What happened on November 28 ?

741 - St. Gregory III

1170 - Owain Gwynedd, Prince of Gwynedd

1262 - Shinran, Japanese religious leader (b. 1173)

1290 - Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I of England (b. 1241)

1574 - Georg Major, German protestant theologian (b. 1502)

1585 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)

1667 - Jean de Thévenot, French traveller and scientist (b. 1633)

1675 - Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier

1675 - Leonard Hoar, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)

1680 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian baroque sculptor (b. 1598)

1680 - Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1606)

1694 - Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet (b. 1644)

1695 - Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Italian composer

1695 - Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)

1698 - Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (b. 1622)

1794 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (b. 1730)

1801 - Dolomieu, French geologist (b. 1750)

1815 - Johann Peter Salomon, German violinist, impresario, and composer (d. 1745)

1859 - Washington Irving, American writer (b. 1783)

1870 - Frédéric Bazille, French painter (b. 1841)

1872 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)

1878 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)

1907 - Stanis?aw Wyspia?ski, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)

1912 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)

1915 - Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)

1921 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian leader of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1844)

1935 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)

1939 - James Naismith, Canadian creator of basketball (b. 1861)

1945 - Dwight F. Davis, U.S. Secretary of War and donor of the Davis cup (b. 1879)

1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)

1960 - Richard Wright, American author (b. 1908)

1962 - Queen Mother Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (b. 1880)

1963 - Karyn Kupcinet, American actress (b. 1941)

1968 - Enid Blyton, British children's author (b. 1897)

1972 - Havergal Brian, British composer (b. 1875)

1973 - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (b. 1886)

1976 - Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907)

1977 - Trevor Bardette, American actor (b. 1902)

1983 - Christopher George, American actor (b. 1929)

1986 - Herb Vigran, American actor (b. 1910)

1987 - Choh Hao Li, Chinese biochemist (b. 1913)

1992 - Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (b. 1917)

1994 - Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)

1994 - Jerry Rubin, American activist (b. 1938)

2000 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)

2001 - William Kienzle, American author (b. 1928)

2003 - Antonia Forest, British children's author (b. 1915)