November 21st
Holidays and Festivals
Armed Forces Day (Bangladesh)
Flag Day (the Congo) * CLICK HERE
Alascattalo Day (Alaska)
National Adoption Day
National Family Volunteer Day
World Hello Day
World Television Day
False Confession Day
Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic)
Fête de la Raiponce Translation: Rampion Day (French Republican) The First day of the Month of Frimaire in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Let us acknowledge the evils of alcohol and strive to eliminate it...
one glass at a time."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Kir
3 Parts White Wine
1 Part Creme De Casis
Wine of The Day
Hagafen (2008) Late Harvest
Style - Sauvignon Blanc
Sonoma Coast
$35
Beer of The Day
Péché Mortel (Imperial Stout Au Cafe)
Brewer - Brasserie Dieu Du Ciel
Style - Imperial Stout
ABV - 9.5%
Joke of The Day
A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary.
Every word out of the bird's' mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to 'clean up' the bird's vocabulary.
One day after a few beers, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and even more rude. John, in desperation, threw up his hand, grabbed the bird and put him in the freezer. For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed.
Then suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a minute.
Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the door to the freezer. The parrot calmly stepped out onto John's outstretched arms and said "I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions. I'm sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior."
John was stunned at the change in the bird's attitude.
As he was about to ask the parrot what had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, the bird spoke-up, very softly, "May I ask what the turkey did?"
Quote of The Day
“Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant.”
- Unknown
Whisky of The Day
Teacher's "Highland Cream" Blended Scotch Whisky
Price: $20 (1L)
November Observances
Adopt A Senior Pet Month
American Diabetes Month
Aviation History Month
Banana Pudding Lovers Month
Beard Month (US)
Celebrate Empty Nester Month
Child Safety Protection Month
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Epilepsy Awareness Month a.k.a. National Epilepsy Month
Family Stories Month
Final Binary Month (3of 3) (0s and 1s)
Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month
Greens and Plantains Month
Historic Bridge Awareness Month
I Am So Thankful Month
International Creative Child and Adult Month
International Drum (Percussion) Month
International Microfinance Month
Learn Chinese Month
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
MADD's Tie One On For Safety Holiday Campaign (11/16-12/31)
Military Family Appreciation Month
Moustache Month a.k.a. Movember (Australia)
National AIDS Awareness Month
National Adoption Month a.k.a. National Adoption Awareness Month
National Alzheimer's Disease Month
National American Indian Heritage Month (Also see August)
National COPD Awareness Month
National Family Caregivers Month
National Family Literacy Month
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Home Care & Hospice Month
National Hospice Month
National Impotency Month
National Inspirational Role Models Month
National Life Writing Month
National Long-term Care Awareness Month
National Marrow Awareness Month
National Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Awareness & Appreciation Month
National Model Railroad Month
National Native American Heritage Month
National Novel Writing Month
National PPSI AIDS Awareness Month
National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
National Peanut Butter Lovers Month
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month
National Pomegranate Month
National Roasting Month
National Scholarship Month
National Sleep Comfort Month
Native American Heritage Month (Also see August)
No-shave-ember
PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month
Peanut Butter Lovers' Month
Plum Month
Prematurity Awareness Month
Real Jewelry Month
Spinach Month
Squash Month
Sweet Potato Awareness Month (Also see February)
Vegan Month
Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month
Observances this Week
Game and Puzzle Week, Third Week in November
American Education Week, Full Week Before the Week of Thanksgiving
National Book Awareness Week, Third Monday to Saturday in November
National Farm-City Week,Week ending on Thanksgiving
Historical Events on November 21st
(164 BC) Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
235 St Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
695 Pope Sergius names Willibrord as Archbishop Clemens of Friezen
1272 Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.
