Died on Monday, 17th November – Famous Deaths

17/11/2024

Macoto Takahashi, Japanese manga artist (born 1934)

Macoto Takahashi was a Japanese painter, illustrator, and manga artist. His works of shōjo manga are noted for significantly influencing the aesthetic styles of that demographics.

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17/11/2021

Young Dolph, American rapper (born 1985)

Adolph Robert Thornton Jr., known professionally as Young Dolph, was an American rapper, songwriter, and record executive. He first garnered mainstream attention for his guest appearance on O.T. Genasis' 2015 single "Cut It", which peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. The following year, he released his debut studio album King of Memphis, which peaked at number 49 on the Billboard 200. His fifth album, Rich Slave (2020), peaked at number four on the chart.

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17/11/2019

Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver (born 1982)

Christiano "Tuka" Chiaradia Alcoba Rocha was a Brazilian race car driver. He won numerous karting championships in Brazil from 1996 to 2000. Then moved up to South American Formula 3 Lights. In 2002 he moved to Europe to compete in the World Series by Nissan where he was Ricardo Zonta's teammate. In 2004 he competed in Superfund Euro 3000. In 2005 he was a test driver for A1 Team Brazil in the A1 Grand Prix Series and was named one of the team's race drivers for the 2006-2007 season. In 2008 Tuka was chosen to drive the Flamengo's car in Formula Superleague.

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17/11/2015

John Leahy, English lawyer and diplomat, High Commissioner to Australia (born 1928)

Sir John Henry Gladstone Leahy, was a senior British diplomat. He was Ambassador to South Africa from 1979 to 1982, and High Commissioner to Australia from 1984 to 1988. He later became Chairman of Lonrho.

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Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi, Iranian poet and songwriter (born 1926)

Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi was an Iranian poet and lyricist. He is one of the pioneering songwriters in the history of Persian traditional music.

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17/11/2014

John T. Downey, American CIA agent and judge (born 1930)

John Thomas Downey or Jack Downey was an American judge and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As a CIA operative, he was shot down over China during the Korean War and was held prisoner for over twenty years. While Downey was never part of the US military, the CIA described him as the longest-held prisoner of war in United States history.

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Bill Frenzel, American lieutenant and politician (born 1928)

William Eldridge Frenzel was an American politician and businessman who represented Minnesota's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1991. A member of the Republican Party, Frenzel previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1963 to 1971.

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Ray Sadecki, American baseball player (born 1940)

Raymond Michael Sadecki was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He is best remembered as the left-handed complement to Bob Gibson, who in 1964, won 20 games to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to their first World Series title in eighteen years. He was notable for throwing the palmball.

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Patrick Suppes, American psychologist and philosopher (born 1922)

Patrick Colonel Suppes was an American philosopher who made significant contributions to philosophy of science, the theory of measurement, the foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology and educational technology. He was the Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford University and until January 2010 was the Director of the Education Program for Gifted Youth also at Stanford.

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17/11/2013

Zeke Bella, American baseball player (born 1930)

John "Zeke" Bella was an American Major League Baseball outfielder who appeared in 52 total games for the New York Yankees in 1957 and the Kansas City Athletics in 1959.

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Alfred Blake, English colonel and lawyer (born 1915)

Sir Alfred Lapthorn Blake, was a British solicitor, Royal Marines officer and councillor. He was Lord Mayor of Portsmouth City Council from 1958 to 1959 and director of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme from 1966 to 1978.

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Syd Field, American screenwriter and producer (born 1935)

Sydney Alvin Field was an American author who wrote several books on screenwriting, the first being Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. He led workshops and seminars about producing salable screenplays. Hollywood film producers use Field's ideas on structure to measure the potential of screenplays.

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Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919)

Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.

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Alex Marques, Portuguese footballer (born 1993)

This is a list of association footballers who died due to football-related incidents.

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Mary Nesbitt Wisham, American baseball player (born 1925)

Mary Nesbitt Wisham was an American baseball pitcher and first basewoman who played from 1943 through 1950 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m), 155 lb., Nesbitt batted and threw left-handed. She was born Marie Crews Nesbitt in Greenville, South Carolina. Before becoming married in 1946 she played under the name of Mary Nesbitt.

