November 25

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November 25 is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 36 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 571 BC – Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
• 1034 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies. Donnchad, the son of his daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
• 1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England.
• 1177 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
• 1343 – A tsunami, caused by the earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples (Italy) and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.
• 1487 – Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England.
• 1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins.
• 1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
• 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
• 1755 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
• 1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Fort Pitt is built nearby and it grows into modern Pittsburgh.
• 1759 – An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.
• 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
• 1795 – Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
• 1826 – The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
• 1833 – A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2 rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
• 1839 – A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
• 1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
• 1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
• 1876 – American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
• 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
• 1917 – German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
• 1918 – Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
• 1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength are reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. There are 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
• 1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
• 1940 – World War II: First flight of the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
• 1943 – World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-Fascist Council for the People's Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 1947 – Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
• 1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
• 1950 – The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, otherwise known at the time as the "Storm of the Century", strikes New England with hurricane force winds resulting in massive forest blow-downs and storm surge damage along the Northeast coast including New York City. This storm also brings blizzard conditions to the Appalachian Mountains and Ohio Valley, becoming one of the worst storms of all time. 353 people die in the event.
• 1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London later becoming the longest continuously-running play in history.
• 1952 – Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends as American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
• 1958 – French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
• 1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
• 1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
• 1973 – George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
• 1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
• 1977 – Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. is found guilty by the Philippine. Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad.
• 1981 – Pope John Paul II appoints Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
• 1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
• 1986 – Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• 1986 – The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
• 1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
• 1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.
• 1996 – An ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm affects Florida and winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
• 1999 – The United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal Sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in Dominican Republic.
• 2000 – The 2000 Baku Earthquake takes place, Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaving 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan and becoming the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
• 2008 – Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in 9 decades.
• 2009 – Devastating floods, known as the 2009 Saudi Arabian Floods, following freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage. 3,000 cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.

Births

• 1454 – Catherine Cornaro, Greek wife of James II of Cyprus (d. 1510)
• 1562 – Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright and poet (d. 1635)
• 1577 – Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch admiral (d. 1629)
• 1609 – Henrietta Maria of France (d. 1669)
• 1638 – Catherine of Braganza, consort of Charles II of England (d. 1705)
• 1666 – Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, Italian violin maker (d. 1740)
• 1697 – Maria Karolina Sobieska Polish daughter of Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg (d. 1740)
• 1703 – Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)
• 1714 – Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783)
• 1752 – Johann Friedrich Reichardt, German composer and critic (d. 1814)
• 1778 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, English author (d. 1856)
• 1787 – Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist (d. 1863)
• 1814 – Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878)
• 1815 – William Sawyer, Canadian politician (d. 1904)
• 1817 – John Bigelow, American lawyer and politician (d. 1911)
• 1835 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman, founded the Carnegie Steel Company (d. 1919)
• 1841 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (d. 1902)
• 1843 – Henry Ware Eliot American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1919)
• 1844 – Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (d. 1929)
• 1845 – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese author (d. 1900)
• 1846 – Carrie Nation, American activist (d. 1911)
• 1858 – Alfred Capus, French author (d. 1922)
• 1862 – Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (d. 1901)
• 1862 – Gustaf Söderström, Swedish tug of war competitor (d. 1958)
• 1868 – Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1937)
• 1869 – Ben Lindsey, American judge (d. 1934)
• 1870 – Winthrop Ames, American director, playwright, and producer (d. 1937)
• 1872 – Robert Maysack, American gymnast (d. 1960)
• 1874 – Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910)
• 1876 – Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1936)
• 1880 – John Flynn, Australian minister, founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (d. 1951)
• 1880 – Elsie J. Oxenham, English author (d. 1960)
• 1881 – Jacob Fichman, Romanian-Israeli poet and critic (d. 1958)
• 1881 – Pope John XXIII (d. 1963)
• 1883 – Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic and author (d. 1939)
• 1883 – Percy Marmont, English actor (d. 1977)
• 1883 – Merrill C. Meigs, American publisher (d. 1968)
• 1887 – Nikolai Vavilov, Russian geneticist (d. 1943)
• 1890 – Isaac Rosenberg, English poet (d. 1918)
• 1891 – Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (d. 1941)
• 1895 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (d. 1991)
• 1895 – Helen Hooven Santmyer, American poet (d. 1986)
• 1895 – Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1979)
• 1896 – Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic (d. 1989)
• 1896 – Albertus Soegijapranata, Archbishop of Semarang and Vicar Apostolic of Semarang (d. 1963)
• 1898 – Aarne Viisimaa, Estonian opera singer and opera director (d. 1989)
• 1900 – Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (d. 1947)
• 1901 – Arthur Liebehenschel, German SS officer (d. 1948)
• 1902 – Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985)
• 1904 – Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower (d. 1964)
• 1904 – Ba Jin, Chinese author (d. 2005)
• 1904 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2000)
• 1907 – John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and pilot (d. 1938)
• 1909 – P. D. Eastman, American author and illustrator (d. 1986)
• 1911 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (d. 1984)
• 1913 – Lewis Thomas, American physician (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)
• 1914 – Léon Zitrone, Russian-French journalist (d. 1995)
• 1915 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and politician, 30th President of Chile (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Armando Villanueva, Peruvian politician, 121st Prime Minister of Peru (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (d. 2010)
• 1919 – Norman Tokar, American director, producer, and scriptwriter (d. 1979)
• 1920 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Noel Neill, American actress
• 1920 – Putra of Perlis (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Shelagh Fraser, English actress (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Gloria Lasso, Spanish-French singer (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Mauno Koivisto, Finnish politician, 9th President of Finland
• 1924 – Paul Desmond, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
• 1924 – Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Poul Anderson, American author (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
• 1926 – Ranganath Misra, Indian jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India (d. 2012)
• 1927 – John K. Cooley, American journalist and author (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Judy Crichton, American television producer (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Nat Adderley, American trumpet player (d. 2000)
• 1932 – Takayo Fischer, American actress and singer
• 1933 – Kathryn Grant, American actress and singer
• 1936 – Trisha Brown, American dancer and choreographer
• 1938 – Rosanna Schiaffino, Italian actress (d. 2009)
• 1939 – Martin Feldstein, American economist
• 1939 – Eleni Karaindrou, Greek composer
• 1940 – Reinhard Furrer, American physicist and astronaut (d. 1995)
• 1940 – Joe Gibbs, American football coach
• 1941 – Rein Jan Hoekstra, Dutch politician
• 1940 – Jan Jongbloed, Dutch footballer
• 1940 – Karl Offmann, Mauritian politician, President of Mauritius
• 1941 – Christos Papanikolaou, Greek pole vaulter
• 1941 – Gerald Seymour, English author
• 1941 – Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani spiritual leader and author
• 1941 – Percy Sledge, American singer
• 1942 – Bob Lind, American singer-songwriter
• 1942 – Mimis Papaioannou, Greek footballer
