Famous Deaths on 25 Nov

Famous Deaths on 25 Nov

1034 - King Malcolm II of Scotland
1120 - William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (b. 1104)
1185 - Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)
1326 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)
1374 - Philip II of Taranto, Titular emperor of Costantinople (b. 1329)
1456 - Jacques CÅ"ur, French merchant
1560 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466)
1626 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)
1686 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (b. 1638)
1694 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)
1700 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (b. 1643)
1748 - Isaac Watts, British hymnwriter (b. 1674)
1755 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (b. 1687)
1785 - Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)
1865 - Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821)
1881 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (b. 1794)
1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)
1885 - King Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)
1885 - Thomas Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)
1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1892)
1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American baseball commissioner (b. 1866)
1947 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)
1948 - Kanbun Uechi, karate master (b. 1877)
1949 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African American entertainer (b. 1878)
1950 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
1950 - Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (b. 1873)
1959 - Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
1961 - Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (b. 1866)
1963 - Alexander Marinesko,captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff, when 10,000 died while the ship sank.
1965 - Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
1968 - Paul Siple, American explorer of the Antarctic. (b. 1908)
1968 - Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (b. 1878)
1970 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b. 1925)
1972 - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. 1886)
1973 - Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (b. 1928)
1974 - Nick Drake, British singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
1974 - U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)
1978 - Elaine Esposito, American woman who hold the record for longest coma (b. 1934)
1981 - Jack Albertson, American actor (b. 1907)
1985 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (b. 1926)
1985 - Franz Hildebrandt, German Theologian(b. 1909)
1987 - Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)
1989 - Alva R. Fitch, American World War II and Korean soldier (b. 1907)
1995 - Léon Zitrone, French journalist and television host (b. 1914)
1995 - Alan Nicholls, English footballer (b. 1973)
1997 - Kamuzu Banda, President of Malawi (b. ca. 1898)
1997 - Barbara, French singer (b. 1930)
1998 - Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)
1998 - Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
2000 - Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1917)
2001 - Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Muslim Sufi, author, spiritual leader (b. 1941)
2002 - Karel Reisz, Czech theater director (b. 1926)
2005 - George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
2005 - Richard Burns, English WRC champion (b. 1971)
2006 - Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
2006 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (b. 1920)
2006 - Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (b. 1931)
2006 - Sean Bell, American shooting victim (b. 1983)
2006 - Phyllis Fraser, American actress and children's book publisher (b. 1916)
2006 - Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (b. 1919)
2007 - Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
311 - Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr