November 9

Pre-1600

 * 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.
 * 1180 – The Battle of Fujigawa: Minamoto forces (30,000 men) under Minamoto no Yoritomo defeat Taira no Koremori during a night attack near the Fuji River but he escapes safely with the routed army.
 * 1277 – The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement forced on Llywelyn ap Gruffudd by King Edward I of England, brings a temporary end to the Welsh Wars.
 * 1307 – Knights Templar officer Hugues de Pairaud is forced to confess during the Trials of the Knights Templar. He was persecuted on the charges of false idolism and sodomy.
 * 1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf.
 * 1330 – At the Battle of Posada, Basarab I of Wallachia defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.
 * 1372 – Trần Duệ Tông succeeds his brother Trần Nghệ Tông as King of Vietnam.
 * 1431 – The Battle of Ilava: The Hungarians defeat the Hussite army.
 * 1456 – Ulrich II, Count of Celje, last ruler of the County of Cilli, is assassinated in Belgrade.
 * 1520 – More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.

1601–1900

 * 1620 – The Bohemian King Frederick I flees Prague to Wroclaw one day after the defeat of his troops in the Battle of White Mountain.
 * 1688 – Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
 * 1719 – In a treaty between Sweden and Hanover at the close of the Great Northern War, Sweden cedes the Duchies of Bremen and Verden (in northern Germany) to Hanover.
 * 1720 – The synagogue of Judah HeHasid 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.
 * 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 – The Dublin Society of United Irishmen is founded.
 * 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming First Consul of the successor Consulate Government.
 * 1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
 * 1862 – American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
 * 1867 – The Tokugawa shogunate hands back power to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
 * 1870 - The Battle of Coulmiers ends in a Pyrrhic victory for the French army during the Franco-German War of 1870.
 * 1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
 * 1881 – Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.
 * 1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
 * 1888 – Jack the Ripper murders Mary Jane Kelly, becoming his final victim in the Whitechapel murders.
 * 1900 – Russian invasion of Manchuria: Russia completes its occupation of Manchuria with 100,000 troops.

1901–present

 * 1901 – The Prince George, Duke of Cornwall (later George V of the United Kingdom) becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
 * 1905 – The Province of Alberta, Canada, holds its first general election.
 * 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country, doing 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, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
 * 1914 – SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney (1912) in the Battle of Cocos.
 * 1917 – The Balfour Declaration is published in The Times newspaper.
 * 1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
 * 1921 – The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista or PNF) is founded in Italy.
 * 1923 – In Munich, police and government troops crush the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch.
 * 1935 – The Committee for Industrial Organization, the precursor to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
 * 1936 – American fashion designer Ruth Harkness encounters and captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan; it becomes the first live giant panda to enter the United States.
 * 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.
 * 1938 – Kristallnacht occurs, instigated by the Nazis using the killing of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan as justification.
 * 1940 – Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari by the Polish government-in-exile.
 * 1942 – Battle of Stalingrad: German forces of the 6th Army under general Friedrich Paulus reach finally the river bank of the Volga, capturing 90% of the ruined city of Stalingrad and splitting the remaining Soviet forces into two narrow pockets.
 * 1943 – An agreement for the foundation of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration is signed by 44 countries in the White House, Washington, D.C.
 * 1945 – Soo Bahk Do and Moo Duk Kwan martial arts are founded in Korea.
 * 1953 – Cambodia gains independence from France.
 * 1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of the Ford Motor Company, becoming the first non-Ford family member to serve in that post. He resigns a month later to join the newly elected John F. Kennedy administration.
 * 1963 – At a coal mine in 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  – A 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 Florida's Cape Kennedy.
 * 1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
 * 1971 – American banker John List murdered his wife, mother, and three children with a pair of handguns.
 * 1979 – Cold War: 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 fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.
 * 1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.
 * 1993 – Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War.
 * 1994 – The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
 * 1998 – A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
 * 1998  – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
 * 1999 – TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.
 * 2000 – Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.
 * 2004 – Firefox 1.0 is released.
 * 2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
 * 2005  – Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
 * 2012 – A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
 * 2012  – At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.
 * 2014 – A non-binding self-determination consultation is held in Catalonia, asking Catalan citizens their opinion on whether Catalonia should become a state and, if so, whether it should be an independent state.
 * 2020 – Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: An armistice agreement is signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia.
 * 2023 – U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.

