Notable Deaths on November 28

Q: Who died on November 28?

Notable people who died on November 28 include: Pope Gregory III, Lady Ma, Adalbero, Margrave Ottokar II of Styria, Owain Gwynedd.

Q: What is Harry Leslie Smith known for?

Harry Leslie Smith, British writer and political commentator (born 1923)

117 people 741 – 2024

November 28 has seen 117 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 741 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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2018 — Harry Leslie Smith

British writer and political commentator (born 1923)

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He grew up in poverty in Yorkshire, served in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, and emigrated to Canada in 1953

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After retiring, Smith wrote his memoirs and about the social history of 20th-century Britain

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He appeared in public at the 2014 Labour Party conference in Manchester, and during the 2015 general election and the 2016 EU membership referendum

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In Canada he made a 2015 "Stand Up for Progress" national tour.

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Harry Leslie Smith was an English writer and political commentator

Pope Gregory III

Pope Gregory III was the bishop of Rome from 11 February 731 to his death on 28 November 741. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by Byzantine iconoclasm and the advance of the Lombards, in…

741

Lady Ma

Chinese noblewoman (born 890)

Lady Ma, formally the Lady Gongmu of Wuyue (吳越國恭穆夫人), was a wife of Qian Yuanguan, the second king of the Chinese state Wuyue of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

939

Adalbero

duke of Carinthia (born 980)

Adalbero of Eppenstein was Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Verona from 1011 or 1012 until 1035.

1039

Margrave Ottokar II of Styria

Ottokar II was Margrave of Styria.

1122

Owain Gwynedd

Welsh king (born 1080)

Owain ap Gruffudd or Owain Gwynedd was King of Gwynedd from 1137 until his death in 1170, succeeding his father Gruffudd ap Cynan. He is known as Owain Gwynedd to distinguish him from the contemporary Powysian ruler,…

1170

Eleanor of Castile (born 1241)

Eleanor of Castile was Queen of England as the first wife of Edward I. She was educated at the Castilian court and also ruled as Countess of Ponthieu in her own right from 1279. After diplomatic efforts to secure her…

1290

Yishan Yining

Zen monk and writer from China who taught in Japan (born 1247)

Yishan Yining was a Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled to Japan. Before monkhood his family name was Hu. He was born in 1247 in Linhai, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China. He was a monk of the Linji school during the Yuan dynasty…

1317

James of the Marches

Franciscan friar

Jacob de Marchia, commonly known in English as Saint James of the Marches, was an Italian Friar Minor, preacher and writer. He was a Papal legate and Inquisitor.

1476

Edward Plantagenet

17th Earl of Warwick (born 1475)

Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick was the son of Isabel Neville and George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, and a potential claimant to the English throne during the reigns of both his uncle, Richard III…

1499

Georg Major

German theologian and educator (born 1502)

Georg Major was a Lutheran theologian of the Protestant Reformation.

1574

Hernando Franco

Spanish composer (born 1532)

Hernando Franco was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, who was mainly active in Guatemala and Mexico.

1585

Jean de Thévenot

French linguist and botanist (born 1633)

Jean de Thévenot was a French traveller in Asia, who wrote extensively about his journeys. He was also a linguist, natural scientist and botanist.

1667

Basil Feilding

2nd Earl of Denbigh, English soldier and politician (born 1608)

Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh was an English diplomat, politician and parliamentarian army officer during the English Civil War.

1675

Leonard Hoar

English minister and academic (born 1630)

Leonard Hoar was an English-born American Congregational minister and educator who served as the third president of Harvard College from 1672 to 1675. His tenure was one of immense disapproval.

1675

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Italian sculptor and painter (born 1598)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor, architect, painter and city planner. Bernini's creative abilities and mastery in a range of artistic arenas define him as a uomo universale or Renaissance man. While a major…

1680

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

Italian painter and architect (born 1606)

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi was an Italian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and architect. He was an accomplished fresco painter of classical landscapes which were popular with leading Roman families.

1680

Athanasius Kircher

German priest, philologist, and scholar (born 1601)

Athanasius Kircher was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Joseph Boscovich and to…

1680

Matsuo Bashō

Japanese poet and scholar (born 1644)

Matsuo Bashō ; born Matsuo Kinsaku , later known as Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa was the most famous Japanese poet of the Edo period. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no…

1694

Giovanni Paolo Colonna

Italian organist, composer, and educator (born 1637)

Giovanni Paolo Colonna was an Italian composer, teacher, organist and organ builder. In addition to being chapel-master and organist of San Petronio Basilica in Bologna, he served prominent members of the courts of…

1695

Anthony Wood

English historian and author (born 1632)

Anthony Wood, who styled himself Anthony à Wood in his later writings, was an English antiquary. He was responsible for a celebrated Hist. and Antiq. of the Universitie of Oxon.

1695

Louis de Buade de Frontenac

French soldier and politician, 3rd Governor General of New France (born 1622)

Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France in North America from 1672 to 1682, and again from 1689 to his death in 1698. He established a number…

1698

Naungdawgyi

Burmese king (born 1734)

Dabayin Min, commonly known as Naungdawgyi, personal name Maung Lauk (မောင်လောက်), was the second king of Konbaung Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar), from 1760 to 1763. He was a top military commander in his father…

1763

William Whipple

American general and politician (born 1730)

William Whipple Jr. was an American Founding Father and signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. He represented New Hampshire as a member of the Continental Congress from 1776 through 1779. He worked…

1785

Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

Prussian-American general (born 1730)

Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand Freiherr von Steuben, also referred to as Baron von Steuben, was a Prussian-born army officer who played a leading role in the American Revolutionary War by reforming the…

1794

Sir James Tylney-Long

7th Baronet, English politician (born 1736)

Sir James Tylney-Long, 7th Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons for 32 years from 1762 to 1794.

1794

Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu

French geologist and academic (born 1750)

Dieudonné Sylvain Guy Tancrède de Gratet de Dolomieu usually known as Déodat de Dolomieu was a French geologist. The mineral and the rock dolomite and the largest summital crater on the Piton de la Fournaise volcano…

1801

Johann Peter Salomon

German violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1745)

Johann Peter Salomon was a German violinist, composer, conductor and musical impresario. Although an accomplished violinist, he is best known for bringing Joseph Haydn to London and for conducting the symphonies that…

1815

Ludger Duvernay

French journalist and politician (born 1799)

Ludger Duvernay, born in Verchères, Quebec, was a printer by profession and published a number of newspapers including the Gazette des Trois-Rivières, the first newspaper in Lower Canada outside of Quebec City and…

1852

Emmanuil Xanthos

Greek activist, co-founded Filiki Eteria (born 1772)

Emmanuil Xanthos was a Greek merchant. He was one of the founders of the Filiki Eteria, a Greek conspiratorial organization which opposed the Ottoman Empire.

1852

Washington Irving

American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian (born 1783)

Washington Irving was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820),…

1859

Frédéric Bazille

French soldier and painter (born 1841)

Jean Frédéric Bazille 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.

1870

Caterina Scarpellini

Italian astronomer and meteorologist (born 1808)

Caterina Scarpellini was an Italian astronomer and meteorologist who discovered a comet and as a meteorologist she established a station in Rome in the 1850s. She published more than fifty notes and reports over twenty…

1873

Orson Hyde

American religious leader, 3rd President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (born 1805)

Orson Hyde was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement and a member of the first Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He was the president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of…

1878

Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos

Portuguese archbishop (born 1837)

Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos was a Portuguese Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa.

1880

Jyotirao Phule

Indian philosopher and activist (born 1827)

Jyotirao Phule, also known as Jyotiba Phule, was an Indian social activist, businessman, anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra.

1890

Sir James Corry

1st Baronet, British politician (born 1826)

Sir James Porter Corry, 1st Baronet was an Irish politician. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1874 to 1891 and an Irish Unionist Alliance MP until his death.

