Thursday 29th of November 1268

183rd Pope Clemens IV aka Guy le Gros dies of unknown causes at the age of 78 in Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.

Sunday 29th of November 1643

Composer Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi dies of unknown causes at the age of 76 in Venezia, Veneto, Italy.

Tuesday 29th of November 1803

Mathematician and physicist Christian Andreas Doppler known for discovering the Doppler Effect is born in Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.

Tuesday 29th of November 1803

Child killer Caleb Adams is executed by hanging at the age of 18 in Windham, Connecticut, United States.

Tuesday 29th of November 1859

Murderer Jesse Harding Pomeroy aka The Teenage Monster is born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States.

Monday 29th of November 1880

Murderer Thomas Wheeler known for the Marshal’s Wick murder is executed by hanging in St Albans Prison, Grimston Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United States.

Tuesday 29th of November 1881

Murderer Percy Lefroy Mapleton is executed by hanging by William Marwood at the age of 21 in Lewes Prison, Lewes, Sussex, United Kingdom.

Mapleton became important in the history of forensics and policing as being the subject of the first police composite picture to appear on a wanted poster and in a newspaper.

Thursday 29th of November 1894

Murderer Thomas Richards is executed by hanging by James Billington at the age of 41 in Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom.

Saturday 29th of November 1924

Composer Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini dies of complications after throat cancer surgery at the age of 66 in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

Monday 29th of November 1926

48-year-old Blanche Myers is raped and strangled by serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer in Portland, Oregon, United States.

Wednesday 29th of November 1933

Pop artist James Rosenquist is born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States.

Friday 29th of November 1940

Singer-songwriter and musician Denny Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty known from The Mamas & the Papas is born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Thursday 29th of November 1951

46-year-old Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess escapes for the fourth time in Arizona State Hospital, 2500 E. Van Buren, Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

Judd was captured about four hours later.

Monday 29th of November 1954

16-year-old Serial killer Ian Brady aka The Moors Murderers (with Myra Hindley) is charged with theft and housebreaking in Glasgow Sheriff Court, 40-50 Wilson Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Brady got off with a minimum sentence and moved on probation to live with his mother in Manchester.

Friday 29th of November 1963

118 die in Trans-Canada Air Lines Douglas DC-8-54CF Flight 831 crash in Ste-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec, Canada.

Monday 29th of November 1971

49-year-old Entrepreneur Theodor Paul 'Theo' Albrecht known for co-founding Aldi supermarket is kidnapped by lawyer Hans Joachim Ollenburg and his accomplice Paul Kron in Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Albrecht was released 17 days later after paying a ransom of seven million Deutsche Mark. His kidnappers were eventually caught by authorities but only half of the money was recovered. Albrecht later successfully claimed the ransom as a tax deductible business expense in court.

Thursday 29th of November 1973

103 die in Taiyo Department Store fire in Taiyo Department Store, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan.

Friday 29th of November 1974

40-year-old Journalist and leader of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof is sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for taking part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Saturday 29th of November 1975

Racecar driver Graham Norman Hill dies in a Piper PA-23-250D Aztec crash at the age of 46 in Golf Course, Arkley, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

On board with Hill were five other members of the Embassy Hill team who all died: manager Ray Brimble, mechanics Tony Alcock and Terry Richards, driver Tony Brise and designer Andy Smallman.

Tuesday 29th of November 1977

19-year-old Lauren Rae Wagner is found raped and strangled by serial killers The Hillside Stranglers in 1217 Cliff Drive, Glendale, California, United States.

Saturday 29th of November 1980

21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'This Week I Was Beaten Up - 2' and 'Eternity Forever - 2' with The Simpletones at Mixage Festival in t'Hooght, Hoogt 4, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.

While the Simpletones played their music I was beaten around by a specially hired professional black heavyweight boxer on a stage without any resistance of me.While the Simpletones played their music I tried over and again to build a tower as high as possible with wooden blocks.

Sunday 29th of November 1981

Noise music band Club Moral play their seventh concert in Usine de Pali-Kao, Rue de Pali-Kao, Paris, XXe, Île-de-France, France.

Sunday 29th of November 1981

Actress Natalie Wood aka Natasha Gurdin dies of accidental drowning and hypothermia at the age of 43 in Santa Catalina Island, California, United States.

Tuesday 29th of November 1983

Serial killer Michael Wolpert aka Der Neu-Isenburger Frauenmörder is arrested while raping an unidentified girl in Frankfurt am Main, Bockenheim, Hessen, Germany.

Friday 29th of November 1985

Noise music band Club Moral play their 50th concert at the Talking Back to the Media festival in Shaffy Theater, Weesperzijde 34III, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Saturday 29th of November 1986

Actor Cary Grant dies of a stroke at the age of 82 in St. Luke's Hospital, Davenport, Iowa, United States.

Sunday 29th of November 1987

115 die in Korean Airlines Boeing 707-3B5C Flight 858 bomb explosion in Bay of Bengal, the Andaman Sea.

On their escape, the bombers were arrested in Bahrain. They were 25-year-old Kim Hyon-Hui aka Ok Hwa and 69-year-old Kim Seung Il aka Shinichi Hachiya, who posed as her father, acting on behalf of Kim Jong-Il and the North Korean government. Kim Seung Il bit a cyanide pill that was hidden in a cigarette and died. Kim Hyun Hui unsuccessfully attempted to do the same, but a Bahraini policewoman snatched the cigarette out of her mouth just as she started to ingest the poison.

Wednesday 29th of November 1989

44-year-old Serial killer Randy Steven Kraft aka The Scorecard Killer is sentenced to death by Judge Donald A. McCartin in Santa Ana, California, United States.

Wednesday 29th of November 1995

Multiple murderer Anthony Joe LaRette is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Potosi Correctional Center, Bonne Terre, Missouri, United States.

Friday 29th of November 1996

Minimal artist Dan Daniel Nicholas Flavin dies of complications of diabetes at the age of 63 in Riverhead, New York, United States.

Sunday 29th of November 1998

18-year-old Mass murderer Seth Stephen Privacky kills his 50-year-old parents Stephen C. and Linda Privacky, his 78-year-old grandfather John J. Privacky and his 19-year-old brother and his girlfriend Jedediah J. Privacky and April A. Boss in 1301 W. Riley Thompson, Muskegon, Michigan, United States.

Thursday 29th of November 2001

Guitarist and singer-songwriter George Harrison known from the Beatles dies of lung cancer at the age of 58 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Thursday 29th of November 2001

Two microphones at a free-mic installation in Witte de With, Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

Friday 29th of November 2002

Noise music band Club Moral play their 90th concert in Imschoot, Burggravenlaan 20, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Monday 29th of November 2010

Film director Mario Monicelli commits suicide by jumping from a window of the hospital at the age of 95 in Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni Addolorata, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Monicelli had been admitted a few days earlier for prostate cancer.

Wednesday 29th of November 2023

Politician and diplomat Henry Alfred Kissinger dies of undisclosed causes at the age of 100 in Kent, Connecticut, United States.

Friday 29th of November 2024

Mail and Performance artist Anna Banana dies of natural causes at the age of 84 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.