November 21
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[edit] Births
- 1694 - François-Marie Arouet (later known as Voltaire), French philosopher (d. 1778)
- 1761 - Dorothy Jordan, British actress and royal mistress (d. 1816)
- 1768 - Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, theologian, philosopher (d. 1834)
- 1787 - Samuel Cunard, shipping magnate (d. 1865)
- 1835 - Hetty Green, US businesswoman (d. 1916)
- 1854 - Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922)
- 1860 - Tom Horn, murderer-for-hire
- 1870 - Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official
- 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)
- 1904 - Coleman Hawkins, jazz musician (d. 1969)
- 1912 - Eleanor Powell, actress, dancer (d. 1983)
- 1913 - Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (d. 2001)
- 1916 - Sid Luckman, US football player (d. 1998)
- 1920 - Ralph Meeker, actor (d. 1988)
- 1920 - Stan Musial, baseball player
- 1921 - Vivian Blaine, actress (d. 1995)
- 1922 - María Casarès, actress (d. 1996)
- 1931 - Malcolm Williamson, composer (d. 2003)
- 1933 - Joseph Campanella, actor
- 1936 - Victor Chang, Australian doctor, heart transplant pioneer
- 1938 - Marlo Thomas, actress
- 1939 - Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
- 1940 - Dr. John, musician
- 1940 - Richard Marcinko, author and former SEAL team member
- 1941 - Juliet Mills, actress
- 1944 - Earl Monroe, basketball player
- 1944 - Harold Ramis, actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer
- 1945 - Goldie Hawn, actress
- 1950 - Alberto Juantorena, Cuban athlete
- 1952 - Deborah Shelton, actress
- 1962 - Steven Curtis Chapman, contemporary Christian music star
- 1963 - Nicolette Sheridan, actress
- 1965 - Björk, singer, songwriter, actress
- 1965 - Alexander Siddig, actor
- 1966 - Troy Aikman, US football star
- 1969 - Ken Griffey, Jr., baseball player
- 1973 - Brooke Kerr, actress
- 1977 - Jonas Jennings, US football player
- 1980 - Hank Blalock, baseball player
- 1984 - Jena Malone, actress
[edit] 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
- 1811 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (b. 1777)
- 1899 - Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)
- 1916 - Franz Josef I of Austria
- 1937 - Howard Coffin, American automobile executive
- 1945 - Robert Benchley, writer and actor
- 1953 - Larry Shields, jazz musician (b. 1893)
- 1957 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)
- 1959 - Max Baer, boxer
- 1974 - John B. Gambling, radio talk-show host
- 1974 - Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890)
- 1988 - Carl Hubbell, baseball player
- 1993 - Bill Bixby, American actor and director
- 1995 - Noel Jones, British diplomat
- 1996 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist (b. 1926)
- 1999 - Quentin Crisp, writer, satirist, actor
- 2002 - Hadda Brooks, American jazz singer, pianist, and composer
- 2002 - Günter Müggenburg, journalist
