On this day: 7 November
Events, births and deaths on 7 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Lee Tamahori
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Leonard Cohen
- Deaths · Janet Reno
- Deaths · Jimmy Young
100 years ago1926
- Births · Joan Sutherland
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 994 · Births · Ibn Hazm
Events · 28
- 680(Julian date)Third Council of Constantinople — synod
- 1492(Julian date)Ensisheim — Meteorite
- 1659Treaty of the Pyrenees — 1659 border treaty between France and Spain
- 1665(Julian date)The London Gazette — journal of record of the British government
- 1811Battle of Tippecanoe — 1811 battle
- 1825Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy — the murder of Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp
- 1861Battle of Belmont — battle of the American Civil War
- 1885Last Spike — monument in British Columbia, Canada
- 1893Liceu bombing — 1893 attack in Spain
- 1900Battle of Leliefontein — 1900 battle of the Second Boer War
- 19161916 United States presidential election — 33rd quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1917October Revolution — second of two 1917 revolutions in Russia
- 1931Chinese Soviet Republic — East Asian unrecognized protostate (1931–1937) in modern-day Jiangxi province
- 19441944 United States presidential election — 40th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1967Corporation for Public Broadcasting — non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress and funded by the United States federal government to promote public broadcasting
- 19721972 United States presidential election — 47th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 19721972 Sidney Lanier Bridge collapse — 1972 bridge collapse in Brunswick, Georgia, US
- 19821982 Upper Volta coup d'état — 1982 military coup in present-day Burkina Faso
- 19831983 United States Senate bombing — bomb explosion at the United States Senate on November 7, 1983, motivated by United States military involvement in Lebanon and Grenada
- 19871987 Tunisian coup d'état — coup in Tunisia
- 1996ADC Airlines Flight 86 — 1996 aviation accident
- 20002000 United States presidential election — 54th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 20002000 United States Senate election in New York — election for the U.S. Senate
- 2007Jokela school shooting — 2007 School shooting in Tuusula, Finland
- 20102010 Myanmar general election — election in Myanmar
- 20122012 Guatemala earthquake — 7.4 Mw earthquake
- 2015First Xi–Ma Meeting — meeting between China leader Xi Jinping and Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou
- 20232023 Portuguese government corruption investigation — investigation in Portugal
Births · 60
- 630Constans II — Byzantine Emperor from 641 to 668
- 994(Julian date)Ibn Hazm — Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, jurist, philosopher and theologian (994–1064)
- 1186(Julian date)Ögedei Khan — Khan of the Mongol Empire (c.1186-1241) (r. 1229-1241)
- 1598Francisco de Zurbarán — Spanish painter (1598–1664)
- 1728James Cook — British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
- 1818Emil du Bois-Reymond — German physician and physiologist (1818–1896)
- 1832Andrew Dickson White — American politician (1832-1918)
- 1838Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam — French writer (1838–1889)
- 1867
- 1878Lise Meitner — Austrian-Swedish physicist
- 1886Aaron Nimzovich — Latvian-born Danish chess player and theoretician (1886-1935)
- 1888Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman — Indian physicist (1888–1970)
- 1888Nestor Makhno — Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (1888–1934)
- 1891Genrikh Yagoda — Soviet secret police official (1891–1938)
- 1903Konrad Lorenz — Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)
- 1903Dean Jagger — American actor (1903-1991)
- 1913Albert Camus — French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
- 1918Billy Graham — American Baptist evangelist (1918–2018)
- 1926Joan Sutherland — Australian soprano (1926-2010)
- 1927Hiroshi Yamauchi — Japanese businessman (1927–2013)
- 1929Eric Kandel — American neuropsychiatrist
- 1939Barbara Liskov — American computer scientist
- 1940Antonio Skármeta — Chilean writer and ambassador (1940–2024)
- 1941Angelo Scola — Cardinal of the Catholic Church and Archbishop Emeritus of Milan
- 1943Joni Mitchell — Canadian musician
Deaths · 60
- 1173(Julian date)Uijong — the king of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea (1127 – 1173)
- 1225(Julian date)Engelbert II of Berg — Archbishop of Cologne (1185 or 1186–1225)
- 1497(Julian date)Filippo II, Duke of Savoy — duke of Savoy (1438-1497)
- 1550(Julian date)Jón Arason — Roman Catholic bishop
- 1599Gasparo Tagliacozzi — Italian surgeon
- 1633Cornelis Drebbel — Dutch inventor and submarine pioneer
- 1652Henry of Nassau-Siegen — German count, officer and diplomat for the Dutch Republic
- 1713Elizabeth Barry — British actress (1658-1713)
- 1809Paul Sandby — British artist (1725-1809)
- 1837Elijah Parish Lovejoy — American minister, journalist, and abolitionist (1802–1837)
- 1862Bahadur Shah Zafar — 18th and last Mughal Emperor from 1837 to 1857
- 1872Alfred Clebsch — German mathematician (1833–1872)
- 1895Lu Haodong — Chinese revolutionary
- 1901Li Hongzhang — Chinese politician, general and diplomat; governor of Zhili of the late Qing dynasty; Trade Minister of the Beiyang Government (1823–1901)
- 1906Heinrich Seidel — German writer (1842–1906)
- 1913Alfred Russel Wallace — British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913)
- 1919Hugo Haase — German jurist, politician (SPD), and pacifist (1863-1919)
- 1933Harold Weber — Amateur golfer (1882–1933)
- 1944Richard Sorge — Soviet spy in Germany and Japan (1895－1944)
- 1944Hannah Szenes — Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II
- 1944Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne — British aristocrat (1855-1944); father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; maternal grandfather of Elizabeth II
- 1959Victor McLaglen — British-American actor (1886–1959)
- 1962Eleanor Roosevelt — American diplomat and activist, First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1884–1962)
- 1967John Nance Garner — Vice President of the United States from 1933 to 1941
- 1968Alexander Gelfond — Russian mathematician (1906–1968)
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