1317 Frederik of Sierck/Zyrick becomes bishop of Utrecht
1492 Pinta under Martin A Pinzon separates from Columbus's fleet
1620 Pilgrim Fathers reach America, Provincetown Harbor, Mass. Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact
1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
1696 J Vanbrughes "Relapse or Virtue in Danger," premieres in London
1729 Netherlands signs Treaty of Seville
1759 Battle at Maxen: Prussian army surrenders to Austrians
1783 In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
1787 Andrew Jackson admitted to bar
1789 North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
1791 Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.
1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered
1806 Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England
1813 Stettin surrenders to allied armies
1818 Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1824 1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC
1834 HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile
1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
1848 Alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris
1848 Cincinnati Turngemeinde founded
1849 Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna
1852 Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College
1861 American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war.
1864 Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia
1865 Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
1871 Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter (NYC)
1871 The 1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot
1876 Skirmish between HM Stanley's expedition & natives
1877 Thomas Edison announces his invention of the "talking machine" (phonograph), a machine that can record and play sound.
1880 Henry Stanley & Pierre de Brazza quarrel about possession of Congo
1894 Port Arthur massacre: Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War.
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" (BG)
1901 Richard Strauss' opera "Feuersnot," premieres in Dresden
1902 1st night football game, Phila Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1902 Baseball's Phila Athletics & Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League
1905 1st game ever played in the Australian Tennis Open
1905 Albert Einstein's paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².
1906 China prohibits opium trade
1914 Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1914 British army conquerors Bazra
1916 A mine explodes and sinks HMHS Britannic in the Aegean Sea, killing 30 people in World War I.
1917 M Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer
1918 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die
1918 Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
1918 Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland
1920 In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as "Bloody Sunday". This included fourteen British informants, fourteen Irish civilians and three Irish Republican Army prisoners in the Irish War of Independence.
1920 Karel Capék's "Vec Makropulos," premieres in Prague
1920 Mussolini's squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna Italy
1922 Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
1924 British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with USSR
1925 Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears
1927 Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
1933 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1934 "Uiver" returns from Schiphol in London-Melbourne air race
1934 NY Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals (Pacific Coast League)
1935 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
1935 Jean Giraudoux' "La Guerre de Troie n'Aura," premieres in Paris
1937 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres in Lenningrad
1938 Belgian king Leopold III visits Netherlands
1938 Nazi forces occupy western Czech & declared them German citizens
1940 Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands
1942 Hitler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don)
1942 The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by general vehicles until 1943).
1942 Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in "Tale of Two Kitties"
1943 7 Belgian ministers in London sentence King Leopold III
1944 Personnel & executive staff of Philips demonstrate for more food
1945 Benjamin Britten's 2nd String quartet in C, premieres
1945 General Motors workers go on strike
1946 Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria
1946 Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub
1947 Bill Longson beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1949 Bill Veeck sells Indians for $22 million
1952 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
1952 Dodgers pitcher Joe Black wins NL Rookie of Year
1953 The British Natural History Museum announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
1953 WKJG TV channel 33 in Ft Wayne, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Peron
1955 KTVO TV channel 3 in Ottumwa-Kirksville, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Don Newcombe, wins NL MVP & 1st-ever Cy Young Award
1959 Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1960 Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down
1962 The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
1963 JFK flies to Texas
1964 "Something More!" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 15 perfs
1964 "Zizi" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances
1964 Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI signs The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.
1964 The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it is the world's longest suspension bridge).
1965 1st freighter arrives in Ashdod Port Israel
1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1966 Dutch government of Zijlstra forms
1967 Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
1967 American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters about the Vietnam War... "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
1968 Cincinati trades shortstop Leo Cardenas to Twins for pitcher Jim Merritt
1968 Supremes & Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
1969 KXIX (now KVCT) TV channel 19 in Victoria, TX (ABC) 1st broadcast
1969 The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
1969 U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, D.C. on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 NY Knicks 1st game against Cleve Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at Madison Square Garden
1970 Operation Ivory Coast of the Vietnam War, A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison 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.
