 2000 – Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (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 author, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1960)
• 2006 – Bryan Pata, American football player (b. 1984)
• 2006 – Johnny Sain, American baseball player and coach (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist andf politician (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Earl Dodge, American politician (b. 1932)
• 2007 – George W. George, American screenwriter and 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 general (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Darrell Royal, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Arthur K. Snyder, American lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Elliott Stein, American historian and journalist (b. 1928)
• 2013 – John Cole, Irish-English journalist (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Ian Davies, Australian basketball player and coach (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Ron Dellow, English footballer and manager (b. 1914)
• 2013 – Joey Manley, American publisher, founded Modern Tales (b. 1965)
• 2013 – Paul Mantee, American actor (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Jack Mitchell, American photographer and author (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Joseph Rhodes, Jr., American academic and politician (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Manfred Rommel, German lawyer and politician (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (Lutheran)
  • Engelbert II of Berg
  • Herculanus of Perugia
  • John Christian Frederick Heyer (Lutheran)
  • Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen (Lutheran)
  • 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)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to November 7.

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

References