Pre-1600

 * 955 – Gyeongjong, Korean king (d. 981)
 * 1383 – Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (d. 1441)
 * 1389 – Isabella of Valois, French princess and queen of England (d. 1409)
 * 1414 – Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
 * 1455 – John V, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count (d. 1516)
 * 1467 – Charles II, Duke of Guelders, count of Zutphen from 1492 (d. 1538)
 * 1467  – Philippa of Guelders, twin sister of Charles II, Dutch duchess consort (d. 1547)
 * 1522 – Martin Chemnitz, German astrologer and theologian (d. 1586)
 * 1535 – Nanda Bayin, king of Burma (d. 1600)
 * 1580 – Johannes Narssius, Dutch physician and poet (d. 1637)

1601–1900

 * 1606 – Hermann Conring, German philosopher and educator (d. 1681)
 * 1664 – Johann Speth, German organist and composer (d. 1719)
 * 1664  – Henry Wharton, English librarian and author (d. 1695)
 * 1666 – Carl Gustaf Armfeldt, Swedish officer, general and friherre (d. 1736)
 * 1683 – George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
 * 1697 – Claudio Casciolini, Italian singer and composer (d. 1760)
 * 1719 – Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian priest, theoretician, and academic (d. 1796)
 * 1721 – Mark Akenside, English physician and poet (d. 1770)
 * 1723 – Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1787)
 * 1731 – Benjamin Banneker, American farmer, surveyor, and author (d. 1806)
 * 1732 – Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, French businesswoman and author (d. 1776)
 * 1773 – Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, Danish author (d. 1856)
 * 1780 – Nicolai Wergeland, Norwegian priest, writer and politician (d. 1848)
 * 1799 – Gustav, Prince of Vasa (d. 1877)
 * 1801 – Gail Borden, American surveyor and publisher, invented condensed milk (d. 1874)
 * 1802 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister, journalist, and activist (d. 1837)
 * 1810 – Bernhard von Langenbeck, German general, surgeon, and academic (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 the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
 * 1850 – Louis Lewin, German pharmacologist and academic (d. 1929)
 * 1853 – Stanford White, American architect and partner, co-founded McKim, Mead & White (d. 1906)
 * 1854 – Maud Howe Elliott, American activist and author (d. 1948)
 * 1862 – Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter and educator (d. 1936)
 * 1869 – Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1934)
 * 1871 – Florence R. Sabin, American medical scientist (d. 1953)
 * 1872 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian author and poet (d. 1941)
 * 1873 – Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist and surgeon (d. 1941)
 * 1874 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist and academic (d. 1954)
 * 1877 – Enrico De Nicola, Italian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of the Italian Republic (d. 1959)
 * 1877  – Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and politician (d. 1938)
 * 1878 – Ahn Changho, Korean activist and politician (d. 1938)
 * 1879 – Jenő Bory, Hungarian architect and sculptor (d. 1959)
 * 1879  – Milan Šufflay, Croatian historian and politician (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 and educator (d. 1952)
 * 1885  – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1955)
 * 1886 – Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
 * 1888 – Jean Monnet, French economist and diplomat (d. 1979)
 * 1891 – Louisa E. Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (d. 1983)
 * 1894 – Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
 * 1894  – Dietrich von Choltitz, General of the German Army during World War II (d. 1966)
 * 1897 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (d. 1941)
 * 1897  – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
 * 1900 – Oskar Loorits, Estonian author and academic (d. 1961)

