Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen (pictured) defeated India's Viswanathan Anand to become world chess champion.
Toy Story, the first feature film created using only computer-generated imagery, was released in theaters in the United States.
The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber of the United States Air Force was first displayed in public at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
Two television stations in Chicago had their broadcast signals hijacked with footage of an unknown person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume.
Mike Tyson defeated Trevor Berbick to win the World Boxing Council title, becoming the youngest heavyweight champion in history.
Two days after the death of Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos I was declared King of Spain according to the law of succession promulgated by Franco.
In Britain's worst mountaineering disaster, five teenage students and one of their leaders were found dead from exposure on the Cairngorm Plateau in the Scottish Highlands.
The Beatles released their eponymous double album, popularly known as the White Album.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 242 in the aftermath of the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas; hours later, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States (pictured).
The crews of three Brazilian warships – all commissioned only months before – and several smaller vessels mutinied against perceived "slavery" being practised in the Brazilian Navy.
The French steamship Ville du Havre collided with a Scottish iron clipper in the North Atlantic and sank with the loss of 226 lives.
The Geisel School of Medicine, the fourth oldest medical school in the United States, was founded by the physician Nathan Smith.
The pirate Blackbeard (pictured) was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of the Province of North Carolina.
Dutch colonial forces on Formosa launched a three-month pacification campaign against Taiwanese indigenous peoples.
Juan Fernández, a Spanish explorer, discovered an archipelago that now bears his name off the coast of Chile.
A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves seven workers dead, including the shooter, and four others injured.
While playing with a toy gun in Cleveland, 12-year-old African American Tamir Rice is killed by a white police officer.
During the Cambodian water festival, a stampede in Koh Pich, Phnom Penh, kills 347 people.
The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.
A Trans World Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-80 and Cessna 441 Conquest II aircraft collide on the runway at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Bridgeton, Missouri, killing two people and injuring eight.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.
NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-33, a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense.
The Max Headroom signal hijacking incident takes place, in which a pirate broadcast interrupts television broadcasts in Chicago.
Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
Japan Air Lines Flight 2 accidentally ditches in San Francisco Bay while on approach to San Francisco International Airport. No one is injured.
UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards.
Five Indian generals are killed in a helicopter crash, due to collision with two parallel lines of telegraph cables.
The Soviet Union launches RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage hydrogen bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov. The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk.
A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashes into Mount Gannet, Alaska, killing all 52 aboard.
World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government.
World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.
World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.
During The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1920–1922), 22 Irish Nationalists are killed in Belfast in one day.
The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.
In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched.
In Birmingham, England, Albert, Prince Consort lays the foundation stone of the Birmingham and Midland Institute.
Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself.
Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.
Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.
The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
Brandon Miller, American basketball player
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Auliʻi Cravalho, American actress and singer
Trey McBride, American football player
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Hailey Bieber, American model
Mackenzie Lintz, American actress
JuJu Smith-Schuster, American football player
Woozi, South Korean singer, songwriter, record producer, member of boy band Seventeen
Katherine McNamara, American actress
Samantha Bricio, Mexican volleyball player
Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor
Nicolás Stefanelli, Argentine footballer
Keiji Tanaka, Japanese figure skater
Natalie Achonwa, Canadian basketball player
Carles Gil, Spanish footballer
Vladislav Namestnikov, Russian ice hockey player
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Jang Dong-woo, South Korean singer and actor
Alden Ehrenreich, American actor
Candice Glover, American singer
Chris Smalling, English footballer
Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer
Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor, singer, and model
Drew Pomeranz, American baseball player
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Martti Aljand, Estonian swimmer
Elias, American wrestler
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Oscar Pistorius, South African sprinter and convicted murderer
Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
Dieumerci Mbokani, Congolese footballer
Mandy Minella, Luxembourgian tennis player
Adam Ottavino, American baseball player
James Roby, English rugby league player
Scarlett Johansson, American actress
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Peter Ramage, English footballer
Xavier Doherty, Australian cricketer
Derrick Johnson, American football player
Yakubu, Nigerian footballer
Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
David Artell, English footballer and coach
Shawn Fanning, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Napster
Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian high jumper
Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer
Colin Best, Australian rugby league player
Kerem Gönlüm, Turkish basketball player
Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
Torsten Frings, German footballer and coach
Regina Halmich, German boxer
Ville Valo, Finnish singer-songwriter
Joe Nathan, American baseball player
David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater and coach
Andrew Walker, Australian rugby player
Olivier Brouzet, French rugby player
Russell Hoult, English footballer
Jay Payton, American baseball player
Cath Bishop, English rower
Kyran Bracken, Irish-English rugby player
Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketer
Chris Fryar, American drummer
Stel Pavlou, English author and screenwriter
Byron Houston, American basketball player
Marjane Satrapi, Iranian author and illustrator
Daedra Charles, American basketball player and coach (died 2018)
Sidse Babett Knudsen, Danish actress
Boris Becker, German tennis player
Tom Elliott, Australian investment banker
Mark Ruffalo, American actor
Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-Belgian speed skater and coach
Mark Pritchard, English politician
Nicholas Rowe, British actor
Michael K. Williams, American actor (died 2021)
Valeriya Gansvind, Estonian chess player
Olga Kisseleva, Russian artist
Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
Apetor, Norwegian YouTuber (died 2021)
Benoit Benjamin, American basketball player
Stephen Geoffreys, American actor
Robbie Slater, English-Australian footballer and sportscaster
Hugh Millen, American football player
Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager
Kennedy Polamalu, Samoan-American football player and coach
Brian Robbins, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Sumi Jo, South Korean soprano
Victor Pelevin, Russian author
Mariel Hemingway, American actress
Stephen Hough, English-Australian pianist and composer
Leos Carax, French actor, director, and screenwriter
Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
Ibrahim Ismail of Johor, Sultan of Johor and the 17th and current Yang Di Pertuan Agong or the King of Malaysia
Jason Ringenberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Donny Deutsch, American businessman and television host
Alan Stern, American engineer and planetary scientist
Lawrence Gowan, Scottish-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
Richard Kind, American actor
George Alagiah, British journalist (died 2023)
James Edwards, American basketball player
Denise Epoté, Cameroonian journalist at the head of the Africa management of TV5 Monde
Paolo Gentiloni, Italian politician, Prime Minister of Italy
Carol Tomcala, Australian sports shooter
Wayne Larkins, English cricketer
Kent Nagano, American conductor
Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (died 1978)
Jim Jefferies, Scottish footballer and manager
Steven Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
Tina Weymouth, American singer-songwriter and bass player
Richard Carmona, American physician and politician, Surgeon General of the United States
Radomir Antić, Serbian footballer and manager (died 2020)
Saroj Khan, Indian dance choreographer, known as "The Mother of Dance/Choreography in India" (died 2020)
Mick Rock, English photographer (died 2021)
Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive
Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter (died 2005)
Nevio Scala, Italian footballer and manager
Salt Walther, American race car driver (died 2012)
Valerie Wilson Wesley, American journalist and author
Buzz Potamkin, American director and producer, founded Buzzco Associates (died 2012)
Kari Tapio, Finnish singer (died 2010)
Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
Billie Jean King, American tennis player
Mushtaq Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer
Guion Bluford, American astronaut
Floyd Sneed, Canadian drummer (died 2023)
Tom Conti, Scottish actor and director
Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Terry Stafford, American singer-songwriter (died 1996)
Jesse Colin Young, American singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2025)
Terry Gilliam, American-English actor, director, animator, and screenwriter
Roy Thomas, American author
Andrzej Żuławski, Polish director and screenwriter (died 2016)
Tom West, American technologist (died 2011)
Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Defence (died 2022)
John Eleuthère du Pont, American convicted murderer (died 2010)
Zenon Jankowski, Polish pilot and military officer
Nikolai Kapustin, Soviet pianist and composer (died 2020)
John Bird, English actor, writer and satirist (died 2022)
Ludmila Belousova, Soviet ice skater (died 2017)
Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (died 1999)
Merv Lincoln, Australian Olympic athlete (died 2016)
Robert Vaughn, American actor and director (died 2016)
Peter Hall, English director (died 2017)
Peter Hurford, English organist and composer (died 2019)
Staughton Lynd, American lawyer, historian, author, and activist (died 2022)
Tim Beaumont, English priest and politician (died 2008)
Mel Hutchins, American basketball player (died 2018)
Steven Muller, American academic administrator (died 2013)
Lew Burdette, American baseball player and coach (died 2007)
Jerrie Mock, American pilot (died 2014)
Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (died 2015)
Les Johnson, Australian politician (died 2015)
Geraldine Page, American actress and singer (died 1987)
Arthur Hiller, Canadian-American director (died 2016)
Dika Newlin, American composer and singer (died 2006)
Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer, designed the AR-15 rifle (died 1997)
Brian Cleeve, Irish writer and broadcaster (died 2003)
Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian, actor, rapper, and screenwriter (died 2004)
Anne Crawford, British actress (died 1956)
Baidyanath Misra, Indian economist (died 2019)
Máire Drumm, Irish politician (died 1976)
Claiborne Pell, American politician (died 2009)
Jon Cleary, Australian author and playwright (died 2010)
Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)
Mick Shann, Australian diplomat (died 1988)
Oswald Morris, British cinematographer (died 2014)
Peter Townsend, British captain and pilot (died 1995)
Benjamin Britten, English pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1976)
Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player (died 2016)
Doris Duke, American heiress and philanthropist (died 1993)
Ralph Guldahl, American golfer (died 1987)
Mary Jackson, American actress (died 2005)
Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist (died 1983)
Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and illustrator (died 1957)
Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)
Fumio Niwa, Japanese author (died 2005)
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (died 1947)
Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American cellist (died 1942)
Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1971)
Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (died 1999)
Hoagy Carmichael, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (died 1981)
Wiley Post, American pilot (died 1935)
Harley Earl, American industrial designer (died 1969)
Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician (died 1991)
Edward Bernays, American publicist (died 1995)
Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, President of France (died 1970)
Harry Pollitt, British politician and trade unionist, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (died 1960)
C. J. "Jack" De Garis, Australian entrepreneur (died 1926)
Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (died 1922)
Endre Ady, Hungarian journalist and poet (died 1919)
Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer, founded FC Barcelona (died 1930)
Emil Beyer, American gymnast and triathlete (died 1934)
Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (died 1955)
Johnny Tyldesley, English cricketer (died 1930)
Howard Brockway, American composer (died 1951)
Harry Graham, Australian cricketer (died 1911)
André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1951)
John Nance Garner, American politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (died 1967)
Ranavalona III of Madagascar (died 1917)
Cyrus Edwin Dallin, American sculptor (died 1944)
Cecil Sharp, English folk song scholar (died 1924)
George Gissing, English novelist (died 1903)
Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1924)
Christian Rohlfs, German painter and printmaker (died 1938)
Katherine Plunket, Irish supercentenarian (died 1932)
George Eliot, English novelist and poet (died 1880)
Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group (died 1892)
Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist, philologist, and scholar (died 1832)
Conradin Kreutzer, German composer (died 1849)
José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran journalist, lawyer, and politician, Foreign Minister of Mexico (died 1834)
Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (died 1818)
Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (died 1811)
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (died 1784)
Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-American politician, Governor of Louisiana (died 1778)
François Colin de Blamont, French composer (died 1760)
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (died 1687)
Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (died 1672)
Elisabeth of France (died 1644)
Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kent (died 1619)
Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian noble (died 1597)
Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, German humanist and physician (died 1585)
Mary of Guise, Queen of Scots (died 1560)
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English nobleman, known as "the Kingmaker" (died 1471)
Serge Vohor, Vanuatuan politician, 4th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (born 1955)
