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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 20th of November 0284 | EVENT | Diocletian is chosen as Roman Emperor. |
| 20th of November 0762 | EVENT | During An Shi Rebellion, Tang Dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptured Luoyang from the rebels. |
| 20th of November 1194 | EVENT | Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI. |
| 20th of November 1407 | EVENT | A truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orleans is agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orleans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy. |
| 20th of November 1695 | EVENT | Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed. |
| 20th of November 1700 | EVENT | Great Northern War: Battle of Narva : King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Tsar Peter the Great at Narva. |
| 20th of November 1739 | EVENT | Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear. |
| 20th of November 1789 | EVENT | New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights. |
| 20th of November 1820 | EVENT | An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story). |
| 20th of November 1845 | EVENT | Argentine Confederation: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado. |
| 20th of November 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government. |
| 20th of November 1910 | EVENT | Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, denouncing President Porfirio Diaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution. |
| 20th of November 1917 | EVENT | World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins : British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back. |
| 20th of November 1917 | EVENT | Ukraine is declared a republic. |
| 20th of November 1923 | EVENT | Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark |
| 20th of November 1936 | EVENT | Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad. |
| 20th of November 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers. |
| 20th of November 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins : United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns. |
| 20th of November 1945 | EVENT | Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg. |
| 20th of November 1947 | EVENT | The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London. |
| 20th of November 1952 | EVENT | Slansky trials : a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia. |
| 20th of November 1962 | EVENT | Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation. |
| 20th of November 1969 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. |
| 20th of November 1974 | EVENT | The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of AT&T and its Bell System. |
| 20th of November 1979 | EVENT | Grand Mosque Seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from French special forces to put down the uprising. |
| 20th of November 1985 | EVENT | Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released. |
| 20th of November 1989 | EVENT | Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million. |
| 20th of November 1991 | EVENT | An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend district of Azerbaijan. |
| 20th of November 1992 | EVENT | In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over ?50 million worth of damage. |
| 20th of November 1993 | EVENT | Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating. |
| 20th of November 1994 | EVENT | The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (localized fighting resumes the next year). |
| 20th of November 1998 | EVENT | A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. |
| 20th of November 1998 | EVENT | The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched. |
| 20th of November 2001 | EVENT | In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday. |
| 20th of November 2003 | EVENT | After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate. |
| 20th of November 2008 | EVENT | After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997. |
| 20th of November 0270 | BIRTHDAY | Maximinus II, Roman Emperor (d. 313) |
| 20th of November 1602 | BIRTHDAY | Otto von Guericke, German physicist (d. 1686) |
| 20th of November 1620 | BIRTHDAY | Peregrine White, first English child born in the Plymouth Colony (d. 1704) |
| 20th of November 1621 | BIRTHDAY | Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (d. 1682) |
| 20th of November 1625 | BIRTHDAY | Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (d. 1654) |
| 20th of November 1660 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741) |
| 20th of November 1750 | BIRTHDAY | Tippu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799) |
| 20th of November 1761 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830) |
| 20th of November 1762 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Andre Latreille, French entomologist (d. 1833) |
| 20th of November 1765 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain (d. 1819) |
| 20th of November 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (d. 1854) |
| 20th of November 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882) |
| 20th of November 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (d. 1901) |
| 20th of November 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919) |
| 20th of November 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Margherita of Italy (d. 1926) |
| 20th of November 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Selma Lagerlof, Swedish author, Nobel laureate (d. 1940) |
| 20th of November 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American judge and baseball commissioner (d. 1944) |
| 20th of November 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Clark Griffith, American baseball manager (d. 1955) |
| 20th of November 1874 | BIRTHDAY | James Michael Curley, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958) |
| 20th of November 1880 | BIRTHDAY | George McBride, American baseball player (d. 1973) |
| 20th of November 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Coakley, American baseball player and coach (d. 1963) |
| 20th of November 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Thomas, American political figure (d. 1968) |
| 20th of November 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982) |
| 20th of November 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953) |
