November 27

Events

• AD 25 - Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.
• 176 - Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
• 395 - Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
• 511 - King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve.
• 602 - Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself.
• 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
• 1727 - The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.
• 1809 - The Berners Street hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London.
• 1815 - Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.
• 1830 - Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a Marian apparition.
• 1835 - James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.
• 1839 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
• 1856 - The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
• 1868 - American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
• 1886 - German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.
• 1895 - At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
• 1896 - Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
• 1901 - The U.S. Army War College is established.
• 1912 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
• 1918 - The Free Territory of Ukraine is established in Huliaipole.
• 1924 - In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
• 1940 - In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents.
• 1940 - World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
• 1942 - World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
• 1944 - World War II: RAF Fauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
• 1945 - CARE was founded to a send CARE Packages of food relief to Europe after World War II.
• 1954 - Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
• 1968 - Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.
• 1971 - The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
• 1973 - Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States..
• 1975 - The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.
• 1978 - In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
• 1978 - The Kurdistan Workers' Party is founded in the city of Riha in Turkey.
• 1983 - Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.
• 1984 - Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.
• 1989 - Avianca Flight 203: A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel will claim responsibility for the attack.
• 1992 - For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela.
• 1997 - Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
• 1999 - The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
• 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
• 2004 - Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
• 2006 - The House of Commons of Canada approves a motion introduced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada.
• 2008 - XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board.
• 2009 - Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.
• 2015 - United States: An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shoots at least four police officers. One officer later dies. Two civilians were also killed, and six injured. The shooter later surrendered.

  Births

• 111 - Antinous, Greek favourite of Hadrian
• 1127 - Emperor Xiaozong of Song
• 1380 - King Ferdinand I of Aragon
• 1422 - Gaston IV, Count of Foix, French nobleman
• 1548 - Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher
• 1558 - Mingyi Swa, Crown Prince of Burma
• 1576 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyō
• 1582 - Pierre Dupuy, French historian and scholar
• 1630 - Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria
• 1635 - Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France
• 1640 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland
• 1701 - Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician
• 1710 - Robert Lowth, English bishop and academic
• 1746 - Robert R. Livingston, American lawyer and politician, 1st United States Secretary for Foreign Affairs
• 1746 - Increase Sumner, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 5th Governor of Massachusetts
• 1754 - Georg Forster, German-Polish ethnologist and journalist
• 1759 - Franz Krommer, Czech violinist and composer
• 1779 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence
• 1804 - Julius Benedict, German-English conductor and composer
• 1809 - Fanny Kemble, English actress, playwright, and poet
• 1814 - Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French politician and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States
• 1820 - Rachel Brooks Gleason, fourth woman to earn a medical degree in the United States
• 1823 - James Service, Scottish-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Victoria
