What happened on November 7 ?

1225 - Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne

1451 - Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy (b. 1383)

1581 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar

1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)

1633 - Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, Dutch inventor (b. 1572)

1639 - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician

1642 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician

1713 - Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)

1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)

1910 (O.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)

1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)

1922 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)

1943 - Dwight Frye, American actor (b. 1899)

1944 - Richard Sorge, Soviet spy (b. 1895)

1959 - Victor McLaglen, British-born actor (b. 1883)

1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)

1967 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Congressman and Vice President (b. 1868)

1974 - Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)

1980 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)

1983 - Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)

1992 - Alexander Dub?ek, Slovakian politician (b. 1921)

1996 - Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)

2000 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)

2002 - Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)

2005 - Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)