November 21
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November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 40 days remaining until the end of the year.
Births [change]
- 1495 - John Bale, English churchman (d. 1563)
- 1643 - Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
- 1692 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (d. 1768)
- 1694 – François-Marie Arouet (later known as Voltaire), French philosopher (d. 1778)
- 1718 - Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, German music critic, music theorist and composer (d. 1795)
- 1729 – Josiah Bartlett, American politician (d. 1795)
- 1761 – Dorothy Jordan, British actress and royal mistress (d. 1816)
- 1768 – Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1834)
- 1787 – Samuel Cunard, shipping magnate (d. 1865)
- 1811 – Zeng Guofan, Chinese military leader (d. 1872)
- 1835 – Hetty Green, American businesswoman (d. 1916)
- 1840 – Victoria, Princess Royal (d. 1901)
- 1852 – Francisco Tarrega, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1909)
- 1853 - Hussein Kamal, Sultan of Egypt (d. 1917)
- 1854 – Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922)
- 1870 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (d. 1964)
- 1876 - Olav Duun, Norwegian writer (d. 1939)
- 1878 – Gustav Radbruch, German law professor (d. 1949)
- 1882 – Paul Niehans, physicist (d.1971)
- 1882 - Harold Lowe, Welsh 5th Officer of the RMS Titanic (d. 1944)
- 1898 – René Magritte, Belgian painter (d. 1967)
- 1902 – Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (d. 1985)
- 1902 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born writer (d. 1991)
- 1902 - Mikhail Suslov, Soviet statesman (d. 1982)
- 1904 – Coleman Hawkins, American jazz musician (d. 1969)
- 1912 – Eleanor Powell, American actress and dancer (d. 1983)
- 1913 – Roy Boulting, English movie director and producer (d. 2001)
- 1916 – Sid Luckman, American football player (d. 1998)
- 1920 – Ralph Meeker, actor (d. 1988)
- 1920 – Stan Musial, American baseball player (d. 2013)
- 1921 – Vivian Blaine, actress (d. 1995)
- 1922 – María Casarès, Spanish-born actress (d. 1996)
- 1924 – Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2010)
- 1924 - Christopher Tolkien, British writer
- 1925 - Xie Jin, Chinese movie director (d. 2008)
- 1926 - William Wakefield Baum, American cardinal
- 1927 - Joseph Campanella, American actor
- 1931 - Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian scientist (d. 1985)
- 1931 – Malcolm Williamson, composer (d. 2003)
- 1932 – Beryl Bainbridge, British writer (d. 2010)
- 1935 - Fairuz, Lebanese singer
- 1936 – Victor Chang, Australian doctor, heart transplant pioneer (d. 1991)
- 1937 - Ingrid Pitt, British actress (d. 2010)
- 1938 – Marlo Thomas, actress
- 1939 - Budd Dwyer, American politician (d. 1987)
- 1940 – Dr. John, American musician
- 1941 – Juliet Mills, actress
- 1943 – Phil Bredesen, American politician, 48th Governor of Tennessee
- 1944 – Earl Monroe, American basketball player
- 1944 – Harold Ramis, actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer
- 1945 – Goldie Hawn, American singer and actress
- 1948 - Michel Suleiman, Lebanese President
- 1950 – Alberto Juantorena, Cuban athlete
- 1952 – Lorna Luft, American singer and actress
- 1952 – Deborah Shelton, actress
- 1963 – Nicollette Sheridan, British actress
- 1965 – Björk, Icelandic singer, songwriter, musician and actress
- 1965 – Alexander Siddig, British actor
- 1966 – Troy Aikman, American football player
- 1968 – Alex James, British musician (Blur)
- 1969 – Ken Griffey, Jr., American baseball player
- 1970 - Justin Langer, Australian cricketer
- 1970 - Dante Washington, American soccer player
- 1971 - Michael Strahan, American football player
- 1973 – Brook Kerr, American actress
- 1977 – Jonas Jennings, American football player
- 1978 - Sara Tanaka, American actress
- 1979 – Vincenzo Iaquinta, Italian footballer
- 1979 - Alex Tanguay, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Hank Blalock, American baseball player
- 1982 - Georgios Kalogiannidis, Greek archer
- 1984 – Jena Malone, American actress
- 1985 - Jesus Navas, Spanish footballer
- 1985 - Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer
- 1985 - Nicola Silvestri, Italian footballer
- 1985 - Michael Hamlin, American football player
- 1986 - Ben Bishop, American ice hockey player
- 1992 - Rino Sashihara, Japanese singer (AKB48)
- 1992 - Conor Maynard, British singer
Deaths [change]
- 496 – Pope Gelasius I
- 1011 - Emperor Reizei of Japan (b. 950)
- 1361 – Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)
- 1555 – Georg Agricola, German scientist (b. 1490)
- 1652 - Jan Brozek, Polish mathematician, physician and astronomer (b. 1585)
- 1695 – Henry Purcell, English composer (b. 1659)
- 1811 – Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (b. 1777)
- 1899 – Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)
- 1916 – Franz Joseph I of Austria (b. 1830)
- 1924 – Florence Harding, First Lady of the United States (b. 1860)
