Died on Sunday, 16th November – Famous Deaths

16/11/2024

Vladimir Shklyarov, Russian ballet dancer (born 1985)

Vladimir Andreyevich Shklyarov was a Russian ballet dancer, who ranked as a principal dancer at the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg. He had also been a guest principal with the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich, Germany, and The Royal Ballet in London. He died after falling from the 5th floor of an apartment building in Saint Petersburg.

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16/11/2022

Robert Clary, French-American actor and author (born 1926)

Robert Clary was a French actor who was mainly active in the United States. He is best known for his role as Corporal Louis LeBeau on the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971). He also had recurring roles on the soap operas Days of Our Lives (1972–1987), and The Bold and the Beautiful (1990–1992).

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Arthur Ngirakelsong, 2nd Chief Justice of Palau (born 1941)

Arthur Ngirakelsong was a Palauan jurist who served as the chief justice of Palau from 1992 to 2020. Ngirakelsong was born on 28 December 1941. He obtained a masters degree from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1967. In 1974, he became one of the first Micronesians to earn a Juris Doctor when he graduated from Rutgers Law School. He worked as a staff attorney for the Micronesian Constitutional Convention, where he was one of the main drafters of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia, and legal counsel for the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia.

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16/11/2021

Jyrki Kasvi, Finnish journalist and politician (born 1964)

Jyrki Jouko Juhani Kasvi was a Finnish politician, and a member of the Finnish Parliament, representing the Green League.

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16/11/2020

Sheila Nelson, English string teacher (born 1936)

Sheila Mary Nelson was an English musician, music educator, writer and composer. She had played with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Menuhin Festival Orchestra but was best known as a violin and viola teacher. She is usually referred to as Sheila Nelson but appears in her published works as Sheila M. Nelson.

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16/11/2019

John Campbell Brown, Scottish astronomer (born 1947)

John Campbell Brown was a Scottish astronomer who worked primarily in solar physics. He held the posts of Astronomer Royal for Scotland, the Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow, and honorary professorships at both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen.

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Terry O'Neill, British photographer (born 1938)

Terence Patrick O'Neill was a British photographer, known for documenting the fashions, styles, and celebrities of the 1960s. O'Neill's photographs capture his subjects candidly or in unconventional settings.

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16/11/2018

William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1931)

William Goldman was an American novelist, screenwriter and playwright who wrote 16 novels and numerous screenplays in a career spanning seven decades. He received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Screenplay from the BAFTAs and Golden Globes for his first original screenplay, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and he received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for All the President's Men (1976). Both of these films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, along with The Princess Bride (1987) which he adapted from his 1973 novel, and all three were included on the 2006 list by the Writers Guild of America of the 101 Greatest Screenplays. Among his other accolades were three Writers Guild of America Awards, including the 1985 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, two Edgar Awards for Best Motion Picture Screenplay, and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

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16/11/2017

Hiromi Tsuru, Japanese actress (born 1960)

Hiromi Tsuru was a Japanese actress and narrator. During her life, she was attached to the Himawari Theatre Group as a child and then to Aoni Production at the time of her death. She was most known for voicing the character of Bulma for over 31 years. She was also known for her roles as Ukyo Kuonji, Dokin-chan, Madoka Ayukawa, Miyuki Kashima (Miyuki), Reiko Mikami, Meryl Strife (Trigun), Naomi Hunter, Oyone-baasan, and Asuna Kujo.

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Ann Wedgeworth, American actress (born 1934)

Elizabeth Ann Wedgeworth was an American character actress, known for her roles as Lana Shields in Three's Company, Hilda Hensley in Sweet Dreams, and Merleen Elldridge in Evening Shade. She won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for Chapter Two (1978).

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16/11/2016

Jay Wright Forrester, American computer engineer (born 1918)

Jay Wright Forrester was an American computer engineer, management theorist and systems scientist. He spent his entire career at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entering as a graduate student in 1939, and eventually retiring in 1989.

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Melvin Laird, American politician and writer (born 1922)

Melvin Robert Laird Jr. was an American politician, writer and statesman. A member of the Republican Party, he served a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin from 1953 to 1969 representing Wisconsin's 7th congressional district before serving as United States Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon. Laird was instrumental in forming the administration's policy of withdrawing U.S. soldiers from the Vietnam War; he coined the expression "Vietnamization," referring to the process of transferring more responsibility for combat to the South Vietnamese forces. First elected in 1952, Laird was the last living former U.S. representative elected to the 83rd Congress at the time of his death and the last living representative to have served during the presidency of Harry Truman.

