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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 25th of November 1034 | EVENT | Mael Coluim mac Cinaeda, King of Scots dies. Donnchad, the son of his daughter Bethoc and Crinan of Dunkeld, inherits the throne. |
| 25th of November 1120 | EVENT | The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England. |
| 25th of November 1177 | EVENT | Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Chatillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard. |
| 25th of November 1343 | EVENT | A tsunami, caused by the earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples (Italy) and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places. |
| 25th of November 1491 | EVENT | The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins. |
| 25th of November 1667 | EVENT | A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people. |
| 25th of November 1703 | EVENT | The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die. |
| 25th of November 1755 | EVENT | King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compania de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary. |
| 25th of November 1758 | EVENT | French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Fort Pitt is built nearby and it grows into modern Pittsburgh. |
| 25th of November 1759 | EVENT | An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000. |
| 25th of November 1783 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris. |
| 25th of November 1795 | EVENT | Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia. |
| 25th of November 1826 | EVENT | The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy. |
| 25th of November 1833 | EVENT | A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2 rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast. |
| 25th of November 1839 | EVENT | A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster. |
| 25th of November 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge : At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg. |
| 25th of November 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City. |
| 25th of November 1874 | EVENT | The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873. |
| 25th of November 1876 | EVENT | Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River. |
| 25th of November 1905 | EVENT | The Danish Prins Carl arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway. |
| 25th of November 1917 | EVENT | German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania. |
| 25th of November 1918 | EVENT | Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria : Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia. |
| 25th of November 1926 | EVENT | The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength are reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. There are 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all. |
| 25th of November 1936 | EVENT | In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories. |
| 25th of November 1940 | EVENT | World War II: First flight of the deHavilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder. |
| 25th of November 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-Fascist Council for the People's Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
| 25th of November 1947 | EVENT | New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom. |
| 25th of November 1947 | EVENT | Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios. |
| 25th of November 1952 | EVENT | Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London later becoming the longest continuously-running play in history. |
| 25th of November 1958 | EVENT | French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community. |
| 25th of November 1960 | EVENT | The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated. |
| 25th of November 1963 | EVENT | President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. |
| 25th of November 1970 | EVENT | In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt. |
| 25th of November 1973 | EVENT | George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis. |
| 25th of November 1975 | EVENT | Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands. |
| 25th of November 1977 | EVENT | Former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No. 2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad. |
| 25th of November 1982 | EVENT | The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, including the Northwestern National Bank building and the recently closed Donaldson's Department Store. |
| 25th of November 1984 | EVENT | 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. |
| 25th of November 1986 | EVENT | The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf. |
| 25th of November 1986 | EVENT | Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua. |
| 25th of November 1987 | EVENT | Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm. |
| 25th of November 1988 | EVENT | German politician Rita Sussmuth becomes president of the Bundestag. |
| 25th of November 1992 | EVENT | The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993. |
| 25th of November 1996 | EVENT | An ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm affects Florida and winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers. |
| 25th of November 1999 | EVENT | The United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal Sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in Dominican Republic. |
| 25th of November 2008 | EVENT | A car bomb in St. Petersburg, Russia, kills three people and injures one. |
| 25th of November 1454 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Catherine Cornaro of Cyprus (d. 1510) |
| 25th of November 1501 | BIRTHDAY | Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1570) |
| 25th of November 1562 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright (d. 1635) |
| 25th of November 1577 | BIRTHDAY | Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander (d. 1629) |
| 25th of November 1609 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Henrietta Maria of France (d. 1669) |
| 25th of November 1638 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Catherine of Braganza, consort of Charles II of England (d. 1705) |
| 25th of November 1697 | BIRTHDAY | Duchess Maria Karolina Sobieska of Bouillon (d. 1740) |
| 25th of November 1703 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Francois Seguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784) |
| 25th of November 1712 | BIRTHDAY | Charles-Michel de l'Epee, French philanthropist (d. 1789) |
| 25th of November 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783) |
| 25th of November 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (d. 1856) |
| 25th of November 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878) |
| 25th of November 1815 | BIRTHDAY | William Sawyer, Canadian politician (d. 1904) |
| 25th of November 1817 | BIRTHDAY | John Bigelow, American statesman and author (d. 1911) |
| 25th of November 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1919) |