1891

Talbot Baines Reed

English author (born 1852)

Talbot Baines Reed was an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the mid-20th century. Among his best-known work is The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's. He was a regular…

1893

Moses Dickson

African-American abolitionist, soldier, minister, and founder of The Knights of Liberty (born 1824)

Moses Dickson (1824–1901) was an abolitionist, soldier, minister, and founder of the Knights of Liberty, an anti-slavery organization that planned a slave uprising in the United States and helped Black-American enslaved…

1901

Hermann de Pourtalès

Swiss sailor (born 1847)

Count Hermann Alexander de Pourtalès was a Swiss sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

1904

Stanisław Wyspiański

Polish playwright, poet, and painter (born 1869)

Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański was a Polish playwright, painter, poet, and interior and furniture designer. A patriotic writer, he created symbolic national dramas accordant with the artistic premises of the Young…

1907

Walter Benona Sharp

American businessman (born 1870)

Walter Benona Sharp was an American oilman and innovator in drilling techniques.

1912

Mikelis Avlichos

Greek poet and scholar (born 1844)

The term Heptanese school of literature denotes the literary production of the Ionian Islands' literature figures from the late 18th century till the end of the 19th century. The center of this production is considered…

1917

ʻAbdu'l-Bahá

Head of the Baháʼí Faith (born 1844)

ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, born ʻAbbás, 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. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá was later cited as the…

1921

Constantine VI of Constantinople (born 1859)

Ecumenical Patriarch Constantine VI was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 17 December 1924 until his resignation in 22 May 1925, serving as the primus inter pares and spiritual leader of Easter Orthodox…

1930

Erich von Hornbostel

Austrian musicologist and scholar (born 1877)

Erich Moritz von Hornbostel was an Austrian ethnomusicologist, comparative musicologist, and scholar of music. He is remembered for his pioneering work in the field of ethnomusicology, and for the Sachs–Hornbostel…

1935

James Naismith

Canadian-American physician and educator, created basketball (born 1861)

James Naismith was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball.

1939

Aleksander Hellat

Estonian lawyer and politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1881)

Aleksander Hellat was an Estonian politician and a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. He was a member of the Estonian Social Democratic Workers' Party. After Estonia had been annexed by the Soviet Union, Hellat was…

1943

Dwight F. Davis

American tennis player and politician, 49th United States Secretary of War (born 1879)

Dwight Filley Davis Sr. was an American tennis player and politician. He is best remembered as the founder of the Davis Cup international tennis competition. He was the Assistant Secretary of War from 1923 to 1925 and…

1945

Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque

French general (born 1902)

Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque was a Free-French general during World War II. He became Marshal of France posthumously in 1952, and is known in France simply as le maréchal Leclerc or just Leclerc.

1947

Frank Olson

American biologist and chemist (born 1910)

Frank Rudolph Emmanuel Olson was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and an employee of the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) who worked at Camp Detrick in Maryland. At a…

1953

Enrico Fermi

Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)

Enrico Fermi was an Italian–American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project. He won the 1938 Nobel Prize in…

1954

Dirk Jan de Geer

Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1870)

Jonkheer Dirk Jan de Geer was a Dutch politician of the Christian Historical Union. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 8 March 1926 until 10 August 1929, and from 10 August 1939 until 3 September…

1960

Tsunenohana Kan'ichi

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 31st Yokozuna (born 1896)

Tsunenohana Kan'ichi was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Okayama. He was the sport's 31st yokozuna.

1960

Richard Wright

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet (born 1908)

Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908–1960) 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…

1960

K. C. Dey

Indian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1893)

Krishna Chandra Dey, better known as K. C. Dey, was an Indian music director, music composer, musician, singer, actor, and music teacher born in Calcutta. He was S.D. Burman's first musical teacher and mentor. His…

1962

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (born 1880)

Wilhelmina 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, as well as the longest-reigning female monarch…

1962

Enid Blyton

English author and poet (born 1897)

Enid Mary Blyton was an English children's writer. She is one of the best selling and most prolific writers of all time, particularly in the realm of children's literature. Blyton's books have been worldwide bestsellers…

1968

Wasfi al-Tal

Jordanian captain and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Jordan (born 1920)

Wasfi Tal was a Jordanian politician, statesman and military officer. He served as the 15th Prime Minister of Jordan for three separate terms, 1962–63, 1965–67 and 1970 until his assassination in 1971.

1971

Havergal Brian

English composer (born 1875)

William Havergal Brian was an English composer, librettist, and church organist.