- 1942 - Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863)
- 1942 - J. B. M. Hertzog, South African politician (b. 1866)
- 1945 – Robert Benchley, writer and actor (b. 1889)
- 1953 – Larry Shields, American jazz musician (b. 1893)
- 1957 – Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)
- 1959 – Max Baer, American boxer (b. 1909)
- 1963 - Robert Stroud, American criminal and ornithologist, known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" (b. 1890)
- 1969 – Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (b. 1924)
- 1970 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist (b. 1888)
- 1970 - Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
- 1974 – John B. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1897)
- 1974 – Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890)
- 1975 – Gunnar Gunnarsson, Icelandic writer (b. 1889)
- 1988 – Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
- 1992 - Kaysone Phomvihane, President of Laos (b. 1920)
- 1993 – Bill Bixby, American actor and director (b. 1934)
- 1995 – Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)
- 1996 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist (b. 1926)
- 1999 – Quentin Crisp, British writer, satirist, actor (b. 1908)
- 2000 – Emil Zatopek, Czech athlete (b. 1922)
- 2001 – Salahuddin of Malaysia, King of Malaysia (b. 1926)
- 2002 - Hadda Brooks, American singer, pianist and composer (b. 1916)
- 2005 – Alfred Anderson, Scottish World War I veteran (b. 1896)
- 2006 – Hassan Gouled Aptidon, first President of Djibouti (b. 1916)
- 2006 – Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1972)
- 2007 - Fernando Fernan Gomez, Spanish actor, director and playwright (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
- 2010 - David Nolan, American activist (b. 1943)
- 2011 – Greg Halman, Dutch baseball player (b. 1987)
- 2011 - Anne McCaffrey, American writer (b. 1926)
- 2012 - Ajmal Kasab, Pakistani terrorist (b. 1987)
Events [change]
- 235 - Antenus succeeds Pontian as Pope.
- 1386 - Timur of Samarkand captures and sacks the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi.
- 1620 – The Pilgrim Fathers sign the Mayflower Compact near Cape Cod.
- 1694 – French philosopher Voltaire is born.
- 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers make the first hot-air balloon flight.
- 1789 – North Carolina becomes the 12th State of the US.
- 1905 - Albert Einstein's paper Does the Inertia of a Body depend on Its Energy Content ? is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
- 1916 – A mine explodes and sinks the British hospital ship HMHS Britannic in the Aegean Sea, killing 30 people.
- 1918 – The Flag of Estonia is formally adopted.
- 1920 - Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what becomes known as "Bloody Sunday". They are 14 British informants, 14 Irish civilians and 3 Irish Republican Army prisoners.
- 1922 - Rebecca Latimer Felton becomes the first female United States Senator, though she has to leave office a day later. She is also the oldest US Senator to take office (at age 87), the shortest-serving US Senator ever, and the last US Senator to have owned slaves.
- 1953 – The British History Museum announces that the Piltdown Man skull is a hoax.
- 1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is opened to traffic over the Hudson River.
- 1969 – President of the United States Richard Nixon and Prime Minister of Japan Eisaku Sato agree to the return of Okinawa to Japan in 1972. The United States keeps its right to have military bases on the island, as long as they are nuclear-free.
- 1974 – In the United Kingdom, the Birmingham Pub Bombings kill 21 people.
- 1980 - In the TV series Dallas, the episode to find out who shot JR Ewing is first broadcast, setting the record-high for a US TV audience.
- 1980 - Fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada, kills 87 people.
- 1995 - The Dayton Peace Agreement is signed in Dayton, Ohio, ending 3-and-a-half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to become members.
- 2004 – In Ukraine's Presidential election, Viktor Yanukovich is declared as the winner, leading to the Orange Revolution, after suspicions of vote-rigging. Many people protest in favour of the defeated candidate Viktor Yushchenko, who wins the re-run of the election on December 26.
- 2004 - The Caribbean islands of Dominica and Guadeloupe are hit by a strong earthquake.
- 2005 – Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon founds a new political party, the Kadima Party.
- 2006 - Anti-Syrian Lebanese politician Pierre Amine Gemayel is murdered in downtown Beirut.
- 2009 – A mine explosion in Heilongjiang province in northern China kills 108 people.
- 2010 - Eurozone Debt Crisis: It is announced that the Republic of Ireland requires a bail-out from the Eurozone.
- 2012 - The only surviving perpetrator of the 26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks, Ajmal Kasab, is executed.
- 2012 - After a week of war between Israel and Gaza, an agreement is reached on a truce.
