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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2020
November 21 is the 325th day of the
year (326th in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
40 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem.
This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. ·
235 – Pope Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope.
During the persecutions of emperor Maximinus Thrax he is martyred. ·
1009 – Lý Công Uẩn is
enthroned as emperor of Đại
Cồ Việt, founding the Lý dynasty. ·
1386 – Timur of Samarkand captures and
sacks the Georgian capital
of Tbilisi, taking King Bagrat V of Georgia captive. ·
1620 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign
the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.) ·
1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the
first quantitative measurements of
the speed of light. ·
1783 – In Paris, Jean-François
Pilâtre de Rozier and François
Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight. ·
1789 – North Carolina ratifies the United States
Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state. ·
1832 – Wabash College is founded in Crawfordsville,
Indiana. ·
1861 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin Secretary of War. ·
1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention
of the phonograph, a machine
that can record and play sound. ·
1894 – Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese,
a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese
War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the
remaining inhabitants. ·
1902 – The Philadelphia
Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola
Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever
professional American football night game. ·
1905 – Albert Einstein's paper that leads to
the mass–energy
equivalence formula, E = mc², is
published in the journal Annalen der Physik. ·
1910 – Sailors on
board Brazil's warships including the Minas
Gerais, São
Paulo, and Bahia,
violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash). ·
1916 – Mines
from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship
lost in the First World War. ·
1918 – The Flag of Estonia, previously used by
pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as the national flag of
the Republic of Estonia. ·
1918 – The Parliament
(Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is passed, allowing women
to stand for Parliament in the UK. ·
1918 – A pogrom takes
place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at
least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles. ·
1920 – Irish War of
Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became
known as "Bloody Sunday". ·
1922 – Rebecca Latimer
Felton of Georgia takes
the oath of office, becoming the first female United States
Senator. ·
1927 – Columbine Mine
massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly
attacked with machine guns by
a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes. ·
1942 – The completion
of the Alaska Highway (also
known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable
by standard road vehicles until 1943). ·
1944 – World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks
the Japanese
battleship Kongō and Japanese
destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait. ·
1945 – The United Auto Workers strike
92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a
30-percent raise. ·
1950 – Two Canadian
National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train
crash; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound
for Korea. ·
1953 – The Natural
History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the
most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax. ·
1959 – American disc
jockey Alan Freed, who had
popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style,
is fired from WABC-AM radio
over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal. ·
1961 – The "La Ronde"
opens in Honolulu, first revolving restaurant in
the United States. ·
1962 – The
Chinese People's
Liberation Army declares a unilateral ceasefire in the Sino-Indian War. ·
1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows
Bridge opens to traffic. At the time it is the world's
longest bridge span. ·
1964 – Second Vatican
Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic
Church's ecumenical council closes. ·
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells
news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy
was winning, today he is certainly losing." ·
1969 – U.S.
President Richard Nixon and
Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree
on the return of Okinawa to Japanese
control in 1972. The U.S. retains rights to bases on the island, but these
are to be nuclear-free. ·
1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established
between UCLA and SRI. ·
1970 – Vietnam
War: Operation Ivory
Coast: A joint United States Air Force and Army team raids
the Sơn Tây prisoner-of-war camp in
an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there. ·
1971 – Indian troops,
partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas),
defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur. ·
1972 – Voters in South
Korea overwhelmingly approve a new constitution, giving legitimacy to Park Chung-hee and the Fourth
Republic. ·
1974 – The Birmingham pub
bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in
prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted. ·
1977 – Minister
of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that the national anthems of New Zealand shall
be the traditional anthem "God Save the Queen"
and "God Defend New Zealand". ·
1979 – The United
States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan,
is attacked by a mob and set
on fire, killing four. ·
1980 – A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand
Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas).
Eighty-seven people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst
disaster in Nevada history. ·
1985 – United States
Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations.
