| 0 | | Feast of Saint Æthelwine of Athelney, Prince of the West Saxons |
| 0 | | Sadie Hawkins Day |
| 579 | | Consecration of Pope Pelagius II (579-590) |
| 634 | | "Battle of the Euphrates Bridge" - The Persians annihilated a Moslem Arab army |
| 1161 | | Battle of Caishi: A Song fleet defeats a Jin fleet on the Yangtze river |
| 1648 | | Peace of Westphalia |
| 1703 | | The Great Storm of 1703: The Royal Navy lost 15 warships at Milford Haven and Goodwin Sands |
| 1741 | | French General Maurice de Saxe captured Prague from the Hapsburgs -- Learn More |
| 1812 | | Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's troops begin constructing a bridge as they hold off the Russians |
| 1835 | | The Grass Fight: Texians defeat Mexicans outside San Antonio |
| 1861 | | Skirmish at Little Blue, Mo |
| 1862 | | Lincoln meets ". . . the little lady who started this big war," Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| 1863 | | Union Gen. George Meade initiates the abortive Mine Run Campaign, VA (ends Dec 2) |
| 1914 | | Battleship HMS 'Bulwark' explodes at Sheerness, 788 die |
| 1923 | | Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon opened King Tut's tomb |
| 1940 | | Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto |
| 1941 | | the Japanese First Air Fleet departed Tankan Bay, in the Kuriles, bound for Pearl Harbor |
| 1942 | | "Casablanca" premiers at the Hollywood Theatre, NYC |
| 1943 | | the British transport 'Rohna' was sunk in the Mediterranean by a Luftwaffe Henschel Hs 293 guided glide bomb; nearly 1,200 die, including c. 1,050 US troops |
| 1944 | | Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoria |
| 1990 | | Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait |
| 2008 | | Islamist Attack on Mumbai: Terrorists seize several buildings, before all the jihadis are killed or arrested c. 180 citizens and security personnel die |
| 1288 | | Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan (1318-1339) |
| 1810 | | William George Armstrong, 90, later 1st Baron Armstrong, industrialist, founder of Armstrong Whitworth munitions works |
| 1816 | | William Henry Talbot Walker, Maj Gen, C.S.A., kia 1864 |
| 1827 | | Alfred Moore Scales, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1892 |
| 1832 | | Mary Edwards Walker, feminist and physician, Civil War Army contract surgeon, awarded a Medal of Honor, d. 1919 |
| 1853 | | William "Bat" Masterson, gunfighter, sports writer, d. 1921 |
| 1899 | | Maurice Rose, later Maj Gen, kia 1945, the highest ranking American Jewish casualty in WW II |
| 1937 | | Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1), d. 1994 |
| 399 | | Pope St. Siricus (r. 384-399) |
| 1504 | | Isabella I of Castile and Aragon (1474-1504), 53, warrior queen, mother of 'Juana la Loca", friend to Columbus |
| 1651 | | Henry Ireton, Roundhead general in the English Civil War, c. 40 |
| 1727 | | Admiral of the Fleet Edward Russell, Earl of Orford, 70 -- Learn More |
| 1851 | | Marshal-General of France Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, at 82 -- Learn More |
| 1865 | | Spanish Rear Adm. Juan Manuel Pareja, 53, suicide, having lost a ship to the Chileans |
| 1883 | | Sojourner Truth, c. 86, American abolitionist and feminist |
| 1926 | | John M Browning, 71, gunsmith |
| 1928 | | Adm. Reinhard Scheer, who had commanded the German High Sea Fleet at Jutland, at 65 -- Learn More |
| 1970 | | Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., the first black American general, at 93 |
| 2013 | | William Stevenson, 89, sometime RAF pilot, historian ("A Man Called Intrepid," "30 Minutes at Entebbe") |
| 2016 | | Fidel Castro Ruiz, 90, sometime Hollywood bit player, lousy baseballer, Dictator of Cuba (1957-2008) |