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November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman Emperor.
- 762 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
- 1194 – Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI.
- 1407 – A truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans is agreed upon under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orléans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy.
- 1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.
- 1739 – Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.
- 1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
- 1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)
- 1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
- 1910 – Mexican 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.
- 1917 – World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins – British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
- 1917 – Ukraine is declared a republic.
- 1936 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
- 1940 – World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
- 1943 – World 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.
- 1945 – Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
- 1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 1952 – Slánský trials – a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
- 1962 – Cuban 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.
- 1968 - A 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
- 1969 – Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
- 1969 – Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.
- 1974 – The 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.
- 1977 – Egyptian 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.
- 1979 – Grand Mosque Seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.
- 1980 – Lake Peigneur 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.
- 1982 – The General Union of Ecuadorian Workers (UGTE) is founded.
- 1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
- 1989 – Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
- 1991 – An 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.
- 1992 – In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
- 1993 – Savings 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.
- 1994 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)
- 1998 – A 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.
- 1998 – The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.
- 2001 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.
- 2003 – After 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.
- 2008 – After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.
Births
- 270 – Maximinus II, Roman emperor (d. 313)
- 1602 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist (d. 1686)
- 1621 – Avvakum, Russian priest (d. 1682)
- 1625 – Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (d. 1654)
- 1660 – Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741)
- 1750 – Tipu Sultan, Indian army officer and king (d. 1799)
- 1761 – Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830)
- 1762 – Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist (d. 1833)
- 1765 – Thomas Fremantle, English navy officer (d. 1819)
- 1781 – Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (d. 1854)
- 1813 – Franc Miklošič, Slovenian philologist (d. 1891)
- 1839 – Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)
- 1841 – Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (d. 1901)
- 1841 – Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919)
- 1851 – Margherita of Savoy (d. 1926)
- 1858 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
- 1866 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American judge, 1st Commissioner of Baseball (d. 1944)
- 1869 – Clark Griffith, American baseball player and manager (d. 1955)
- 1874 – James Michael Curley, American politician, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
- 1877 – Herbert Pitman, English ship officer, survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 1961)
- 1880 – Walter Brack, German swimmer (d. 1919)
- 1880 – George McBride, American baseball player (d. 1973)
- 1882 – Andy Coakley, American baseball player and coach (d. 1963)
- 1884 – Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (d. 1968)
- 1886 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
- 1886 – Bray Hammond, American author (d. 1968)
- 1886 – Robert Hunter, American golfer (d. 1971)
- 1889 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)
- 1892 – James Collip, Canadian biochemist, co-discoverer of insulin (d. 1965)
- 1896 – Chiyono Hasegawa, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2011)
- 1900 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist (d. 1985)
- 1903 – Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina (d. 1997)
- 1905 – François de Noailles, French nobleman (d. 2009)
- 1907 – Fran Allison, American actress and singer (d. 1989)
- 1907 – Henri-Georges Clouzot, French director (d. 1977)