1971 NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1971 Richard Baker becomes teacher of SF Zen Center
1972 Red Sox Carlton Fisk wins AL Rookie of Year, Mets Jon Matlack wins NL
1973 Pete Rose wins NL MVP
1973 President Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18½ minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate
1974 Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over Pres Ford's veto
1974 The Birmingham Pub Bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.
1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped
1977 1st flight of Concorde (London to New York)
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 the poem "God Defend New Zealand", written by Thomas Bracken, as set to music by John Joseph Woods, both being of equal status as national anthems appropriate to the occasion.
1977 Orioles 1st baseman Eddie Murray wins AL Rookie of Year
1978 Bob Horner of Braves wins NL Rookie of Year Award
1979 The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set on fire, killing four. (see: Foreign relations of Pakistan)
1980 A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill)
1980 Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
1980 Gene Michael named 25th Yank mgr, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns
1980 It is revealed Kristen shot J.R. Ewing on "Dallas"
1980 John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
1980 Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. The resulting whirlpool sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet down to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit.
1981 400,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against cruise missiles
1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks
1983 "Doonesbury" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 104 performances
1983 NY Ranger Ron Greschner marries model Carol Alt
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 Central African Republic adopts constitution
1986 National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua, the Iran-Contra Affair.
1986 Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village
1987 Actress Demi Moore marries actor Bruce Willis
1987 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Epitome, Ferdinand, Miesque, Sacahuista, Success Express, Theatrica, Very Subtle at Hollywood
1988 Canadian federal election, 1988 Canadians re-elect the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney after an election campaign fought mainly over the issue of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement.
1989 Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush
1989 TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons
1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
1990 The Charter of Paris for a New Europe refocuses the efforts of the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europeon post-Cold War issues.
1991 Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela arrested in Cuba
1992 Jan Karlsson swims world record 50m butterfly (23.80 sec)
1992 Jani Sievinen swims world record 100m medley (53.78 sec)
1992 Louise Karlsson swims world record 50m freestyle (31.19 sec)
1992 Oregon Sen Bob Packwood issues apology for unwelcome sexual advances
1992 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
1993 "Cinderella" closes at New York State Theater NYC after 14 perfs
1993 "Cyrano The Musical" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 137 perfs
1993 Neo-fascists MSI win 36% of municipal elections in Rome
1994 1st-class cricket debut of Andrew Symonds (Queensland v NSW, SCG)
1995 Dow Jones closes above 5,000 for 1st time
1995 Israel grants jailed US spy Jason Pollard, citizenship
1995 New double Beatle CD released with new song "Free as a Bird"
1995 The Dayton Peace 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. The agreement is formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year.
1996 "Rehearsal" opens at Criterion Theater NYC
1996 A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.
2002 NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
2004 The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt.
2004 The island of Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern half of the island receives the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed as a result.