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17/11/2012

Ponty Chadha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (born 1957)

Gurdeep Singh Chadha, also known as Ponty Chadha, was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist who owned the Wave Group. Chadha was noted for his success in the alcohol industry, particularly for having alcohol distribution monopolies in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, and for his political influence.

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Armand Desmet, Belgian cyclist (born 1931)

Armand Desmet was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.

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Lea Gottlieb, Hungarian-Israeli fashion designer, founded the Gottex Company (born 1918)

Lea Gottlieb was an Israeli fashion designer and businesswoman. She immigrated to Israel from Hungary after World War II, and founded the Gottex company.

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Freddy Schmidt, American baseball player (born 1916)

Frederick Albert Schmidt was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three different National League teams between 1944 and 1947. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Listed at 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), 185 lb (84 kg), he batted and threw right-handed.

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Billy Scott, American singer-songwriter (born 1942)

Billy Scott was an American R&B singer, who was lead vocalist for the group The Prophets, later known as "The Georgia Prophets", and eventually "Billy Scott & The Party Prophets". He was known for Beach music hits such as "I Got the Fever", "California" and "My Kind of Girl"..

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Bal Thackeray, Indian cartoonist and politician (born 1926)

Bal Keshav Thackeray, also known as Balasaheb Thackeray, was an Indian cartoonist and politician who founded the original Shiv Sena, a right-wing Marathi regionalist and a Hindu nationalist party, active mainly in the state of Maharashtra.

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Margaret Yorke, English author (born 1924)

Margaret Beda Nicholson, known professionally as Margaret Yorke, was an English crime fiction writer.

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17/11/2011

Kurt Budke, American basketball player and coach (born 1961)

Kurt John Budke was an American college basketball coach. Budke was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015. His final coaching job was as the head coach for the Oklahoma State Cowgirls basketball women's team from 2005 until his death in an aviation accident.

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17/11/2008

George Stephen Morrison, American admiral (born 1919)

George Stephen Morrison was a United States Navy rear admiral and naval aviator. Morrison held significant commands of United States naval forces during the Vietnam War. He was the father of Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the Doors.

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Pete Newell, American basketball player and coach (born 1915)

Peter Francis Newell was an American college men's basketball coach and basketball instructional coach. He coached for 15 years at the University of San Francisco, Michigan State University, and the University of California, Berkeley, compiling an overall record of 234 wins and 123 losses.

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17/11/2007

Aarne Hermlin, Estonian chess player (born 1940)

Aarne Hermlin was an Estonian chess player who won the Estonian Chess Championship. He was awarded the title of International Correspondence Chess Master in 1986 and of FIDE Master in 1992.

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17/11/2006

Ruth Brown, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1928)

Ruth Alston Brown was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes referred to as the "Queen of R&B". She was noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean". For these contributions, Atlantic became known as "the house that Ruth built". Brown was a 1993 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1927)

Ferenc Puskás was a Hungarian footballer and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and the sport's first international superstar. A forward and an attacking midfielder, he scored 84 goals in 85 international matches for Hungary and later played four international matches for Spain as well. He is the European all-time top assist provider in international football (53). He became an Olympic champion in 1952 and led his nation to the final of the 1954 World Cup. He won three European Cups, ten national championships and eight top individual scoring honors. Known as the "Galloping Major", in 1995, he was recognized as the greatest top division scorer of the 20th century by the IFFHS. Scoring 802 goals in 792 official games during his career, he is the seventh top goal scorer of all time by the RSSSF.

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Bo Schembechler, American football player and coach (born 1929)

Glenn Edward "Bo" Schembechler Jr. was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Miami University from 1963 to 1968 and at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1989, compiling a career record of 234 wins, 65 losses and 8 ties. Only Nick Saban, Joe Paterno and Tom Osborne have recorded 200 victories in fewer games as a coach in major college football. In his 21 seasons as the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines, Schembechler's teams amassed a record of 194–48–5 and won or shared 13 Big Ten Conference titles. Though his Michigan teams never won a national championship, in all but one season they finished ranked, and 16 times they placed in the final top ten of both major polls.

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17/11/2005

Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor and director (born 1942)

Marek Perepeczko was a popular Polish movie and theatrical actor.

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17/11/2004

Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler and manager (born 1970)

Mikael Ljungberg was a Swedish wrestler from Gothenburg. He competed for Örgryte IS's wrestling section.

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Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (born 1941)

Alexander Pavlovich Ragulin was a Russian ice hockey player widely regarded as one of the greatest defensemen in Soviet hockey history. Over his illustrious career, he captured three Olympic gold medals and ten World Championship titles. In recognition of his achievements, he was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997 and was awarded the Olympic Order in Silver in 2001.

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17/11/2003

Surjit Bindrakhia, Indian singer (born 1962)

Surjit Bains Bindrakhia was a singer from Punjab, India. He was recognized for his distinctive voice and hekh, a singing technique where a note is held continuously in one breath. His biggest tracks include Meri Nath Dig Paye, Dupatta Tera Satrang Da, Lakk Tunoo Tunoo, Bas Kar Bas Kar, Mukhda Dekh Ke, Tera Yaar Bolda, and Jatt Di Pasand. Surjit is often regarded by fans and critics as one of the most influential voices in Bhangra music. He received a special jury award at the 2004 Filmfare Awards for his contribution to Punjabi music.

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Arthur Conley, American-Dutch singer-songwriter (born 1946)

Arthur Lee Conley, also known in later years as Lee Roberts, was an American soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit "Sweet Soul Music".

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17/11/2002

Abba Eban, South African-Israeli soldier and politician, third Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1915)

Abba Solomon Meir Eban was a South African-born Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages.

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Frank McCarthy, American painter and illustrator (born 1924)

Frank McCarthy was an American artist and realist painter known for advertisements, magazine artwork, paperback covers, film posters, and paintings of the American West.

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17/11/2001

Michael Karoli, German guitarist and songwriter (born 1948)

Michael Karoli was a German guitarist, violinist, and sound-mixer. He was a founding member of the krautrock band Can.

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Harrison A. Williams, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (born 1919)

Harrison Arlington "Pete" Williams Jr. was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Democrat who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives (1953–1957) and the United States Senate (1959–1982). Williams was convicted on May 1, 1981, for receiving bribes during the Abscam sting operation, and resigned from the U.S. Senate in 1982 before a planned expulsion vote.

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17/11/2000

Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)

Louis Eugène Félix Néel was a French physicist born in Lyon who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his studies of the magnetic properties of solids.

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17/11/1998

Kea Bouman, Dutch tennis player (born 1903)

Cornelia "Kea" Tiedemann-Bouman was a tennis player from the Netherlands. She won the singles title at the 1927 French Championships, beating Irene Bowder Peacock of South Africa in the final. Bouman was the first and, to this date, the only Dutch woman who has won a Grand Slam singles title.

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Esther Rolle, American actress (born 1920)

Esther Elizabeth Rolle was an American actress. She is best known for her role as Florida Evans, on the CBS television sitcom Maude, for two seasons (1972–1974), and its spin-off series Good Times, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1976. In 1979, Rolle became the first Black actress to win the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Special for the television film Summer of My German Soldier.

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17/11/1995

Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)

James Alan Hull was an English singer-songwriter and founding member of the Tyneside folk rock band Lindisfarne.

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17/11/1993

Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian lawyer and politician, fifth Deputy Premier of Quebec (born 1926)

Gérard D. Levesque was a longtime Quebec politician and Cabinet minister, who twice served as interim leader of the Quebec Liberal Party.

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17/11/1992

Audre Lorde, American poet, essayist, memoirist, and activist (born 1934)

Audre Lorde was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet" who dedicated her life and talents to confronting all forms of injustice and oppression. She believed that there could be "no hierarchy of oppressions" among "those who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children".

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17/11/1990

Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)

Robert Hofstadter was an American physicist. He was the joint winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".

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17/11/1989

Costabile Farace, American criminal (born 1960)

Costabile "Gus" Farace, Jr. was an Italian American criminal and mobster, an associate of the Bonanno crime family. Born in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Farace is known for murdering a teenage male prostitute and a federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent in New York City. He was shot and killed by an unknown assailant in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in 1989.

