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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 12th of November 0764 | EVENT | Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days. |
| 12th of November 1028 | EVENT | Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII. |
| 12th of November 1439 | EVENT | Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament. |
| 12th of November 1555 | EVENT | The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism. |
| 12th of November 1602 | EVENT | Sebastian Viscaino lands at and names San Diego, California. |
| 12th of November 1793 | EVENT | Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined. |
| 12th of November 1847 | EVENT | Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic. |
| 12th of November 1892 | EVENT | William "Pudge" Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association. |
| 12th of November 1893 | EVENT | The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan; the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two nations. |
| 12th of November 1905 | EVENT | Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic. |
| 12th of November 1912 | EVENT | The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. |
| 12th of November 1918 | EVENT | Austria becomes a republic. |
| 12th of November 1920 | EVENT | Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo. |
| 12th of November 1922 | EVENT | The Sigma Gamma Rho sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. |
| 12th of November 1927 | EVENT | Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union. |
| 12th of November 1933 | EVENT | Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster. |
| 12th of November 1936 | EVENT | In California, the San Francisco : Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic. |
| 12th of November 1938 | EVENT | Hermann Goring proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl. |
| 12th of November 1941 | EVENT | World War II: temperatures around Moscow drop to -12? C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city. |
| 12th of November 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The Soviet cruiser Chervona Ukraina is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol. |
| 12th of November 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days. |
| 12th of November 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Troms?, Norway. |
| 12th of November 1948 | EVENT | In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II. |
| 12th of November 1956 | EVENT | Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations. |
| 12th of November 1958 | EVENT | A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. |
| 12th of November 1968 | EVENT | Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations. |
| 12th of November 1968 | EVENT | Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District is argued before the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| 12th of November 1969 | EVENT | Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre : Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story. |
| 12th of November 1970 | EVENT | The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history. |
| 12th of November 1970 | EVENT | The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous "exploding whale" incident. |
| 12th of November 1971 | EVENT | Vietnam War: as part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam. |
| 12th of November 1975 | EVENT | The Comoros joins the United Nations. |
| 12th of November 1978 | EVENT | Pope John Paul II takes possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, as the Bishop of Rome. |
| 12th of November 1979 | EVENT | Iran hostage crisis: in response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran. |
| 12th of November 1980 | EVENT | The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings. |
| 12th of November 1981 | EVENT | Space Shuttle program: mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice. |
| 12th of November 1982 | EVENT | In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev. |
| 12th of November 1990 | EVENT | Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch. |
| 12th of November 1990 | EVENT | Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. |
| 12th of November 1991 | EVENT | Dili Massacre: Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor. |
| 12th of November 1996 | EVENT | A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date. |
| 12th of November 1997 | EVENT | Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. |
| 12th of November 1998 | EVENT | U.S. Vice President Al Gore signs the Kyoto Protocol. |
| 12th of November 1998 | EVENT | Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler. |
| 12th of November 1999 | EVENT | The Duzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale. |
| 12th of November 2001 | EVENT | In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground. |
| 12th of November 2001 | EVENT | Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops. |
| 12th of November 2003 | EVENT | Iraq war: in Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base. |
| 12th of November 2003 | EVENT | Shanghai Transrapid sets up a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311 mph)) for commercial railway systems. |
| 12th of November 2004 | EVENT | The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database is launched on the web and revolutionizes chemical-gene-disease information for research scientists. |
| 12th of November 1528 | BIRTHDAY | Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588) |
| 12th of November 1547 | BIRTHDAY | Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575) |
| 12th of November 1606 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne Mance, French settler of New France (d. 1673) |
| 12th of November 1615 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691) |
| 12th of November 1651 | BIRTHDAY | Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Mexican mystic and author (d. 1695) |
| 12th of November 1684 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Vernon, English Royal Navy admiral (d. 1757) |
| 12th of November 1729 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811) |
| 12th of November 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general (d. 1813) |
| 12th of November 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (d. 1856) |