1972

Marthe Bibesco

Romanian-French author and poet (born 1886)

Princess Martha Bibescu, also known outside of Romania as Marthe Bibesco, was a Romanian-French writer, socialite, known for her literary work and social involvement in political circles. She spent her childhood at the…

1973

Peder Furubotn

Norwegian Communist and anti-Nazi Resistance leader (born 1890)

Peder Furubotn was a Norwegian cabinetmaker, politician for the Communist Party and resistance member during World War II.

1975

Rosalind Russell

American actress and singer (born 1907)

Catherine Rosalind Russell 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…

1976

Bob Meusel

American baseball player and sailor (born 1896)

Robert William Meusel was an American baseball player. A left and right fielder, he played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for eleven seasons from 1920 through 1930, all but the last for the New York Yankees. He was best…

1977

Antonio Vespucio Liberti

Argentinian businessman (born 1902)

Antonio Vespucio Liberti was a chairman of Club Atlético River Plate. He presided the club four times, becoming the president who was most often in charge of the club, with 20 non-consecutive years in office.

1978

Helen of Greece and Denmark (born 1896)

Helen of Greece and Denmark was the queen mother of Romania during the reign of her son King Michael I (1940–1947). Her humanitarian efforts to save Romanian Jews during World War II led to her being awarded by the…

1982

Christopher George

American actor (born 1929)

Christopher John George was an American television and film actor who starred in the 1960s television series The Rat Patrol. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1967 as Best TV Star for his performance in the…

1983

Choh Hao Li

Chinese-American biologist and chemist (born 1913)

Choh Hao Li was a Chinese-born American biochemist who discovered in 1966 that human pituitary growth hormone (somatotropin) consists of a chain of 256 amino acids. In 1970, he succeeded in synthesizing this hormone,…

1987

Kazuharu Sonoda

Japanese wrestler (born 1956)

Kazuharu Sonoda also known under the ring names Haru Sonoda and Magic Dragon , was a Japanese professional wrestler. He was a former NWA Western States Tag Team Champion, NWA/WWC North American Tag Team Champion with…

1987

Sidney Nolan

Australian-English painter and academic (born 1917)

Sir Sidney Robert Nolan was one of the leading Australian artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of media, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known for his…

1992

Jerry Edmonton

Canadian-American drummer (born 1946)

Gerald Michael Edmonton was a Canadian musician who was the drummer and secondary lead vocalist for the rock band Steppenwolf.

1993

Garry Moore

American comedian, television personality, and game show host (born 1915)

Garry Moore was an American entertainer, comedic personality, game show host, and humorist best known for his work in television. He began a long career with the CBS network starting in radio in 1937. From 1949 through…

1993

Jeffrey Dahmer

American serial killer (born 1960)

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

1994

Buster Edwards

English boxer and criminal (born 1932)

Ronald Christopher "Buster" Edwards was a British criminal who was a member of the gang that committed the 1963 Great Train Robbery. He had also been a boxer, and owned a nightclub and a flower shop.

1994

Jerry Rubin

American businessman and activist (born 1938)

Jerry Clyde Rubin was an American social activist, anti-war leader, and counterculture icon during the 1960s and early 1970s. Despite being known for holding radical views when he was a political activist, he ceased…

1994

Joe Kelly

Irish race car driver (born 1915)

Joseph Michael Kelly was an Irish racing driver and businessman, who entered into the 1950 and 1951 British Grand Prix.

1995

Georges Marchal

French actor (born 1920)

Georges Marchal was a French actor.

1997

Kerry Wendell Thornley

American soldier and author (born 1938)

Kerry Wendell Thornley was an American author. He is known as the co-founder of Discordianism, in which context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst or simply Lord Omar. He and Hill authored the religion's…

1998

Rita Hester

American transgender woman (born 1963)

Rita Hester was a transgender African American woman who was murdered in Allston (Boston), Massachusetts, on November 28, 1998.

1998

Kal Mann

American songwriter (born 1917)

Kal Mann was an American lyricist. He is best known for penning the words to Elvis Presley's "Teddy Bear", plus "Butterfly", a hit for both Charlie Gracie and Andy Williams, and "Let's Twist Again", sung by Chubby…

2001

William Reid

Scottish lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1921)

William Reid was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He earned his Victoria…

2001

Melih Cevdet Anday

Turkish poet and author (born 1915)

Melih Cevdet Anday was a Turkish poet and author whose poetry stands outside the traditional literary movements. He also wrote in many other genres which, over six and a half decades, included eleven collections of…

2002

Ted Bates

English footballer and manager (born 1918)

Edric Thornton Bates MBE was an English professional footballer who played as a forward. He spent the majority of his career at Southampton F.C. as a player, manager, director and president which earned him the…

2003

Antonia Forest

English author (born 1915)

Antonia Forest was the pseudonym of Patricia Giulia Caulfield Kate Rubinstein, an English writer. She wrote 13 books for children, published between 1948 and 1982. Her ten best-known works concern the doings of the…

2003

Mihkel Mathiesen

Estonian engineer and politician (born 1918)

Mihkel Mathiesen was an Estonian statesman.

2003

Marc Lawrence

American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1910)

Marc Lawrence was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. He has also been credited as F. A. Foss, Marc Laurence and Marc C. Lawrence.

2005

Jack Concannon

American football player and actor (born 1943)

John Joseph Concannon Jr. was an American professional football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys, Green Bay Packers, and Detroit Lions. He…

2005

Gudrun Wagner

Prussian director and producer (born 1944)

Gudrun Wagner was the second wife of Wolfgang Wagner, sole director of the Bayreuth Festival since 1967. Her behind-the-scenes influence led her to be considered virtual co-director.

2007

Havaldar Gajender Singh

Indian sergeant (born 1972)

Gajender Singh Bisht was an NSG commando and Havildar (Sergeant) who was killed during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. His act of bravery was honored with the Ashoka Chakra award by the President of India on India's 60th…

2008

Sandeep Unnikrishnan

Indian soldier (born 1977)

Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, AC was an Indian Army officer, who was serving in the 51 Special Action Group of the National Security Guard on deputation. He was killed in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks and was…

2008

Gilles Carle

Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)

Gilles Carle, was a Canadian filmmaker and painter, who was a key figure in the development of a commercial Quebec cinema.

2009

Leslie Nielsen

Canadian-American actor and producer (born 1926)

Leslie William Nielsen was a Canadian-American actor and comedian. With a career spanning 60 years, he appeared in more than 100 films and 150 television programs, portraying more than 220 characters.

2010

Lloyd J. Old

American immunologist and academic (born 1933)

Lloyd John Old was an American medical researcher, and one of the founders of the field of cancer immunology. When Old began his career in 1958, tumor immunology was in its infancy. Today, cancer immunotherapies are a…

2011

Knut Ahnlund

Swedish historian, author, and academic (born 1923)

Knut Emil Ahnlund was a Swedish literary historian, writer, and member of the Swedish Academy, the body that chooses the laureates for the annual Nobel Prize in Literature.

2012

Spain Rodriguez

American illustrator (born 1940)

Manuel Rodriguez, better known as Spain or Spain Rodriguez, was an American underground cartoonist who created the character Trashman.

2012

Franco Ventriglia

American opera singer (born 1922)

Franco Ventriglia was an opera singer who sang bass in every major European opera house during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He returned to the U.S. in 1978, where he continued to perform at venues including Carnegie…

2012

Zig Ziglar

American soldier and author (born 1926)

Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.

2012

Jack Matthews

American author, playwright, and academic (born 1925)

John Harold "Jack" Matthews was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright and former professor. He published 7 novels, 11 story collections, a novella, and 8 volumes of essays. He was an avid book…

2013

Mitja Ribičič

Italian-Slovenian soldier and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1919)

Mitja Ribičič was a Slovenian and Yugoslav communist politician. He was the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia—the only Slovenian to hold the office—from 1969 to 1971.

2013

Jean-Louis Roux

Canadian actor and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1923)

Jean-Louis Roux was a Canadian politician, entertainer and playwright who was briefly the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.

2013

Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman

Austrian-American poet and songwriter (born 1920)

Beyle "Beyltse" Schaechter-Gottesman was a Yiddish poet and songwriter.

