November 7 in History

Bruce Degen, American writer (born 1945)

Frank Borman, American astronaut (born 1928)

Dean Stockwell, American actor (born 1936)

Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth and member of the House of Lords (born 1948)

Janette Sherman, American physician, author, and pioneer in occupational and environmental health (born 1930)

Roy Halladay, American baseball player (born 1977)

Carl Sargeant, Welsh Assembly minister (born 1968)

James R. Thompson Jr., American naval officer and engineer, 5th Director of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (born 1936)

Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet (born 1934)

Janet Reno, American lawyer and government official; Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001) (born 1938)

Jimmy Young, British singer and radio personality (born 1921)

Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, Indian director and poet (born 1970)

Ri Ul-sol, North Korean marshal and politician (born 1921)

Lincoln D. Faurer, American general (born 1928)

Kajetan Kovič, Slovenian journalist and poet (born 1931)

Allen Ripley, American baseball player (born 1952)

John Cole, Irish-English journalist and author (born 1927)

Ian Davies, Australian basketball player and coach (born 1956)

Ron Dellow, English footballer and manager (born 1914)

Joey Manley, American publisher, founded Modern Tales (born 1965)

Jack Mitchell, American photographer and author (born 1925)

Manfred Rommel, German lawyer and politician (born 1928)

Carmen Basilio, American boxer (born 1927)

Kevin O'Donnell, Jr., American author (born 1950)

Glenys Page, New Zealand cricketer (born 1940)

Sandy Pearson, Australian general (born 1918)

Darrell Royal, American football player and coach (born 1924)

Arthur K. Snyder, American lawyer and politician (born 1932)

Joe Frazier, American boxer (born 1944)

Takanosato Toshihide, Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1952)

Juanita Helms, American politician (born 1941)

Earl Dodge, American activist and politician (born 1932)

George W. George, American screenwriter and producer (born 1920)

Aino Kukk, Estonian chess player and engineer (born 1930)

Bryan Pata, American football player (born 1984)

Johnny Sain, American baseball player and coach (born 1917)

Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist and politician, co-founded L'Express (born 1924)

Polly Umrigar, Indian cricketer and manager (born 1926)

Harry Thompson, English author, screenwriter, and producer (born 1960)

Howard Keel, American actor and singer (born 1919)

Foo Foo Lammar, British drag queen and nightclub owner (born 1937)

Rudolf Augstein, German journalist, co-founded Der Spiegel (born 1923)

Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (born 1936)

Anthony Shaffer, English author and playwright (born 1926)

Ingrid of Sweden (born 1910)

Nimalan Soundaranayagam, Sri Lankan educator and politician (born 1950)

Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian publisher and politician, Indian Minister of Defence (born 1910)

Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist and academic (born 1939)

Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian lawyer and politician, Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1918)

Ann Dunham, American anthropologist and academic (born 1942)

Shorty Rogers, American trumpet player and composer (born 1924)

Adelaide Hall, American-English singer, actress, and dancer (born 1901)

Charles Aidman, American stage, film, and television actor (born 1925)

Alexander Dubček, Slovak soldier and politician (born 1921)

Jack Kelly, American actor and politician (born 1927)

Tom of Finland, Finnish illustrator (born 1920)

Nuri Ja'far, Iraqi psychologist and philosopher of education, (born 1914)

Lawrence Durrell, British novelist, poet, dramatist, (born 1912)

Tom Clancy, Irish singer and actor, (born 1924)

Bill Hoest, American cartoonist (born 1926)

Tracy Pew, Australian bass player (born 1957)

Germaine Tailleferre, French pianist and composer (born 1892)

Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (born 1885)

İlhan Erdost, Turkish publisher (born 1944)

Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (born 1930)

Frank O'Connor, American actor, rancher, and painter

Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian surgeon and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Gujarat (born 1887)

Gene Tunney, American boxer and actor (born 1897)

Piero Dusio, Italian footballer, businessman and race car driver (born 1899)

Eric Linklater, Welsh-Scottish author and academic (born 1899)

Gordon Coventry, Australian footballer and coach (born 1901)

Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician, cryptographer, and academic (born 1906)

John Nance Garner, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (born 1868)

Rube Bressler, American baseball player (born 1894)

Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1863)

Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian and politician, 39th First Lady of the United States (born 1884)

Victor McLaglen, English-American boxer and actor (born 1883)

K. Natesa Iyer, Indian-Sri Lankan journalist and politician (born 1887)

Richard Sorge, Azerbaijani-German journalist and spy (born 1895)

Hannah Szenes, Hungarian-Israeli soldier and poet (born 1921)

Frank Pick, English lawyer and businessman (born 1878)

Harold Weber, American golfer and architect (born 1882)

Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (born 1878)

Ashwini Kumar Dutta, Indian educator and philanthropist (born 1856)

Sam Thompson, American baseball player (born 1860)

Hugo Haase, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1863)

Henry Ward Ranger, American painter and academic (born 1858)

Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English biologist and geographer (born 1823)

Jesús García, Mexican railroad brakeman (born 1881)

Heinrich Seidel, German engineer and poet (born 1842)

John MacHale, Irish archbishop (born 1791)

Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (born 1833)

Bahadur Shah II, Mughal emperor (born 1775)

Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister and journalist (born 1809)

Paul Sandby, English painter and cartographer (born 1725)

Elizabeth Barry, English actress (born 1658)

Henry of Nassau-Siegen, German count, officer in the Dutch Army, diplomat for the Dutch Republic (born 1611)

Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English judge and politician, Lord High Treasurer of The United Kingdom (born 1563)

Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician (born 1560)

Cornelis Drebbel, Dutch inventor (born 1572)

Jahangir, Mughal emperor (born 1569)

Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon and educator (born 1546)

Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar (born 1505)

Solomon Luria, Polish rabbi and educator (born 1510)

Maldeo Rathore, Rao of Marwar (born 1511)

Jeanne de Jussie, Swiss nun and writer (born 1503)

Jón Arason, Icelandic bishop and poet (born 1484)

Philip II, Duke of Savoy (born 1443)

Engelbert II of Berg, German archbishop and saint (born 1186)

Uijong of Goryeo, Korean monarch of the Goryeo dynasty (born 1127)

Zhu Shouyin, general of Later Tang

Cen Changqian, official of the Tang dynasty

Ge Fuyuan, official of the Tang dynasty