| 25th of November 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Schroder, German mathematician (d. 1902) |
| 25th of November 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist; father of T. S. Eliot (d. 1919) |
| 25th of November 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Benz, German engineer and inventor (d. 1929) |
| 25th of November 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Maria de Eca de Queiroz, Portuguese novelist (d. 1900) |
| 25th of November 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate (d. 1911) |
| 25th of November 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Capus, French author (d. 1922) |
| 25th of November 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer (d. 1901) |
| 25th of November 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1937) |
| 25th of November 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Lindsey, American jurist and social reform advocate (d. 1934) |
| 25th of November 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Winthrop Ames, American theatrical director (d. 1937) |
| 25th of November 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Gans, American boxer (d. 1910) |
| 25th of November 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1936) |
| 25th of November 1880 | BIRTHDAY | John Flynn, Australian evangelist (d. 1951) |
| 25th of November 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (d. 1960) |
| 25th of November 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Fichman, Romanian-born Israeli poet and essayist (d. 1958) |
| 25th of November 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Pope John XXIII (d. 1963) |
| 25th of November 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic (d. 1939) |
| 25th of November 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Percy Marmont, British actor (d.1977) |
| 25th of November 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher and aviation promoter (d. 1968) |
| 25th of November 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Vavilov, Russian geneticist (d. 1943) |
| 25th of November 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet and artist (d. 1918) |
| 25th of November 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Onishiki Uichiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (d. 1941) |
| 25th of November 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (d. 1986) |
| 25th of November 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (d. 1991) |
| 25th of November 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Ludvik Svoboda, Czech statesman (d. 1979) |
| 25th of November 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Virgil Thomson, American composer and music critic (d. 1989) |
| 25th of November 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Hoss, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1947) |
| 25th of November 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Liebehenschel, Polish-born German concentration camp commandant (d. 1948) |
| 25th of November 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1985) |
| 25th of November 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000) |
| 25th of November 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Lillian Copeland, American athlete (d. 1964) |
| 25th of November 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Ba Jin, Chinese novelist (d. 2005) |
| 25th of November 1907 | BIRTHDAY | John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (d. 1938) |
| 25th of November 1909 | BIRTHDAY | P.D. Eastman, American children's author and screenwriter (d. 1986) |
| 25th of November 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (d. 1984) |
| 25th of November 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993) |
| 25th of November 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Zitrone, Russian-born French journalist and television host (d. 1995) |
| 25th of November 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999) |
| 25th of November 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator (d. 2006) |
| 25th of November 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Poggi, Italian archivist for the Vatican (d. 2010) |
| 25th of November 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Noel Neill, American actress |
| 25th of November 1920 | BIRTHDAY | King Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail of Malaysia (d. 2000) |
| 25th of November 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Montalban, Mexican actor (d. 2009) |
| 25th of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Gloria Lasso, French-born Spanish singer (d. 2005) |
| 25th of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Shelagh Fraser, British actress (d. 2000) |
| 25th of November 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Mauno Koivisto, Finnish politician |
| 25th of November 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher |
| 25th of November 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Poul Anderson, American writer (d. 2001) |
| 25th of November 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969) |
| 25th of November 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Crichton, American TV news and documentary producer (d. 2007) |
| 25th of November 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Takayo Fischer, American actress |
| 25th of November 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Kathryn Grant, American actress |
| 25th of November 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Trisha Brown, American choreographer and dancer |
| 25th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Rosanna Schiaffino, Italian actress (d. 2009) |
| 25th of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Feldstein, American economist |
| 25th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Reinhard Furrer, American physicist and astronaut (d. 1995) |
| 25th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Gibbs, American football coach |
| 25th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Offmann, Mauritian politician |
| 25th of November 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Percy Sledge, American musician |
| 25th of November 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani author and spiritual leader |
| 25th of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Mimis Papaioannou, Greek footballer |
| 25th of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Lind, American folk singer and songwriter |
| 25th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Stein, American actor |
| 25th of November 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Gail Collins, American journalist |
| 25th of November 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Nagel, American artist (d. 1984) |
| 25th of November 1945 | BIRTHDAY | George D. Webster, American football player (d. 2007) |
| 25th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Kaplan, American filmmaker |
| 25th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | John Larroquette, American actor |