| 12th of November 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American suffragette (d. 1902) |
| 12th of November 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Baha'u'llah, Persian spiritual figure (d. 1892) |
| 12th of November 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (d. 1887) |
| 12th of November 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917) |
| 12th of November 1842 | BIRTHDAY | John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1919) |
| 12th of November 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Muller, Swiss politician (d. 1919) |
| 12th of November 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908) |
| 12th of November 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician (d. 1925) |
| 12th of November 1872 | BIRTHDAY | William Fay, Irish actor and theatre producer (d. 1947) |
| 12th of November 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (d. 1948) |
| 12th of November 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954) |
| 12th of November 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Gunther Dyhrenfurth, German geologist, and mountineer (d. 1975) |
| 12th of November 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980) |
| 12th of November 1889 | BIRTHDAY | DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (d. 1981) |
| 12th of November 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974) |
| 12th of November 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Tudor Davies, Welsh operatic tenor (d. 1958) |
| 12th of November 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987) |
| 12th of November 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Marx, German composer (d. 1985) |
| 12th of November 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Stukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999) |
| 12th of November 1901 | BIRTHDAY | James Luther Adams, American theologian (d. 1994) |
| 12th of November 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978) |
| 12th of November 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1999) |
| 12th of November 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (d. 1981) |
| 12th of November 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991) |
| 12th of November 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Barthes, French critic and writer (d. 1980) |
| 12th of November 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (d. 1986) |
| 12th of November 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Emery, English racing driver (d. 1993) |
| 12th of November 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Papineau-Couture, French-Canadian composer (d. 2000) |
| 12th of November 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Stafford, American singer (d. 2008) |
| 12th of November 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Quine, American actor (d. 1989) |
| 12th of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002) |
| 12th of November 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Vicco von Bulow, German film director |
| 12th of November 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Jones, American jazz bassist and cellist (d. 1981) |
| 12th of November 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958) |
| 12th of November 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Holness, English presenter and actor |
| 12th of November 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Ende, German writer (d. 1995) |
| 12th of November 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Grace Kelly, American actress and Princely consort of Monaco (d. 1982) |
| 12th of November 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Flood, American actress |
| 12th of November 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Crewe, American songwriter and producer (The Four Seasons) |
| 12th of November 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jalal Talabani, Iraqi politician |
| 12th of November 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Manson, American cult leader and convicted murderer |
| 12th of November 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Mills Lane, American jurist, TV personality, and boxing referee |
| 12th of November 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991) |
| 12th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Denis DeJordy, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Mkapa, Tanzanian politician |
| 12th of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ruby Nash Curtis, American singer (Ruby & the Romantics) |
| 12th of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Terry McDonald, English footballer |
| 12th of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (d. 1993) |
| 12th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Audet, Quebec economist and politician |
| 12th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Todenhofer, German politician |
| 12th of November 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Gluck, American academic and Japanologist |
| 12th of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Hyland, American singer |
| 12th of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Wallace Shawn, American actor and playwright |
| 12th of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Ege, Norwegian actress (d. 2008) |
| 12th of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Bjorn Waldegard, Swedish rally driver |
| 12th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Booker T. Jones, American musician and songwriter (Booker T and the MG's) |
| 12th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Al Michaels, American television sportscaster |
| 12th of November 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Tracy Kidder, American journalist and author |
| 12th of November 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Young, Canadian singer and guitarist (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) |
| 12th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Krister Henriksson, Swedish actor |
| 12th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Bryant, American baseball player |
| 12th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Buck Dharma (born Donald Roeser), American vocalist and guitarist (Blue Oyster Cult) |
| 12th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Patrice Leconte, French film director and screenwriter |
