Died on Wednesday, 12th November – Famous Deaths

12/11/2024

Roy Haynes, American drummer and composer (born 1925)

Roy Owen Haynes was an American jazz drummer. In the 1950s, he was given the nickname "Snap Crackle" for his distinctive snare drum sound and musical vocabulary. He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career spanning more than eight decades, he played swing, bebop, jazz fusion and avant-garde jazz. He is considered to be a pioneer of jazz drumming.

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John Horgan, Canadian politician and diplomat, 36th Premier of British Columbia (born 1959)

John Joseph Horgan was a Canadian politician and diplomat who served as the 36th premier of British Columbia from 2017 to 2022 and the ambassador of Canada to Germany from 2023 to 2024. He led the British Columbia New Democratic Party from 2014 to 2022, guiding the party to government after 16 years in opposition. A member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (MLA) from 2005 to 2023, he represented the riding of Langford-Juan de Fuca.

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Song Jae-rim, South Korean actor and model (born 1985)

Song Jae-rim, also known as Song Jae-lim, was a South Korean actor and model. Starting in modelling, Song had a career as an actor in Korean dramas.

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Thomas E. Kurtz, American computer scientist and educator (born 1928)

Thomas Eugene Kurtz was an American computer scientist and educator. A Dartmouth professor of mathematics, he and colleague John G. Kemeny are best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language and the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System in 1963 and 1964. These innovations made computing more accessible by simplifying programming for non-experts and allowing multiple users to share a single computer, transforming how computers were used in education and research.

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Timothy West, English actor (born 1934)

Timothy Lancaster West was an English actor with a long and varied career across theatre, film, and television. He began acting in repertory theatres in the 1950s before making his London stage debut in 1959 moving on to three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company during the 1960s. West played King Lear and Macbeth (twice) along with other notable roles in The Master Builder and Uncle Vanya. In 1978, West was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a Revival for his performance in The Homecoming.

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12/11/2023

Don Walsh, American oceanographer (born 1931)

Don Walsh was an American oceanographer, U.S. Navy officer and marine policy specialist. While aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste, he and Jacques Piccard made a record maximum descent in the Challenger Deep on January 23, 1960, to 35,813 feet (10,916 m). Later and more accurate measurements have measured it at 35,798 feet (10,911 m).

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12/11/2021

Chung-Yun Hse, wood scientist (born 1935)

Chung-Yun Hse was a Taiwanese American research scientist in wood utilization, who was an elected fellow (FIAWS) of the International Academy of Wood Science. He served at the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station in Pineville, Louisiana from 1967 through 2019.

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12/11/2018

Stan Lee, American comic book writer, editor, and publisher (born 1922)

Stan Lee was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Comics, which later became Marvel Comics. He was Marvel's primary creative leader for two decades, expanding it from a small publishing house division to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics and film industries.

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12/11/2016

Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress (born 1910)

Guadalupe Natalia Tovar Sullivan, known professionally as Lupita Tovar, was a Mexican-American actress best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish-language version of Drácula. It was filmed in Los Angeles by Universal Pictures at night using the same sets as the Bela Lugosi version, but with a different cast and director.

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Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Egyptian actor (born 1946)

Mahmoud Abdel Aziz was an Egyptian film and television actor. He became famous for several famous roles in Egyptian cinema, before becoming famous in his native Egypt and the whole region for his Egyptian patriotic role in the Egyptian TV series Raafat el-Hagan. The Egyptian Actors Guild announced his death on the night of 12 November 2016.

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12/11/2015

Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer (born 1983)

Márton Fülöp was a Hungarian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Jihadi John, terrorist (born 1988)

Mohammed Emwazi (born Muhammad Jassim Abdulkarim Olayan al-Dhafiri; Arabic: محمد جاسم عبد الكريم عليان الظفيري;‎, commonly referred to as Jihadi John was a British militant of Kuwaiti origin seen in several videos produced by the Islamist extremist group Islamic State showing the beheadings of a number of captives in 2014 and 2015. A group of his hostages nicknamed him "John" since he was part of a four-person terrorist cell with English accents whom they called 'The Beatles'; the press later began calling him "Jihadi John".