• 1943 – Jerry Portnoy American singer-songwriter and harmonica player
• 1944 – Maarten 't Hart, Dutch biologist and author
• 1944 – Ben Stein, American actor, lawyer, and author
• 1945 – Gail Collins, American journalist
• 1945 – Patrick Nagel, American illustrator (d. 1984)
• 1945 – George D. Webster, American football player (d. 2007)
• 1946 – Marc Brown, American author
• 1946 – Mike Doyle, English footballer (d. 2011)
• 1947 – Jonathan Kaplan, French-American director and producer
• 1947 – John Larroquette, American actor
• 1947 – Tracey Walter, American actor
• 1948 – Jacques Dupuis, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1948 – Lars Eighner, American author
• 1949 – Kerry O'Keeffe, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1950 – Chris Claremont, American comic book writer and novelist
• 1950 – Alexis Wright, Australian author
• 1951 – Bucky Dent, American baseball player
• 1951 – Bill Morrissey, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
• 1951 – Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Spanish author and journalist
• 1951 – Johnny Rep, Dutch footballer
• 1952 – Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer and politician
• 1952 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2004)
• 1952 – John Lynch, American politician, 80th Governor of New Hampshire
• 1953 – Graham Eadie, Australian rugby player
• 1953 – Jeffrey Skilling, American businessman
• 1955 – Kurt Niedermayer, German footballer
• 1955 – Connie Palmen, Dutch author
• 1955 – Bruno Tonioli, Italian dancer and choreographer
• 1956 – Hélène Goudin, Swedish politician
• 1956 – Kalle Randalu, Estonian pianist
• 1957 – Bob Ehrlich, American politician, 60th Governor of Maryland
• 1959 – Charles Kennedy, Scottish politician
• 1959 – Steve Rothery, English guitarist and songwriter (Marillion and The Wishing Tree)
• 1960 – Amy Grant, American singer
• 1960 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., American journalist, publisher, and lawyer, co-founded George Magazine (d. 1999)
• 1962 – Gilbert Delorme, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1962 – Hironobu Sakaguchi, Japanese game designer and director, founded Mistwalker
• 1963 – Kevin Chamberlin, American actor
• 1963 – Holly Cole, Canadian singer
• 1963 – Chip Kelly, American football coach
• 1963 – Bernie Kosar, American football player
• 1964 – Mark Lanegan, American singer-songwriter (Screaming Trees and The Gutter Twins)
• 1964 – Bert van Vlaanderen, Dutch runner
• 1965 – Cris Carter, American football player
• 1965 – Dougray Scott, Scottish actor
• 1966 – Tim Armstrong, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Rancid, The Transplants, Devils Brigade, Operation Ivy, Dance Hall Crashers)
• 1966 – Billy Burke, American actor
• 1967 – Kazuya Nakai, Japanese voice actor
• 1967 – Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer
• 1967 – Rodney Sheppard, American guitarist (Sugar Ray)
• 1967 – Gregg Turkington, Australian-American comedian and singer (Zip Code Rapists and Faxed Head)
• 1968 – Jacqueline Hennessy, Canadian actress and journalist
• 1968 – Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress
• 1968 – Galin Nikov, Bulgarian pole vaulter
• 1968 – Erick Sermon, American rapper and producer (EPMD)
• 1969 – Dexter Jackson, American bodybuilder
• 1971 – Christina Applegate, American actress and singer
• 1971 – Magnus Arvedson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1972 – Mark Morton, American guitarist and songwriter (Lamb of God)
• 1973 – Steven de Jongh, Dutch cyclist
• 1973 – Octavio Dotel, Dominican baseball player
• 1973 – Erick Strickland, American basketball player
• 1973 – Eddie Steeples, American actor
• 1974 – Kenneth Mitchell, Canadian actor
• 1975 – Abdelkader Benali, Moroccan-Dutch journalist and author
• 1976 – Clint Mathis, American soccer player
• 1976 – Donovan McNabb, American football player
• 1976 – Olena Vitrychenko, Ukrainian gymnast
• 1977 – Guillermo Cañas, Argentine tennis player
• 1977 – Marcus Marshall, Australian race car driver
• 1978 – Ringo Sheena, Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Tokyo Jihen)
• 1979 – Thea Gilmore, English singer-songwriter
• 1979 – Michael Lehan, American football player
• 1980 – Valerie Azlynn, American actress
• 1980 – John-Michael Liles, American ice hockey player
• 1980 – Josh Mathews, American wrestler and journalist
• 1980 – Aaron Mokoena, South African footballer
• 1980 – Murray SawChuck, Canadian-American magician, comedian, and actor
• 1980 – Nick Swisher, American baseball player
• 1980 – Steffen Thier, German rugby player
• 1981 – Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Lee Bum-Ho, South Korean baseball player
• 1981 – Barbara Pierce Bush, American daughter of George W. Bush
• 1981 – Jenna Bush Hager, American author and journalist
• 1981 – Jared Jeffries, American basketball player
• 1981 – Maurício Rua, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1981 – Chevon Troutman, American basketball player
• 1983 – Joey Chestnut, American competitive eater
• 1983 – Kirsty Crawford, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
• 1984 – Peter Siddle, Australian cricketer
• 1984 – Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
• 1985 – Dan Carpenter, American football player
• 1985 – Remona Fransen, Dutch pentathlete
• 1986 – Katie Cassidy, American actress and singer
• 1986 – Craig Gardner, English footballer
• 1986 – Amber Hagerman, American kidnapping and murder victim, inspired the AMBER Alert System (d. 1996)
• 1987 – Dolla, American rapper (d. 2009)
• 1988 – Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (d. 2010)
• 1988 – Jay Spearing, English footballer
• 1989 – Tom Dice, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1990 – Rye Rye, American rapper, dancer, and actress
• 1991 – Frank M Campos Jr, American entrepreneur and Businessman
• 1991 – Jamie Grace, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1991 – Luca Tremolada, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Kevin Woo, American-South Korean singer (U-KISS and Xing)
• 1992 – Ana Bogdan, Romanian tennis player
• 1992 – Martin del Rosario, Filipino actor
• 1992 – Zack Shada, American actor
• 1993 – Danny Kent, English Grand Prix motorcycle racer.

