November 9

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November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
• 1282 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
• 1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
• 1330 – At the Battle of Posada, the Wallachian Voivode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.
• 1456 – Ulrich II of Celje (Slovene: Ulrik Celjski, German Ulrich von Cilli, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik), last prince of Celje principality, is assassinated in Belgrade.
• 1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
• 1494 – The Family de' Medici are expelled from Florence.
• 1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
• 1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
• 1688 – The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
• 1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
• 1720 – The synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
• 1729 – Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
• 1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
• 1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
• 1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
• 1793 – William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
• 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
• 1822 – The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba.
• 1848 – Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
• 1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
• 1857 – The Atlantic is founded in Boston.
• 1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
• 1867 – Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
• 1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
• 1883 – The Royal Winnipeg Rifles of the Canadian Forces (known then as the "90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles") is founded.
• 1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
• 1888 – Mary Jane Kelly is murdered in London, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper.
• 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
• 1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
• 1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
• 1914 – SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
• 1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
• 1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
• 1921 – The Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF), National Fascist Party, comes into existence.
• 1923 – In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
• 1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
• 1937 – Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
• 1938 – The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night).
• 1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
• 1953 – Cambodia gains independence from France.
• 1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly-elected John F. Kennedy.
• 1963 – At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
• 1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
• 1965 – The Catholic Worker Movement member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
• 1967 – Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
• 1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
• 1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
• 1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
• 1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany, and fall of communism in eastern Europe including Russia.
• 1993 – Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
• 1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
• 1998 – A US federal judge orders 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
• 1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
• 2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
• 2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
• 2007 – The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.

