On this day: 1 November
Events, births and deaths on 1 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Martha Layne Collins
- Deaths · Carlos Manzo
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Betsy Palmer
- Births · Lou Donaldson
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 34
- 1214(Julian date)Siege of Sinope — 1214 battle during the early part of the Byzantine Empire
- 1570(Julian date)All Saints' Flood — 1570 AD in the Netherlands
- 17551755 Lisbon earthquake — earthquake in 1755
- 1893Battle of Bembezi — 1893 battle of the First Matabele War
- 1897Juventus FC — association football club in Turin, Italy
- 1914Battle of Coronel — naval battle of 1 November 1914 off the coast of central Chile in World War I
- 1918Banat Republic — former country
- 1918Malbone Street Wreck — 1918 rapid transit railroad accident in New York
- 1920Meiji Jingū — Shinto shrine in Tokyo, Japan
- 1922abolition of the Ottoman caliphate — Abolition of the monarchy in Turkey
- 1941Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico — photograph by Ansel Adams
- 1942Matanikau Offensive — 1942 World War II battle on the Solomon Islands
- 1943Battle of Empress Augusta Bay — 1943 naval battle of World War II
- 19441 November 1944 reconnaissance sortie over Japan — 1944 Sortie by US F-13 Superfortress aircraft
- 1949Chinese Academy of Sciences — national academy for natural sciences of China
- 1949Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 — mid-air collision
- 1950attempted assassination of Harry S. Truman — assassination attempt on U.S. President Truman on 1 November 1950
- 1954Algerian War — war between France and the Algerian independence movement from 1954 to 1962
- 1955Vietnam War — armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, from 1955 to 1975
- 1955United Airlines Flight 629 — flight
- 1956Kerala — Indian state
- 1956Karnataka — Indian state
- 1956Andhra Pradesh — state in South India, India
- 1957Mackinac Bridge — suspension bridge connecting Michigan's Lower and Upper Peninsulas
- 1959Rwandan Revolution — period of ethnic violence in Rwanda (1959–1961)
- 1963Arecibo Observatory — observatory located in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
- 19631963 South Vietnamese coup — 1963 military coup in South Vietnam
- 1970Club Cinq-Sept fire — deadly fire in night club
- 19761976 Burundian coup d'état — 1976 coup d'état in Burundi
- 1981Antigua and Barbuda — island sovereign state in the Caribbean Sea
- 1993European Union — political and economic union of 27 European states
- 1993European Community — political organisation formed in 1993 when the European Economic Community was renamed; absorbed into the European Union by the Lisbon Treaty in 2009
- 20092009 Ilyushin Il-76 crash — crash of a Russian MVD Il-76 on 1 November
- 2024Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse — 1 November 2024 disaster in Serbia
Births · 60
- 846(Julian date)Louis the Stammerer — King of West Francia from 877 to 879
- 1339(Julian date)Rudolf IV — Duke of Austria
- 1351(Julian date)Leopold III, Duke of Austria — Co-ruler of Austria, Styria, Carinthia and Tyrol, then sole ruler of Styria, Carinthia and Tyrol
- 1526(Julian date)Catherine Jagellon — Queen of Sweden (1526-1583)
- 1530(Julian date)Étienne de La Boétie — French judge, writer and philosopher (1530–1563)
- 1596Pietro da Cortona — Italian painter and architect of the High Baroque (1596-1669)
- 1636Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux — French poet and critic (1636–1711)
- 1661Louis, Grand Dauphin — Dauphin of France (1661–1711), eldest legitime son and heir apparent (dead before succession) of Louis XIV, King of France, and of María Teresa de Austria, Queen consort of France
- 1757Antonio Canova — Italian Neoclassical sculptor (1757–1822)
- 1762Spencer Perceval — 19th-century prime minister of the United Kingdom (1762–1812)
- 1778Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden — King of Sweden between 1792-1809 (1778–1837)
- 1782F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich — British Prime Minister, politician (1782-1859)
- 1838Dalai Lama 11 Khedrub Gyatso — 11th Dalai Lama (1838–1856)
- 1848Jules Bastien-Lepage — French painter (1848–1884)
- 1864Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine — Grand Duchess of Russia (1864–1918)
- 1871Stephen Crane — American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist
- 1878Carlos Saavedra Lamas — Argentine politician (1878-1959)
- 1880Alfred Wegener — German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
- 1880Sholem Asch — Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language (1880-1957)
- 1886Hermann Broch — Austrian writer (1886-1951)
- 1889Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker — British athlete, politician, Cabinet minister, life peer and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1889–1982)
- 1889Hannah Höch — German artist (1889–1978)
- 1902Nordahl Grieg — Norwegian author (1902–1943)
- 1911Henri Troyat — French Armenian writer
- 1919Hermann Bondi — Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist
Deaths · 60
- 1296(Julian date)Guillaume Durand — French bishop (c. 1230 – 1296)
- 1391Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy — Count of Savoy 1383-1391
- 1399(Julian date)John V, Duke of Brittany — Duke of Brittany
- 1463(Julian date)David II of Trebizond — last Emperor of Trebizond
- 1497(Julian date)Filippo Buonaccorsi — Italian Renaissance humanist
- 1546(Julian date)Giulio Romano — Italian painter and architect (1499–1546)
- 1588Jean Daurat — French writer and scholar (1508-1588)
- 1596Pierre Pithou — French lawyer and scholar (1539-1596)
- 1629Hendrick ter Brugghen — Dutch painter (1588-1629)
- 1676Gisbertus Voetius — Dutch theologian (1589-1676)
- 1700Charles II of Spain — king of Spain, lived (1661-1700)
- 1860Alexandra Feodorovna — empress consort of Russia from 1825 to 1855 (1798–1860)
- 1888Nikolay Przhevalsky — Russian soldier, explorer, & geographer (1839-1888)
- 1894Alexander III of Russia — Emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894
- 1903Theodor Mommsen — German classical scholar and historian (1817–1903)
- 1907Alfred Jarry — French writer (1873–1907)
- 1919Johann Hoffmann — German neurologist (1857–1919)
- 1920Kevin Barry — Irish republican (1902–1920)
- 1925Max Linder — French silent film actor and director (1883–1925)
- 1942Hugo Distler — German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer (1908–1942)
- 1952Dixie Lee — American actress, dancer, and singer (1909–1952)
- 1955Dale Carnegie — American writer and lecturer (1888-1955)
- 1956Pietro Badoglio — Italian Military General Officer and Marshal of the Royal Italian Army from 1916-1943 during both World Wars and Prime Minister of Italy from 1943-1944 (1871-1956)
- 1958Yahya Kemal Beyatlı — Turkish statesperson (1884–1958)
- 1962Ricardo Rodríguez de la Vega — Mexican racing driver
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