November 26
day of the year
November 26 is the 330th day of the year (331st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 35 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events change
Up to 1900 change
- 43 BC – The second Roman Triumvirate alliance is formed by Augustus, Marcus Aemelius Lepidus and Mark Antony.
- 783 - Asturian Queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her closest family and friends from retaking the throne from Mauretagus.
- 986 - The French city of Montpellier is first mentioned.
- 1161 - Battle of Caishi in China: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze River during the Jin-Song Wars.
- 1703 - The Great Storm of 1703, affecting Great Britain, sinks 12 Royal Navy ships, killing over 1,500 people.
- 1778 – James Cook becomes the first European to navigate around the island of Maui, Hawaii, but doesn't find a suitable place to land.
- 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is held in the United States.
- 1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded.
- 1863 – US President Abraham Lincoln declares Thanksgiving Day a national holiday, to be observed on the fourth Thursday in November.
- 1865 – Spanish-South American War: In the naval Battle of Papudo, the Chilean fleet under Juan Williams Rebolledo defeats the Spanish.
- 1894 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra Fyodorovna marry.
- 1898 - A storm off New England sinks the passenger ship Portland, killing 152 people. The storm kills 450 people in total.
1901 – 2000 change
- 1914 - British battleship Bulwark is destroyed by an explosion off Sheerness, killing 738 people, as only 12 of the people on board survive.
- 1917 – The NHL is founded.
- 1918 - The Podgorica Assembly in Montenegro votes for a "Union of the People", declaring that it merges with Serbia.
- 1922 – Howard Carter enters the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.
- 1942 - Franklin D. Roosevelt orders gasoline rationing across the United States, starting on December 1.
- 1942 - An earthquake in Turkey kills 4,000 people.
- 1943 - World War II: The ship HMT Rohna is sunk by the German Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean Sea north of Bejaia, Algeria.
- 1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworths shop on New Cross High Street, London, killing 168 people.
- 1949 - India agrees to the constitution proposed by B. R. Ambedkar. This leads to India becoming a republic two months later, on January 26, 1950.
- 1950 – Korean War: The People's Republic of China enters the war, launching a counterattack in North Korea against South Korea and UN troops.
- 1965 - In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix 1, on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.
- 1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe 1.5 inches (38.1 millimetres) of rain fall in a minute, which is a world record.
- 1976 – The Last Waltz is held.
- 1979 - A Boeing 707 of Pakistan International Airlines, crashes during take-off from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 156 people on board.
- 1982 – Larry Holmes wins the heavyweight boxing world title, defeating Randall Cobb in Houston, Texas.
- 1983 – In London, 6,800 gold bars, worth nearly £ 26 million, are stolen from the Brink's MAT vault at Heathrow Airport.
- 1990 - The Delta II rocket makes its first flight.
- 1991 – Azerbaijan's national assembly abolishes the autonomous State of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomus Oblast, where the population is of mainly Armenian ethnicity, and renames all its cities back to their old names.
- 1992 - In the night to November 27, Vienna's Hofburg Castle is severely damaged by fire.
- 1998 - The Khanna rail disaster in India kills 212 people.
- 1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to speak at the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
- 2000 - George W. Bush is confirmed as the winner of Florida's electoral votes in the disputed US Presidential Election, making him the next President of the United States instead of Al Gore, who had won the most votes overall.
From 2001 change
- 2003 – Concorde makes its last flight, over Bristol, England, United Kingdom.
- 2004 – In Ruzhou, China, a man enters a school dormitory and stabs 8 people to death, while he also wounds 4 others.
- 2008 – The 26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks begin with killings and hostage takings in different parts of the city, committed by Islamist terrorists, of whom only one survives. The attacks end on November 29 after a stand-off at the Taj Mahal Hotel.
- 2011 – The New Zealand National Party, led by John Key, is elected to a second term in government.
- 2011 – The Mars Science Laboratory, known as Curiosity, is launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, on board an Atlas V rocket. It lands on Mars in August 2012.