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12/11/2014

Ravi Chopra, Indian director and producer (born 1946)

Ravi Chopra was an Indian filmmaker, best known for directing the television show Mahabharat (1988–1990).

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Warren Clarke, English actor, director, and producer (born 1947)

Warren Clarke was an English actor. He appeared in many films after a significant role as Dim in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. His television appearances included Dalziel and Pascoe, The Manageress and Sleepers.

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Marge Roukema, American educator and politician (born 1929)

Margaret "Marge" Ellen Roukema was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 2003.

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Valery Senderov, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1945)

Valery Senderov was a Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher, and advocate of human rights known for his struggle against state-sponsored antisemitism.

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12/11/2013

Steve Rexe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1947)

Stephen Glen Rexe was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, the first-ever draft pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL) and second overall pick in the 1967 NHL Amateur Draft.

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Konrad Rudnicki, Polish astronomer and academic (born 1926)

Konrad Rudnicki was a Polish astronomer, professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and a priest of the Old Catholic Mariavite Church.

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Aleksandr Serebrov, Russian engineer and astronaut (born 1944)

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serebrov was a Soviet cosmonaut. He graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1967), and was selected as a cosmonaut on 1 December 1978. He retired on 10 May 1995. He was married and had one child.

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John Tavener, English composer and educator (born 1944)

Sir John Kenneth Tavener was an English composer of choral religious works. Among his works are The Lamb (1982), The Protecting Veil (1988), and Song for Athene (1993).

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Kurt Trampedach, Danish painter and sculptor (born 1943)

Kurt Trampedach was a Danish painter and sculptor.

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12/11/2012

Hans Hammarskiöld, Swedish photographer (born 1925)

Hans Arvid Hammarskiöld was a Swedish professional photographer. He was active in most genres—for many years he worked as an industrial photographer, but was especially noted for his portraits.

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Sergio Oliva, Cuban-American bodybuilder (born 1941)

Sergio Oliva, often known by his epithet 'The Myth' for his physique and performance, was a Cuban American bodybuilder and three-time Mr. Olympia winner.

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Daniel Stern, American psychologist and theorist (born 1934)

Daniel N. Stern was a prominent American developmental psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, specializing in infant development, on which he had written a number of books — most notably The Interpersonal World of the Infant (1985).

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12/11/2010

Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (born 1933)

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. According to critic Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much commercial success as Górecki. He became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during the post-Stalin cultural thaw. His Anton Webern-influenced serialist works of the 1950s and 1960s were characterized by adherence to dissonant modernism and influenced by Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Krzysztof Penderecki and Kazimierz Serocki. He continued in this direction throughout the 1960s, but by the mid-1970s had changed to a less complex sacred minimalist sound, exemplified by the transitional Symphony No. 2 and the Symphony No. 3. This later style developed through several other distinct phases, from such works as his 1979 Beatus Vir, to the 1981 choral hymn Miserere, the 1993 Kleines Requiem für eine Polka and his requiem Good Night.

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12/11/2008

Catherine Baker Knoll, American educator and politician, 30th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (born 1930)

Catherine Baker Knoll was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party. She was the 30th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, serving under Governor Ed Rendell from 2003 to 2008, when she died in office. Prior to that, she served as the 72nd Pennsylvania treasurer from 1989 to 1997. She was the first woman to be lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania.

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Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (born 1947)

John Graham "Mitch" Mitchell was an English rock and jazz drummer, best known for his contributions in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2009. In 2016, Mitchell was ranked number 8 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time".

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12/11/2007

K. C. Ibrahim, Indian cricketer (born 1919)

Khanmohammad Cassumbhoy Ibrahim was an Indian cricketer who played in four Tests in the 1948–49 season.