• 1833 - Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
• 1843 - Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman
• 1845 - Frederic Crowninshield, American artist and author
• 1853 - Frank Dicksee, English painter and illustrator
• 1857 - Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1859 - William Bliss Baker, American painter
• 1865 - Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovene priest, journalist, and politician
• 1867 - Charles Koechlin, French composer and educator
• 1870 - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish academic and politician, 7th President of Finland
• 1871 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer
• 1874 - Charles A. Beard, American historian, author, and educator, co-founded The New School
• 1874 - Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel
• 1875 - Julius Lenhart, Austrian gymnast
• 1877 - Katharine Anthony, American biographer
• 1878 - Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian poet and critic
• 1878 - Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach
• 1885 - Daniel Mendaille, French actor
• 1885 - Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian author and playwright
• 1887 - Masaharu Homma, Japanese general
• 1888 - Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian activist and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha
• 1894 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic
• 1894 - Katherine Milhous, American author and illustrator
• 1894 - Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian monk and saint
• 1898 - Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher
• 1900 - Jovette Bernier, Canadian journalist, author, and radio show host
• 1901 - Ted Husing, American sportscaster
• 1903 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1905 - Astrid Allwyn, American actress
• 1907 - Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet and author
• 1907 - L. Sprague de Camp, American historian and author
• 1909 - James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic
• 1909 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and theorist
• 1911 - Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and educator
• 1911 - David Merrick, American director and producer
• 1912 - Connie Sawyer, American actress
• 1916 - Chick Hearn, American sportscaster and actor
• 1917 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American actor and television host
• 1918 - Stephen Elliott, American actor
• 1920 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer
• 1920 - Buster Merryfield, English actor
• 1920 - Cal Worthington, American captain and car dealer
• 1921 - Dora Dougherty Strother, American pilot and academic
• 1921 - Alexander Dubček, Slovak soldier and politician
• 1922 - Hall Bartlett, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1922 - Nicholas Magallanes, American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet
• 1923 - J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician
• 1925 - John Maddox, Welsh chemist, physicist, and journalist
• 1925 - Marshall Thompson, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1925 - Derroll Adams, American folk singer-songwriter and musician
• 1925 - Ernie Wise, English actor, singer, and screenwriter
• 1926 - Chae Myung-shin, South Korean general
• 1927 - Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1927 - William E. Simon, American soldier and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1928 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor and director
• 1928 - Josh Kirby, English painter and illustrator
• 1930 - Joe DeNardo, American meteorologist
• 1930 - Dick Poole, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1930 - Rex Shelley, Singaporean engineer and author
• 1930 - Alan Simpson, English screenwriter and producer
• 1932 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino journalist and politician
• 1933 - Jacques Godbout, Canadian journalist, author, director, and screenwriter
• 1933 - Gordon S. Wood, American historian and academic
• 1934 - Ammo Baba, Iraqi footballer and manager
• 1934 - Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1934 - Gilbert Strang, American mathematician and academic
• 1935 - Les Blank, American director and producer
• 1935 - Daniel Charles, French musicologist and philosopher
• 1935 - Willie Pastrano, American boxer
• 1937 - Gail Sheehy, American journalist and author
• 1938 - John Ashworth, English biologist and academic
• 1938 - Apolo Nsibambi, Ugandan academic and politician, Prime Minister of Uganda
• 1939 - Dave Giusti, American baseball player and manager
• 1939 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Congolese politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 1940 - Bruce Lee, American-Chinese actor, martial artist, and screenwriter
