| 42 | BC | Second Battle of Philippi: Marc Antony defeats Brutus |
| 0 | | Feast of Saint John of Capistrano, Patron of Hungary and of Military Chaplains |
| 12 | | Triumph of Tiberius for his victories in Pannonia and Dalmatia |
| 1086 | | Battle of az-Zallaqahwas/Zalaqa/Sagrajas/Zalaca (Extremadura): Yusuf ibn Tashfin & Abbad III al-Mu'tamid defeat Alfonso VI of Castille |
| 1157 | | Battle of Grathe Heath: Valdemar I of Denmark defeats Sweyn III |
| 1448 | | Battle of Gretna/the River Sark: Earl Hugh Douglas of Ormonde defeats the Earl of Northumberland |
| 1502 | | Long conference between Niccolo Machiavelli & Cesare Borgia, dominated by concern over the latter's treacherous lieutenants -- Learn More |
| 1641 | | Irish Rebellion: Despite the arrest of their principal leaders the night before, Irish Catholic patriots revolt against English domination, leading to widespread massacres of Catholics by Protestants |
| 1642 | | Edgehill, first battle of the English Civil War |
| 1679 | | Protestant-inspired "Meal Tub Plot" against the Duke of York (later James II of England) is revealed |
| 1702 | | Battle of Vigo Bay: George Rooke's Anglo-Dutch squadron annihilates François de Château Renault's Franco-Spanish one, but fails to capture the treasure it carries, some of which has either already been offloaded and some sunk to the bottom |
| 1739 | | "War of Jenkins's Ear": England declares war on Spain (1739-1748, having merged into the War of the Austrian Succession) |
| 1775 | | Congress bars blacks from the Continental Army, but the measure is generally ignored |
| 1790 | | Slave revolt in Haiti |
| 1861 | | Combat at West Liberty, Ky |
| 1864 | | Battle of Westport: Samuel Curtis' Yanks defeat Sterling Price's Rebs near Kansas City |
| 1865 | | Damaged by Haitian coast artillery, the paddle sloop HMS 'Bulwark' is scuttled; she is the only British warship lost to hostile action between 1856 and 1914 |
| 1912 | | First Balkan War -- Battle of Kumanovo: The Serbs crush the Ottomans in northern Macedonia |
| 1942 | | Guadalcanal: Battle of Edson's Ridge - Japanese assault broken |
| 1942 | | The British Eighth Army opens the Alamein offensive, during which the fictional Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini is wounded |
| 1944 | | Battle of Leyte Gulf begins, as US submarines 'Dace' (SS 247) & 'Darter' (SS 227), torpedo three Japanese heavy cruisers, sinking 'Atago' & 'Maya' |
| 1956 | | Hungarian Revolution begins (crushed by the Soviets by 4 November) |
| 1957 | | Test firing of the Vanguard satellite launch vehicle TV-3 |
| 1962 | | USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 meters |
| 1983 | | The Beirut Barracks Bombing: 241 US & 58 French military peacekeepers, and 6 civilians are killed when two members o Islamic Jihad detaonate a truck bomb |
| 1989 | | "Velvet Revolution" in Hungary ousts the Communist regime |
| 64 | BC | Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, school mate, general, admiral, factotum, and son-in-law, to the Emperor Augustus, d. 12 BC [Trad] |
| 1698 | | Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect, designer of the Ecole Militaire and the Naval Ministry, d. 1782 |
| 1705 | | Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Irish soldier of fortune, Austrian field marshal and baron of the HRE, d. 1757 |
| 1715 | | Tsar Peter II of Russia (1727-30) |
| 1766 | | Emmanuel de Grouchy, French marshal, who blew the big one in 1815, d. 1847 |
| 1820 | | James Monroe Goggin, Brig Gen, C.S.A. d. 1889 |
| 1824 | | Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1895 |
| 1828 | | Turner Ashby, Brig Gen, C.S.A., kia 1862 |
| 1844 | | Louis Riel, French Canadian nationalist rebel, executed, 1885 |
| 1925 | | Radu Florescu, in Bucharest, Romanian-American Balkan scholar ("The Struggle Against Russia in the Romanian Principalities," "In Search of Dracula," etc.), d. 2014 |
| 524 | | Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius, c. 50, philosoper and bureaucrat, executed for conspiracy by King Theodoric of the Ostrogoths [or maybe 525], later canonized |
| 877 | | St. Ignatius of Constantinople, c. 80, Patriach of Constantinople (847- 858, 867- 877) |
| 891 | | Yazman al-Khadim, ("the eunuch"), Abbasid Governor of Tarsus (882-891), general and admiral, k. by a Byzantein catapult bolt |
| 1404 | | Paolo Colleoni, Lord of Solza & Chignolo, Condottiero, murdered by his cousins Giovanni & Paolo |
| 1468 | | Bianca Maria Visconti, 43, only child of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti of Milan, wife to Francesco Sforza |
| 1764 | | Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, c. 80, French admiral, Seven Years' War. |
| 1842 | | Bernardo O'Higgins, 64, sometime "Dictator Supreme" of Chile |
| 1848 | | Juan Bautista Azopardo, 74, Maltese privateer and soldier-of-fortune, Argentine naval hero |
| 1910 | | King Rama V Chulalongkon of Thailand (1868-1910), at 57 |
| 2002 | | Lady Elizabeth Longford, 96, historian ("Wellington") |