What happened on 24th November?

Welcome to 24th November! Explore 51 historical events, birthdays, deaths, and milestones that shaped this day. From remarkable moments in local and world history to the people who left their mark — find out what makes today special. Tonight's moon is in its waning gibbous phase, and the zodiac sign of the day is Sagittarius. If you're curious about the history of a day — this page brings together everything worth knowing about this 24th November.

Monday, 24 November falls under the zodiac sign of Sagittarius, the archer. The moon is in its waning gibbous phase, indicating a lunar cycle approaching its new moon stage.

On this day

On 24 November 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published in Britain, marking a watershed moment in scientific history. The work sold out its initial print run on the very first day, demonstrating immediate public interest in evolutionary theory that would reshape biological understanding for centuries to come.

More than a century later, on 24 November 2023, the Hibiscus Rising sculpture was unveiled in Leeds, a work commemorating the life of David Oluwale. The monument represents a contemporary moment of public remembrance, contrasting sharply with historical events of the day such as the 1963 assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby during a live television broadcast in Dallas, an incident that would fuel conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination for decades.

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Fortune of the Day

24th November in the Stars – Star Sign Sagittarius

Today, the zodiac sign Sagittarius celebrates its birthday.

Personality Profile

Personality Those born on November 24th blend Sagittarian adventurousness with vibrant Sun-driven self-expression. They are philosophical explorers who approach life with infectious optimism and disarming directness. Their thoughts soar freely, unbound by convention.

Strengths & Weaknesses These natives radiate inspiring energy, intellectual depth, and fearless courage. Yet impatience and a tendency toward superficiality can strain relationships. Tactfulness doesn't come naturally to them.

Love Partners are drawn to their radiant authenticity and free-spirited nature. They need emotional space and seek companions who share their passion for growth. Stagnation feels suffocating to them.

Caree & Finance The number 8 grants business acumen and genuine ambition. They excel in roles allowing freedom, expansion, and self-expression. Financial drive is instinctive, though impulsive decisions warrant careful review.

Health Their fiery nature demands physical activity and mental stimulation. Overtraining and nervous tension need balancing through meditation. An active lifestyle keeps them physically and emotionally thriving.

That night, the moon was in its waning gibbous phase.

Chinese year of the Snake (Wood).

Fun Facts About 24th November

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Someone born on this day would be just 218 days old today — roughly 5,234 hours, 314,061 minutes, or 18,843,678 seconds spent on Earth so far.

It's the 328. day of the year. In 2025, 24th November falls on a Monday.

There are 37 days still to come.

We’re currently in Week 48 — the year marches on.

Famous Birthdays on 24th November

On this day, 241 notable people were born on 24th November — spanning from 1273 to 1998. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

24/11/1998

Jeremy Swayman, American ice hockey player

Jeremy Rion Swayman, nicknamed "Sway" or "Bulldog", is an American professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Bruins selected him in the fourth round, 111th overall, of the 2017 NHL entry draft.

24/11/1995

Marcus Bontempelli, Australian footballer

Marcus Bontempelli is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). He has served as Western Bulldogs captain since the 2020 season, and was previously the vice-captain from 2018 to 2019.

24/11/1994

Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer

Nabil Bentaleb is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ligue 1 club Lille. Born in France, he plays for the Algeria national team.

24/11/1993

Ivi Adamou, Cypriot-Greek singer-songwriter

Ivi Adamou is a Greek Cypriot singer. Born and raised in Agia Napa, she rose to recognition in Greece and Cyprus following her participation in the second season of the Greek version of The X Factor, where she was under the mentorship of Giorgos Theofanous. Right after her elimination from the X Factor, Adamou secured a recording contract with Sony Music Greece. She gained further recognition from her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, where she represented Cyprus with the song "La La Love".

Joe Pigott, English footballer

Joseph David Wozencroft Pigott is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Folkestone Invicta.

24/11/1992

Sergei Kulbach, Ukrainian figure skater (died 2023)

Sergei Kulbach was a Ukrainian pair skater. He won national titles with former partners Elizaveta Usmantseva and Natalja Zabijako. With Zabijako, he also competed at the 2011 World Championships, placing 16th.

24/11/1990

Mario Gaspar, Spanish footballer

Mario Gaspar Pérez Martínez is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right-back.

Sarah Hyland, American actress

Sarah Jane Hyland is an American actress and singer. She is best known for playing Haley Dunphy in the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which she received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

Tom Odell, English singer-songwriter

Thomas Peter Odell is an English singer-songwriter. His debut EP, Songs from Another Love, was released in 2012, earning him a BRITs Critics' Choice Award. He won an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year in 2014. His first full-length album, Long Way Down, came out in 2013 and was followed by Wrong Crowd in 2016. Odell went on to release Jubilee Road (2018) and Monsters (2021), both through Columbia Records. In 2022, he became an independent artist and released two more studio albums: Best Day of My Life (2022) and Black Friday (2024), the latter featuring the breakout track "Black Friday", which is one of his most successful singles to date. In 2025, he published A Wonderful Life.

Michael Oldfield, Australian rugby league player

Michael Oldfield is a Tongan international rugby league footballer who last played as a winger and centre for the Parramatta Eels in the NRL.

24/11/1988

Jarrod Parker, American baseball player

Jarrod Parker is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks as the 9th overall pick in the 2007 Major League Baseball draft from Norwell High School in Ossian, Indiana. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Diamondbacks and the Oakland Athletics.

24/11/1986

Asim Chaudhry, British comedian and actor

Asim Chaudhry is a British comedian, writer, director, rapper and actor best known for playing Chabud "Chabuddy G" Gul in the BBC mockumentary series People Just Do Nothing, which he co-created. For this role, he won a Royal Television Society Award and was nominated for two British Academy Television Awards.

Jimmy Graham, American football player

Jimmy Graham is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played only one year of college football for the Miami Hurricanes after playing four years of basketball. Graham was selected by the New Orleans Saints in the third round of the 2010 NFL draft. He also played for the Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers, and Chicago Bears.

Pedro León, Spanish footballer

Pedro León Sánchez Gil, known as León, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Real Murcia.

24/11/1985

Julia Alexandratou, Greek model, actress, and singer

Julia Alexandratou is a Greek socialite, media personality, glamour model, singer, actress, and pornographic actress. In 2002, at age 16, she won the beauty pageant title "Miss Young" in Greece. Four years later, Alexandratou won the title "Miss Greece International 2006" at the Miss Star Hellas beauty pageant. In 2010, a controversial celebrity sex tape featuring Alexandratou was released. She later admitted that she was paid for her participation in the film. In 2011, Alexandratou attracted controversy again, after the release of a second pornographic video.

24/11/1984

David Booth, American ice hockey player

David Jonathan Booth is an American professional ice hockey player. He is a forward currently playing for the Fife Flyers of the Elite Ice Hockey League.

Maria Höfl-Riesch, German skier

Maria Höfl-Riesch is a German former alpine ski racer. She is a three-time Olympic champion, two-time World champion, an overall World Cup champion and five-time World junior champion.

24/11/1983

Dean Ashton, English footballer

Dean Ashton is an English former professional footballer. He made over 240 appearances as a forward in the Football League and Premier League for Crewe Alexandra, Norwich City and West Ham United, and was capped by England. He was highly praised as a talented centre forward, but had a career frustrated by injury. He retired on 11 December 2009, aged 26, after failing to recover from a long-term ankle injury sustained during international duty with England.

Lars Eckert, German rugby player

Lars Eckert is a German international rugby union player, playing for the SC Neuenheim in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.

André Laurito, German footballer

André Laurito is a German footballer who plays for Bayernliga club SV Donaustauf.

Gwilym Lee, Welsh actor

Gwilym Lee is a British actor. He is best known for his roles in Midsomer Murders (2013–2016), A Song for Jenny (2015), Jamestown (2017), Top End Wedding (2019), The Great (2020–2023), and for playing guitarist Brian May in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).

José López, Venezuelan baseball player

José Celestino López Echevarria is a Venezuelan former professional baseball infielder. López played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies, Florida Marlins, Cleveland Indians, and Chicago White Sox, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants and Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Shavlik Randolph, American basketball player

Ronald Shavlik Randolph is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils after a decorated high school career. After going undrafted in the 2005 NBA draft, Randolph played parts of eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Karine Vanasse, Canadian actress and producer

Karine Vanasse is a Canadian actress, who had roles in the films Polytechnique, Séraphin: Heart of Stone , Switch and Set Me Free (Emporte-moi). Internationally she is best known for her roles as Colette Valois in Pan Am, Margaux LeMarchal in Revenge and Lise Delorme in Cardinal. She is also the host of the Canadian reality television series, The Traitors Canada, as well as its French counterpart, Les Traîtres.

24/11/1982

Ryan Fitzpatrick, American football player

Ryan Joseph Fitzpatrick is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons. He started at quarterback for nine teams, the most in league history. Fitzpatrick is also the only NFL player to have a passing touchdown with eight different teams. Since retiring, he has served as an analyst for Thursday Night Football on NFL on Prime Video.

Sean O'Loughlin, English rugby player

Sean O'Loughlin is an English professional rugby league coach who is an assistant coach at the Wigan Warriors in the Super League and former professional rugby league footballer.

24/11/1980

Kabir Ali, English cricketer

Kabir Ali is an English former cricketer. A right-arm seam bowler and useful lower-order right-handed batsman, he played one Test match for England in 2003, while also earning 14 ODI caps between 2003 and 2006.

Brandon Hunter, American basketball player (died 2023)

Brandon Hunter was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Beth Phoenix, American wrestler

Elizabeth Copeland, better known as Beth Phoenix, is an American professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she is a former WWE Divas Champion and a three-time WWE Women's Champion.

Branko Radivojevič, Slovak ice hockey player

Branko Radivojevič is a Slovak former professional ice hockey player who began and finished his career playing for HK Dukla Trenčín of the Slovak Extraliga. He also played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers and Minnesota Wild from 2002 to 2008, and other leagues in Europe during his career, which lasted from 1998 to 2019.

24/11/1979

Joseba Llorente, Spanish footballer

Joseba Llorente Etxarri is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a centre-forward.

Carmelita Jeter, American sprinter "fastest woman alive".

Carmelita Jeter is a retired American sprinter, who competed in the 60 metres, 100 m and 200 m. For over a decade, between 2009 and 2021, Jeter was called the "Fastest woman alive" after running a 100 m personal best of 10.64 seconds at the 2009 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix. In the 100 m, she was the 2011 world champion and the 2012 Olympic silver medalist.

Horacio Ramírez, Mexican-American baseball player

Horacio Ramírez is a Mexican-American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and in the KBO League for the Kia Tigers.

24/11/1978

Katherine Heigl, American actress and producer

Katherine Heigl is an American actress and model. She portrayed Dr. Izzie Stevens on the ABC television medical drama Grey's Anatomy from 2005 to 2010, a role that brought her recognition and accolades, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2007.

24/11/1977

Colin Hanks, American actor

Colin Lewes Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role as Gus Grimly on the FX crime series Fargo (2014–2015), which earned him nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Critics' Choice Television Award.

Celaleddin Koçak, German-Turkish footballer

Celaleddin Koçak is a Turkish footballer.

24/11/1976

Mona Hanna-Attisha, British-American pediatrician, professor, and public health advocate

Mona Hanna, formerly known as Mona Hanna-Attisha, is a pediatrician, professor, and public health advocate whose research exposed the Flint water crisis. In January 2024, she launched the first-in-the-nation community-wide universal prenatal and infant cash prescription program, Rx Kids. She is the author of the 2018 book What the Eyes Don't See, which The New York Times named as one of the 100 most notable books of the year.

Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice hockey player

Christian Lucien Laflamme is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played parts of eight seasons in the National Hockey League between 1996 and 2004.

Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater

Chen Lu is a Chinese former figure skater. She is the 1994 and 1998 Olympic bronze medalist and the 1995 World Champion. Chen won the first ever Olympic medal in figure skating for China.

24/11/1975

Thomas Kohnstamm, American author

Thomas Kohnstamm is an American author from Seattle, Washington.

24/11/1974

Amy Faye Hayes, American boxing ring announcer and model

Amy Hayes is an American ring announcer and model. She is a regular aunnancer on Fox Sports Net, and in 2001 was the exclusive ring announcer on Fox Sport's networks "Sunday Night Fights" series under promoter Dan Goossen.

Stephen Merchant, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Stephen James Merchant is an English comedian, writer, director, and actor. He was the co-writer and co-director of the British TV comedy series The Office (2001–2003), and co-writer, co-director, and co-star of both Extras (2005–2007) and Life's Too Short (2011–2013) alongside Ricky Gervais. With Gervais and Karl Pilkington, he hosted The Ricky Gervais Show in its radio, podcast, audiobook, and television formats; the radio version won a bronze Sony Award. He also provided the voice of the robotic Wheatley in the video games Portal 2 (2011) and Lego Dimensions (2015). Merchant co-developed the Sky One travel documentary series An Idiot Abroad (2010–2012) and co-created Lip Sync Battle (2015–2019).

Machel Montano, Trinidadian singer-songwriter and producer

Machel Montano is a Trinidadian singer, songwriter and record producer. He is widely regarded for globalising and pioneering the soca music genre. Renowned for his high-energy, fast-paced, and often unpredictable performances, Montano is one of Trinidad and Tobago's most popular musicians of all time.

Taro Yamamoto, Japanese actor and politician

Tarō Yamamoto is a Japanese politician and former actor, who is the founder and current leader of the anti-establishment political party Reiwa Shinsengumi. Yamamoto served in the House of Councillors representing Tokyo until his resignation in 2026, and previously served in the House of Representatives from 2021 to 2022. He unsuccessfully ran in the 2020 Tokyo gubernatorial election as a candidate under Reiwa.

24/11/1973

Alejandro Ávila, Mexican actor

Alejandro Ávila is a Mexican telenovela actor.

Danielle Nicolet, American actress

Danielle Nicolet is an American actress known for roles on 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001), Second Time Around (2004–05), The Starter Wife (2008), Family Tools (2013), Born Again Virgin (2015–16), and The Flash (2015–23).

24/11/1972

Ruxandra Dragomir, Romanian tennis player

Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie is a retired tennis player from Romania.

Marek Lemsalu, Estonian footballer

Marek Lemsalu is an Estonian former professional footballer. He played as a centre-back for Pärnu KEK, Sport Tallinn, Pärnu Kalakombinaat/MEK, Flora, Mainz 05, Kuressaare, Strømsgodset, Tulevik, Start, Bryne and Levadia.

24/11/1971

Lola Glaudini, American actress

Lola Glaudini is an American actress. She is known for her portrayal of Elle Greenaway on CBS's Criminal Minds and for her role as Deborah Ciccerone-Waldrup on HBO's The Sopranos.

Cosmas Ndeti, Kenyan runner

Cosmas Ndeti is a three-time winner of the Boston Marathon. He was the winner of the 1993, 1994, and 1995 races. He set the course record in 1994 with a time of 2:07:15, which was also the best marathon performance in 1994. That course record stood for 12 years until it was broken by one second when Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, a fellow Kenyan, won the 2006 race.

Keith Primeau, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach

Keith David Primeau is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes and Philadelphia Flyers.

24/11/1970

Doug Brien, American football player

Douglas Robert Zachariah Brien is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the California Golden Bears and was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the third round of the 1994 NFL draft. Brien played in the NFL for seven teams: San Francisco, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Tampa Bay, Minnesota, New York Jets, and Chicago. After retiring from the NFL, Brien co-founded the real estate investment firms Waypoint Homes and Mynd.

Julieta Venegas, American-Mexican singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Julieta Venegas Percevault is a Mexican singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer who specializes in pop-rock-indie music in Spanish. She embarked on her musical journey by joining several bands, including the Mexican ska band Tijuana No!. Venegas is proficient in playing 17 instruments, including the acoustic guitar, accordion, and keyboard.

Ashley Ward, English footballer and businessman

Ashley Ward is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre forward.

24/11/1969

David Adeang, Nauruan lawyer and politician

David Ranibok Waiau Adeang is a Nauruan politician, currently serving as President of Nauru. Adeang is the former Speaker of the Parliament of Nauru, and Nauru's Minister of Finance and Justice, as well as the Minister Assisting the President of Nauru.

Romesh Kaluwitharana, Sri Lankan cricketer

Deshabandu Romesh Shantha Kaluwitharana is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who represented the Sri Lanka national cricket team from 1990 to 2004. He was a key member and wicketkeeper for the 1996 Cricket World Cup winning team and renowned for his aggressive batting style.

Rob Nicholson, American bass player and songwriter

Rob Nicholson also known as Blasko, is an American bassist, musician and manager. He is the bassist and backing vocalist of Rob Zombie and former bassist for Ozzy Osbourne, and is also a manager for Black Veil Brides. He is also the former bassist of Cryptic Slaughter and live bassist for Danzig.

24/11/1968

Bülent Korkmaz, Turkish footballer and manager

Bülent Korkmaz, colloquially known by his given nicknames "Büyük Kaptan" and "Cengaver", is a Turkish football coach and former professional player.

Scott Krinsky, American actor and comedian

Scott Krinsky is an American actor and comic best known for his role as Jeffrey "Jeff" Barnes on the hit TV series Chuck and his role as Darryl on The O.C.

Dawn Robinson, American singer and actress

Dawn Sherrese Robinson is an American singer and actress best known as a founding member of the R&B/pop group En Vogue, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. Following her departure from En Vogue, Robinson joined Lucy Pearl and released their self-titled debut album Lucy Pearl in 2000, which went platinum worldwide and produced the successful singles "Dance Tonight" and "Don't Mess with My Man".

24/11/1967

Henrik Brockmann, Danish singer-songwriter

Henrik Brockmann is a Danish heavy metal singer. He started singing at the age of 13 in local school bands. He released his first album 1992 with the Danish band Royal Hunt and was replaced 1994 by DC Cooper.

Jon Hein, American radio personality

Jon Hein is an American radio personality and former webmaster. He created the website jumptheshark.com and works for The Howard Stern Show. Hein has written three books, Jump the Shark: When Good Things Go Bad as well as Fast Food Maniac: From Arby’s to White Castle, One Man’s Supersized Obsession with America’s Favorite Food. Hein also wrote, Jump the Shark: TV Edition. He is an alumnus of the University of Michigan where he appeared in the sketch comedy troupe Comedy Company with Jon Glaser. The two also were a part of the comedy troupe Just Kidding along with Craig Neuman, Matt Schlein, Kristin Sobditch, Sara Mathison, H. Anthony Lehv.

24/11/1966

Russell Watson, English tenor and actor

Russell Watson is an English crossover and popular singer, almost in the tenor range, who has released singles and albums of both quasi-operatic-style and pop songs.

24/11/1965

Shirley Henderson, Scottish actress

Shirley Henderson is a Scottish actress. Henderson's film roles include Gail in Trainspotting (1996) and its 2017 sequel, Jude in the Bridget Jones films (2001–2025), and Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). Her other notable credits include Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), Intermission (2003), American Cousins (2003), Frozen (2005), Marie Antoinette (2006), Anna Karenina (2012), Filth (2013), and Stan & Ollie (2018).

24/11/1964

Garret Dillahunt, American actor

Garret Lee Dillahunt is an American actor. He is best known for his work in television, including the roles Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Jack McCall and Francis Wolcott in Deadwood, and John Dorie in Fear the Walking Dead. He has also appeared in The 4400, ER, Against the Sun, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Burn Notice, Justified, and The Mindy Project. He starred in the Amazon Studios drama series Hand of God (2014–2017).

Conleth Hill, Northern Irish actor

Conleth Seamus Eoin Croiston Hill is an Irish actor. He has performed on stage in productions in the UK, Ireland, Canada and the US. He has won two Laurence Olivier Awards and received two Tony Award nominations. He is best known for his role as Varys in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2019).

Brad Sherwood, American actor and game show host

Bradley Sherwood is an American actor, singer, comedian, game show host and writer. He is best known for his work on the British and American versions of comedy improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

24/11/1963

Neale Cooper, Scottish footballer (died 2018)

Neale James Cooper was a Scottish football player and coach. He played as a midfielder during the 1980s and 1990s, most prominently for the Aberdeen team managed by Alex Ferguson, and later played for Aston Villa, Rangers, Reading, Dunfermline Athletic and Ross County. Cooper then became a coach, and worked as a manager in England with Hartlepool United (twice) and Gillingham, and in Scotland with Ross County and Peterhead.

24/11/1962

John Kovalic, English author and illustrator

John Kovalic is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and writer.

John Squire, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Jonathan Thomas Squire is an English musician, songwriter and painter. He was the guitarist for The Stone Roses, a rock band in which he formed a songwriting partnership with singer Ian Brown. Squire has been described as one of the most accomplished and influential British rock guitarists of the late 1980s and early 1990s, known for his chiming melodies, spiralling riffs and live solos.

Paul Thorburn, German-Welsh rugby player and manager

Paul Thorburn (born 24 November 1962 in Rheindahlen, West Germany) is a former Neath RFC and international Wales rugby union player who played at full back and also featured in the Welsh international team.

Ioannis Topalidis, Greek footballer and manager

Ioannis Topalidis is a Greek professional football manager and former player.

Tracey Wickham, Australian swimmer

Tracey Lee Wickham is an Australian former middle distance swimmer. Wickham was the World Champion for the 400 m and 800 m freestyle in 1978, and won gold in both events at the 1978 and 1982 Commonwealth Games. She is a former world record holder for the 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m freestyle. Despite her success in the pool, Wickham has battled hardship and personal tragedy throughout her life.

24/11/1961

Carlos Carnero, Spanish lawyer and politician

Carlos Carnero González is a Member of the European Parliament for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1994. On 7 December 2006, he was appointed a member of the presidency of the Party of European Socialists (PES).

Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist

Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. She was the winner of the 2024 PEN Pinter Prize, given by English PEN, and she named imprisoned British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah as the "Writer of Courage" with whom she chose to share the award.

24/11/1960

Edgar Meyer, American bassist and composer

Edgar Meyer is an American bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. He has won seven Grammy Awards and been nominated ten times.

24/11/1959

Todd Brooker, Canadian skier and sportscaster

Todd Brooker is a former alpine ski racer member Crazy Canucks and a ski commentator on television.

24/11/1958

Roy Aitken, Scottish footballer and manager

Robert Sime "Roy" Aitken is a Scottish former football player and manager. He made over 480 league appearances for Celtic, and later played for Newcastle United, St Mirren and Aberdeen. Aitken also made 57 international appearances for Scotland. His playing position was either in midfield or defence.

Margaret Curran, Scottish academic and politician

Margaret Patricia Curran, Baroness Curran, is a Scottish Labour Party politician. She served in the House of Commons as the member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow East from 2010 and 2015, and was Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland from 2011 until 2015.

Nick Knight, British photographer

Nicholas David Gordon Knight is a British fashion photographer and founder and director of SHOWstudio.com. He is an honorary professor at University of the Arts London and was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the same university. He has produced books of his work including retrospectives Nicknight (1994) and Nick Knight (2009). In 2016, Knight's 1992 campaign photograph for fashion brand Jil Sander was sold by Phillips auction house at the record-breaking price of HKD 2,360,000.

24/11/1957

Denise Crosby, American actress and producer

Denise Michelle Crosby is an American actress and model known for portraying Security Chief Tasha Yar mainly in season one of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Yar's daughter, the half-Romulan Commander Sela, in subsequent seasons. She is also known for her numerous film and television roles and for starring in and producing the 1997 film Trekkies.

Edward Stourton, English journalist and author

Edward John Ivo Stourton is a British broadcaster and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme Sunday, and was a frequent contributor to the Today programme, where for ten years he was one of the main presenters. He is the author of eight books, most recently Confessions (2023).

24/11/1956

Terry Lewis, American musician, producer, and songwriter

James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III and Terry Steven Lewis are an American R&B/pop songwriting and record production team. Their productions have received commercial success since the 1980s with various artists, most extensively Janet Jackson. They have written 31 top ten hits in the UK and 41 in the US. In 2022, the duo were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Musical Excellence category.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson, American actor, playwright, and director

Ruben Santiago-Hudson is an American actor, playwright, and director who has won national awards for his work in all three categories. He has received a Tony Award and three Drama Desk Awards as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. He won the Humanitas Prize in 2005 and the Lucille Lortel Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2024.

24/11/1955

Ian Botham, English cricketer, footballer, and sportscaster

Ian Terence Botham, Baron Botham is an English cricket commentator, member of the House of Lords, a former cricketer who has been chairman of Durham County Cricket Club since 2017, and a charity fundraiser. A genuine all-rounder, Botham represented England in both Test and One-Day International cricket. He was a part of the English squads which finished as runners-up at the 1979 and 1992 Cricket World Cups.

Scott Hoch, American golfer

Scott Mabon Hoch is an American professional golfer, who represented his country in the Ryder Cup in 1997 and 2002.

Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for Culture

Lena Elisabeth Adelsohn Liljeroth is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for Culture and Sports from 2006 to 2014. A member of the Moderate Party, she was an MP of the Swedish Riksdag from 2002 to 2014.

Najib Mikati, Lebanese businessman and politician, 31st Prime Minister of Lebanon

Najib Azmi Mikati is a Lebanese politician and businessman who served as the 52nd prime minister of Lebanon from 2021 to 2025. He also served in this post as the 48th and 45th prime minister from 2011 to 2014 and in 2005, after holding the post of Minister of Public Works and Transport from December 1998 to 2003.

Takashi Yuasa, Japanese lawyer and author

Takashi Yuasa is a Japanese lawyer and television personality. He belongs to the Horipro talent agency.

24/11/1954

Clem Burke, American drummer (died 2025)

Clement Anthony Burke was an American musician best known as the drummer for the band Blondie. He joined the band shortly after its formation in 1975 and remained with Blondie throughout the band's entire career until his death in 2025. He appeared on all of the band's albums with two of the founding members, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. He was drummer for the Ramones for a brief time in 1987 under the name Elvis Ramone, and played on albums by other artists, including Eurythmics, Bob Dylan and Iggy Pop. He was a member of the Romantics from 1990 until 2004.

Emir Kusturica, Serbian actor, director, and screenwriter

Emir Kusturica is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, actor, film producer and musician. Kusturica has been an active filmmaker since the 1980s.

Margaret Wetherell, English psychologist and academic

Margaret Wetherell is a prominent academic in the area of discourse analysis.

24/11/1952

Rachel Chagall, American actress

Rachel Chagall is an American actress, best known for roles as Gaby in the film Gaby: A True Story (1987), for which she was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and as Val Toriello on The Nanny (1993–1999).

Norbert Haug, German journalist and businessman

Norbert Friedrich Haug is a German journalist and the former vice president of Mercedes-Benz motorsport activity, including Formula One, Formula 3 and DTM. Under his direction, Mercedes-Benz enjoyed considerable success in all categories, winning multiple races and championships.

Thierry Lhermitte, French actor, producer, and screenwriter

Thierry Michel Lhermitte is a French actor, director, writer and producer, best known for his comedic roles. He was a founder of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, and Michel Blanc. The group adapted a number of its stage hits for the cinema, and scored major successes with films such as Les Bronzés (1978), Les Bronzés font du ski (1979), Le Père Noël est une ordure (1982) and Un indien dans la ville (1994).

Parveen Shakir, Pakistani Urdu poet (died 1994)

Parveen Shakir was a Pakistani poet and civil servant of the government of Pakistan. She is best known for her poems, which brought a distinctive feminine voice to Urdu literature.

Jim Sheridan, Scottish politician (died 2022)

James Sheridan was a British Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, formerly Renfrewshire West, from 2001 to 2015.

Ken Wilson, Australian rugby league player (died 2022)

Ken Wilson, nicknamed Squeaker, was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s.

24/11/1951

Mimis Androulakis, Greek author and politician

Dimitris (Mimis) Androulakis is a Greek author and politician.

Chet Edwards, American businessman and politician

Thomas Chester Edwards is an American politician who was a United States representative from Texas, representing a district based in Waco, from 1991 to 2011. Previously, he served in the Texas Senate from 1983 to 1990. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Edwards was on Barack Obama's vice presidential shortlist in 2008.

Margaret Mountford, Northern Irish-British lawyer and businesswoman

Margaret Rose Mountford is a British lawyer, businesswoman, academic and television personality from Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, best known for her role in the BBC reality TV series The Apprentice.

Graham Price, Egyptian-Welsh rugby player

Graham Price MBE is a former Welsh rugby union player, who was a member of the famous Pontypool RFC front row known as the "Viet Gwent". He won 41 caps for Wales, and a record 12 for the British and Irish Lions as a prop forward

24/11/1950

Bob Burns, American drummer and songwriter (died 2015)

Robert Lewis Burns Jr. was an American drummer who was in the original lineup of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Stanley Livingston, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Stanley Bernard Livingston is an American actor.

24/11/1949

Henry Bibby, American basketball player and coach

Charles Henry Bibby is an American former professional basketball player who played for the New York Knicks, New Orleans Jazz, Philadelphia 76ers, and San Diego Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also spent a season as a player-assistant coach for the Lancaster Lightning of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA).

Shane Bourne, Australian comedian, actor, and television host

Shane Jerome Bourne is an Australian stand-up comedian, actor, musician, and television host.

Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, English politician

Ewen James Hanning Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, is a British farmer, landowner and life peer who sits as a crossbench member of the House of Lords.

Sally Davies, English hematologist and academic

Dame Sally Claire Davies is a British physician. She was the Chief Medical Officer from 2010 to 2019 and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health from 2004 to 2016. She worked as a clinician specialising in the treatment of diseases of the blood and bone marrow. She is now Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, appointed on 8 February 2019, with effect from 8 October 2019. She is one of the founders of the National Institute for Health and Care Research.

24/11/1948

Spider Robinson, American-Canadian author and critic

Spider Robinson is an American-Canadian science fiction author. He has won a number of awards for his hard science fiction and humorous stories, including the Hugo Award 1977 and 1983, and another Hugo with his co-author and wife Jeanne Robinson in 1978.

Rudy Tomjanovich, American basketball player and coach

Rudolph Tomjanovich Jr. is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He won two NBA Championships with the Houston Rockets and coached Team USA to the gold medal in men's basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Steve Yeager, American baseball player and coach

Stephen Wayne Yeager is an American former professional baseball catcher. Yeager spent 14 of the 15 seasons of his Major League Baseball career, from 1972 through 1985, with the Los Angeles Dodgers. His last year, 1986, he played for the Seattle Mariners. From 2012 to 2018, Yeager was the catching coach for the Dodgers. He was co-MVP of the 1981 World Series.

24/11/1947

Dwight Schultz, American actor

William Dwight Schultz is an American television, film and voice actor. He is known for his roles as Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock on the 1980s action series The A-Team and as Reginald Barclay in the Star Trek franchise.

Dave Sinclair, English keyboard player

David Sinclair is a British keyboardist associated with the psychedelic/progressive rock Canterbury Scene since the late 1960s. He became famous with the band Caravan and was responsible as a songwriter for creating some of their best-known tracks: "For Richard", "Nine Feet Underground", "The Dabsong Conshirtoe", "Proper Job/Back to Front".

24/11/1946

Ted Bundy, American serial killer (died 1989)

Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered dozens of young women and girls between 1974 and 1978. His modus operandi typically consisted of convincing his target that he was in need of assistance or duping them into believing he was an authority figure. He would then lure his victim to his vehicle, at which point he would bludgeon them unconscious, then restrain them with handcuffs before driving them to a remote location to be sexually assaulted and killed.

Tony Clarkin, English guitarist and songwriter (died 2024)

Anthony Michael Clarkin was an English musician, best known as the guitarist of the rock band Magnum. He was the sole songwriter throughout Magnum's history, writing all of the material on their 23 studio albums as well as on two studio albums by Magnum spin-off group Hard Rain. He also produced most of Magnum's albums.