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17/11/1988

Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American actress, author, and journalist (born 1904)

Sheilah Graham was a British-born, internationally syndicated American gossip columnist during Hollywood's "Golden Age". In her youth, she had been a showgirl and a freelance writer for Fleet Street in London. These early experiences would converge in her career in Hollywood, which spanned nearly four decades, as a successful columnist and author.

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17/11/1987

Paul Derringer, American baseball player (born 1906)

Samuel Paul Derringer was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three National League teams from 1931 to 1945, primarily the Cincinnati Reds.

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17/11/1986

Georges Besse, French businessman (born 1927)

Georges Besse was a French businessman who helped lead several large state-controlled companies. He was assassinated outside his Paris home in front of one of his children by the armed group Action Directe while he was the CEO of car manufacturer Renault.

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17/11/1982

Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and conductor (born 1905)

Eduard Tubin was an Estonian composer, conductor, and choreographer.

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17/11/1979

John Glascock, English singer and bass player (born 1951)

John Glascock was a British musician. He was the bassist and occasional lead vocalist of the rock band Carmen from 1972 to 1975; and the bass guitarist for progressive rock band Jethro Tull from 1976 until his death in 1979. Glascock died at the age of 28 as a result of a congenital heart valve defect, which was worsened by an infection caused by an abscessed tooth.

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17/11/1976

Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Bangladeshi scholar and politician (born 1880)

Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, also known reverentially as Maulana Bhashani, was a Bangladeshi politician and statesman who was one of the founders of the Awami League, the oldest political party in Bangladesh that played a pivotal role in the country's independence from Pakistan.

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17/11/1973

Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (born 1878)

Mirra Alfassa, known to her followers as The Mother or La Mère, was a French-Indian spiritual guru, occultist and yoga teacher, and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who considered her to be of equal yogic stature to him and called her by the name "The Mother" or "Shri Maa".

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17/11/1971

Gladys Cooper, English actress (born 1888)

Dame Gladys Constance Cooper was an English actress, theatrical manager and producer, whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television.

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17/11/1968

Mervyn Peake, English poet, author, and illustrator (born 1911)

Mervyn Laurence Peake was a British writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but Peake's surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.

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Abdul Wahed Bokainagari, Bengali politician (born 1876)

Abdul Wahed Bokainagari was a Bengali politician.

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17/11/1959

Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (born 1887)

Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has globally become one of the most recognizable South American composers in music history. A prolific composer, he wrote many orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works, totaling over 2,000 works by his death in 1959. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his Bachianas Brasileiras and his Chôros. His Etudes for classical guitar (1929), dedicated to Andrés Segovia, and his 5 Preludes (1940), dedicated to his spouse Arminda Neves d'Almeida, a.k.a. "Mindinha", are important works in the classical guitar repertory.

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17/11/1958

Mort Cooper, American baseball player (born 1913)

Morton Cecil Cooper was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Braves, New York Giants, and Chicago Cubs. A four-time MLB All-Star, Cooper won the National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in 1942. His younger brother, Walker Cooper, also played in the major leagues.

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17/11/1955

James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (born 1894)

James Price Johnson was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of the key figures in the evolution of ragtime into what was eventually called jazz. Johnson was a major influence on Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, Thelonious Monk, and Fats Waller, who was his student. According to Hound Dog the 2009 biography of the song-writing partnership between Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber James P. Johnson also gave lessons to Stoller.

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17/11/1954

Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli poet and journalist (born 1899)

Yitzhak Lamdan was a Russian-born Israeli Hebrew-language poet, translator, editor and columnist.

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17/11/1947

Victor Serge, Russian historian and author (born 1890)

Victor Serge was a Belgian-born Russian revolutionary, novelist, poet, historian, journalist, and translator. Serge was a key eyewitness to and participant in the revolutionary movements of the 20th century and the opposition to Stalinism, which influenced his writing along with contemporary Modernist experiments. His notable and best-known works as an author include such novels as The Case of Comrade Tulayev, his historical account Year One of the Russian Revolution, and his Memoirs of a Revolutionary, 1901–1941.

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17/11/1940

Eric Gill, English sculptor and typeface designer (born 1882)

Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker. Although the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Gill as "the greatest artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a letter-cutter and type designer of genius", he is also a figure of considerable controversy following the revelations of his sexual abuse of two of his daughters and of his pet dog.

