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November 28

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Tehran Conference

82 years ago

Born this day

1820

Friedrich Engels

Died aged 74

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907th

Manuel I Komnenos

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Famous births30

1118 · 907 yrs

Manuel I Komnenos

Manuel I Komnenos (Greek: Μανουήλ Κομνηνός, romanized: Manouḗl Komnēnós; 28 November 1118 – 24 September 1180) was a Byzantine emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean.

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RoyaltyDied aged 61

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1489 · 536 yrs

Margaret Tudor

Margaret Tudor (29 November 1489 – 18 October 1541) was Queen of Scotland from 1503 until 1513 as the wife of James IV. She then served as regent of Scotland during her son's minority, and fought to extend her regency.

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RoyaltyDied aged 51

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1628 · 397 yrs

John Bunyan

John Bunyan (1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English writer and nonconformist preacher. He is best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, which also became an influential literary model.

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LiteratureDied aged 59

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1632 · 393 yrs

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Jean-Baptiste Lully (born Giovanni Battista Lulli; 28 or 29 November 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-French composer, dancer and instrumentalist, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style.

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MusicDied aged 54

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1757 · 268 yrs

William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.

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ArtDied aged 69

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1820 · 205 yrs

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels ( ENG-(g)əlz; German:; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist.

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PhilosophyDied aged 74

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1821 · 204 yrs

Nikolay Nekrasov

Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Некра́сов, IPA:, 10 December 1821 – 8 January 1878) was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry made him a hero of liberal and radical circles in the Russian intelligentsia of the…

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LiteratureDied aged 56

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1857 · 168 yrs

Alfonso XII of Spain

Alfonso XII (Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo de Borbón y Borbón; 28 November 1857 – 25 November 1885), also known as El Pacificador (Spanish: the Peacemaker), was King of Spain from 29 December 1874 to his death in 1885.

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RoyaltyDied aged 27

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1880 · 145 yrs

Alexander Blok

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (Russian: Александр Александрович Блок, IPA:; 28 November 1880 – 7 August 1921) was the most well-known Russian lyrical poet during the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

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1881 · 144 yrs

Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig ( ZWYGHE, SWYGHE; German: or Austrian German:; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world.

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1887 · 138 yrs

Ernst Röhm

Ernst Julius Günther Röhm (German:; 28 November 1887 – 1 July 1934) was a German military officer, politician, and a leading member of the Nazi Party.

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1908 · 117 yrs100 Club

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss ( klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; French:; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology.

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Famous deaths15

1680 · 345 yrs

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (UK:, US:; Italian:; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor, architect, painter and city planner. Bernini's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as an uomo universale or Renaissance man.

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ArtDied aged 81

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1859 · 166 yrs

Washington Irving

Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.

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LiteratureDied aged 76

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1870 · 155 yrs

Frédéric Bazille

Jean Frédéric Bazille (French pronunciation:; December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which he placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air.

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ArtDied aged 28

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1872 · 153 yrs

Mary Somerville

Mary Somerville (née Fairfax, formerly Greig; 1780–1872) was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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ScienceDied aged 91

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1921 · 104 yrs

ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (Persian: عبد البهاء, IPA:;, 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921), born ʻAbbás (Persian: عباس, IPA:), was the eldest son of Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Bahá’í Faith, who designated him to be his successor and head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1892 until 1921.

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PhilosophyDied aged 77

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1939 · 86 yrs

James Naismith

James Naismith ( NAY-smith; November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball.

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SportsDied aged 78

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1954 · 71 yrs

Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi (Italian:; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized-American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project.

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1960 · 65 yrs

Richard Wright

Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence.

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1962 · 63 yrs

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

Wilhelmina (Dutch pronunciation:; Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, making her the longest-reigning monarch in Dutch history.

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RoyaltyWould be 146

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1968 · 57 yrs

Enid Blyton

Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer. She remains one of the best-selling children's literature writers of all time.

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1976 · 49 yrs

Rosalind Russell

Catherine Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress, model, comedian, screenwriter, and singer, known for her role as fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), opposite Cary Grant, as well as for her role of catty Sylvia…

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1981 · 44 yrs

Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood (née Zacharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress. She began acting at age four and co-starred at age eight in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

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Events5

1885 · 140 yrs

Serbo-Bulgarian War

The Serbo-Bulgarian War or the Serbian–Bulgarian War (Bulgarian: Сръбско-българска война, Srăbsko-bălgarska voyna, Serbian: Српско-бугарски рат, Srpsko-bugarski rat), a war between the Kingdom of Serbia and the Principality of Bulgaria, erupted on 14 November 1885 and lasted until 28 November 1885.

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War

1918 · 107 yrs

Estonian War of Independence

The Estonian War of Independence, also known as the Estonian Liberation War, and War of Freedom in Estonia, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and its allies, most notably the United Kingdom and Finland, against the Soviet Russian westward offensive of 1918–1919 and the 1919 aggression of the pro–German…

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War

1943 · 82 yrs

Tehran Conference

The Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka) was a strategy meeting of the Allies of World War II, held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943.

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Politics

1979 · 46 yrs

Air New Zealand Flight 901

The Mount Erebus disaster occurred on 28 November 1979 when Air New Zealand Flight 901 (TE901) flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board. Air New Zealand had been operating scheduled Antarctic sightseeing flights since 1977.

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Disaster

2016 · 9 yrs

LaMia Flight 2933

LaMia Flight 2933 was a regularly scheduled charter flight from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, to Medellín, Colombia. On 28 November 2016, the aircraft operating the flight crashed into Mt.

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