| 25th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tracey Walter, American actor |
| 25th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques P. Dupuis, French Canadian politician |
| 25th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Lars Eighner, American author |
| 25th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Kerry O'Keeffe, Australian Test cricketer and commentator |
| 25th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Wright, Australian author |
| 25th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Morrissey, American musician |
| 25th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bucky Dent, American baseball player |
| 25th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Arturo Perez Reverte, Spanish novelist and war reporter |
| 25th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Imran Khan, Pakistani test cricketer |
| 25th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | John Lynch, American politician and the 80th Governor of New Hampshire |
| 25th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Skilling, American businessman |
| 25th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Eadie, Australian rugby league player |
| 25th of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Tonioli, Italian-born British dancer |
| 25th of November 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Helene Goudin, Swedish politician |
| 25th of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Ehrlich, American politician, former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland, and the 60th Governor of Maryland |
| 25th of November 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Kennedy, British politician |
| 25th of November 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Rothery, British guitarist (Marillion) |
| 25th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher; son of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy (d. 1999) |
| 25th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Grant, American singer |
| 25th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kasey Smith, American keyboardist (Danger Danger) |
| 25th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Delorme, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 25th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Hironobu Sakaguchi, Japanese game designer |
| 25th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Chamberlin, American actor |
| 25th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Bernie Kosar, American football player |
| 25th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Holly Cole, Canadian jazz singer |
| 25th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Lanegan, American musician (Screaming Trees) |
| 25th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Cris Carter, American football player |
| 25th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Dougray Scott, Scottish actor |
| 25th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Burke, American actor |
| 25th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Armstrong, American musician (Rancid and The Transplants) |
| 25th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuya Nakai, Japanese voice actor |
| 25th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney Sheppard, American musician (Sugar Ray) |
| 25th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer |
| 25th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Gregg Turkington, American comedian and musician |
| 25th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jacqueline Hennessy, Canadian actress and talk show host |
| 25th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress |
| 25th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Erick Sermon, American rap music artist |
| 25th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Galin Nikov, Bulgarian pole vaulter |
| 25th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Applegate, American actress |
| 25th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Magnus Arvedson, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 25th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Morton, American musician |
| 25th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Erick Strickland, American basketball player |
| 25th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Mitchell, Canadian actor |
| 25th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Clint Mathis, American soccer player |
| 25th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Donovan McNabb, American football player |
| 25th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Guillermo Canas, Argentine tennis player |
| 25th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Marshall, Australian racing driver |
| 25th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ringo Shiina, Japanese musician |
| 25th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Thea Gilmore, British songwriter |
| 25th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Lehan, American football player |
| 25th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Mathews, American professional wrestling personality |
| 25th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Mokoena, South African footballer |
| 25th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | John-Michael Liles, American ice hockey player |
| 25th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Swisher, American baseball player |
| 25th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Steffen Thier, German rugby player |
| 25th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer |
| 25th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Bush, daughter of George W. Bush and Laura Bush |
| 25th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jenna Bush, daughter of George W. Bush and Laura Bush |
| 25th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Bum-Ho, South Korean baseball player |
| 25th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jared Jeffries, American basketball player |
| 25th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mauricio Rua, Brazilian mixed martial artist |
| 25th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kirsty Crawford, Scottish singer/songwriter |
| 25th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Chestnut, American competitive eater |
| 25th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Siddle, Australian cricketer |
| 25th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Gaspard Ulliel, French actor |
| 25th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Hagerman, American kidnapping and murder victim (d. 1996) |
| 25th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Cassidy, American singer and actress |
| 25th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Gardner, English footballer |
| 25th of November 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Dolla, American rapper (d. 2009) |
| 25th of November 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (d. 2010) |
| 25th of November 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Spearing, English footballer |