2013

Chespirito

Mexican actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1929)

Roberto Mario Gómez y Bolaños, more commonly known by his stage name Chespirito, or "Little Shakespeare", was a Mexican actor, comedian, screenwriter, humorist, director, producer, and author. He is widely regarded as…

2014

Said Akl

Lebanese poet, playwright, and linguist (born 1912)

Said Akl was a Lebanese poet, linguist, philosopher, writer, playwright and language reformer. He is considered one of the most important Lebanese poets of the modern era. He is most famous for his advocacy on behalf of…

2014

Dale Armstrong

Canadian race car driver (born 1941)

Dale Armstrong was a Canadian drag racer and crew chief. After winning 12 National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) and 12 International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) events in the 1970s, including the Pro Comp title in 1975,…

2014

Wayne Bickerton

Welsh songwriter and producer (born 1941)

Wayne Bickerton was a British record producer, songwriter and music business executive. He became well known, with Tony Waddington, as writer and producer of a series of UK chart hits in the 1970s for The Rubettes, and…

2015

Luc Bondy

Swiss director and producer (born 1948)

Luc Bondy was a Swiss theatre and film director.

2015

Gerry Byrne

English-Welsh footballer (born 1938)

Gerald Byrne was an English footballer who spent his entire playing career at Liverpool. He was a member of England's 1966 World Cup winning squad though only received a winner's medal some years later.

2015

Marjorie Lord

American actress (born 1918)

Marjorie Lord was an American television and film actress. She played Kathy "Clancy" O'Hara Williams, opposite Danny Thomas's character on The Danny Thomas Show.

2015

Olene Walker

American lawyer and politician, 15th Governor of Utah (born 1930)

Olene Walker was an American politician who served as the 15th governor of Utah from 2003 to 2005, succeeding the governorship after Mike Leavitt's resignation.

2015

David Prowse

English weight-lifting champion, actor and Green Cross Man (born 1935)

David Charles Prowse was an English actor, bodybuilder, strongman and weightlifter. He portrayed Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy and a manservant in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. In 2015,…

2020

Virgil Abloh

American fashion designer and entrepreneur (born 1980)

Virgil Abloh was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. A trained architect, Abloh founded his own line of luxury streetwear clothing under the moniker Pyrex Vision in 2012, which he transformed into the Milan…

2021

Frank Williams

British founder of Williams Grand Prix Engineering (born 1942)

Sir Francis Owen Garbett Williams was a British businessman, motorsport executive and racing driver. From 1977 to 2020, Williams served as co-founder, team principal and co-owner of Williams in Formula One, winning nine…

2021

Charlie Munger

American businessman and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (born 1924)

Charles Thomas Munger was an American businessman, investor, attorney and philanthropist. He was the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate controlled by Warren Buffett, from 1978 until his death in 2023.…

2023

Prince Johnson

Liberian politician (born 1952)

Prince Yormie Johnson was a Liberian warlord and politician, who served as a senator for Nimba County from 2006 to 2024. Once a rebel leader, Johnson played a prominent role in the First Liberian Civil War.

2024

Ananda Krishnan

Malaysian businessman (born 1938)

Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan, also known by the initialism A. K., was a Malaysian entrepreneur who was a founder and chairperson of Usaha Tegas and founder of Yu Cai Foundation (YCF).

2024

Silvia Pinal

Mexican actress (born 1931)

Silvia Pinal Hidalgo was a Mexican actress. She began her career in theatre before venturing into cinema in 1949. She became one of the greatest female stars of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and, with her performance…

2024

Kioumars Pourhashemi

Iranian military general

Kioumars Pourhashemi, also known by his nom de guerre Haji Hashem, was an Iranian military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). He served as an IRGC military advisor to the Syrian Arab Army during…

2024

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Who died on November 28?

Harry Leslie Smith — British writer, political commentator, and World War II veteran (1923–2018)

FeaturedHarry Leslie Smith

Death year2018

Known forHe grew up in poverty in Yorkshire, served in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, and emigrated to Canada in 1953

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Over seven hundred civilians are massacred by the Ethiopian National Defense Force and Eritrean Army in Aksum, Ethiopia. Wikipedia →

2016

LaMia Flight 2933 crashes near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 of 77 people on board, including members of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense Wikipedia →

2014

Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing at least 120 people. Wikipedia →

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