2004 The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, giving rise to massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity.
2006 Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
2012 An Israel and Hamas ceasefire is negotiated
2012 Chelsea Manager Roberto Di Matteo is sacked and replaced by Rafael Benitez
2013 31 people are killed by a truck bomb in northeaster Iraq
2013 54 people are killed after the roof of a supermarket collapses in Riga, Latvia
2013 The Alabama parole board grants posthumous pardons to three members of the Scottsboro boys
Born on November 21st
1495 John Bale, English bishop, anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan) (d. 1563)
1561 Carolus Scribani, Italian-Flemish jesuit, author
1567 Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621)
1637 Catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child)
1645 Johann Lohner, composer
1683 Johann Michael Muller, composer
1692 Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (d. 1768)
1694 Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet), French writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (d. 1778)
1724 John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter, cartoonist
1729 Josiah Bartlett, US physician, judge, Second Signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1795)
1742 Alessandro Felici, composer
1761 Dorothy Jordan, British actress (d. 1816)
1768 Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, German theologian, philosopher (d. 1834)
1785 William Beaumont, American surgeon (Father of gastric physiology) (d. 1853)
1787 Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born shipping magnate, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line) (d. 1865)
1811 Zeng Guofan, Chinese military leader (d. 1872)
1817 Richard Brooke Garnett, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1863)
1828 William McComb, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1918)
1829 Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar, poet
1831 John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers) (d. 1886)
1834 Henrietta (Hetty) Green, American financier (Witch of Wall Street) (d. 1916)
1834 Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers) (d. 1893)
1835 Hetty Green, American businesswoman (d. 1916)
1840 Victoria, Empress of Germany, Queen of Prussia, Princess Royal of Great Britain (d. 1901)
1851 Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher, cardinal
1852 Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer, father of modern classical guitar (d. 1909)
1853 Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17)
1854 Benedict XV (Giacomo PGB marques della Chiessa), 258th Pope (1914-22) (d. 1922)
1861 Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet
1861 Tom Horn, American gunman (d. 1903)
1863 Arthur Quiller-Couch (Q), editor (Oxford Book of English Verse)
1863 Mina Dilis-Beersmans, Flemish actress, wife of John Dilis (Poppenhuis)
1867 Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian chemist
1870 Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (d. 1946)
1870 Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (d. 1964)
1870 Stanley Jackson, English cricketer, captain
1871 Panayot Pipkov, composer
1877 Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer
1877 Sigfrid Karg-Elert, composer
1878 Gustav Radbruch, German law professor, minister of Justice (d. 1949)
1880 Franz Hessel, writer
1886 Harold G Nicolson, English diplomat, author (Good Behaviour) (d. 1968)
1894 Corinne Griffith, American actress (3 Hours, Lilies of Field)
1897 Mollie Steimer anarchist agitator (d. 1980)
1898 René Magritte, Belgian surrealistic painter (This is Not a Pipe) (d. 1967)
1899 Jobyna Ralston, American actress (d. 1967)
1900 Alice Calhoun, American Silent film actress (Flowing Gold)
1900 Jobyna Ralston, American actress (For Heaven's Sake)
1902 Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (d. 1985)
1902 Michail A Suslov, Russian party ideologist
1904 Coleman Hawkins, American musician, virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz (d. 1969)
1905 David Moule-Evans, composer
1907 Charles Korvin, Czechoslovakian actor (Berlin Express, Ship of Fools)
1907 Jim Bishop, author (The Day Lincoln was Shot)