| 12th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Harris, American football player |
| 12th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Errol Brown, English singer (Hot Chocolate) |
| 12th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Reed, American politician |
| 12th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Sinyan Shen, American physicist and composer |
| 12th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 1992) |
| 12th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Fairchild, US country music/Gospel singer |
| 12th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Burkle, American entrepreneur |
| 12th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Vasilis Karras, Greek singer |
| 12th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Lytle, American football player (b. 2010) |
| 12th of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Katharine Weber, American novelist |
| 12th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Megan Mullally, American actress and singer |
| 12th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Stellino, Italian-born American television chef |
| 12th of November 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Irizarry, American actor |
| 12th of November 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Toshihiko Sahashi, Japanese composer |
| 12th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ismo Alanko, Finnish musician (Hassisen Kone, Sielun Veljet, Ismo Alanko Saatio) |
| 12th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Maurane, Belgian singer |
| 12th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer |
| 12th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast |
| 12th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Nossiter, American film director |
| 12th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Michaela Paetsch, American violinist |
| 12th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Brix Smith, American singer and guitarist (The Fall, The Adult Net) |
| 12th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mariella Frostrup, Norwegian journalist and television presenter |
| 12th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Shusterman, American writer |
| 12th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist |
| 12th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Susumu Terajima, Japanese actor |
| 12th of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Lloyd, American actor |
| 12th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Chesnutt, American singer and songwriter (d. 2009) |
| 12th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Ellefson, American bassist (Megadeth) |
| 12th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Lex Lang, American voice actor |
| 12th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Moorer, American boxer |
| 12th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Nicholas, British singer (Feeder) |
| 12th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Gilbertti, American professional wrestler |
| 12th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Aya Hisakawa, Japanese voice actress and singer |
| 12th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Hanna, American singer and songwriter |
| 12th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Stainthorpe, British singer (My Dying Bride) |
| 12th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Sosa, Dominican baseball player |
| 12th of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Bremmer, American political scientist |
| 12th of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Gosch, American kidnap victim |
| 12th of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Cundy, English footballer and broadcaster |
| 12th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Donna Adamo, American professional wrestler |
| 12th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Parker, New Zealand actor |
| 12th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Stephens, British actor |
| 12th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tonya Harding, American figure skater |
| 12th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Vassilis Tsiartas, Greek footballer |
| 12th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mayte Garcia, American dancer |
| 12th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Radha Mitchell, Australian actress |
| 12th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ethan Zohn, American footballer and reality show contestant |
| 12th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tamala Jones, American actress |
| 12th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Brosh, Israeli model and actress |
| 12th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Lezak, American swimmer |
| 12th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Watson, American actress |
| 12th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Richelle Mead, American writer |
| 12th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Miros?aw Szymkowiak, Polish footballer |
| 12th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tevin Campbell, American R&B singer |
| 12th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Holofernes, German singer (Wir sind Helden) |
| 12th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Dalene Kurtis, American model |
| 12th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Benni McCarthy, South African footballer |
| 12th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Murray, English mixed martial artist |
| 12th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Williams, American actress |
| 12th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Kinlochan, British singer (Phixx) |
| 12th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Maria Lara, Romanian-born German actress |
| 12th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Lena Yada, American actress, model, surfer and professional wrestler |
| 12th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler |
| 12th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress |
| 12th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Crown J, South Korean hip hop singer and rapper |
| 12th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Maggette, American basketball player |
| 12th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lucas Glover, American professional golfer |