| 20th of November 1892 | BIRTHDAY | James Collip, Canadian biochemist, co-discoverer of insulin (d. 1965) |
| 20th of November 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Chester Gould, American comic strip artist (d. 1985) |
| 20th of November 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Naz?m Hikmet, Turkish poet (d. 1963) |
| 20th of November 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina (d. 1997) |
| 20th of November 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (d. 1981) |
| 20th of November 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Francois, 9th duc de Noailles, French nobelman (d. 2009) |
| 20th of November 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director (d. 1977) |
| 20th of November 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Fran Allison, American television personality (d. 1989) |
| 20th of November 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Alistair Cooke, British-born journalist (d. 2004) |
| 20th of November 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (d. 1944) |
| 20th of November 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-German nobleman |
| 20th of November 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Canova, American actress (d. 1983) |
| 20th of November 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (d. 1992) |
| 20th of November 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Kon Ichikawa, iconic Japanese film director (d. 2008) |
| 20th of November 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Evelyn Keyes, American actress (d. 2008) |
| 20th of November 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Byrd, American politician, longest serving member of the United States Congress (d. 2010) |
| 20th of November 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987) |
| 20th of November 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Garrison, American attorney and judge (d. 1992) |
| 20th of November 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Phyllis Thaxter, American actress |
| 20th of November 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, Nobel laureate |
| 20th of November 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born French mathematician (d. 2010) |
| 20th of November 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968) |
| 20th of November 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer |
| 20th of November 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Hall, English ventriloquist (d. 2007) |
| 20th of November 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Kaye Ballard, American comic actress |
| 20th of November 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Andrzej W. Schally, Polish endocrinologist, Nobel laureate |
| 20th of November 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Estelle Parsons, American actress |
| 20th of November 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Ed "Too Tall" Freeman, American United States Army officer, helicopter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2008) |
| 20th of November 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor |
| 20th of November 1928 | BIRTHDAY | John Disley, Welsh athlete |
| 20th of November 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Don January, American professional golfer |
| 20th of November 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Horsfall, British Actor |
| 20th of November 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host |
| 20th of November 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Don DeLillo, American author |
| 20th of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Kollo, German tenor |
| 20th of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Eero Mantyranta, Finnish cross-country skier |
| 20th of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Laredo, American pianist (d. 2005) |
| 20th of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian playwright |
| 20th of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Smothers, American comedian |
| 20th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian |
| 20th of November 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Haseena Moin, Pakistani television writer and playwright |
| 20th of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the United States |
| 20th of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Greenbaum, American singer |
| 20th of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer |
| 20th of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Paulos Faraj Rahho, Iraqi bishop (d. 2008) |
| 20th of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Veronica Hamel, American actress |
| 20th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Louie Dampier, American basketball player |
| 20th of November 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Monday, American baseball player |
| 20th of November 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Nanette Workman, American-born Canadian singer and actress |
| 20th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Duane Allman, American guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band) (d. 1971) |
| 20th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Cook, American football player |
| 20th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Woodruff, American TV anchor |
| 20th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Walsh, American musician (Eagles, James Gang) |
| 20th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | John R. Bolton, American ambassador |
| 20th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Hendricks, American/Swedish singer |
| 20th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Masur, American actor |
| 20th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Thelma Drake, American politician |
| 20th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Dowd, American film producer |
| 20th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | David Walters, American politician |
| 20th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Rodger Bumpass, American voice actor |
| 20th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | John Van Boxmeer, Canadian hockey player |
| 20th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Berit Andnor, Swedish politician |
| 20th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Dahl, American radio personality |
| 20th of November 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Bo Derek, American actress |
| 20th of November 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Gastineau, American football player |
| 20th of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Craven, English footballer |
| 20th of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (d. 1985) |
| 20th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Rickson Gracie, Brazilian mixed martial artist |
| 20th of November 1959 | BIRTHDAY | James P. McGovern, American politician |
| 20th of November 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Young, American actress |
| 20th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Veronika Bellmann, German politician |
| 20th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Labreche, Canadian actor and television host |
| 20th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Harvey, British racing driver |
| 20th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Karaszewski, American screenwriter |
| 20th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Brickman, American pianist and songwriter |
| 20th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Watson, English footballer |
| 20th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Gowers, British mathematician |
| 20th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ming-Na Wen, Macau actress |
| 20th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Wan Yanhai, Chinese AIDS activist |
| 20th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mike D, American musician (Beastie Boys) |
| 20th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Sen Dog, Cuban rapper (Cypress Hill) |
| 20th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshiki Hayashi, Japanese musician (X Japan) |
| 20th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Vasser, American racing driver |
| 20th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Thompson, American comic book writer and artist |
| 20th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Gilbert, American musician (d. 1996) |
| 20th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Childs, American basketball player |
| 20th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Teoman, Turkish rock singer |
| 20th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Asinga, Surinamese track star |
| 20th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Chew Chor Meng, Singaporean actor |
| 20th of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Callie Thorne, American actor |
| 20th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Blunt, American politician |
| 20th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey Keezer, American jazz pianist |
| 20th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Delia Gonzalez, American boxer |
| 20th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Zaso, American actor |
| 20th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Galloway, American football player |
| 20th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Oppedisano, American guitarist and composer |
| 20th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Joel McHale, American actor and comedian |
| 20th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sheema Kalbasi, Iranian poet |
| 20th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Dierks Bentley, American singer |
| 20th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | J. D. Drew, American baseball player |
| 20th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Bowen, American basketbal player |
| 20th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Davey Havok, American singer (AFI) |
| 20th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Gomez, American actor |
| 20th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dominique Dawes, American gymnast |
| 20th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tusshar Kapoor, Indian actor |
| 20th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Theodoros Velkos, badminton player |
| 20th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Cemal Y?ld?z, Turkish footballer |
| 20th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Thompson, Canadian actor |
| 20th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer |
| 20th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Rudy Charles, American professional wrestling referee |
| 20th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Turner, American singer |
| 20th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Freya Lin, Taiwanese singer |
| 20th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model |
| 20th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Maree Bowden, New Zealand netball player (Silver Ferns) |
| 20th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ericson Alexander Molano, Colombian gospel singer |
| 20th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | James Chambers, English footballer |
| 20th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Boozer, American basketball player |
| 20th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kimberley Walsh, English singer (Girls Aloud) |
| 20th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Margo Stilley, American actress |
| 20th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Tashard Choice, American football player |
| 20th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian racing driver |
| 20th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Hoyte, English footballer |
| 20th of November 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Cruz Alvarez, Argentine racing driver |
| 20th of November 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Byrd, American actor |
| 20th of November 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Yan, Taiwanese singer and actor (Fahrenheit) |
| 20th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Oli Sykes, English musician |
| 20th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jared Followill, American rock musician |
| 20th of November 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor |
| 20th of November 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Cody Linley, American actor |
| 20th of November 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Maiha Ishimura, Japanese pop singer |
| 20th of November 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Talbot, English singer |
| 20th of November 0869 | DEATH | King Edmund of East Anglia (Born 841) |
| 20th of November 1022 | DEATH | Bernward of Hildesheim (Born 993) |
