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Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D.
Notable Deaths on November 7
1962 — Eleanor Roosevelt
American humanitarian and politician, 39th First Lady of the United States (born 1884)
November 7 has 113 recorded notable deaths across history, from 691 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
113 source records
691 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on November 7
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1893 Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so. Source
- 1990 Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland. Source
- 1972 United States presidential election: U.S. President Richard Nixon is re-elected in the largest landslide victory at the time. Source
- 1775 John Murray (also known as Lord Dunmore), the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British. Source
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In 2011, he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize.
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Dean Stockwell was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for his starring role in the 1960 film version of D.
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Roy Halladay's lasting durability allowed him to lead the league in complete games seven times, the most of any pitcher whose career began after 1945.
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Tom of Finland has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W.
More major people who died on November 7
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2016
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer-songwriter and poet (born 1934)
Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist.
2021
Dean Stockwell
American actor (born 1936)
Robert Dean Stockwell was an American actor and collage artist, whose career in film and television spanned seven decades.
2017
Roy Halladay
American baseball player (born 1977)
Harry Leroy Halladay III was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies between 1998 and 2013.
1991
Tom of Finland
Finnish illustrator (born 1920)
Touko Valio Laaksonen, known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized erotic art featuring suggestively hypermasculine male characters.
1967
John Nance Garner
American lawyer and politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (born 1868)
John Nance Garner III, known among his contemporaries as "Cactus Jack", was the 32nd vice president of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1941 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1979
Frank O'Connor
American actor, rancher, and painter
Charles Francis O'Connor was an American actor, painter, and rancher and the husband of novelist Ayn Rand. Frank O'Connor performed in several films, typically as an extra, during the silent and early sound eras.
2012
Darrell Royal
American football player and coach (born 1924)
Darrell K Royal was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator.
2020
Jonathan Sacks
former Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth and member of the House of Lords (born 1948)
Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks was an English Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and author. Sacks served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013.
2006
Polly Umrigar
Indian cricketer and manager (born 1926)
Pahlan Ratanji "Polly" Umrigar was an Indian cricketer. He played in the Indian cricket team and played first-class cricket for Bombay and Gujarat.
1996
Claude Ake
Nigerian political scientist and academic (born 1939)
Claude Ake was a Nigerian political scientist from Omoku, in Rivers State, Nigeria.
1639
Thomas Arundell
1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician (born 1560)
Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour was the eldest son of Sir Matthew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, and Margaret Willoughby, the daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, and…
1993
Adelaide Hall
American-English singer, actress, and dancer (born 1901)
Adelaide Louise Hall was an American-born UK-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her career spanned more than 70 years from 1921 until her death.
2009
Juanita Helms
American politician (born 1941)
Juanita Lou Helms was an American politician who served as a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly for five years, and then as the first female borough mayor of Fairbanks from 1985 to 1991.
2013
Manfred Rommel
German lawyer and politician (born 1928)
Manfred Rommel was a German politician belonging to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who served as mayor of Stuttgart from 1974 until 1996.
1862
Bahadur Shah II
Mughal emperor (born 1775)
Bahadur Shah II, also known by his poetic title Bahadur Shah Zafar, was the twentieth and last Mughal emperor and an Urdu poet.
1966
Rube Bressler
American baseball player (born 1894)
Raymond Bloom "Rube" Bressler was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1914 to 1916 and Cincinnati Reds from 1917 to 1920, before being converted to an outfielder…
1964
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
German-Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1863)
Hans Karl August Simon Euler-Chelpin, since 28 July 1884 von Euler-Chelpin, was a German-born Swedish biochemist.
2001
Nida Blanca
Filipino actress (born 1936)
Nida Blanca was a Filipino actress whose career spanned five decades.
2003
Foo Foo Lammar
British drag queen and nightclub owner (born 1937)
Francis Joseph Pearson was a British drag queen and nightclub owner known professionally as Foo Foo Lammar.