He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison. ·
1986 – National
Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to
shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair. ·
1992 – A major tornado strikes the Houston, Texas area during the afternoon. Over
the next two days the largest tornado
outbreak ever to occur in the US during November spawns over
100 tornadoes. ·
1995 – The Dayton Agreement is initialed at
the Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years
of war in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. ·
1996 – Humberto Vidal
explosion: Thirty-three people die when a Humberto Vidal shoe shop
in Río Piedras,
Puerto Rico explodes. ·
2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members. ·
2004 – The second
round of the Ukrainian
presidential election is held, giving rise to massive
protests and controversy over the election's integrity. ·
2004 – Dominica is hit by the most
destructive earthquake in
its history. The northern half of the island sustains the most damage,
especially the town of Portsmouth.
In neighboring Guadeloupe, one
person is killed. ·
2004 – The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up
to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt. ·
2006 – Anti-Syrian
Lebanese politician and government minister Pierre Gemayel is
assassinated in suburban Beirut. ·
2009 – A mine
explosion in Heilongjiang, China kills 108. ·
2012 – At least 28 are
wounded after a bomb is thrown
onto a bus in Tel Aviv. ·
2013 – Fifty-four
people are killed when the roof
of a shopping center collapses in Riga, Latvia. ·
2013 – Massive protests start in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych suspended
signing the Ukraine–European
Union Association Agreement. ·
2014 – A stampede in
Kwekwe, Zimbabwe caused by the police firing tear gas kills at least eleven people
and injures 40 others. ·
2015 – The government
of Belgium imposed a security lockdown on Brussels, including the closure of shops,
schools, public transportation, due to potential terrorist attacks. ·
2017 – Robert Mugabe formally resigns as
President of Zimbabwe, after
thirty-seven years in office. ·
2019 – Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is
indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.[1] Births[edit]
·
1495 – John Bale, English bishop and historian (d.
1563) ·
1567 – Anne de Xainctonge,
French saint, founded the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed
Virgin (d. 1621) ·
1631 – Catharina Questiers,
Dutch poet (d. 1669) ·
1692 – Carlo Innocenzo
Frugoni, Italian poet and academic (d. 1768) ·
1694 – Voltaire, French historian, playwright, and
philosopher (d. 1778) ·
1718 – Friedrich
Wilhelm Marpurg, German composer, critic, and theorist (d. 1795) ·
1729 – Josiah Bartlett, American physician and
politician, 6th Governor of New
Hampshire (d. 1795) ·
1760 – Joseph Plumb Martin,
American sergeant (d. 1850) ·
1768 – Friedrich
Schleiermacher, German theologian, philosopher, and scholar (d.
1834) ·
1785 – William Beaumont, American surgeon,
"Father of Gastric Physiology" (d. 1853) ·
1787 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian businessman, founded
the Cunard Line (d.
1865) ·
1811 – Ludwik Gorzkowski,
Polish politician, physicist and revolutionary activist (d. 1857)[2] ·
1811 – Zeng Guofan, Chinese general and
politician, Viceroy of
Liangjiang (d. 1872) ·
1818 – Lewis H. Morgan, American lawyer,
anthropologist, and theorist (d. 1881) ·
1835 – Hetty Green, American businesswoman and
financier (d. 1916) ·
1840 – Victoria,
Princess Royal of England (d. 1901) ·
1851 – Désiré-Joseph
Mercier, Belgian cardinal and theologian (d. 1926) ·
1852 – Francisco Tárrega,
Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1909) ·
1853 – Hussein Kamel of
Egypt (d. 1917) ·
1854 – Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922) ·
1866 – Sigbjørn Obstfelder,
Norwegian poet and author (d. 1900) ·
1866 – Konishiki Yasokichi
I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (d. 1914) ·
1870 – Alexander Berkman,
Lithuanian-American activist and author (d. 1936) ·
1870 – Joe Darling, Australian cricketer and
politician (d. 1946) ·
1870 – Stanley Jackson, English cricketer and
politician (d. 1947) ·
1876 – Olav Duun, Norwegian author and educator (d.
1939) ·
1877 – Sigfrid Karg-Elert,
German composer and educator (d. 1933) ·
1878 – Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer and
politician, German
Minister of Justice (d. 1949) ·
1886 – Harold Nicolson, English author and
politician (d. 1968) ·
1894 – Cecil M. Harden, American politician (d.
1984) ·
1897 – Mollie Steimer, Russian-American activist
(d. 1980) ·
1898 – René Magritte, Belgian painter (d. 1967)[3] ·
1899 – Jobyna Ralston, American actress (d. 1967) ·
1899 – Harekrushna Mahatab,
Indian journalist and politician, 1st Chief
Minister of Odisha (d. 1987) ·
1902 – Foster Hewitt, Canadian sportscaster (d.
1985) ·
1902 – Isaac Bashevis
Singer, Polish-American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1991) ·
1902 – Mikhail Suslov, Russian soldier, economist,
and politician (d. 1982) ·
1904 – Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist and
clarinet player (d. 1969) ·
1905 – Georgina Battiscombe,
British biographer (d. 2006)[4] ·
1907 – Buck Ram, American songwriter and music
producer (d. 1991) ·
1908 – Leo Politi, Italian-American author and
illustrator (d. 1996) ·
1908 – Elizabeth George
Speare, American author and educator (d. 1994) ·
1912 – Eleanor Powell, American actress and dancer
(d. 1982)[5] ·
1913 – John Boulting, English director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 1985) ·
1913 – Roy Boulting, English director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2001) ·
1913 – Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician,
author, and academic (d. 1975) ·
1914 – Nusret Fişek, Turkish physician and
politician, Turkish
Minister of Health (d. 1990) ·
1914 – Henri Laborit, French physician and
philosopher (d. 1995) ·
1915 – Norm Smith, Australian footballer and coach
(d. 1973) ·
1916 – Sid Luckman, American football player and
soldier (d. 1998) ·
1919 – Paul Bogart, American director and producer
(d. 2012) ·
1920 – Ralph Meeker, American actor (d. 1988) ·
1920 – Stan Musial, American baseball player and
manager (d. 2013)[6] ·
1921 – Donald Sheldon, American pilot (d. 1975) ·
1922 – Abe Lemons, American basketball player and
coach (d. 2002) ·
1924 – Joseph Campanella,
American actor (d. 2018) ·
1924 – Milka Planinc, Yugoslav politician,
28th Prime
Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2010) ·
1924 – Christopher Tolkien,
English author and academic (d. 2020)[7] ·
1925 – Veljko
Kadijević, Croatian general and politician, 5th Federal
Secretary of People's Defence (d. 2014) ·
1926 – William Wakefield
Baum, American cardinal (d. 2015) ·
1927 – Georgia Frontiere,
American businesswoman (d. 2008) ·
1929 – Marilyn French, American author and academic
(d. 2009) ·
1929 – Laurier LaPierre, Canadian historian,
journalist, and politician (d. 2012) ·
1930 – Marjan Rožanc, Slovenian journalist, author,
and playwright (d. 1990) ·
1931 – Lewis Binford, American archaeologist and
academic (d. 2011) ·
1931 – Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian chemist and
physicist (d. 1985) ·
1931 – Stanley Kalms,
Baron Kalms, English businessman ·
1931 – Malcolm Williamson,
Australian pianist and composer (d. 2003) ·
1932 – Beryl Bainbridge, English author and
screenwriter (d. 2010) ·
1932 – Pelle
Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (d. 2016) ·
1933 – Henry Hartsfield, American colonel, pilot,
and astronaut (d. 2014) ·
1933 – Etta Zuber Falconer,
American educator and mathematician (d. 2002) ·
1933 – Jean Shepard, American country music
singer-songwriter (d. 2016) ·
1934 – Laurence Luckinbill,
American actor, director, and playwright ·
1934 – Peter Philpott, Australian cricketer ·
1936 – Victor Chang, Chinese-Australian surgeon (d.
1991) ·
1937 – Ingrid Pitt, Polish-English actress (d.