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Ira Levin, American novelist, playwright, and songwriter (born 1929)

Ira Marvin Levin was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter. His works include the novels A Kiss Before Dying (1953), Rosemary's Baby (1967), The Stepford Wives (1972), This Perfect Day (1970), The Boys from Brazil (1976), and Sliver (1991). Levin also wrote the play Deathtrap (1978). Many of his novels and plays have been adapted into films. He received the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award and several Edgar Awards. In 1996 he was given the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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12/11/2003

Jonathan Brandis, American actor (born 1976)

Jonathan Gregory Brandis was an American actor. Beginning his career as a child model, Brandis moved on to acting in commercials and subsequently won television and film roles. Brandis made his acting debut in 1982 as Kevin Buchanan on the soap opera One Life to Live. In 1990, he portrayed Bill Denbrough in the television miniseries It, and starred as Bastian Bux in The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter. In 1993, at the age of 17, he was cast in the role of teen prodigy Lucas Wolenczak on the NBC series seaQuest DSV. The character was popular among teenage viewers, and Brandis regularly appeared in teen magazines. He died by suicide in 2003.

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Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director and screenwriter (born 1986)

Cameron Troy Duncan was a filmmaker from New Zealand.

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Penny Singleton, American actress (born 1908)

Penny Singleton was an American actress and labor leader. During her six decade career on stage, screen, radio and television, Singleton appeared as the comic-strip heroine Blondie Bumstead in a series of 28 motion pictures from 1938 until 1950 and the popular Blondie radio program from 1939 until 1950. Singleton also provided the voice of Jane Jetson in the animated series The Jetsons from 1962 to 1963.

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Tony Thompson, American drummer (born 1954)

Anthony Theodore Thompson was an American session drummer best known as the drummer of the Power Station and a member of Chic.

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12/11/2001

Albert Hague, German-American actor and composer (born 1920)

Albert Hague was a German–born American songwriter and actor.

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Tony Miles, English chess player and theoretician (born 1955)

Anthony John Miles was an English chess player and the first Englishman to earn the Grandmaster title.

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12/11/2000

Franck Pourcel, French conductor and composer (born 1913)

Franck Pourcel was a French composer, arranger, and conductor of popular and classical music.

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12/11/1998

Roy Hollis, English footballer (born 1925)

Roy Walter Hollis was a footballer and is a member of the Norwich City Hall of Fame.

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Sally Shlaer, American mathematician and engineer (born 1938)

Sally hashim Shlaer was an American mathematician, software engineer and software methodologist, known as co-developer of the 1980s Shlaer–Mellor method for software development.

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12/11/1997

Carlos Surinach, Spanish-American composer and conductor (born 1915)

Carlos Suriñach i Wrokona was a Spanish-born composer and conductor.

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12/11/1994

Wilma Rudolph, American sprinter and educator (born 1940)

Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American sprinter who overcame polio as a child and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games. Rudolph competed in the 200-meter dash and won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100-meter relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics at Melbourne, Australia. She also won three gold medals, in the 100- and 200-meter individual events and the 4 × 100-meter relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Rudolph was acclaimed as the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s; she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field during a single Olympic Games.

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12/11/1993

H. R. Haldeman, American diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (born 1926)

Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman was an American political aide and businessman, best known for his service as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and his consequent involvement in the Watergate scandal.

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12/11/1991

Gabriele Tinti, Italian actor (born 1932)

Gabriele Tinti was an Italian actor who was married to actress and model Laura Gemser.

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12/11/1990

Eve Arden, American actress and comedian (born 1908)

Eve Arden was an American film, radio, stage and television actress. She performed in leading and supporting roles for nearly six decades.

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12/11/1986

Minoru Yasui, American lawyer and activist (born 1916)

Minoru Yasui was an American lawyer from Oregon. Born in Hood River, Oregon, he earned both an undergraduate degree and his law degree at the University of Oregon. He was one of the few Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor who fought laws that directly targeted Japanese Americans or Japanese immigrants. His case was the first case to test the constitutionality of the curfews targeted at minority groups.

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12/11/1981

William Holden, American actor (born 1918)

William Franklin Holden was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for The Blue Knight (1973).

