What happened on November 25 ?

311 - Peter of Alexandria, Christian martyr

1034 - King Malcolm II of Scotland (killed)

1120 - William Adelin, son of Henry I of England (drowned) (b. 1104)

1185 - Pope Lucius III (b. 1097)

1326 - Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (b. 1264)

1374 - Philip II of Taranto, Emperor of Costantinople (b. 1329)

1456 - Jacques C?ur, French merchant

1560 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (b. 1466)

1626 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (b. 1566)

1694 - Ismael Bullialdus, French astronomer (b. 1605)

1700 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (b. 1643)

1748 - Isaac Watts, British hymnwriter (b. 1674)

1755 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (b. 1687)

1785 - Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)

1865 - Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b. 1821)

1881 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (b. 1794)

1884 - Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (b. 1818)

1885 - King Alfonso XII of Spain (b. 1857)

1885 - Thomas Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (b. 1819)

1920 - Gaston Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1892)

1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball commissioner (b. 1866)

1947 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (b. 1876)

1950 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)

1959 - Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)

1968 - Upton Sinclair, American journalist, politician, and writer (b. 1878)

1965 - Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)

1970 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (b. 1925)

1972 - Henri Coand?, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b. 1886)

1973 - Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (b. 1928)

1974 - Nick Drake, British singer and songwriter (b. 1948)

1974 - U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General (b. 1909)

1981 - Jack Albertson, American actor (b. 1907)

1987 - Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1922)

1998 - Nelson Goodman, American philosopher (b. 1906)

1998 - Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)

2002 - Karel Reisz, Czech theater director (b. 1926)

2005 - George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)

2005 - Richard Burns, English rally driver (b. 1971)