On this day: November 20th
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284 Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
762 During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Uyghur Khaganate tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
1194 Palermo is conquered by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
1407 John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, agree to a truce, but Burgundy would kill Orléans three days later.
1441 The Peace of Cremona (1441) ends the war between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan, after the victorious Venetian enterprise of military engineering of the Galeas per montes.
1695 Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is Black Awareness Day by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.
1739 Start of the Battle of Porto Bello (1739) between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1776 American Revolutionary War: British forces land at The Palisades (Hudson River) and then attack Battle of Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.
1789 New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the United States Bill of Rights.
1805 Ludwig van Beethoven only opera, ''Fidelio'', premieres in Vienna.
1815 The Treaty of Paris (1815) is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1790 extent, imposing large indemnities, and prolonging the occupation by troops of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia for several more years.
1820 An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the ''Essex (1799 whaleship)'' (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel ''Moby-Dick'' was in part inspired by this incident.)
1845 Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
1861 American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
1873 Garnier Expedition: Third French Republic forces under Lieutenant Francis Garnier Battle of Hanoi (1873) Hanoi from the Nguyễn dynasty.
1900 The French actress Sarah Bernhardt receives the press at the Savoy Hotel in New York at the outset of her first visit since 1896. She talked about her impending tour with a troupe of more than 50 performers and her plans to play the title role in ''Hamlet''.
1910 Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan of San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the Federal government of the United Mexican States, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
1917 World War I: Battle of Cambrai (1917) begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
1936 José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange Española, is killed by a republican execution squad.
1940 World War II: Kingdom of Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers # Hungary.
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 Nazism war crime start at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg at Nuremberg.
1947 Elizabeth II marries Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.
1959 The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.
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'' (Cleveland, Ohio) 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.
1974 The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.
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 6,000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.
1980 Lake Peigneur in Louisiana drains into an underlying Salt mining. 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.
1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, 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.
1990 Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings.
1991 An Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is 1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown in Khojavend District of Azerbaijan.
1992 In England, 1992 Windsor Castle fire, 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.
1993 North Macedonia deadliest aviation disaster occurs when Avioimpex Flight 110, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near Ohrid, killing all 116 people on board.
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.)
1996 1996 Garley Building fire in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.
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 space station module component, Zarya (ISS module), for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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 (Turkey) and the British consulate.
2015 Following a hostage siege, at least 19 people are 2015 Bamako hotel attack.
2016 Jimmie Johnson wins his seventh NASCAR Cup Series championship to tie Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for the most all-time.
2022 The 2022 FIFA World Cup begins in Qatar. This is the first time the tournament was held in the Middle East.
270 Maximinus II, Roman emperor (d. 313)
939 Emperor Taizong of Song (d. 997)
1545 Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania (d. 1592)
1602 Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (d. 1686)
1603 Fasilides, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1667)
1620 Avvakum, Russian priest and saint (d. 1682)
1625 Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (d. 1654)
1629 Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Luneburg, Duchy of Brunswick-Luneburg (d. 1698)
1660 Daniel Ernst Jablonski, Czech-German theologian and reformer (d. 1741)
1688 Gyeongjong of Joseon, 20th king of the Joseon (d. 1724)
1715 Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)
1717 George (Konissky), Orthodox archbishop, preacher, philosopher and theologian (d. 1795)
1726 Oliver Wolcott, American politician (d. 1797)
1733 Philip Schuyler, American general and senator (d. 1804)
1737 José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, Spanish-Mexican scientist and cartographer (d. 1799)
1739 Jean-François de La Harpe, French writer and literary critic (d. 1803)
1748 Jean-François de Bourgoing, French diplomat, writer and translator (d. 1811)
1750 Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
1752 Thomas Chatterton, English poet (d. 1770)
1753 Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 1st Princes of Wagram (d. 1815)
1755 Stanisław Kostka Potocki, Polish noble, politician and writer (d. 1821)
1761 Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830)
1776 Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Austrian violinist (d. 1830)
1781 Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German captain and jurist (d. 1854)
1781 Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver (d. 1835)
1782 Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, Dutch painter (d. 1861)
1783 Georgios Sinas, Greek entrepreneur and banker (d. 1856)
1784 Marianne von Willemer, Austrian actress and dancer (d. 1860)
1787 Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, German firearms inventor and manufacturer (d. 1867)
1788 Félix Varela, Cuban-born Roman Catholic priest (d. 1853)
1794 Eduard Rüppell, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1884)
1801 Mungo Ponton, Scottish inventor (d. 1880)
1808 Albert Kazimirski de Biberstein, French orientalist (d. 1887)
1813 Franz Miklosich, Slovenian linguist and philologist (d. 1891)
1830 Mikhail Dragomirov, Russian general (1905)
1834 Franjo Kuhač, Croatian conductor and composer (d. 1911)
1841 Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (d. 1901)
1841 François Denys Légitime, Haitian general (d. 1935)
1841 Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919)
1850 Joseph Samuel Bloch, Austrian rabbi and deputy (d. 1923)
1850 Charlotte Garrigue, wife of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (d. 1923)
1851 Mikhail Albov, Russian writer (d. 1911)
1851 John Merle Coulter, American botanist (d. 1928)
1851 Margherita of Savoy, Italian Queen consort (d. 1926)
1853 Oskar Potiorek, Austro-Hungarian Army officer (d. 1933)
1855 Josiah Royce, American philosopher (d. 1916)
1857 Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (d. 1938)
1858 Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and educator, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1940)
1860 José Figueroa Alcorta, President of Argentina, (d. 1931)
1861 Camillo Laurenti, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1938)
1862 Georges Palante, French philosopher and sociologist (d. 1925)
1862 Edvard Westermarck, Finnish philosopher and sociologist (d. 1939)
1864 Percy Cox, British Indian Army officer (d. 1937)
1866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge (d. 1944)
1866 Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta, daughter of Prince Napoléon Bonaparte (d. 1926)
1867 Patrick Joseph Hayes, American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1938)
1867 Gustav Giemsa, German chemist and bacteriologist (d. 1948)
1869 Zinaida Gippius, Russian writer and editor (d. 1945)
1869 Josaphata Hordashevska, Ukrainian Greek-Catholic nun (d. 1919)
1871 William Heard Kilpatrick, American pedagogue (d. 1965)
1871 Augusto Weberbauer, German naturalist (d. 1948)
1873 Ramón Castillo, Argentine politician (d. 1944)
1873 William Coblentz, American physicist (d. 1962)
1873 Georges Caussade, French composer (d. 1936)
1873 Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer and music critic (d. 1953)
1874 James Michael Curley, American lawyer, politician, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts, and criminal (d. 1958)
1875 Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German diplomat (d. 1944)
1876 Rudolf Koch, German designer (d. 1934)
1877 Herbert Pitman, English sailor (d. 1961)
1880 Walter Brack, German swimmer (d. 1919)
1881 Irakli Tsereteli, Georgian politician (d. 1959)
1882 Ernestas Galvanauskas, Lithuanian engineer and politician (d. 1967)
1883 Edwin August, American actor and director (d. 1964)
1883 Tony Gaudio, Italian American cinematographer (d. 1951)
1884 Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (d. 1968)
1885 George Holley, English footballer (d. 1942)
1885 Kaarlo Vasama, Finnish gymnast (d. 1926)
1886 Robert Hunter (golfer), American golfer (d. 1971)
1886 Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1982)
1886 Alexandre Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (d. 1934)
1887 Jean Ducret, French footballer
1888 Dennis Fenton, American sports shooter (d. 1954)
1889 Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1953)
1890 Robert Armstrong (actor), American actor (d. 1973)
1890 Harald Madsen, Danish actor (d. 1949)
1890 Lauri Tanner, Finnish gymnast (d. 1950)
1891 Reginald Denny (actor), English actor (d. 1967)
1892 James Collip, Canadian biochemist and academic, co-discovered insulin (d. 1965)
1893 André Bloch (mathematician), French mathematician (d. 1948)
1893 Grace Darmond, Canadian-American actress (d. 1963)
1894 Johann Nikuradse, Georgian-born German engineer and physicist (d. 1979)
1895 Pierre Cot, French politician (d. 1977)
1896 Chiyono Hasegawa, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2011)
1896 Carl Mayer, Austrian-Jewish screenplay writer (d. 1944)
1897 Germaine Krull, German photographer and political activist (d. 1985)
1898 Richmond Landon, American high jumper (d. 1971)
1898 Adrian Piotrovsky, Russian dramaturge (d. 1937)
1899 Alicja Kotowska, Polish nun (d. 1939)
1900 Florieda Batson, American Olympic hurdler (d. 1996)
1900 Helen Bradley, English painter (d. 1979)
1900 Chester Gould, American cartoonist and author, created ''Dick Tracy'' (d. 1985)
1901 José Leandro Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1957)
1902 Gianpiero Combi, Italian footballer (d. 1956)
1902 Erik Eriksen, Danish politician (d. 1972)
1902 Heini Meng, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 1982)
1902 Jean Painlevé, French photographer and filmmaker (d. 1989)
1902 Philipp Schmitt, German officer of the Schutzstaffel (d. 1950)
1903 Alexandra Danilova, Russian-American ballerina and choreographer (d. 1997)
1903 Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educator (d. 1981)
1904 Arnold Gartmann, Swiss bobsledder (d. 1980)
1905 Minoo Masani, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1998)
1906 Vera Tanner, English swimmer (d. 1971)
1907 Fran Allison, American entertainer (d. 1989)
1907 Mihai Beniuc, Romanian writer (d. 1988)
1907 Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 1977)
1907 Anni Rehborn, German swimmer (d. 1987)
1908 Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, the youngest son of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1968)
1908 Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist and author (d. 2004)
1908 Jenő Vincze, Hungarian footballer (d. 1988)
1909 John Berger (cross-country skier), Swiss cross-country skier (d. 2002)
1909 Vicente Feola, Brazilian football manager and coach (d. 1975)
1909 Piero Gherardi, Italian costume and set designer (d. 1971)
1909 Samand Siabandov, Soviet Red Army writer (d. 1989)
1910 Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician, pilot, and academic (d. 1944)
1910 Pauli Murray, American civil rights activist, women's rights activist, lawyer, Episcopal priest, and author (d. 1985)
1911 Eduard Kainberger, Austrian footballer (d. 1974)
1911 David Seymour (photographer), Polish photographer (d. 1956)
1911 Jean Shiley, American high jumper (d. 1998)
1911 Rupert Weinstabl, Austrian sprint canoeist (d. 1953)
1911 Paul Zielinski, German footballer (d. 1966)
1912 Enrique García (Argentine footballer), Argentine footballer (d. 1969)
1912 Otto von Habsburg, the last List of heirs to the Austrian throne of Austria-Hungary (d. 2011)
1913 Franz Berghammer, Austrian field handballer (d. 1944)
1913 Charles Berlitz, American linguist (d. 2003)
1913 Charles Bettelheim, French Marxian economist and historian (d. 2006)
1913 Judy Canova, American actress and comedian (d. 1983)
1913 Kostas Choumis, Greek footballer (d. 1981)
1913 Russell Rouse, American screenwriter, director and producer (d. 1987)
1913 Libertas Schulze-Boysen, German opponent of the Nazism (d. 1942)
1913 Yakov Zak, Soviet pianist (d. 1976)
1914 Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer and politician (d. 1992)
1914 Kurt Lundqvist, Swedish high jumper (d. 1976)
1915 Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1915 Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (d. 1989)
1916 Charles E. Osgood, American psychologist (d. 1991)
1916 Michael J. Ingelido, American general (d. 2015)
1916 Evelyn Keyes, American actress (d. 2008)
1916 Donald T. Campbell, American social scientist (d. 1996)
1917 Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (d. 2010)
1917 Leonard Jimmie Savage, American mathematician (d. 1971)
1917 Erich Leo Lehmann, American statistician (d. 2009)
1917 Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987)
1918 Corita Kent, American nun, illustrator, and educator (d. 1986)
1918 Dora Ratjen, German high jumper (d. 2008)
1919 Alan Brown (racing driver), English race car driver (d. 2004)
1919 Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (d. 2012)
1920 Douglas Dick, American actor and psychologist (d. 2015)
1921 Jim Garrison, American lawyer and judge (d. 1992)
1923 Gunnar Åkerlund, Swedish sprint canoer (d. 2006)
1923 Danny Dayton, American actor and director (d. 1999)
1923 Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematographer (d. 2005)
1923 Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, short story writer, and activist, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 2014)
1924 Bill Borthwick, Australian politician (d. 2001)
1924 Timothy Evans, Welshman wrongfully convicted of murder (d. 1950)
1924 Karen Harup, Danish swimmer (d. 2009)
1924 Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (d. 2010)
1924 Michael Riffaterre, French literary critic and theorist (d. 2006)
1924 Henk Vredeling, Dutch agronomist and politician, List of Ministers of Defence of the Netherlands (d. 2007)
1925 June Christy, American singer (d. 1990)
1925 Robert F. Kennedy, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
1925 Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director (d. 2015)
1926 John Gardner (British writer), English soldier and author (d. 2007)
1926 Tôn Thất Đính, Vietnamese general (d. 2013)
1926 Édouard Leclerc, French businessman and entrepreneur (d. 2012)
1926 Miroslav Tichý, Czech photographer (d. 2011)
1927 Vakhtang Balavadze, Georgian wrestler (d. 2018)
1927 Ed Freeman, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2008)
1927 Estelle Parsons, American actress and director
1927 Wolfgang Schreyer, German writer (d. 2017)
1927 Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov, Soviet and Russian actor (d. 2007)
1928 Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1928 Franklin Cover, American actor (d. 2006)
1928 Pedro Ferrándiz, Spanish basketball coach (d. 2022)
1928 John Disley, Welsh athlete (d. 2016)
1928 Pete Rademacher, American boxer (d. 2020)
1928 Genrikh Sapgir, Russian writer (d. 1999)
1929 Jerry Hardin, American actor
1929 Raymond Lefèvre, French composer (d. 2008)
1929 Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Colombian footballer (d. 2020)
1929 Ron Willey, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2004)
1930 Christine Arnothy, French writer (d. 2015)
1930 Aarón Hernán, Mexican actor (d. 2020)
1930 Bernard Horsfall, English-Scottish actor (d. 2013)
1930 Choe Yong-rim, North Korean Premier
1931 Wayne Moore (swimmer), American swimmer (d. 2015)
1932 Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host (d. 2012)
1932 Yorozuya Kinnosuke, Japanese kabuki actor (d. 1997)
1932 Sándor Mátrai, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)
1932 Paulo Valentim, Brazilian footballer (d. 1984)
1932 Colville Young, Governor-General of Belize
1934 Paco Ibáñez, Spanish singer and musician
1934 Lev Polugaevsky, Soviet Chess Grandmaster (d. 1995)
1935 Leo Falcam, Micronesian politician and 5th President of Micronesia (d. 2018)
1935 Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (d. 2011)
1936 Hans van Abeelen, Dutch geneticist (d. 1998)
1936 Don DeLillo, American novelist, essayist, and playwright
1936 Luciano Fabro, Italian sculptor and artist (d. 2007)
1936 Charles R. Larson, American admiral (d. 2014)
1937 René Kollo, German tenor
1937 Ruth Laredo, American pianist and educator (d. 2005)
1937 Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish skier (d. 2013)
1937 Bruno Mealli, Italian cyclist (d. 2023)
1937 Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian author and screenwriter
1938 Colin Fox (actor), Canadian actor
1939 Jerry Colangelo, American businessman
1939 Copi, Argentine writer and artist (d. 1987)
1939 Dick Smothers, American actor and comedian
1939 Jan Szczepański (boxer), Polish boxer (d. 2017)
1940 Wendy Doniger, American indologist
1940 Helma Sanders-Brahms, German director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1940 Ediz Hun, Turkish actor and politician
1940 Arieh Warshel, Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist
1941 Oliver Sipple, U.S. Marine and Vietnam War veteran (d. 1989)
1941 Dr. John, American singer and songwriter (d. 2019)
1942 Joe Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States
1942 Bob Einstein, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2019)
1942 Norman Greenbaum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer
1942 Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul (d. 2008)
1943 David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home, British businessman and politician (d. 2022)
1943 Veronica Hamel, American actress and model
1943 Ivan Hrdlička, Czechoslovak footballer
1943 Suze Rotolo, American artist (d. 2011)
1944 Louie Dampier, American basketball player and coach
1944 Wayne Maki, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1974)
1944 Anthea Stewart, Zimbabwean field hockey player
1945 Deborah Eisenberg, American writer, actress and teacher
1946 Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1971)
1946 Algimantas Butnorius, Lithuanian chess Grandmaster (chess) (d. 2017)
1946 Patriarch Kirill of Moscow
1946 Samuel E. Wright, American actor, voice actor and singer (d. 2021)
1947 Nurlan Balgimbayev, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (d. 2015)
1947 Eli Ben Rimoz, Israeli footballer
1947 Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1948 John R. Bolton, American lawyer and diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1948 Park Chul-soo, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1948 Barbara Hendricks, American-Swedish soprano and actress
1948 Richard Masur, American actor and director
1948 Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (d. 1978)
1948 Kenjiro Shinozuka, Japanese race car driver (d. 2024)
1949 Jeff Dowd, American film producer and activist
1949 Thelma Drake, American politician
1949 Ulf Lundell, Swedish writer and composer