Penny Jordan, English author (died 2011)

Penelope Halsall was a prolific English writer of over 200 romance novels. She started writing regency romances as Caroline Courtney, and wrote contemporary romances as Penny Jordan and historical romances as Annie Groves. She also wrote novels as Melinda Wright and Lydia Hitchcock. Her books have sold over 70 million copies worldwide and have been translated into many languages.

Roberto Chale, Peruvian footballer (died 2024)

Roberto Carlos Chale Olarte was a Peruvian footballer, recognized as one of Peru's most important midfielders.

24/11/1945

Nuruddin Farah, Somali novelist

Nuruddin Farah is a Somali novelist. His first novel, From a Crooked Rib, was published in 1970 and has been described as "one of the cornerstones of modern East African literature today". Farah has also written plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and essays. Since leaving Somalia in the 1970s, he has lived and taught in numerous countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Sudan, India, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa.

Lee Michaels, American singer-songwriter and musician

Lee Eugene Michaels is an American rock musician who sings and accompanies himself on organ, piano, or guitar. He is best known for his 1971 Top 10 US hit single, "Do You Know What I Mean". In 1988 he founded the Marina del Rey, California-based restaurant chain Killer Shrimp which he and his family continue to operate to this day.

24/11/1944

Bev Bevan, English drummer

Beverley "Bev" Bevan is an English rock musician who was the drummer and one of the original members of the Move and Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). After the end of ELO in 1986, he founded ELO Part II.

Candy Darling, American model and actress (died 1974)

Candy Darling was an American actress. Best known as a Warhol superstar, she was a pioneer for transgender visibility.

Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian academic and diplomat, 9th Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, CFR ; born 24 November 1944), is a Nigerian academic and diplomat who served as Chief of Staff to the President of Nigeria from 2020 to 2023.

Dan Glickman, American businessman and politician, 26th United States Secretary of Agriculture

Daniel Robert Glickman is an American politician, lawyer, lobbyist, and nonprofit leader. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001 in the Bill Clinton administration. He previously represented Kansas's 4th congressional district as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives for 18 years.

24/11/1943

Dave Bing, American basketball player and politician, 70th Mayor of Detroit

David Bing is an American former professional basketball player, businessman and politician who served as the 74th mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 2009 to 2014. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Richard Tee, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 1993)

Richard Edward Tee was an American jazz fusion pianist, studio musician, singer and arranger. Tee had several hundred studio credits and played on such hits as "I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow " (1967), "Until You Come Back To Me" (1974), "The Hustle" (1975), "Slip Slidin' Away" (1977), "Just the Two of Us" (1981), "Tell Her About It" (1983), and "In Your Eyes" (1986).

Margaret E. M. Tolbert, American chemist and academic

Margaret Ellen Mayo Tolbert is a biochemist who worked as a professor and director of the Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee University, and was an administrative chemist at British Petroleum. From 1996 to 2002 she served as director of the New Brunswick Laboratory, becoming the first African American and the first woman in charge of a Department of Energy lab.

Robin Williamson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Robin Duncan Harry Williamson is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and storyteller who was a founding member of the Incredible String Band, as well as having a solo career.

24/11/1942

Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and actor

Sir William Connolly is a Scottish actor, musician, television presenter, artist and retired stand-up comedian. He is sometimes known by the Scots nickname the Big Yin. Known for his idiosyncratic and often improvised observational comedy, frequently including strong language, Connolly has topped many UK polls as the greatest stand-up comedian of all time. In 2017, he was knighted at Buckingham Palace for services to entertainment and charity. In 2022, he received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Marlin Fitzwater, American soldier and journalist, 17th White House Press Secretary

Max Marlin Fitzwater is an American writer-journalist who served as White House Press Secretary for six years under U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, making him one of the longest-serving press secretaries in history. He is the only U.S. Press Secretary to be appointed by two different U.S. Presidents.

Jean Ping, Gabonese politician and diplomat

Jean Ping is a Gabonese diplomat and politician who served as Chair of the African Union Commission from 2008 to 2012. Born to a Chinese father and Gabonese mother, he is the first individual of Chinese descent to lead the executive branch of the African Union.

Andrew Stunell, English minister and politician (died 2024)

Robert Andrew Stunell, Baron Stunell, was a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament for Hazel Grove from 1997 until he stood down in 2015, and then as a member of the House of Lords from 2015.

24/11/1941

Pete Best, Indian-English drummer and songwriter

Randolph Peter Best is a British retired musician who was the drummer for the Beatles from 1960 to 1962. He was dismissed shortly before the band attained global fame and is one of several people referred to as a fifth Beatle.

Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (died 2012)

Donald "Duck" Dunn was an American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and songwriter. Dunn was notable for his 1960s recordings with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a session bassist for Stax Records. At Stax, Dunn played on thousands of records, including hits by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, William Bell, Eddie Floyd, Johnnie Taylor, Albert King, Bill Withers, Elvis Presley, and many others. In 1992, he was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s. In 2017, he was ranked 40th on Bass Player magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Bass Players of All Time".

Wayne Jackson, American trumpeter (died 2016)

Wayne Lamar Jackson was an American soul and R&B musician, playing the trumpet in The Mar-Keys, in the house band at Stax Records and later as one of The Memphis Horns, described as "arguably the greatest soul horn section ever".

24/11/1940

Marshall Berman, American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer (died 2013)

Marshall Howard Berman was an American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer. He was a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, teaching political philosophy and urbanism.

Paul Tagliabue, American lawyer and businessman, 5th Commissioner of the National Football League (died 2025)

Paul John Tagliabue was an American lawyer who was the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL). He took the position in 1989 and served until September 1, 2006. He had previously served as a lawyer for the NFL.

Eric Wilson, Canadian author and educator

Eric Hamilton Wilson is a Canadian author of young adult fiction. His detective novels follow the adventures of Tom and Liz Austen, young sleuths in Canada. Wilson has taught elementary and secondary school in White Rock, British Columbia, and has a B.A. from the University of British Columbia.

24/11/1938

Willy Claes, Belgian conductor and politician, 8th Secretary General of NATO

Willem Werner Hubert Claes is a Belgian politician who served as the eighth secretary general of NATO, from 1994 to 1995. Claes was forced to resign from his NATO position after he was found guilty of corruption, which was uncovered during the investigation into André Cools' death. Claes was a member of the Flemish Socialist Party.

Oscar Robertson, American basketball player and sportscaster

Oscar Palmer Robertson, nicknamed "the Big O", is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks in the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a 12-time All-Star, 11-time member of the All-NBA Team, and winner of the 1964 MVP, Robertson is considered to be one of the greatest point guards of all time. In 1962, he became the first player in NBA history to average a triple-double for a season. In the 1970–71 NBA season, he was a key player on the team that brought the Bucks their first NBA title. His playing career, especially during high school and college, was plagued by racism.

Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (died 1959)

Charles Raymond Starkweather was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between December 1957 and January 1958, when he was nineteen years old. He killed ten of his victims between January 21 and January 29, 1958, the date of his arrest. During his spree in 1958, Starkweather was accompanied by his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.

24/11/1935

Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahraini politician, Prime Minister of Bahrain (died 2020)

Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa was a Bahraini royal and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Bahrain from 10 January 1970 until his death in 2020. He took office over a year before Bahrain's independence on 15 August 1971. At the time of his death, he was the longest-serving prime minister in the world.

Ron Dellums, American soldier and politician, 48th Mayor of Oakland (died 2018)

Ronald Vernie Dellums was an American politician who served as Mayor of Oakland from 2007 to 2011. Previously, served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing California's 9th congressional district from 1971 to 1998, after which he worked as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. Before that, he was on the Berkeley City Council from 1967 to 1970. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Mordicai Gerstein, American author, illustrator, and director (died 2019)

Mordicai Gerstein was an American artist, writer, and film director, best known for illustrating and writing children's books. He illustrated the comic mystery fiction series Something Queer is Going On.

24/11/1934

Alfred Schnittke, German-Russian journalist and composer (died 1998)

Alfred Garrievich Schnittke was a Soviet and Russian composer. Among the most performed and recorded composers of late 20th-century classical music, he is described by musicologist Ivan Moody as a "composer who was concerned in his music to depict the moral and spiritual struggles of contemporary man in [...] depth and detail."

24/11/1933

John Sheridan, English rugby player and coach (died 2012)

John Sheridan was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s, and coached in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at club level for Lock Lane ARLFC, and Castleford (captain), as a centre, or loose forward, and coached at club level for Castleford, Leeds and Doncaster.

24/11/1932

Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist (died 2019)

Claudio Benjamín Naranjo Cohen was a Chilean psychiatrist who is considered a pioneer in integrating psychotherapy and the spiritual traditions. He was one of the three successors named by Fritz Perls, a student of Oscar Ichazo, and a founder of the Seekers After Truth Institute. He was also an elder statesman of the US and global human potential movement and the spiritual renaissance of the late 20th century. Naranjo authored several books.

Fred Titmus, English cricketer and coach (died 2011)

Frederick John Titmus was an English cricketer, whose first-class career, mostly for Middlesex with a short stint for Surrey, spanned five decades. He was the fourth man after W.G. Grace, Wilfred Rhodes and George Hirst to take 2,500 wickets and make 20,000 runs in first-class cricket. Although he was best known for his off-spin, he was an accomplished lower-order batsman who deserved to be called an all-rounder, even opening the batting for England on six occasions. Outside cricket, Titmus was also a footballer; at one stage he was contracted to Watford as a professional, having earlier played for amateur club Leytonstone, and then for Chelsea as a junior.

24/11/1931

Tommy Allsup, American guitarist (died 2017)

Thomas Douglas Allsup was an American country music, rockabilly and Western swing musician. He was an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation.

Arthur Chaskalson, South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of South Africa (died 2012)

Arthur Chaskalson SCOB, was President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 to 2001 and Chief Justice of South Africa from 2001 to 2005. Chaskalson was a member of the defence team in the Rivonia Trial of 1963.

24/11/1930

Ken Barrington, English cricketer (died 1981)

Kenneth Frank Barrington, was an English international cricketer who played for the England cricket team and Surrey County Cricket Club in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a right-handed batsman and occasional leg-spin bowler, known for his jovial good humour and long, defensive innings "batting with bulldog determination and awesome concentration". He is widely regarded as one of the best English batsmen of all time.

Bob Friend, American baseball player and politician (died 2019)

Robert Bartmess Friend was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher between 1951 and 1966, most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates. A four-time All-Star, Friend was an integral member of the Pirates team that defeated the New York Yankees in the 1960 World Series. He played for the New York Yankees and New York Mets in his final season of 1966. As of 2019, he still held Pirates records for career innings pitched and strikeouts. He was the first man to lead the league in ERA while pitching for a last place team.

24/11/1929

Franciszek Kokot, Polish nephrologist and endocrinologist (died 2021)

Franciszek Kokot was a Polish nephrologist and endocrinologist. He was known as a pioneer of nephrology in Eastern Europe. Kokot was a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, having previously served as its rector.

George Moscone, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th Mayor of San Francisco (died 1978)

George Richard Moscone was an American attorney and politician who served as the 37th mayor of San Francisco from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978.

24/11/1927

Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian-French author and playwright (died 2003)

Ahmadou Kourouma was an Ivorian novelist.

Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (died 1999)

Alfredo Kraus Trujillo was a distinguished Spanish tenor from the Canary Islands, particularly known for the artistry he brought to opera's bel canto roles. He was also considered an outstanding interpreter of the title role in Massenet's opera Werther, and especially of its famous aria "Pourquoi me réveiller?"

Emma Lou Diemer, American composer (died 2024)

Emma Lou Diemer was an American composer.

Kevin Skinner, New Zealand rugby player (died 2014)

Kevin Lawrence Skinner was a rugby union player from New Zealand who won 20 full caps for the All Blacks, two of them as captain. He was also a heavyweight boxer, winning the New Zealand championship in 1947.

24/11/1926

Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)

Tsung-Dao Lee was a Chinese-American physicist known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars. He was a university professor emeritus at Columbia University in New York City, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012.

24/11/1925

William F. Buckley Jr., American publisher and author, founded the National Review (died 2008)

William Frank Buckley Jr. was an American conservative writer, public intellectual, political commentator, and novelist.

Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)

Simon van der Meer was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, the two fundamental communicators of the weak interaction.

24/11/1924

Eileen Barton, American singer (died 2006)

Eileen Barton was an American singer best known for her 1950 hit song, "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake."

Lorne Munroe, Canadian-American cellist and educator (died 2020)

Lorne Munroe was an American cellist. He was principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1951 to 1964 and principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic from 1964 to 1996. He was a featured soloist more than 150 times during the 32 seasons he played for the New York Philharmonic. His last performance with the orchestra as a member of the ensemble was on February 27, 1996; although he later returned as a guest artist.

24/11/1922

Claus Moser, Baron Moser, German-English statistician and academic (died 2015)

Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser, was a British statistician who made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service. He prided himself rather on being a non-mathematical statistician, and said that the thing that frightened him most in his life was when Maurice Kendall asked him to teach a course on analysis of variance at the LSE.

24/11/1921

John Lindsay, American lawyer and politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City (died 2000)

John Vliet Lindsay was an American politician and lawyer. During his political career, Lindsay was a U.S. congressman, the mayor of New York City, and a candidate for U.S. president. He was also a regular guest host of Good Morning America. Lindsay served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from January 1959 to December 1965 and as mayor of New York from January 1966 to December 1973.

24/11/1919

David Kossoff, English actor and screenwriter (died 2005)

David Kossoff was a British actor. In 1954 he won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for his appearance as Geza Szobek in The Young Lovers. He played Alf Larkin in TV sitcom The Larkins and Professor Kokintz in The Mouse that Roared (1959) and its sequel The Mouse on the Moon (1963).

24/11/1917

Shabtai Rosenne, English-Israeli academic, jurist, and diplomat (died 2010)

Shabtai Rosenne was a Professor of International Law and an Israeli diplomat. Rosenne was awarded the 1960 Israel Prize for Jurisprudence, the 1999 Manley O. Hudson Medal for International Law and Jurisprudence, the 2004 Hague Prize for International Law and the 2007 Distinguished Onassis Scholar Award. He was the leading scholar of the World Court - the PCIJ and ICJ and had a widely recognized expertise in treaty law, state responsibility, self-defence, UNCLOS and other issues of international law.

24/11/1916

Forrest J Ackerman, American soldier and author (died 2008)

Forrest James Ackerman was an American magazine editor; science fiction writer, and literary agent; a founder of science fiction fandom; a leading expert on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films; a prominent advocate of the Esperanto language; and one of the world's most avid collectors of genre books and film memorabilia. He was based in Los Angeles, California.

24/11/1914

Lynn Chadwick, English sculptor (died 2003)

Lynn Russell Chadwick, was an English sculptor and artist. Much of his work is semi-abstract sculpture in bronze or steel. His work is in the collections of MoMA in New York, the Tate in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Bessie Blount Griffin, American physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist (died 2009)

Bessie Virginia Griffin, better known as Bessie Blount, was an African American writer, nurse, physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist. Blount was known for her groundbreaking work in assistive technologies and forensic sciences.

24/11/1913

Howard Duff, American actor, director, and producer (died 1990)

Howard Green Duff was an American actor. He started in radio during World War II before appearing in many Hollywood features and television programs from 1947 to 1990. He also directed for television. His career was marked by accusations of disloyalty during the red scare of the 1950s.

Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (died 2005)

Geraldine Mary Wilma Fitzgerald was an Irish American actress. She received the Daytime Emmy Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. She was a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2020 she was listed at number 30 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

24/11/1912

Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher and academic (died 1993)

Bernardus Maria Ignatius "Bernard" Delfgaauw was a Dutch philosopher. He studied Dutch language and (thomistic) philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. In 1947 he earned his doctoral degree on the French metaphysician Louis Lavelle. In 1961 he became a professor in philosophy at the University of Groningen.

Garson Kanin, American director and screenwriter (died 1999)

Garson Kanin was an American writer, director, actor and musician. He wrote and directed a number of plays and films and was nominated for three Academy Awards and three Tony Awards for his work.

Joan Sanderson, English actress (died 1992)

Joan Sanderson was an English actress. During a long career on stage and screen, her tall and commanding disposition led to her playing mostly dowagers, spinsters and matrons, as well as intense Shakespearean roles. Her television work included appearances in the comedy series Please Sir! (1968–72), Rising Damp (1978), Fawlty Towers, Ripping Yarns, and Me and My Girl (1984–88).

Charles Schneeman, American soldier and illustrator (died 1972)

Charles Schneeman was an American illustrator of science fiction.

Teddy Wilson, American pianist and educator (died 1986)

Theodore Shaw Wilson was an American jazz pianist. Described by critic Scott Yanow as "the definitive swing pianist", Wilson's piano style was gentle, elegant, and virtuosic. His style was highly influenced by Earl Hines and Art Tatum. His work was featured on the records of many of the biggest names in jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald. With Goodman, he was one of the first black musicians to perform prominently alongside white musicians. In addition to his extensive work as a sideman, Wilson also led his own groups and recording sessions from the late 1920s to the 1980s.

24/11/1911

Kirby Grant, American actor (died 1985)

Kirby Grant, born Kirby Grant Hoon Jr., was an American actor, mostly remembered for having played the title role in the Western-themed adventure television series Sky King. Between 1949 and 1954, Grant starred in 10 Mounted-Police adventures, usually in the role of Corporal Rod Webb.

Joe Medwick, American baseball player and manager (died 1975)

Joseph Michael Medwick, nicknamed "Ducky", "Muscles", and "Mickey", was an American professional baseball left fielder. He played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, and Boston Braves from 1932 to 1948, including during the Cardinals' "Gashouse Gang" era of the 1930s. Medwick is the last National League player to win the Triple Crown award (1937).

24/11/1910

Larry Siemering, American football player and coach (died 2009)

Lawrence Edwin Siemering was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of San Francisco and professionally in the National Football League (NFL) with the Boston Redskins in 1935 and 1936. Siemering served as the head football coach at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California from 1947 to 1951 and at Arizona State University in 1951, compiling a career college football coached record of 41–8–4. He also was the head coach of the Canadian Football League's Calgary Stampeders in 1954. In all, Siemering's football career as a player and coach lasted more than forty years. At the time of his death, he was the oldest surviving professional football player at 98 years of age.

24/11/1908

Libertad Lamarque, Argentinian actress and singer (died 2000)

Libertad Lamarque Bouza was an Argentine-born Mexican actress and singer, who became one of the most iconic stars of the Golden Age of cinema in both Argentina and Mexico. She achieved fame throughout Latin America, and became known as "La Novia de América". By the time she died in 2000, she had appeared in 65 films and six telenovelas, had recorded over 800 songs and had made innumerable theatrical appearances.

24/11/1904

Albert Ross Tilley, Canadian captain and surgeon (died 1988)

Albert Ross Tilley, was a Canadian plastic surgeon who pioneered the treatment of burned airmen during the Second World War.

24/11/1899

Ward Morehouse, American author, playwright, and critic (died 1966)

Ward Morehouse was an American theater critic, newspaper columnist, playwright, and author.

24/11/1897

Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mob boss (died 1962)

Charles "Lucky" Luciano was an Italian mafioso who operated mainly in the United States. He started his criminal career in New York City's Five Points Gang and was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate. Luciano is considered the father of the Italian-American Mafia for the establishment of the Commission in 1931, after he abolished the capo dei capi title held by Salvatore Maranzano following the Castellammarese War. He was also the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family.

Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, English tennis player (died 1953)

Dorothy Shepherd-Barron was a tennis player from Great Britain who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

24/11/1895

Esther Applin, American geologist and paleontologist (died 1972)

Esther Applin was an American geologist and paleontologist. She completed her undergraduate degree in 1919 from the University of California, Berkeley. Later, she completed a master's degree which was focused on microfossils. She was a leading figure in the use of microfossils to determine the age of rock formation for use in oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico region. Her job was to examine microfossils collected in drill holes to determine the age of the rock into which the company was drilling. Applin's discoveries were crucial to successful drilling operations across the entire oil industry. Additionally, her contribution to geology and the study of micropaleontology was pivotal in earning women geologists respect in the field.

24/11/1894

Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer and businessman (died 1978)

Herbert Sutcliffe was an English professional cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England as an opening batsman. Apart from one match in 1945, his first-class career spanned the period between the two world wars. His first-class debut was delayed by the First World War until 1919 and his career was effectively terminated in August 1939 when he was called up for military service in the imminent Second World War. He was the first cricketer to score 16 centuries in Test match cricket. He is most famous for being the partner of Jack Hobbs and the partnership between the two, Hobbs and Sutcliffe, is widely regarded as the greatest partnership of all time.

24/11/1893

Charles F. Hurley, American soldier and politician, 54th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1946)

Charles Francis Hurley was an American attorney and the 54th governor of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and one of its first Irish-American governors.

24/11/1891

Vasil Gendov, Bulgarian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1970)

Vasil Gendov was a Bulgarian film and stage actor, film director and screenwriter. Gendov wrote, directed and had a starring role as an actor in the first feature-length film released in Bulgaria; the 1915 silent film comedy Bulgaran is Gallant. Gendov also produced Bulgaria's first sound film The Slave's Revolt in 1933.

24/11/1888

Dale Carnegie, American author and educator (died 1955)

Dale Carnegie was an American writer and teacher of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), a bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), Lincoln the Unknown (1932), and several other books.

Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist and author (died 1972)

Dr. Fredrick Arthur Willius was an American cardiologist and medical historian. He earned both his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the University of Minnesota before joining the Mayo Clinic in 1917. At Mayo, Willius collaborated with Henry Stanley Plummer, through whom he was introduced to the emerging field of electrocardiography. This area would become central to Willius’s professional contributions.

24/11/1887

Raoul Paoli, French boxer and rower (died 1960)

Jacques Marie Lucien Raoul Simonpaoli was a French athlete, boxer, wrestler, rower and actor. Aged 12, he served as a coxswain in the French coxed pair and won a bronze medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics. He competed in the shot put at the 1912, 1920, 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics with the best result of ninth place in 1924. In 1912 he also took part in the Greco-Roman wrestling contest and served as the Olympic flag bearer for France, and in 1928 he finished 29th in the discus throw.

Erich von Manstein, German field marshal (died 1973)

Erich von Manstein was a German military officer of Polish descent who served as a Generalfeldmarschall in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was subsequently convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment.

24/11/1886

Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review (died 1973)

Margaret Caroline Anderson was the American founder, editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine The Little Review, which published a collection of modern American, English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. The periodical is most noted for introducing many prominent American and British writers of the 20th century, such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, in the United States and publishing the first thirteen chapters of James Joyce's then-unpublished novel Ulysses.

24/11/1885

Theodor Altermann, Estonian actor, director, and producer (died 1915)

Theodor Altermann was an Estonian actor, theatre director and producer. He was one of the founders of professional theatre in Estonia..

Christian Wirth, German SS officer (died 1944)

Christian Wirth was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and leading Holocaust perpetrator who was one of the primary architects of the program to exterminate the Jewish people of Poland, known as Operation Reinhard. His nicknames included Christian the Cruel, Stuka, and The Wild Christian due to the extremity of his behaviour among the SS and Trawniki guards and to the camp inmates and victims.

24/11/1884

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Ukrainian-Israeli historian and politician, 2nd President of Israel (died 1963)

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, ethnologist, and Labor Zionist who was the second president of Israel from 1952 until his death in 1963. Ben-Zvi is Israel's longest-serving president.

24/11/1882

Nikolai Janson, Russian politician (died 1938)

Nikolay Mikhailovich Janson was an Estonian revolutionary, Soviet politician and statesman.

24/11/1881

Al Christie, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1951)

Charles Herbert Christie and Alfred Ernest Christie were Canadian motion picture entrepreneurs.

Ye Gongchuo, Chinese politician, poet, and calligrapher (died 1968)

Ye Gongchuo was a Chinese politician, calligrapher, poet, and art patron. Born in Panyu County, Guangdong, to the family of a Qing dynasty official, Ye passed the imperial examination and joined the Ministry of Posts and Communications. He rose through the ministry rapidly, then allied himself with Sun Yat-sen's anti-Qing movement in the 1911 Revolution. During the first decades of the Republic of China, Ye occupied several ministerial positions as a member of the Communications Clique, at times working with the Beiyang government and other times siding with the Kuomintang.

24/11/1879

Wylie Cameron Grant, American tennis player (died 1968)

Wylie Cameron Grant was an American tennis champion.

24/11/1877

Alben W. Barkley, American lawyer and politician, 35th Vice President of the United States (died 1956)

Alben William Barkley was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under President Harry S. Truman. In 1905, he was elected to local offices and in 1912 as a U.S. representative. Serving in both houses of Congress, he was a liberal Democrat, supporting President Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom domestic agenda and foreign policy.

Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer (died 1941)

Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara was the first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police in 1928. He was in charge of the Crime Branch division and was noted for his intelligence network. A decorated officer, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), Companion of the Indian Empire (CIE) and awarded the King's Police Medal (KPM). Petigara was also awarded the Imperial Service Order (ISO) and used the honorific title "Khan Bahadur". He joined the police force as a sub-inspector at the CID, and gradually rose through the ranks. In 1928, he was promoted to the Indian Police Service rank, one that very few Indians achieved in those days.

24/11/1876

Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and urban planner, designed Canberra (died 1937)

Walter Burley Griffin was an American architect and landscape architect. He designed Canberra, Australia's capital city, the New South Wales towns of Griffith and Leeton, and the Sydney suburb of Castlecrag.

24/11/1874

Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer and referee (died 1953)

Charles William Miller was a Brazilian sportsman, who is considered to be the father of football in Brazil. Miller founded São Paulo Athletic Club (SPAC), one of the oldest sports clubs in Brazil, and founded the Liga Paulista de Foot-Ball, current Campeonato Paulista, Brazil's first football league. He is also considered the father of Rugby union in Brazil.

24/11/1873

Julius Martov, Russian politician (died 1923)

Yuliy Osipovich Tsederbaum, better known as Julius Martov, was a Russian Marxist theorist, revolutionary, and a leader of the Mensheviks, the minority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). A close friend and collaborator of Vladimir Lenin in the early years of their revolutionary careers, he became his chief rival after the RSDLP split at its Second Congress in 1903.

Herbert Roper Barrett, English tennis player (died 1943)

Herbert Roper Barrett, KC was a tennis player from Great Britain.

24/11/1869

Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (died 1951)

António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona was a Portuguese army officer and politician who served as president of Portugal from 1926 until his death in 1951. Before his presidency, he served as prime minister of Portugal from 1926 to 1928, he previously served as minister of war in late 1923 and in 1926, and as minister of foreign affairs in 1926.

24/11/1868

Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer (died 1917)

Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime", he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became the genre's first and most influential hit, later being recognized as the quintessential rag. Joplin considered ragtime to be a form of classical music meant to be played in concert halls and largely disdained the performance of ragtime as honky tonk music most common in saloons.

24/11/1864

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (died 1901)

Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa, known as Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator. His immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris' Belle Époque in the late 19th century allowed him to produce popular works of art from decadent affairs.

24/11/1859

Cass Gilbert, American architect, designed the United States Supreme Court Building and Woolworth Building (died 1934)

Cass Gilbert was an American architect. An early proponent of skyscrapers, his works include the Woolworth Building, the United States Supreme Court building, the state capitols of Minnesota, Arkansas, and West Virginia, the Detroit Public Library, the Saint Louis Art Museum and Public Library. His public buildings in the Beaux Arts style reflect the optimistic American sense that the nation was heir to Greek democracy, Roman law and Renaissance humanism. Gilbert's achievements were recognized in his lifetime; he served as president of the American Institute of Architects in 1908–09.

24/11/1857

Miklós Kovács, Hungarian-Slovene poet and songwriter (died 1937)

Miklós Kovács was a Hungarian Slovene cantor and writer.

24/11/1851

John Indermaur, British lawyer (died 1925)

John Indermaur was a British lawyer and legal writer, with his writing focus was on common law. He is known for having written An Epitome of Leading Common Law Cases in 1875, Principles of Common Law in 1876, and The Student's Guide to Trusts and Partnerships in 1885.

24/11/1849

Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (died 1924)

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).

24/11/1840

John Alfred Brashear, American scientist, telescope maker and educator (died 1920)

John Alfred Brashear was an American astronomer and instrument builder.

24/11/1826

Carlo Collodi, Italian journalist and author (died 1890)

Carlo Lorenzini, better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.

24/11/1812

Xavier Hommaire de Hell, French geographer and engineer (died 1848)

Ignace Xavier Morand Hommaire de Hell, often known as Xavier Hommaire de Hell, was a French geographer, engineer and traveller who carried out research in Turkey, southern Russia and Iran.

24/11/1811

Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (died 1890)

Johann Ulrich Ochsenbein, colloquially Ulrich Ochsenbein was a Swiss jurist, military officer, politician who most notably served on the Federal Council (Switzerland) from 1848 to 1854. He previously also served on the National Council (Switzerland) briefly in 1848.

24/11/1806

William Webb Ellis, English priest, created Rugby football (died 1872)

William Webb Ellis was an English Anglican clergyman who, by tradition, has been credited as the inventor of rugby football while a pupil at Rugby School. According to legend, Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match in 1823, thus creating the "rugby" style of play. Although the story has become firmly entrenched in the sport's folklore, it is not supported by first-hand evidence, and is discounted by most rugby historians as an origin myth.

24/11/1801

Ludwig Bechstein, German author and poet (died 1860)

Ludwig Bechstein was a German writer and collector of folk fairy tales.

24/11/1784

Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States (died 1850)

Zachary Taylor was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850. Before his presidency, Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general and becoming a national hero for his victories in the Mexican–American War. As a result, he won election to the White House despite his vague political beliefs. His top priority as president was to preserve the Union. He died 16 months into his term from a stomach disease. Taylor had the third-shortest presidential term in U.S. history.

24/11/1774

Thomas Dick, Scottish minister, author, and educator (died 1857)

Reverend Thomas Dick, was a British church minister, science teacher and writer, known for his works on astronomy and practical philosophy, combining science and Christianity, and arguing for a harmony between the two.

24/11/1745

Maria Luisa of Spain (died 1792)

Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor.

24/11/1729

Alexander Suvorov, Russian field marshal (died 1800)

Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky, Prince of Italy was a Russian general and military theorist in the service of the Russian Empire.

24/11/1724

Maria Amalia of Saxony (died 1760)

Maria Amalia of Saxony was Queen of Spain from 10 August 1759 until her death in 1760 as the wife of King Charles III. Previously, she had been Queen of Naples and Sicily since marrying Charles on 19 June 1738. She was born a princess of Poland and Saxony, daughter of King Augustus III of Poland and Princess Maria Josepha of Austria. Maria Amalia and Charles had thirteen children, of whom seven survived into adulthood. A popular consort, Maria Amalia oversaw the construction of the Caserta Palace outside Naples as well as various other projects, and she is known for her influence upon the affairs of state.

24/11/1713

Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (died 1784)

Junípero Serra Ferrer, popularly known simply as Junipero Serra, was a Spanish Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Order. He is credited with establishing the Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He founded a mission in Baja California and established eight of the 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, in what was then Spanish-occupied Alta California in the Province of Las Californias of New Spain.

Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (died 1768)

Laurence Sterne was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric. He is best known for his comic novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–1767) and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768).

24/11/1712

Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French priest and educator (died 1789)

Charles-Michel de l'Épée was an 18th-century French Catholic priest and philanthropic educator who advocated for sign language as the preferred method of teaching deaf people, and has become known as the "Father of the Deaf". He founded the Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris, the first public school for the deaf, in 1760.