2010) ·
1937 – Marlo Thomas, American actress, producer,
and activist ·
1939 – R. Budd Dwyer, American educator and
politician, 30th Treasurer of
Pennsylvania (d. 1987) ·
1940 – Freddy Beras-Goico,
Dominican comedian and television host (d. 2010) ·
1940 – Richard Marcinko, American commander and
author ·
1940 – Natalia Makarova, Russian ballerina,
choreographer, and actress ·
1941 – Juliet Mills, English-American actress ·
1941 – David Porter,
American songwriter, musician, and producer ·
1942 – Heidemarie
Wieczorek-Zeul, German educator and politician ·
1943 – Phil Bredesen, American businessman and
politician, 48th Governor of
Tennessee ·
1943 – Jacques Laffite, French race car driver and
sportscaster ·
1944 – Dick Durbin, American lawyer and politician ·
1944 – Earl Monroe, American basketball player and
sportscaster ·
1944 – Harold Ramis, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014) ·
1945 – Goldie Hawn, American actress, singer, and
producer ·
1948 – Michel Suleiman, Lebanese general and
politician, 16th President of Lebanon ·
1948 – George Zimmer, American businessman,
founded Men's Wearhouse ·
1948 – Lonnie Jordan, American singer-songwriter ·
1948 – Alphonse Mouzon, American jazz drummer (d.
2016) ·
1950 – Gary Pihl, American guitarist Boston ·
1950 – Hisham Barakat, Egyptian lawyer and judge
(d. 2015) ·
1950 – Livingston Taylor,
American singer-songwriter and musician ·
1952 – Mervyn
Davies, Baron Davies of Abersoch, Welsh banker and politician ·
1952 – Janne Kristiansen,
Norwegian lawyer and jurist ·
1952 – Lorna Luft, American actress and singer ·
1953 – Tina Brown, English-American journalist and
author ·
1954 – Fiona Pitt-Kethley,
English journalist, author, and poet ·
1955 – Peter Koppes, Australian singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1955 – Cedric Maxwell, American basketball player,
coach, and sportscaster ·
1955 – Glenn Ridge, Australian radio and television
host and producer ·
1956 – Cherry Jones, American actress ·
1959 – Sergei Ratnikov, Estonian footballer and
manager ·
1960 – Mark Bailey,
English rugby player, author, and educator ·
1960 – Brian McNamara, American actor, director,
and producer ·
1960 – Brian Ritchie, American bass player and
songwriter ·
1961 – João Domingos Pinto,
Portuguese footballer and manager ·
1962 – Steven Curtis
Chapman, American Christian music singer-songwriter, musician,
record producer, actor, author, and social activist ·
1962 – Alan
Smith, English football player ·
1963 – Dave Molyneux, Manx motorcycle racer ·
1963 – Nicollette Sheridan,
English actress ·
1964 – Shane Douglas, American wrestler and manager ·
1964 – Liza Tarbuck, English actress, television
& radio presenter ·
1964 – Charles Dunstone, English businessman,
co-founded Carphone Warehouse ·
1964 – Olden Polynice, Haitian-American basketball
player and coach ·
1964 – Stefan Sonnenfeld,
American businessman, co-founded Company 3 ·
1965 – Björk, Icelandic singer-songwriter ·
1965 – Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (d.