1949 Juha Mieto, Finnish cross-country skier
1949 Nené (footballer, born 1949), Portuguese footballer
1950 Jacqueline Gourault, French politician
1950 Gary Green (musician), British musician
1951 Rodger Bumpass, American actor and singer
1951 León Gieco, Argentine folk rock singer and interpreter
1951 Aleksey Spiridonov, Soviet hammer thrower (d. 1998)
1951 David Walters, American businessman and politician, 24th Governor of Oklahoma
1952 John Van Boxmeer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1953 Fábio Jr., Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor
1953 Greg Gibson (wrestler), American wrestler
1953 Halid Bešlić, Bosnian musician and singer
1953 Nirmal Selvamony, Indian Tamils academician and Ecocriticism
1954 Richard Brooker, English actor and stuntman (d. 2013)
1954 Antonina Koshel, Soviet artistic gymnast
1954 Frank Marino, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter
1954 Bin Shimada, Japanese voice actor
1955 Angela Finocchiaro, Italian actress
1955 Toshio Matsuura, Japanese footballer
1955 Ray Ozzie, American software industry entrepreneur
1956 Bo Derek, American actress and producer
1957 Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (d. 1985)
1957 John Eriksen, Danish footballer (d. 2002)
1957 Jean-Marc Furlan, French football manager
1957 Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria
1958 Rickson Gracie, Brazilian mixed martial artist and choreographer
1959 Diane James, British politician
1959 Mario Martone, Italian director and screenwriter
1959 Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, German prelate of the Catholic Church and theologian
1959 Sean Young, American actress and dancer
1960 Ye Jiangchuan, Chinese chess player
1960 Ozell Jones, American basketball player (d. 2006)
1961 Pierre Hermé, French pastry chef and chocolatier
1961 Petra Wenzel, Liechtenstein alpine skier
1962 Živko Budimir, Bosnian politician
1962 Polona Dornik, Yugoslav and Slovenian basketball player
1962 Rajkumar Hirani, Indian director
1962 Abderrazak Khairi, Moroccan footballer
1962 Peng Liyuan, wife of Xi Jinping
1962 Gerardo Martino, Argentine footballer and manager
1963 Tim Gavin, Australian rugby player
1963 Timothy Gowers, English mathematician and academic
1963 Beezie Madden, American show jumper
1963 Ming-Na Wen, Chinese-American actress
1964 Katharina Böhm, Austrian actress
1964 Boris Dežulović, Croatian journalist and author
1964 Andriy Kalashnykov, Ukrainian wrestler
1964 John MacLean (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1965 Mike D, American rapper and drummer
1965 Nigel Gibbs, English footballer and coach
1965 Yehuda Glick, American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi
1965 Amos Mansdorf, Israeli tennis player
1965 Takeshi Kusao, Japanese actor and singer
1965 Jimmy Vasser, American race car driver
1965 Yoshiki (musician), Japanese musician
1966 Neil Broad, British tennis player
1966 Kevin Gilbert (musician), American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1996)
1966 Terry Lovejoy, Australian information technologist
1966 Štefan Svitek (basketball), Slovak basketball coach
1966 Jill Thompson, American author and illustrator
1967 Chris Childs (basketball), American basketball player
1967 Stuart Ripley, English footballer
1967 Teoman (singer), Turkish singer
1968 James Dutton (astronaut), American astronaut
1968 Andrei Kharlov, Russian chess player
1968 Paul Scheuring, American screenwriter and director
1968 David Einhorn (hedge fund manager), American hedge fund manager
1968 Jeff Tarango, American tennis player
1969 Jimmy Blandon, Ecuadorian footballer
1969 Kristian Ghedina, Italian alpine ski racer
1969 Chris Harris (cricketer), New Zealand cricketer
1969 Wolfgang Stark, German football referee
1969 Callie Thorne, American actress and producer
1970 Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates
1970 Matt Blunt, American lieutenant and politician, 54th Governor of Missouri
1970 Phife Dawg, American rapper (d. 2016)
1970 Delia Gonzalez, American boxer
1970 Stéphane Houdet, French wheelchair tennis player
1970 Geoffrey Keezer, American pianist and educator
1970 Sabrina Lloyd, American actress
1971 Mike Dunn (snooker player), English snooker player
1971 Joey Galloway, American football player and sportscaster
1971 Joel McHale, American comedian, actor, and producer
1972 Johan Åkerman, Swedish ice hockey player
1972 Jérôme Alonzo, French footballer
1972 Ed Benes, Brazilian comic book artist
1972 Corinne Niogret, French biathlete
1972 Skander Souayah, Tunisian footballer
1972 Tatiana Turanskaya, Transnistrian politician
1973 Angelica Bridges, American actress and singer
1973 Fabio Galante, Italian footballer
1973 Neil Hodgson, English motorcycle racer and sportscaster
1973 Masaya Honda, Japanese footballer
1974 Daniela Anschütz-Thoms, German speed skater
1974 Jason Faunt, American actor
1974 Florian David Fitz, German actor, screenwriter and director
1974 Drew Ginn, Australian rower
1974 Claudio Husain, Argentine footballer
1974 Jon Knudsen, Norwegian footballer
1975 Mengke Bateer, Chinese Inner Mongolian basketball player
1975 Dierks Bentley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 Ryan Bowen, American basketball player and coach
1975 J. D. Drew, American baseball player
1975 Joshua Gomez, American actor
1975 Sébastien Hamel, French footballer
1975 Davey Havok, American singer-songwriter
1976 Mohamed Barakat, Egyptian footballer
1976 Beto (footballer, born November 1976), Brazilian footballer
1976 DeJuan Collins, American basketball player
1976 Dominique Dawes, American gymnast and actress
1976 Laura Harris, Canadian actress
1976 Adrián Hernán González, Argentine footballer
1976 Harold Jamison, American basketball player
1976 Tusshar Kapoor, Indian Bollywood actor and producer
1976 Pascal Roller, German basketball player
1976 Francisco Rufete, Spanish footballer
1976 Nebojša Stefanović, Serbian politician
1976 Doug Viney, New Zealand boxer
1976 Atsushi Yoneyama, Japanese footballer
1976 Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer
1977 Rudy Charles, American wrestling referee
1977 Mikhail Ivanov (cross-country skier), Russian cross-country skier
1977 Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer and producer
1977 Josh Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1978 Jean-François Bedenik, French footballer and coach
1978 Freya Lim, Taiwanese-Malaysian singer and radio host
1978 Kéné Ndoye, Senegalese track and fielder
1978 Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model
1979 Maree Bowden, New Zealand netball player
1979 Dmitri Bulykin, Russian footballer
1979 Kateryna Burmistrova, Ukrainian wrestler
1979 Naide Gomes, Portuguese heptathlete and long jumper
1979 Joseph Hallman, American composer and academic
1979 Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Russian sprint athlete
1979 Hassan Mostafa, Egyptian footballer
1979 Jacob Pitts, American actor
1979 Shalini Ajith, Indian actress
1979 Arpad Sterbik, Serbian handball player
1980 Dilnaz Akhmadieva, Kazakhstani singer and actress
1980 James Chambers (English footballer), English footballer
1980 Eiko Koike, Japanese actress
1980 Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, Thai boxer
1980 Marek Krejčí, Slovak footballer (d. 2007)
1980 Ana Caterina Morariu, Romanian-Italian actress
1980 Christian Obrist, Italian middle-distance runner
1980 Eoin Reddan, Irish rugby union player
1981 Carlos Boozer, American basketball player
1981 Yuko Kavaguti, Japanese ice skater
1981 Ye Li, Chinese basketball player
1981 Andrea Riseborough, English actress
1981 İbrahim Toraman, Turkish footballer
1981 Orsolya Tóth, Hungarian actress
1981 Kimberley Walsh, English singer-songwriter and actress
1982 Stephen Ademolu, Canadian soccer player
1982 Dương Hồng Sơn, Vietnamese footballer
1982 Rémi Mathis, French historian and curator
1982 Shermine Shahrivar, Iranian model
1982 Gregor Urbas, Slovenian figure skater
1982 Israel Villaseñor, Mexican footballer
1983 Future (rapper), American rapper
1983 Dele Aiyenugba, Nigerian footballer
1983 Mónika Kovacsicz, Hungarian handballer
1984 Ali (South Korean singer), South Korean singer
1984 Halley Feiffer, American actress and playwright
1984 Kévin Hecquefeuille, French ice hockey player
1984 Justin Hoyte, English footballer
1984 Jeremy Jordan (actor, born 1984), American actor
1984 Cartier Martin, American basketball player
1984 Nelson Sebastián Maz, Uruguayan footballer
1984 Sherjill MacDonald, Dutch footballer
1984 Moe Meguro, Japanese curler
1984 Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian race car driver
1984 Florencia Mutio, Argentine field hockey player
1984 Stéphane N'Guéma, Gabonese footballer
1984 Naoya Tamura, Japanese footballer
1984 Monique van der Vorst, Dutch cyclist
1984 Lee Yun-yeol, South Korean gamer
1985 Juan Cruz Álvarez, Argentinian race car driver
1985 Eric Boateng, British basketball player
1985 Dan Byrd, American actor
1985 Muhamed Demiri, Macedonian footballer
1985 Greg Holland, American baseball player
1985 Maria Mukhortova, Russian skater
1985 Heinrich Schmidtgal, Kazakhstani footballer
1985 Themistoklis Tzimopoulos, Greek New Zealanders footballer
1985 Aaron Yan, Taiwanese actor and singer
1986 Josh Carter, American basketball player
1986 Edder Delgado, Honduran footballer
1986 Ashley Fink, American actress and singer
1986 Kōhei Horikoshi, Japanese manga artist
1986 Özer Hurmacı, Turkish footballer
1986 William Fernando da Silva, Brazilian footballer
1986 Oliver Sykes, English singer-songwriter
1986 Bartolomé Salvá Vidal, Spanish tennis player
1986 Koudai Tsukakoshi, Japanese race car driver
1987 Amelia Rose Blaire, American actress
1987 Andrew Driver, English footballer
1987 Ben Hamer, English footballer
1987 Mylène Lazare, French swimmer
1987 Kou Lei, Ukrainian table tennis player
1987 Nathan Lyon, Australian cricketer
1987 Joëlle Numainville, Canadian cyclist
1987 Christoph Pfingsten, German cyclist
1987 Valdet Rama, Albanian footballer
1987 Gina Stechert, German alpine skier
1988 Marie-Laure Brunet, French biathlete
1988 Aya Medany, Egyptian modern pentathlete.
1988 Max Pacioretty, American ice hockey player
1988 Roberto Rosales, Venezuelan footballer
1988 Dariga Shakimova, Kazakhstani boxer
1988 Dušan Tadić, Serbian footballer
1988 Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor and director
1989 Artak Dashyan, Armenian footballer
1989 Babita Kumari, Indian wrestler
1989 Cody Linley, American actor and singer
1989 Agon Mehmeti, Swedish footballer
1989 Jonas Mendes, Bissau-Guinean footballer
1989 Sergei Polunin, Ukrainian ballet dancer
1989 Eduardo Vargas, Chilean footballer
1989 Dmitry Zhitnikov, Russian handballer
1990 Haley Anderson, American swimmer
1990 Mark Christian, Manx cyclist
1990 Aleksandra Król, Polish snowboarder
1990 Slobodan Medojević, Serbian footballer
1990 Nzuzi Toko, Congolese footballer
1991 Irene Esser, Venezuelan actress and model
1991 Grant Hanley, Scottish footballer
