On this day: 15 November
Events, births and deaths on 15 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Mose Allison
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1916 · Deaths · Henryk Sienkiewicz
- 1917 · Deaths · Émile Durkheim
- 1935 · Births · Mahmoud Abbas
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1028 · Deaths · Konstantinos VIII
- 1037 · Deaths · Odo II, Count of Blois
Events · 30
- 655(Julian date)Battle of the Winwaed — 655 battle
- 1315(Julian date)Battle of Morgarten — 1315 battle during the creation of the Swiss Confederacy
- 1705Battle of Zsibó — battle in Rákóczi War of Independence
- 1864Sherman's March to the Sea — 1864 military campaign of the American Civil War
- 1884Berlin Conference — international conference that regulated the distribution of European colonization and trade in Africa
- 1889First Brazilian Republic — 1889–1930 federal republic in South America
- 1889Republic of the United States of Brazil — the official name of Brazil between 1889 and 1937
- 1899Battle of Chieveley — Armoured train ambush of the Second Boer War
- 1908Belgian Congo — Belgian colony in Central Africa (1908–1960), established after international pressure forced Belgium to annex the Congo Free State following King Leopold II's brutal personal rule; now the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 1920Free City of Danzig — semi-autonomous city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939
- 19221922 Guayaquil general strike — labor dispute in Ecuador
- 19331933 Siamese general election — first legislative election in Thai history
- 1939Battle of South Guangxi — 1939 battle
- 1955Liberal Democratic Party — Japanese political party
- 19551955 System — The period from 1955 to 1993 when the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) maintained dominant party status in Japan
- 1978Icelandic Airlines Flight 001 — Aviation accident
- 1979American Airlines Flight 444 — attempted bombing
- 1985Anglo-Irish Agreement — treaty between Ireland and the United Kingdom seeking to end The Troubles in Northern Ireland
- 1987Continental Airlines Flight 1713 — aviation accident
- 1987Brașov Rebellion — 1987 revolt in Communist Romania
- 1988Palestine — political entity that enjoys incomplete recognition as a state, located in West Asia
- 2000Jharkhand — state in eastern India
- 20002000 ASA Pesada Antonov An-24 crash — Aviation accident
- 2006Al Jazeera English — Qatari international English-language news channel
- 20062006 Kuril Islands earthquake — earthquake in Japan
- 20102010 Shanghai fire — conflagration
- 2017Medicane Euredike — 2017 torrential downpour and deadly flooding in Attiki, Greece
- 2020Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership — 2020 Asia-Pacific free trade agreement
- 20202020 Turkish Grand Prix — Formula One motor race
- 2022Day of Eight Billion — day when the world's population reached 8 billion
Births · 60
- 1316(Julian date)John I of France — King of France in 1316
- 1397(Julian date)Nicholas V — pope of the Catholic Church from 1447 to 1455
- 1498(Julian date)Eleanor of Austria — Queen consort of Portugal and France (1498-1558)
- 1607Madeleine de Scudéry — French writer (1607–1701)
- 1708William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham — Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768 (1708–1778)
- 1738William Herschel — German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
- 1741Johann Kaspar Lavater — Swiss poet (1741-1801)
- 1784Jérôme Bonaparte — Napoleon I's brother (1784–1860)
- 1793Michel Chasles — French mathematician (1793–1880)
- 1852Tevfik Paşa — Khedive of Egypt and Sudan from 1879 to 1892
- 1862Gerhart Hauptmann — German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)
- 1874August Krogh — Danish physiologist (1874–1949)
- 1886René Guénon — French metaphysician (1886-1951)
- 1887
- 1887Marianne Moore — American poet (1887–1972)
- 1891Erwin Rommel — German field marshal (1891-1944)
- 1891W. Averell Harriman — American businessman, politician and diplomat (1891–1986)
- 1895Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia — Grand Duchess of Russia (1895–1918); eldest child of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
- 1897Aneurin Bevan — Welsh politician (1897–1960)
- 1906Curtis LeMay — American general and politician (1906–1990)
- 1907Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg — German aristocrat, army officer and resistance fighter (1907–1944)
- 1922Francesco Rosi — Italian film director (1922–2015)
- 1929Ed Asner — American actor (1929–2021)
- 1930J. G. Ballard — British novelist (1930–2009)
- 1931Mwai Kibaki — 3rd President of Kenya (1931–2022)
Deaths · 60
- 621(Julian date)Malo — Welsh saint who became founder of Saint-Malo in Brittany
- 655(Julian date)Penda of Mercia — 7th-century King of Mercia
- 1028(Julian date)Konstantinos VIII — Byzantine emperor
- 1037(Julian date)Odo II, Count of Blois — French nobleman; Count of Blois
- 1136(Julian date)Leopold III — Margrave of Austria
- 1194(Julian date)Margaret I, Countess of Flanders — Countess suo jure of Flanders (1145-1194)
- 1280(Julian date)Albertus Magnus — German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
- 1379(Julian date)Otto V, Duke of Bavaria — Duke of Bavaria
- 1579Ferenc Dávid — (c.1510–1579) Hungarian noble
- 1594Martin Frobisher — English seaman and privateer (1535–1594)
- 1630Johannes Kepler — German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
- 1670John Amos Comenius — Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
- 1691Aelbert Cuyp — Dutch landscape painter (1620-1691)
- 1706Tsangyang Gyatso — sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet (1683-1706)
- 1712James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton — Scottish nobleman (1658-1712)
- 1787Christoph Willibald von Gluck — opera composer (1714–1787)
- 1794John Witherspoon — Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and Founding Father of the United States (1723–1794)
- 1795Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo — French painter (1719–1795)
- 1837Herman of Alaska — Saint, monk
- 1853Maria II of Portugal — Queen of Portugal (r. 1826–1828; 1834–1853)
- 1908Empress Dowager Cixi — Chinese empress (1835–1908)
- 1910Wilhelm Raabe — German novelist (1831-1910)
- 1916Henryk Sienkiewicz — Polish writer, novelist, journalist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate (1846–1916)
- 1917Émile Durkheim — French sociologist (1858–1917)
- 1919Alfred Werner — Swiss chemist Nobel laureate (1866-1919)
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