• 1941 - Aimé Jacquet, French footballer, coach, and manager
• 1941 - Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1941 - Louis van Dijk, Dutch pianist
• 1942 - Henry Carr, American football player and sprinter
• 1942 - Marilyn Hacker, American poet and critic
• 1942 - Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1943 - Nicole Brossard, Canadian author and poet
• 1943 - Jil Sander, German fashion designer
• 1944 - Mickey Leland, American activist and politician
• 1945 - James Avery, American actor
• 1945 - Phil Bloom, Dutch model and actress
• 1945 - Randy Brecker, American trumpeter and flugelhornist
• 1945 - Alain de Cadenet, English race car driver
• 1945 - Benigno Fitial, Mariana Islander businessman and politician, 7th Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands
• 1945 - Simon Townsend, Australian journalist and television host
• 1946 - Richard Codey, American politician, 53rd Governor of New Jersey
• 1946 - Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, Ethiopian-Djiboutian lawyer and politician, President of Djibouti
• 1947 - Don Adams, American basketball player
• 1947 - Neil Rosenshein, American tenor and actor
• 1949 - Masanori Sekiya, Japanese race car driver
• 1950 - Gavyn Davies, English journalist and businessman
• 1951 - Kathryn Bigelow, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1951 - Vera Fischer, Brazilian actress, winner from Miss Brasil 1969 contest
• 1951 - Gunnar Graps, Estonian singer and guitarist
• 1952 - Sheila Copps, Canadian journalist and politician, 6th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
• 1952 - Bappi Lahiri, Indian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1952 - Jim Wetherbee, American captain, engineer, and astronaut
• 1953 - Curtis Armstrong, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1953 - Steve Bannon, American media executive and political figure
• 1953 - Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1953 - Tarmo Kõuts, Estonian admiral and politician
• 1953 - Lyle Mays, American keyboardist and composer
• 1953 - Richard Stone, American composer
• 1954 - Arthur Smith, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1955 - Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1955 - Bill Nye, American engineer, educator, and television host
• 1956 - William Fichtner, American actor
• 1956 - John McCarthy, English journalist and author
• 1956 - Nazrin Shah of Perak, Sultan of Perak
• 1957 - Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish race car driver
• 1957 - Frank Boeijen, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1957 - Caroline Kennedy, American lawyer and diplomat, 29th United States Ambassador to Japan
• 1957 - Callie Khouri, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 - Michael A. Stackpole, American game designer and author
• 1957 - Edda Heiðrún Backman, Icelandic actress, singer, director and artist
• 1958 - Tetsuya Komuro, Japanese singer-songwriter, and producer
• 1958 - Mike Scioscia, American baseball player and manager
• 1959 - Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and songwriter
• 1959 - Viktoria Mullova, Russian violinist
• 1960 - Kevin Henkes, American author and illustrator
• 1960 - Ken O'Brien, American football player and coach
• 1960 - Tim Pawlenty, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of Minnesota
• 1960 - Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Ukraine
• 1960 - Gianni Vernetti, Italian lawyer and politician
• 1961 - Samantha Bond, English actress
• 1961 - Steve Oedekerk, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1962 - Charlie Benante, American drummer and songwriter
• 1962 - Mike Bordin, American drummer
• 1962 - Davey Boy Smith, English-Canadian wrestler
• 1963 - Fisher Stevens, American actor, director, and producer
• 1964 - Robin Givens, American actress
• 1964 - Roberto Mancini, Italian footballer and manager
• 1964 - Hisayuki Sasaki, Japanese golfer
• 1965 - Danielle Ammaccapane, American golfer
• 1966 - Andy Merrill, American television writer, producer and voice actor
• 1968 - Michael Vartan, French-American actor
• 1968 - Al Barrow, English bass guitarist
• 1969 - Ruth George, English politician
• 1969 - Damian Hinds, English politician
• 1969 - Myles Kennedy, American singer-songwriter
• 1971 - Kirk Acevedo, American actor
• 1971 - Larry Allen, American football player
• 1971 - Iván Rodríguez, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1971 - Nick Van Exel, American basketball player and coach
• 1972 - Shane Salerno, American screenwriter and producer
• 1973 - Sharlto Copley, South African actor
• 1973 - Samantha Harris, American model and television host
• 1973 - Evan Karagias, American wrestler and actor
• 1973 - Jin Katagiri, Japanese comedian, actor, sculptor, and potter
• 1973 - Twista, American rapper and producer