1907 M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor
1908 Elizabeth George Speare, American author (d. 1994)
1912 Anne Bolt, photo-journalist, trade unionist
1912 Eleanor Powell, American actress and tap dancer (Bdwy Melody) (d. 1983)
1913 Roy Boulting, British film director (d. 2001)
1916 Cecilia P J "Cilly" Bach, Dutch-Spanish actress (In Pyama)
1916 Esmond Kentish, cricketer
1916 Sid Luckman, American football player, NFL QB (Chicago Bears) (d. 1998)
1917 Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer
1919 Steve Brodie, American actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp) (d. 1992)
1920 Ralph Meeker, American actor (Anderson Tapes, Night Stalker) (d. 1988)
1920 Stan Musial, American baseball player, outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ)
1921 Geza Anda, Hungarian-Swiss pianist (Mozart/Bartok)
1921 Joonas Kokkonen, Finnish composer (d. 1996)
1921 Vivian Blaine, Newark NJ, actress (Guys & Dolls, Skirts Ahoy)
1922 Abe Lemons, American basketball coach (d. 2002)
1922 Maria Casares, Spanish-born actress (Orpheus, Lectrice) (d. 1996)
1924 Christopher Tolkien, British author
1925 Johan "Poncke" Princen, KNIL-defector, civil rights in Djakarta
1927 Georgia Frontiere, co-owner of the St. Louis Rams (d. 2008)
1927 Joseph Campanella, American actor (Dr Steffen-The Nurses, Lou-Mannix)
1929 Laurier LaPierre, Canadian journalist, broadcaster and senator
1929 Marilyn French, American feminist writer (The Women's Room) (d. 2009)
1930 Marjan Rožanc, Slovenian writer and essayist (d. 1990)
1931 Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (d. 2003)
1931 Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian scientist (d. 1985)
1932 Jim Ringo, NFL center (Green Bay, Philadelphia)
1932 Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, composer
1933 Frank Brake, English multi-millionaire
1933 Henry Hartsfield Jr, American astro (STS-4, STS 41-D, STS 61A)
1933 Jean Shepard, American country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1933 Joseph Campanella, American actor
1934 Laurence Luckinbill, American actor (Delphi Bureau, Ike)
1934 Peter Philpott, Australian cricketer
1935 Fairuz, Lebanese singer
1936 James De Preist, Philadelphia Penn, conductor (Mitropolos 1964)
1936 Victor Chang, Australian physician (d. 1986)
1937 Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (The Wicker Man)
1937 Marlo Thomas (Mrs Phil Donahue), American actress (That Girl!, Jenny)
1938 Robert Drivas (Choromokos), American actor (Our Private World)
1939 Budd Dwyer, American politician (d. 1987)
1939 Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
1939 Rick Lenz, American actor (Hec Ramsey, Scandalous John)
1940 Dr John (Rebennack), American vocalist (I Was in Right Place)
1940 Javed Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer
1940 Natalia Makarova, Soviet ballerina (Kirov), defected 1970
1940 Richard Marcinko, American author
1941 David Porter, US songwriter (Soul Man)
1941 George Morren, Flemish painter, sculptor
1941 Idil Biret, Turkish pianist
1941 Juliet Mills, British actress (Nanny & the Professor, Avanti!)
1941 İdil Biret, Turkish pianist
1942 Afa Anoa'i, Samoan-American wrestler
1942 Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, German politician
1942 Tweety Bird, cartoon character
1943 Jacques Laffite, French former racing driver
1943 Larry Mahan, American rodeo cowboy, champ (1967-1970)
1943 Phil Bredesen, American politician
1943 Viktor Sidjak, Russian fencer
1944 Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, American basketball player, NBA Guard (NY Knicks, Balt Bullets)
1944 Harold Ramis, American actor, director (SCTV, Stripes, Groundhog Day)
1944 Marcia "Marcy" Carsey, TV executive, producer
1944 Richard J Durbin, American politician (Rep-D-IL, 1983)
1945 Goldie Hawn, American actress (Laugh-in, Private Benjamin, Death Becomes Her)
1946 Jacky Lafon, Belgian actress
1946 Jonas Tomasson, composer
1947 Dick W de Cloe, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1948 Alphonse Mouzon, American jazzist
1948 George Zimmer, American entrepreneur
1948 Lonnie Jordan, San Diego Ca, rock keyboardist/vocalist (War)
1949 Basil Williams, cricketer (century on debut for West Indies 1978)
1949 Nickolas Grace, Cheshire England, actor (Diamond's Edge)
1950 Alberto Juantorena, Cuban athlete, 400m dash (Olympic-gold-1976)