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12/11/1976

Mikhail Gurevich, Russian engineer, co-founded Mikoyan (born 1893)

Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich was a Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan. The bureau is famous for its fighter aircraft, rapid interceptors and multi-role combat aircraft which were staples of the Soviet Air Forces throughout the Cold War. The bureau designed 170 projects of which 94 were made in series. In total, 45,000 MiG aircraft have been manufactured domestically, of which 11,000 aircraft were exported. The last plane which Gurevich personally worked on before his retirement was the MiG-25.

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Walter Piston, American composer and academic (born 1894)

Walter Hamor Piston, Jr., was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University.

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12/11/1972

Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist and composer (born 1879)

Charles Rudolf Friml was a Czech-born composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer. His best-known works are Rose-Marie and The Vagabond King, both of which enjoyed success on Broadway and in London and were adapted for film.

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Tommy Wisdom, English racing driver and journalist (born 1906)

Thomas Henry Wisdom was a British motoring correspondent for the Daily Herald. He was also a racing driver who took part in numerous races and rallies.

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12/11/1971

Johanna von Caemmerer, German mathematician (born 1914)

Johanna (Hanna) Neumann was a German-born mathematician who worked on group theory.

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12/11/1969

Liu Shaoqi, Chinese politician, 2nd Chairman of the People's Republic of China (born 1898)

Liu Shaoqi was a Chinese revolutionary and politician. He was the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1954 to 1959, first-ranking vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1956 to 1966, and the chairman of the People's Republic of China from 1959 to 1968. He was considered to be a possible successor to Chairman Mao Zedong, but was purged during the Cultural Revolution.

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12/11/1965

Many Benner, French painter (born 1873)

Emmanuel Michel Benner, known as Many Benner, was a French painter. The son of Jean Benner, Many was the nephew of his father's twin brother, also named Emmanuel Benner. All four Benners were painters.

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Taher Saifuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (born 1888)

Syedna Taher Saifuddin, also known as Taher Saifuddin, was the 51st and longest serving Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras. Saifuddin adapted the modernisation in Western and European ideas, and established its benefits for the Bohras, whilst still steeped in the traditions and the culture of the community's Fatimid heritage. Saifuddin laid substantial groundwork in terms of philanthropy, education, entrepreneurship, social outreach, political outreach, and community upliftment upon which his successors continued to build, resulting in an unprecedented era of prosperity among the Dawoodi Bohras.

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12/11/1962

Roque González Garza, Mexican general and acting president (1915) (born 1885)

Roque Victoriano González Garza was a Mexican general and politician who served as acting President of Mexico from January to June 1915. He was appointed by the Convention of Aguascalientes during the Mexican Revolution, and had previously been an important advisor to President Francisco Madero and a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was later a founder of the anti-communist, xenophobic, antisemitic, nationalist Revolutionary Mexicanist Action party and its leader from 1933 to 1934.

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12/11/1958

Gustaf Söderström, Swedish shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor (born 1865)

Gustaf Fredrik "Jotte" Söderström was a Swedish athlete and tug of war competitor.

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12/11/1955

Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer and architect, designed the Grand Hotel Aranybika (born 1878)

Alfréd Hajós was a Hungarian swimmer, football (soccer) player, referee, manager, and career architect. He was the first modern Olympic swimming champion and the first Olympic champion of Hungary. Formerly excelling in track including discus and hurdles, he was part of the first National European football/soccer team fielded by Hungary in 1902, later serving as a referee as well as the manager and coach of the national football team.

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Tin Ujević, Croatian poet and translator (born 1891)

Augustin Josip "Tin" Ujević was a Croatian poet, considered by many to be the greatest poet in 20th-century Croatian literature.

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Sarah Wambaugh, American political scientist, world authority on plebiscites (born 1882)

Sarah Wambaugh was an American political scientist.

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12/11/1950

Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler (born 1883)

Lesley Ashburner was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 110 metre hurdles.

