November 20

2024 Calendar

November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

811 - Li Fan, Chinese statesman (b. 754)
869 - Edmund of East Anglia (b. 841)
996 - Richard I, Duke of Normandy (b. 938)
1316 - King John I of France (b. November 15, 1316)
1559 – Lady Frances Brandon, mother of Jane Grey, Queen of England (b. 1517)
1591 - Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1540)
1662 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (b. 1614)
1695 - Zumbi, Brazilian King (b. 1655)
1737 – Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
1742 – Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (b. 1661)
1758 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)
1764 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b. 1690)
1778 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)
1856 - Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775)
1894 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829)

1901 – 2000

1907 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
1908 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)
1910 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1828)
1925 – Alexandra of Denmark, Queen of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)
1934 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (b. 1877)
1936 – Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896)
1936 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (b. 1903)
1938 - Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (b. 1895)
1938 – Maud of Wales, Queen of Norway (b. 1869)
1945 – Francis William Aston, British chemist (b. 1877)
1950 - Francesco Gilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)
1952 - Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (b. 1866)
1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian painter (b. 1875)
1975 – Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (b. 1892)
1978 - Giorgio de Chirico, Italian-Greek painter (b. 1888)
1980 – John McEwen, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
1984 - Kristian Djurhuus, 2nd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1895)
1984 - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (b. 1911)
1989 - Leonardo Sciascia, Italian writer (b. 1921)
1998 - Galina Starovoytova, Russian politician (b. 1946)
1999 – Amintore Fanfani, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908)

From 2001

2003 – David Dacko, Central African politician (b. 1930)
2003 - Robert Addie, British actor (b. 1960)
2005 - Chris Whitley, American musician (b. 1960)
2006 – Robert Altman, American director (b. 1925)
2007 – Ian Smith, Rhodesian politician (b. 1919)
2008 - Boris Fyodorov, Russian economist and politician (b. 1958)
2009 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2012 - David O'Brien Martin, American politician (b. 1944)
2013 - Dieter Hildebrandt, German performer (b. 1927)
2013 - Pavel Bobek, Czech singer (b. 1937)
2013 - Sylvia Browne, American author (b. 1936)
2013 - Joseph Paul Franklin, American serial killer (b. 1950)
2014 - Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1926)
2014 - Charlie Hall, American politician (b. 1930)
2014 - Marian Brown, American media personality (b. 1927)
2015 - Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1953)
2015 - Keith Michell, Australian actor (b. 1926)
2015 - Carlos Oroza, Spanish poet (b. 1923)
2016 - Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, President of Greece (b. 1926)
2017 - Terry Glenn, American football player (b. 1974)
2017 - John Gordon, English author (b. 1925)
2017 - Peter Berling, German actor and writer (b. 1934)
2018 - Roy Bailey, American folk singer and guitarist (b. 1935)
2018 - James H. Billington, American academic (b. 1929)
2018 - Eddie C. Campbell, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1939)
2018 - Mac Collins, American politician (b. 1944)
2018 - Shlomo Erell, Israeli military general (b. 1920)
2018 - Anvar Khamei, Iranian sociologist, economist and journalist (b. 1917)
2018 - Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-British chemist and biophysicist (b. 1926)
2019 - Fábio Barreto, Brazilian film director (b. 1957)
2019 - Fred Cox, American football player (b. 1938)
2019 - Mary L. Good, American chemist (b. 1931)
2019 - Amos Lapidot, Israeli fighter pilot (b. 1934)
2019 - John Mann, Canadian actor, singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1962)
2019 - John Martin, American racing driver (b. 1939)
2019 - Wataru Misaka, American basketball player (b. 1923)

Births

1901 – 1950

1902 – Gianpiero Combi, Italian footballer (d. 1956)
1902 - Erik Eriksen, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1972)
1903 - Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina (d. 1997)
1904 - John MacCormick, Scottish lawyer and politician (d. 1961)
1908 - Alistair Cooke, British-born American journalist (d. 2004)
1911 - Jean Shiley, American high jumper (d. 1958)
1912 – Otto von Habsburg, Austrian aristocrat, nobleman and politician (d. 2011)
1913 - Judy Canova, American actress (d. 1986)
1913 - Kostas Choumis, Greek footballer (d. 1981)
1914 - Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer and politician (d. 1993)
1915 – Kon Ichikawa, Japanese movie director (d. 2008)
1916 - Michael J. Ingelido, American air force general (d. 2015)
1917 - Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987)
1917 – Robert Byrd, American politician (d. 2010)
1919 - Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (d. 2012)
1920 - Shlomo Erell, Israeli military general (d. 2018)
1921 - Jim Garrison, American attorney and judge (d. 1992)
1923 – Nadine Gordimer, South African writer and activist, Nobel Prize in Literature winner (d. 2014)
1924 – Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born French-American mathematician (d. 2010)
1924 - Karen Harup, Danish swimmer (d. 2009)
1925 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968)
1925 - Kaye Ballard, American actress and singer (d. 2019)
1925 - Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballerina and choreographer (d. 2015)
1925 - George Barris, American automobile designer (d. 2015)
1927 - Estelle Parsons, American actress
1927 - Wolfgang Schreyer, German writer (d. 2017)
1927 - Mikhail Ulyanov, Russian actor (d. 2007)
1928 - Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor and movie director (d. 2017)
1929 - Don January, American golfer
1930 - Bernard Horsfall, English actor (d. 2013)
1932 - Richard Dawson, British-born American actor and game show host (d. 2012)
1934 - Jimmy Millar, Scottish footballer
1935 – Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (d. 2011)
1936 - Charles R. Larson, American admiral (d. 2014)
1937 - Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian playwright
1937 - Eero Mantyranta, Finnish skier (d. 2013)
1939 – Dick Smothers, American comedian (The Smothers Brothers)
1939 - Copi, Argentine comic artist and author (d. 1987)
1940 - Arieh Warshel, Israeli-American chemist, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1940 - Helma Sanders-Brahms, German movie director, screenwriter, producer and actress (d. 2014)
1941 - Dr. John, American musician (d. 2019)
1941 - Haseena Moin, Pakistani screenwriter and playwright
1942 – Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the United States/soon-to-be 46th President of the United States
1942 - Bob Einstein, American actor (d. 2019)
1942 - Norman Greenbaum, American singer-songwriter
1942 - Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer
1943 – Veronica Hamel, American actress
1944 - Donald DiFrancesco, American politician, 51st Governor of New Jersey
1945 - Nanette Workman, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
1946 - Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow
1946 - Duane Allman, American guitarist (d. 1971)
1947 - Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor
1948 - John R. Bolton, American politician and diplomat
1948 - Barbara Hendricks, American-Swedish soprano
1948 - Richard Masur, American actor
1949 - Ulf Lundell, Swedish singer and musician

1951 – 1975

1951 - David Walters, American politician, 24th Governor of Oklahoma
1954 - Aneka, Scottish folk singer
1954 - Berit Andnor, Swedish politician
1956 – Bo Derek, American actress
1956 - Gareth Chilcott, English rugby player
1957 – Goodluck Jonathan, former President of Nigeria
1957 - Wylie Stateman, American sound editor
1957 - John Eriksen, Danish footballer (d. 2002)
1959 - James P. McGovern, American politician
1959 - Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, German Roman Catholic Bishop, of Limburg
1959 - Diane James, English politician, leader of UKIP for 18 days in 2016
1961 - Tim Harvey, British racing driver
1962 - Gerardo Martino, Argentine footballer and manager
1963 - Timothy Gowers, British mathematician
1963 - Wan Yanhai, Chinese activist
1964 - Doug Ford, Canadian politician, 26th Premier of Ontario
1965 - Yoshiki, Japanese musician, songwriter and producer
1965 - Sen Dog, Cuban rapper
1965 – Mike D, American hip hop musician
1968 - Tommy Asinga, Surinamese track athlete
1970 – Matt Blunt, American politician, former Governor of Missouri
1970 - Melissa Disney, American actress
1970 - Sabrina Lloyd, American actress
1970 - Phife Dawg, American rapper (d. 2016)
1971 – Joel McHale, American actor and comedian
1973 - Neil Hodgson, English motorcycle racer

From 1976

1976 – Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer
1977 - Fábio Júnior Pereira, Brazilian footballer
1978 – Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model
1979 – Dmitri Bulykin, Russian footballer
1980 - Malachy Tallack, Scottish singer-songwriter, journalist and writer
1981 - Carlos Boozer, American basketball player
1981 - Espen Hoff, Norwegian footballer
1981 – Kimberley Walsh, English singer (Girls Aloud)
1982 - Nathan Vetterlein, American voice actor and Internet personality
1984 – Justin Hoyte, English footballer
1985 – Dan Byrd, American actor
1986 - Jared Followill, American musician
1988 - Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor
1988 - Roberto Rosales, Venezuelan footballer
1989 - Eduardo Vargas, Chilean footballer
1989 - Cody Linley, American actor
1993 - Sumire Sato, Japanese singer (AKB48)
1995 - Michael Clifford, Australian singer, 5 Seconds of Summer.
2000 – Connie Talbot, British singer
2002 - Madisyn Shipman, American actress

Deaths

Observances

Earliest day on which the Feast of Christ the King can fall, while November 26 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday before Advent
Revolution Day (Mexico)
Teacher's Day (Vietnam)
Day of National Sovereignty (Argentina)
Black Awareness Day (Brazil)
Universal Children's Day (United Nations)
Transgender Day of Remembrance