- 1908 – Alistair Cooke, English-American journalist (d. 2004)
- 1910 – Kees Bastiaans, Dutch painter (d. 1986)
- 1910 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician (d. 1944)
- 1912 – Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-German son of Charles I of Austria (d. 2011)
- 1913 – Judy Canova, American actress (d. 1983)
- 1913 – Kostas Choumis, Greek footballer (d. 1981)
- 1914 – Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer and politician (d. 1992)
- 1915 – Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director (d. 2008)
- 1916 – Evelyn Keyes, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1917 – Robert Byrd, American politician (d. 2010)
- 1917 – Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987)
- 1919 – Maurice Paul Delorme, French bishop (d. 2012)
- 1919 – Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (d. 2012)
- 1921 – Jim Garrison, American lawyer and judge (d. 1992)
- 1922 – Johnny Leach, English former table tennis player
- 1923 – Nadine Gordimer, South African author and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1924 – Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-French mathematician (d. 2010)
- 1924 – Henk Vredeling, Dutch politician (d. 2007)
- 1925 – Kaye Ballard, American actress and singer
- 1925 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician, 64th United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
- 1925 – Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballerina
- 1926 – John Gardner, English author (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Terry Hall, English ventriloquist (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Andrew Schally, Polish endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927 – Ed Freeman, American army officer and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2008)
- 1927 – Estelle Parsons, American actress and director
- 1928 – Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor and director
- 1928 – John Disley, Welsh horse racer
- 1929 – Penelope Hobhouse, Anglo-Irish garden designer, writer and lecturer
- 1929 – Don January, American golfer
- 1930 – Bernard Horsfall, English actor (d. 2013)
- 1932 – Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host (d. 2012)
- 1935 – Norman Barrett, English circus ringmaster
- 1936 – Don DeLillo, American author
- 1937 – Rhys Isaac, South African-born Australian historian (d. 2010)
- 1937 – René Kollo, German tenor
- 1937 – Ruth Laredo, American pianist (d. 2005)
- 1937 – Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish skier
- 1937 – Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian playwright
- 1939 – Dick Smothers, American actor and singer (Smothers Brothers)
- 1941 – Haseena Moin, Pakistani screenwriter and playwright
- 1941 – Oliver Sipple, American marine (d. 1989)
- 1942 – Joe Biden, American politician, 47th Vice President of the United States
- 1942 – Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian
- 1942 – Norman Greenbaum, American singer-songwriter
- 1942 – Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer
- 1942 – Paulos Faraj Rahho, Iraqi archbishop (d. 2008)
- 1943 – Veronica Hamel, American actress
- 1944 – Louie Dampier, American basketball player
- 1944 – Mike Vernon, English record producer
- 1945 – Paul Langford, British historian
- 1945 – Rick Monday, American baseball player
- 1945 – Nanette Workman, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1946 – Kirill I, Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus'
- 1946 – Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band, Hour Glass, Derek and the Dominos, and The Allman Joys) (d. 1971)
- 1946 – Greg Cook, American football player
- 1946 – John Small, American football player (d. 2012)
- 1946 – Judy Woodruff, American journalist
- 1947 – George Grantham, American drummer and singer (Poco)
- 1947 – Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Eagles, James Gang, and Barnstorm)
- 1948 – John R. Bolton, American lawyer and diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- 1948 – Park Chul-soo, South Korean director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2013)
- 1948 – Barbara Hendricks, American-Swedish soprano
- 1948 – Richard Masur, American actor
- 1949 – Jeff Dowd, American film producer and activist
- 1949 – Thelma Drake, American politician
- 1951 – Rodger Bumpass, American actor
- 1951 – David Walters, American politician, 24th Governor of Oklahoma
- 1952 – John Van Boxmeer, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1954 – Berit Andnor, Swedish politician
- 1954 – Steve Dahl, American radio host
- 1956 – Gareth Chilcott, English former rugby union player
- 1956 – Bo Derek, American actress and producer
- 1956 – Mark Gastineau, American football player
- 1956 – Natasha Vlassenko, Russian-Australian pianist
- 1957 – Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (d. 1985)
- 1957 – Mike Craven, English footballer
- 1957 – John Eriksen, Danish footballer (d. 2002)
- 1958 – Rickson Gracie, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1959 – Orlando Figes, British historian
