On This Day
Thursday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
November 1 1990
Born on This Day
Adam Sowell
baseball player (1979-) · b. 1979
Days alive
4,018
Ahmed Khan🇮🇳
deceasedfield hockey player (1912–1967) · 1912–1967
Days lived
19,855
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan🇮🇳
actor · b. 1973
Days alive
6,209
Aldo Fabrizi🇮🇹
deceasedItalian actor and cinema and theatre director (1905-1990) · 1905–1990
Days lived
30,833
Alfred Wegener🇩🇪
deceasedGerman climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930) · 1880–1930
Days lived
18,261
Andreas Paul Weber🇩🇪
deceasedGerman lithographer, draftsman and painter (1893-1980) · 1893–1980
Days lived
31,784
Anne Donovan🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican basketball player and coach (1961–2018) · 1961–2018
Days lived
20,678
Barbara Becker🇩🇪
actor · b. 1966
Days alive
8,766
Ben Roberts-Smith🇦🇺
Military personnel · b. 1978
Days alive
4,383
Benedikt Kautsky🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian politician (1894-1960) · 1894–1960
Days lived
23,892
Bid McPhee🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player, manager (1859–1943) · 1859–1943
Days lived
30,378
Caroline Ellison
Former CEO · b. 1994
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Charles Koch
businessperson · b. 1935
Days alive
20,089
Coco Crisp🇺🇸
American baseball player · b. 1979
Days alive
4,018
David Foster🇨🇦
rapper · b. 1949
Days alive
14,975
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Edward Said🇺🇸
deceasedPalestinian-American professor (1935–2003) · 1935–2003
Days lived
24,799
Erich Rudorffer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman World War II fighter pilot (1917–2016) · 1917–2016
Days lived
35,953
Frida Richard🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1873–1946
Days lived
26,612
Gaby Albrecht🇩🇪
musician · b. 1956
Days alive
12,418
Gillian Sewell🇨🇦
former Irish Canadian field hockey player · b. 1972
Days alive
6,574
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Günter de Bruyn🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1926–2020
Days lived
34,306
Harald Quandt🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1921–1967
Days lived
16,761
Hermann Broch🇺🇸
deceasedAustrian writer (1886-1951) · 1886–1951
Days lived
23,585
Jeongyeon (Yoo Jeong-yeon)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (TWICE) · b. 1996
Julia Mächtig🇩🇪
German heptathlete · b. 1986
Days alive
1,461
Karl Ehn🇦🇹
deceasedarchitect (1884–1959) · 1884–1959
Days lived
27,294
Karl Tilleman🇨🇦
Canadian basketball player · b. 1960
Days alive
10,957
Katja Riemann🇩🇪
writer · b. 1963
Days alive
9,862
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Klaus Ernst🇩🇪
German politician · b. 1954
Days alive
13,149
Kurt von Morgen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman military officer (1858-1928) · 1858–1928
Days lived
25,307
Ludwig Struve🇺🇸
deceasedBaltic German astronomer (1858-1920) · 1858–1920
Days lived
22,648
Manuel Cisneros Sánchez🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1904–1971
Days lived
24,423
Maria Semyonova🇷🇺
Russian writer, translator, and science fiction author · b. 1958
Days alive
11,688
Mario Barth🇩🇪
German comedian · b. 1972
Days alive
6,574
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Patrice Bouédibéla🇩🇪
German television presenter and actor · b. 1974
Days alive
5,844
Rachel Yankey🇬🇧
football player · b. 1979
Days alive
4,018
Raphael Eduard Liesegang🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1869–1947
Days lived
28,500
Sidney Wood🇺🇸
deceasedUS tennis player (1911–2009) · 1911–2009
Days lived
35,500
Sonja Lang🇨🇦
writer · b. 1978
Days alive
4,383
Tim Cook🇺🇸
Businessperson · b. 1960
Days alive
10,957
Ulf Timmermann🇩🇪
East German shot putter · b. 1962
Days alive
10,227
Vesselin Stoykov🇩🇪
musician · b. 1973
Days alive
6,209
Victor Aronstein🇩🇪
deceasedGerman-Jewish doctor (1896-1945) · 1896–1945
Days lived
17,604
Wilfrid Morin🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian abbé, professor and essayist · 1900–1941
Days lived
14,820
Yūko Ogura🇯🇵
Japanese idol, model · b. 1983
Days alive
2,557
Died on This Day
Alfred Jarry🇫🇷
deceasedwriter · 1873–1907
Days lived
12,471
Alfred Wegener🇩🇪
deceasedGerman climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930) · 1880–1930
Days lived
18,261
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Andrey Sheptytsky🇵🇱
deceasedMetropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1865-1944) · 1865–1944
Days lived
28,949
Carl Selmer🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player and coach · 1925–2020
Days lived
34,840
Clemente Rebora🇮🇹
deceasedItalian poet (1885–1957) · 1885–1957
Days lived
26,596
Fred Keenor🇬🇧
deceasedfootball player · 1894–1972
Days lived
28,582
Fred Thompson🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican politician and actor (1942–2015) · 1942–2015
Days lived
26,737
Fritz Greiner🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1879–1933
Days lived
20,027
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Günter Schabowski
deceasedNotable Trials · 1929–2015
Days lived
31,712
Guy Fischer🇫🇷
deceasedmember of the Senate of France (1944-2014) · 1944–2014
Days lived
25,861
Harry Halm🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1901–1980
Days lived
29,143
Hoimar von Ditfurth🇩🇪
deceasedGerman physician and journalist (1921–1989) · 1921–1989
Days lived
24,854
James Joseph Dresnok🇺🇸
deceasedmilitary person · 1941–2016
Days lived
27,371