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Daniel Prodan, Romanian football player (born 1972)

Daniel "Didi" Claudiu Prodan was a Romanian professional footballer who played mainly as a centre-back.

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16/11/2015

David Canary, American actor (born 1938)

David Hoyt Canary was an American actor. Canary is best known for his roles as ranch foreman Candy Canaday in the NBC Western drama Bonanza, and as Adam Chandler in the television soap opera All My Children, for which he received 16 Daytime Emmy Award nominations and won five times.

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Michael C. Gross, American graphic designer and producer (born 1945)

Michael C. Gross was an American artist, designer, and film producer. From 1970 to 1974 he art-directed National Lampoon magazine, and subsequently co-ran a design company.

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Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1926)

Murray Albert Olmstead was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who was a left winger for the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 13 seasons. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985. Olmstead began his career with the Black Hawks in 1949. In December 1950, he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens via Detroit. Olmstead had his best statistical years playing for Montreal, leading the league in assists in 1954–55 with 48, and setting a league record for assists with 56 the following season. During this time he frequently played on Montreal's top line with Jean Beliveau and Bernie Geoffrion. Olmstead was claimed in the 1958 NHL Intra-League Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs, and played there until his retirement in 1962.

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Alton D. Slay, American general (born 1924)

General Alton Davis Slay, Sr. was a four star United States Air Force general and former commander, Air Force Systems Command, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.

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16/11/2014

Charles Champlin, American historian, author, and critic (born 1926)

Charles Davenport Champlin was an American film critic and writer.

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Jovan Ćirilov, Serbian poet and playwright (born 1931)

Jovan Ćirilov was a Serbian theatrologist, philosopher, writer, theatre selector, and poet.

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Ian Craig, Australian cricketer (born 1935)

Ian David Craig was an Australian cricketer who represented the Australian national team in 11 Tests between 1953 and 1958. A right-handed batsman, Craig holds the records for being the youngest Australian to make a first-class double century, appear in a Test match, and captain his country in a Test match. Burdened by the public expectation of being the "next Bradman", Craig's career did not fulfil its early promise. In 1957, he was appointed Australian captain, leading a young team as part of a regeneration plan following the decline of the national team in the mid-1950s, but a loss of form and illness forced him out of the team after one season. Craig made a comeback, but work commitments forced him to retire from first-class cricket at only 26 years of age.

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Juan Joseph, American football player and coach (born 1987)

Juan Joseph was an American football quarterback. He played college football for the Millsaps Majors. He was signed by the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL) as an undrafted free agent in 2009. Joseph was also a member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL and the Lafayette Wildcatters of the Southern Indoor Football League (SIFL).

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Jadwiga Piłsudska, Polish soldier, pilot, and architect (born 1920)

Jadwiga Piłsudska-Jaraczewska was a Polish pilot who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. She was one of two daughters of Józef Piłsudski.

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Carl Sanders, American soldier, pilot, and politician, 74th Governor of Georgia (born 1925)

Carl Edward Sanders Sr. was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 74th governor of Georgia from 1963 to 1967.

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16/11/2013

Robert Conley, American journalist (born 1928)

Robert Conley was an American newspaper, television and radio reporter.

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Billy Hardwick, American bowler (born 1941)

William Bruce Hardwick was an American right-handed ten-pin bowler and member of the Professional Bowlers Association.

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William McDonough Kelly, Canadian lieutenant and politician (born 1925)

William McDonough Kelly, CLJ was a Canadian political strategist and Senator.

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Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Indian-Pakistani diplomat, 19th Foreign Secretary of Pakistan (born 1932)

Tanvir Ahmad Khan was a Pakistani diplomat.

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Oscar Lanford, American mathematician and academic (born 1940)

Oscar Erasmus Lanford III was an American mathematician working on mathematical physics and dynamical systems theory.

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Arne Pedersen, Norwegian footballer and manager (born 1931)

Arne Knut Pedersen was a Norwegian footballer. He was a deep-lying inside forward, or offensive midfielder by today's terminology, who spent his entire playing career at his hometown club Fredrikstad FK, where he was a key player during the club's most successful period in the 1950s and early 1960s. He was also capped 40 times by Norway, and scored 11 international goals.

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Louis D. Rubin, Jr., American author, critic, and academic (born 1923)

Louis Decimus Rubin Jr. was a noted American literary scholar and critic, writing teacher, publisher, and writer. He is credited with helping to establish Southern literature as a recognized area of study within the field of American literature, as well as serving as a teacher and mentor for writers at Hollins College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and for founding Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a publishing company nationally recognized for fiction by Southern writers.

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Charles Waterhouse, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (born 1924)

Charles H. Waterhouse was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor renowned for using United States Marine Corps historical themes as the motif for his works. His art spans subjects from Tun Tavern, the birthplace of the U. S. Marines to present day topics. Throughout his career, he created over 500 pieces for the Marine Corps art collection.

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16/11/2012

John Chapman, Australian evangelist and academic (born 1930)

John Charles Chapman (1930–2012), commonly known as Chappo, was an Australian Anglican evangelist and preacher. For twenty-five years he served as Director of the Anglican Department of Evangelism in Sydney, where he influenced a generation of clergy and lay leaders through his preaching, mentoring, and training. He was widely recognized for his clear communication style and for his books on Christian faith and evangelism.

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Subhash Dutta, Bangladeshi actor and director (born 1930)

Subhash Dutta was a Bangladeshi filmmaker, theater and film actor. He started his career as a commercial artist. Dutta was heavily influenced by Satyajit Ray and his deep affection towards Satyajit earned him the nickname "Duttajit".

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Patrick Edlinger, French mountaineer (born 1960)

Patrick Edlinger was a professional French rock climber. Edlinger is considered a pioneer and a legend of sport climbing. He was the second-ever climber in history to ascend routes of grade 7c (5.12d) with Nymphodalle (1979), and grade 7c+ (5.13a) with Le Toit (1981). He was the first-ever climber in history to onsight routes of grade 7b+ (5.12c) with Captain crochet (1982), and grade 7c (5.12d) with La Polka des Ringards (1982).

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Aliu Mahama, Ghanaian engineer and politician, 3rd Vice President of Ghana (born 1946)

Alhaji Aliu Mahama was a Ghanaian engineer and politician who was Vice-President of Ghana from 7 January, 2001 to 7 January, 2009. A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), he was Ghana's first Muslim Vice-President.

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Eliyahu Nawi, Iraqi-Israeli lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1920)

Eliyahu Nawi was a judge, lawyer, poet, politician, Bible investigator, and mayor of Beersheba.

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Bob Scott, New Zealand rugby player (born 1921)

Robert William Henry Scott was a New Zealand rugby union player who represented the All Blacks between 1946 and 1954.

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16/11/2010

Britton Chance, American biologist and sailor (born 1913)

Britton Chance was an American biochemist, biophysicist, scholar, and inventor whose work helped develop spectroscopy as a way to diagnose medical problems. He was "a world leader in transforming theoretical science into useful biomedical and clinical applications" and is considered "the founder of the biomedical photonics." He received the National Medal of Science in 1974.

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Ronni Chasen, American publicist (born 1946)

Ronni Sue Chasen was an American publicist, who once represented such actors as Michael Douglas, as well as musicians such as Hans Zimmer and Mark Isham, among others. Chasen directed the Academy Award campaigns for more than 100 films during her career, including Driving Miss Daisy in 1989 and The Hurt Locker in 2009.

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Wyngard Tracy, Filipino DJ and talent manager (born 1952)

Wyngard Tracy was a Filipino talent manager who had represented various actors and music artists, such as Side A in the Philippines through his office, Artiststation, Inc. From June 2008, he was one of three judges in Pinoy Idol on GMA Network. He was also the judge of top-rating ABS-CBN shows, Showtime and Magpasikat, but was later evicted.

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16/11/2009

Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (born 1978)

Antonio de Nigris Guajardo was a Mexican professional footballer who played as a striker.

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Sergei Magnitsky, Ukrainian-Russian accountant and lawyer (born 1972)

Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky was a Russian tax advisor responsible for exposing corruption and misconduct by Russian government officials while representing client Hermitage Capital Management. His arrest in 2008 and subsequent death after eleven months in police custody generated international attention and triggered both official and unofficial inquiries into allegations of fraud, theft and human rights violations in Russia. His posthumous trial was the first in the Russian Federation.

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Edward Woodward, English actor (born 1930)

Edward Albert Arthur Woodward was an English actor and singer. He began his career on stage, appearing in productions in both the West End of London and on Broadway in New York City. He came to wider attention from 1967 in the title role of the British television spy drama Callan, earning him the 1970 British Academy Television Award for Best Actor.

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16/11/2008

Jan Krugier; Polish-Swiss art dealer (born 1928)

Janick "Jan" Krugier was a Polish born Swiss dealer in modern art most known for his relationship to the works of Pablo Picasso and a survivor of the Holocaust.

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Reg Varney, English actor and screenwriter (born 1916)

Reginald Alfred Varney was an English actor, entertainer and comedian. He is best remembered for having played the lead role of bus driver Stan Butler in the LWT sitcom On the Buses (1969–1973) and its three spin-off feature films. Having performed as a music hall entertainer, Varney first came to national recognition as factory foreman Reg Turner in the BBC sitcom The Rag Trade (1961–1963). He appeared in further sitcoms including Beggar My Neighbour (1966–1968) and On the Buses stardom facilitated overseas cabaret tours.

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16/11/2007

Harold Alfond, American businessman (born 1914)

Harold Alfond was an American businessman who founded the Dexter Shoe Company, established the first factory outlet store and was a minority owner of the Boston Red Sox.

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Grethe Kausland, Norwegian actress and singer (born 1947)

Grethe Kausland was a Norwegian singer, performer and actress. As a child star she was one of Norway's most popular singers, and she participated in several films as a child. She represented Norway in the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest, singing "Småting" with Benny Borg. From 1973 she performed regularly with the musical group Dizzie Tunes. Awarded "Spellemannprisen" 1978 for the album A Taste of Grethe Kausland, and "Leonardstatuetten" 1991 for her achievements on the revue scene.

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Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian actor and screenwriter (born 1946)

Trond Georg Kirkvaag was a Norwegian comedian, actor, impressionist, screenwriter, author, director and television host. During his 39 years at the Norwegian TV network, NRK, he produced numerous comedy television series. After his death he was widely hailed by his colleagues as possibly the greatest Norwegian TV comedian in history. He was the son of NRK journalist and television host Rolf Kirkvaag.

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Vernon Scannell, English boxer, poet, and author (born 1922)

Vernon Scannell was a British poet and author. He was at one time a professional boxer, and wrote novels about the sport of boxing. He was a famous poet of English.

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16/11/2006

Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)

Milton Friedman was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy. With George Stigler, Friedman was among the intellectual leaders of the Chicago school of economics, a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the faculty at the University of Chicago that rejected Keynesianism in favor of monetarism before shifting their focus to new classical macroeconomics in the mid-1970s. Several students, young professors and academics who were recruited or mentored by Friedman at Chicago went on to become leading economists, including Nobel laureates Gary Becker (1992), Robert Fogel (1993), and Robert Lucas Jr. (1995).

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Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist and political scientist (born 1930)

Yuri Alexandrovich Levada was a well known Russian sociologist, political scientist and the founder of the Levada Center.

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16/11/2005

Ralph Edwards, American radio and television host and producer (born 1913)

Ralph Livingstone Edwards was an American radio and television host, radio producer, and television producer, best known for his radio-TV game shows Truth or Consequences and reality documentary series This Is Your Life.

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Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)

Henry Taube was a Canadian-born American chemist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the second Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize, and remains the only Saskatchewanian-born Nobel laureate. Taube completed his undergraduate and master's degrees at the University of Saskatchewan, and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. After finishing graduate school, Taube worked at Cornell University, the University of Chicago and Stanford University.

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Donald Watson, English activist, founded the Vegan Society (born 1910)

Donald Watson was an English animal rights and veganism advocate who co-founded The Vegan Society.

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16/11/2001

Tommy Flanagan, American pianist and composer (born 1930)

Thomas Lee Flanagan was an American jazz pianist and composer. He grew up in Detroit, initially influenced by such pianists as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, and Nat King Cole, and then by bebop musicians. Within months of moving to New York in 1956, he had recorded with Miles Davis and on Sonny Rollins' album Saxophone Colossus. Recordings under various leaders, including Giant Steps of John Coltrane, continued well into 1962, when he became the full-time accompanist to Ella Fitzgerald. He worked with Fitzgerald for three years until 1965, and then in 1968 returned to be her pianist and musical director, this time for a decade.

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16/11/2000

Robert Earl Davis, American hip-hop artist (born 1971)

Robert Earl Davis Jr., better known by his stage name DJ Screw, was an American hip hop DJ based in Houston, Texas, and best known as the creator of the chopped and screwed DJ technique. He was a central and influential figure in the Houston hip hop community and was the leader of Houston's Screwed Up Click.

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Ahmet Kaya, Turkish-French singer-songwriter (born 1957)

Ahmet Kaya was a Turkish–Kurdish folk singer. Kaya was persecuted by Turkish nationalist celebrities and authorities. Kaya left Turkey in an act of self-exile, and moved to France, where he would shortly after die of a heart attack.

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16/11/1999

Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1928)

Daniel Nathans was an American microbiologist. Along with American researcher Hamilton Smith and Swiss researcher Werner Arber, he shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application in restriction mapping.