John Y. Brown Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 55th Governor of Kentucky (born 1933)
Otto Hutter, Austrian-born British physiologist (born 1924)
Bob Avakian, American music producer (born 1919)
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian operatic baritone (born 1962)
Tommy Keene, American singer-songwriter (born 1958)
M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian vocalist and singer (born 1930)
Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (born 1949)
Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Bangladeshi politician (born 1948)
Kim Young-sam, South Korean soldier and politician, President of South Korea (born 1927)
Tom Gilmartin, Irish businessman (born 1935)
Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (born 1926)
Alec Reid, Irish priest and activist (born 1931)
Bryce Courtenay, South African-Australian author (born 1933)
Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American author (born 1926)
Sena Jurinac, Bosnian-Austrian soprano (born 1921)
Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (born 1938)
Paul Motian, American drummer and composer (born 1931)
Jean Cione, American baseball player (born 1928)
Frank Fenner, Australian virologist and microbiologist (born 1914)
Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (born 1927)
Verity Lambert, English television producer (born 1935)
Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (born 1917)
Pat Dobson, American baseball player and coach (born 1942)
Bruce Hobbs, American jockey and trainer (born 1920)
Parley Baer, American actor (born 1914)
Rafał Gan-Ganowicz, Polish mercenary and journalist (born 1932)
Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay, Inc. (born 1918)
Theo Barker, English historian and academic (born 1923)
Norman Granz, American record producer, founded Verve Records (born 1918)
Christian Marquand, French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1927)
Stu Ungar, American poker player (born 1953)
Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter (born 1960)
Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (born 1936)
Anthony Burgess, English novelist, playwright, and critic (born 1917)
Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva, Soviet pianist, composer, and teacher (born 1924)
Sterling Holloway, American actor (born 1905)
Tadashi Imai, Japanese director (born 1912)
René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (born 1925)
Luis Barragán, Mexican architect and engineer (born 1902)
Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (born 1910)
Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
Jules Léger, Canadian journalist and politician, Governor General of Canada (born 1913)
Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (born 1901)
Mae West, American stage and film actress (born 1893)
Herbert Wilkinson Ayre, English footballer (born 1882)
Émile Drain, French actor (born 1890)
Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher (born 1894)
John F. Kennedy, American politician, 35th President of the United States (born 1917)
C. S. Lewis, British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian (born 1898)
J. D. Tippit, American police officer (born 1924)
Theodore Kosloff, Russian-American actor, ballet dancer, and choreographer (born 1882)
Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (born 1895)
Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician, German Minister of Justice (born 1889)
Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and astronomer (born 1882)
Lorenz Hart, American composer (born 1895)
Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot (born 1913)
Andy O'Sullivan (Irish republican) died on Hunger Strike
Edward J. Adams, American serial/spree killer and bank robber (born1887)
Francisco Moreno, Argentinian explorer and academic (born 1852)
Jack London, American novelist and journalist (born 1876)
Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shōgun (born 1837)
Walter Reed, American physician and entomologist (born 1851)
Arthur Sullivan, English composer (born 1842)
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, invented the Ferris wheel (born 1859)
Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (born 1823)
Henry Wilson, American politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (born 1812)
Oscar James Dunn, African American activist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1868-1871 (born 1826)
John Stackhouse, English botanist (born 1742)
Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (born 1759)
Robert Clive, English general, politician and first British governor of Bengal (born 1725)
Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (born 1680)
Blackbeard, English pirate (born 1680)
Libéral Bruant, French architect and academic, designed Les Invalides (born c. 1635)
John Tillotson, English archbishop (born 1630)
Ahmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam (born 1590)
John Lambert, English Protestant martyr
Mikhail of Tver (born 1271)
Eric V of Denmark (born 1249)
As-Salih Ayyub, ruler of Egypt
Lothair II of Italy (born 926)
Antipope Felix II
Christian feast day: Cecilia
Christian feast day: Philemon and Apphia
Christian feast day: Pragmatius of Autun
Christian feast day: November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the Albanian Alphabet (Albania and ethnic Albanians)
Good Spouses Day (いい夫婦の日) celebrates married couples in Japan.
Independence Day celebrates the independence of Lebanon from France in 1943.