• 1974 - Wendy Houvenaghel, Northern Irish racing cyclist
• 1974 - Alec Newman, Scottish actor
• 1975 - Bad Azz, American rapper
• 1975 - Martín Gramática, Argentinian-American football player
• 1975 - Rain Vessenberg, Estonian footballer
• 1976 - Jean Grae, South African-American rapper and producer
• 1976 - Chad Kilger, Canadian ice hockey player and firefighter
• 1976 - Jaleel White, American actor and screenwriter
• 1977 - Willie Bloomquist, American baseball player
• 1978 - Eszter Molnár, Hungarian tennis player
• 1978 - Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player
• 1978 - Mike Skinner, English rapper and producer
• 1978 - Radek Štěpánek, Czech tennis player
• 1979 - Ricky Carmichael, American motocross racer
• 1979 - Hilary Hahn, American violinist
• 1979 - Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer
• 1980 - Jackie Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 - Veronika Portsmuth, Estonian singer and conductor
• 1980 - Michael Yardy, English cricketer
• 1981 - Bruno Alves, Portuguese footballer
• 1981 - Ryan Jimmo, Canadian mixed martial artist
• 1981 - Matthew Taylor, English footballer
• 1982 - David Bellion, French footballer
• 1982 - Aleksandr Kerzhakov, Russian footballer
• 1982 - Tommy Robinson, English activist, co-founded the English Defence League
• 1983 - Professor Green, English rapper
• 1984 - Izumi Kitta, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1984 - Domata Peko, American football player
• 1984 - Leslie Dewan, American entrepreneur
• 1985 - Park Soo-jin, South Korean singer
• 1985 - Alison Pill, Canadian actress
• 1985 - Thilo Versick, German footballer
• 1986 - Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer
• 1986 - Steven Silva, American-Filipino footballer
• 1986 - Xavi Torres, Spanish footballer
• 1986 - Oritsé Williams, English singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer
• 1989 - Michael Floyd, American football player
• 1989 - Freddie Sears, English footballer
• 1990 - Josh Dubovie, English singer
• 1992 - Ala Boratyn, Polish singer-songwriter
• 1992 - Park Chanyeol, South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, actor and model
• 1995 - Suliasi Vunivalu, Fijian rugby league player
• 1996 - Mike Williams, Dutch DJ and record producer
• 1996 - Andy Truong, Australian fashion designer

  Deaths

• 8 BC - Horace, Roman soldier and poet
• 395 - Rufinus, Roman politician
• 450 - Galla Placidia, Roman Empress
• 511 - Clovis I, king of the Franks
• 602 - Maurice, Byzantine emperor
• 639 - Acarius, bishop of Doornik and Noyon
• 1198 - Constance, Queen of Sicily
• 1252 - Blanche of Castile
• 1346 - Saint Gregory of Sinai
• 1382 - Philip van Artevelde, Flemish patriot
• 1474 - Guillaume Dufay, Flemish composer and educator
• 1570 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect
• 1592 - Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese commander
• 1620 - Francis, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin
• 1632 - John Eliot, English politician
• 1703 - Henry Winstanley, English painter and engineer
• 1754 - Abraham de Moivre, French-English mathematician and theorist
• 1811 - Andrew Meikle, Scottish engineer, designed the threshing machine
• 1819 - Gustavus Conyngham, Irish-born American merchant sea captain, an officer in the Continental Navy and a privateer.
• 1830 - André Parmentier, Belgian-American architect
• 1852 - Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist
• 1875 - Richard Christopher Carrington, English astronomer and educator
• 1881 - Theobald Boehm, German flute player and composer
• 1884 - Fanny Elssler, Austrian ballerina
• 1895 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and playwright
• 1899 - Constant Fornerod, Swiss academic and politician, 10th President of the Swiss Council of States
• 1901 - Clement Studebaker, American businessman, co-founded Studebaker
• 1908 - Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist and palaeontologist
• 1916 - Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet and playwright
• 1919 - Manuel Espinosa Batista, Panamanian pharmacist and politician
• 1920 - Alexius Meinong, Ukrainian-Austrian philosopher and author
• 1921 - Douglas Cameron, Canadian contractor and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
• 1921 - Mary Grant Roberts, Australian zoo owner
• 1931 - Lya De Putti, Slovak-American actress
• 1934 - Baby Face Nelson, American criminal
• 1936 - Basil Zaharoff, Greek-French businessman and philanthropist
• 1940 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Romania
• 1943 - Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian soldier and politician
• 1944 - Leonid Mandelstam, Russian physicist and academic
• 1953 - Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1955 - Arthur Honegger, French-Swiss composer and academic