Births

• 1389 – Isabella of Valois (d. 1409)
• 1414 – Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
• 1522 – Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586)
• 1606 – Hermann Conring, German philosopher (d. 1681)
• 1664 – Johann Speth, German organist and composer (d. 1719)
• 1664 – Henry Wharton, English librarian and author (d. 1695)
• 1697 – Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer (d. 1760)
• 1719 – Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian academic, priest, and theoretician (d. 1796)
• 1721 – Mark Akenside, English physician and poet (d. 1770)
• 1723 – Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1787)
• 1731 – Benjamin Banneker, American scientist and author (d. 1806)
• 1732 – Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, French businesswoman (d. 1776)
• 1799 – Gustav, Prince of Vasa (d. 1877)
• 1801 – Gail Borden, American publisher and inventor, invented condensed milk (d. 1874)
• 1802 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister, journalist, and activist (d. 1837)
• 1810 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
• 1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian author and playwright (d. 1883)
• 1825 – A. P. Hill, American general (d. 1865)
• 1829 – Peter Lumsden, English general (d. 1918)
• 1832 – Émile Gaboriau, French author and journalist (d. 1873)
• 1840 – Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (d. 1898)
• 1841 – Edward VII of England (d. 1910)
• 1850 – Louis Lewin, German pharmacologist (d. 1929)
• 1853 – Stanford White, American architect, designed the Washington Square Arch (d. 1906)
• 1862 – Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter (d. 1936)
• 1869 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (d. 1934)
• 1872 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian author and poet (d. 1941)
• 1873 – Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941)
• 1874 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (d. 1954)
• 1877 – Enrico De Nicola, Italian politician, 1st President of the Italian Republic (d. 1959)
• 1877 – Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and politician (d. 1938)
• 1878 – An Chang-ho, Korean activist (d. 1938)
• 1879 – Jenő Bory, Hungarian architect and sculptor (d. 1959)
• 1879 – Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician and author (d. 1931)
• 1880 – Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the red telephone box (d. 1960)
• 1883 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
• 1885 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1954)
• 1885 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1922)
• 1885 – Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (d. 1952)
• 1885 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955)
• 1886 – S. O. Davies, Welsh politician (d. 1972)
• 1886 – Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
• 1888 – Jean Monnet, French economist and diplomat (d. 1979)
• 1890 – George Regas, Greek actor (d. 1940)
• 1895 – Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
• 1897 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (d. 1941)
• 1897 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
• 1902 – Anthony Asquith, English director (d. 1968)
• 1904 – Viktor Brack, German Nazi officer (d. 1948)
• 1905 – Erika Mann, German actress and author (d. 1969)
• 1906 – Arthur Rudolph, German engineer (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
• 1913 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Thomas Berry, American theologian and historian (d. 2009)
• 1915 – André François, Hungarian-French cartoonist (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Sargent Shriver, American politician, 21st United States Ambassador to France (d. 2011)
• 1918 – Spiro Agnew, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Thomas Ferebee, American bombardier (d. 2000)
• 1918 – Choi Hong Hi, South Korean general and martial artist, co-founder of taekwondo (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin of Medgar Evers (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano (d. 2011)
• 1921 – Viktor Chukarin, Soviet gymnast (d. 1984)
• 1922 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
• 1922 – Raymond Devos, Belgian-French comedian and clown (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (d. 1974)
• 1923 – Alice Coachman, American high jumper
• 1923 – Elizabeth Hawley, American journalist
• 1924 – Robert Frank, Swiss-American photographer and director
• 1925 – Alistair Horne, English-American historian
• 1926 – Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
• 1928 – Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
• 1929 – Marc Favreau, Canadian actor and poet (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian author, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 – Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
• 1931 – George Witt, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Jim Perry, American-Canadian television host and singer
• 1934 – Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish politician, 29th Prime Minister of Sweden
• 1934 – Ronald Harwood, South African author and scriptwriter
• 1934 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer and author (d. 1996)
• 1935 – Bob Gibson, American baseball player
• 1936 – Bob Graham, American politician, 38th Governor of Florida
• 1936 – Teddy Infuhr, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1936 – Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
• 1936 – Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (Peter, Paul and Mary) (d. 2009)
• 1937 – Roger McGough, English poet
• 1937 – Clyde Wells, Canadian politician, 5th Premier of Newfoundland
• 1938 – Ti-Grace Atkinson, American author
• 1939 – Paul Cameron, American psychologist
• 1941 – Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival and Ruby) (d. 1990)
• 1942 – Tom Weiskopf, American golfer
• 1944 – Phil May, English singer-songwriter (The Pretty Things)
• 1945 – Richard Goldberg, American sex offender
• 1945 – Moeletsi Mbeki, South African economist
• 1946 – Benny Mardones, American singer-songwriter
• 1947 – Robert David Hall, American actor
• 1948 – Bille August, Danish director
• 1948 – Henrik S. Järrel, Swedish politician
• 1948 – Michel Pagliaro, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 – Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1950 – Parekura Horomia, New Zealand politician, 40th Minister of Māori Affairs (d. 2013)
• 1951 – Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and actor
• 1951 – Bill Mantlo, American writer
• 1952 – Sherrod Brown, American politician
• 1953 – Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
• 1953 – Rhetta Hughes, American singer and actress
• 1954 – Sukekiyo Kameyama, Japanese voice actor (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Shankar Nag, Indian actor and director
• 1954 – Dennis Stratton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Iron Maiden, Praying Mantis, and Lionheart)
• 1954 – Sue Upton, English actress and dancer
• 1955 – Karen Dotrice, English actress
• 1955 – Thomas F. Duffy, American actor
• 1955 – Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian director
• 1955 – Bob Nault, Canadian politician
• 1959 – Nick Hamilton, American wrestling referee
• 1959 – Sito Pons, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1959 – Thomas Quasthoff, German opera singer
• 1959 – Tony Slattery, English actor
• 1960 – Andreas Brehme, German footballer
• 1960 – Joëlle Ursull, Caribbean singer
• 1961 – Jill Dando, English journalist (d. 1999)
• 1962 – Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress
• 1963 – Fulvio Fantoni, Italian bridge player
• 1964 – Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor
• 1965 – Bryn Terfel, Welsh opera singer
• 1967 – Ricky Otto, English footballer
• 1968 – Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist
• 1969 – Allison Wolfe, American singer-songwriter (Bratmobile, Cold Cold Hearts, and Partyline)
• 1970 – Domino, American DJ and producer (Hieroglyphics)
• 1970 – Scarface, American rapper (Geto Boys)
• 1970 – Nelson Diebel, American swimmer
• 1970 – Guido Görtzen, Dutch volleyball player
• 1970 – Bill Guerin, American ice hockey player
• 1970 – Chris Jericho, American-Canadian wrestler, singer-songwriter, and actor (Fozzy)
• 1970 – Susan Tedeschi, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Tedeschi Trucks Band)
• 1971 – David Duval, American golfer
• 1971 – Melinda Kinnaman, Swedish actress
• 1971 – Big Pun, American rapper (Terror Squad) (d. 2000)
• 1972 – Eric Dane, American actor
• 1972 – Doug Russell, American radio host
• 1972 – Naomi Shindō, Japanese voice actress
• 1972 – Corin Tucker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sleater-Kinney, Heavens to Betsy, and Cadallaca)
• 1973 – Alyson Court, Canadian actress
• 1973 – Nick Lachey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (98 Degrees)
• 1973 – Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress
• 1973 – Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer
• 1974 – Joe C., American rapper (d. 2000)
• 1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
• 1974 – Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress
• 1977 – Chris Morgan, English footballer
• 1977 – Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer
• 1978 – Sisqó, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Dru Hill)
• 1978 – Steven López, American martial artist
• 1979 – Adam Dunn, American baseball player
• 1979 – Martin Taylor, English footballer
• 1980 – James Harper, English footballer
• 1980 – Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
• 1980 – Vanessa Minnillo, Filipino-American television host and actress
• 1981 – Lyn, South Korean singer
• 1981 – Jobi McAnuff, Jamaican footballer
• 1981 – Scottie Thompson, American actress
• 1981 – Eyedea, American hip-hop artist
• 1982 – Boaz Myhill, Welsh footballer
• 1982 – Jana Pittman, Australian hurdler
• 1983 – Rob Elloway, German rugby player
• 1983 – Ted Potter, Jr., American golfer
• 1984 – Seven, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor
• 1984 – Delta Goodrem, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
• 1984 – Ku Hye-sun, South Korean actress
• 1984 – Joel Zumaya, American baseball player
• 1985 – Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer
• 1986 – Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress and singer
• 1988 – Analeigh Tipton, American model, actress and figure skater
• 1989 – Baptiste Giabiconi, French model and singer
• 1990 – Hodgy Beats, American rapper and producer (Odd Future and MellowHype)
• 1990 – Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer

Deaths

• 959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine emperor (b. 905)
• 1187 – Emperor Gaozong of Song (b. 1107)
• 1208 – Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (b. 1155)
• 1456 – Ulrich II, Count of Celje (b. 1406)
• 1581 – Bayinnaung, Myanmar king (b. 1516)
• 1623 – William Camden, English historian (b. 1551)
• 1641 – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1610)
• 1677 – Aert van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
• 1699 – Hortense Mancini, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1646)
• 1766 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch diplomat and composer (b. 1692)
• 1770 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1693)
• 1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian illustrator (b. 1720)
• 1801 – Carl Stamitz, German-Czech composer (b. 1745)
• 1809 – Paul Sandby, English cartographer (b. 1725)
• 1848 – Robert Blum, German politician (b. 1810)
• 1881 – Edwin Drake, American oil driller (b. 1819)
• 1888 – Mary Jane Kelly, English victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1863)
• 1911 – Howard Pyle, American illustrator and author (b. 1853)
• 1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet (b. 1880)
• 1918 – Peter Lumsden, English general (b. 1829)
• 1919 – Eduard Müller, Swiss politician, President of Switzerland (b. 1848)
• 1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1850)
• 1932 – Basil Spalding de Garmendia, American tennis player (b. 1860)
• 1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
• 1938 – Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b. 1889)
• 1940 – Stephen Alencastre, Portuguese bishop (b. 1876)
• 1940 – Neville Chamberlain, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
• 1942 – Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1944 – Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
• 1951 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American composer (b. 1887)
• 1952 – Philip Murray, Scottish-American labor leader (b. 1886)
• 1952 – Chaim Weizmann, Israeli politician, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
• 1953 – Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabian king (b. 1880)
• 1953 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
• 1955 – André Rischmann, French rugby player (b. 1882)
• 1957 – Peter O'Connor, Irish long jumper (b. 1872)
• 1962 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian activist (b. 1858)
• 1968 – Jan Johansson, Swedish pianist (b. 1931)
• 1970 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, President of France (b. 1890)
• 1971 – Maude Fealy, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1977 – Fred Haney, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1985 – Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b. 1946)
• 1988 – David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
• 1988 – John N. Mitchell, American politician, 67th United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
• 1988 – Rosemary Timperley, British author (b. 1920)
• 1991 – Yves Montand, French actor (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Charles Fraser-Smith, English missionary and author (b. 1904)
• 1992 – William Hillcourt, Danish author (b. 1900)
• 1993 – Ross Andru, American comics artist and editor (b. 1925)
• 1996 – Joe Ghiz, Canadian politician, 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1945)
• 1997 – Helenio Herrera, French footballer and coach (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Ursula Reit, German actress (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Hugh Paddick, English actor (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian (b. 1924)
• 2001 – Giovanni Leone, Italian politician, 6th President of Italy (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Merlin Santana, American actor (b. 1976)
• 2002 – William Schutz, American psychologist (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Art Carney, American actor (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Binod Bihari Verma, Indian doctor and author (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968)
• 2004 – Emlyn Hughes, English football player (b. 1947)
• 2004 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and author (b. 1954)
• 2005 – K. R. Narayanan, Indian politician, 10th President of India (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Ellen Willis, American journalist (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Markus Wolf, German intelligence director (b. 1923)
• 2008 – Huda bin Abdul Haq, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1960)
• 2008 – Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1962)
• 2008 – Imam Samudra, Indonesian terrorist (b. 1970)
• 2012 – Leaford Bearskin, American tribal leader and air force officer (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Milan Čič, Slovak lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Iurie Darie, Romanian actor (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Joseph D. Early, American politician (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Valerie Eliot, English editor (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Major Harris, American singer (The Delfonics) (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Helen Mussallem, Canadian nurse (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1905)
• 2012 – Billy O'Brien, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Jim Sinclair, Canadian politician (b. 1933)
• 2012 – James L. Stone, American army officer (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Bill Tarmey, English actor and singer (b. 1941)

Holidays and observances

• Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Dedication of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Cathedral of the Pope (memorial feast day)
  • Theodore of Amasea (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Vitonus
  • Benignus of Armagh
  • November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of the Skulls or Dia de los ñatitas (Bolivia)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cambodia from France in 1953.
• Inventors' Day (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
• Schicksalstag (Germany)
• World Freedom Day (United States)

External links

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

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