1991 Anthony Knockaert, French footballer
1991 Yvonne Leuko, Cameroonian footballer
1991 Kim Se-yong, South Korean singer and actor
1991 Tim Simona, New Zealand rugby league player
1992 Amit Guluzade, Azerbaijani footballer
1992 Zoltán Harcsa, Hungarian boxer
1992 Maiha Ishimura, Japanese singer and actress
1992 Kristiina Mäkelä, Finnish triple jumper
1992 Gaku Matsuda, Japanese actor
1992 Jenna Prandini, American track and field athlete
1992 Brayan Ramírez (cyclist), Colombian cyclist
1992 Frédéric Veseli, Albanian footballer
1993 Junior Paulo (rugby league, born 1993), New Zealand rugby league player
1993 Sanjin Prcić, Bosnian footballer
1993 Anna Prugova, Russian ice hockey player
1994 Timothy Kitum, Kenyan middle-distance runner
1995 Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete
1995 Iván García (cyclist), Spanish cyclist
1995 Shaolin Sándor Liu, Hungarian short track speed skater
1995 Kyle Snyder (wrestler), American wrestler
1996 Jack Harrison (footballer, born 1996), English professional footballer
1996 Blaž Janc, Slovenian handballer
1996 Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer
1997 Levi Garcia, Trinidadian footballer
2000 Connie Talbot, English singer-songwriter
2001 Caty McNally, American tennis player
2001 Adrien Truffert, French footballer
2002 Madisyn Shipman, American actress
2004 Youssoufa Moukoko, German footballer
284 Numerian, Roman emperor
763 Domnall Midi, High King of Ireland (b. 743)
811 Li Fan (Tang dynasty), Chinese chancellor (b. 754)
855 Theoktistos, Byzantine courtier
869 Edmund the Martyr, English king (b. 841)
927 Xu Wen, Chinese general (b. 862)
996 Richard I of Normandy, duke of Normandy (b. 932)
1008 Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany, duke of Brittany (b. 980)
1022 Bernward of Hildesheim, German bishop (b. c. 960)
1314 Albert II, Margrave of Meissen, German nobleman (b. 1240)
1316 John I of France, king of France and Navarra (b. 1316)
1400 Elisabeth of Moravia, margravine of Meissen
1480 Eleanor of Scotland, Scottish princess (b. 1433)
1518 Pierre de la Rue, Belgian singer and composer (b. 1452)
1559 Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, English noblewoman and claimant to the throne of England (b. 1517)
1591 Christopher Hatton, English academic and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1540)
1593 Hans Bol, Flemish painter (b. 1534)
1606 John Lyly, English poet and courtier
1612 John Harington (writer), English courtier and author (b. 1561)
1651 Mikołaj Potocki, Polish nobleman (b. 1595)
1662 Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Austrian duke and governor (b. 1614)
1678 Karel Dujardin, Dutch Golden Age painting (b. 1622)
1684 Pedro Benedit Horruytiner, governor of Spanish Florida (1646-1648, and 1651-1654) (b. 1613)
1695 Zumbi, Brazilian king (b. 1655)
1704 Charles Plumier, French botanist and painter (b. 1646)
1737 Caroline of Ansbach, queen of England and Ireland (b. 1683)
1742 Melchior de Polignac, French cardinal and poet (b. 1661)
1758 Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish violinist and composer (b. 1694)
1764 Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician and theorist (b. 1690)
1773 Charles Jennens, English landowner and patron of the arts
1778 Francesco Cetti, Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician (b. 1726)
1824 Carl Axel Arrhenius, Swedish chemist (b. 1757)
1856 Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1775)
1864 Albert Newsam, American painter and illustrator (b. 1809)
1866 Otto Karl Berg, German botanist and pharmacist (b. 1815)
1880 Léon Cogniet, French painter (b. 1794)
1882 Henry Draper, American doctor and astronomer (b. 1837)
1886 William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
1889 August Ahlqvist, Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic (b. 1826)
1894 Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1829)
1898 Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer (b. 1817)
1903 Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, French race car driver (b. 1867)
1903 Tom Horn, American scout, cowboy, soldier
1907 Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
1908 Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor (b. 1829)
1908 Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1868)
1910 Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (b. 1828)
1918 John Bauer (illustrator), Swedish painter and illustrator (b.1882)
1923 Allen Holubar, American actor and director
1923 Denny Barry Irish Republican, died on hunger Strike 1923 Irish hunger strikes (b. 1883)
1924 Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman and the List of persons considered father or mother of a field of the Football Association and modern Association football (b. 1831)
1925 Alexandra of Denmark, Queen of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)
1930 Bill Holland (sprinter), American track and field athlete (b. 1874)
1933 Augustine Birrell, British politician (b. 1815)
1934 Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1872)
1935 John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Royal Navy officer (b. 1859)
1936 Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish mechanic and activist (b. 1896)
1936 José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
1938 Maud of Wales, queen of Norway (b. 1869)
1938 Edwin Hall, American physicist (b. 1855)
1940 Arturo Bocchini, Chief of Police under the Fascism regime of Benito Mussolini (b. 1880)
1940 Tim Coleman, English footballer (b. 1881)
1940 Robert Lane (soccer), Canadian soccer player (b. 1882)
1941 Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author (b. 1901)
1944 Maria Jacobini, Italian actress (b. 1892)