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Raymond Pearl, American biologist and academic (born 1879)

Raymond Pearl was an American biologist, regarded as one of the founders of biogerontology. He spent most of his career at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Pearl was a prolific writer of academic books, papers and articles, as well as a committed populariser and communicator of science. At his death, 841 publications were listed against his name. An early eugenicist, he eventually became an important critic of eugenics. He also advanced the concept of carrying capacity, although he didn't use the term, and was a Malthusian concerned with resource limits. He was a critic of mass consumption.

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17/11/1938

Ante Trumbić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 20th Mayor of Split (born 1864)

Ante Trumbić was a Yugoslav and Croatian lawyer and politician in the early 20th century.

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17/11/1937

Jack Worrall, Australian footballer, cricketer, and coach (born 1860)

John Worrall was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the VFA, and a Test cricketer. He was also a prominent coach in both sports and a journalist.

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17/11/1936

Ernestine Schumann-Heink, German-American singer (born 1861)

Ernestine Schumann-Heink was a Bohemian-born Austrian-American operatic dramatic contralto of German Bohemian descent. She was noted for the flexibility and wide range of her voice. Heink and Schumann were her two husbands' surnames.

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17/11/1929

Herman Hollerith, American statistician and businessman (born 1860)

Herman Hollerith was a German-American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine, patented in 1884, marks the beginning of the era of mechanized binary code and semiautomatic data processing systems, and his concept dominated that landscape for nearly a century.

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17/11/1928

Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (born 1865)

Lala Lajpat Rai was an Indian revolutionary, politician, and author, popularly known as Punjab Kesari. He was one of the three members of the Lal Bal Pal trio. He died of heart attack on October 1928 after containing injuries during a baton charge by police in Lahore, when he led a peaceful protest march against the all-British Simon Commission.

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17/11/1924

Gregory VII of Constantinople (born 1850)

Gregory VII of Constantinople was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1923 until 1924. He was the Metropolis of Chalcedon before being elevated to the patriarchal throne. He imported the New Style Calendar to the Church of Constantinople. He died suddenly of a massive heart attack in 1924.

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17/11/1923

Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian author (born 1862)

Eduard Brunberg, known by the pen name Eduard Bornhöhe, was an Estonian writer.

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17/11/1922

Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician, 29th President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1847)

Robert Comtesse was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1899-1912).

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17/11/1917

Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator (born 1840)

François Auguste René Rodin was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay. He is known for such sculptures as The Thinker, Monument to Balzac, The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, and The Gates of Hell.

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17/11/1910

Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (born 1886)

Ralph Greenley Johnstone was the first American person to die while piloting an airplane that crashed. He and Archibald Hoxsey were known as the "heavenly twins" for their attempts to break altitude records.

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17/11/1905

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (born 1817)

Adolphe was Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 23 November 1890 to his death on 17 November 1905. The first grand duke from the House of Nassau-Weilburg, he succeeded King William III of the Netherlands, ending the personal union between the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Adolphe was Duke of Nassau from 20 August 1839 to 20 September 1866, when the Duchy was annexed to the Kingdom of Prussia.

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17/11/1902

Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian and educator (born 1847)

Hugh Price Hughes was a Welsh Methodist clergyman and religious reformer. He served in multiple leadership roles in the Wesleyan Methodist Church. He organised the West London Methodist Mission, a key Methodist organisation today. Recognised as one of the greatest orators of his era, Hughes also founded and edited an influential newspaper, the Methodist Times in 1885. His editorials helped convince Methodists to break their longstanding support for the Conservatives and support the more moralistic Liberal Party, which other Nonconformist Protestants already supported.

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17/11/1897

George Hendric Houghton, American pastor and theologian (born 1820)

George Hendric Houghton was an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman.

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17/11/1865

James McCune Smith, American physician and author (born 1813)

James McCune Smith was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist and author. He was the first African American to earn a medical degree. His M.D. was awarded by the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland, where a building has been dedicated to him. After his return to the United States, he also became the first African American to run a pharmacy in the nation.

