What happened on November 1 ?

1296 - Guillaume Durand, French writer

1391 - Amadeus VII of Savoy (b. 1360)

1399 - John V, Duke of Brittany (b. 1339)

1546 - Giulio Romano, Italian painter

1588 - Jean Daurat, French poet (b. 1508)

1596 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)

1642 - Jean Nicolet, French explorer (b. 1598)

1676 - Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (b. 1589)

1678 - William Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1601)

1700 - Charles II of Spain (b. 1661)

1814 - Alexander Samoylov, Russian general and statesman (b. [[1744])

1888 - Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (b. 1838)

1894 - Tsar Alexander III of Russia (b. 1845)

1903 - Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1817)

1907 - Alfred Jarry, French writer (b.1873).

1942 - Hugo Distler, German composer (b. 1908)

1972 - Ezra Pound, American poet (b. 1885)

1979 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)

1982 - King Vidor, American film director (b. 1894)

1983 - George "Papa Bear" Halas, player, coach, owner and pioneer in professional football (b. 1895)

1983 - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (b. 1887)

1985 - Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (b. 1911)

1987 - René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)

1993 - Severo Ochoa, Spanish?born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)

1999 - Walter Payton, American football player (b. 1954)

2004 - Mac Dre, American rap artist (b. 1970)

2004 - Terry Knight, American music promoter (Grand Funk Railroad) (murdered) (b. 1943)

2005 - Skitch Henderson, English-born bandleader (b. 1918)

2005 - Michael Piller, American screenwriter (b. 1948)