1993) ·
1966 – Troy Aikman, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1966 – Evgeny Bareev, Russian chess player and
coach ·
1966 – Thanasis
Kolitsidakis, Greek footballer ·
1967 – Ken Block, American race car driver ·
1967 – Tripp Cromer, American baseball player ·
1967 – Toshihiko Koga, Japanese martial artist ·
1967 – Amanda Lepore, American model and singer ·
1968 – Andrew Caddick, New Zealand-English
cricketer ·
1968 – Alex James,
English singer-songwriter, bass player ·
1968 – Antonio Tarver, American boxer,
sportscaster, and actor ·
1969 – Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball player
and actor ·
1970 – Karen Davila, Filipino journalist ·
1970 – Justin Langer, Australian cricketer and
coach ·
1971 – Michael Strahan, American football player,
actor, and talk show host ·
1972 – Rich Johnston, English author and critic ·
1972 – Rain Phoenix, American actress and singer ·
1972 – Darrell Cavens, Canadian co-founder and
former CEO of e-commerce company Zulily ·
1976 – Mihaela Botezan, Romanian long-distance
runner[8] ·
1976 – Saleem Elahi, Pakistani cricketer ·
1976 – Martin Meichelbeck,
German footballer ·
1976 – Daniel Whiston, English figure skater ·
1976 – Michael
Wilson, Australian footballer ·
1977 – Michael Batiste, American former
professional basketball player ·
1977 – Yolande James, Canadian lawyer and
politician ·
1977 – Jonas Jennings, American football player ·
1978 – Daniel Bradshaw, Australian footballer ·
1978 – Lucía Jiménez,
Spanish actress and singer ·
1979 – Vincenzo Iaquinta,
Italian footballer ·
1979 – Stromile Swift, American basketball player ·
1979 – Alex Tanguay, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1980 – Hank Blalock, American baseball player ·
1980 – Alec Brownstein, American author and
director ·
1980 – Leonardo González,
Costa Rican footballer ·
1981 – Wesley Britt, American football player ·
1981 – Ainārs Kovals, Latvian javelin thrower ·
1981 – Jonny Magallón,
Mexican footballer ·
1982 – Ioana Ciolacu, Romanian fashion designer ·
1982 – Georgios
Kalogiannidis, Greek archer ·
1983 – Jamie Langley, English rugby player ·
1984 – Álvaro Bautista,
Spanish motorcycle racer ·
1984 – Jena Malone, American actress and singer ·
1985 – Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer-songwriter
and actress ·
1985 – Jesús Navas, Spanish footballer ·
1985 – Nicola Silvestri, Italian footballer ·
1986 – Colleen Ballinger,
American comedian, actress, and singer ·
1986 – Ben Bishop, American ice hockey player ·
1986 – Kristof Goddaert, Belgian cyclist (d. 2014) ·
1987 – Stefan Glarner, Swiss footballer ·
1987 – Eesha Karavade, Indian chess player ·
1988 – Len Väljas, Canadian skier ·
1988 – Preston Zimmerman,
American soccer player ·
1989 – Will Buckley,
English footballer ·
1989 – Dárvin Chávez,
Mexican footballer ·
1989 – Justin Tucker, American football player ·
1989 – Fabian Delph, English footballer ·
1990 – Dani King, English cyclist ·
1990 – Georgie Twigg, English field hockey player ·
1991 – Almaz Ayana, Ethiopian sprinter ·
1991 – Lewis Dunk, English footballer ·
1991 – Peni Terepo, New Zealand rugby league player ·
1992 – Conor Maynard, English singer-songwriter ·
1994 – Saúl Ñíguez,
Spanish footballer Deaths[edit]
·
615 – Columbanus, Irish missionary and saint (b.
543) ·
933 – Al-Tahawi, Arab imam and scholar (b. 853) ·
1011 – Reizei, emperor of Japan (b. 950) ·
1136 – William de Corbeil,
English archbishop (b. 1070) ·
1150 – García Ramírez
of Navarre (b. 1112) ·
1325 – Yury of Moscow, Prince of Moscow and
Vladimir ·
1361 – Philip I, Duke
of Burgundy (b. 1346) ·
1555 – Georgius Agricola,
German mineralogist, philologist, and scholar (b. 1490) ·
1566 – Annibale Caro, Italian poet and author (b.
1507) ·
1579 – Thomas Gresham, English merchant and
financier (b. 1519) ·
1639 – Henry Grey,
8th Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Bedfordshire (b. 1583) ·
1652 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician,
physician, and astronomer (b. 1585) ·
1695 – Henry Purcell, English organist and composer
(b. 1659) ·
1775 – John Hill,
English botanist and author (b. 1719) ·
1782 – Jacques de Vaucanson,
French engineer (b. 1709) ·
1811 – Heinrich von Kleist,
German poet and author (b. 1777) ·
1844 – Ivan Krylov, Russian poet and playwright (b.