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17/11/1835

Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer (born 1758)

Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, better known as Carle Vernet, was a French painter, the youngest child of painter Claude-Joseph Vernet and the father of painter Horace Vernet.

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17/11/1818

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born 1744)

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland as the wife of King George III from their marriage on 8 September 1761 until her death in 1818. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. As George's wife, she was also Electress of Hanover until becoming Queen of Hanover on 12 October 1814. Charlotte was Britain's longest-serving queen consort, serving for 57 years and 70 days.

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17/11/1812

John Walter, English Insurance underwriter and founder of The Times newspaper (born 1738/1739)

John Walter was an English newspaper publisher and founder of The Times newspaper, which he launched on 1 January 1785 as The Daily Universal Register. He was born in London and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, then located in London.

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17/11/1808

David Zeisberger, Czech-American pastor and missionary (born 1721)

David Zeisberger was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native American tribes who resided in the Thirteen Colonies. He established communities of Munsee (Lenape) converts to Christianity in the valley of the Muskingum River in Ohio; and for a time, near modern-day Amherstburg, Ontario.

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17/11/1796

Catherine the Great, of Russia (born 1729)

Catherine II, commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after a coup d'etat against her husband, Peter III. Her long reign helped Russia thrive under a golden age during the Enlightenment. This renaissance led to the founding of many new cities, universities, and theatres, along with large-scale immigration from the rest of Europe and the recognition of Russia as one of the great powers of Europe.

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17/11/1780

Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter and illustrator (born 1720)

Bernardo Bellotto, was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw. He was the student and nephew of the renowned Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto. In Germany and Poland, Bellotto called himself by his uncle's name, Canaletto. This caused some confusion, however Bellotto's work is more sombre in color than Canaletto's and his depiction of clouds and shadows brings him closer to Dutch painting.

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17/11/1776

James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and instrument maker (born 1710)

James Ferguson was a Scottish astronomer. He is known as the inventor and improver of astronomical and other scientific apparatus, as a striking instance of self education and as an itinerant lecturer.

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17/11/1768

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1693)

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne was an English Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, and whose official life extended throughout the Whig supremacy of the 18th century. He is commonly known as the Duke of Newcastle.

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17/11/1747

Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (born 1668)

Alain-René Lesage was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks, his comedy Turcaret (1709), and his picaresque novel Gil Blas (1715–1735).

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17/11/1713

Abraham van Riebeeck, South African-Indonesian merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (born 1653)

Abraham van Riebeeck was a merchant with the Dutch East India Company and the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1709 to 1713.

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17/11/1708

Ludolf Bakhuizen, German-Dutch painter (born 1631)

Ludolf Bakhuizen was a German-born Dutch painter, draughtsman, calligrapher and printmaker. He was the leading Dutch painter of maritime subjects after Willem van de Velde the Elder and Younger left for England in 1672. He also painted portraits of his family and circle of friends.

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17/11/1690

Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French general and politician (born 1610)

Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, was a French soldier and, from 1668 to 1680, the governor of the Dauphin, the eldest son and heir of Louis XIV, King of France.

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17/11/1668

Joseph Alleine, English pastor and author (born 1634)

Joseph Alleine was an English Nonconformist pastor and author of many religious works.

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17/11/1665

John Earle, English bishop (born 1601)

John Earle was an English cleric, author and translator, who was chaplain to Charles II. Towards the end of his life he was Bishop of Worcester and then Salisbury.

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17/11/1648

Thomas Ford, English viol player, composer, and poet (born 1580)

Thomas Ford was an English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet.

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17/11/1643

Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, French general (born 1602)

Jean-Baptiste Budes, comte de Guébriant was marshal of France.

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17/11/1632

Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (born 1594)

Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim was a German field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War. A supporter of the Catholic League, he was mortally wounded during the Battle of Lützen fighting the Protestant forces under Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus.

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17/11/1624

Jakob Böhme, German mystic (born 1575)

Jakob Böhme was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian. He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal. In contemporary English, his name may be spelled Jacob Boehme ; in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled Behmen, approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German Böhme.

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17/11/1600

Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese commander (born 1542)

Kuki Yoshitaka was a naval commander during Japan's Sengoku period, under Oda Nobunaga, and later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was also the ninth headmaster of the Kuki family's school of martial arts, Kukishin-ryū.

