(+) Philosopher and Women’s Rights defender Sor Juana originally Ines de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramirez, is born in San Miguel Mepantla, Mexico.
346 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 November 1667
(+) Writer Jonathan Swift is born in Dublin, Ireland.
239 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 November 1774
(-) Highwayman Jack Rann aka 16-String Jack, is executed by hanging in London, Tyburn Tree, London City of, United Kingdom.
203 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 1810
(+) Gunsmith Oliver Winchester is born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
189 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 November 1824
(-) Forger Henry Fauntleroy Esq. is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in London, Old Bailey, London City of, United Kingdom.
178 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1835
(+) Writer Mark Twain originally Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is born in Florida, Missouri, United States.
139 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1874
(+) Politician Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill is born in Woodstock, United Kingdom.
128 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1885
(-) Wife-Murderer Robert Goodale is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Norwich Castle, United Kingdom.
113 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 1900
(-) Writer Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde dies of meningitis at the age of 46 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
105 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1908
(x) 154 Die in coal mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, United States.
95 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 November 1918
(+) Actor Efrem Zimbalist is born in New York, New York, United States.
90 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 1923
(-) Marxist and Labour leader John MacLean dies of pneumonia at the age of 44 in Pollockshaws, Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
"Broken in health, but not in spirit."
88 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1925
(-) Murderer W. R. Lloyd is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon, United States.
77 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1936
(+) Anarchist Abie Abbott Howard Hoffman is born in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 November 1937
(+) Cyclist Tom Simpson is born in Haswell, Durham, United Kingdom.
76 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 30 November 1937
(+) Filmmaker Ridley Scott is born in South Shields, United Kingdom.
73 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 November 1940
(+) Viennese Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler is born in Vienna, Wien, Austria.
72 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 November 1941
(+) War Criminal Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikritieh aka Chemical Ali, is born in Tikrit, Iraq.
67 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 November 1946
(+) SPK and Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Ralf Baptist Friedrich is born in Landsweiler-Reden, Germany.
(-) Artist Francis Picabia dies at the age of 74 in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
58 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 November 1955
(+) Musician Billy Idol originally William Michael Broad, is born in Middlesex, United Kingdom.
57 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 1956
(-) Rapist and murderer James Bowman is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Kentucky State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Kentucky, United States.
56 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 November 1957
(x) Serial Rapist Ted Edward John Louis Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, attacks an unidentified 29-year-old nurse in Monte à l’Abbé, Jersey.
56 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 November 1957
(+) IRA-member Thomas McElwee originally Tomas Mac Giolla Bhuidhe, is born in Bellaghy, Londonderry, Ireland.
51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 1962
(-) Murderer Lowell Lee Andrews is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, United States.
51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 1962
(-) Oskar Seidel is shot dead by Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, in Neuhaus, Sparkasse, Germany.
32 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1981
(-) Jim Griffin is handcuffed and severely beaten up by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Chicago, North Dearborn Street, Illinois, United States.
He survived.
26 YEARS AGO - on Monday 30 November 1987
(-) Writer James Baldwin dies of esophageal cancer at the age of 63 in Saint-Paul de Vence, France.
24 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 November 1989
(-) Director of the Deutsche Bank Alfred Herrhausen is blown to pieces in his armoured Mercedes-Benz by Rote Armee Fraktion at the age of 59 in Bad Homborg, Germany.
24 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 30 November 1989
(x) 37-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion member Verena Becker is released from prison in Willich, Germany.
19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 November 1994
(-) Situationist writer and filmmaker Guy Debord commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 62 in Champot, France.
19 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 30 November 1994
(x) 23-year-old Rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur aka 2Pac, is shot twice in the head, twice in the groin and once in the arm by two unidentified robbers in Manhattan, Quad Recording Studios, New York, United States.
17 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 30 November 1996
(-) Musician Herbert Buckingham Khaury aka Tiny Tim, dies at the age of 64 in Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, United States.
While playing "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" at a Gala Benefit at The Woman's Club of Minneapolis he suffered a heart attack on stage. He was led out by his wife, Susan Marie Gardner, who asked him if he was okay. Tim responded, "No, I'm not!" Those were to be his final words. He collapsed shortly thereafter and was rushed to a hospital where he died after doctors tried to resuscitate him for an hour and fifteen minutes.
16 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 30 November 1997
(-) Poet, novelist and performance artist Kathy Acker dies of breast cancer at the age of 50 in Tijuana, Mexico.
12 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 2001
(-) Murderer John Hardy Rose is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 30 November 2007
(-) Daredevil Evel Robert Craig Knievel dies of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 69 in Clearwater, Florida, United States.
