On this day: 30 November
Events, births and deaths on 30 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Andrew Schally
- Births · Richard Crenna
- Births · Teresa Gisbert Carbonell
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1016 · Deaths · Edmund II of England
Events · 27
- 383(Julian date)Battle of Fei River — 383 battle where the Former Qin Empire (Di tribe) was decisively defeated by the Eastern Jin (Sima Jin)
- 1700Battle of Narva — 1700 battle of the Great Northern War
- 1707Siege of Pensacola — 1707 siege, part of Queen Anne's War
- 1718Siege of Fredriksten — 1718 battle of the Great Northern War
- 1803Balmis Expedition — research and philanthropic expedition
- 1853Battle of Sinop — battle of the Crimean War, 1853
- 1864Battle of Franklin — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 18721872 Scotland vs England football match — first international football match
- 1939Winter War — 1939–1940 war between the Soviet Union and Finland
- 1941Rumbula massacre — Nazi massacres of Jews in Riga, Latvia, in late 1941
- 1942Battle of Tassafaronga — 1942 naval battle between US Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy warships during the Guadalcanal campaign
- 19471947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine — civil war between the Jewish and Arab communities of Palestine which is the first phase of the 1948 Palestine War
- 1954Sylacauga meteorite — meteorite which broke into pieces over Alabama, one of which hit Ann Elizabeth Fowler Hodges
- 1957Cikini Incident — 1957 failed assassination attempt on Indonesian President Sukarno in Jakarta
- 1962Eastern Air Lines Flight 512 — aviation accident
- 1966Barbados — island nation in the Caribbean
- 1967South Yemen — 1967–1990 state in Western Asia
- 1967Pakistan Peoples Party — social-democratic political party in Pakistan
- 1971seizure of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs — 1971 Iranian seizure of three islands in the Persian Gulf
- 1999BAE Systems — defense, security and aerospace company
- 19991999 Seattle WTO protests — November 1999 anti-globalization protests during the WTO Ministerial Conference in Seattle, Washington, USA
- 2004Lion Air Flight 538 — 2004 aircraft crash in Surakarta, Indonesia
- 2007Atlasjet Flight 4203 — aviation accident
- 20112011 Fa Yuen street fire — fire in Hong Kong
- 20182018 Anchorage earthquake — 2018 earthquake in Anchorage, Alaska
- 2021Oxford High School shooting — shooting that occurred on November 30, 2021
- 2022death and funeral of Jiang Zemin — death and funeral proceedings of former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
Births · 60
- 538(Julian date)Gregory of Tours — Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours
- 1427Casimir IV Jagiellon — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
- 1466(Julian date)Andrea Doria — Admiral of the Republic of Genoa (1466–1560)
- 1508(Julian date)Andrea Palladio — Italian architect (1508–1580)
- 1554(Julian date)Philip Sidney — English poet, courtier, diplomat (1554-1586)
- 1642Andrea Pozzo — painter of the Late Baroque (1642-1709)
- 1667Jonathan Swift — Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
- 1670John Toland — Irish philosopher (1670-1722)
- 1699Christian VI of Denmark — King of Denmark and Norway
- 1719Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha — German princess (1719–1772); Princess of Wales as wife of Frederick, Prince of Wales; mother of George III
- 1756Ernst Chladni — German physicist, mathematician and musician (1756 – 1827)
- 1813Charles-Valentin Alkan — French composer and pianist (1813–1888)
- 1817Theodor Mommsen — German classical scholar and historian (1817–1903)
- 1825William-Adolphe Bouguereau — French academic painter (1825–1905)
- 1835Mark Twain — American author and humorist (1835–1910)
- 1847Afonso Pena — 6th president of Brazil
- 1858Jagadish Chandra Bose — Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
- 1863Andrés Bonifacio — Filipino nationalist and revolutionary hero (1863–1897)
- 1869Nils Gustaf Dalén — Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist (1869–1937)
- 1874Winston Churchill — British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
- 1874Lucy Maud Montgomery — Canadian writer (1874–1942)
- 1885Albert Kesselring — German Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall during World War II (1885–1960)
- 1889Edgar Douglas Adrian — English electrophysiologist (1889-1977)
- 1912Gordon Parks — American photographer, musician, writer and film director (1912–2006)
- 1915Henry Taube — Canadian-born American chemist (1915–2005)
Deaths · 60
- 1016Edmund II of England — King of the English, Wessex dynasty
- 1204(Julian date)Emeric, King of Hungary — Hungarian king (1174-1204)
- 1526Giovanni delle Bande Nere — Italian condottiero (1498-1526)
- 1603William Gilbert — English physician, physicist and natural philosopher (1544-1603)
- 1623Thomas Weelkes — English composer
- 1647Bonaventura Cavalieri — Italian mathematician and astronomer (1598–1647)
- 1647Giovanni Lanfranco — Italian painter (1582-1647)
- 1654John Selden — English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law (1584-1654)
- 1675Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore — English peer (1605–1675)
- 1703Nicolas de Grigny — French composer and organist
- 1718Carl XII of Sweden — The fifth and last emperor of Sweden (1697–1718)
- 1760Friederike Caroline Neuber — German actor, theatre manager, and co-founder of regular German drama (1697–1760)
- 1803François Marie Daudin — French zoologist (1776–1803)
- 1850(Julian date)Germain Henri Hess — Swiss chemist (1802–1850)
- 1863Kamehameha IV — King of the Hawaiian Islands (1834–1863)
- 1892Dimitrios Valvis — Greek politician (1814-1892)
- 1900Oscar Wilde — Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
- 1901Edward John Eyre — British explorer and colonial administrator (1815–1901)
- 1921Hermann Schwarz — German mathematician (1843-1921)
- 1923John Maclean — Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist (1879-1923)
- 1930Mary Harris Jones — Irish-born American labor and community organizer (1837–1930)
- 1933Arthur Currie — Canadian WWI general (1875–1933)
- 1934Hélène Boucher — French pilot
- 1935Fernando Pessoa — Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher (1888–1935); creator of the heteronymic system including Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, and Bernardo Soares
- 1943Etty Hillesum — Jewish diarist (1914-1943)
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