| 12th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Trent Acid, American professional wrestler (d. 2010) |
| 12th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor |
| 12th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | D. J. Campbell, English footballer |
| 12th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Mikele Leigertwood, English footballer |
| 12th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Hathaway, American actress |
| 12th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Morton, American baseball player |
| 12th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Carlton Cole, English footballer |
| 12th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Omarion, American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter (B2K) |
| 12th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sepp De Roover, Belgian footballer |
| 12th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Rautenbach, Zimbabwean rally driver |
| 12th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sandara Park, South Korean actor, singer/rapper of (2NE1) |
| 12th of November 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Arianny Celeste, American model |
| 12th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Yo, Taiwanese pop singer |
| 12th of November 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of November 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Westbrook, American basketball player |
| 12th of November 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Leighton Flores, Philipino Martial Arts Champion |
| 12th of November 0607 | DEATH | Pope Boniface III, Roman-born(birth date unknown) |
| 12th of November 1035 | DEATH | King Cnut the Great, Danish-born King of Denmark, England and Norway (Born 985 or 995) |
| 12th of November 1094 | DEATH | King Duncan II of Scotland (Born 1060) |
| 12th of November 1434 | DEATH | King Louis III of Naples (Born 1403) |
| 12th of November 1555 | DEATH | Stephen Gardiner, English statesman (Born 1497) |
| 12th of November 1567 | DEATH | Anne de Montmorency, Marshal and Constable of France (Born 1493) |
| 12th of November 1595 | DEATH | John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (Born 1532) |
| 12th of November 1606 | DEATH | St. Nicholas Owen, English Jesuit and martyr (Born c. 1550) |
| 12th of November 1667 | DEATH | Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (Born 1598) |
| 12th of November 1671 | DEATH | Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (Born 1612) |
| 12th of November 1742 | DEATH | Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (Born 1660) |
| 12th of November 1757 | DEATH | Colley Cibber, English poet (Born 1671) |
| 12th of November 1793 | DEATH | Jean Sylvain Bailly, first Mayor of Paris (Born 1736) |
| 12th of November 1836 | DEATH | Juan Ramon Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (Born 1773) |
| 12th of November 1865 | DEATH | Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (Born 1810) |
| 12th of November 1916 | DEATH | Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer (Born 1855) |
| 12th of November 1933 | DEATH | F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (Born 1864) |
| 12th of November 1939 | DEATH | Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (Born 1890) |
| 12th of November 1941 | DEATH | Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, American mobster (Born 1907) |
| 12th of November 1944 | DEATH | Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (Born 1876) |
| 12th of November 1948 | DEATH | Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (Born 1867) |
| 12th of November 1955 | DEATH | Alfred Hajos, Hungarian swimmer (Born 1878) |
| 12th of November 1965 | DEATH | Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Indian-born Bohra Spiritual Leader (Born 1888) |
| 12th of November 1969 | DEATH | Liu Shaoqi, Chinese revolutionary, and statesman (Born 1898) |
| 12th of November 1972 | DEATH | Rudolf Friml, Czech composer (Born 1879) |
| 12th of November 1976 | DEATH | Walter Piston, American composer (Born 1894) |
| 12th of November 1976 | DEATH | Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (Born 1893) |
| 12th of November 1981 | DEATH | William Holden, American actor (Born 1918) |
| 12th of November 1984 | DEATH | Chester Himes, American writer (Born 1909) |
| 12th of November 1987 | DEATH | Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish musician (Born 1937) |
| 12th of November 1990 | DEATH | Eve Arden, American actress (Born 1908) |
| 12th of November 1993 | DEATH | H. R. Haldeman, American White House Chief of Staff (Born 1926) |
| 12th of November 1994 | DEATH | Wilma Rudolph, American runner (Born 1940) |
| 12th of November 1997 | DEATH | Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (Born 1915) |
| 12th of November 2000 | DEATH | Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (Born 1913) |
| 12th of November 2000 | DEATH | Leah Rabin (nee Schlossberg), German-born widow of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Born 1928) |
| 12th of November 2001 | DEATH | Albert Hague, German-born American actor and songwriter (Born 1920) |
| 12th of November 2001 | DEATH | Tony Miles, English chess player (Born 1955) |
| 12th of November 2003 | DEATH | Penny Singleton, American actress (Born 1908) |
| 12th of November 2003 | DEATH | Kay E. Kuter, American actor (Born 1925) |
| 12th of November 2003 | DEATH | Jonathan Brandis, American actor (Born 1976) |
| 12th of November 2003 | DEATH | Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (Born 1986) |
| 12th of November 2003 | DEATH | Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (Born 1954) |
| 12th of November 2005 | DEATH | William G. Adams, Canadian politician (Born 1923) |
| 12th of November 2006 | DEATH | General Jacob E. Smart, American World War II figure (Born 1909) |
| 12th of November 2007 | DEATH | Ira Levin, American novelist (Born 1929) |
| 12th of November 2007 | DEATH | Khanmohammed Ibrahim, Indian cricketer (Born 1919) |
| 12th of November 2008 | DEATH | Catherine Baker Knoll, American politician (Born 1930) |
| 12th of November 2008 | DEATH | Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (Born 1947) |
| 12th of November 2010 | DEATH | Henryk Gorecki, Polish composer (Born 1933) |
| 12th of November 2010 | DEATH | Karl Plutus, Estonian jurist and centenarian (Born 1904) |