November 15

Pre-1600

 * 655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
 * 1315 – Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morgarten.
 * 1532 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Incan Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging for a meeting in the city plaza the following day.
 * 1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.

1601–1900

 * 1705 – Rákóczi's War of Independence: The Habsburg Empire and Denmark win a military victory over the Kurucs from Hungary in the Battle of Zsibó.
 * 1760 – The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.
 * 1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
 * 1806 – Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is later named Pikes Peak in his honor.
 * 1842 – A slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation commences.
 * 1849 – Boilers of the steamboat Louisiana explode as she pulls back from the dock in New Orleans, killing more than 150 people.
 * 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins his March to the Sea.
 * 1884 – The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 met on 15 November 1884, and after an adjournment concluded on 26 February 1885, with the signature of a General Act, regulating the European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.
 * 1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

1901–present

 * 1917 – Eduskunta declares itself the supreme state power of Finland, prompting its declaration of independence and secession from Russia.
 * 1920 – The first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
 * 1920  – The Free City of Danzig is established.
 * 1922 – At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
 * 1928 – The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsizes in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
 * 1933 – Thailand holds its first election.
 * 1938 – Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.
 * 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
 * 1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
 * 1951 – Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 comrades, is sentenced to death for attempting to reestablish the Communist Party of Greece.
 * 1955 – The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
 * 1957 – Short Solent 3 crashes near Chessell.
 * 1965 – Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph (966.574 km/h) in his car, the Spirit of America, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
 * 1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
 * 1966  – Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Dallgow-Döberitz, East Germany, killing all three people on board.
 * 1967 – The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
 * 1968 – The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.
 * 1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
 * 1969  – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
 * 1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
 * 1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
 * 1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
 * 1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
 * 1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence; it is only recognized by Turkey.
 * 1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
 * 1985  – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
 * 1987 – In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
 * 1987  – Continental Airlines Flight 1713 crashes during takeoff from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, killing 25.
 * 1988 – In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
 * 1988  – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
 * 1988  – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
 * 1990 – The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
 * 1994 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro, killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to 8.5 m high.
 * 2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
 * 2000  – Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
 * 2001 – Microsoft launches the Xbox game console.
 * 2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
 * 2003 – The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, kill 25 people and wound 300 more.
 * 2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
 * 2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
 * 2012 – Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
 * 2013 – Sony releases the PlayStation 4 (PS4) game console.
 * 2016 – Hong Kong's High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament.
 * 2020 – Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers' title, equalling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher.
 * 2022 – The world population reached eight billion.

Pre-1600

 * 459 – B'utz Aj Sak Chiik, Mayan king (d. 501)
 * 1316 – John I, king of France and Navarre (d. 1316)
 * 1397 – Nicholas V, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1455)
 * 1498 – Eleanor of Austria, queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)
 * 1511 – Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet and author (d. 1536)
 * 1556 – Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal (d. 1618)