1901–present

 * 1902 – Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (d. 1968)
 * 1904 – Viktor Brack, German SS officer (d. 1948)
 * 1904  – Heiti Talvik, Estonian poet (d. 1947)
 * 1905 – Erika Mann, German-Swiss actress and author (d. 1969)
 * 1906 – Arthur Rudolph, German scientist and engineer (d. 1996)
 * 1913 – Paulene Myers, American actress (d. 1996)
 * 1914 – Thomas Berry, American priest, historian, and theologian (d. 2009)
 * 1914  – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and inventor (d. 2000)
 * 1915 – André François, Romanian-French illustrator, painter, and sculptor (d. 2005)
 * 1915  – Sargent Shriver, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 21st United States Ambassador to France (d. 2011)
 * 1916 – Martha Settle Putney, American lieutenant, historian, and educator (d. 2008)
 * 1918 – Spiro Agnew, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
 * 1918  – Florence Chadwick, American swimmer (d. 1995)
 * 1918  – Thomas Ferebee, American colonel (d. 2000)
 * 1918  – Choi Hong Hi, South Korean general and martial artist, co-founded taekwondo (d. 2002)
 * 1919 – Eva Todor, Brazilian actress (d. 2017)
 * 1920 – Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin of Medgar Evers (d. 2001)
 * 1920  – Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (d. 2014)
 * 1921 – Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano and actress (d. 2011)
 * 1921  – Viktor Chukarin, Ukrainian gymnast and coach (d. 1984)
 * 1922 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1965)
 * 1922  – Raymond Devos, Belgian-French comedian and clown (d. 2006)
 * 1922  – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1974)
 * 1923 – Alice Coachman, American high jumper (d. 2014)
 * 1923  – Elizabeth Hawley, American-Nepali journalist and historian (d. 2018)
 * 1923  – James Schuyler, American poet and author (d. 1991)
 * 1924 – Robert Frank, Swiss-American photographer and director (d. 2019)
 * 1925 – Alistair Horne, English-American journalist, historian, and author (d. 2017)
 * 1926 – Vicente Aranda, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
 * 1926  – Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
 * 1928 – Anne Sexton, American poet and academic (d. 1974)
 * 1929 – Marc Favreau, Canadian actor and poet (d. 2005)
 * 1929  – Imre Kertész, Hungarian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
 * 1931 – Whitey Herzog, American baseball player and manager (d. 2024)
 * 1931  – Valery Shumakov, Russian surgeon and transplantologist (d. 2008)
 * 1931  – George Witt, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
 * 1932 – Frank Selvy, American basketball player and coach
 * 1933 – Ed Corney, American professional bodybuilder (d. 2019)
 * 1933  – Jim Perry, American game show host (d. 2015)
 * 1934 – Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish economist and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Sweden
 * 1934  – Ronald Harwood, South African author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
 * 1934  – Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (d. 1996)
 * 1935 – Bob Gibson, American baseball player and coach (d. 2020)
 * 1935  – David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, English businessman and politician (d. 2021)
 * 1936 – Bob Graham, American lawyer and politician, 38th Governor of Florida (d. 2024)
 * 1936  – Mikhail Tal, Latvian-Russian chess player and author (d. 1992)
 * 1936  – Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
 * 1937 – Roger McGough, English author, poet, and playwright
 * 1937  – Donald Trelford, English journalist and academic (d. 2023)
 * 1937  – Clyde Wells, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Newfoundland
 * 1938 – Ti-Grace Atkinson, American author and critic
 * 1939 – Paul Cameron, American psychologist and academic
 * 1939  – Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham, English academic and politician
 * 1941 – David Constant, English cricketer and umpire
 * 1941  – Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
 * 1941  – John Singleton, Australian businessman
 * 1942 – Victor Blank, English businessman and philanthropist
 * 1942  – Tom Weiskopf, American golfer and sportscaster (d. 2022)
 * 1944 – Chitresh Das, Indian dancer and choreographer (d. 2015)
 * 1944  – Phil May, English singer-songwriter (d. 2020)
 * 1945 – Moeletsi Mbeki, South African economist and academic
 * 1945  – Charlie Robinson, American actor (d. 2021)
 * 1946 – Benny Mardones, American singer-songwriter (d. 2020)
 * 1946  – Marina Warner, English author and academic
 * 1947 – Robert David Hall, American actor, singer, and pianist
 * 1948 – Bille August, Danish director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
