November 21
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November 21 is the 326th day of the year (327th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 39 days remaining after November 21 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 1694 – François-Marie Arouet (later known as Voltaire), French philosopher (d. 1778)
- 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)
- 1854 – Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922)
- 1870 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (d. 1964)
- 1878 – Gustav Radbruch, German law professor (d. 1949)
- 1882 – Paul Niehans, physicist (d.1971)
- 1898 – René Magritte, Belgian painter (d. 1967)
- 1902 – Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (d. 1985)
- 1902 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born writer (d. 1991)
- 1904 – Coleman Hawkins, American jazz musician (d. 1969)
- 1912 – Eleanor Powell, actress, dancer (d. 1983)
- 1913 – Roy Boulting, English film 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
- 1921 – Vivian Blaine, actress (d. 1995)
- 1922 – María Casarès, actress (d. 1996)
- 1924 – Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2010)
- 1931 – Malcolm Williamson, composer (d. 2003)
- 1932 – Beryl Bainbridge, British writer (d. 2010)
- 1933 – Joseph Campanella, actor
- 1936 – Victor Chang, Australian doctor, heart transplant pioneer (d. 1991)
- 1938 – Marlo Thomas, actress
- 1940 – Dr. John, American musician
- 1941 – Juliet Mills, actress
- 1943 – Phil Bredesen, American politician
- 1944 – Earl Monroe, American basketball player
- 1944 – Harold Ramis, actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer
- 1945 – Goldie Hawn, American singer and actress
- 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
- 1973 – Brooke Kerr, actress
- 1977 – Jonas Jennings, American football player
- 1979 – Vincenzo Iaquinta, Italian footballer
- 1980 – Hank Blalock, American baseball player
- 1984 – Jena Malone, American actress
[change] Deaths
- 496 – Pope Gelasius I
- 1361 – Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)
- 1555 – Georg Agricola, German scientist (b. 1490)
- 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)
- 1945 – Robert Benchley, writer and actor (b. 1889)
- 1953 – Larry Shields, jazz musician (b. 1893)
- 1957 – Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)
- 1959 – Max Baer, boxer (b. 1909)
- 1969 – Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (b. 1924)
- 1970 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist (b. 1888)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 2009 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Greg Halman, Dutch baseball player (b. 1987)
[change] Events
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2005 – Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon founds a new political party, the Kadima Party.
- 2009 – A mine explosion in Heilongjiang province in northern China kills 108 people.