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Julia Marlowe, English-American actress (born 1865)

Julia Marlowe was an English-born American actress, known for her interpretations of William Shakespeare's plays.

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12/11/1948

Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (born 1867)

Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano was an Italian composer, mainly of operas. His best-known work in that genre was Andrea Chenier (1896).

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12/11/1946

Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (born 1875)

Albert Bond Lambert was an American businessman. He was the president of Lambert Pharmacal Company, marketer of Listerine, for over 25 years. Lambert was also a keen amateur golfer and prominent St. Louis aviator and benefactor of aviation.

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Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian academic and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (born 1861)

Madan Mohan Malaviya was an Indian scholar, educational reformer, and activist notable for his role in the Indian independence movement. He was president of the Indian National Congress four times and the founder of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha. He was addressed as Pandit, a title of respect. Malaviya is known as the founder of one of the most prestigious universities of India named Banaras Hindu University.

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12/11/1942

Maurice O'Neill, executed Irish Republican

Maurice O'Neill (1917-1942) was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) Captain, captured in 1942 after a shoot out with Irish police, and promptly tried and executed, one of only two people executed in independent Ireland for a non-murder offence.

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12/11/1939

Norman Bethune, Canadian physician and humanitarian (born 1890)

Henry Norman Bethune was a Canadian thoracic surgeon, early advocate of socialized medicine, and member of the Communist Party of Canada. Bethune came to international prominence first for his service as a frontline trauma surgeon supporting the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War, and later supporting the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Bethune helped bring modern medicine to rural China, treating both sick villagers and wounded soldiers.

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12/11/1933

John Cady, American golfer (born 1866)

John Deere Cady was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was the grandson of John Deere, and the great-grandson of Linus Yale, Sr.

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F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (born 1864)

Fred Holland Day was an American photographer and publisher. He was prominent in literary and photography circles in the late nineteenth century and was a leading Pictorialist. He was an early and vocal advocate for accepting photography as a fine art.

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12/11/1916

Percival Lowell, American astronomer, mathematician, and author (born 1855)

Percival Lowell was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered theories of a ninth planet within the Solar System. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death.

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12/11/1902

William Henry Barlow, English engineer (born 1812)

William Henry Barlow was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway engineering projects. Barlow was involved in many engineering enterprises. He was engineer for the Midland Railway on its London extension and designed the company's London terminus at St Pancras.

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12/11/1896

Joseph James Cheeseman, Liberian politician, 12th President of Liberia (born 1843)

Joseph James Cheeseman was the 12th president of Liberia. Born at Edina in Grand Bassa County, he was elected three times on the True Whig ticket. Cheeseman was educated at Liberia College.

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12/11/1865

Elizabeth Gaskell, English author (born 1810)

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian society, including the lives of the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Her only biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was controversial and significant in establishing the Brontë family's lasting fame. Among Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (1851–1853), North and South (1854–1855), and Wives and Daughters (1864–1866), all of which have been adapted for television by the BBC.

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12/11/1847

William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (born 1789)

William Christopher Zeise was a Danish organic chemist. He is best known for synthesising one of the first organometallic compounds, named Zeise's salt in his honour. He also performed pioneering studies in organosulfur chemistry, discovering the xanthates in 1823.

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12/11/1836

Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (born 1773)

Juan Ramón González de Balcarce was an Argentine military leader and politician.

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12/11/1793

Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (born 1736)

Jean Sylvain Bailly was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution. He presided over the Tennis Court Oath, served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791, and was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror.

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Lord George Gordon, English politician (born 1751)

Lord George Gordon was a British nobleman and politician best known for lending his name to the Gordon Riots of 1780. An eccentric and flighty personality, he was born into the Scottish nobility and sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1780. His life ended after a number of controversies, notably one surrounding his conversion to Judaism, for which he was ostracised. He died in Newgate Prison.

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12/11/1742

Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (born 1660)

Friedrich Hoffmann or Hofmann was a German physician and chemist. He is also sometimes known in English as Frederick Hoffmann.

