21st November
The November 21 is the 325th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 326th in leap years ), thus remain 40 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1259 BC BC (based on Beckerath's calculation ): After the battle of Kadesch and years of bloody border disputes, the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II and the Hittite king Ḫattušili III. the Egyptian-Hittite peace treaty . It is considered the oldest known peace treaty.
- 533 : The Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I publishes a legal collection that comes into force on December 30th. This is later given the name Corpus iuris civilis .
- 1272 : After the death of Heinrich III. five days earlier, his son Edward becomes the new King of England in absentia .
- 1620 : The Pilgrim Fathers , who arrived in the English colonies in America on the Mayflower , sign the Mayflower Treaty , the constitution of the colony of Plymouth, near Cape Cod .
- 1699 : In the Treaty of Preobrazhenskoe , Tsar Peter I the Great joins the alliance that Johann Reinhold von Patkul forges for Poland against Sweden in secret negotiations . The Great Northern War is taking shape .
- 1710 : Influenced by the Swedish King Charles XII, who fled there after the lost battle of Poltava . , the Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia . The fourth Russian Turkish War breaks out.
- 1759 : The Austrians under Leopold Joseph Graf Daun accept the surrender of Prussian troops under General Friedrich August von Finck in the Seven Years' War after the battle of Maxen .
- 1789 : North Carolina becomes the 12th state in the USA .
- 1806 : The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte imposes a continental ban on Great Britain with the Berlin decree .
- 1818 : The Aachen Congress ends with the declaration of the five major European powers France, Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia. The Congress of Monarchs proclaims the solidarity of the participants in order to guarantee peace, faith and morality.
- 1831 : The silk weavers' revolt begins in Lyon . They protest against the employers' failure to apply minimum wages agreed between the social partners until October. Gunfire by the police in the demonstration led to open riot.
- 1848 : Members of the Donnersberg , Deutscher Hof and Westendhall factions in the German National Assembly found the Central March Association in Frankfurt with the aim of protecting the achievements of the March Revolution . The association is considered the first modern party in Germany.
- 1872 : Otto von Bismarck is released from the office of Prussian Prime Minister until further notice for health reasons . His request to be released is denied.
- 1910 : The naval school Mürwik , built in the course of the armament based on the model of the Marienburg , is officially inaugurated by Kaiser Wilhelm II .
- 1916 : After the death of Franz Joseph I , his great-nephew Karl succeeds him to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His reign will last less than two years.
- 1918 : At the end of the First World War , the German troops leave Alsace .
- 1920 : On Bloody Sunday in Ireland , following the murder of several British agents by the Irish Republican Brotherhood in a Gaelic football match during the Irish War of Independence, several people are shot dead by Black and Tans paramilitary troops .
- 1922 : Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton is sworn in as the first female US Senator . The representative for the US state of Georgia and, at 87, the oldest Senate member ever sent, loses her office the next day to the surprisingly elected Walter F. George .
- 1974 : Two IRA- attributed bombings in Birmingham leave 21 dead and 182 injured.
- 1988 : In Austria the National Democratic Party is officially banned because of being re-employed by the National Socialists .
- 1990 : In the Charter of Paris , the division of Europe into East and West in the Cold War is declared over. 32 European countries as well as the USA and Canada are committed to a democracy based on human rights and fundamental freedoms , prosperity through economic freedom and social justice, and equal security for the contracting states .
- 1995 : In Dayton , Ohio , the negotiators of Bosnia , Croatia and the rest of Yugoslavia agree on the future structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina and initial the Dayton Treaty .
- 2002 : At their summit in Prague , NATO invited seven countries from Central and Eastern Europe to join.
- 2004 : The runoff election of the presidential elections in Ukraine between Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych is accompanied by massive allegations of manipulation. The count will last until November 24th.
- 2005 : Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon leaves the Likud party he co-founded and founds the Kadima party in the same month .
