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1862

Gerhart Hauptmann

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709th

John I of France

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Famous births32

1316 · 709 yrs

John I of France

John I (15 November 1316 – 19 November 1316), called the Posthumous (French: Jean I le Posthume, Occitan: Joan I lo Postume), was the King of France and Navarre, as the posthumous son and successor of Louis X, for the four days he lived in 1316.

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1397 · 628 yrs

Nicholas V

Pope Nicholas V (Latin: Nicolaus V; Italian: Niccolò V; 15 November 1397 – 24 March 1455), born Tommaso Parentucelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 March 1447 until his death in March 1455.

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1607 · 418 yrs

Madeleine de Scudéry

Madeleine de Scudéry (French:; 15 November 1607 – 2 June 1701), often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry, was a French writer. Her works demonstrate such comprehensive knowledge of ancient history that it is suspected she had received instruction in Greek and Latin.

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LiteratureWould be 418

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1708 · 317 yrs

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (15 November 1708 – 11 May 1778) was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768. Historians call him "Chatham" or "Pitt the Elder" to distinguish him from his son William Pitt the Younger, who also served as prime minister.

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1731 · 294 yrs

William Cowper

William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside.

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LiteratureWould be 294

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1738 · 287 yrs

William Herschel

Frederick William Herschel ( HUR-shəl; German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German–British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel.

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1862 · 163 yrs

Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (German:; 15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well.

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LiteratureWould be 163

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1874 · 151 yrs

August Krogh

Schack August Steenberg Krogh (15 November 1874 – 13 September 1949) was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental discoveries within several fields of physiology, and is famous for developing Krogh's principle.

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ScienceWould be 151

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1886 · 139 yrs

René Guénon

René Jean-Marie-Joseph Guénon (15 November 1886 – 7 January 1951), also known as Abdalwahid Yahia (Arabic: عبد الـواحد يحيی; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Yaḥiā), was a French-Egyptian intellectual who wrote on topics ranging from esotericism, "sacred science" and "traditional studies" to symbolism and initiation.

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ScienceWould be 139

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1887 · 138 yrs

Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.

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ArtWould be 138

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1889 · 136 yrs

Manuel II of Portugal

Dom Manuel II (15 November 1889 – 2 July 1932), sometimes known as the Unfortunate (o Desaventurado) or the Patriot (o Patriota), was the last king of Portugal, reigning from 1908 until 1910. Manuel was born in the Palace of Belém, Lisbon, during the reign of his father, Carlos I. He was his third and youngest child.

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RoyaltyWould be 136

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1891 · 134 yrs

Erwin Rommel

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel (pronounced; 15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944), known as The Desert Fox (German: Der Wüstenfuchs, pronounced ), was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) during World War II.

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Famous deaths15

1630 · 395 yrs

Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler (27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German polymath who was an astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and music theorist.

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ScienceWould be 454

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1670 · 355 yrs

John Amos Comenius

John Amos Comenius (Czech: Jan Amos Komenský; German: Johann Amos Comenius; Polish: Jan Amos Komeński; Latinized: Ioannes Amos Comenius; 28 March 1592 – 15 November 1670) was a Moravian philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is considered the father of modern education.

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1787 · 238 yrs

Christoph Willibald von Gluck

Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck (German:; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire at the time, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court in Vienna.

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MusicWould be 312

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1853 · 172 yrs

Maria II of Portugal

Dona Maria II (Maria da Glória Joana Carlota Leopoldina da Cruz Francisca Xavier de Paula Isidora Micaela Gabriela Rafaela Gonzaga de Habsburgo-Lorena e Bragança; 4 April 1819 – 15 November 1853) also known as "the Educator" (Portuguese: a Educadora) or as "the Good Mother" (a Boa Mãe), was Queen of Portugal from 1826…

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1863 · 162 yrs

Frederick VII of Denmark

Frederick VII (Frederik Carl Christian; 6 October 1808 – 15 November 1863) was King of Denmark from 1848 to 1863. He was the last Danish monarch of the older Royal branch of the House of Oldenburg and the last king of Denmark to rule as an absolute monarch.

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1908 · 117 yrs

Empress Dowager Cixi

Empress Dowager Cixi (Mandarin pronunciation:; 29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908) was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who periodically controlled the government of the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent from 1861 until her death in 1908.

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1916 · 109 yrs

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (US: shen-KYAY-vitch, -⁠KYEV-itch; Polish:; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos (Polish:), was a Polish epic writer.

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1917 · 108 yrs

Émile Durkheim

David Émile Durkheim (French: or; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917) was a French sociologist. He formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber.

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1919 · 106 yrs

Alfred Werner

Alfred Werner (12 December 1866 – 15 November 1919) was a Swiss chemist who was a student at ETH Zurich and a professor at the University of Zurich. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes.

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ScienceWould be 159

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1954 · 71 yrs

Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931) and is known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr.

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FilmWould be 148

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1958 · 67 yrs

Tyrone Power

Tyrone Edmund Power III (May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958) was an American actor. From the 1930s to the 1950s, Power appeared in dozens of films, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads.

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1959 · 66 yrs

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a British meteorologist and physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Compton for his invention of the cloud chamber.

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ScienceWould be 157

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Events5

1884 · 141 yrs

Berlin Conference

The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 was a meeting of colonial powers that concluded with the signing of the General Act of Berlin, an agreement regulating European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.

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History

2003 · 22 yrs

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003 was the inaugural edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, held on 15 November 2003 at Forum Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and presented by Camilla Ottesen and Remee. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR).

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Culture

2014 · 11 yrs

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 was the 12th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, held on 15 November 2014 at the Malta Shipbuilding in Marsa, Malta, and presented by Moira Delia. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Public Broadcasting Services (PBS).

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Culture

2019 · 6 yrs

COVID-19 pandemic

The global COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It spread to other parts of Asia and then worldwide in early 2020.

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Disaster

2019 · 6 yrs

COVID-19 pandemic in China

The COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

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