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16/11/1994

Chet Powers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943)

Chester William Powers, Jr. was an American singer-songwriter, and under the stage names Dino Valenti or Dino Valente, one of the lead singers of the rock group Quicksilver Messenger Service. As a songwriter, he was known as Jesse Oris Farrow. He is best known for having written the quintessential 1960s love-and-peace anthem "Get Together", and for writing and singing on Quicksilver Messenger Service's two best-known songs, "Fresh Air" and "What About Me?"

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16/11/1993

Lucia Popp, Slovak-German soprano (born 1939)

Lucia Popp was a Slovak operatic soprano. She began her career as a soubrette, and later moved into the light-lyric and lyric coloratura soprano repertoire and then the lighter Richard Strauss and Wagner operas. Her career included performances at Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, and La Scala. Popp was also a highly regarded recitalist and lieder singer.

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Achille Zavatta, Tunisia-born French clown (born 1915)

Achille Zavatta was a French clown, artist and circus operator.

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16/11/1990

Ege Bagatur, Turkish politician (born 1937)

Ege Bagatur is a Turkish politician, and served as the mayor of Adana from 1973 to 1977.

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16/11/1989

Jean-Claude Malépart, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1938)

Jean-Claude Malépart was a French Canadian politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1973 to 1976 and of the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 until his death.

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16/11/1987

Jim Brewer, American baseball player and coach (born 1937)

James Thomas Brewer was an American professional baseball relief pitcher and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1960 through 1976 for the Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers, and California Angels. He batted and threw left-handed.

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16/11/1986

Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (born 1923)

Siobhán McKenna was an Irish stage and screen actress.

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Panditrao Agashe, Indian businessman (born 1936)

Jagdish "Panditrao" Chandrashekhar Agashe was an Indian industrialist, best remembered for serving as the joint managing director alongside his brother of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. from 1970 to 1978. The Panditrao Agashe School in Pune is named in his honour.

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16/11/1984

Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (born 1906)

Victor Dickenson was an American jazz trombonist. His career began in the 1920s and continued through musical partnerships with Count Basie (1940–41), Sidney Bechet (1941), and Earl Hines.

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16/11/1982

Pavel Alexandrov, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1896)

Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov, sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff, was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote roughly three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. In topology, the Alexandroff compactification and the Alexandrov topology are named after him.

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16/11/1976

Jack Foster, English cricketer (born 1905)

Jack Heygate Nedham Foster was an English army officer and cricketer. He was born at Rochester in Kent and educated at Harrow School.

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16/11/1974

Walther Meissner, German physicist and engineer (born 1882)

Fritz Walther Meissner was a German physicist known for his work on superconductivity.

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16/11/1973

Alan Watts, English-American philosopher, author, and educator (born 1915)

Alan Wilson Watts was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.

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16/11/1972

Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (born 1889)

Vera Alexeyevna Karalli was a Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and silent film actress during the early years of the 20th century.

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16/11/1971

Edie Sedgwick, American model and actress (born 1943)

Edith Minturn Sedgwick Post was an American actress, model, and socialite. Best known as a Warhol superstar, she gained widespread recognition as a style icon; in 1965, Vogue magazine named her a "Youthquaker," recognizing her influence on youth culture.

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16/11/1964

Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and author (born 1898)

Donald Culross Peattie was an American botanist, naturalist and author. He was described by Joseph Wood Krutch as "perhaps the most widely read of all contemporary American nature writers" during his heyday. His brother, Roderick Peattie (1891–1955), was a geographer and a noted author in his own right. Peattie regarded people of sub-Saharan African lineage as an inferior people. In an effort to mitigate his brother's racism, Roderick Peattie described his brother's published anti-Black statements as "mercifully brief and hardly malicious".

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16/11/1961

Sam Rayburn, American lawyer and politician, 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1882)

Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn was an American politician who served as the 43rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a three-time House speaker, former House majority leader, two-time House minority leader, and a 24-term congressman, representing Texas's 4th congressional district as a Democrat from 1913 to 1961. He holds the record for the longest tenure as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving for over 17 years.

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16/11/1960

Clark Gable, American actor (born 1901)

William Clark Gable was an American actor often referred to as the "King of Hollywood". He appeared in more than 60 motion pictures across a variety of genres during a 37-year career, three decades of which he spent as a leading man. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gable as the seventh greatest male screen legend of classical Hollywood cinema.

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16/11/1956

Ōtori Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Yokozuna (born 1887)

Ōtori Tanigorō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Inzai, Chiba Prefecture. He was the sport's 24th yokozuna.

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16/11/1950

Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (born 1879)

Robert Holbrook Smith, also known as Dr. Bob, was an American physician and surgeon who cofounded Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson.