- 1959 – James McGovern, American politician
- 1959 – Sean Young, American actress
- 1960 – Veronika Bellmann, German politician
- 1960 – Marc Labrèche, Canadian actor
- 1961 – Jim Brickman, American pianist and songwriter
- 1961 – Tim Harvey, English race car driver
- 1961 – Larry Karaszewski, American screenwriter
- 1961 – Dave Watson, English footballer
- 1963 – Timothy Gowers, English mathematician
- 1963 – Ming-Na Wen, Macanese-American actress
- 1963 – Wan Yanhai, Chinese activist
- 1965 – Yoshiki, Japanese musician, songwriter, and producer (X Japan, S.K.I.N. and Globe)
- 1965 – Mike D, American rapper and drummer (Beastie Boys and The Latch Brothers)
- 1965 – Sen Dog, Cuban rapper (Cypress Hill and SX-10)
- 1965 – Jimmy Vasser, American race car driver
- 1966 – Kevin Gilbert, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1996)
- 1966 – Jill Thompson, American illustrator and writer
- 1967 – Teoman, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor
- 1967 – Chris Childs, American basketball player
- 1968 – Tommy Asinga, Surinamese runner
- 1968 – Chew Chor Meng, Singaporean actor
- 1969 – Callie Thorne, American actor
- 1970 – Matt Blunt, American politician, 54th Governor of Missouri
- 1970 – Phife Dawg, American rapper (A Tribe Called Quest)
- 1970 – Delia Gonzalez, American boxer
- 1970 – Geoffrey Keezer, American pianist
- 1970 – Sabrina Lloyd, American actress
- 1970 – Joe Zaso, American actor
- 1971 – Joey Galloway, American football player
- 1971 – Joel McHale, American comedian, actor, and producer
- 1971 – Marco Oppedisano, American guitarist and composer
- 1972 – Sheema Kalbasi, Iranian poet
- 1973 – Angelica Bridges, American actress and singer
- 1973 – Neil Hodgson, English motorcycle racer, 2003 Superbike World Championship season winner
- 1974 – Taavi Veskimägi, Estonian politician and businessman
- 1975 – Dierks Bentley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1975 – Ryan Bowen, American basketball player
- 1975 – J. D. Drew, American baseball player
- 1975 – Joshua Gomez, American actor
- 1975 – Davey Havok, American singer-songwriter and actor (AFI, Blaqk Audio, and Son of Sam)
- 1976 – Dominique Dawes, American gymnast
- 1976 – Laura Harris, Canadian actress
- 1976 – Tusshar Kapoor, Indian actor
- 1976 – Jason Thompson, Canadian actor
- 1976 – Theodoros Velkos, Greek badminton player
- 1976 – Cemal Yıldız, Turkish footballer
- 1977 – Rudy Charles, American wrestling referee
- 1977 – Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer (In Flames and Diabolique)
- 1977 – Josh Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1978 – Freya Lim, Taiwanese-Malaysian singer
- 1978 – Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model
- 1979 – Maree Bowden, New Zealand netball player
- 1979 – Ericson Alexander Molano, Colombian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1980 – James Chambers, English footballer
- 1981 – Carlos Boozer, American basketball player
- 1981 – Sam Fuld, American baseball player
- 1981 – Kimberley Walsh, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Girls Aloud)
- 1982 – Margo Stilley, American actress
- 1984 – Tashard Choice, American football player
- 1984 – Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian race car driver
- 1984 – Justin Hoyte, English footballer
- 1985 – Juan Cruz Álvarez, Argentine race car driver
- 1985 – Dan Byrd, American actor
- 1985 – Aaron Yan, Taiwanese singer and actor (Fahrenheit)
- 1986 – Ashley Fink, American actress and singer
- 1986 – Özer Hurmacı, Turkish footballer
- 1986 – Oliver Sykes, English singer-songwriter (Bring Me the Horizon)
- 1988 – Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor
- 1988 – Max Pacioretty, American ice hockey player
- 1989 – Cody Linley, American actor and singer
- 1989 – Agon Mehmeti, Swedish footballer
- 1989 – Sergei Polunin, Ukrainian ballet dancer
- 1990 – Mark Christian, Manx cyclist
- 1991 – Anthony Knockaert, French footballer
- 1992 – Maiha Ishimura, Japanese singer (Berryz Kobo)
- 1993 – Sumire Sato, Japanese singer (AKB48)
- 2000 – Connie Talbot, English singer
Deaths
- 811 – Li Fan, Chinese statesman (b. 754)
- 855 – Theoktistos, Byzantine chief minister
- 869 – Edmund the Martyr, English king (b. 841)
- 1022 – Bernward of Hildesheim, English bishop (b. 960)
- 1314 – Albert II, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1240)
- 1316 – John I of France (b. 1316)
- 1437 – Thomas Langley, English bishop (b. 1363)
- 1518 – Marmaduke Constable, English soldier (b. 1458)
- 1518 – Pierre de la Rue, Flemish composer (b. 1452)
- 1529 – Karl von Miltitz, German pope (b. 1490)
- 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 (b. 1614)
- 1695 – Zumbi, Brazilian king (b. 1655)
- 1704 – Charles Plumier, French botanist (b. 1646)
- 1737 – Caroline of Ansbach (b. 1683)
- 1742 – Melchior de Polignac, French cardinal, diplomat, and poet (b. 1661)
- 1758 – Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)
- 1764 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b. 1690)
- 1778 – Francesco Cetti, Italian scientist (b. 1726)