1950 Bruce Laird, Australian cricketer
1950 Livingston Taylor, American musician (I Will be in Love With You)
1950 Stephen Geyer, American film & television songwriter
1952 Deborah Shelton, American actress (Dallas, Ocean Kill, Body Double)
1952 Eamonn Coghlan, Irish 1500m runner (Oly-4th-76)
1952 Lorna Luft, American actress (Where the Boys Are-1980) and singer, daughter of Judy Garland
1953 Tina Brown, journalist publisher (New Yorker, Tattler)
1954 Thomas Rothman, American film executive
1955 Cedric Maxwell, American basketball player
1956 Cherry Jones, Actress (Signs)
1956 Mariana Simionescu, Tirgu Neamt Romania, 1st wife of Bjorn Borg
1956 Terri Welles (Knepper), American playmate of the year (Dec, 1980)
1957 Cynthia Rhodes, Actress (Dirty Dancing)
1957 Jim Brown, musician (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1958 David Reivers,American Actor
1958 Evert van Benthem, Dutch skater (11 Cities Skating Race, 1985, 86)
1958 Frank Edmonds, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Alberta)
1958 Tim Robinson, English cricketer
1959 Colin Beashel, Australian star yachter (Olympics-96)
1959 Tim Wilkison, American tennis player (WCT Atlanta finals-1986)
1960 Brian McNamara, American actor (Arachnophobia)
1960 Brian Ritchie, American musician (Violent Femmes)
1962 Sabine Busch, German athlete
1962 Steven Curtis Chapman, American musician
1963 Nicollette Sheridan, English actress (Paige-Knots Landing, Beverly Hills Ninja)
1963 Peter Bosz, Dutch soccer star (Toulon/Feyenoord)
1964 Liza Tarbuck, British entertainer
1964 Marjorie Judith Vincent, American Model, Miss America (1991)
1964 Olden Polynice, Haitian basketball player, NBA forward/center (Sacramento Kings)
1964 Shane Douglas, American wrestler
1964 Thomas Everett, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1965 Alexander Siddig, British actor (Kingdom of Heaven)
1965 Björk, Icelandic singer (Like Someone in Love)
1965 Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (d. 1993)
1966 Jerry Fontenot, NFL center, guard (Chic Bears, New Orleans Saints)
1966 Troy Aikman, American football player, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys Superbowl 1992)
1967 Dominic Lavoie, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1967 Kelly Gallagher, American playmate (Sep, 1994)
1967 Toshihiko Koga, Japanese Judoka
1967 Tripp Cromer, American baseball player
1968 Alex James, English bassist (Blur)
1968 Andy Caddick, English cricket pace bowler (NZ 1993)
1968 Antonio Tarver, Orlando Fla, light heavyweight boxer (Olympics-br-96)
1968 Christopher Noxon, American journalist
1968 Sean Schemmel, American voice actor
1969 Dahlia Salem, Boston Mass, actress (Sofia Carlino-Another World)
1969 Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball player, centerfielder (Seattle Mariners, MVP 1997)
1970 Dahlia Salem, actress (Sofia Carlino-Another World)
1970 Jorgen Gustafsson, WLAF guard (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 Justin Langer, Australian cricketer
1970 Keith Crawford, wide receiver (St Louis Rams)
1971 Michael Strahan, American football player, NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
1971 Ramondo Stallings, NFL defensive end (Cin Bengals)
1971 Robert Flickinger, WLAF defensive end (Scottish Claymores)
1972 David Tua, Samoan boxer
1972 Rain Phoenix, American singer, actress (Hitch)
1973 Brent Smith, tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1973 Brook Kerr, American actress
1973 Danny Kanell, quarterback (NY Giants)
1973 Inés Sastre, Spanish model and actress
1974 Casey Patton, London Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1974 Tremain Mack, strong safety (Cincinnati Bengals)
1975 Aaron Solowoniuk, Canadian drummer
1975 Chad Levitt, running back (Oakland Raiders)
1975 Cherie Johnson, American actress (Cherie-Punky Brewster)
1975 Chris Moneymaker, American poker player
1975 Jimmi Simpson, Actor (It's always sunny in Philadelphia, Date Night)
1976 Daniel Whiston, British ice skater
1976 Dasha, Czech adult actress
1976 Martin Meichelbeck, German footballer
1976 Michael Wilson, Australian rules footballer
1976 Saleem Elahi, Pakistani cricketer
1977 Bruno Berner, Swiss footballer
1977 Jonas Jennings, American football player
1977 Myles Heskett, Australian musician (Wolfmother)