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12/11/1671

Thomas Fairfax, English general and politician (born 1612)

Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron was an English army officer and politician who commanded the New Model Army from 1645 to 1650 during the English Civil War. Because of his dark hair, he was known as "Black Tom" to his loyal troops. He was the eldest son and heir of Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron and succeeded to the title of Lord Fairfax in 1648 on the death of his father, although he was generally known as Sir Thomas Fairfax to distinguish them. He adopted the profession of arms as a young man, when he served under Horace Vere in the Netherlands. In 1637, he married Vere's daughter Anne.

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12/11/1667

Hans Nansen, Danish politician (born 1598)

Hans Nansen was a Danish statesman.

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12/11/1623

Josaphat Kuntsevych, Lithuanian archbishop (born c. 1582)

Josaphat Kuntsevych, OSBM was a Basilian hieromonk and archeparch of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Polotsk from 1618 to 1623. On 12 November 1623, he was beaten to death with an axe during an anti-Catholic riot by Eastern Orthodox Belarusians in Vitebsk, in the eastern peripheries of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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12/11/1595

John Hawkins, English admiral and shipbuilder (born 1532)

Admiral Sir John Hawkins was an English naval commander, naval administrator, privateer and slave trader.

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12/11/1572

Henry of Stolberg, German nobleman (born 1509)

Count Henry of Stolberg was a German nobleman.

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12/11/1567

Anne de Montmorency, French general and diplomat (born 1493)

Anne de Montmorency, duc de Montmorency was a French noble, governor, royal favourite and Constable of France during the mid to late Italian Wars and early French Wars of Religion. He served under five French kings. He began his career in the latter Italian Wars of Louis XII, seeing service at Ravenna. When François, his childhood friend, ascended to the throne in 1515 he advanced as governor of the Bastille and Novara, then in 1522 was made a Marshal of France. He fought at the French defeat at La Bicocca in that year, and after assisting in rebuffing the invasion of Constable Bourbon he was captured at the disastrous Battle of Pavia. Quickly freed he worked to free first the king and then the king's sons. In 1526 he was made Grand Maître, granting him authority over the king's household, he was also made governor of Languedoc. He aided in the marriage negotiations for the king's son the duc d'Orléans to Catherine de' Medici in 1533. In the mid 1530s he found himself opposed to the war party at court led by Admiral Chabot and therefore retired. He returned to the fore after the Holy Roman Emperor invaded Provence, leading the royal effort that foiled his invasion, and leading the counter-attack. In 1538 he was rewarded by being made Constable of France, this made him the supreme authority over the French military. For the next two years he led the efforts to secure Milan for France through negotiation with the Emperor, however this proved a failure and Montmorency was disgraced, retiring from court in 1541.

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12/11/1562

Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian (born 1500)

Peter Martyr Vermigli was an Italian-born Reformed theologian. His early work as a reformer in Catholic Italy and his decision to flee for Protestant northern Europe influenced some other Italians to convert and flee as well. In England, he influenced the Edwardian Reformation, including the Eucharistic service of the 1552 Book of Common Prayer. He was considered an authority on the Eucharist among the Reformed churches and engaged in controversies on the subject by writing treatises. Vermigli's Loci Communes, a compilation of excerpts from his biblical commentaries, became a standard Reformed theological textbook.

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12/11/1555

Stephen Gardiner, English bishop and politician, English Secretary of State (born 1497)

Stephen Gardiner was an English Catholic bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I.

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Yang Jisheng (born 1516), Ming dynasty official and Confucian martyr

Yang Jisheng was a Chinese court official of the Ming dynasty who held multiple posts during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor. He is remembered as a political opponent of Yan Song, on whose initiative he was arrested and eventually executed. His death, widely perceived as unjust, was followed by significant posthumous veneration of his memory during the late imperial era.