- 1856 – Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775)
- 1864 – Albert Newsam, American artist (b. 1809)
- 1894 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
- 1898 – Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer (b. 1817)
- 1908 – Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)
- 1910 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (b. 1828)
- 1922 – Peter Ratican, American soccer player (b. 1887)
- 1925 – Alexandra of Denmark (b. 1844)
- 1934 – Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1872)
- 1936 – Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish activist (b. 1896)
- 1936 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
- 1938 – Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese author (b. 1895)
- 1938 – Maud of Wales (b. 1869)
- 1941 – Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist (b. 1901)
- 1943 – Emil Kellenberger, Swiss target shooter (b. 1864)
- 1945 – Francis William Aston, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
- 1950 – Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)
- 1951 – Adolf Spinnler, Swiss gymnast (b. 1879)
- 1951 – Thomas Quinlan, English businessman (b. 1881)
- 1954 – Clyde Vernon Cessna, American aircraft designer (b. 1879)
- 1957 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian painter (b. 1875)
- 1965 – Johannes Kaiv, Estonian diplomat (b. 1897)
- 1973 – Allan Sherman, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1924)
- 1975 – Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (b. 1892)
- 1976 – Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (b. 1898)
- 1978 – Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (b. 1888)
- 1978 – Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)
- 1980 – John McEwen, Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
- 1983 – Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)
- 1984 – Kristian Djurhuus, Faroese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1895)
- 1984 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (b. 1911)
- 1994 – Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player (b. 1930)
- 1994 – John Lucarotti, English-Canadian screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 1995 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967)
- 1995 – Robie Macauley, American author and critic (b. 1919)
- 1997 – Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- 1998 – Galina Starovoytova, Russian politician (b. 1946)
- 1999 – Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908)
- 2000 – Mike Muuss, American computer programmer, created Ping (b. 1958)
- 2000 – Kalle Päätalo, Finnish author (b. 1919)
- 2003 – Robert Addie, English actor (b. 1960)
- 2003 – Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (b. 1933)
- 2003 – David Dacko, African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)
- 2003 – Eugene Kleiner, American businessman, co-founded Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (b. 1923)
- 2003 – Roger Short, English diplomat (b. 1944)
- 2003 – Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)
- 2003 – Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (b. 1945)
- 2004 – David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955)
- 2004 – Jenny Ross, English singer (Section 25) (b. 1962)
- 2005 – Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (b. 1931)
- 2005 – Nora Denney, American actress (b. 1928)
- 2005 – Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (b. 1934)
- 2005 – James King, American tenor (b. 1925)
- 2005 – Chris Whitley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960)
- 2006 – Robert Altman, American director (b. 1925)
- 2006 – Zoia Ceauşescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950)
- 2006 – Donald Hamilton, American writer (b. 1916)
- 2006 – Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)
- 2007 – Ian Smith, Rhodesian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
- 2008 – Bennie Gonzales, American architect, designed the Heard Museum (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Sven Inge, Swedish painter (b. 1935)
- 2009 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Laurie Bembenek, American murderer (b. 1958)
- 2010 – Roxana Briban, Romanian soprano (b. 1971)
- 2010 – Chalmers Johnson, American author and scholar and (b. 1931)
- 2010 – Rob Lytle, American football player (b. 1954)
- 2010 – Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Kaspars Astašenko, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1975)
- 2012 – Pedro Bantigue y Natividad, Filipino bishop (b. 1920)
- 2012 – David C. Copley, American businessman (b. 1952)
- 2012 – William Grut, Swedish pentathlete (b. 1914)
- 2012 – Ivan Kušan, Croatian author (b. 1933)
- 2012 – David O'Brien Martin, American politician (b. 1944)
- 2012 – Mike Ryan, Irish-American soccer player and coach (b. 1935)
- 2013 – Sylvia Browne, American author and psychic (b. 1936)
- 2013 – Sokol Olldashi, Albanian politician (b. 1972)
Holidays and observances
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