1769) ·
1859 – Yoshida Shōin, Japanese academic and
politician (b. 1830) ·
1861 – Jean-Baptiste
Henri Lacordaire, French priest and activist (b. 1802) ·
1870 – Karel Jaromír Erben,
Czech historian and poet (b. 1811) ·
1874 – Marià Fortuny, Spanish painter (b. 1838) ·
1881 – Ami Boué, German-Austrian geologist and
ethnographer (b. 1794) ·
1899 – Garret Hobart, American lawyer and
politician, 24th Vice
President of the United States (b. 1844) ·
1907 – Harry Boyle,
Australian cricketer (b. 1847) ·
1907 – Paula
Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876) ·
1908 – Carl
Friedrich Schmidt, German-Russian geologist and botanist (b. 1832) ·
1909 – Peder Severin Krøyer,
Norwegian-Danish painter (b. 1851) ·
1916 – Franz Joseph I
of Austria (b. 1830) ·
1922 – Ricardo Flores Magón,
Mexican journalist and activist (b. 1874) ·
1926 – Edward Cummins, American golfer (b. 1886) ·
1928 – Heinrich
XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line (b. 1858) ·
1934 – John Scaddan, Australian politician,
10th Premier of
Western Australia (b. 1876) ·
1938 – Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist
and composer (b. 1870) ·
1941 – Henrietta Vinton
Davis, American actress and playwright (b. 1860) ·
1942 – Count Leopold
Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician, Foreign
Minister of Austria-Hungary (b. 1863) ·
1942 – J. B. M. Hertzog, South African general and
politician, 3rd Prime
Minister of South Africa (b. 1866) ·
1945 – Robert Benchley, American humorist,
newspaper columnist, and actor (b. 1889) ·
1945 – Al Davis, American boxer (b. 1920) ·
1945 – Ellen Glasgow, American author (b. 1873) ·
1945 – Alexander Patch, American general (b. 1889) ·
1947 – William McCormack,
Australian politician, 22nd Premier of
Queensland (b. 1879) ·
1953 – Felice Bonetto, Italian race car driver (b.
1903) ·
1953 – António Cabreira,
Portuguese polygraph (b. 1868)[9] ·
1953 – Larry Shields, American clarinet player and
composer (b. 1893) ·
1957 – Francis Burton
Harrison, American general and politician, 6th Governor-General
of the Philippines (b. 1873) ·
1958 – Mel Ott, American baseball player, manager,
and sportscaster (b. 1909) ·
1959 – Max Baer, American boxer, referee, and actor
(b. 1909) ·
1962 – Frank Amyot, Canadian canoeist (b. 1904)[10] ·
1963 – Artur Lemba, Estonian composer and educator
(b. 1885) ·
1963 – Robert Stroud, American ornithologist and
author (b. 1890) ·
1964 – Catherine Bauer
Wurster, American architect and public housing advocate (b. 1905)[11] ·
1967 – C. M. Eddy, Jr., American author (b. 1896) ·
1970 – Newsy Lalonde, Canadian lacrosse and ice
hockey player (b. 1887) ·
1970 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1888) ·
1973 – Thomas Pelly, American lawyer and politician
(b. 1902) ·
1974 – John B. Gambling, American radio host (b.
1897) ·
1974 – Frank Martin,
Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer (b. 1890) ·
1975 – Gunnar Gunnarsson,
Icelandic author (b. 1889) ·
1980 – Sara García, Mexican actress (b. 1895) ·
1981 – Harry von Zell, American actor and comedian
(b. 1906) ·
1982 – John Hargrave, English activist and author
(b. 1894) ·
1984 – Ben Wilson,
American basketball player (b. 1967) ·
1986 – Jerry Colonna,
American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1904) ·
1988 – Carl Hubbell, American baseball player and
scout (b. 1903) ·
1989 – Harvey Hart, Canadian director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1928) ·
1989 – Margot Zemach, American author and
illustrator (b. 1931) ·
1990 – Dean Hart, Canadian wrestler and referee (b.