Births change
Up to 1900 change
- 117 - Aelius Aristides, Greek writer (d. 181)
- 907 - Rudesind, Galician bishop (d. 977)
- 1288 – Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (d. 1339)
- 1436 – Princess Catherine of Portugal, writer (d. 1463)
- 1604 - Johannes Bach, German composer and musician (d. 1673)
- 1607 – John Harvard, English-born clergyman and university benefactor (d. 1638)
- 1609 – Henry Dunster, English president of Harvard College (d. 1659)
- 1657 – William Derham, English minister and writer (d. 1735)
- 1678 – Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (d. 1771)
- 1703 – Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
- 1731 – William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)
- 1786 - José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1846)
- 1792 – Sarah Grimke, American abolitionist and feminist (d. 1873)
- 1827 - Ellen G. White, American author, co-founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church (d. 1915)
- 1828 - René Goblet, Prime Minister of France (d. 1915)
- 1832 – Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
- 1832 – Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)
- 1847 – Maria Feodorovna, Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia (d. 1928)
- 1853 - Bat Masterson, American Old West figure (d. 1921)
- 1857 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (d. 1913)
- 1858 - Katharine Drexel, American nun and saint (d. 1955)
- 1864 – Edward Higgins, British Salvation Army General (d. 1947)
- 1864 - Eugene Pierre, French politician (d. 1937)
- 1869 – Maud, Queen of Norway (d. 1938)
- 1876 – Willis Carrier, American engineer and inventor (d. 1950)
- 1885 – Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1970)
- 1888 - Ford Beebe, American director (d. 1978)
- 1889 – Albert Dieudonné, French actor, screenwriter and novelist (d. 1976)
- 1892 - Joe Guyon, American football player (d. 1971)
- 1894 - James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (d. 1974)
- 1894 – Norbert Wiener, American mathematician and founder of Cybernetics (d. 1964)
- 1895 - Bill W., American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1971)
- 1897 - Manuel A. Odria, Peruvian general and politician (d. 1974)
- 1898 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- 1899 – Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
1901 – 1925 change
- 1902 - Maurice McDonald, American fast food pioneer (d. 1971)
- 1903 - Alice Herz-Sommer, Jewish pianist, music teacher, Holocaust survivor and supercentenarian (d. 2014)
- 1905 - Emlyn Williams, Welsh writer. dramatist and actor (d. 1987)
- 1905 – Bob Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1982)
- 1908 – Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (d. 1989)
- 1909 – Eugene Ionescu, Romanian-born dramatist (d. 1994)
- 1909 - Fritz Buchloh, German footballer (d. 1998)
- 1909 - Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1910 - Aileen Meagher, Canadian athlete and painter (d. 1987)
- 1910 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (d. 1993)
- 1912 – Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)
- 1914 - Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1915 – Earl Wild, American pianist (d. 2010)
- 1915 - Inge King, German-Australian sculptor (d. 2016)
- 1918 – Patricio Aylwin, former President of Chile (d. 2016)
- 1918 - Huber Matos, Cuban activist (d. 2014)
- 1919 – Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman (d. 2010)
- 1919 - Frederik Pohl, American writer (d. 2013)
- 1920 - Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (d. 2004)
- 1921 - Françoise Gilot, French painter, critic and author
- 1922 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
- 1923 - V. K. Murthy, Indian cinematographer (d. 2014)
- 1923 - Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
- 1924 – George Segal, American Pop Sculptor (d. 2000)
- 1924 - Edward T. Breathitt, Governor of Kentucky (d. 2003)
- 1925 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)
- 1925 - Gregorio Conrado Alvarez, Uruguayan military and politician (d. 2016)
1926 – 1950 change
- 1926 - Rabi Ray, Indian politician
- 1926 - Ray McFall, British nightclub owner (d. 2015)
- 1927 – Ernie Coombs, American children's entertainer (d. 2001)
- 1929 - Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian composer and musician (d. 2015)
- 1930 - J. Joseph Garrahy, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 2012)
- 1930 - Berthold Leibinger, German mechanical engineer, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
- 1931 – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1931 - Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Dutch archbishop and cardinal
- 1933 – Robert Goulet, American singer and actor (d. 2007)
- 1933 - Tony Verna, American television producer (d. 2015)