 * 1948  – Joe Bouchard, American bass player and songwriter
 * 1948  – Jane Humphries, English economist, historian, and academic
 * 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
 * 1952 – Sherrod Brown, American academic and politician
 * 1952  – Gladys Requena, Venezuelan politician
 * 1952  – Jim Riggleman, American baseball player, coach, and manager
 * 1953 – Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
 * 1954 – Aed Carabao, Thai singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1955 – Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1955  – Bob Nault, Canadian lawyer and politician
 * 1959 – Thomas Quasthoff, German opera singer
 * 1960 – Andreas Brehme, German footballer and manager (d. 2024)
 * 1960  – Sarah Franklin, American-English anthropologist and academic
 * 1960  – Demetra Plakas, American drummer
 * 1961 – Jill Dando, English journalist (d. 1999)
 * 1963 – Anthony Bowie, American basketball player
 * 1964 – Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor, director, and producer
 * 1965 – Daphne Guinness, English-Irish model and actress
 * 1965  – Andrei Lapushkin, Russian footballer
 * 1965  – Ryan Murphy, American television writer, producer, and director
 * 1965  – Bryn Terfel, Welsh opera singer
 * 1967 – Ricky Otto, English footballer
 * 1968 – Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist and educator
 * 1968  – Colin Hay, English political scientist, author, and academic
 * 1969 – Sandra Denton, Jamaican-American rapper and actress
 * 1969  – Ramona Milano, Canadian actress
 * 1969  – Roxanne Shanté, American rapper
 * 1969  – Allison Wolfe, American singer-songwriter
 * 1970 – Nelson Diebel, American swimmer and coach
 * 1970  – Domino, American DJ and producer
 * 1970  – Guido Görtzen, Dutch volleyball player
 * 1970  – Bill Guerin, American ice hockey player, coach, and executive
 * 1970  – Chris Jericho, American-Canadian wrestler
 * 1970  – Scarface, American rapper and producer
 * 1970  – Susan Tedeschi, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1971 – David Duval, American golfer and sportscaster
 * 1971  – Sabri Lamouchi, French footballer and manager
 * 1972 – Eric Dane, American actor
 * 1972  – Naomi Shindō, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * 1972  – Corin Tucker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1973 – Alyson Court, Canadian actress and producer
 * 1973  – Nick Lachey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
 * 1973  – Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress and director
 * 1973  – Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer and coach
 * 1974 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
 * 1974  – Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress
 * 1975 – Gareth Malone, English singer and conductor
 * 1975  – Mathew Sinclair, New Zealand cricketer
 * 1976 – Tochiazuma Daisuke, Japanese sumo wrestler
 * 1977 – Chris Morgan, English footballer and manager
 * 1977  – Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer
 * 1978 – Even Ormestad, Norwegian bass player and producer
 * 1978  – Sisqó, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
 * 1979 – Dave Bush, American baseball player
 * 1979  – Adam Dunn, American baseball player
 * 1979  – Caroline Flack, English television presenter, radio presenter, and model (d. 2020)
 * 1979  – Martin Taylor, English footballer
 * 1980 – Vanessa Lachey, Filipino-American television host and actress
 * 1980  – Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
 * 1981 – Eyedea, American rapper and producer (d. 2010)
 * 1981  – Jobi McAnuff, Jamaican footballer
 * 1981  – Kane Waselenchuk, Canadian racquetball player
 * 1982 – Boaz Myhill, American-Welsh footballer
 * 1982  – Jana Pittman, Australian hurdler
 * 1983 – Rob Elloway, German rugby player
 * 1983  – Ted Potter Jr., American golfer
 * 1983  – Michael Turner, English footballer
 * 1984 – Delta Goodrem, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
 * 1984  – French Montana, Moroccan-American rapper
 * 1984  – Seven, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor
 * 1985 – Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer
 * 1986 – Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish ice hockey player
 * 1988 – Nikki Blonsky, American actress, singer, and dancer
 * 1988  – Lio Tipton, American actor and model
 * 1989 – Baptiste Giabiconi, French model and singer
 * 1990 – Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer
 * 1993 – Pete Dunne, English wrestler
 * 1994 – Lyrica Okano, American actress
 * 1995 – Finn Cole, English actor
 * 1996 – Momo Hirai, Japanese dancer and singer
 * 1999 – Prithvi Shaw, Indian cricketer

