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November 30

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Winter War

86 years ago

Born this day

1874

Winston Churchill

Died aged 90

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Li Bai

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Famous births27

1476 · 549 yrs

Juan Sebastián Elcano

Juan Sebastián Elcano (Elkano in modern Basque; also known as del Cano; 1486/1487 – 4 August 1526) was a Spanish navigator, ship-owner and explorer best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the ship Victoria on the Magellan expedition to the Spice Islands.

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ExplorationDied aged 49

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1508 · 517 yrs

Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio ( pə-LAH-dee-oh; Italian:; Venetian: Andrea Paładio; Padova, 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic.

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ArtDied aged 71

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1554 · 471 yrs

Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.

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LiteratureDied aged 31

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1667 · 358 yrs

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput.

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LiteratureDied aged 77

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1817 · 208 yrs

Theodor Mommsen

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (German:; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century.

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ScholarshipDied aged 85

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1825 · 200 yrs

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French pronunciation:; 30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905) was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings, he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.

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ArtDied aged 79

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1835 · 190 yrs

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".

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LiteratureDied aged 74

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1858 · 167 yrs

Jagadish Chandra Bose

Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (IPA:; 30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a polymath with interests in biology, physics and writing science fiction.

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ScienceDied aged 78

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1869 · 156 yrs

Nils Gustaf Dalén

Nils Gustaf Dalén (Swedish:; 30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937) was a Swedish engineer and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys."

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ScienceDied aged 68

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1874 · 151 yrs

Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.

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MilitaryDied aged 90

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1874 · 151 yrs

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.

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LiteratureDied aged 67

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1889 · 136 yrs

Edgar Douglas Adrian

Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (30 November 1889 – 4 August 1977) was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. He provided experimental evidence for the all-or-none law of nerves.

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Famous deaths17

AD 762 · 1263 yrs

Li Bai

Li Bai (c. 701 – 762), also known by his courtesy name of Taibai, was a Chinese poet acclaimed as one of the best and most important poets of the Tang dynasty, and even in the whole of Chinese poetry.

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LiteratureDied aged 61

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1603 · 422 yrs

William Gilbert

William Gilbert (24 May 1544? – 30 November 1603), also known as Gilberd, was an English physician, physicist and natural philosopher.

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ScienceDied aged 59

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1718 · 307 yrs

Carl XII of Sweden

Charles XII, sometimes Carl XII (Swedish: Karl XII; 17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 O.S.), was King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718. He belonged to the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, a branch line of the House of Wittelsbach.

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RoyaltyDied aged 36

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1830 · 195 yrs

Pius VIII

Pope Pius VIII (Italian: Pio VIII; born Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Castiglioni; 20 November 1761 – 30 November 1830) was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 31 March 1829 to his death in November 1830.

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ReligionDied aged 69

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1900 · 125 yrs

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s.

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LiteratureDied aged 46

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1930 · 95 yrs100 Club

Mary Harris Jones

Mary G. Harris Jones (baptized August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an American labor organizer, schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist.

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LiteratureDied aged 100

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1935 · 90 yrs

Fernando Pessoa

Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (Portuguese:; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese literature.

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1947 · 78 yrs

Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German and American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch".

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FilmWould be 134

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1989 · 36 yrs

Ahmadou Ahidjo

Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo (24 August 1924 – 30 November 1989) was a Cameroonian politician who was the first president of Cameroon from 1960 until 1982. He was previously the first Prime Minister from the country's independence in January 1960 until May of that same year following the creation of the presidency.

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PoliticsWould be 102

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1994 · 31 yrs

Guy Debord

Guy-Ernest Debord ( də-BOR; French:; 28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International.

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2009 · 16 yrs

Milorad Pavić

Milorad Pavić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Павић, pronounced; 15 October 1929 – 30 November 2009) was a Serbian writer, university professor, translator, literary historian and academic.

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2012 · 13 yrs

Inder Kumar Gujral

Inder Kumar Gujral (4 December 1919 – 30 November 2012) was an Indian diplomat, politician, and independence activist, who served as prime minister of India from April 1997 to March 1998.

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Events5

1700 · 325 yrs

Battle of Narva

The Battle of Narva on 30 November 1700 was an early battle in the Great Northern War. A Swedish relief army under Charles XII of Sweden defeated a Russian siege force three to four times its size.

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War

1853 · 172 yrs

Battle of Sinop

The Battle of Sinop, or the Battle of Sinope, was a naval battle that took place on 30 November 1853 between Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire during the opening phase of the Crimean War (1853–1856). It took place at Sinop, a sea port on the southern shore of the Black Sea (the northern shore of Anatolian Turkey).

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War

1939 · 86 yrs

Winter War

The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.

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War

1947 · 78 yrs

1948 Palestine war

The 1948 Palestine war (30 November 1947 – 10 March 1949) was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine.

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War

2015 · 10 yrs

2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference

The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21 or CMP 11 was held in Paris, France, from 30 November to 12 December 2015.

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