- 1933 - Richard Holloway, Scottish writer and former Bishop of Edinburgh
- 1936 - Margaret Boden, English computer scientist and psychologist
- 1937 – Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1994)
- 1938 – Porter Goss, American politician and Central Intelligence Agency director
- 1938 – Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
- 1938 – Rich Little, Canadian-American comedian and actor
- 1939 – Tina Turner, American-Swiss singer and actress
- 1939 – Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia
- 1940 - Enrico Bombieri, Italian mathematician
- 1940 - Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2007)
- 1942 - Olivia Cole, American actress
- 1942 - Dang Thuy Tram, Vietnamese doctor (d. 1970)
- 1943 – Bruce Paltrow, American producer and director (d. 2002)
- 1944 – Jean Terrell, American singer
- 1945 – Daniel Davis, American actor
- 1945 – John McVie, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
- 1946 - Mark L. Lester, American director
- 1946 – Art Shell, American football player and coach
- 1947 - Vicki Ann Funk, American botanist (d. 2019)
- 1947 – Susanne Zenor, American actress
- 1948 – Elizabeth Blackburn, Australian-American molecular biologist
- 1948 - Galina Prozumenshchikova, Soviet-Russian swimmer (d. 2015)
- 1948 – Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (d. 1995)
- 1948 – Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
- 1948 – Claes Elfsberg, Swedish television presenter
- 1949 – Vincent A. Mahler, Political Scientist and professor at Loyola University Chicago
- 1949 – Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1949 - Martin Lee, British singer
- 1949 - Mari Alkatiri, 1st Prime Minister of East Timor
- 1949 - Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer-songwriter
- 1950 – Dieter Burdenski, German footballer
1951 – 1975 change
- 1951 – Cicciolina, Italian actress and politician
- 1951 - Sulejman Tihic, Bosnia and Herzegovina politician (d. 2014)
- 1952 - Wendy Turnbull, Australian tennis player
- 1953 – Hilary Benn, British politician
- 1953 - Shelley Moore Capito, American politician
- 1953 – Harry Carson, American football player
- 1954 – Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (d. 2009)
- 1955 - Gisela Stuart, German-British politician
- 1956 – Dale Jarrett, American race car driver
- 1956 – Keith Vaz, British politician
- 1960 - Delio Rossi, Italian footballer
- 1961 - Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria, Indian-British entrepreneur
- 1961 - Ivory, American professional wrestler
- 1961 - Petr Málek, Czech sport shooter (d. 2019)
- 1962 – Chuck Finley, American baseball pitcher
- 1963 - Mario Elie, American basketball player
- 1963 - Matt Frei, German-born British journalist
- 1964 - Chokri Belaid, Tunisian politician (d. 2013)
- 1964 – Vreni Schneider, Swiss skier
- 1969 – Shawn Kemp, American basketball player
- 1970 – Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
- 1970 - John Amaechi, American-born British basketball player
- 1971 – Ronald "Winky" Wright, American boxer
- 1972 – Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
- 1973 – Peter Facinelli, American actor
- 1975 – DJ Khaled, Palestinian-American musical artist and DJ
From 1976 change
- 1976 – Maven Huffman, American professional wrestler
- 1977 - Ivan Bassi, Italian cyclist
- 1980 - Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer and actor
- 1980 – Aruna Dindane, Ivory Coast footballer
- 1980 - Chris Lintott, English astrophysicist, author and broadcaster
- 1981 – Aurora Snow, American actress
- 1981 – Stephan Andersen, Danish international footballer
- 1981 – Ivan Basso, Italian cyclist
- 1981 – Natasha Bedingfield, British singer
- 1981 - Natalie Gauci, Australian singer
- 1981 - Gina Kingsbury, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 - Keith Ballard, American ice hockey player
- 1982 - Dallas Johnson, Australian rugby player
- 1983 – Chris Hughes, American businessman, co-founder of Facebook
- 1984 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
- 1986 - Trevor Morgan, American actor
- 1990 – Chipmunk, English rapper
- 1990 – Danny Welbeck, English footballer
- 1990 - Rita Ora, Kosovo-born English singer and actress
- 1990 - Avery Bradley, American basketball player
- 1990 - Gabriel Paulista, Brazilian footballer
- 1992 - Louis Ducruet, Monegasque royal
- 1993 - Erena Ono, Japanese singer (AKB48)
- 1996 - Louane Emera, French singer
Deaths change
Up to 1900 change
- 399 - Pope Siricius
- 1252 - Blanche of Castile, Queen of France (b. 1188)
- 1504 – Isabella I of Castile (b. 1451)
- 1518 - Vannozza de Cattanei, Italian mistress to the future-Pope Alexander VI (b. 1442)
- 1688 - Philippe Quinault, French playwright (b. 1635)
- 1717 - Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)
- 1822 - Karl August von Hardenberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1750)
