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November 11

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Armistice of Compiègne

107 years ago

Born this day

1821

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Died aged 59

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975th

Henry IV

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Famous births31

1050 · 975 yrs

Henry IV

Henry IV (German: Heinrich IV; 11 November 1050 – 7 August 1106) was Holy Roman Emperor (1084–1105), King of Germany (1054–1105), and King of Italy and Burgundy (1056–1105). A Salian ruler, he was the son of Henry III and Agnes of Poitou.

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RoyaltyDied aged 55

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1474 · 551 yrs

Bartolomé de las Casas

Bartolomé de las Casas, OP (US: lahss KAH-səss; Spanish pronunciation:); 11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish lawyer, clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as a historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman, then became a Dominican friar.

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ScholarshipDied aged 91

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1729 · 296 yrs

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville

Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (French:; 12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a French military officer and explorer.

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ExplorationDied aged 81

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1748 · 277 yrs

Charles IV of Spain

Charles IV (Spanish: Carlos Antonio Pascual Francisco Javier Juan Nepomuceno José Januario Serafín Diego de Borbón y Sajonia; 11 November 1748 – 20 January 1819) was King of Spain and ruler of the Spanish Empire from 1788 to 1808.

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RoyaltyDied aged 70

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1821 · 204 yrs

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881) was a Russian philosopher, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and journalist. He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in both Russian and world literature, and many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces.

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LiteratureDied aged 59

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1863 · 162 yrs

Paul Signac

Paul Victor Jules Signac ( seen-YAHK, French:; 11 November 1863 – 15 August 1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, with Georges Seurat, helped develop the artistic technique Pointillism. A keen sailor, he is best known for his seascapes and views of ports and rivers.

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ArtDied aged 71

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1864 · 161 yrs

Alfred Hermann Fried

Alfred Hermann Fried (Austrian German:; 11 November 1864 – 4 May 1921) was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner (with Tobias Asser) of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911. Fried was also a supporter of Esperanto.

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MediaDied aged 56

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1869 · 156 yrs

Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

Victor Emmanuel III (Italian: Vittorio Emanuele Ferdinando Maria Gennaro di Savoia; 11 November 1869 – 28 December 1947) was King of Italy from 29 July 1900 until his abdication on 9 May 1946.

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RoyaltyDied aged 78

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1875 · 150 yrs

Anatoly Lunacharsky

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (Russian: Анато́лий Васи́льевич Лунача́рский, born Anatoly Aleksandrovich Antonov; 23 November 1875 – 26 December 1933) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Soviet People's Commissar (minister) of Education, as well as an active playwright, critic, essayist, and journalist…

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PoliticsWould be 150

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1882 · 143 yrs

Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden

Gustaf VI Adolf (Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf; 11 November 1882 – 15 September 1973) was King of Sweden from 29 October 1950 until his death in 1973. He was the eldest son of Gustaf V and his wife, Victoria of Baden.

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1885 · 140 yrs

George S. Patton

George Smith Patton Jr. (11 November 1885 – 21 December 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, then the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

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MilitaryWould be 140

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1888 · 137 yrs

Abul Kalam Azad

Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin (11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958), better known as Maulana Azad and sometimes referred to as Abul Kalam Azad, was an Indian writer, activist of the Indian independence movement and statesman.

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Famous deaths10

1751 · 274 yrs

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Julien Offray de La Mettrie (French:; 23 November 1709 – 11 November 1751) was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his 1747 work L'homme machine (Man a Machine).

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ScienceDied aged 41

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1855 · 170 yrs

Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, US also -⁠gor; Danish:; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish philosopher, Christian theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.

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ReligionDied aged 42

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1917 · 108 yrs

Liliʻuokalani

Liliʻuokalani (Hawaiian pronunciation:; Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha; September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917) was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893, in a coup that was led…

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RoyaltyDied aged 79

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1973 · 52 yrs

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (Finnish:; 15 January 1895 – 11 November 1973) was a Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method".

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1976 · 49 yrs

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures.

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2004 · 21 yrs

Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat (c. August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader.

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PoliticsWould be 97

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2005 · 20 yrs

Peter Drucker

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (German:; 19 November 1909 – 11 November 2005) was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory.

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BusinessWould be 116

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2011 · 14 yrs

Svetlana Alliluyeva

Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (née Stalina; 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva.

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2021 · 4 yrs

F. W. de Klerk

Frederik Willem de Klerk (18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician who served as the final apartheid state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996.

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PoliticsWould be 90

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2022 · 3 yrs

Gallagher

Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr. (July 24, 1946 – November 11, 2022), known simply as Gallagher, was an American comedian known for his prop-based and observational style.

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TelevisionWould be 80

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Events5

1606 · 419 yrs

Peace of Zsitvatorok

The Peace of Zsitvatorok (or Treaty of Sitvatorok) was a peace treaty which ended the 13-year Long Turkish War between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy on 11 November 1606. The treaty was part of a system of peace treaties which put an end to the anti-Habsburg uprising of Stephen Bocskai (1604–1606).

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Politics

1918 · 107 yrs

Armistice of Compiègne

The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, at sea, and in the air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany. It was signed in a railroad car in the Compiègne Forest, near the town of Compiègne.

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History

1940 · 85 yrs

Battle of Taranto

The Battle of Taranto, also known as the Raid on Taranto, and Operation Judgement took place on the night of 11/12 November 1940 during the Second World War between British naval forces (Admiral Andrew Cunningham) and Italian naval forces (Admiral Inigo Campioni).

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War

1975 · 50 yrs

Angolan Civil War

The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The war began immediately after Angola became independent from Portugal in November 1975.

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War

2018 · 7 yrs

2018 Brazilian Grand Prix

The 2018 Brazilian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Grande Prêmio Heineken do Brasil 2018) was a Formula One motor race held on 11 November 2018 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo, Brazil.

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