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1935

Alain Delon

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Famous births33

AD 30 · 1995 yrs

Nerva

Nerva (born Marcus Cocceius Nerva; 8 November 30 – 27 January 98) was a Roman emperor from AD 96 to 98. Nerva became emperor when aged almost 66, after a lifetime of imperial service under Nero and the succeeding rulers of the Flavian dynasty.

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RoyaltyDied aged 67

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1028 · 997 yrs

William the Conqueror

William the Conqueror (c. 1028 – 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy (as William II) from 1035 onward.

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RoyaltyDied aged 58

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1622 · 403 yrs

Charles X Gustav of Sweden

Charles X Gustav, also Carl X Gustav (Swedish: Karl X Gustav; 8 November 1622 – 13 February 1660), was King of Sweden from 1654 until his death in 1660. He was the son of John Casimir, Count Palatine (Pfalzgraf) of Zweibrücken-Kleeburg, and Catherine of Sweden (daughter of King Charles IX of Sweden).

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RoyaltyDied aged 37

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1656 · 369 yrs

Edmond Halley

Edmond (or Edmund) Halley (8 November 1656 – 25 January 1742) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720.

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ScienceDied aged 85

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1847 · 178 yrs

Bram Stoker

Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish writer, barrister, literary critic, and theatre manager. He was the author of the Gothic horror novel Dracula (1897) and the creator of the fictional character Count Dracula.

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LiteratureDied aged 64

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1847 · 178 yrs

Jean Casimir-Perier

Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier (French:; 8 November 1847 – 11 March 1907) was a French politician who served as President of France from June 1894 to January 1895.

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PoliticsDied aged 59

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1848 · 177 yrs

Gottlob Frege

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (German:; 8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician.

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PhilosophyDied aged 76

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1869 · 156 yrs

Zinaida Gippius

Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (Russian: Зинаида Николаевна Гиппиус, IPA:; 20 November 1869 – 9 September 1945) was a Russian poet, playwright, novelist, editor and religious thinker. She is considered one of the major figures in Russian symbolism.

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LiteratureDied aged 75

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1884 · 141 yrs

Hermann Rorschach

Hermann Rorschach (Swiss Standard German:; 8 November 1884 – 2 April 1922) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. His education in art helped to spur the development of a set of inkblots that were used experimentally to measure various unconscious parts of the subject's personality.

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1893 · 132 yrs

Prajadhipok

Prajadhipok, also known as Rama VII (8 November 1893 – 30 May 1941) was the seventh monarch of the Chakri dynasty and the last king of Siam under the absolute monarchy.

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RoyaltyWould be 132

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1897 · 128 yrs

Dorothy Day

Dorothy May Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.

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ActivismWould be 128

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1900 · 125 yrs

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist.

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LiteratureWould be 125

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Famous deaths11

1226 · 799 yrs

Louis VIII of France

Louis VIII (5 September 1187 – 8 November 1226), nicknamed The Lion (French: Le Lion), was King of France from 1223 to 1226. As a prince, he invaded England on 21 May 1216 and was excommunicated by a papal legate on 29 May 1216.

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RoyaltyDied aged 39

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1674 · 351 yrs

John Milton

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.

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LiteratureDied aged 65

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1793 · 232 yrs

Manon Roland

Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Roland de la Platière (Paris, March 17, 1754 – Paris, November 8, 1793), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, and best known under the name Madame Roland (French pronunciation:) was a French revolutionary, salonnière and writer.

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ActivismDied aged 39

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1890 · 135 yrs

César Franck

César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck (French:; 10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in present-day Belgium. He was born in Liège (which at the time of his birth was part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands).

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MusicDied aged 67

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1894 · 131 yrs

Anton Rubinstein

Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (Russian: Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, romanized: Anton Grigoryevich Rubinshteyn; 28 November 1829 – 20 November 1894) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

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MusicDied aged 64

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1945 · 80 yrs

August von Mackensen

Anton Ludwig Friedrich August Mackensen (ennobled as von Mackensen in 1899; 6 December 1849 – 8 November 1945), was a German field marshal. He commanded Army Group Mackensen during World War I (1914–1918) and became one of the German Empire's most prominent and competent military leaders.

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MilitaryDied aged 95

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1953 · 72 yrs

Ivan Bunin

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ( BOO-neen or BOO-nin; Russian: Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин, IPA:; 22 October 1870 – 8 November 1953) was a Russian writer. He became the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933.

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LiteratureDied aged 83

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1978 · 47 yrs

Norman Rockwell

Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture.

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1986 · 39 yrs

Vyacheslav Molotov

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov (né Skryabin; 9 March 1890 – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary. He was one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet government during the rule of his close ally, Joseph Stalin.

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PoliticsWould be 136

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1998 · 27 yrs

Jean Marais

Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), known professionally as Jean Marais (French:), was a French actor, theatre director, painter, sculptor, visual artist, writer and photographer.

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FilmWould be 112

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2009 · 16 yrs

Vitaly Ginzburg

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS (Russian: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург; 4 October 1916 – 8 November 2009) was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett for their "pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and…

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Events5

1620 · 405 yrs

Battle of White Mountain

The Battle of White Mountain was fought on 8 November 1620 outside Prague in the early stages of the Thirty Years' War. An army backing Frederick V led by Christian of Anhalt was defeated by forces supporting his rival Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, under Bucquoy and Count Tilly.

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War

1923 · 102 yrs

Beer Hall Putsch

The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, was a failed coup d'état led by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, General Erich Ludendorff, and other Kampfbund leaders in Munich, Bavaria, on 8–9 November 1923, during the Weimar Republic.

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War

1942 · 83 yrs

Operation Torch

Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during World War II.

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War

1988 · 37 yrs

1988 United States presidential election

Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1988. The Republican ticket of incumbent vice president George H. W. Bush and Indiana junior senator Dan Quayle defeated the Democratic ticket of Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis and Texas senior senator Lloyd Bentsen.

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Politics

2016 · 9 yrs

2016 United States presidential election

Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 2016.

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