1601–1900

 * 1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French author (d. 1701)
 * 1660 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian and orientalist (d. 1746)
 * 1661 – Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss-American settler and author (d. 1743)
 * 1692 – Eusebius Amort, German poet and theologian (d. 1775)
 * 1708 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1778)
 * 1738 – William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer (d. 1822)
 * 1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet and physiognomist (d. 1801)
 * 1746 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian poet, playwright, and composer (d. 1809)
 * 1757 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and academic (d. 1830)
 * 1776 – José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican journalist and author (d. 1827)
 * 1784 – Jérôme Bonaparte, French husband of Catharina of Württemberg (d. 1860)
 * 1791 – Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (d. 1869)
 * 1793 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (d. 1880)
 * 1849 – Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and educator (d. 1934)
 * 1852 – Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (d. 1892)
 * 1859 – Christopher Hornsrud, Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)
 * 1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1946)
 * 1865 – John Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania (d. 1932)
 * 1866 – Cornelia Sorabji, Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer (d. 1954)
 * 1867 – Emil Krebs, German polyglot (d. 1930)
 * 1868 – Emil Racoviță, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer (d. 1947)
 * 1873 – Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic (d. 1945)
 * 1874 – Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner (d. 1941)
 * 1874  – August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
 * 1879 – Lewis Stone, American actor (d. 1953)
 * 1881 – Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author (d. 1960)
 * 1882 – Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (d. 1965)
 * 1886 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (d. 1951)
 * 1887 – Marianne Moore, American poet, critic, and translator (d. 1972)
 * 1887  – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator (d. 1986)
 * 1888 – Artie Matthews, American pianist and composer (d. 1958)
 * 1890 – Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (d. 1969)
 * 1891 – W. Averell Harriman, American businessman and politician, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1986)
 * 1891  – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944)
 * 1892 – Naomi Childers, American actress (d. 1964)
 * 1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
 * 1895  – Antoni Słonimski, Polish journalist, poet, and playwright (d. 1976)
 * 1896 – Leonard Lord, English businessman (d. 1967)
 * 1897 – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Health (d. 1960)
 * 1897  – Sacheverell Sitwell, English author and critic (d. 1988)
 * 1899 – Avdy Andresson, Estonian-American soldier and diplomat, Estonian Minister of War (d. 1990)

1901–present

 * 1903 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach (d. 1974)
 * 1905 – Mantovani, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1980)
 * 1906 – Curtis LeMay, American general and politician (d. 1990)
 * 1907 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel (d. 1944)
 * 1908 – Carlo Abarth, Italian engineer and businessman, founded Abarth (d. 1979)
 * 1912 – Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (d. 2010)
 * 1912  – Yi Wu, Japanese-Korean colonel (d. 1945)
 * 1913 – Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2003)
 * 1913  – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (d. 2005)
 * 1914 – V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge (d. 2014)
 * 1916 – Nita Barrow, Barbadian nurse and politician, 7th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 1995)
 * 1916  – Bill Melendez, Mexican-American voice actor, animator, director, and producer (d. 2008)
 * 1919 – Carol Bruce, American singer and actress (d. 2007)
 * 1919  – Joseph Wapner, American judge and television personality (d. 2017)
 * 1920 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
 * 1922 – Francis Brunn, German juggler (d. 2004)
 * 1922  – David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist and academic (d. 2019)
 * 1922  – Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2015)
 * 1923 – Văn Cao, Vietnamese composer, poet, and painter (d. 1995)
 * 1923  – Samuel Klein, Polish-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, founded Casas Bahia (d. 2014)
 * 1924 – Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2013)
 * 1925 – Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (d. 2014)
 * 1926 – Thomas Williams, American author and academic (d. 1990)
 * 1927 – Bill Rowling, New Zealand politician, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1995)
 * 1929 – Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2021)
 * 1929  – Joe Hinton, American singer (d. 1968)
 * 1930 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2009)
 * 1930  – Olene Walker, American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah (d. 2015)
 * 1931 – John Kerr, American actor, singer, and lawyer (d. 2013)
 * 1931  – Mwai Kibaki, Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya (d. 2022)
 * 1931  – Pascal Lissouba, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (d. 2020)
 * 1932 – Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1932  – Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972)
 * 1932  – Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher, author, and academic
 * 1933 – Gloria Foster, American actress (d. 2001)
 * 1933  – Theodore Roszak, American scholar and author (d. 2011)
 * 1934 – Joanna Barnes, American actress and author (d. 2022)
 * 1934  – Peter Dickinson, English pianist and composer (d. 2023)
 * 1935 – Nera White, American basketball player (d. 2016)
 * 1936 – H. B. Bailey, American race car driver (d. 2003)
 * 1936  – Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1936  – Tara Singh Hayer, Indian-Canadian journalist and publisher (d. 1998)
 * 1937 – Little Willie John, American singer-songwriter (d. 1968)
 * 1939 – Terry Bradbury, English footballer and manager
 * 1939  – Yaphet Kotto, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2021)
 * 1939  – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist (d. 2015)
 * 1940 – Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer (d. 2024)
 * 1940  – Tony Mendez, American CIA technical operations officer (d. 2019)
 * 1940  – Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor and screenwriter
 * 1940  – Hank Wangford, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and physician
 * 1940  – Sam Waterston, American actor
 * 1941 – Rick Kemp, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
 * 1941  – Daniel Pinkwater, American author and illustrator
 * 1942 – Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor
 * 1945 – Roger Donaldson, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1945  – Bob Gunton, American actor and singer
 * 1945  – Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian-Swedish singer
 * 1946 – Vassilis Goumas, Greek basketball player
 * 1947 – Bob Dandridge, American basketball player
 * 1947  – Malcolm Ranjith, Sri Lankan cardinal
 * 1947  – Bill Richardson, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2023)
 * 1947  – Ken Sutcliffe, Australian journalist and sportscaster
 * 1948 – Jimmy Choo, Malaysian fashion designer
 * 1948  – Teodoro Locsin, Jr., Filipino journalist, lawyer, politician and diplomat
 * 1950 – Egon Vaupel, German lawyer and politician, 16th Mayor of Marburg
 * 1951 – Beverly D'Angelo, American actress, singer, and producer
 * 1952 – Rick Atkinson, American journalist, historian, and author
 * 1952  – Randy Savage, American wrestler (d. 2011)
 * 1953 – Alexander O'Neal, American R&B singer-songwriter and arranger
 * 1953  – James Widdoes, American actor, director, and producer
 * 1954 – Kevin S. Bright, American director and producer
 * 1954  – Emma Dent Coad, British politician
 * 1954  – Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Polish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Poland
 * 1954  – Randy Thomas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 * 1954  – Tony Thompson, American R&B, disco, and rock drummer (d. 2003)
 * 1955 – Joe Leeway, English pop singer-songwriter and percussionist
 * 1956 – Michael Hampton, American guitarist and producer
 * 1957 – Gerry Connolly, Australian comedian and actor
 * 1957  – Kevin Eubanks, American guitarist and composer
 * 1957  – Harold Marcuse, American historian and educator