Deaths

• 311 – Pope Peter of Alexandria
• 1034 – Malcolm II of Scotland (b. 980)
• 1120 – William Adelin, English son of Henry I of England (b. 1104)
• 1185 – Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
• 1326 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
• 1374 – Philip II, Prince of Taranto (b. 1329)
• 1456 – Jacques Cœur, French merchant (b. 1395)
• 1517 – Marcus Musurus, Greek scholar and philosopher (b. 1470)
• 1560 – Andrea Doria, Italian admiral (b. 1466)
• 1626 – Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)
• 1694 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
• 1700 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician, 10th Mayor of New York City (b. 1643)
• 1748 – Isaac Watts, English hymnwriter (b. 1674)
• 1755 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer (b. 1687)
• 1785 – Richard Glover, English poet and politician (b. 1712)
• 1865 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar (b. 1821)
• 1884 – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
• 1885 – Thomas A. Hendricks, American politician, 21st Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
• 1885 – Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
• 1907 – George Sheldon, American diver (b. 1874)
• 1909 – Edward P. Allen, American politician (b. 1839)
• 1920 – Gaston Chevrolet, French-American race car driver (b. 1892)
• 1944 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American judge (b. 1866)
• 1944 – Kunio Nakagawa, Japanese military officer (b. 1898)
• 1947 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
• 1948 – Kanbun Uechi, Japanese martial artist (b. 1877)
• 1949 – Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer (b. 1878)
• 1950 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
• 1950 – Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
• 1955 – Herman Hoogland, Dutch draughts player (b. 1891)
• 1955 – Louis Lachenal, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
• 1956 – Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet director (b. 1894)
• 1957 – Prince George of Greece and Denmark (b. 1869)
• 1959 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
• 1961 – Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (b. 1866)
• 1963 – Alexander Marinesko, Russian navy officer (b. 1913)
• 1965 – Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890)
• 1968 – Upton Sinclair, American author and politician (b. 1878)
• 1968 – Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer (b. 1908)
• 1970 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, actor, and director (b. 1925)
• 1972 – Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (b. 1886)
• 1973 – Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-English actor (b. 1928)
• 1974 – Nick Drake, Burmese-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 1974 – U Thant, Burmese diplomat, 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1909)
• 1978 – Elaine Esposito, American coma victim (b. 1934)
• 1981 – Jack Albertson, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1984 – Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1913)
• 1985 – Geoffrey Grigson, British poet and critic (b. 1905)
• 1985 – Franz Hildebrandt, German-Lutheran pastor and theologian (b. 1909)
• 1985 – Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 1987 – Harold Washington, American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)
• 1989 – Alva R. Fitch, American general (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Merab Mamardashvili, Georgian philosopher (b. 1930)
• 1991 – Eleanor Audley, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1995 – Alan Nicholls, English footballer (b. 1973)
• 1995 – Léon Zitrone, Russian-French journalist (b. 1914)
• 1997 – Hastings Banda, Malawian politician, 1st President of Malawi (b. 1898)
• 1998 – Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
• 1999 – Valentín Campa, Mexican union leader and politician (b. 1904)
• 2000 – Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1917)
• 2001 – Harry Devlin, American illustrator (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Karel Reisz, Czech-English director (b. 1926)
• 2005 – George Best, Irish footballer (b. 1946)
• 2005 – Richard Burns, English race car driver (b. 1971)
• 2006 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian illustrator (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Leo Chiosso, Italian songwriter (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1979)
• 2006 – Phyllis Fraser, American actress and publisher, co-founded Beginner Books (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Antonis Vratsanos, Greek army officer (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Kevin DuBrow, American singer-songwriter (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
• 2007 – Peter Lipton, American philosopher (b. 1954)
• 2010 – Alfred Balk, American journalist (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Peter Christopherson English musician, songwriter, and director (Soisong, Coil, and Throbbing Gristle) (b. 1955)
• 2010 – C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Bernard Matthews, English businessman, founded Bernard Matthews Farms (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Coco Robicheaux, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Juan Carlos Calderón, Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Earl Carroll, American singer (The Cadillacs and The Coasters) (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Dave Sexton, English footballer and manager (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Dinah Sheridan, English actress (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Lary J. Swoboda, American politician (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Jim Temp, American football player (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Simeon ten Holt, Dutch composer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Carlisle Towery, American basketball player (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Catherine of Alexandria
  • Elizabeth of Reute
  • Catherine Labouré
  • November 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Evacuation Day (19th century New York City)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Suriname from the Netherlands in 1975.
• International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (International)
• National Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• Teachers' Day or Hari Guru (Indonesia)
• Vajiravudh Day (Thailand)

External links

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

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