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16/11/1947

Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (born 1877)

Giuseppe Volpi, 1st Count of Misurata was an Italian businessman and politician.

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16/11/1941

Eduard Eelma, Estonian footballer (born 1902)

Eduard Eelma until 1937 Eduard-Vilhelm Ellmann, was an Estonian footballer — one of the most famous before World War II. He played 60 times for Estonia national football team and with 21 goals, was their record goalscorer during the country's first period of independence.

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Miina Härma, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (born 1864)

Miina Härma was an Estonian composer, organist, choir director, and music teacher, known for being Estonia's first professional female composer and organist.

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16/11/1939

Pierce Butler, American lawyer and jurist (born 1866)

Pierce Butler was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1923 until his death in 1939. He is notable for being the first Supreme Court justice from Minnesota, and for being a Democrat appointed by a Republican president. He was a staunch conservative and was regarded as a part of the Four Horsemen, the conservative bloc that dominated the Supreme Court during the 1930s. A devout Catholic, he was also the sole dissenter in the case Buck v. Bell, though he did not write an opinion.

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16/11/1922

Max Abraham, Polish-German physicist and academic (born 1875)

Max Abraham was a German physicist known for his work on electromagnetism and his opposition to the theory of relativity.

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16/11/1913

George Barham, English businessman, founded Express County Milk Supply Company (born 1836)

Sir George Barham was an English businessman and founder of the Express Country Milk Company, later to become Express Dairies. He is sometimes described as the father of the British dairying industry.

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16/11/1911

A. A. Ames, American physician and politician, 9th Mayor of Minneapolis (born 1842)

Albert Alonzo "Doc" Ames was an American physician and politician who held four non-consecutive terms as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota. His fourth term was marked by multiple prosecutions for political corruption, extortion, and racketeering in a scandal which was publicized nationwide by muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens in a 1903 article in McClure's Magazine titled The Shame of Minneapolis. Ames was found guilty of corruption, but after a successful appeal and multiple mistrials the charges were dropped. Erik Rivenes, however, has called the downfall of Mayor Ames, "one of the greatest political scandals in Minnesota history."

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Lawrence Feuerbach, American shot putter (born 1879)

Lawrence Edward Joseph "Leon" Feuerbach was an American athlete who competed mainly in the shot put.

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16/11/1908

Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th Premier of Quebec (born 1829)

Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière,, lawyer, businessman and politician, served as the fourth premier of Quebec, a federal Cabinet minister, and the seventh Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

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16/11/1907

Robert I, Duke of Parma (born 1848)

Robert I was the last sovereign Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1854 until 1859, when the duchy was annexed to Sardinia-Piedmont during the Risorgimento. He was a member of the House of Bourbon-Parma and descended from Philip, Duke of Parma, the third son of King Philip V of Spain and Queen Elisabeth Farnese.

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16/11/1903

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (born 1895)

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine was a German Hessian and Rhenish child princess, the only daughter of Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and his first wife, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She was named after her paternal great-grandmother, Princess Elisabeth of Prussia. Her paternal aunt had the same name, and both the young princess and her aunt were nicknamed Ella.

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16/11/1885

Louis Riel, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1844)

Louis Riel was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people. He led two resistance movements against the Government of Canada and its first prime minister John A. Macdonald. Riel fought to defend Métis rights and identity as the Northwest Territories came progressively under the Canadian sphere of influence.

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16/11/1884

František Chvostek, Czech-Austrian soldier and physician (born 1835)

František Chvostek was a Czech-Austrian military physician and lecturer in internal medicine. He published articles on a wide variety of medical disorders but is most notable for having described Chvostek's sign which he described in 1876.

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16/11/1878

Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (born 1874)

Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine was a Hessian and Rhenish princess, a member of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was the youngest child and fifth daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom. Her mother was the second daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Marie died of diphtheria and was buried with her mother, who died a few weeks later of the same disease.

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16/11/1836

Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, South African-French mycologist and academic (born 1761)

Christiaan Hendrik Persoon was a Cape Colony mycologist who is recognized as one of the founders of mycological taxonomy.

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16/11/1808

Mustafa IV, Ottoman sultan (born 1779)

Mustafa IV was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1807 to 1808.

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16/11/1806

Moses Cleaveland, American general, lawyer, and politician, founded Cleveland, Ohio (born 1754)

Moses Cleaveland was an American lawyer, politician, soldier, and surveyor from Connecticut who founded the city of Cleveland, Ohio, while surveying the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1796. During the American Revolution, Cleaveland was the brigadier general of the Connecticut militia.

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16/11/1802

André Michaux, French botanist and explorer (born 1746)

André Michaux was a French botanist and explorer. He is most noted for his study of North American flora. In addition Michaux collected specimens in England, Spain, France, and even Persia. His work was part of a larger European effort to gather knowledge about the natural world. Michaux's contributions include Histoire des chênes de l'Amérique and Flora Boreali-Americana which continued to be botanical references well into the 19th century. His son, François André Michaux, also became an authoritative botanist.

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16/11/1797

Frederick William II of Prussia (born 1744)

Frederick William II was King of Prussia from 1786 until his death in 1797. He was also Prince-elector of Brandenburg and Prince of Neuchâtel.

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16/11/1790

Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American politician (born 1723)

Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer was an American politician and Founding Father who was one of the signers of the Constitution of the United States. He was active for many years in the Province of Maryland's colonial government, but when conflict arose with Great Britain, Jenifer embraced the Patriot cause.

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16/11/1779

Pehr Kalm, Finnish botanist and explorer (born 1716)

Pehr Kalm, also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish-Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of the most important apostles of Carl Linnaeus.

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16/11/1773

John Hawkesworth, English journalist and author (born 1715)

John Hawkesworth LLD was an English writer and book editor, born in London.

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16/11/1745

James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1665)

James FitzJames Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, was an Irish statesman and army officer. He was the third of the Kilcash branch of the family to inherit the earldom of Ormond. Like his grandfather, the 1st Duke, he was raised as a Protestant, unlike his extended family who held to Roman Catholicism. He served in the campaign to put down the Monmouth Rebellion, in the Williamite War in Ireland, in the Nine Years' War and in the War of the Spanish Succession but was accused of treason and went into exile after the Jacobite rising of 1715.

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16/11/1724

Jack Sheppard, English criminal (born 1702)

John Sheppard, nicknamed "Honest Jack", "Gentleman Jack" or "Jack the Lad", was an English criminal who became notorious in early 18th-century London.

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16/11/1695

Pierre Nicole, French philosopher and author (born 1625)

Pierre Nicole was a French writer and one of the most distinguished of the French Jansenists.

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16/11/1688

Bengt Gottfried Forselius, Swedish-Estonian scholar and author (born 1660)

Bengt Gottfried Forselius was a founder of public education in Estonia, author of the first ABC-book in the Estonian language, and creator of a spelling system which made the teaching and learning of Estonian easier. Forselius and Johann Hornung were mainly responsible for making a start at reforming the Estonian literary language in the late 17th century. Some German constructions were abandoned, and a strict spelling system was adopted which still relied on German orthography.

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16/11/1628

Paolo Quagliati, Italian organist and composer (born 1555)

Paolo Quagliati was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era and a member of the Roman School of composers. He was a transitional figure between the late Renaissance style and the earliest Baroque and was one of the first to write solo madrigals in the conservative musical center of Rome.

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16/11/1625

Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian painter (born c. 1532)

Sofonisba Anguissola was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a relatively poor noble family. She received a well-rounded education that included the fine arts, and her apprenticeship with local painters set a precedent for women to be accepted as students of art. As a young woman, Anguissola travelled to Rome where she was introduced to Michelangelo, who immediately recognized her talent, and to Milan, where she painted Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba. The Spanish queen, Elizabeth of Valois, was a keen amateur painter, and in 1559 Anguissola was recruited to go to Madrid as her tutor, with the rank of lady-in-waiting. She later became an official court painter to the king, Philip II, and adapted her style to the more formal requirements of official portraits for the Spanish court. After the Queen's death, Philip helped arrange an aristocratic marriage for her. She moved to Sicily, and later Pisa and Genoa, where she continued to practice as a leading portrait painter.

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16/11/1613

Trajano Boccalini, Italian author and educator (born 1556)

Trajano Boccalini was an Italian satirist.

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16/11/1603

Pierre Charron, French Catholic theologian and philosopher (born 1541)

Pierre Charron was a French Catholic theologian and major contributor to the new thought of the 17th century. He is remembered for his controversial form of skepticism and his separation of ethics from religion as an independent philosophical discipline.

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16/11/1601

Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland (born 1542)

Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland was an English nobleman, politician and Roman Catholic rebel leader, who led the Rising of the North against Elizabeth I in 1569. After the failure of the Rising, he fled first to Scotland but then went into exile in the Spanish Netherlands, fearing the same fate as his fellow rebellion leader, Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, who had been captured by the Elizabethan government and executed for treason in August 1572.

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16/11/1580

Marie of Baden-Sponheim, German Noblewoman (born 1507)

Marie Jakobaea of Baden-Sponheim was a German noblewoman and duchess consort of Bavaria.

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16/11/1494

Theda Ukena, German noble (born 1432)

Theda Ukena was from 1466 to about 1480 regent of the County of East Frisia.

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16/11/1464

John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (born 1406)

John, nicknamed the Alchemist was a Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and served as the peace-loving Margrave of Brandenburg after the abdication of his father, Frederick I, the first member of the House of Hohenzollern to rule Brandenburg.

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16/11/1328

Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shōgun (born 1276)

Prince Hisaaki , also known as Prince Hisaakira, was the 8th shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.

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16/11/1322

Nasr, Sultan of Granada (born 1287)

Nasr, full name Abu al-Juyush Nasr ibn Muhammad, was the fourth Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada from 14 March 1309 until his abdication on 8 February 1314. He was the son of Muhammad II al-Faqih and Shams al-Duha. He ascended the throne after his brother Muhammad III was dethroned in a palace revolution. At the time of his accession, Granada faced a three-front war against Castile, Aragon and the Marinid Sultanate, triggered by his predecessor's foreign policy. He made peace with the Marinids in September 1309, ceding to them the African port of Ceuta, which had already been captured, as well as Algeciras and Ronda in Europe. Granada lost Gibraltar to a Castilian siege in September, but successfully defended Algeciras until it was given to the Marinids, who continued its defense until the siege was abandoned in January 1310. James II of Aragon sued for peace after Granadan defenders defeated the Aragonese siege of Almería in December 1309, withdrawing his forces and leaving the Emirate's territories by January. In the ensuing treaty, Nasr agreed to pay tributes and indemnities to Ferdinand IV of Castile and yield some border towns in exchange for seven years of peace.

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16/11/1272

Henry III of England (born 1207)

Henry III, also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272.

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16/11/1264

Emperor Lizong of Song China (born 1205)

Emperor Lizong of Song, personal name Zhao Yun, was the 14th emperor of the Song dynasty of China and the fifth emperor of the Southern Song dynasty. He reigned from 1224 to 1264.

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16/11/1240

Edmund Rich, English archbishop and saint (born 1175)

Edmund of Abingdon was an English Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Canterbury. He became a respected lecturer in mathematics, dialectics and theology at the Universities of Paris and Oxford, promoting the study of Aristotle.

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Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher (born 1165)

Ibn 'Arabī was a Sunni Muslim Arab scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and Muslim philosopher from al-Andalus, who exercised notable influence within Sufi metaphysics and Islamic thought in general. There are 850 works attributed to Ibn 'Arabi, though only 700 of these are considered authentic, and only 400 are extant. His cosmological teachings became a dominant intellectual framework in many regions of the Muslim world.

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16/11/1131

Dobrodeia of Kiev, Rus princess and author of medical books

Dobrodeia Mstislavna of Kiev was a Byzantine empress by marriage to co-emperor Alexios Komnenos. She was also an author on medicine.

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16/11/1093

Saint Margaret of Scotland (born 1045)

Saint Margaret of Scotland, also known as Margaret of Wessex, was Queen of Alba from 1070 to 1093 as the wife of King Malcolm III. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". She was a member of the House of Wessex and was born in the Kingdom of Hungary to the expatriate English prince Edward the Exile. She and her family returned to England in 1057. Following the death of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, her brother Edgar Ætheling was elected King of England but never crowned. After the family fled north, Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland by the end of 1070.

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16/11/1005

Ælfric of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury

Ælfric of Abingdon was a late 10th-century Archbishop of Canterbury. He previously held the offices of abbot of St Albans Abbey and Bishop of Ramsbury, as well as likely being the abbot of Abingdon Abbey. After his election to Canterbury, he continued to hold the bishopric of Ramsbury along with the archbishopric of Canterbury until his death in 1005. Ælfric may have altered the composition of Canterbury's cathedral chapter by changing the clergy serving in the cathedral from secular clergy to monks. In his will he left a ship to King Æthelred II of England as well as more ships to other legatees.

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16/11/0987

Shen Lun, Chinese scholar-official

Shen Lun, known as Shen Yilun before 976, was a scholar-official who successively served the Later Han, Later Zhou and Song dynasties. He was one of the Song dynasty grand councilors between 973 and 982.

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16/11/0897

Gu Yanhui, Chinese warlord

Gu Yanhui (顧彥暉) was a warlord late in the Chinese Tang dynasty, who controlled Dongchuan Circuit from 891, when he succeeded his brother Gu Yanlang, to 897, when he, facing defeat against one-time ally Wang Jian, committed suicide with his family members.

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