 * 1957  – Michael Woythe, German footballer and manager
 * 1958 – Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Australian actor and director
 * 1958  – Gu Kailai, Chinese lawyer and businesswoman
 * 1958  – Lesley Laird, British politician
 * 1959 – Tibor Fischer, English author
 * 1960 – Dawn Airey, English broadcaster
 * 1961 – Hugh McGahan, New Zealand rugby league player
 * 1962 – Mark Acres, American basketball player and educator
 * 1962  – Judy Gold, American comedian, actress, and producer
 * 1963 – Andrew Castle, English tennis player and television host
 * 1963  – Benny Elias, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
 * 1963  – Kevin J. O'Connor, American actor
 * 1964 – Stelios Aposporis, Greek footballer and manager
 * 1964  – Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2011)
 * 1964  – Tiit Sokk, Estonian basketball player and coach
 * 1965 – Nigel Bond, English snooker player
 * 1965  – Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer
 * 1966 – Rachel True, American actress
 * 1967 – Greg Anthony, American basketball player and sportscaster
 * 1967  – Cynthia Breazeal, American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic
 * 1967  – E-40, American rapper and actor
 * 1967  – Wayne Harrison, English footballer (d. 2013)
 * 1967  – François Ozon, French director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1967  – Gus Poyet, Uruguayan footballer and manager
 * 1967  – Jon Preston, New Zealand rugby player
 * 1968 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper and producer (d. 2004)
 * 1968  – Fausto Brizzi, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1968  – Teodoro Casiño, Filipino journalist and politician
 * 1968  – Jennifer Charles, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 * 1968  – Uwe Rösler, German footballer and manager
 * 1970 – Ilija Aračić, Croatian footballer and coach
 * 1970  – Jack Ingram, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1970  – Alexander Kvitashvili, Georgian-Ukrainian academic and politician, 19th Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare
 * 1970  – Patrick M'Boma, Cameroonian footballer
 * 1971 – Jay Harrington, American actor
 * 1971  – Martin Pieckenhagen, German footballer
 * 1972 – Jonny Lee Miller, English-American actor
 * 1973 – Sydney Tamiia Poitier, American actress
 * 1973  – Alamgir Sheriyar, English cricketer
 * 1974 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 * 1975 – Scott Henshall, English fashion designer
 * 1975  – Yannick Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1975  – Boris Živković, Croatian footballer
 * 1976 – Brandon DiCamillo, American comedian, actor, and stuntman
 * 1976  – Virginie Ledoyen, French actress
 * 1976  – Sule, Indonesian comedian and actor
 * 1977 – Richard Lintner, Slovak ice hockey player
 * 1977  – Steven Miles, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Queensland
 * 1977  – Sean Murray, American actor
 * 1977  – Peter Phillips, English businessman
 * 1977  – Robaire Smith, American football player
 * 1978 – Floyd Womack, American football player
 * 1979 – Brooks Bollinger, American football player and coach
 * 1979  – Josemi, Spanish footballer
 * 1979  – Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist
 * 1980 – Ace Young, American singer-songwriter and actor
 * 1981 – Drew Hodgdon, American football player
 * 1981  – Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer
 * 1982 – D. J. Fitzpatrick, American football player
 * 1982  – Rio Hirai, Japanese actress
 * 1982  – Joe Kowalewski, American football player
 * 1982  – Benjamin Krause, German rugby player
 * 1982  – Giaan Rooney, Australian swimmer
 * 1982  – Lofa Tatupu, American football player
 * 1982  – Kalu Uche, Nigerian footballer
 * 1983 – Dominic Carroll, Gibraltarian runner
 * 1983  – Sophia Di Martino, English actress
 * 1983  – Aleksandar Pavlović, Serbian basketball player
 * 1983  – Fernando Verdasco, Spanish tennis player
 * 1984 – Asia Kate Dillon, American actor and producer
 * 1985 – Lily Aldridge, American model
 * 1985  – Charron Fisher, American basketball player
 * 1985  – Simon Spender, Welsh footballer
 * 1986 – Winston Duke, Tobagonian-American actor
 * 1986  – Coye Francies, American football player
 * 1986  – Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
 * 1986  – Jerry Roush, American singer-songwriter
 * 1987 – Sergio Llull, Spanish basketball player
 * 1988 – B.o.B, American rapper, songwriter, and producer
 * 1988  – Quanitra Hollingsworth, American-Turkish basketball player
 * 1988  – Morgan Parra, French rugby player
 * 1988  – Billy Twelvetrees, English rugby player
 * 1989 – Jona Viray, Filipino singer
 * 1991 – Maxime Colin, French footballer
 * 1991  – Shailene Woodley, American actress
 * 1992 – Dylan Bundy, American baseball player
 * 1992  – Sofia Goggia, Italian skier
 * 1992  – Minami Minegishi, Japanese singer
 * 1992  – Daniela Seguel, Chilean tennis player
 * 1992  – Trevor Story, American baseball player
 * 1992  – Kevin Wimmer, Austrian footballer
 * 1993 – Arik Armstead, American football player
 * 1993  – Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer
 * 1993  – Saaya Irie, Japanese actress and singer
 * 1994 – Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russian tennis player
 * 1994 – Emma Dumont, American actress and model
 * 1994  – Bryce Cartwright, Australian rugby league player
 * 1995 – Blake Pieroni, American swimmer
 * 1995  – Karl-Anthony Towns, Dominican-American basketball player
 * 1996 – Kim Min-jae, South Korean footballer
 * 1997 – Paula Badosa, Spanish tennis player
 * 2001 – TyTy Washington Jr., American basketball player