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17/11/1592

John III of Sweden (born 1537)

John III was King of Sweden from 1569 until his death. He attained the Swedish throne after a rebellion against his half-brother Erik XIV. He is mainly remembered for his attempts to close the gap between the newly established Lutheran Church of Sweden and the Catholic Church, as well as his conflict with and possible murder of his brother.

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17/11/1562

Antoine of Navarre (born 1518)

Antoine, sometimes called Antoine of Bourbon, was King of Navarre from 1555 until his death in 1562 as the husband and co-ruler of Queen Jeanne III. He was the first monarch of the House of Bourbon, of which he became head in 1537. Despite being first prince of the blood in France, Navarre lacked political influence and was dominated by King Henry II of France's favourites, the Montmorency and Guise families. When Henry II died in 1559, Navarre found himself sidelined in the Guise-dominated government, and then compromised by his brother's treason. When Henry's son, King Francis II of France, soon died in turn, Navarre returned to the centre of politics, becoming Lieutenant-General of France and leading the army of the crown in the first of the French Wars of Religion. He died of wounds sustained during the Siege of Rouen. He was the father of King Henry IV, France's first Bourbon king.

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17/11/1558

Mary I of England (born 1516)

Mary I was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She made vigorous attempts to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, King Henry VIII. Her attempt to restore to the Church the property confiscated in the previous two reigns was largely thwarted by Parliament but, during her five-year reign, more than 280 religious dissenters were burned at the stake, in what became known as the Marian persecutions, leading later commentators to label her "Bloody Mary".

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Reginald Pole, English cardinal and academic (born 1500)

Reginald Pole was an English cardinal and the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, holding the office from 1556 to 1558 during the Marian Restoration of Catholicism.

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Hugh Aston, English composer (born 1485)

Hugh Aston was an English composer of the early Tudor period. While little of his music survives, he is notable for his innovative keyboard and church music writing. He was also politically active, a mayor, Member of Parliament, and Alderman.

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17/11/1525

Eleanor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal (born 1458)

Dona Eleanor of Avis, also known as Leonor de Lencastre or Eleanor of Viseu, was a Portuguese infanta (princess) and queen consort of Portugal. She was the wife of King John II of Portugal and the sister of King Manuel I of Portugal. Eleanor is one of Portugal's more famous queen consorts and is best known as the founder of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia, a charitable organization operating since 1498.

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17/11/1494

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher and author (born 1463)

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when, at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy, and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the Oration on the Dignity of Man, which has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance", and a key text of Renaissance humanism and of what has been called the "Hermetic Reformation". He was the founder of the tradition of Christian Kabbalah, a key tenet of early modern Western esotericism. The 900 Theses was the first printed book to be universally banned by the Church. Pico is sometimes seen as a proto-Protestant, because his 900 theses anticipated many Protestant views.

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17/11/1492

Jami, Persian poet and saint (born 1414)

Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī, also known as Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti, or simply as Jami or Djāmī and in Turkey as Molla Cami, was a Persian Sunni poet who is known for his achievements as a prolific scholar and writer of mystical Sufi literature. He was primarily a prominent poet-theologian of the school of Ibn Arabi and a Khwājagānī Sũfī, recognized for his eloquence and for his analysis of the metaphysics of mercy. His most famous poetic works are Haft Awrang, Tuhfat al-Ahrar, Layla wa Majnun, Fatihat al-Shabab, Lawa'ih, Al-Durrah al-Fakhirah. Jami belonged to the Naqshbandi Sufi order.

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17/11/1417

Gazi Evrenos, Ottoman general (born 1288)

Evrenos or Evrenuz was an Ottoman military commander and frontier lord active during the expansion of Ottoman power into the Balkans in the second half of the 14th century.

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17/11/1326

Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (born 1285)

Edmund Fitzalan, 2nd Earl of Arundel was an English nobleman prominent in the conflict between King Edward II and his barons. His father, Richard Fitzalan, 1st Earl of Arundel, died in 1302, while Edmund was still a minor. He, therefore, became a ward of John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, and married Warenne's granddaughter, Alice. In 1306 he was styled Earl of Arundel, and served under Edward I in the Scottish Wars, for which he was richly rewarded.