Pre-1600

 * 959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine emperor (b. 905)
 * 1034 – Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia (b. c. 975)
 * 1187 – Emperor Gaozong of Song (b. 1107)
 * 1208 – Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (b. 1154)
 * 1261 – Sanchia of Provence, queen consort of Germany
 * 1284 – Siger of Brabant, Dutch philosopher (b. 1240)
 * 1286 – Roger Northwode, English statesman (b. 1230)
 * 1312 – Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1261)
 * 1321 – Walter Langton, bishop of Lichfield and treasurer of England (b. 1243)
 * 1456 – Ulrich II, Count of Celje (b. 1406)
 * 1492 – Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
 * 1596 – George Peele, English translator, poet, and dramatist (b. 1556)

1601–1900

 * 1623 – William Camden, English historian and topographer (b. 1551)
 * 1641 – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1610)
 * 1677 – Aert van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
 * 1689 – Enea Silvio Piccolomini, imperial general (b. 1651)
 * 1719 – Oley Douglas, British Member of Parliament (b. 1684)
 * 1766 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer and diplomat (b. 1692)
 * 1770 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish general and politician (b. 1693)
 * 1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1720)
 * 1801 – Carl Stamitz, German-Czech violinist and composer (b. 1745)
 * 1848 – Robert Blum, German poet and politician (b. 1810)
 * 1854 – Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (b. 1757)
 * 1880 – Edwin Drake, American businessman (b. 1819)