| 20th of November 1316 | DEATH | King John I of France (d. 1316) |
| 20th of November 1437 | DEATH | Thomas Langley, Bishop of Durham (Born 1363) |
| 20th of November 1518 | DEATH | Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer |
| 20th of November 1518 | DEATH | Marmaduke Constable, English soldier |
| 20th of November 1529 | DEATH | Karl von Miltitz, German papal nuncio (Born c. 1490) |
| 20th of November 1591 | DEATH | Christopher Hatton, English politician (Born 1540) |
| 20th of November 1612 | DEATH | John Harington, English writer (Born 1561) |
| 20th of November 1651 | DEATH | Miko?aj Potocki, Polish soldier (Born 1595) |
| 20th of November 1662 | DEATH | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Austrian-born Spanish territorial governor (Born 1614) |
| 20th of November 1695 | DEATH | Zumbi, Brazilian slave (Born 1655) |
| 20th of November 1704 | DEATH | Charles Plumier, French botanist (Born 1646) |
| 20th of November 1737 | DEATH | Queen Caroline of Ansbach, consort of George II of Great Britain (Born 1683) |
| 20th of November 1742 | DEATH | Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (Born 1661) |
| 20th of November 1758 | DEATH | Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (Born 1694) |
| 20th of November 1764 | DEATH | Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (Born 1690) |
| 20th of November 1778 | DEATH | Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (Born 1726) |
| 20th of November 1856 | DEATH | Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (Born 1775) |
| 20th of November 1894 | DEATH | Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (Born 1829) |
| 20th of November 1908 | DEATH | Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (Born 1868) |
| 20th of November 1910 | DEATH | Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Born 1828) |
| 20th of November 1925 | DEATH | Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (Born 1844) |
| 20th of November 1934 | DEATH | Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (Born 1872) |
| 20th of November 1936 | DEATH | Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (Born 1896) |
| 20th of November 1936 | DEATH | Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (Born 1903) |
| 20th of November 1938 | DEATH | Maud, Queen of Norway (Born 1869) |
| 20th of November 1938 | DEATH | Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (Born 1895) |
| 20th of November 1945 | DEATH | Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1877) |
| 20th of November 1950 | DEATH | Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (Born 1866) |
| 20th of November 1951 | DEATH | Thomas Quinlan (impresario), British opera impresario (Born 1881) |
| 20th of November 1954 | DEATH | Clyde Vernon Cessna, American aviation designer (Born 1879) |
| 20th of November 1957 | DEATH | Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-born Lithuanian artist (d. 1875) |
| 20th of November 1973 | DEATH | Allan Sherman, American comedian (Born 1924) |
| 20th of November 1975 | DEATH | Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (Born 1892) |
| 20th of November 1976 | DEATH | Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (Born 1898) |
| 20th of November 1978 | DEATH | Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (Born 1890) |
| 20th of November 1978 | DEATH | Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (Born1888) |
| 20th of November 1980 | DEATH | John McEwen, Australian politician (Born 1900) |
| 20th of November 1983 | DEATH | Marcel Dalio, French actor (Born 1900) |
| 20th of November 1984 | DEATH | Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (Born 1911) |
| 20th of November 1994 | DEATH | John Lucarotti, British-born Canadian screenwriter (Born 1926) |
| 20th of November 1995 | DEATH | Robie Macauley, American novelist and literary critic (Born 1919) |
| 20th of November 1995 | DEATH | Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (Born 1967) |
| 20th of November 1997 | DEATH | Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (Born 1926) |
| 20th of November 1998 | DEATH | Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician (Born 1946) |
| 20th of November 1999 | DEATH | Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician (Born 1908) |
| 20th of November 2000 | DEATH | Mike Muuss, American computer programmer (Born 1958) |
| 20th of November 2000 | DEATH | Kalle Paatalo, Finnish writer (Born 1919) |
| 20th of November 2003 | DEATH | Robert Addie, British actor (Born 1960) |
| 20th of November 2003 | DEATH | Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur (Born 1923) |
| 20th of November 2003 | DEATH | David Dacko, Central African politician (Born 1930) |
| 20th of November 2003 | DEATH | Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (Born 1933) |
| 20th of November 2003 | DEATH | Roger Short, British statesman (Born 1944) |
| 20th of November 2003 | DEATH | Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (Born 1945) |
| 20th of November 2003 | DEATH | Jim Siedow, American actor (Born 1920) |
| 20th of November 2004 | DEATH | David Grierson, Canadian radio host (Born 1955) |
| 20th of November 2004 | DEATH | Jenny Ross, English musician (Section 25) (Born 1962) |
| 20th of November 2005 | DEATH | Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (Born 1931) |
| 20th of November 2005 | DEATH | Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (Born 1934) |
| 20th of November 2005 | DEATH | Nora Denney, American actress (Born 1928) |
| 20th of November 2005 | DEATH | James King, American singer (Born 1925) |
| 20th of November 2005 | DEATH | Chris Whitley, American musician (Born 1960) |
| 20th of November 2006 | DEATH | Robert Altman, American film director (Born 1925) |
| 20th of November 2006 | DEATH | Zoia Ceausescu, Romanian mathematician (Born 1950) |
| 20th of November 2006 | DEATH | Andre Waters, American football player (Born 1962) |
| 20th of November 2007 | DEATH | Ian Smith, Rhodesian politician (Born 1919) |
| 20th of November 2008 | DEATH | Bennie Gonzales, American architect (Born 1924) |
| 20th of November 2008 | DEATH | Sven Inge, Swedish painter (Born 1935) |
| 20th of November 2010 | DEATH | Rob Lytle, American football player (Born 1954) |
| 20th of November 2010 | DEATH | Laurie Bembenek, American convicted murderer and fugitive (Born 1958) |
| 20th of November 2010 | DEATH | Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (Born 1932) |
| 20th of November 2010 | DEATH | Chalmers Johnson, American political scholar and author (Born 1931) |