Ali II ibn Hussein, Tunisian ruler (died 1782)

Ali II ibn Hussein, commonly referred to as Ali II Bey or Ali Pacha Bey II was the fourth leader of the Husainid dynasty and the ruler of Tunisia from 1759 until his death in 1782. He was the son of Al-Husayn I ibn Ali. He was succeeded in turns by his sons Hammuda ibn Ali and Uthman ibn Ali.

24/11/1690

Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German organist and composer (died 1750)

Charles Theodore Pachelbel was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist of the late Baroque era. He was the son of the more famous Johann Pachelbel, composer of the popular Canon in D. He was one of the first European composers to take up residence in the American colonies, and was the most famous musical figure in early Charleston, South Carolina.

24/11/1655

Charles XI of Sweden (died 1697)

Charles XI or Carl was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death in 1697.

24/11/1632

Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar (died 1677)

Baruch (de) Spinoza, also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, who was born and lived in the Dutch Republic. A forerunner of the Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture, establishing himself as one of the most important and radical philosophers of the early modern period. Influenced by Stoicism, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, and heterodox Christians, Spinoza was a leading philosopher of the Dutch Golden Age.

24/11/1630

Étienne Baluze, French scholar and academic (died 1718)

Étienne Baluze, known also as Stephanus Baluzius, was a French scholar and historiographer.

24/11/1615

Philip William, Elector Palatine (died 1690)

Philip William of Neuburg, Elector Palatine was Count Palatine of Neuburg from 1653 to 1690, Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1653 to 1679 and Elector of the Palatinate from 1685 to 1690. He was the son of Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg, and Magdalene of Bavaria.

24/11/1603

John, Count of Nassau-Idstein (1629–1677) (died 1677)

Count John of Nassau-Idstein was Count of Nassau and Protestant Regent of Idstein.

24/11/1594

Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (died 1651)

Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, known as Lord Ruthin from 1639 to 1643, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and succeeded to the title Earl of Kent in 1643.

24/11/1583

Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet and painter (died 1641)

Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar was a Spanish poet, scholar and painter in the Siglo de Oro.

Philip Massinger, English dramatist (died 1640)

Philip Massinger was an English dramatist. His plays, including A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam, and The Roman Actor, are noted for their satire and realism, and their political and social themes.

24/11/1472

Pietro Torrigiano, Italian sculptor (died 1528)

Pietro Torrigiano was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, who had to flee the city after breaking Michelangelo's nose. He then worked abroad, and died in prison in Spain. He was important in introducing Renaissance art to England, but his career was adversely affected by his violent temperament.

24/11/1427

John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (died 1473)

John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire KG, KB was an English nobleman, the youngest son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham. In 1461 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Bath.

24/11/1394

Charles I, Duke of Orléans (died 1465)

Charles I was Duke of Orléans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis I, Duke of Orléans. He was also Duke of Valois, Count of Beaumont-sur-Oise and of Blois, Lord of Coucy, and the inheritor of Asti in Italy via his mother Valentina Visconti.

24/11/1273

Alphonso, Earl of Chester (died 1284)

Alphonso or Alfonso, also called Alphonsus and Alphonse and styled Earl of Chester, was an heir apparent to the English throne who never became king.

 

Lives Remembered on 24th November

On 24th November, 115 remarkable people passed away — from 654 to 2025. Remember the lives and legacies of those we lost on this day.

24/11/2025

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican Hall of Fame reggae singer-songwriter (born 1944)

James Ezekiel Chambers, known professionally as Jimmy Cliff, was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul musician. He was considered to be one of Jamaica's most celebrated musicians and was credited with helping to popularise reggae music internationally. At the time of his death, he was the 4th reggae musician to hold the Order of Merit, the highest honour granted by the Jamaican government for achievements in the arts and sciences. He was also nominated seven times for the Grammy Awards, winning twice.

Dharmendra, Indian actor (born 1935)

Dharmendra was an Indian actor, producer and politician, primarily known for his work in Hindi films. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema. Known as the "He-man", he was popular for his handsome looks and leading roles in several blockbusters. In a career spanning 65 years, he worked in over 300 films, holding the record for starring in the highest number of hit films in Hindi cinema. Dharmendra was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2012, and was later posthumously conferred the Padma Vibhushan in 2026.

24/11/2024

Barbara Taylor Bradford, British novelist (born 1933)

Barbara Taylor Bradford was a British-American best-selling novelist. Her debut novel, A Woman of Substance, was published in 1979 and sold over 30 million copies worldwide. She wrote 40 novels, often about young women of humble beginnings who rise through their hard work in business. Her books were translated into 40 languages and sold more than 90 million copies; ten of her books were also adapted as television miniseries and television movies. Her commercial success amassed a large fortune and she was awarded several honorary degrees and made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her literary contributions.

Breyten Breytenbach, South African-French poet and painter (born 1939)

Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as a political prisoner of the National Party–led South African Government. He was also known as a founding member of the Sestigers, a dissident literary movement, and was one of the most important poets in Afrikaans literature.

Helen Gallagher, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1926)

Helen Gallagher was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She received three Daytime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Donaldson Award, and a Drama Desk Award.

24/11/2022

Börje Salming, Swedish hockey player (born 1951)

Anders Börje Salming was a Swedish Sámi ice hockey player. He was a defenceman who played professionally for 23 seasons, for the clubs Brynäs IF, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, and AIK. He spent 16 seasons with the Maple Leafs, who retired his number 21 in 2016. Salming holds several Maple Leafs records, including the most assists.

24/11/2019

Goo Hara, South Korean singer and actress (born 1991)

Goo Hara, also known mononymously as Hara, was a South Korean singer and actress. She was a member of the K-pop girl group Kara, and had also appeared in television dramas including City Hunter (2011). She made her debut as a soloist in July 2015 with the release of her EP Alohara . After Kara disbanded in 2016, she continued her solo career at another agency, KeyEast. In June 2019, she signed with Production Ogi and continued her solo activities in Japan where she was well received by fans. Her last release was maxi single "Midnight Queen" on September 19, 2019. In November 2019, she embarked on a Japanese mini tour to support the album.

24/11/2016

Paul Futcher, English footballer (born 1956)

Paul Futcher was an English professional footballer who had a distinguished career as a defender in the English Football League, for England under 21s and as manager of several non-league clubs.

Florence Henderson, American actress, singer and television personality (born 1934)

Florence Agnes Henderson was an American singer and actress. With a career spanning six decades, she is best known for her starring role as Carol Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch. Henderson also appeared in film, as well as on stage, and hosted several long-running cooking and variety shows over the years. She appeared as a guest on many scripted and unscripted television programs and as a panelist on numerous game shows. Henderson was also a contestant on Dancing with the Stars in 2010.

24/11/2015

Robert Ford, English general (born 1923)

General Sir Robert Cyril Ford was a British Army general who was Adjutant-General to the Forces. The Bloody Sunday shootings occurred during his tenure as Commander Land Forces, Northern Ireland.

John Forrester, English historian and philosopher (born 1949)

John P. Forrester was a British historian and philosopher of science and medicine. His main interests were in the history of the human sciences, in particular psychoanalysis and psychiatry.

Quincy Monk, American football player (born 1979)

Quincy Omar Monk was an American professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants and Houston Texans. He was selected by the Giants in the seventh round of the 2002 NFL draft. He played college football for the North Carolina Tar Heels.

Heinz Oberhummer, Austrian physicist, astronomer, and academic (born 1941)

Heinz Oberhummer, was an Austrian physicist and skeptic.

Douglas W. Shorenstein, American businessman (born 1955)

Douglas W. Shorenstein was a San Francisco-based real estate developer and former chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

24/11/2014

Jorge Herrera Delgado, Mexican engineer and politician (born 1961)

Jorge Herrera Delgado was a Mexican politician. A graduate in industrial engineering from the Durango Institute of Technology (ITD), he was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He founded the radio station XHITD-FM Estéreo Tecnológico in Durango. He was Mayor of Durango from 2004 to 2007 and a two-time deputy in the Durango state congress. He was designated by Governor Jorge Herrera Caldera to head the Durango Department of Education from 15 September 2010 to 7 February 2012.

Murli Deora, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Corporate Affairs (born 1937)

Murli Deora was an Indian politician, businessman, and social worker. He was the Mayor of Mumbai, a Member of Parliament in both the Upper and Lower Houses, and a Minister of Cabinet rank. He was a member of the Indian National Congress.

Peter Henderson, New Zealand rugby player (born 1926)

Peter "Sammy" Henderson was a New Zealand rugby union and rugby league footballer. He also competed at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, winning a bronze medal in the 4 × 110 yards men's relay.

Nenad Manojlović, Serbian water polo player and manager (born 1957)

Nenad Manojlović was a Yugoslav and Serbian water polo player and manager. His brother Predrag also played the sport at elite level.

Viktor Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (born 1930)

Viktor Vasilyevich Tikhonov was a Russian ice hockey player and coach. Tikhonov was a defenceman with VVS Moscow and Dynamo Moscow from 1949 to 1963, winning four national championships. He was the coach of the Soviet team when it was the dominant team in international play, winning eight World Championship gold medals, as well as Olympic gold medals in 1984, 1988 and 1992. Tikhonov also led CSKA Moscow to twelve consecutive league championships. He was named to the IIHF Hall of Fame as a builder in 1998.

24/11/2013

Matthew Bucksbaum, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded General Growth Properties (born 1926)

Matthew Bucksbaum was an American businessman and philanthropist. Matthew and his brothers Martin and Maurice co-founded General Growth Properties.

Arnaud Coyot, French cyclist (born 1980)

Arnaud Coyot was a French road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2003 to 2012. He had two race victories, and finished in tenth place in the 2005 Paris–Roubaix race, and tenth place in the 14th stage of the 2006 Tour de France.

Lou Hyndman, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1935)

Louis Davies Hyndman, was a Canadian lawyer and politician from Alberta. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for 19 years and was a member of Premier Peter Lougheed and Don Getty's Cabinets. Hyndman was named the 15th Chancellor of the University of Alberta on June 10, 1994. From 1993 through 1996, he was Honorary Captain of the 4th Destroyer Squadron, Royal Canadian Navy.

June Keithley, Filipino actress and journalist (born 1947)

June Emelie Keithley-Castro was a Filipina actress and broadcast journalist.

Jean King, American politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (born 1925)

Jean Sadako King was the seventh lieutenant governor of Hawaii, the state's first woman to be elected as such, from 1978 to 1982 in the administration of Governor George Ariyoshi.

Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown, English banker and politician, Governor of the Bank of England (born 1927)

Robert "Robin" Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown was a British life peer and banker, who served as Governor of the Bank of England from 1983 to 1993.

Matti Ranin, Finnish actor (born 1926)

Matti Helge Ranin was a Finnish actor.

24/11/2012

Héctor Camacho, Puerto Rican-American boxer (born 1962)

Héctor Luís Camacho Matías, commonly known by his nickname "Macho Camacho", was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. Known for his quickness in the ring and flamboyant style, Camacho competed professionally from 1980 to 2010, and was a world champion in three weight classes. He held the WBC super featherweight title from 1983 to 1984, the WBC lightweight title from 1985 to 1987, and the WBO junior welterweight title twice between 1989 and 1992.

Antoine Kohn, Luxembourgian footballer and manager (born 1933)

Antoine "Spitz" Kohn was a Luxembourgish football player and football manager.

Jimmy Stewart, American baseball player and manager (born 1939)

James Franklin Stewart was an American Major League Baseball utility man and scout. During his active career, he appeared in 777 MLB games for the Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros over ten seasons between 1963 and 1973. He was a switch hitter who threw right handed, and was listed as 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and 165 pounds (75 kg).

Nicholas Turro, American chemist and academic (born 1938)

Nicholas J. Turro was an American chemist, Wm. P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He was a world renowned organic chemist and leading world expert on organic photochemistry. He was the recipient of the 2011 Arthur C. Cope Award in Organic Chemistry, given annually "to recognize outstanding achievement in the field of organic chemistry, the significance of which has become apparent within the five years preceding the year in which the award will be considered." He was also the recipient of the 2000 Willard Gibbs Award, which recognizes "eminent chemists who...have brought to the world developments that enable everyone to live more comfortably and to understand this world better."

Ernie Warlick, American football player and sportscaster (born 1932)

Ernest Warlick, nicknamed "Big Hoss", was an American football tight end who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the American Football League (AFL). He played college football for the North Carolina Central Eagles.

24/11/2010

Huang Hua, Chinese translator and politician, 5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (born 1913)

Huang Hua was a senior Chinese Communist revolutionary, politician, and diplomat.

24/11/2009

Abe Pollin, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1923)

Abraham J. Pollin was a real estate developer, professional sports team owner, and philanthropist in the Washington metropolitan area. He owned the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League (NHL), the Washington Mystics in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and the Baltimore / Washington Bullets / Wizards in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Pollin was the longest-tenured owner of an NBA team, holding the Chicago / Baltimore / Washington franchise for 46 years. He also owned the Capital One Arena, which he financed, as well as the Capital Centre.

Samak Sundaravej, Thai politician, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1935)

Samak Sundaravej was a Thai politician who briefly served as the Prime Minister of Thailand and Minister of Defence in 2008, as well as the leader of the People's Power Party in 2008.

Jun Ross, Filipino basketball player (born 1949)

Jun Ross Jr. is a Filipino former basketball player.

24/11/2008

Kenny MacLean, Scottish-Canadian bass player and songwriter (born 1956)

Kenneth Irving MacLean was a Scottish-Canadian musician, best known as a member of the multi-platinum selling band Platinum Blonde.

Cecil H. Underwood, American educator and politician, 25th Governor of West Virginia (born 1922)

Cecil Harland Underwood was an American politician who served as the 25th and 32nd governor of West Virginia from 1957 to 1961, and again from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Republican Party, he was the youngest governor in the state's history when first elected in 1956 at age 34 and later became the oldest when re-elected in 1996 at age 74. His career spanned more than five decades, including multiple gubernatorial bids, legislative service, and roles in academia and business. Underwood was known for his work in civil rights, economic development, and tax reform.

24/11/2007

Casey Calvert, American guitarist (born 1981)

Hawthorne Heights is an American rock band formed in Dayton, Ohio, in 2001. Originally called A Day in the Life, their lineup consists of JT Woodruff, Matt Ridenour and Mark McMillon.

24/11/2006

Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer-songwriter (born 1950)

Juhani Juice Leskinen, better known as Juice Leskinen was one of the most important and successful Finnish singer-songwriters of the late 20th century. From the early 1970s onward he released nearly 30 full-length albums and wrote song lyrics for dozens of other Finnish artists. Several of Leskinen's songs have reached classic status in Finnish popular music, e.g., "Viidestoista yö", "Kaksoiselämää" and "Syksyn sävel". His early records are considered staples of the so-called Manserock movement of the mid-'70s. He also wrote poetry and plays and published nine collections of verse and seven plays.

George W. S. Trow, American author, playwright, and critic (born 1943)

George William Swift Trow Jr. was an American essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic. He worked for The New Yorker for almost 30 years, and wrote numerous essays and several books. He is best known for his long essay on television and its effect on American culture, "Within the Context of No Context," first published in The New Yorker on November 17, 1980, one of the few times the magazine devoted its central section to a single piece of writing.

Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist and ethologist (born 1938)

Zdeněk Veselovský was one of the most important Czech zoologists of the 20th century, founder of Czech ethology, director of the Prague Zoo (1959-1988) and the president of the International Union of Directors of Zoological Gardens (1971-1975) He was born in Jaroměř and died in 2006, aged 78, in Prague. In November 2008, he received the Minister of the Environment Award in memoriam "for his lifelong work in the field of zoology and ethology and for his admirable activity in activities involved in the conservation of animal species and the promotion of zoos as educational institutions."

24/11/2005

Pat Morita, American actor (born 1932)

Noriyuki "Pat" Morita was an American actor and comedian. He began his career as a stand-up comedian, before becoming known to television audiences for his recurring role as diner owner Matsuo "Arnold" Takahashi on the sitcom series Happy Days from 1975 to 1983. Morita was subsequently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of martial arts mentor Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid (1984), which would be the first of a media franchise in which Morita was the central player.

24/11/2004

Arthur Hailey, English-Canadian journalist and author (born 1920)

Arthur Frederick Hailey, AE was a British-Canadian novelist whose plot-driven storylines were set against the backdrops of various industries. His books, which include such best sellers as Hotel (1965), Airport (1968), Wheels (1971), The Moneychangers (1975), and Overload (1979), have sold 170 million copies in 38 languages.

Joseph Hansen, American author and poet (born 1923)

Joseph Hansen was an American crime writer and poet, best known for a series of novels featuring private eye Dave Brandstetter.

James Wong, Chinese actor and songwriter (born 1940)

James Wong Jim was a Cantopop lyricist and songwriter based primarily in Hong Kong. Beginning from the 1960s, he was the lyricist for over 2,000 songs, collaborating with songwriter Joseph Koo on many popular television theme songs, many of which have become classics of the genre. His work propelled Cantopop to unprecedented popularity.

24/11/2003

Warren Spahn, American baseball player and coach (born 1921)

Warren Edward Spahn was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). A left-handed pitcher, Spahn played in 1942 and then from 1946 until 1965, most notably for the Boston Braves, who became the Milwaukee Braves after the team moved west before the 1953 season. His baseball career was interrupted by his military service in the United States Army during World War II.

24/11/2002

John Rawls, American philosopher, author, and academic (born 1921)

John Bordley Rawls was an American moral, legal and political philosopher in the modern liberal tradition. Rawls has been described as one of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century.

24/11/1997

Barbara, French singer-songwriter and actress (born 1930)

Monique Andrée Serf, known as Barbara, was a French singer. She took her stage name from her grandmother, Varvara Brodsky, a native of Odesa, Ukraine. Barbara became a famous cabaretière in the late 1950s in Paris, known as La Chanteuse de minuit, before she started composing her own tracks, which brought her to fame. Her most famous songs include "Dis, quand reviendras-tu ?" (1962), "Ma plus belle histoire d'amour" (1966) and "L'Aigle noir" (1970), the latter of which is said to have sold over 1 million copies in just twelve hours.

24/11/1996

Sorley MacLean, Scottish soldier and poet (born 1911)

Sorley MacLean was a Scottish Gaelic poet, described by the Scottish Poetry Library as "one of the major Scottish poets of the modern era" because of his "mastery of his chosen medium and his engagement with the European poetic tradition and European politics". Nobel Prize Laureate Seamus Heaney credited MacLean with saving Scottish Gaelic poetry.

24/11/1995

Eduard Ole, Estonian-Swedish painter (born 1898)

Eduard Ole was an Estonian painter. Some of his most representative works are on permanent exhibition at the Kumu Art Museum of Estonia.

24/11/1993

Albert Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1932)

Albert Gene Collins was an American electric blues guitarist and singer with a distinctive guitar style. He was noted for his powerful playing and his use of altered tunings and a capo. His long association with the Fender Telecaster led to the title "The Master of the Telecaster".

24/11/1991

Freddie Mercury, Tanzanian-English singer-songwriter, lead vocalist of Queen, and producer (born 1946)

Freddie Mercury was a British singer and songwriter who achieved global fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen. Regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock music, he is known for his flamboyant stage persona and four-octave vocal range. Mercury defied the conventions of a rock frontman with his theatrical style, influencing the artistic direction of Queen.

Eric Carr, American drummer of Kiss (born 1950)

Paul Charles Caravello, better known as Eric Carr, was an American musician. He was the drummer for the rock band Kiss from 1980 until his death in 1991. Caravello was selected as the new Kiss drummer after Peter Criss departed. He created the stage name "Eric Carr" and designed his on-stage Fox persona. He remained a member of Kiss until his death from heart cancer in 1991.

24/11/1990

Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentinian race car driver (born 1934)

Juan Manuel Bordeu was a racing driver from Balcarce, Argentina. A protégé of Juan Manuel Fangio, Bordeu had a successful early career but a bad testing accident wrecked his chances in Formula One. His only World Championship Formula One entry was at the 1961 French Grand Prix in a Lotus run by the UDT Laystall team, but the car was eventually driven by Lucien Bianchi.

Fred Shero, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1925)

Frederick Alexander Shero was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach, and general manager. Nicknamed "The Fog", he played for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL), but spent most of his playing career in the minor leagues. Following his playing career, Shero spent 13 years coaching in the minor leagues before making it to the NHL. As the head coach of the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers, Shero won the Stanley Cup in 1974 and 1975 and reached the Stanley Cup Final a third time, in 1976. He also had four consecutive seasons of having a 0.700 or better winning percentage and remains the Flyers all-time leader in coaching victories. Shero controversially left the Flyers following the 1977–78 season to become the head coach of the New York Rangers, whom he led to the Stanley Cup Final in his first season. He resigned from the Rangers after coaching for less than three seasons. Shero had a unique style of coaching that led to several innovations that are still used today. He was the first coach to hire a full-time assistant coach, employ systems, have his players use in season strength training, study film, and he was one of the first coaches to utilize a morning skate. In 2013 Shero was recognized for his contributions when he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder.

Dodie Smith, English author and playwright (born 1896)

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). Other works include Dear Octopus (1938) and The Starlight Barking (1967). The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 animated film and a 1996 live-action film, both produced by Disney. Her novel I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of the BBC's The Big Read (2003), and was adapted into a film released the same year.

Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (born 1910)

Marion Post Wolcott was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, documenting poverty, the Jim Crow South, and deprivation.

Bülent Arel, Turkish-American composer and educator (born 1919)

Bülent Arel was a Turkish-born composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music.

24/11/1987

Jehane Benoît, Canadian journalist and author (born 1904)

Jehane Benoît was a Canadian culinary author, speaker, commentator, journalist and broadcaster.

24/11/1982

Barack Obama Sr., Kenyan economist and academic, father of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (born 1936)

Barack Hussein Obama was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995). Obama married in 1954 and had two children with his first wife, Kezia. He was selected for a special program to attend college in the United States and studied at the University of Hawaii where he met Ann Dunham, whom he married in 1961 following the conception of his son, Barack. Obama and Dunham divorced three years later. Obama then went to Harvard University for graduate school, where he earned an MA in economics, and returned to Kenya in 1964. He saw his son Barack once more, when his son was about 10.

24/11/1980

Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (born 1897)

Herbert Sebastian Agar was an American journalist and historian, and an editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal.

George Raft, American actor and dancer (born 1901)

George Raft was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and the 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, Raft is remembered for his gangster roles in Quick Millions (1931) with Spencer Tracy, Scarface (1932) with Paul Muni, Each Dawn I Die (1939) with James Cagney, Invisible Stripes (1939) with Humphrey Bogart, and Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon; and as a dancer in Bolero (1934) with Carole Lombard and a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940) with Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino and again with Bogart.

Molly Reilly, Canadian aviator (born 1922)

Moretta Fenton Beall "Molly" Reilly became the first female Canadian pilot to reach the rank of captain, the first female Canadian corporate pilot, and the first woman to fly to the Arctic professionally. Her modifications to the Beechcraft Duke were used to improve the aircraft. Over the course of her career, Reilly logged over 10,000 flight hours as a pilot-in-command — without a single accident. She is a member of the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame.

Henrietta Hill Swope, American astronomer and academic (born 1902)

Henrietta Hill Swope was an American astronomer who studied variable stars. In particular, she measured the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid stars, which are bright variable stars whose periods of variability relate directly to their intrinsic luminosities. Their measured periods can therefore be related to their distances and used to measure the size of the Milky Way and distances to other galaxies.

24/11/1978

Nelly Moretto, Argentine composer (born 1925)

Nelly Moretto was an Argentine composer and pianist who is considered to be an innovator of electronic music in South America. She also served as the vice-president of the Agrupación Nueva Música from 1970.

24/11/1973

John Neihardt, American author and poet (born 1881)

John Gneisenau Neihardt was an American writer and poet, amateur historian and ethnographer. Born at the end of the American settlement of the Plains, he became interested in the lives of those who had been a part of the European-American migration, as well as the Indigenous peoples whom they had displaced.

24/11/1968

D. A. Levy, American poet and publisher (born 1942)

d.a. levy, born Darryl Alfred Levey, was an American poet, artist, and alternative publisher active during the 1960s, based in Cleveland, Ohio. He consistently signed his work with lower-case letters.

24/11/1965

Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (born 1895)

Sheikh Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah was the eleventh ruler of the Sheikhdom of Kuwait from 1950 to 1961 and the first Emir of the State of Kuwait after the country gained its independence from Great Britain on 19 June 1961.

24/11/1963

Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (born 1939)

Lee Harvey Oswald was a U.S. Marine veteran, who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963.

24/11/1961

Ruth Chatterton, American actress (born 1892)

Ruth Chatterton was an American stage, film, and television actress, aviator and novelist. She was at her most popular in the early to mid-1930s, and in the same era gained prominence as an aviator, one of the few female pilots in the United States at the time. In the late 1930s, Chatterton retired from film acting but continued her career on the stage. She had several TV roles beginning in the late 1940s and became a successful novelist in the 1950s.

24/11/1960

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (born 1882)

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia was the youngest child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and younger sister of Emperor Nicholas II.

24/11/1959

Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player, cricketer, and sailor (born 1883)

Herbert Henry "Dally" Messenger, was an Australian rugby league and rugby union footballer. One of Australia's first professional rugby footballers, he is recognised as one of the greatest-ever players in either code. He played for New South Wales in the first match run by the newly-created New South Wales Rugby Football League, which had just split away from the established New South Wales Rugby Football Union.

24/11/1958

Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)

Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood,, known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, was a British lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was one of the architects of the League of Nations and a defender of it, whose service to the organisation saw him awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937.

24/11/1957

Diego Rivera, Mexican painter and sculptor (born 1886)

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art.

24/11/1956

Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (born 1920)

Guido Cantelli was an Italian orchestral conductor. Toscanini elected him his "spiritual heir" after witnessing him conduct at La Scala, Milan in May 1948. He was named music director of La Scala in November 1956, but his promising career was cut short only one week later by his death at the age of 36 in the 1956 Paris DC-6 crash in France en route to the United States.

24/11/1954

Mamie Dillard, African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist (born 1874)

Mary "Mamie" J. Dillard was an American educator, clubwoman and suffragist.

24/11/1948

Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother's Day (born 1864)

Anna Maria Jarvis was the founder of Mother's Day in the United States. Her mother had frequently expressed a desire to establish such a holiday, and after her mother's death, Jarvis led the movement for the commemoration. However, as the years passed, Jarvis grew disenchanted with the growing commercialization of the observation and even attempted to have Mother's Day rescinded. By the early 1940s, she had become infirm, and was placed in a sanatorium by friends and associates where she died on November 24, 1948. A legend exists that a portion of her medical bills were paid for by florists.

24/11/1943

Doris Miller, American soldier and chef, Navy Cross recipient (born 1919)

Doris "Dorie" Miller was a U.S. Navy sailor who was the first black recipient of the Navy Cross and a nominee for the Medal of Honor. As a mess attendant second class aboard the battleship USS West Virginia, Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He then manned an anti-aircraft gun and, despite no prior training in gunnery, officially shot down one plane, but Miller and other eyewitnesses claimed a range of four to six.

24/11/1932

William Arnon Henry American academic and agriculturist (born 1850)

William Arnon Henry was an American academic and agriculturist from Ohio. Henry studied at the National Normal University and Ohio Wesleyan University before becoming a principal of two high schools. After continuing his education at Cornell University from 1876 to 1880, Henry was appointed a professor at the University of Wisconsin. There, he led the growth of the College of Agriculture, becoming its first dean in 1891. He remained at the university until 1907, when he was named a professor emeritus.

24/11/1929

Georges Clemenceau, French physician, publisher, and politician, 72nd Prime Minister of France (born 1841)

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who was prime minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the politics of the Third Republic, particularly amid the end of the First World War. He was a key figure of the Independent Radicals, advocating for the separation of church and state, as well as the amnesty of the Communards exiled to New Caledonia.

24/11/1922

Erskine Childers, executed Irish soldier, journalist, and author (born 1870)

Robert Erskine Childers, usually known as Erskine Childers, was an English-born Irish nationalist who established himself as a writer with accounts of the Second Boer War, the novel The Riddle of the Sands (1903) about German preparations for a sea-borne invasion of England, and proposals for achieving Irish independence.

24/11/1920

Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Georgian actor and director (born 1857)

Vladimir (Lado) Alexi-Meskhishvili, Lado Meskhishivili, or Alekseev-Meskhiev, was a Georgian theater actor and director. He is buried at the Didube Pantheon in Tbilisi. His son was Shalva Aleksi-Meskhishvili, a Georgian jurist and politician.

Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (born 1854)

Alexandru Macedonski was a Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic, known especially for having promoted lots of French Symbolism in his native country, and for leading the Romanian Symbolist movement during its early decades. A forerunner of local modernist literature, he is the first local author to have used free verse, and claimed by some to have been the first in modern European literature. Within the framework of Romanian literature, Macedonski is seen by critics as second only to national poet Mihai Eminescu; as leader of a cosmopolitan and aestheticist trend formed around his Literatorul journal, he was diametrically opposed to the inward-looking traditionalism of Eminescu and his school.

24/11/1916

Hiram Maxim, American-English engineer, invented the Maxim gun (born 1840)

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim was an American-born British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. Maxim held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons, a mousetrap, and steam pumps. Maxim laid claim to inventing the lightbulb.

24/11/1895

Ludwik Teichmann, Polish anatomist (born 1823)

Ludwik Karol Teichmann-Stawiarski (September 16, 1823 – November 24, 1895) was a Polish anatomist and discoverer of a new way of research in forensic medicine, after whom Teichmann crystals are called.

24/11/1890

August Belmont, German-American banker and politician, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (born 1816)

August Belmont Sr. was a German-American financier, diplomat, and Democratic Party politician. As chair of the Democratic National Committee from 1860 to 1872, during a period of turmoil and reconciliation for the party following the American Civil War, Belmont was one of the longest serving party leaders in American history. During his life, he was one of the wealthiest men in the United States. He was also a thoroughbred racehorse owner and the founder and namesake of the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown of American Thoroughbred horse racing.

24/11/1885

Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentinian journalist and politician, 8th President of Argentina (born 1837)

Nicolás Remigio Aurelio Avellaneda Silva was an Argentine politician and journalist, and President of Argentina from 1874 to 1880. Avellaneda's main projects while in office were banking and education reform, leading to Argentina's economic growth. The most important events of his government were the Conquest of the Desert and the transformation of the Buenos Aires into a federal district.

24/11/1870

Comte de Lautréamont, Uruguayan-French poet and author (born 1846)

Comte de Lautréamont was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, a French poet, born in Uruguay. His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern arts and literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists. Ducasse died at the age of 24.

24/11/1848

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1779)

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, was a British Whig statesman who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, first in 1834 and again from 1835 to 1841. He also held senior cabinet roles including Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Chief Secretary for Ireland (1827–1828), and led the House of Lords and the Opposition during key transitions in the early Victorian era.

24/11/1807

Joseph Brant, American tribal leader (born 1742)

Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant was a Mohawk military and political leader, based in present-day New York and, later, Brantford, in what is today Ontario, who was closely associated with Great Britain during and after the American Revolution. Perhaps the best known North American Indigenous person of his generation, he met many of the most significant American and British people of the age, including both United States President George Washington, King George III of Great Britain, and Major General Isaac Brock.

24/11/1801

Franz Moritz von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (born 1725)

Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy was an Austrian military leader of Baltic German and Irish origins. He was the son of Count Peter von Lacy, and was a famous Austrian field marshal. Lacy served during the reign of Maria Theresa, and was a close friend to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, becoming one of the latter's advisers. He was made a count of the Holy Roman Empire, while his father had been a count of the Russian Empire.

Philip Hamilton, Eldest son of Alexander Hamilton (born 1782)

Philip Hamilton I was the eldest child of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. He was a poet and died at age 19, fatally shot in a duel with George Eacker.

24/11/1793

Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Finance (born 1723)

Clément Charles François de Laverdy was a French statesman.