1945 Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1877)
1947 Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (b. 1921)
1950 Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)
1952 Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher and politician (b. 1866)
1954 Clyde Vernon Cessna, American pilot and engineer, founded the Cessna (b. 1879)
1957 Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian painter and illustrator (b. 1875)
1959 Sylvia Lopez, French model and actress (b. 1933)
1960 Ya'akov Cahan, Israeli writer and translator (b. 1881)
1972 Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer and journalist (b. 1910)
1973 Allan Sherman, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1924)
1975 Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1892)
1976 Martin D'Arcy, English Jesuit priest (b. 1888)
1976 Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (b. 1898)
1978 Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1888)
1978 Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian soldier and poet (b. 1890)
1980 John McEwen, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
1981 Frank Sheed, Australian-British Catholic writer and apologist (d. 1981)
1983 Marcel Dalio, French actor and playwright (b. 1900)
1983 Richard Loo, Chinese-American actor (b. 1903)
1984 Carlo Campanini, Italian actor, singer and comedian (b. 1904)
1984 Kristian Djurhuus, Faroese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1895)
1984 Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Pakistani journalist and poet (b. 1911)
1989 Lynn Bari, American actress (b. 1913)
1992 Raul Renter, Estonian economist and chess player (b. 1920)
1994 Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player (b. 1930)
1995 Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967)
1995 Robie Macauley, American editor, novelist and critic (b. 1919)
1997 Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (b. 1926)
1997 Robert Palmer (American writer), American saxophonist, producer, and author (b. 1945)
1998 Roland Alphonso, Jamaican saxophonist (b. 1931)
1998 Galina Starovoytova, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1946)
1999 Amintore Fanfani, Italian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908)
2000 Mike Muuss, American computer programmer, created Ping (networking utility) (b. 1958)
2000 Kalle Päätalo, Finnish author (b. 1919)
2000 Barbara Sobotta, Polish athlete (b. 1936)
2002 Kakhi Asatiani, Georgian footballer (b. 1947)
2003 Robert Addie, English actor (b. 1960 )
2003 David Dacko, African educator and politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)
2003 Eugene Kleiner, American businessman, co-founded Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (b. 1923)
2004 Ancel Keys, American physiologist (b. 1904)
2005 Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian journalist and poet (b. 1931)
2005 James King (tenor), American tenor (b. 1925)
2005 Chris Whitley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960)
2006 Robert Altman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2006 Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian mathematician and academic (b. 1950)
2006 Donald Hamilton, American author (b. 1916)
2007 Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, NASA manager (b. 1919)
2007 Ian Smith, Rhodesian lieutenant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
2009 Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2010 Chalmers Johnson, American author and scholar (b. 1931)
2012 Kaspars Astašenko, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1975)
2012 William Grut, Swedish pentathlete (b. 1914)
2012 Pete La Roca, American jazz drummer (b. 1938)
2012 Ivan Kušan, Croatian writer (b. 1933)
2013 Sylvia Browne, American author (b. 1936)
2013 Dieter Hildebrandt, Polish-German actor and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2014 Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba (b. 1926)
2015 Keith Michell, Australian actor (b. 1926)
2015 Jim Perry (television personality), American-Canadian singer and game show host (b. 1933)
2015 Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Makuuchi # Yokozuna (b. 1953)
2016 Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1984)
2016 Gene Guarilia, American basketball player (b. 1937)
2016 Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Greek statesman (b. 1926)
2016 William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1928)
2017 Peter Berling, German actor, film producer and writer (b. 1934)
2018 James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress (b. 1929)
2018 Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1926)
2019 Wataru Misaka, American basketball player (b. 1923)
2020 Jan Morris, Welsh historian, author and travel writer (b. 1926)
20-N (Spain)
Africa Industrialization Day (International observance)
Black Awareness Day (Brazil)
Children's Day
Christian feast day:
- Agapius (died 306)
- Saint Ambrose Traversari
- Ampelus
- Beatification Anacleto González Flores, José Sánchez del Río, and companions (Saints of the Cristero War of Cristero War)
- Bernward of Hildesheim
- Dasius of Durostorum
- Edmund the Martyr
- Felec of Cornwall
- Gregory of Dekapolis
- Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)
- Solutor
- Theonestus of Vercelli
- November 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which the Feast of Christ the King can fall, while November 26 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday before Advent. (Roman Catholic Church)
National Sovereignty Day ()
Revolution Day (Mexico) ()
Royal Thai Navy ()
Saint Verhaegen ()
Teachers' Day or ''Ngày nhà giáo Việt Nam'' ()
Transgender Day of Remembrance (LGBT community)