Pre-1600

 * 165 BCE – Mattathias, Jewish resistance leader
 * 621 – Malo, Breton bishop and saint
 * 655 – Æthelhere, king of East Anglia
 * 655  – Penda of Mercia, king of Mercia
 * 1037 – Odo II, French nobleman (b. 983)
 * 1136 – Leopold III, margrave of Austria (b. 1073)
 * 1194 – Margaret I, countess of Flanders
 * 1226 – Frederick of Isenberg, German nobleman (b. 1193)
 * 1280 – Albertus Magnus, German bishop, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1193)
 * 1347 – James I of Urgell, Spanish nobleman (b. 1321)
 * 1351 – Joanna of Pfirt, duchess of Austria
 * 1379 – Otto V, duke of Bavaria
 * 1463 – Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Italian nobleman
 * 1527 – Catherine of York, English princess (b. 1479)
 * 1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian preacher, founder of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania (b. 1510)

1601–1900

 * 1628 – Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and martyr (b. 1576)
 * 1630 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
 * 1670 – John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator (b. 1592)
 * 1691 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
 * 1706 – Tsangyang, Tibetan dalai lama (b. 1683)
 * 1712 – James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1658)
 * 1712  – Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, English politician (b. 1675)
 * 1787 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (b. 1714)
 * 1794 – John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic (b. 1723)
 * 1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
 * 1832 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and businessman (b. 1767)
 * 1836 – Herman of Alaska, Russian missionary and saint (b. 1750s)
 * 1845 – William Knibb, English Baptist minister and Jamaican missionary (b. 1803)
 * 1853 – Maria II, Portuguese queen and regent (b. 1819)
 * 1892 – Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer (b. 1850)
 * 1897 – Alfred Kennerley, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1810)