24/11/1781

James Caldwell, American minister (born 1734)

James Caldwell was a Presbyterian minister who played a prominent part in the American Revolution.

24/11/1775

Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (born 1703)

Lorenzo Ricci was an Italian Jesuit, elected the eighteenth Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He was also the last before the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773.

24/11/1770

Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian and author (born 1685)

Charles-Jean-François Hénault was a French writer and historian.

24/11/1741

Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (born 1688)

Ulrika Eleonora or Ulrica Eleanor, also known as Ulrika Eleonora the Younger, was Queen of Sweden from 5 December 1718 until her abdication on 29 February 1720 in favour of Frederick, her husband. Upon his accession, as King Frederick I, she served as his queen consort until her death on 24 November 1741.

24/11/1722

Johann Adam Reincken, Dutch-German organist and composer (born 1623)

Johann Adam Reincken was a Dutch/German organist and composer. He was one of the most important composers of the 17th century, a friend of Dieterich Buxtehude and a major influence on Johann Sebastian Bach; however, very few of his works survive to this day.

24/11/1675

Guru Tegh Bahadur, Indian guru (born 1621)

Guru Tegh Bahadur was the ninth of ten gurus who founded the Sikh religion and was the leader of Sikhs from 1664 until his beheading in 1675. He was born in Amritsar, Punjab, India in 1621 and was the youngest son of Guru Hargobind, the sixth Sikh guru. Considered a principled and fearless warrior, he was a learned spiritual scholar and a poet whose 115 hymns are included in the Guru Granth Sahib, which is the main text of Sikhism. He was the founder of Anandpur Sahib in 1664.

24/11/1650

Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese organist and composer (born 1566)

Manuel Cardoso was a Portuguese composer and organist. With Duarte Lobo and John IV of Portugal, he represented the "golden age" of Portuguese polyphony.

24/11/1642

Walatta Petros, saint in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (born 1592)

Walatta Petros was an Ethiopian saint. Her hagiography, The Life-Struggles of Walatta Petros was written in 1672. She is known for resisting conversion to Roman Catholicism, forming many religious communities, and performing miracles for those seeking asylum from kings.

24/11/1615

Sethus Calvisius, German composer and theorist (born 1556)

Sethus Calvisius or Setho Calvisio, originally Seth Kalwitz, was a German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher of the late Renaissance.

24/11/1583

René de Birague, French cardinal (born 1506)

René de Birague was an Italian then French noble, lieutenant-general, chancellor and cardinal during the latter Italian Wars and the French Wars of Religion. Born to a prominent Milanese family in 1506, his family sided with the French, and as such when Milan was occupied by Emperor Charles V they were forced to flee to French controlled Piedmont. Declared a criminal in 1536, his Milanese estates would be seized. Birague entered French service in the 1540s, being elevated to premier président of the Parlement of Turin, which in combination with his service under the French governor Marshal Brissac from 1550, afforded him immense administrative power in the French occupied territories. In 1562 with the French withdrawal from the Piedmont, he departed his post in the Parlement, however the following year would see him elevated in one of the remaining French held towns, as leader of the Supreme Council of Pignerol.

24/11/1577

Ismail II, Shah of Safavid Iran (born 1537)

Ismail II was the third shah of Safavid Iran from 1576 to 1577. He was the second son of Tahmasp I with his principal consort, Sultanum Begum of the Mawsillu clan of the Aq Qoyunlu confederation. On the orders of Tahmasp, Ismail spent twenty years imprisoned in Qahqaheh Castle; whether for his recurrent conflicts with the realm's influential vassals, or for his growing popularity with the Qizilbash tribes, resulting in Tahmasp becoming wary of his son's influence.

24/11/1572

John Knox, Scottish pastor and theologian (born 1510)

John Knox was a Scottish minister, Reformed theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country's Reformation. He was the reformer of the Church of Scotland.

24/11/1531

Johannes Oecolampadius, German theologian and reformer (born 1482)

Johannes Oecolampadius was a German Protestant reformer in the Reformed tradition from the Electoral Palatinate. He was the leader of the Protestant faction in the Baden Disputation of 1526, and he was one of the founders of Protestant theology, engaging in disputes with Erasmus, Huldrych Zwingli, Martin Luther and Martin Bucer.

24/11/1530

Mingyi Nyo, Burmese ruler (born 1459)

Mingyi Nyo, was the founder of the Toungoo dynasty of Burma (Myanmar). Under his 45-year leadership (1485–1530), Toungoo (Taungoo), grew from a remote backwater vassal state of Ava Kingdom to a small but stable independent kingdom. In 1510, he declared Toungoo's independence from its nominal overlord Ava. He skillfully kept his small kingdom out of the chaotic warfare plaguing Upper Burma. Toungoo's stability continued to attract refugees from Ava fleeing the repeated raids of Ava by the Confederation of Shan States (1490s–1527). Nyo left a stable, confident kingdom that enabled his successor Tabinshwehti to contemplate taking on larger kingdoms on his way to founding the Toungoo Empire.

24/11/1492

Loys of Gruuthuse, Earl of Winchester (born c. 1427)

Louis de Bruges, Lord of Gruuthuse, Prince of Steenhuijs, Earl of Winchester, was a Flemish courtier, bibliophile, soldier and nobleman. He was awarded the title of Earl of Winchester by King Edward IV of England in 1472, and was Stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland 1462–77.

24/11/1468

Jean de Dunois, French soldier (born 1402)

Jean d'Orléans, Count of Dunois, known as the "Bastard of Orléans" or simply Jean de Dunois, was a French military leader during the Hundred Years' War who participated in military campaigns with Joan of Arc. His nickname, the "Bastard of Orléans", was a mark of his high status, since it acknowledged him as a first cousin to the king and acting head of a cadet branch of the royal family during his half-brother's captivity. In 1439 he received the county of Dunois from his half-brother Charles I, Duke of Orléans, and later King Charles VII made him count of Longueville.

24/11/1426

Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter, (born c. 1363)

Elizabeth of Lancaster was the third child of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and his first wife Blanche of Lancaster. Elizabeth was made a Lady of the Garter in 1378.

24/11/1326

Hugh Despenser the Younger, English courtier (born 1296)

Hugh Despenser, 1st Baron Despenser was an English nobleman and royal favourite. He was the son and heir of Hugh Despenser, Earl of Winchester and his wife Isabel Beauchamp, daughter of William Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick. Despenser rose to national prominence as chamberlain of the royal household and a close favourite of Edward II of England. His influence at court earned him many enemies among the English nobility. After the overthrow of Edward II, Despenser was charged with high treason and ultimately hanged, drawn and quartered.

24/11/1265

Magnús Óláfsson, King of Mann and the Isles

Magnús Óláfsson was a King of Mann and the Isles. He was a son of Óláfr Guðrøðarson, King of the Isles, and a member of the Crovan dynasty. Magnús' realm encompassed Mann and parts of the Hebrides. Some leading members of Magnús' family—such as his father—styled themselves "King of the Isles"; other members—such as Magnús and his brothers—styled themselves "King of Mann and the Isles". Although kings in their own right, leading members of the Crovan dynasty paid tribute to the Kings of Norway and generally recognised a nominal Norwegian overlordship of Mann and the Hebrides. Magnus was forced to cede lordship of the Isle of Mann to King Alexander III and swear fealty to him in 1264 after the Battle of Largs between the Norwegians and Scots after which the Norwegians retreated to Orkney.

24/11/1227

Leszek I the White, High Duke of Poland (born c. 1186)

Leszek I the White was Prince of Sandomierz and High Duke of Poland in the years 1194–1198, 1199, 1206–1210, and 1211–1227. During the early stages of his reign, his uncle Duke Mieszko III the Old and cousin Władysław III Spindleshanks, from the Greater Polish branch of the royal Piast dynasty, contested Leszek's right to be High Duke.

24/11/1072

Bagrat IV of Georgia (born 1018)

Bagrat IV, of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the king (mepe) of the Kingdom of Georgia from 1027 to 1072. During his long and eventful reign, Bagrat sought to repress the great nobility and to secure Georgia's sovereignty from the Byzantine and Seljuk Empires. In a series of intermingled conflicts, Bagrat succeeded in defeating his most powerful vassals and rivals of the Liparitid family, bringing several feudal enclaves under his control and reducing the kings of Lori and Kakheti-Hereti, as well as the emir of Tbilisi to vassalage. Like many medieval Caucasian rulers, he bore several Byzantine titles, particularly those of Nobilissimus, Kouropalates, and sebastos.

24/11/0654

Emperor Kōtoku of Japan (born 596)

Emperor Kōtoku was the 36th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

 

Celebrations & Special Days Worldwide on 24th November

Christian feast days: Albert of Louvain

Albert of Louvain was a cardinal of the Catholic Church and the Prince-Bishop of Liège. He was canonized as a saint on 9 August 1613 and his feast falls on the date of his death.

Christian feast days: Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Pierre Dumoulin-Borie, and other Vietnamese Martyrs

Andrew Trần An Dũng-Lạc was a Vietnamese Roman Catholic priest. He was executed by beheading during the reign of Minh Mạng. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 19 June 1988 and recognized as one of the 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.

Christian feast days: Chrysogonus

Saint Chrysogonus was an early Christian martyr. According to holy tradition, he was a knight in the Roman army. In exchange for abandoning Christianity, Roman emperor Diocletian offered him the position of prefect of a province. Chrysogonus declined the offer and was executed as part of the persecution.

Christian feast days: Colmán of Cloyne

Colmán of Cloyne, also Colmán mac Léníne, was a monk, founder and patron of Cluain Uama, now Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland, and one of the earliest known Irish poets to write in the vernacular.

Christian feast days: Eanflæd

Eanflæd was a Deiran princess, queen of Northumbria and later, the abbess of an influential Christian monastery in Whitby, England. She was the daughter of King Edwin of Northumbria and Æthelburg, who in turn was the daughter of King Æthelberht of Kent. In or shortly after 642 Eanflæd became the second wife of King Oswiu of Northumbria. After Oswiu's death in 670, she retired to Whitby Abbey, which had been founded by Hilda of Whitby. Eanflæd became the abbess around 680 and remained there until her death. The monastery had strong association with members of the Northumbrian royal family and played an important role in the establishment of Roman Christianity in England.

Christian feast days: Firmina

Saint Firmina is a Roman Catholic Italian saint and virgin martyr. She is the patroness saint of Civitavecchia, and Amelia Cathedral is dedicated to her.

Christian feast days: Flavian of Ricina

Saint Flavian of Ricina is venerated as a martyr and bishop by the Catholic Church. Tradition holds that he was a bishop of Helvia Ricina (Macerata), during the 3rd century, martyred on November 24. His cult is ancient and widespread in the Marche and Umbria, with many churches and abbeys dedicated to him, but historical information on his life is limited to a few details and traditions.

Christian feast days: Flora and Maria

Flora and María were the first two of nine female Christian Martyrs of Córdoba. After denouncing Islam before an Islamic judge, they were imprisoned. Though threatened "with being thrown upon the streets as prostitutes", they were eventually beheaded. They are commemorated on 24 November.

Christian feast days: Jehu Jones (Lutheran)

Jehu Jones Jr. (1786–1852) was a Lutheran minister who founded one of the first African-American Lutheran congregations in the United States, as well as actively involved in improving the social welfare of African-Americans.

Christian feast days: Justus Falckner (Lutheran)

Justus Falckner was an early American Lutheran minister and the first Lutheran pastor to be ordained within the region that became the United States. Falckner's published works include Grondlycke Onderricht, which first appeared in the Dutch language during 1708. This was the first Lutheran catechism to be published in North America. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on November 24 together with Jehu Jones and William Passavant.

Christian feast days: Kenan (Cianán)

St. Cianán, or Kenan, was a Bishop of Duleek in Ireland. He was descended from the royal blood of the kings of Munster. His feast day is 24 November.

Christian feast days: Pierre Dumoulin-Borie

Pierre-Rose-Ursule Dumoulin-Borie was a French Catholic missionary priest and a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. He is a Catholic saint, canonized in 1988 along with other Vietnamese Martyrs.

Christian feast days: Protasius of Milan

Protasius was Archbishop of Milan. He is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church, with his feast day celebrated on 24 November, the day of his death.

Christian feast days: Romanus of Blaye

Saint Romanus of Blaye was a priest in the Gironde in France.

Christian feast days: November 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

November 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 25

Evolution Day (International observance)

Evolution Day is a celebration to commemorate the anniversary of the initial publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin on 24 November 1859. Such celebrations have been held for over a century, but the specific term "Evolution Day" for the anniversary appears to be a neologism which was coined prior to 1997. By highlighting Darwin's contributions to science, the day's events are used to educate about evolutionary biology. It is similar to the better-known Darwin Day, held on the anniversary of his birth. It is unrelated to the secularization campaign by the Giordano Bruno Foundation to have the German public holiday of Ascension Day renamed to "Evolutionstag".

Lachit Divas (Assam)

Lachit Borphukan was an army general, primarily known for commanding the Ahom Army and the victory in the naval Battle of Saraighat (1671) that thwarted an invasion by the vastly superior Mughal Forces under the command of Ramsingh I. He died about a year later in April 1672.

Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur (India)

Guru Tegh Bahadur was the ninth of ten gurus who founded the Sikh religion and was the leader of Sikhs from 1664 until his beheading in 1675. He was born in Amritsar, Punjab, India in 1621 and was the youngest son of Guru Hargobind, the sixth Sikh guru. Considered a principled and fearless warrior, he was a learned spiritual scholar and a poet whose 115 hymns are included in the Guru Granth Sahib, which is the main text of Sikhism. He was the founder of Anandpur Sahib in 1664.

Teachers' Day (Turkey)

Teachers' Day is a special day for the appreciation of teachers. It may include celebrations to honor them for their special contributions in a particular field area, or the community tone in education. This is one of the most celebrated days and the primary reason why countries celebrate this day on different dates, unlike many other International Days. For example, Argentina has commemorated Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's death on 11 September as Teachers' Day since 1915. In India, the birthday of the second president Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 5 September, is celebrated as Teachers' Day since 1962.

 

What Happened on 24th November?

51 significant events took place on Friday, 24th November — stretching from 380 to 2023. Explore the moments that shaped history on this day.

24/11/2023

Hibiscus Rising, commemorating David Oluwale, is unveiled in Leeds.

Hibiscus Rising (2023) is an outdoor sculpture in Leeds, England, by artist Yinka Shonibare which was unveiled on 24 November 2023 as part of LEEDS 2023. It commemorates the life and death of David Oluwale, a British-Nigerian man whose death in 1969 involved two members of Leeds City Police. Commissioned by LEEDS 2023 and the David Oluwale Memorial Association (DOMA), in partnership with Leeds City Council, the sculpture is, according to academic Dr. Emily Zobel Marshall, the first public artwork in the city to reflect its cultural diversity.

24/11/2022

Five days after the general elections which resulted in a hung parliament, opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim is officially named as the 10th prime minister of Malaysia.

General elections were held in Malaysia on Saturday, 19 November 2022. The prospect of snap elections had been considered high due to the political crisis that had been ongoing since 2020; political instability caused by coalition or party switching among members of Parliament, combined with the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, contributed to the resignation of two prime ministers and the collapse of each of their respective coalition governments since the 2018 general elections.

24/11/2017

A terrorist attack on a Mosque in Al-Rawda, North Sinai, Egypt kills 311 people and injures 128.

At 1:50 PM EET on 24 November 2017, the al-Rawda mosque was attacked by roughly 40 gunmen during Friday prayers. The mosque is located in the village of Al-Rawda east of the town of Bir al-Abed in Egypt's North Sinai Governorate. It is one of the main mosques associated with the Jaririya Sufi order, one of the largest Sufi orders in North Sinai. The Jaririya order is named for its founder, Sheikh Eid Abu Jarir, who was a member of the Sawarka tribe and the Jarira clan. The Jarira clan resides in the vicinity of Bir al-Abed. The attack killed 311 people and injured at least 128, making it the deadliest attack in Egyptian history. It was the second-deadliest terrorist attack of 2017, after the Mogadishu bombings on 14 October. The attack was universally condemned by many world leaders and organizations.

