November 22

November 22 is the 326th day of the year (327th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 39 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
• 845 – The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
• 1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.
• 1574 – Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
• 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.
• 1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
• 1812 – War of 1812: 17 Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek.
• 1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
• 1858 – Denver, Colorado, is founded.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
• 1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever built, and the only one still surviving today.
• 1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
• 1928 – The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
• 1935 – The China Clipper, the first plane to offer commercial transpacific air service, takes off from Alameda, California, for its first commercial flight. It reaches its destination, Manila, a week later.
• 1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
• 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.
• 1943 – World War II: Cairo Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
• 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France.
• 1954 – The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
• 1963 – In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is later captured and charged with the murder of both the President and police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald is shot two days later by Jack Ruby while in police custody.
• 1967 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
• 1973 – The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
• 1974 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
• 1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
• 1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
• 1986 – Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to become youngest Heavyweight champion in boxing history.
• 1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
• 1988 – In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
• 1989 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him.
• 1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership.
• 1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
• 2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
• 2003 – 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.
• 2004 – The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
• 2005 – Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
• 2012 – Ceasefire begins between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel after eight days of violence and 150 deaths.

Births

• 1515 – Mary of Guise (d. 1560)
• 1564 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)
• 1602 – Elisabeth of France (d. 1644)
• 1635 – Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
• 1690 – François Colin de Blamont, French composer (d. 1760)
• 1698 – Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, Canadian-American politician, 10th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1778)
• 1709 – Franz Benda, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1786)
• 1710 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
• 1721 – Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-Canadian politician (d. 1824)
• 1722 – Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
• 1744 – Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
• 1766 – Charlotte von Lengefeld, German writer, wife of Friedrich Schiller (d. 1826)
• 1767 – Andreas Hofer, Austrian innkeeper and activist (d. 1810)
• 1780 – José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran politician (d. 1834)
• 1787 – Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist (d. 1823)
• 1808 – Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group (d. 1892)
• 1814 – Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (d. 1893)
• 1819 – George Eliot, English author (d. 1880)
• 1824 – Georg von Oettingen, Baltic German physician and ophthalmologist (d. 1916)
• 1849 – Christian Rohlfs, German painter (d. 1938)
• 1852 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
• 1856 – Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1945)
• 1861 – Ranavalona III of Madagascar (d. 1917)
• 1868 – John Nance Garner, American politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (d. 1967)
• 1869 – André Gide, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)
• 1870 – Howard Brockway, American composer (d. 1951)
• 1873 – Leo Amery, Indian-English politician (d. 1955)
• 1873 – Alfred Bowerman, English cricketer (d. 1947)
• 1874 – Eugène Balme, French target shooter (d. 1914)
• 1875 – Roscoe Lockwood, American rower (d. 1960)
• 1876 – Percival Proctor Baxter, American politician, 53rd Governor of Maine (d.1969)
• 1876 – Emil Beyer, American gymnast (d. 1934)
• 1877 – Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)
• 1877 – Joan Gamper, Swiss footballer, founded FC Barcelona (d. 1930)
• 1881 – Enver Pasha, Ottoman military officer (d. 1922)
• 1883 – Martin Flavin, American playwright and novelist (d. 1967)
• 1884 – Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer (d. 1953)
• 1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, President of France (d. 1970)
• 1893 – Harley Earl, American businessman (d. 1969)
• 1896 – David J. Mays, American lawyer and author (d. 1971)
• 1897 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
• 1897 – Harry Wilson, English actor (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
• 1899 – Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981)
• 1900 – Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (d. 1980)
• 1900 – Helenka Pantaleoni, American actress and humanitarian, co-founded U.S. Fund for UNICEF (d. 1987)
• 1901 – Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
• 1902 – Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)
• 1902 – Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American cellist (d. 1942)
• 1902 – Humphrey Gibbs, English-Rhodesian politician, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d. 1990)
• 1902 – Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1990)
• 1904 – Louis Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• 1904 – Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (d. 2005)
• 1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (d. 1970)
• 1910 – Mary Jackson, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Benjamin Britten, English composer, conductor, and pianist (d. 1976)
• 1913 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino jurist (d. 2006)
• 1913 – Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player
• 1914 – Peter Townsend, Burmese pilot (d. 1995)
• 1917 – Jon Cleary, Australian author (d. 2010)
• 1917 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Claiborne Pell, American politician, Senator from Rhode Island (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Máire Drumm, Irish activist (d. 1976)
• 1920 – Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (d. 1956)
• 1921 – Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster and author (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Fikrat Amirov, Azerbaijani composer (d. 1984)
• 1922 – Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Indonesian general and politician, 10th Governor of Jakarta (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Eugene Stoner, American weapons designers, designed the AR-15 rifle (d. 1997)
• 1923 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian director
• 1923 – Dika Newlin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2006)
• 1924 – Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
• 1925 – Jerrie Mock, American pilot
• 1925 – Gunther Schuller, American composer and conductor
• 1926 – Gene Berce, American basketball player
• 1926 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Arthur Jones, American businessman, founded Nautilus, Inc. and MedX Corporation (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Steven Muller, German-American academic (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley, English politician (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Staughton Lynd, American historian and activist
• 1930 – Peter Hall, English theatre and film director
• 1930 – Peter Hurford, English organist and composer
• 1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor
• 1932 – Keith Wickenden, English politician (d. 1983)
• 1934 – Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999)
• 1936 – Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
• 1936 – Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahraini politician, Prime Minister of Bahrain
• 1936 – John bird, English actor and comedian
• 1938 – John Eleuthère du Pont, American businessman, founded Delaware Museum of Natural History (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Henry Lee, Chinese-American criminologist
• 1939 – Allen Garfield, American actor
• 1939 – Tom West, American engineer and author (d. 2011)
• 1939 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
• 1940 – Terry Gilliam, American-English actor, director, animator, and screenwriter (Monty Python)
• 1940 – Roy Thomas, American author
• 1941 – Tom Conti, Scottish actor and director
• 1941 – Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1941 – Terry Stafford, American singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
• 1941 – Jesse Colin Young, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Youngbloods)
• 1942 – Guion Bluford, American astronaut
• 1943 – Peter Adair, American director and producer (d. 1996)
• 1943 – Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1943 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player
• 1943 – Roger L. Simon, American author and screenwriter
• 1945 – Tom Freston, American businessman
• 1946 – Aston Barrett, Jamaican bass player and songwriter (The Wailers Band and Bob Marley & The Wailers)
• 1947 – Sandy Alderson, American businessman
• 1947 – Rod Price, English guitarist (Foghat) (d. 2005)
• 1947 – Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer-songwriter and producer
• 1947 – Salt Walther, American race car driver (d. 2012)
• 1947 – Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
• 1948 – Radomir Antić, Serbian footballer and manager
• 1948 – Stewart Guthrie, New Zealand police officer (d. 1990)
• 1949 – Richard Carmona, American physician, 17th Surgeon General of the United States
• 1949 – David Pietrusza, American historian and author
• 1949 – Andres Põder, Estonian clergyman
• 1950 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
• 1950 – Jim Jefferies, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1950 – Wayne Larkins, English former cricketer
• 1950 – Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
• 1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (E Street Band, Steel Mill, and Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes)
• 1950 – Tina Weymouth, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club)
• 1951 – Kent Nagano, American conductor