• 1958 - Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian politician, Head of State of Bulgaria
• 1958 - Artur Rodziński, Polish-American conductor
• 1960 - Frederick Fane, Irish-English cricketer
• 1960 - Dirk Jan de Geer, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1962 - August Lass, Estonian footballer
• 1967 - Léon M'ba, Gabonese politician, 1st President of Gabon
• 1969 - May Gibbs, English Australian children's author, illustrator, and cartoonist,
• 1970 - Helene Madison, American swimmer and nurse
• 1973 - Frank Christian, American trumpet player
• 1975 - Alberto Massimino, Italian automotive engineer
• 1975 - Ross McWhirter, English author and activist, co-founded the Guinness Book of Records
• 1977 - Mart Laga, Estonian basketball player
• 1978 - Harvey Milk, American lieutenant and politician
• 1978 - George Moscone, American lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of San Francisco
• 1980 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect, designed the Villa Vizcaya
• 1981 - Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress
• 1985 - Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor
• 1986 - Steve Tracy, American actor
• 1988 - John Carradine, American actor
• 1988 - Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player and author
• 1989 - Carlos Arias Navarro, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1990 - David White, American actor
• 1990 - Basilis C. Xanthopoulos, Greek physicist and academic
• 1992 - Ivan Generalić, Croatian painter
• 1994 - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and conductor
• 1997 - Buck Leonard, American baseball player and educator
• 1998 - Barbara Acklin, American singer-songwriter
• 1998 - Gloria Fuertes, Spanish poet and author of children's literature
• 1999 - Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler and trainer
• 1999 - Alain Peyrefitte, French scholar and politician, French Minister of Justice
• 1999 - Elizabeth Gray Vining, American author and librarian
• 2000 - Malcolm Bradbury, English author and academic
• 2000 - Uno Prii, Estonian-Canadian architect
• 2000 - Len Shackleton, English footballer and journalist
• 2002 - Billie Bird, American actress
• 2002 - Shivmangal Singh Suman, Indian poet and academic
• 2005 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress
• 2005 - Joe Jones, American singer-songwriter
• 2006 - Don Butterfield, American tuba player
• 2006 - Bebe Moore Campbell, American author and educator
• 2006 - Casey Coleman, American sportscaster
• 2007 - Bernie Banton, Australian activist
• 2007 - Robert Cade, American physician and academic, co-invented Gatorade
• 2007 - Sean Taylor, American football player
• 2007 - Bill Willis, American football player and coach
• 2008 - V. P. Singh, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of India
• 2009 - Al Alberts, American singer-songwriter
• 2010 - Irvin Kershner, American actor, director, and producer
• 2011 - Len Fulford, English photographer and director
• 2011 - Ken Russell, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 2011 - Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager
• 2012 - Mickey Baker, American guitarist
• 2012 - Ab Fafié, Dutch footballer and manager
• 2012 - Érik Izraelewicz, French journalist and author
• 2012 - Marvin Miller, American businessman and union leader
• 2012 - Jack Wishna, American photographer and businessman, co-founded Rockcityclub
• 2013 - Lewis Collins, English-American actor
• 2013 - Herbert F. DeSimone, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General of Rhode Island
• 2013 - Volker Roemheld, German physiologist and biologist
• 2013 - Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 2013 - Manuel F. Segura, Filipino colonel
• 2014 - Wanda Błeńska, Polish physician and missionary
• 2014 - Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer
• 2014 - P. D. James, English author
• 2014 - Jack Kyle, Irish rugby player and humanitarian
• 2014 - Fernance B. Perry, Portuguese-American businessman and philanthropist
• 2015 - Mark Behr, Tanzanian-South African author and academic
• 2015 - Maurice Strong, Canadian businessman and diplomat
• 2015 - Garrett Swasey, American figure skater and coach
• 2015 - Philippe Washer, Belgian tennis player and golfer
• 2016 - Ioannis Grivas, Greek statesman

  Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
• *Acarius of Tournai
• *Barlaam and Josaphat
• *Bilihildis
• *Congar of Congresbury
• *Facundus and Primitivus
• *Humilis of Bisignano
• *James Intercisus
• *Leonard of Port Maurice
• *Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
• *Secundinus
• *Siffredus of Carpentras
• *Vergilius of Salzburg
• *November 27
• Earliest day on which Advent Sunday can fall, while December 3 is the latest; celebrated on the Sunday nearest to St. Andrew's Day
• Lancashire Day
• Maaveerar Day
• Naval Infantry Day
• Teacher's Day