- 1836 – John Loudon MacAdam, Scottish engineer and road builder (b. 1756)
- 1842 - Robert Smith, United States Secretary of State (b. 1757)
- 1851 - Jean-de-Dieu Soult, French general and politician (b. 1769)
- 1855 – Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (b. 1798)
- 1872 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
- 1876 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (b. 1792)
- 1882 - Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian lawyer and politician (b. 1805)
- 1883 – Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist (b. 1797)
1901 – 2000 change
- 1912 - Patriarch Joachim III of Constantinople (b. 1854)
- 1919 - Felipe Angeles, Mexican revolutionary general (b. 1868)
- 1926 - John Browning, American firearms designer and inventor (b. 1855)
- 1930 – Otto Sverdrup, Norwegian explorer (b. 1854)
- 1934 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b. 1866)
- 1938 - Flora Call Disney, mother of Walt Disney (b. 1868)
- 1943 - Edward O'Hare, American pilot (b. 1914)
- 1952 – Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer (b. 1865)
- 1954 – Bill Doak, American baseball player (b. 1891)
- 1956 – Tommy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1905)
- 1959 - Albert Ketèlbey, British composer, pianist and conductor (b. 1875)
- 1961 - Styles Bridges, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1898)
- 1962 - Albert Sarrault, French politician (b. 1872)
- 1963 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (b. 1882)
- 1968 – Arnold Zweig, German writer (b. 1887)
- 1973 – John Rostill, British musician (b. 1942)
- 1977 - Yoshibayama Junnosoke, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1920)
- 1978 - Ford Beebe, American director (d. 1888)
- 1979 - Ove Joensen, Faroese rower and adventurer (b. 1948)
- 1981 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player (b. 1901)
- 1989 - Ahmed Abdallah, President of the Comoros
- 1994 – Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
- 1994 - Arturo Rivera y Damas, Archbishop of San Salvador (b. 1923)
From 2001 change
- 2003 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (b. 1978)
- 2004 - Philippe de Broca, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
- 2005 - Stan Berenstain, American writer (b. 1923)
- 2005 - Mark Craney, American musician (b. 1952)
- 2008 – Edna Parker, American supercentenarian, world's oldest woman at the time of her death (b. 1893)
- 2011 – C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian colonel and politician, President of Biafra (b. 1933)
- 2012 - Joseph Murray, American surgeon and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1919)
- 2013 - Cayetano Re, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1938)
- 2013 - Arik Einstein, Israeli singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1939)
- 2013 - John Galbraith Graham (Araucaria), English crossword compiler and Church of England priest (b. 1921)
- 2013 - Stan Stennett, Welsh entertainer (b. 1925)
- 2014 - Frankie Fraser, English gangster (b. 1923)
- 2014 - Sabah, Lebanese singer and actress (b. 1927)
- 2014 - Gilles Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
- 2014 - Tapan Raychaudhuri, Indian historian (b. 1924)
- 2014 - Angel Tulio Zof, Argentine footballer (b. 1928)
- 2015 - Guy Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1922)
- 2015 - Norbert Gastell, German actor (b. 1929)
- 2016 - Peter Hintze, German politician (b. 1950)
- 2016 - Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Dutch religious leader (b. 1928)
- 2017 - Hou Bo, Chinese photographer (b. 1924)
- 2017 - Armando Hart, Cuban politician (b. 1930)
- 2017 - W. Marvin Watson, American politician (b. 1924)
- 2018 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director (b. 1941)
- 2018 - Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist and animator, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (b. 1961)
- 2018 - Charles Huxtable, British military officer (b. 1931)
- 2018 - Tomás Maldonado, Argentine painter and designer (b. 1922)
- 2018 - Patricia Quintana, Mexican chef and writer (b. 1946)
- 2018 - Leo Schwarz, German Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1931)
- 2019 - Cyrus Chothia, English biochemist (b. 1942)
- 2019 - Howard Cruse, American cartoonist and comic book writer (b. 1941)
- 2019 - Yeshi Dhonden, Tibetan-Indian physician and humanitarian (b. 1927)
- 2019 - James L. Holloway III, American naval admiral and political writer (b. 1922)
- 2019 - Köbi Kuhn, Swiss footballer and coach (b. 1943)
- 2019 - Muiris Mac Conghail, Irish journalist, writer, broadcaster, poet and filmmaker (b. 1941)
- 2019 - Bruno Nicolè, Italian footballer (b. 1940)
- 2019 - Gerald Regan, Canadian politician, 19th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1928)
- 2019 - Gary Rhodes, English chef (b. 1960)