Thursday 22nd of November 1827

Coiner Edward Lowe is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Thursday 22nd of November 1827

Highwayman Charles Smith is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Thursday 22nd of November 1827

Highwayman John Keaton is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Thursday 22nd of November 1827

Thief John Powell is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 22nd of November 1853

German Diplomat Clemens August von Ketteler is born in Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Monday 22nd of November 1869

Writer André Paul Guillaume Gide is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Monday 22nd of November 1880

Murderer Joseph William Distin is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Gloucester Prison, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.

Thursday 22nd of November 1883

5-year-old Catharina Aben is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Maria Swanenburg aka Goeie Mie in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

Saturday 22nd of November 1890

18th President of the French Republic Charles André Joseph Marie De Gaulle is born in 9 Rue Princesse, Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

Tuesday 22nd of November 1898

Aviation pioneer Wiley Hardeman Post is born in Grand Saline, Texas, United States.

Saturday 22nd of November 1902

Arms manufacturer Friedrich Alfred Krupp dies of a stroke at the age of 48 in Villa Hügel, Essen, Bredeney, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

The official cause of death was a stroke but more probably Krupp committed suicide after the Italian Propaganda and German Vorwärts and Augsburger Postzeitung newspapers published articles revealing his homosexual escapades with young Italian boys in his 'Congrega di Fra Felice' holiday house in Capri, Italy.

Saturday 22nd of November 1902

Maréchal de France Philippe Leclerc is born as Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque in Belloy-Saint-Léonard, Hauts de France, France.

Saturday 22nd of November 1913

Composer Benjamin Edward Britten is born in Cliff Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom.

Wednesday 22nd of November 1916

Writer, journalist and social activist Jack London dies of uremia and morphine-poisoning at the age of 40 in Glen Ellen, California, United States.

Sunday 22nd of November 1925

Aviation pioneer Jerrie Geraldine Fredritz Mock known for becoming the first woman to fly solo around the world is born in Newark, Ohio, United States.

Tuesday 22nd of November 1932

Actor Robert Francis Vaughn known for his role as Napoleon Solo in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is born in New York City, New York, United States.

Saturday 22nd of November 1941

Gangster and ex-wrestler Juanita Evelita Spinelli aka The Duchess is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 52 in San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California, United States.

Spinelli was the first woman to be executed by the state of California.

Saturday 22nd of November 1947

Possible victim of the Zodiac Killer Alexandra Joan Gery is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

Saturday 22nd of November 1958

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is born in Santa Monica, California, United States.

Saturday 22nd of November 1958

Murderer Richard Lewis Jordan is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 28 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States.

Friday 22nd of November 1963

46-year-old John Fitzgerald Kennedy aka JFK is shot dead by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, United States.

Friday 22nd of November 1963

Writer Aldous Leonard Huxley known for his dystopian novel Brave New World dies of an overdose of LSD at the age of 69 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

On his deathbed, suffering from laryngeal cancer and unable to speak, Huxley made a written request to his wife Laura for "LSD, 100 µg, intramuscular". According to her account of his death in 'This Timeless Moment', she obliged with an injection at 11:45 am and a second dose a few hours later. Huxley died at 5:20 pm.

Friday 22nd of November 1968

22-year-old Singer-songwriter Marianne Evelyn Faithfull suffers a miscarriage of the daughter (whom she had named Corrina) she was expecting with Mick Jagger in Ardmore, Munster, Ireland.

Friday 22nd of November 1974

39-year-old Serial killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker and his son Mike raid several houses and rape a woman in Lindenwold, New Jersey, United States.

Saturday 22nd of November 1980

Actress, singer and sex symbol Mae Mary Jane West dies of complications from a stroke at the age of 87 in Ravenswood Apartments #611, 570 North Rossmore Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Monday 22nd of November 1993

Writer Anthony Burgess known for his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange dies of lung cancer at the age of 76 in Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth, 60 Grove End Rd, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 22nd of November 1994

Murderer Warren Eugene Bridge is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Wednesday 22nd of November 1995

42-year-old Serial killer Rosemary 'Rose' West is convicted to life imprisonment in Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

Rosemary professed ignorance of her husband Fred West's murderous activities but the circumstantial evidence that mounted against them was considered sufficient to prosecute her for ten murders, those of the young women whose bodies were found at 25 Cromwell Street.

Tuesday 22nd of November 2005

A plate of 'Duck Tongues', a dish I couldn't resist in a duck specialty restaurant in Beijing, Hebei, China.

Thursday 22nd of November 2007

Dancer and choreographer Maurice Béjart dies of heart failure at the age of 80 in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.

Saturday 22nd of November 2008

The room of the courthouse where the famous Nazi trials were held after World War II in Saal 600, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany.