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Famous People Who Died in November 1793

Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)

Nov 3 French playwright and revolutionary (Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen), executed by guillotine at 45

  • Nov 6 Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, dies at 46
  • Nov 8 Madame Roland [Marie-Jeanne Phlippon], French revolutionary (member of the Girondist faction), executed by guillotine at 39
  • Nov 12 Jean-Sylvain Bailly, French Statesman, astronomer (computed orbit for Halley’s Comet (1759), and author, guillotined during the Reign of Terror at 57
  • Nov 24 Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)