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17/11/1307

Hethum II, King of Armenia (born 1266)

Hethum II, OFM was king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1289 to 1293, 1295 to 1296 and 1299 to 1303, while Armenia was a subject state of the Mongol Empire. He abdicated twice to take vows with the Franciscans, while still remaining the power behind the throne as "Grand Baron of Armenia" and later as Regent for his nephew.

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Leo III, King of Armenia (born 1289)

Leo III was a young king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, reigning from 1303 or 1305 to 1307, along with his uncle Hethum II. A member of the House of Lampron, he was the son of Thoros III of Armenia and Margaret of Lusignan, who was the daughter of King Hugh III of Cyprus.

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17/11/1231

Elizabeth of Hungary (born 1207)

Elizabeth of Hungary, also known as Elisabeth of Thuringia, was a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary and the landgravine of Thuringia.

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17/11/1188

Usama ibn Munqidh, Arab chronicler (born 1095)

Majd ad-Dīn Usāma ibn Murshid ibn ʿAlī ibn Munqidh al-Kināni al-Kalbī or Ibn Munqidh was a medieval Arab Muslim poet, author, faris (knight), and diplomat from the Banu Munqidh dynasty of Shaizar in northern Syria. His life coincided with the rise of several medieval Muslim dynasties, the arrival of the First Crusade, and the establishment of the crusader states.

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17/11/1104

Nikephoros Melissenos, Byzantine general (born 1045)

Nikephoros Melissenos, Latinized as Nicephorus Melissenus, was a Byzantine general and aristocrat. Of distinguished lineage, he served as a governor and general in the Balkans and Asia Minor in the 1060s. In the turbulent period after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, when several generals tried to seize the throne for themselves, Melissenos remained loyal to Michael VII Doukas and was exiled by his successor Nikephoros III Botaneiates. In 1080–1081, with Turkish aid, he seized control of what remained of Byzantine Asia Minor and proclaimed himself emperor against Botaneiates. After the revolt of his brother-in-law Alexios I Komnenos, however, which succeeded in taking Constantinople, he submitted to him, accepting the rank of Caesar and the governance of Thessalonica. He remained loyal to Alexios thereafter, participating in most Byzantine campaigns of the period 1081–1095 in the Balkans at the emperor's side. He died on 17 November 1104.

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17/11/0935

Chen Jinfeng, empress of Min (born 893)

Chen Jinfeng (陳金鳳) was the third known wife of Wang Yanjun, a ruler of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Min state. Wang Yanjun, while not the first ruler of Min, was the first to claim imperial title, and Empress Chen was the first Empress of Min. When Wang Yanjun was assassinated in 935, she was also killed.

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Wang Yanjun, emperor of Min (Ten Kingdoms)

Wang Yanjun, known as Wang Lin from 933 to 935, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Huizong of Min (閩惠宗), used the name of Xuanxi (玄錫) while briefly being a Taoist monk, was the third monarch of Min during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of China, and the first ruler of Min to use the title of emperor.

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17/11/0885

Liutgard of Saxony (born 845)

Liutgard of Saxony was the queen of East Francia from 876 until 882 by her marriage with King Louis the Younger.

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17/11/0641

Emperor Jomei of Japan (born 593)

Emperor Jomei was the 34th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

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17/11/0594

Gregory of Tours, Roman bishop and saint (born 538)

Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours during the Merovingian period and is known as the "father of French history".

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17/11/0375

Valentinian I, Roman emperor (born 321)

Valentinian I, sometimes known as Valentinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 364 to 375. He is the second-last emperor to govern the empire as a whole, albeit he only did so from February 26th to March 28th of 364, after which he appointed Valens to rule over the Eastern half the empire, while he remained in control of the West. During his reign, he fought successfully against the Alamanni, Quadi, and Sarmatians, strengthening the border fortifications and conducting campaigns across the Rhine and Danube. Also, his general Theodosius the Elder defeated a revolt in Africa and the Great Conspiracy. Valentinian founded the Valentinian dynasty, with his sons Gratian and Valentinian II succeeding him in the western half of the empire and his daughter Galla marrying emperor Theodosius I.

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