1901–present

 * 1906 – Dorothea Beale, English suffragist, educational reformer and author (b. 1831)
 * 1911 – Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (b. 1853)
 * 1917 – Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (b. 1866)
 * 1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1880)
 * 1918  – Peter Lumsden, English general (b. 1829)
 * 1919 – Eduard Müller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 26th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1848)
 * 1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (b. 1850)
 * 1932 – Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (b. 1901)
 * 1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
 * 1938 – Vasily Blyukher, Russian marshal (b. 1889)
 * 1940 – Stephen Alencastre, Portuguese-American bishop (b. 1876)
 * 1940  – Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
 * 1942 – Charles Courtney Curran, American painter (b. 1861)
 * 1942  – Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
 * 1944 – Frank Marshall, American chess player and theoretician (b. 1877)
 * 1951 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American pianist and composer (b. 1887)
 * 1952 – Philip Murray, Scottish-American labor leader (b. 1886)
 * 1952  – Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist, academic, and politician, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
 * 1953 – Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1859)
 * 1953  – Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabian king (b. 1880)
 * 1953  – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
 * 1956 – Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author (b. 1878)
 * 1957 – Peter O'Connor, Irish long jumper (b. 1872)
 * 1958 – Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American educational reformer, social activist and author (b. 1879)
 * 1962 – Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian activist and academic (b. 1858)
 * 1968 – Jan Johansson, Swedish pianist (b. 1931)
 * 1970 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France (b. 1890)
 * 1971 – Maude Fealy, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1883)
 * 1972 – Victor Adamson; American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1890)
 * 1976 – Armas Taipale, Finnish discus thrower and shot putter (b. 1890)
 * 1977 – Fred Haney, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1898)
 * 1985 – Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b. 1946)
 * 1988 – David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and priest (b. 1924)
 * 1988  – John N. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
 * 1988  – Rosemary Timperley, English author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
 * 1989 – Bill Neilson, Australian politician, 34th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1925)
 * 1991 – Yves Montand, Italian-French actor (b. 1921)
 * 1992 – Charles Fraser-Smith, English missionary and author (b. 1904)
 * 1992  – William Hillcourt, Danish-American scout leader and author (b. 1900)
 * 1992  – T. Sivasithamparam, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1926)
 * 1993 – Ross Andru, American illustrator (b. 1925)
 * 1996 – Joe Ghiz, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1945)
 * 1997 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (b. 1905)
 * 1997  – Helenio Herrera, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
 * 1999 – Mabel King, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
 * 2000 – Sherwood Johnston, American race car driver (b. 1927)
 * 2000  – Eric Morley, English television host, founded Miss World (b. 1918)
 * 2001 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and curator (b. 1924)
 * 2001  – Giovanni Leone, Italian lawyer and politician, 6th President of Italy (b. 1908)
 * 2002 – William Schutz, American psychologist and academic (b. 1925)
 * 2003 – Art Carney, American actor and comedian (b. 1918)
 * 2003  – Gordon Onslow Ford, English-American painter (b. 1912)
 * 2004 – Iris Chang, American historian, journalist, and author (b. 1968)
 * 2004  – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer and manager (b. 1947)
 * 2004  – Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and author (b. 1954)
 * 2005 – K. R. Narayanan, Indian journalist and politician, 10th President of India (b. 1921)
 * 2006 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
 * 2006  – Ellen Willis, American journalist and activist (b. 1941)
 * 2006  – Markus Wolf, German intelligence officer (b. 1923)
 * 2008 – Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (b. 1929)
 * 2008  – Miriam Makeba, South African singer and activist (b. 1932)
 * 2012 – Milan Čič, Slovak lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic (b. 1932)
 * 2012  – Joseph D. Early, American soldier and politician (b. 1933)
 * 2012  – Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1905)
 * 2012  – James L. Stone, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1922)
 * 2013 – Savaş Ay, Turkish journalist (b. 1954)
 * 2013  – Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (b. 1947)
 * 2013  – Grethe Rytter Hasle, Norwegian biologist and academic (b. 1920)
 * 2013  – Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, American saxophonist (b. 1936)
 * 2013  – Steve Prescott, English rugby player (b. 1973)
 * 2013  – Emile Zuckerkandl, Austrian-American biologist and academic (b. 1922)
 * 2014 – Rubén Alvarez, Argentinian golfer (b. 1961)
 * 2014  – Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani, Qatari prince (b. 1966)
 * 2014  – R. A. Montgomery, American author and publisher (b. 1936)
 * 2014  – Myles Munroe, Bahamian pastor and author (b. 1954)
 * 2014  – Orlando Thomas, American football player (b. 1972)
 * 2014  – Joe Walsh, Irish politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (b. 1943)
 * 2015 – Carol Doda, American actress and dancer (b. 1937)
 * 2015  – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (b. 1930)
 * 2015  – Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (b. 1986)
 * 2015  – Byron Krieger, American fencer (b. 1920)
 * 2015  – Andy White, Scottish drummer (b. 1930)
 * 2016 – Greg Ballard, American basketball player and coach (b. 1955)
 * 2017 – Chuck Mosley, American singer songwriter (b. 1959)
 * 2017  – Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (b. 1982)
 * 2021 – Max Cleland, American politician (b. 1942)
 * 2023 – Junko Ohashi, Japanese singer (b. 1950)

Holidays and observances

 * Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan)
 * Christian feast day:
 * Benignus of Armagh
 * Dedication of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Cathedral of the Pope (memorial feast day)
 * Margery Kempe (Church of England)
 * Martin Chemnitz (Lutheran)
 * Nectarios of Aegina
 * Theodore of Amasea (Roman Catholic Church)
 * Virgin of Almudena (Madrid)
 * Vitonus
 * November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Day of the Skulls or Dia de los ñatitas (Bolivia)
 * Flag Day (Azerbaijan)
 * Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cambodia from France in 1953.
 * Inventors' Day (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
 * Uttarakhand Day (Uttarakhand, India)
 * World Freedom Day (United States)