| 25th of November 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Dice, Belgian singer and songwriter |
| 25th of November 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Luca Tremolada, Italian footballer |
| 25th of November 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Martin del Rosario, Filipino actor |
| 25th of November 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Bogdan, Romanian tennis player |
| 25th of November 0311 | DEATH | Pope Peter of Alexandria (Born 3rd century) |
| 25th of November 1034 | DEATH | King Malcolm II of Scotland (Born 980) |
| 25th of November 1120 | DEATH | William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (Born 1104) |
| 25th of November 1185 | DEATH | Pope Lucius III (Born 1097) |
| 25th of November 1326 | DEATH | Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (Born 1264) |
| 25th of November 1374 | DEATH | Emperor Philip II of Taranto of Constantinople (Born 1329) |
| 25th of November 1456 | DEATH | Jacques Coeur, French merchant |
| 25th of November 1560 | DEATH | Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (Born 1466) |
| 25th of November 1626 | DEATH | Edward Alleyn, English actor (Born 1566) |
| 25th of November 1686 | DEATH | Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (Born 1638) |
| 25th of November 1694 | DEATH | Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (Born 1605) |
| 25th of November 1700 | DEATH | Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (Born 1643) |
| 25th of November 1748 | DEATH | Isaac Watts, British hymnwriter (Born 1674) |
| 25th of November 1755 | DEATH | Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (Born 1687) |
| 25th of November 1785 | DEATH | Richard Glover, British poet (Born 1712) |
| 25th of November 1865 | DEATH | Heinrich Barth, German explorer (Born 1821) |
| 25th of November 1881 | DEATH | Theobald Boehm, German flute maker (Born 1794) |
| 25th of November 1884 | DEATH | Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (Born 1818) |
| 25th of November 1885 | DEATH | King Alfonso XII of Spain (Born 1857) |
| 25th of November 1885 | DEATH | Thomas Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States (Born 1819) |
| 25th of November 1909 | DEATH | Edward P. Allen, American politician (Born 1839) |
| 25th of November 1920 | DEATH | Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver (Born 1892) |
| 25th of November 1944 | DEATH | Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American baseball commissioner (Born 1866) |
| 25th of November 1944 | DEATH | Kunio Nakagawa, Japanese military commander (Born 1898) |
| 25th of November 1947 | DEATH | Leon-Paul Fargue, French poet (Born 1876) |
| 25th of November 1948 | DEATH | Kanbun Uechi, Japanese karate master (Born 1877) |
| 25th of November 1949 | DEATH | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, American entertainer (Born 1878) |
| 25th of November 1950 | DEATH | Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish linguist and diplomat (Born 1873) |
| 25th of November 1950 | DEATH | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1873) |
| 25th of November 1955 | DEATH | Louis Lachenal, French alpinist (Born 1921) |
| 25th of November 1959 | DEATH | Gerard Philipe, French actor (Born 1922) |
| 25th of November 1961 | DEATH | Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (Born 1866) |
| 25th of November 1963 | DEATH | Alexander Marinesko, Russian naval captain (Born 1913) |
| 25th of November 1965 | DEATH | Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (Born 1890) |
| 25th of November 1968 | DEATH | Paul Siple, American explorer (Born 1908) |
| 25th of November 1968 | DEATH | Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (Born 1878) |
| 25th of November 1970 | DEATH | Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (Born 1925) |
| 25th of November 1972 | DEATH | Henri Coanda, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (Born 1886) |
| 25th of November 1973 | DEATH | Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born British actor (Born 1928) |
| 25th of November 1974 | DEATH | Nick Drake, British singer and songwriter (Born 1948) |
| 25th of November 1974 | DEATH | U Thant, Burmese diplomat and UN Secretary-General (Born 1909) |
| 25th of November 1978 | DEATH | Elaine Esposito, American coma victim (Born 1934) |
| 25th of November 1981 | DEATH | Jack Albertson, American actor (Born 1907) |
| 25th of November 1984 | DEATH | Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian statesman (Born 1913) |
| 25th of November 1985 | DEATH | Franz Hildebrandt, German theologian (Born 1909) |
| 25th of November 1985 | DEATH | Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (Born 1926) |
| 25th of November 1987 | DEATH | Harold Washington, American politician (Born 1922) |
| 25th of November 1989 | DEATH | Alva R. Fitch, American soldier (Born 1907) |
| 25th of November 1995 | DEATH | Alan Nicholls, English footballer (Born 1973) |
| 25th of November 1995 | DEATH | Leon Zitrone, French journalist and television host (Born 1914) |
| 25th of November 1997 | DEATH | Hastings Banda, Malawian politician (Born c. 1898) |
| 25th of November 1998 | DEATH | Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (Born 1906) |
| 25th of November 1998 | DEATH | Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (Born 1933) |
| 25th of November 2000 | DEATH | Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (Born 1917) |
| 25th of November 2001 | DEATH | Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, spiritual leader (Born 1941) |
| 25th of November 2001 | DEATH | Harry Devlin, American artist and children's book illustrator (Born 1918) |
| 25th of November 2002 | DEATH | Karel Reisz, Czech theater director (Born 1926) |
| 25th of November 2005 | DEATH | George Best, Northern Irish footballer (Born 1946) |
| 25th of November 2005 | DEATH | Richard Burns, British rally driver (Born 1971) |
| 25th of November 2006 | DEATH | Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (Born 1931) |
| 25th of November 2006 | DEATH | Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (Born 1920) |
| 25th of November 2006 | DEATH | Valentin Elizalde, Mexican singer (Born 1979) |
| 25th of November 2006 | DEATH | Kenneth M. Taylor, American pilot (Born 1919) |
| 25th of November 2006 | DEATH | Antonis Vratsanos, Greek World War II figure (Born 1919) |
| 25th of November 2006 | DEATH | Phyllis Fraser, American actress and children's book publisher (Born 1916) |
| 25th of November 2007 | DEATH | Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Born 1955) |
| 25th of November 2007 | DEATH | Peter Lipton, American science philosopher (Born 1954) |
| 25th of November 2010 | DEATH | Bernard Matthews, British poultry industry figure (Born 1930) |
| 25th of November 2010 | DEATH | Peter Christopherson English musician and video director/designer (Born 1955) |
| 25th of November 2010 | DEATH | Alfred Balk, American magazine editor and journalist (Born 1930) |
| 25th of November 2010 | DEATH | C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (Born 1933) |