1977 Tobias Sammet, German singer (Edguy)
1977 Yolande James, Quebec politician
1978 Daniel Bradshaw, Australian rules footballer
1978 Lucía Jiménez, Spanish actress
1978 Sara Tanaka, American actress
1979 Alex Tanguay, Canadian hockey player
1979 Kim Dong Wan, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1979 Stromile Swift, American basketball player
1979 Vincenzo Iaquinta, Italian footballer
1980 Alec Brownstein, American author, director
1980 Danielle Hartsell, Ann Arbor Mich, pairs skater (& Steve Hartsell)
1980 Elaine Yiu, Hong Kong Actress
1980 Hank Blalock, American baseball player
1980 Leonardo González, Costa Rican footballer
1980 Tim Lambesis, Lead vocalist of Metalcore band As I Lay Dying
1981 Jonny Magallón, Mexican footballer
1981 Piet Rinke, Zimbabwean cricketer
1981 Wesley Britt, American football player
1982 Georgios Kalogiannidis, Greek archer
1982 Ryan Starr, American singer
1983 Jamie Langley, English rugby player
1983 The Bella Twins (Brianna and Nicole Garcia), American professional wrestlers
1984 Álvaro Bautista, Spanish motorcycle racer
1984 Jena Malone, American Actress (Contact)
1984 Lindsey Haun, Actress (Shrooms)
1985 Jesús Navas, Spanish footballer
1986 Ben Bishop, American ice hockey goalie, tallest goalie in NHL
1987 Brian Douwes, Dutch kickboxer and martial artist
1988 Brittany Waters, Actress (Who Wants to Marry My Husband)
1989 Fabian Delph, English footballer
1990 Dominique Lalonde, Actress (Washed Up)
1991 Brandon Burks, Stunts (The Bill Collector)
1994 Evan Tilson Stroud, Actor (Pirate Kids: Blackbeard's Lost Treasure)
1995 Rachel Rogers, Actress (Fueling the Fire)
1997 Antonia Schröter, Actress (Das unsichtbare Mädchen)
1998 Miguel Filipe Viegas Guerreiro, actor (Morangos com Açúcar)
2001 Samantha Bailey, Actress (The Hottie & the Nottie)
Died on November 21st
496 Pope Gelasius I, Catholic Pope, of Berber extraction
1361 Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)
1481 Ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple
1555 Georg Agricola (Bauer), German mineralogist (zinc) (b. 1490)
1566 Annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507)
1579 Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier
1580 Willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed
1610 Benedict van Canfield (William Fish), English missionary
1652 Jan Brozek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)
1695 Henry Purcell, English composer (Indian Queen)
1710 Barnardo Pasquini, composer
1728 Fjodor M graaf Apraksin, Russian gen-admiral
1730 François de Troy, French portrait artist (b. 1645)
1775 John Hill, British writer
1811 Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright (b. 1777)
1813 William Russell, composer
1817 Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen
1844 Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (b. 1769)
1863 Joseph Mayseder, composer
1870 Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Ruiker)
1875 Friedrich A Lange, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism)
1881 Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (b. 1794)
1882 Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist
1899 Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)
1900 J J Ferris, Australian cricketer
1907 Gaetano Braga, composer
1907 Harry Boyle, Australian round-arm cricket bowler
1916 Franz Jozef I, King of Austria, Hungary (b. 1830)
1920 Caryl Florio, composer
1920 William James Robjohn, composer
1922 Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist (b. 1874)
1924 Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860)
1928 Hermann Sudermann, German author (Frau Sorge)
1932 Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument Argentina)
1938 Leopold Godowsky, pianist, composer
1940 Geoffrey Legge, English cricketer
1941 Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker (b. 1860)
1941 Juanita Spellini, first women executed in California, USA
1942 James Barry M Hertzog, South African premier (1914-1939)
1942 Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863)
1945 Al "Bummy" Davis, American Boxer (b. 1920)
1945 Alexander Patch, American general (b. 1889)
1945 Robert Benchley, American writer (My 10 years in a quandary) and actor (b. 1889)
1952 Henriette Roland Holst-de Schalk, marxist author
1952 William Green, union chairman (AFL 1924-52)
