November 7
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Art and culture
- 1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
Births
- 1838 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
- 1913 - Albert Camus, French writer (d. 1960)
Deaths
- 1713 - Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
- 1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
- 1872 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
- 1906 - Heinrich Seidel, German engineer, poet and writer (b. 1842)
- 1910 (O.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)
- 1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
- 1919 - Hugo Haase, German politician and jurist (b. 1863)
- 1922 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
- 1943 - Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1944 - Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)
- 1944 - Hannah Szenes, Jewish woman who parachuted into Yugoslavia during World War II to help save the Jews of Hungary (b. 1921)
- 1959 - Victor McLaglen, British-born actor (b. 1883
- 1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)
- 1966 - Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
- 1967 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (b. 1868)
- 1968 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
- 1974 - Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
- 1978 - Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion (b. 1897)
- 1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
- 1983 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
- 1991 - Carter Cornelius, American R&B musician (Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose) (b. 1948)
- 1991 - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
- 1992 - Alexander Dubček, Slovakian politician (b. 1921)
- 1992 - Jack Kelly, American actor (b. 1927)
- 1994 - Shorty Rogers, American jazz musician (b. 1924)
- 1996 - Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
- 2000 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
- 2000 - Queen Ingrid, Queen Dowager of Denmark (b. 1910)
- 2001 - Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
- 2002 - Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
- 2004 - Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
- 2005 - Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
- 2006 - Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981)
- 2006 - Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
- 2006 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
Notes
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