• 1953 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (Propeller and Ruja) (d. 1994)
• 1955 – James Edwards, American basketball player
• 1956 – Lawrence Gowan, Scottish-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Styx)
• 1956 – Richard Kind, American actor
• 1956 – Ron Randall, American comic book artist
• 1957 – Donny Deutsch, American television host and advertising executive
• 1958 – Horse, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
• 1958 – Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
• 1958 – Bruce Payne, English actor
• 1959 – Eddie Frierson, American actor
• 1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
• 1959 – Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
• 1959 – Lenore Zann, Australian-Canadian actress and politician
• 1960 – Jim Bob, British singer-songwriter (Carter USM)
• 1960 – Leos Carax, French director
• 1961 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress
• 1961 – Stephen Hough, English-Australian pianist and composer
• 1961 – Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer and author
• 1962 – Sumi Jo, South Korean soprano
• 1962 – Victor Pelevin, Russian author
• 1962 – Rezauddin Stalin, Bangladeshi poet
• 1963 – Winsor Harmon, American actor
• 1963 – Scoop Jackson, American journalist
• 1963 – Hugh Millen, American football player
• 1963 – Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager
• 1963 – Kennedy Pola, Samoan-American football player and coach
• 1963 – Brian Robbins, American actor and director
• 1963 – Corinne Russell, English model, actress, and dancer
• 1964 – Robbie Slater, English-Australian footballer
• 1965 – Jörg Jung, German footballer
• 1965 – Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
• 1965 – Peter Safran, English-American film producer and manager
• 1966 – Ed Ferrara, American wrestler
• 1966 – Mark Pritchard, English politician
• 1966 – Richard Stanley, South African director
• 1966 – Michael K. Williams, American actor
• 1967 – Boris Becker, German tennis player
• 1967 – Quint Kessenich, American lacrosse player and sportscaster
• 1967 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor
• 1967 – Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-Belgian speed skater
• 1968 – Sidse Babett Knudsen, Danish actress
• 1968 – Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic-Canadian computer programmer, created PHP
• 1968 – Sarah MacDonald, Canadian organist and conductor
• 1969 – Byron Houston, American basketball player
• 1969 – Marjane Satrapi, Iranian author and illustrator
• 1970 – Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1970 – Stel Pavlou, English author and screenwriter
• 1971 – Cath Bishop, English rower
• 1972 – Russell Hoult, English footballer
• 1972 – Jay Payton, American baseball player
• 1973 – Dmitri Linter, Russian-Estonian political activist
• 1973 – Chad Trujillo, American astronomer
• 1974 – Joe Nathan, American baseball player
• 1974 – David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
• 1975 – Aiko, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1976 – Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
• 1976 – Torsten Frings, German footballer
• 1976 – Regina Halmich, German boxer
• 1976 – Ville Valo, Finnish singer-songwriter (HIM)
• 1977 – Sydney Blu, Canadian DJ and record producer
• 1977 – Annika Norlin, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hello Saferide)
• 1977 – Michael Preston, English footballer
• 1978 – Karen O, South Korean-American singer-songwriter and pianist (Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Native Korean Rock)
• 1979 – Chris Doran, Irish singer
• 1979 – Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer
• 1980 – David Artell, English footballer
• 1980 – Shawn Fanning, American businessman, founded Napster
• 1980 – Rait Keerles, Estonian basketball player
• 1980 – Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian high jumper
• 1981 – Ben Adams, English singer-songwriter and producer (A1)
• 1981 – Joleigh Fioravanti, American actress
• 1981 – Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer
• 1981 – Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
• 1981 – Jenny Owen Youngs, American singer-songwriter
• 1982 – Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Nigerian footballer
• 1982 – Charlene Choi, Canadian-Hong Kong singer and actress (Twins)
• 1982 – Alasdair Duncan, Australian author and journalist
• 1982 – Isild Le Besco, French actress
• 1983 – Corey Beaulieu, American guitarist and songwriter (Trivium)
• 1983 – Tyler Hilton, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1983 – Peter Ramage, English footballer
• 1984 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress and singer
• 1985 – Austin Brown, American singer
• 1985 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
• 1985 – Mandy Minella, Luxembourgian tennis player
• 1985 – James Roby, English rugby player
• 1985 – DeVon Walker, American football player
• 1986 – Oscar Pistorius, South African sprinter
• 1987 – Martti Aljand, Estonian swimmer
• 1987 – Marouane Fellaini, Belgian footballer
• 1988 – Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor and singer
• 1988 – Jyoti Guptara, English-Swiss author
• 1988 – Suresh Guptara, English-Swiss author
• 1988 – Austin Romine, American baseball player
• 1989 – Candice Glover, American singer
• 1989 – Chris Smalling, English footballer
• 1989 – Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer
• 1991 – Diana Danielle, American-Malaysian actress
• 1991 – Saki Shimizu, Japanese singer (Berryz Kobo, ZYX, and High-King)
• 1993 – Adele Exarchopoulos French actress

Deaths

• 365 – Antipope Felix II
• 950 – Lothair II of Italy (b. 926)
• 1286 – Eric V of Denmark (b. 1249)
• 1318 – Mikhail of Tver (b. 1271)
• 1617 – Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1590)
• 1694 – John Tillotson, English archbishop (b. 1630)
• 1697 – Libéral Bruant, French architect, designed Les Invalides (b. 1635)
• 1710 – Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (b. 1637)
• 1718 – Blackbeard, English pirate (b. 1680)
• 1758 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician (db. 1680)
• 1774 – Robert Clive, English general (b. 1725)
• 1794 – John Alsop, American politician (b. 1724)
• 1813 – Johann Christian Reil, German physician (b. 1759)
• 1875 – Henry Wilson, American politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
• 1886 – William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
• 1886 – Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (b. 1823)
• 1893 – James Calder, American academic (b. 1826)
• 1900 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer (b. 1842)
• 1902 – Walter Reed, American physician (b. 1851)
• 1916 – Jack London, American journalist and author (b. 1876)
• 1917 – Teoberto Maler, German explorer (b. 1842)
• 1919 – Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer and academic (b. 1852)
• 1920 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
• 1926 – Darvish Khan, Iranian tar player (b. 1872)
• 1932 – William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
• 1941 – Werner Mölders, German pilot (b. 1915)
• 1943 – Lorenz Hart, American songwriter (b. 1895)
• 1944 – Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist (b. 1882)
• 1946 – Burt McKinnie, American golfer (b. 1879)
• 1946 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (b. 1889)
• 1953 – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani scholar and biographer (b. 1884)
• 1954 – Jess McMahon, American wrestling promoter, founded Capitol Wrestling Corporation (b. 1882)
• 1955 – Shemp Howard, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1956 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-American choreographer (b. 1882)
• 1963 – Wilhelm Beiglböck, Austrian physician (b. 1905)
• 1963 – Aldous Huxley, English author (b. 1894)
• 1963 – John F. Kennedy, American politician, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
• 1963 – C. S. Lewis, Anglo-Irish author (b. 1898)
• 1963 – J. D. Tippit, American police officer (b. 1924)
• 1967 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
• 1976 – Ermanno Aebi, Italian-Swiss footballer (b. 1892)
• 1980 – Jules Léger, Canadian politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
• 1980 – Norah McGuinness, Irish painter (b. 1901)
• 1980 – Mae West, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1981 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1986 – Scatman Crothers, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1986 – William Bradford Huie, American journalist and author (b. 1910)
• 1988 – Luis Barragán, Mexican architect, designed the Torres de Satélite (b. 1908)
• 1989 – C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
• 1989 – René Moawad, Lebanonese politician, 13th President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
• 1992 – Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1993 – Anthony Burgess, English author and composer (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Forrest White, American businessman (b. 1920)
• 1996 – María Casares, Spanish-French actress (b. 1922)
• 1996 – Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (b. 1936)
• 1996 – Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (INXS and Max Q) (b. 1960)
• 1998 – Stu Ungar, American poker player (b. 1953)
• 2000 – Christian Marquand, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2000 – Emil Zátopek, Czech runner, Olympic champion (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay, Inc. (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Norman Granz, American record producer (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Arthur Hopcraft, English screenwriter and journalist (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Pat Dobson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss choreographer (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Verity Lambert, English television producer (Doctor Who) (b. 1935)
• 2008 – MC Breed, American rapper (b. 1971)
• 2010 – Jean Cione, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist (b. 1914)
• 2011 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet-born American writer, defector and daughter of Joseph Stalin (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Sena Jurinac, Bosnian-born operatic soprano (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist (b. 1938)
• 2011 – Danielle Mitterrand, French activist, former First Lady of France (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Paul Motian, American jazz musician (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Frank Barsalona, American talent agent (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Bryce Courtenay, South African-Australian author (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Raimund Krauth, German footballer (b. 1952)
• 2012 – P. Govinda Pillai, Indian politician and author (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Fahimeh Rastkar, Iranian actress (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Mel Shaw, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2012 – K. H. Ting, Chinese bishop (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Jan Trefulka, Czech author (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Alec Reid, Irish cleric and peace campaigner (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Cecilia
  • George (Eastern Orthodox, a national holiday in Georgia)
  • November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of the Albanian Alphabet (Albania and ethnic Albanians)
• Earliest day on which Thanksgiving Day can fall, while November 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. (United States)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Lebanon from France in 1943.

External links

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