1953 Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1893)
1954 Karol Rathaus, composer
1954 Prof Werner Elert, German Lutheran theologist
1957 Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)
1958 Mel Ott, American baseball player (NY Giants) (1926-1947) (b. 1909)
1959 Max Baer, American boxer, heavyweight champ (1934) (b. 1909)
1963 Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (Perfil del Aire)
1963 Pierre Blanchar, actor (Man From Nowhere)
1963 Robert Stroud (The Birdman of Alcatraz), American prisoner (b. 1890)
1967 C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (b. 1896)
1967 Florence Reed, actress (Black Panther Club)
1969 Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (b. 1924)
1970 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist (Nobel laureate) (b. 1888)
1970 Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
1973 Thomas Pelly, American politician (b. 1902)
1974 Frank Martin, Swiss composer (In Terra Fax) (b. 1890)
1974 John B. Gambling, American radio talk show host (b. 1897)
1975 G Gunnarsson, writer
1976 Niles Welch, actor (Cornered)
1980 Jim Parks Sr, English cricket all-rounder
1980 Sara García, Mexican actress (b. 1895)
1981 Harry Von Zell, American announcer (Burns & Allen) (b. 1906)
1982 John Hargrave, British Social Credit advocate (b. 1894)
1982 Lee Patrick, actress (Henrietta-Topper, Maltese Falcon)
1985 Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1958-60)
1986 Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947)
1986 Jerry Colonna, American comic (Jerry Colonna Show) (b. 1904)
1986 Marcelino Sanchez, American actor (b. 1957)
1987 James E Folsom, (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59)
1988 Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1990 Dean Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1954)
1991 Daniel Mann, US director (Rose tattoo)
1991 David "Sonny" Werblin, AFL owner (NY Jets)
1991 Prior Jones, West Indian cricket pace bowler
1991 Sonny Werblin, NY sports impresario, NFL Owner (New York Jets) (b. 1907)
1992 Kaysone Phomvihane, PM of Laos (1975-91)
1992 Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist
1993 Bill Bixby, American actor and director (My Favorite Martian) (b. 1934)
1993 Christopher Frank, director, actor (Annee Des Meduses)
1993 Emile Ardolino, director (Sister Act)
1993 Jim McLaughlin, Buffalo radio newsman (WKBW)
1994 Manfred Longer, Austrian-Dutch gay disco owner
1995 Dorothy Jeakins, costume designer
1995 George Ivan Smith, diplomat
1995 Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)
1995 Peter Grant, British rock manager, actor (Led Zeppelin, Bad Company) (b. 1935)
1995 Smilin' Jim Eames, singer-songwriter
1996 Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1926)
1996 Bernard William George Rose, organist
1996 Edward George Edwards, chenist
1996 Virginia Downing, actress (Gig, Butterfield 8)
1997 Ismail Fahmi, external minister of Egypt in (1973-77)
1999 Quentin Crisp, British writer, raconteur and actor (b. 1908)
2000 Ernest Lluch, Spanish politician (b. 1937)
2001 Salahuddin of Malaysia, King of Malaysia (b. 1926)
2002 Hadda Brooks, American jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b. 1916)
2005 Alfred Anderson, last Scottish World War I (and Christmas Truce) veteran (b. 1896)
2005 Hugh Sidey, American journalist (b. 1927)
2006 Kathryn Johnston, US victim of police shooting (b. 1914)
2006 Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese Cabinet minister (assassinated) (b. 1972)
2006 Robert Lockwood Jr., American blues guitarist (b. 1915)
2007 Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (b. 1921)
2007 Noel McGregor, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1931)
2007 Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
2009 Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
2010 David Nolan, American politicial activist (b. 1943)
2010 Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, American artist and writer (b. 1917)
2010 Norris Church Mailer, American model and widow of Norman Mailer (b. 1949)
2011 Anne McCaffrey, sci-fi author
2013 Vern Mikkelsen, American HOF basketball player
2015 Bob Foster, American professional boxer "The Deputy Sheriff"
2015 Ken Johnson, American MLB player, first pitcher to lose a complete game nine-inning no-hitter