1954) ·
1991 – Sonny Werblin, American businessman and
philanthropist (b. 1907) ·
1992 – Kaysone Phomvihane,
Laotian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Laos (b.
1920) ·
1992 – Ricky Williams,
American singer-songwriter and drummer (b. 1956) ·
1993 – Bill Bixby, American actor (b. 1934) ·
1994 – Willem Jacob Luyten,
Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1899) ·
1995 – Peter Grant,
English actor and manager (b. 1935) ·
1995 – Noel Jones,
Indian-English diplomat, British ambassador to Kazakhstan (b.
1940) ·
1996 – Bernard Rose,
English organist and composer (b 1916) ·
1996 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani-English physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1926) ·
1999 – Quentin Crisp, English actor, author, and
illustrator (b. 1908) ·
2000 – Ernest Lluch, Spanish economist and
politician (b. 1937) ·
2002 – Hadda Brooks, American singer-songwriter and
pianist (b. 1916) ·
2005 – Alfred Anderson,
Scottish soldier (b. 1896) ·
2005 – Hugh Sidey, American journalist and academic
(b. 1927) ·
2006 – Hassan Gouled
Aptidon, Somalian-Djiboutian politician, 1st President of
Djibouti (b. 1916) ·
2006 – Pierre Amine Gemayel,
Lebanese lawyer and politician (b. 1972) ·
2007 – Fernando Fernán
Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1921) ·
2007 – Tom Johnson,
Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1928) ·
2007 – Noel McGregor, New Zealand cricketer (b.
1931) ·
2009 – Konstantin
Feoktistov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1926) ·
2010 – Norris Church Mailer,
American author (b. 1949) ·
2010 – David Nolan,
American activist and politician (b. 1943) ·
2010 – Margaret
Taylor-Burroughs, American painter and author, co-founded
the DuSable
Museum of African American History (b. 1917) ·
2011 – Anne McCaffrey, American science fiction and
fantasy author (b. 1926) ·
2012 – Emily Squires, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1941) ·
2012 – Austin Peralta, American pianist (b. 1990) ·
2013 – John Egerton,
American journalist and author (b. 1935) ·
2013 – Fred Kavli, Norwegian-American businessman
and philanthropist, founded The
Kavli Foundation (b. 1927) ·
2013 – Dimitri Mihalas, American astronomer and
author (b. 1939) ·
2013 – Vern Mikkelsen, American basketball player
and coach (b. 1928) ·
2013 – Bernard Parmegiani,
French composer (b. 1927) ·
2013 – Tôn Thất
Đính, Vietnamese general (b. 1926) ·
2013 – Maurice Vachon, Canadian-American wrestler
(b. 1929) ·
2014 – John H. Land, American soldier and
politician (b. 1920) ·
2014 – Robert
Richardson, English general (b. 1929) ·
2015 – Gil Cardinal, Canadian director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1950) ·
2015 – Ameen Faheem, Indian-Pakistani poet and
politician (b. 1939) ·
2015 – Bob Foster,
American boxer and police officer (b. 1938) ·
2015 – Anthony Read, English screenwriter and
producer (b. 1935) ·
2015 – Joseph Silverstein,
American violinist and conductor (b. 1932) ·
2016 – Hassan Sadpara, Pakistani mountaineer and
adventurer (b. 1963) ·
2017 – David Cassidy, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1950) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Air Assault
Forces Day (Ukraine) ·
Armed
Forces Day (Bangladesh) ·
Christian feast days: o Digain o Presentation of the
Blessed Virgin Mary o Rufus of Rome (no. 7 in list) o William Byrd, John Merbecke and Thomas Tallis (Episcopal Church
(USA)) o November
21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
General Framework Agreement Day (Republika Srpska) ·
World Television Day (United Nations
observance) |
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