1901–present

 * 1908 – Cixi, China empress dowager and regent (b. 1835)
 * 1910 – Wilhelm Raabe, German author (b. 1831)
 * 1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
 * 1917 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1858)
 * 1919 – Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (b. 1862)
 * 1919  – Mohammad Farid, Egyptian lawyer and politician (b. 1868)
 * 1919  – Alfred Werner, French-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
 * 1921 – Tadhg Barry, veteran Irish republican and leading trade unionist (b. 1880)
 * 1922 – Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1866)
 * 1922  – Petros Protopapadakis, Greek mathematician and politician, 107th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1854)
 * 1922  – Nikolaos Stratos, Greek lawyer and politician, 106th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1872)
 * 1941 – Wal Handley, English motorcycle racer (b. 1902)
 * 1942 – Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Swiss author and photographer (b. 1908)
 * 1945 – Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (b. 1864)
 * 1949 – Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
 * 1949  – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)
 * 1951 – Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (b. 1862)
 * 1954 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)
 * 1956 – Emma Richter, German paleontologist (b. 1888)
 * 1958 – Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)
 * 1959 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
 * 1960 – Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)
 * 1961 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
 * 1961  – Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch pathologist and academic (b. 1883)
 * 1963 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1888)
 * 1966 – Dimitrios Tofalos, Greek weightlifter and wrestler (b. 1877)
 * 1966  – William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (b. 1887)
 * 1967 – Michael J. Adams, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
 * 1970 – Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Egyptian-Greek politician (b. 1884)
 * 1971 – Rudolf Abel, English-Russian colonel (b. 1903)
 * 1976 – Jean Gabin, French actor, singer, and producer (b. 1904)
 * 1978 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (b. 1901)
 * 1980 – Bill Lee, American actor and singer (b. 1916)
 * 1981 – Steve Macko, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)
 * 1981  – Enid Markey, American actress (b. 1894)
 * 1981  – Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (b. 1938)
 * 1982 – Vinoba Bhave, Indian philosopher and Gandhian, Bharat Ratna Awardee (b. 1895)
 * 1982  – Martín de Álzaga, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1901)
 * 1983 – John Grimaldi, English keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1955)
 * 1983  – Charlie Grimm, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
 * 1983  – John Le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912)
 * 1984 – Baby Fae, American infant, who received baboon heart (b. 1984)
 * 1985 – Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter, photographer, and poet (b. 1913)
 * 1988 – Billo Frómeta, Dominican conductor and composer (b. 1915)
 * 1988  – Ieronymos I of Athens, Greek archbishop and theologian (b. 1905)
 * 1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
 * 1996 – Alger Hiss, American lawyer and diplomat (b. 1904)
 * 1997 – Saul Chaplin, American director and composer (b. 1912)
 * 1998 – Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (b. 1941)
 * 1998  – Ludvík Daněk, Czech discus thrower (b. 1937)
 * 2000 – Edoardo Agnelli, son of industrialist Gianni Agnelli, converted to Shia Islam (b. 1954)
 * 2003 – Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (b. 1910)
 * 2003  – Dorothy Loudon, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
 * 2003  – Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (b. 1923)
 * 2003  – Speedy West, American guitarist and producer (b. 1924)
 * 2004 – Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1909)
 * 2004  – John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian actor and screenwriter (b. 1930)
 * 2005 – Adrian Rogers, American pastor and author (b. 1931)
 * 2005  – Arto Salminen, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1959)
 * 2006 – David K. Wyatt, American historian and author (b. 1937)
 * 2007 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1928)
 * 2008 – Grace Hartigan, American painter (b. 1922)
 * 2009 – Serbian Patriarch Pavle II (b. 1914)
 * 2010 – Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (b. 1932)
 * 2010  – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)
 * 2010  – William Edwin Self, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1921)
 * 2011 – Oba Chandler, American murderer (b. 1946)
 * 2012 – Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (b. 1954)
 * 2012  – Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
 * 2012  – Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (b. 1983)
 * 2012  – K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (b. 1931)
 * 2012  – Frode Thingnæs, Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (b. 1940)
 * 2013 – Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (b. 1929)
 * 2013  – Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (b. 1919)
 * 2013  – Mike McCormack, American football player and coach (b. 1930)
 * 2014 – Jack Bridger Chalker, English painter and academic (b. 1918)
 * 2014  – Lucien Clergue, French photographer and educator (b. 1934)
 * 2014  – Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1983)
 * 2014  – Reg Withers, Australian soldier and politician, Australian Minister for the Capital Territory (b. 1924)
 * 2015 – Gisèle Prassinos, French author (b. 1920)
 * 2015  – Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic (b. 1930)
 * 2015  – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (b. 1929)
 * 2016 – Mose Allison, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1927)
 * 2017 – Lil Peep, American singer and rapper (b. 1996)
 * 2023 – Žarko Laušević, Serbian actor (b. 1960)

Holidays and observances

 * America Recycles Day (United States)
 * Christian feast day:
 * Abibus of Edessa
 * Albert the Great
 * Blessed Caius of Korea
 * Didier of Cahors
 * Francis Asbury and George Whitefield (Episcopal Church)
 * Blessed Hugh Faringdon
 * Leopold III, a public holiday in Lower Austria and Vienna.
 * Malo
 * Mechell
 * November 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Day of the German-speaking Community of Belgium (German-speaking Community of Belgium)
 * Day of the Imprisoned Writer (International observance)
 * Independence Day, unilaterally declared in 1988. (Palestine)
 * King's Feast (Belgium)
 * National Tree Planting Day (Sri Lanka)
 * Peace Day (Ivory Coast)
 * Republic Proclamation Day (Brazil)
 * Shichi-Go-San (Japan)
 * Republic Day (Northern Cyprus)
 * The beginning of Winter Lent (Eastern Orthodox)