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November 10

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Battle of Varna

581 years ago

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1483

Martin Luther

Died aged 62

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Charles the Bold

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Famous births31

1433 · 592 yrs

Charles the Bold

Charles the Bold (Charles Martin; 10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477), also called the Rash, was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. A member of the House of Valois-Burgundy, he was the only surviving legitimate son of Philip the Good and his third wife, Isabella of Portugal.

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PoliticsDied aged 43

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1483 · 542 yrs

Martin Luther

Martin Luther ( LOO-thər; German:; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and former Augustinian friar. Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs form the basis of Lutheranism.

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ReligionDied aged 62

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1493 · 532 yrs

Paracelsus

Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (10 November 1493 – 24 September 1541), known as Paracelsus, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.

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ScienceDied aged 47

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1620 · 405 yrs

Ninon de Lenclos

Anne "Ninon" de l'Enclos, also spelled Ninon de Lenclos and Ninon de Lanclos (10 November 1620 – 17 October 1705), was a French writer, courtesan and patron of the arts.

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LiteratureDied aged 84

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1668 · 357 yrs

François Couperin

François Couperin (French:; 10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand ("Couperin the Great") to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family.

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MusicDied aged 64

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1697 · 328 yrs

William Hogarth

William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, cartoonist, and satirist.

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ArtDied aged 66

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1728 · 297 yrs

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, playwright, and hack writer. He produced literary works in a variety of genres and is considered one of the most versatile writers of the Georgian era.

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LiteratureDied aged 45

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1759 · 266 yrs

Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German:, short:; 10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered to be one of Germany's most important classical playwrights.

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LiteratureDied aged 45

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1801 · 224 yrs

Vladimir Dal

Vladimir Ivanovich Dal (Russian: Владимир Иванович Даль,; 22 November 1801 – 4 October 1872) was a Russian lexicographer, speaker of many languages, Turkologist, and founding member of the Russian Geographical Society.

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LiteratureDied aged 70

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1893 · 132 yrs

Lazar Kaganovich

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (Russian: Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович; 22 November 1893 – 25 July 1991) was a Soviet politician and one of Joseph Stalin's closest associates. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, Kaganovich worked as a shoemaker and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1911.

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PoliticsWould be 132

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1898 · 127 yrs

Rodion Malinovsky

Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky (Russian: Родио́н Я́ковлевич Малино́вский; Ukrainian: Родіо́н Я́кович Малино́вський, romanized: Rodion Yakovych Malynovskyi; 23 November 1898 – 31 March 1967) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union.

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1918 · 107 yrs

Ernst Otto Fischer

Ernst Otto Fischer (German pronunciation:; 10 November 1918 – 23 July 2007) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry.

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ScienceWould be 107

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Famous deaths12

1549 · 476 yrs

Paul III

Pope Paul III (Latin: Paulus III; Italian: Paolo III; born Alessandro Farnese; 29 February 1468 – 10 November 1549) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 October 1534 to his death, in November 1549.

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ReligionDied aged 81

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1891 · 134 yrs

Arthur Rimbaud

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (UK:, US:; French:; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism.

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LiteratureDied aged 37

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1938 · 87 yrs

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (c. 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and statesman who was the founder of the Republic of Turkey and served as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938.

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1944 · 81 yrs

Wang Jingwei

Wang Zhaoming (Chinese: 汪兆銘; Wade–Giles: Wang Chao-ming; Japanese: Ō Chōmei; 4 May 1883 – 10 November 1944), widely known by his pen name Wang Jingwei (Chinese: 汪精衞; Wade–Giles: Wang Ching-wei; Japanese: Ō Seiei), was a Chinese politician and poet who became leader of the Reorganized National Government of the…

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PoliticsWould be 143

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1981 · 44 yrs

Abel Gance

Abel Gance (French:; born Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon; 25 October 1889 – 10 November 1981) was a French film director, producer, writer, and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927).

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FilmWould be 137

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1982 · 43 yrs

Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982.

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MilitaryWould be 119

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1995 · 30 yrs

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, teacher, television producer, and social rights activist.

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2001 · 24 yrs

Ken Kesey

Kenneth Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.

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LiteratureWould be 91

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2006 · 19 yrs

Jack Palance

Walter Jack Palance ( PAL-əns; born Volodymyr Palahniuk; February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American actor. He gained stardom for his masculine portrayals of men in neo-noirs, crime dramas and westerns.

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2007 · 18 yrs

Norman Mailer

Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer, journalist, and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II.

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2009 · 16 yrs

Robert Enke

Robert Enke (24 August 1977 – 10 November 2009) was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for Mönchengladbach, Benfica, and Barcelona, but made most of his appearances for Bundesliga side Hannover 96.

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2015 · 10 yrs

Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (German:; 23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.

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Events5

1444 · 581 yrs

Battle of Varna

The Battle of Varna took place on 10 November 1444 near Varna in what is today eastern Bulgaria.

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War

1931 · 94 yrs

4th Academy Awards

The 4th Academy Awards were held on November 10, 1931, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, awarding films released between August 1, 1930, and July 31, 1931. Cimarron was the first Western to win Best Picture, and would remain the only to do so until Dances With Wolves won in 1990.

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Culture

1975 · 50 yrs

Treaty of Osimo

The Treaty of Osimo was signed on 10 November 1975 by Italy and Yugoslavia in Osimo, Italy, to definitively divide the Free Territory of Trieste between the two states: the port city of Trieste with a narrow coastal strip to the north-west (Zone A) was given to Italy; a portion of the north-western part of the Istrian…

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Politics

1989 · 36 yrs

Georgian–Ossetian conflict

The Georgian–Ossetian conflict is an ethno-political conflict over Georgia's former autonomous region of South Ossetia, which evolved in 1989 and developed into a war in 1991–1992.

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War

2007 · 18 yrs

¿Por qué no te callas?

¿Por qué no te callas? (Spanish:; English: "Why don't you shut up?") is a phrase that was uttered by King Juan Carlos I of Spain to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, at the 2007 Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, when Chávez was repeatedly interrupting Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's…

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