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Zhang Jing, Ming Chinese general

Zhang Jing, going by the name Cai Jing (蔡經) for much of his life, was a Chinese official who served the Ming dynasty. As he climbed the ladder of Chinese bureaucracy, he became in charge of several provinces as supreme commander, and was involved in conflicts such as the suppression of the Yao rebellions in the southwestern frontier and the defence of China from wokou pirates. At the height of his power, he was in charge of the military in six provinces, an unprecedented number in the Ming dynasty. Despite winning a great victory against the pirates in 1555, he quickly fell from power by running afoul of the domineering clique of Yan Song and Zhao Wenhua, and was executed by the Jiajing Emperor later in the same year.

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12/11/1434

Louis III of Anjou (born 1403)

Louis III was a claimant to the Kingdom of Naples from 1417 to 1426, as well as count of Provence, Forcalquier, Piedmont, and Maine and duke of Anjou from 1417 to 1434. As the heir designate to the throne of Naples, he was duke of Calabria from 1426 to 1434.

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12/11/1375

John Henry, Margrave of Moravia (born 1322)

John Henry of Luxembourg, a member of the House of Luxembourg, was Count of Tyrol from 1335 to 1341 and Margrave of Moravia from 1349 until his death.

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12/11/1347

John of Viktring, Austrian chronicler and political advisor (born c.1270)

John of Viktring was a late medieval chronicler and political advisor to Duke Henry of Carinthia.

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12/11/1218

Henry de Abergavenny, Prior of Abergavenny and Bishop of Llandaff

Henry de Abergavenny was Prior of Abergavenny and Bishop of Llandaff, both in South Wales.

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12/11/1209

Philippe du Plessis, Grand Master of the Knights Templar (born 1165)

Philippe du Plessis was the 13th Grand Master of the Knights Templar. He was born in the fortress of Plessis-Macé, Anjou, France. In 1189 he joined the Third Crusade as a simple knight, and discovered the Order of the Temple in Palestine. After the death of Gilbert Horal he became Grand Master. He helped uphold the treaty between Saladin and Richard I. In the renewal of this treaty in 1208 he suggested that the Teutonic Order and Hospitallers should make a new peace treaty offer with Malek-Adel. The accord was criticised by Pope Innocent III.

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12/11/1202

Canute VI of Denmark (born 1163)

Canute VI was King of Denmark from 1182 to 1202. Contemporary sources describe Canute as an earnest, strongly religious man.

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12/11/1094

Duncan II of Scotland (born 1060)

Donnchad mac Máel Coluim was King of Alba. He was son of Malcolm III and his first wife Ingibiorg Finnsdottir, widow of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, earl of Orkney.

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12/11/1087

William I, Count of Burgundy (born 1020)

William I, called the Great, was Count of Burgundy from 1057 to 1087 and Mâcon from 1078 to 1087. He was a son of Reginald I, Count of Burgundy and Alice of Normandy, daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy. William was the father of several notable children including Pope Callixtus II.

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12/11/1035

Cnut the Great, Danish-English king (born c.995)

Cnut, also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. The three kingdoms united under Cnut's rule are referred to together as the North Sea Empire by historians.

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12/11/0975

Notker Physicus, Swiss painter

Notker Physicus was a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall, active as a physician, painter, composer and poet. He is best known for his medical prowess, and may have been physician to the Holy Roman Emperors Otto I and Otto II. His paintings, now lost, were well regarded in his time, and two of his compositions survive, an office and hymn.

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12/11/0973

Burchard III, Frankish nobleman (born c.915)

Burchard III, a member of the Hunfriding dynasty, was the count of Thurgau and Zürichgau, perhaps of Rhaetia, and then Duke of Swabia from 954 to his death.

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12/11/0657

Livinus, Irish apostle (born c.580)

Saint Livinus (c. 580 – 12 November 657), also Livinus of Ghent, was an apostle in Flanders and Brabant, venerated as a saint and martyr in the Catholic tradition and more especially at the Saint Bavo Chapel, Ghent. His feast day is 12 November.

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12/11/0607

Pope Boniface III

Pope Boniface III was the bishop of Rome from 19 February 607 to his death on 12 November of the same year. Despite his short pontificate, he made a significant contribution to the Catholic Church.

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