24/11/2016

The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war.

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country located in South America, with insular regions in North America. Colombia's mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 departments. The Capital District of Bogotá is the country's largest city hosting the main financial and cultural hub. Other urban areas include Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Bucaramanga, Pereira, Santa Marta, Cúcuta, Ibagué, Villavicencio and Manizales. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers and has a population of around 52 million. Its rich cultural heritage—including language, religion, cuisine, and art—reflects its history as a colony, fusing cultural elements brought by immigration from Europe and the Middle East, with those brought by the African diaspora, as well as with those of Indigenous civilizations that predate colonization. Spanish is the official language, although Creole, English and 64 other languages are recognized regionally.

24/11/2015

A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.

The Russian Air Force is a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces, which was formed on 1 August 2015, with the merging of the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the reborn Russian armed forces began to be created on 7 May 1992 following Boris Yeltsin's creation of the Ministry of Defence. However, the Russian Federation's air force can trace its lineage and traditions back to the Imperial Russian Air Service (1912–1917) and the Soviet Air Forces (1918–1991).

A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others.

The Arish hotel bombing was a terrorist attack on a hotel in the coastal city of Al-Arish, Egypt, on 24 November 2015. A group of militants approached the heavily guarded hotel with a car bomb, but Egyptian security forces opened fire at the vehicle, blowing it up before it could reach the building. One of the two attackers managed to get inside the hotel, where a number of people were injured and killed as a result of gunfire and a subsequent suicide bombing. Authorities reported at least seven dead, including two judges who had been in Al-Arish to supervise the country's second round of parliamentary elections, held the day before. The Islamic State's Wilayat Sinai offshoot claimed responsibility in a statement released later the same day.

An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.

On 24 November 2015, a bus carrying Tunisian presidential guards exploded, killing 12, on a principal road in Tunis, Tunisia. IS claimed responsibility for the attack. The bomber, who also died in the attack, was identified as Houssem Abdelli.

24/11/2013

Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, historically known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. With a population of over 92 million, Iran ranks 17th globally in both geographic size and population. It is divided into five regions with 31 provinces. Tehran is the nation's capital and largest city and serves as its primary economic centre.

24/11/2012

A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.

The 2012 Dhaka garment factory fire broke out on 24 November 2012, in the Tazreen Fashion factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. At least 117 people were confirmed dead in the fire, and over 200 were injured, making it the deadliest factory fire in the nation's history. The cause of the fire was not determined. It was initially presumed to be caused by an electrical short circuit, the cause of 80% of factory fires in Bangladesh. A widely criticized government report alleged an act of "sabotage", without identifying who committed it or why. This fire and others similar to it have led to numerous proposed reforms in workers' rights and safety laws in Bangladesh.

24/11/2009

The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is founded in Bucharest, Romania.

The Avdhela Project, also known as the Library of Aromanian Culture, is a digital library and cultural initiative developed by the Predania Association. The Avdhela Project aims to collect, edit and open to the public academic works on the Aromanians based on a series of specific principles. It was launched on 24 November 2009 in Bucharest, Romania. Public events, the promotion of cultural works and the publication of audiovisual material are other activities carried out by the Avdhela Project in support of Aromanian culture.

24/11/2001

Crossair Flight 3597 crashes in Bassersdorf near Zurich Airport, killing 24 people, including singer Melanie Thornton and two members of the German band Passion Fruit.

Crossair Flight 3597 was a scheduled flight from Berlin Tegel Airport, Germany, to Zurich Airport, Switzerland. On 24 November 2001, the Crossair Avro RJ100 operating the route, registered as HB-IXM, crashed into a wooded range of hills near Bassersdorf and caught fire. Out of the 33 occupants, nine people survived.

24/11/1992

China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.

China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 was a China Southern Airlines flight from the former Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangzhou to Guilin Qifengling Airport, Guilin, China. On 24 November 1992, the Boeing 737-3Y0 crashed on a mountain while descending to Guilin Airport, killing all 141 people aboard.

24/11/1991

Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches on STS-44.

The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was carried over from the 1969 plan for the Space Transportation System (STS) of reusable spacecraft. Only the shuttle and supporting rockets were funded for development; a proposed nuclear lunar shuttle in the plan was canceled in 1972. It flew 135 missions and carried 355 astronauts from 16 countries, many on multiple trips.

24/11/1989

After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the Velvet Revolution, Miloš Jakeš and the entire Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party resign from office. This brings an effective end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia.

The Velvet Revolution or Gentle Revolution was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 28 November 1989. Popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia included students and older dissidents. The result was the end of 41 years of one-party rule in Czechoslovakia, and the subsequent dismantling of the command economy and conversion to a parliamentary republic.

24/11/1976

The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.

The 1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake occurred at 14:22 local time on 24 November. The epicenter was located near Çaldıran, 20 km northeast of Muradiye, in the Van Province of eastern Turkey. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.3 with a maximum intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale. The area of severe damage, where over 80% of the buildings were destroyed, covered an area of 2,000 square kilometres. There were between 4,000 and 5,000 casualties.

24/11/1974

Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.

Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist. He is best known for discovering the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia.

24/11/1973

A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.

The Autobahn is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official term is Bundesautobahn, which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word Bundesautobahn is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track'.

24/11/1971

During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.

Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is often referred to as Washington state to distinguish it from the national capital; both are named after George Washington, a U.S. Founding Father and the first U.S. president. Washington borders the Pacific Ocean to the west, Oregon to the south, and Idaho to the east; it shares an international border with the Canadian province of British Columbia to the north. Olympia is the state capital, and the state's most populous city is Seattle.

24/11/1969

Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to land on the Moon.

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo was conceived in 1960 in the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency during Project Mercury and executed after Project Gemini. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal, "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in his address to the U.S. Congress on May 25, 1961.

24/11/1966

Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.

TABSO Flight 101 was a scheduled service of the Bulgarian national airline from Sofia, Bulgaria, via Budapest, Hungary, and Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Berlin Schönefeld Airport in East Germany. The service was operated by the airline's 1960s' flagship equipment, the Ilyushin Il-18B airliner. On Thursday 24 November 1966, due to bad weather the aircraft was diverted to Bratislava airport, but when the flight resumed, the aircraft crashed into the surrounding hills shortly after takeoff, with the loss of 82 lives. The crash site is within modern-day Slovakia, and is considered that country's deadliest aviation disaster.

24/11/1965

Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.

Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa za Banga, often shortened to Mobutu Sese Seko or Mobutu and also known by his initials MSS, was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the first and only president of Zaire from 1971 to 1997. Previously, Mobutu served as the second president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 1965 to 1971.

24/11/1963

Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby on live television. Robert H. Jackson takes a photograph of the shooting that will win the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography.

Lee Harvey Oswald was a U.S. Marine veteran, who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963.

24/11/1962

Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.

The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc. It began in the aftermath of the Second World War and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.

The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.

That Was the Week That Was, informally TWTWTW or TW3, is a satirical television comedy programme that aired on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963. It was devised, produced, and directed by Ned Sherrin and Jack Duncan, and presented by David Frost.

24/11/1944

World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.

The 73d Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, where it was inactivated on 1 April 1966.

24/11/1943

World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.

The Battle of Makin was an engagement of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought from 20 to 24 November 1943 on Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands.

24/11/1941

World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.

Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, the Republic of China, and other Allied nations of the Second World War with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and 1945. The aid was given free of charge on the basis that such help was essential for the defense of the United States.

24/11/1940

World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.

World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 60 to 75 million people. Millions died as a result of massacres, starvation, disease, and genocides, including the Holocaust. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.

24/11/1935

The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.

The Senegalese Socialist Party was a political party in Senegal. PSS was founded in July 1934 by Lamine Guèye, as a split from the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). Guèye was the party president, Armand Angrand general secretary and Maître Vidal, Charles Graziani and Amadou Assane Ndoye vice-presidents.

24/11/1932

In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. An agency of the United States Department of Justice, the FBI is a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and reports to both the attorney general and the director of national intelligence. A leading American counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigative organization, the FBI has jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crimes. The FBI maintains a list of its top 10 most wanted fugitives.

24/11/1929

The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement officially begins when a group of mainly the former White Guard members, led by Vihtori Kosola, interrupted communism occasion at the Workers' House in Lapua, Finland.

The Lapua Movement was a radical Finnish nationalist, fascist, pro-Nazi and anti-communist political movement founded in and named after the town of Lapua. Led by Vihtori Kosola, it turned towards far-right politics after its founding and was banned after a failed coup d'etat attempt in 1932. The movement's anti-communist activities continued in the parliamentarian Patriotic People's Movement.

24/11/1922

Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a name used by various militant organisations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Organisations by this name have been dominantly Catholic and dedicated to anti-imperialism through Irish republicanism, the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic free from British colonial rule.

24/11/1917

In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.

Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Located on the western shore of Lake Michigan, it had a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census, making it the 31st-most populous city in the United States and the fifth-most populous city in the Midwest. The Milwaukee metropolitan area has over 1.57 million residents and ranks as the 40th-largest metropolitan area in the nation. The city is the county seat of Milwaukee County.

24/11/1906

A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.

The Massillon Tigers were an early professional football team from Massillon, Ohio. Playing in the "Ohio League", the team was a rival to the pre-National Football League version of the Canton Bulldogs. The Tigers won Ohio League championships in 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906, then merged to become "All-Massillons" to win another title in 1907. The team returned as the Tigers in 1915 but, with the reemergence of the Bulldogs, only won one more Ohio League title. Pro football was popularized in Ohio when the amateur Massillon Tigers hired four Pittsburgh pros to play in the season-ending game against Akron. At the same time, pro football declined in the Pittsburgh area, and the emphasis on the pro game moved west from Pennsylvania to Ohio.

24/11/1877

Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.

Anna Sewell was an English novelist who is known for her only book, Black Beauty, a novel about a horse. She was born into a Quaker family in Norfolk and moved to London as a baby. Her mother, Mary Wright Sewell, was the author of popular children's books. Sewell never married and always lived with her parents, in Sussex, Gloucestershire and Norfolk. A chronic illness left her leading a life of invalidism, with trips to spa resorts in England and continental Europe. She joined her mother in carrying out charitable work and also edited her mother's books. Black Beauty was written between 1871 and 1877 and published a few months before Sewell's death.

24/11/1863

American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve slavery in the United States. The South saw slavery as threatened because of the election of Abraham Lincoln and the growing abolitionist movement in the North. The war ended with Union victory, the dissolution of the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery, freeing four million African Americans.

24/11/1859

British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is published.

Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and considered a fundamental scientific concept. In a joint presentation with Alfred Russel Wallace, he introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. Darwin has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history and was honoured by burial in Westminster Abbey.

24/11/1850

Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.

The Battle of Lottorf was fought between Denmark, and the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, on November 24, 1850, at Lottorf in Schleswig and was the final battle of the First Schleswig War. The Danish forces under Christian Bauditz won the battle.

24/11/1835

The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).

The origins of today's Texas Ranger Division trace back to the first days of Anglo-American settlement of what is today the State of Texas, when it was part of the Province of Coahuila y Tejas belonging to the newly independent country of Mexico. The unique characteristics that the Rangers adopted during the force's formative years and that give the division its heritage today—characteristics for which the Texas Rangers would become world-renowned—have been accounted for by the nature of the Rangers' duties, which was to protect a thinly populated frontier against protracted hostilities, first with Plains Natives tribes, and after the Texas Revolution, hostilities with Mexico.

24/11/1832

South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis.

South Carolina is a state in the Southeastern, South Atlantic and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders North Carolina to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, and Georgia to the west and south across the Savannah River. Along with North Carolina, it makes up the Carolinas region of the East Coast. South Carolina is the 11th-smallest and 23rd-most populous U.S. state, with a population of 5.12 million at the 2020 census. South Carolina is composed of 46 counties. Its capital is Columbia, while its most populous city is Charleston. Other urban areas include the Upstate, the state's largest metropolitan area which includes Greenville and Spartanburg, as well as Myrtle Beach.

24/11/1750

Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.

Maharani Tarabai Bhonsle was the regent of the Maratha Empire from 1700 until 1708. She was the queen of Rajaram I, and daughter-in-law of the kingdom's founder Shivaji I. She is acclaimed for her role in keeping alive the resistance against Mughal rule in Konkan, and acting as the regent of the Maratha Kingdom during the minority of her son, Shivaji II. She defeated Mughal forces of Aurangzeb in several battles and expanded the Maratha Kingdom.

24/11/1642

Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).

Abel Janszoon Tasman was a Dutch seafarer and explorer, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He was the first European to reach New Zealand, which he named Staten Landt. He was also the eponym of Tasmania.

24/11/1542

Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.

The Battle of Solway Moss took place on Solway Moss near the River Esk on the English side of the Anglo-Scottish border in November 1542 between English and Scottish forces.

24/11/1429

Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.

The Hundred Years' War was a conflict between the kingdoms of England and France and a civil war in France during the late Middle Ages. It emerged from feudal disputes over the Duchy of Aquitaine and was triggered by a claim to the French throne made by Edward III of England. The war grew into a broader military, economic, and political struggle involving factions from across Western Europe, fuelled by emerging nationalism on both sides. The periodisation of the war typically charts it as taking place over 116 years. However, it was an intermittent conflict which was frequently interrupted by external factors, such as the Black Death, and several years of truces.

24/11/1359

Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates.

Peter I was King of Cyprus and titular King of Jerusalem from his father's abdication on 24 November 1358 until his death in 1369. He was invested as titular Count of Tripoli in 1346. As King of Cyprus, he had some military successes, but he was unable to complete many of his plans due to internal disputes that culminated in his assassination at the hands of three of his knights.

24/11/1248

An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.

Mont Granier (1,933m) is a limestone mountain located between the départements of Savoie and Isère in France. It lies in the Chartreuse Mountains range of the French Prealps between the towns of Chapareillan and Entremont-le-Vieux. Its east face overlooks the valley of Grésivaudan and Combe de Savoie, and the north face overlooks Chambéry. At 900 meters tall, Mont Granier has one of the highest cliffs in France.

24/11/1227

Gąsawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing.

The Gąsawa massacre was an attack on the night of 23-24 November 1227, during a council of Polish Piast dukes that was being held near the village of Gąsawa in Kuyavia, Poland. The High Duke of Poland, Leszek the White, was assassinated, and Duke Henry the Bearded of Silesia was gravely wounded.

24/11/1221

Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia.

Genghis Khan, also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire. After spending most of his life uniting the Mongol tribes, he launched a series of military campaigns, conquering large parts of China and Central Asia.

24/11/1190

Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.

Conrad of Montferrat was a nobleman, one of the major participants in the Third Crusade. He was the de facto King of Jerusalem by virtue of his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem from 24 November 1190, but officially elected only in 1192, days before his death. He was also the eighth Marquess of Montferrat from 1191.

24/11/0847

An earthquake hits Syria, causing multiple casualties and damages in Antioch, Damascus and Mosul.

The 847 Damascus earthquake occurred in AD 847. Recent scholarship suggests that the earthquake was part of a multiple earthquake stretching from Damascus to the south, to Antioch in the north and to Mosul in the east. There were an estimated 20,000 casualties in Antioch according to the 13th-century historian and writer Al-Dhahabi, and 50,000 in Mosul. It is thought to be one of the most powerful earthquakes along the Dead Sea Transform.

24/11/0380

Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.

Theodosius I, also known as Theodosius the Great, was Roman emperor from 379 to 395. He won two civil wars and was instrumental in establishing the Nicene Creed as the orthodox doctrine for Nicene Christianity. Theodosius was the last emperor to rule the entire Roman Empire. After his death, his sons Arcadius and Honorius ruled from separate courts in the east and the west, continuing the late Roman practice of rule by multiple emperors. He ended the Gothic War (376–382), but did so on terms disadvantageous to the empire, with the Goths remaining politically autonomous within Roman territory, albeit as nominal allies.