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Jan Louwers🇳🇱
deceasedfootball player · 1930–2012
Days lived
30,072
Jim Sullivan🇬🇧
deceasedfilm director · 1903–1977
Days lived
26,999
Johannes Schaaf🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1933–2019
Days lived
31,619
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King Vidor🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican film director, film producer, and screenwriter (1894-1982) · 1894–1982
Days lived
32,407
Mamie Eisenhower🇺🇸
deceasedDancer · 1896–1979
Days lived
30,301
Otto Rasch
deceasedNazi Holocaust perpetrator (1891–1948) · 1891–1948
Days lived
20,783
Pat Martino🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican jazz guitarist and composer (1944–2021) · 1944–2021
Days lived
28,192
Richard Krautheimer🇺🇸
deceasedGerman art historian (1897–1994) · 1897–1994
Days lived
35,546
Sibylle Bergemann🇩🇪
deceasedphotographer (1941–2010) · 1941–2010
Days lived
25,266
Theodor Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman admiral (1935-2018) · 1935–2018
Days lived
30,563
Traudl Stark🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1930–2021
Days lived
33,467
Wayne Static🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican musician (1965–2014) · 1965–2014
Days lived
17,894
Wilhelm Pfannenstiel🇩🇪
deceasedPhysician and SS-Standartenführer (1890-1982) · 1890–1982
Days lived
33,864
Wolfgang Abel🇦🇹
deceasedanthropologist (1905-1997) · 1905–1997
Days lived
33,775
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
50,342
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Horst von der Goltz
German spy and actor · b. 1884
Days alive
39,020
José Miguel Barandiarán🇪🇸
deceasedBasque anthropologist, etnologist and archaeologist (1889–1991) · 1889–1991
Days lived
37,244
Frank J. Skinner🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1891
Days alive
36,368
Walter Schenk🇩🇪
deceasedGerman military personnel · 1891–2000
Days lived
39,634
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Hal Roach🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican filmmaker (1892–1992) · 1892–1992
Days lived
36,817
Lajos Perley
athlete · b. 1892
Days alive
36,031
Lang Jingshan
deceasedartist · 1892–1995
Days lived
37,506
Zośka Vieras🇱🇹
deceasedBelarusian writer and poet (1892-1991) · 1892–1991
Days lived
36,166
Lillian Gish🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actress (1893–1993) · 1893–1993
Days lived
36,295
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Martha Graham🇺🇸
deceasedBallet dancer · 1894–1991
Days lived
35,388
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director (1894–1998) · 1894–1998
Days lived
37,799
Hermann Florstedt
deceasedmilitary person · 1895–2000
Days lived
38,302
Adolf Pokorny🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian-born dermatologist and doctor; defendant in the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg (1895-?) · 1895–2000
Days lived
38,144
Silas Simmons🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1895–2006) · 1895–2006
Days lived
40,557
Heinrich Eberbach🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general (1895–1992) · 1895–1992
Days lived
35,295
Sylvia de Arruda Botelho Bittencourt🇧🇷
deceasedBrazilian journalist · 1896–1995
Days lived
36,188
Friedrich Hund🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1896–1997
Days lived
36,945
Lilia Skala🇺🇸
deceasedAustrian-American actress (1896-1994) · 1896–1994
Days lived
35,813
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian architect (1897–2000) · 1897–2000
Days lived
37,614
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
58,013
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Koko🇺🇸
deceasedWestern lowland gorilla · 1971–2018
Days lived
17,152
Alex🇺🇸
deceasedAfrican grey parrot · 1976–2007
Days lived
11,433
Keiko🇮🇸
deceasedOrca · 1977–2003
Days lived
9,841
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
56,186
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
55,883
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
55,456
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
45,898
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
44,864
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
44,498
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
41,942
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
40,594
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
661,393
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
140,907
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
64,925
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
45,594
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
23,946
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
21,489
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
19,399
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
17,376
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
Wuthering Heights
Drama film · b. 1939
Days since release
18,836
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12 Angry Men🇺🇸
Drama/Crime Film · b. 1957
Days since release
12,258
The Godfather🇺🇸
Crime/Drama Film · b. 1972
Days since release
6,796
Jaws🇺🇸
Thriller/Adventure Film · b. 1975
Days since release
5,613
Star Wars: A New Hope🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film · b. 1977
Days since release
4,908
Mad Max
Film · b. 1979
Days since release
4,221
Alien🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Horror Film · b. 1979
Days since release
4,178
The Shining
Film · b. 1980
Days since release
3,957