- 2005 : The majority of voters in Kenya reject the proposed constitutional amendment in a referendum .
- 2006 : In Beirut, the anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister of Industry, Pierre Gemayel, is assassinated.
economy
- 1905 : The lecturer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent in Great Britain for the tube diode , which he calls the kenotron .
- 1925 : The Orange Blossom Special luxury train, commuting between New York City and Florida's east coast , runs according to the timetable for the first time .
- 1936 : The Schkeuditzer Kreuz is the first motorway junction in Europe to go into operation.
- 1945 : The radio station RIAS (radio in the American sector) is founded in Berlin.
- 1948 : The radio company Radio Bremen is created.
- 1995 : The Dow Jones Industrial Average share index closes above the 5000 point mark for the first time.
science and technology
- 1676 : The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents his thesis to the Paris Académie des Sciences that the speed of light is a finite quantity. It is based on observations of the eclipses of the four moons of Jupiter .
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- 1783 : The first manned free-flying hot air balloon by the Montgolfier brothers with passengers Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François d'Arlandes takes off from Paris. The journey takes 25 minutes and takes you to the outskirts of Paris.
- 1877 : Inventor Thomas Alva Edison announces the phonograph , a device for recording and reproducing sound, which he demonstrates eight days later.
- 1935 : Vladimir Kokkinaki sets a new world altitude record for airplanes with a slimmed-down Polikarpov I-15 .
- 1953 : The British Museum revealed that the skeletal remains of the early humans counted Piltdown Man forgery are.
- 1964 : In New York , the Verrazzano-Narrows-Bridge (then still called Verrazano-Narrows-Bridge ) over the Hudson , at that time the longest suspension bridge in the world, is opened to traffic.
- 1999 : The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reports that Shenzhou 1 , the first unmanned spacecraft launched in the PRC two days earlier, has landed again on schedule.
Culture
- 1827 : The one-act Farsa Viva la Mamma by Gaetano Donizetti is premiered at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples. Four years later, Donizetti expanded it to two acts.
- 1831 : The opera Robert le diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer is premiered at the Paris Opéra . The opera with the libretto by Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne established the composer's fame in France.
- 1847 : The fairy tale play The Bagpiper from Strakonice or The Festival of Forest Women by Josef Kajetán Tyl is premiered in Prague .
- 1862 : The opera Blanche de Nevers by Michael William Balfe is premiered in Covent Garden in London .
- 1874 : Richard Wagner ends the last part of the Ring of the Nibelung with the Götterdämmerung in Bayreuth .
- 1901 : The song poem Feuersnot by Richard Strauss is premiered in Dresden .
- 1902 : The world premiere of the operetta Wiener Frauen by Franz Lehár takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna .
- 1931 : The film Frankenstein , with Boris Karloff in the role of the monster, directed by James Whale , is premiered.
- 1934 : At the Alvin Theater in New York City is the Musical Comedy Anything Goes by Cole Porter premiered.
- 1942 : In the USA , the interpreter Bing Crosby reached number 1 in the charts for the first time with Irving Berlin's song White Christmas and stayed there for ten weeks.
- 1947 : The day after Wolfgang Borchert's death , his play Outside Before the Door is premiered at the Hamburger Kammerspiele .
- 1963 : The National Theater in Munich , which was rebuilt after its destruction in the Second World War, reopens with a performance of the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss .
- 1975 : British rock band Queen releases their fourth studio album called A Night at the Opera . The album is considered one of the band's greatest achievements.
- 1980 : Who Done It? ( Who shot JR? ) The series Dallas achieved the highest audience rating in US television history.
- 1987 : After more than 23 years, ARD broadcasts the 82nd and last episode of the game show One Will Win ( EWG ) with Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff .
- 1990 : Nintendo launches the SNES , then Super Famicom, in Japan.
- 1998 : The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time comes out in Japan
society
- 1997 : At a press conference of the German pop-rap group Tic Tac Toe in Munich there was an open dispute: In front of the cameras, the three members accused each other of lying and finally left the podium crying.
religion
- 235 : Saint Anterus is enthroned as Pope as successor to Pontianus
- 1964 : With the resolution of the documents Lumen Gentium , Unitatis redintegratio and Orientalium Ecclesiarum as well as their solemn promulgation by Pope Paul VI. the third session of the Second Vatican Council ends .
- 2002 : The Concordat between the Holy See and Bremen is signed by Mayor Henning Scherf and the Apostolic Nuncio in Germany, Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo .
Disasters
- 1916 : The British hospital ship HMHS Britannic , a sister ship of the Titanic , sinks during the First World War , probably due to a mine explosion. The accident claims 30 dead and 40 injured; most of them in rashly launched lifeboats that are smashed by the ship's propellers that are still running.
- 2005 : After the chemical accident in Jilin on November 13th, the water supply in the Chinese metropolis of Harbin , located downstream on the Songhua Jiang , is cut off.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1991 : After 133 days at sea, Gérard d'Aboville arrives on the American west coast after crossing the Pacific in his one-man rowboat .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1428 : Jingtai , seventh Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty
- 1445 : Johann Pfotel , German legal scholar and diplomat
- 1553 : Philipp Ludwig I , Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
- 1567 : Anne de Xainctonge , Burgundian-French noblewoman, founder of a Roman Catholic women's community
- 1639 : Fortunatus Hueber , German Franciscan, theologian and historian
- 1654 : Gottlob Friedrich Seligmann , German theologian
- 1683 : Domingo Ortiz de Rozas , Spanish officer and colonial administrator, governor on the Río de la Plata and in Chile
- 1689 : Jacques I , Prince of Monaco
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18th century
- 1710 : Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky , Berlin entrepreneur
- 1710 : Paolo Renier , 119th and penultimate Doge of Venice
- 1714 : Georg Andreas Högl , Austrian master stonemason and sculptor, head of the Wiener Bauhütte
- 1715 : Christian Gottlob Frege , German banker and merchant
- 1718 : Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg , German music theorist and critic
- 1755 : Mateo Albéniz , Spanish composer, church musician and music theorist
- 1761 : Dorothea Jordan , Irish actress and long-time mistress of the British King William IV.
- 1768 : Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher , German theologian and philosopher
- 1775 : Johann Georg Christian Apel , German organist and composer
- 1787 : Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet Cunard , Canadian shipowner and owner of the Cunard Line
- 1789 : Cesare Balbo , Piedmontese politician
- 1791 : Vladimir Fyodorowitsch Adlerberg , Russian general and minister
- 1791 : Heinrich Ritter , German philosopher
- 1795 : Gregorio Aráoz de La Madrid , Argentine military leader, general and politician
- 1796 : Jean Zuléma Amussat , French doctor and surgeon
- 1800 : Carl Robert Croll , German painter
19th century
1801 to 1850
- 1804 : Wilhelm Waiblinger , German poet and writer
- 1805 : Wilhelm Friedrich Christian Gustav Krafft , German politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- 1806 : Adolf Harless , German Protestant theologian
- 1811 : Zeng Guofan , Chinese statesman
- 1811 : Joseph Caspar Jeuch , Swiss architect
- 1814 : Gabriel Gervais Chardin , French painter
- 1818 : Lewis Henry Morgan , American ethnologist
- 1820 : Enno Wilhelm Hektor , German writer
- 1824 : Hieronymus Theodor Richter , German chemist
- 1826 : Christian Wilhelm Ludwig von Abeken , German politician
- 1827 : Martin Traugott Blumner , German composer and music theorist
- 1828 : Pierre Faubert , French composer and organist
- 1840 : Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland , Queen of Prussia and German Empress
- 1849 : Hermann Möckel , German senior seminar teacher, city councilor, club and association functionary
- 1849 : Paul Rée , German philosopher
- 1850 : Wilhelm Gemoll , German classical philologist and lexicographer
1851 to 1900
- 1851 : Désiré-Joseph Mercier , Belgian cardinal
- 1852 : Francisco Tárrega , Spanish guitarist and composer
- 1853 : Hussein Kamil , Sultan of Egypt and King of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
- 1854 : Benedict XV. , Pope
- 1863 : Arthur Quiller-Couch , British critic and writer
- 1865 : Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi , French writer, journalist and theater manager
- 1866 : Oskar Messter , German film pioneer
- 1866 : Sigbjørn Obstfelder , Norwegian writer
- 1868 : Felix Mach , German agricultural chemist
- 1868 : Peter von Oldenburg , brother-in-law of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II.
- 1870 : Alexander Berkman , Lithuanian politician and writer, anarchist
- 1870 : Sigfrid Edström , Swedish entrepreneur and sports official
- 1871 : Panayot Pipkow , Bulgarian composer
- 1873 : Heinrich Martin Arens , American politician
- 1876 : Benno Arnold , German textile industrialist
- 1876 : Olav Duun , Norwegian writer
- 1878 : Ibra Charles Blackwood , American politician
- 1878 : Bess Brenck-Kalischer , German poet
- 1878 : Gustav Radbruch , German legal scholar and politician
- 1879 : Taoka Reiun , Japanese culture and literary critic
- 1880 : Franz Hessel , German writer and translator
- 1882 : Paul Niehans , Swiss doctor
- 1885 : Kurt Witte , German classical philologist
- 1886 : Harold Nicolson , British diplomat
- 1890 : Jeanne Mammen , German painter
- 1891 : Just Göbel , Dutch football player
- 1891 : Karl Hubbuch , German academy professor, draftsman and painter
- 1895 : Josef Mattauch , German physicist
- 1897 : Veza Canetti , Austrian writer
- 1897 : Mollie Steimer , Russian author, political activist and anarchist
- 1898 : René Magritte , Belgian surrealist painter
- 1899 : Takeharu Asō , Japanese mountaineer, Nordic skier and athlete
- 1900 : Humbert Achamer-Pifrader , Austrian SS standard leader
20th century
1901-1925
- 1902 : Walter Adolph , German priest
- 1902 : Ferenc Hirzer , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1902 : Harald Lie , Norwegian composer
- 1902 : Isaac Bashevis Singer , Polish-American Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1903 : Plácido de Abreu , Portuguese aerobatic pilot
- 1904 : Coleman Hawkins , American jazz musician
- 1907 : Ernesto Mascheroni , Uruguayan-Italian football player
- 1908 : Francisco Simó Damirón , Dominican pianist and composer
- 1909 : Lloyd Glenn , American R&B musician
- 1909 : Hermann Paul Müller , German racing driver
- 1912 : Pierre Grimal , French classical philologist
- 1912 : Eleanor Powell , American dancer, singer, and actress
- 1913 : Gerhard Frickhöffer , German actor
- 1914 : Michael Grant , English classical philologist and ancient historian
- 1916 : Sid Luckman , American football player
- 1918 : Claire Austin , American blues and jazz singer
- 1918 : Dieter Mauritz , German table tennis player
- 1920 : Walter Fritzsch , German soccer player and coach
- 1921 : Maxwell William Ward , Canadian aviation pioneer and entrepreneur
- 1922 : Amir Aslan Afshar , Persian ambassador
- 1922 : Maria Casarès , French actress
- 1924 : Jelena Vladimirovna Muchina , Russian author of an important diary as a contemporary document.
- 1924 : Christopher Tolkien , British medievalist
1926-1950
- 1926 : William Wakefield Baum , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal
- 1926 : Josef Rut , Czech composer, violinist and musicologist
- 1927 : Theodor Puff , German football player
- 1927 : Barbara Rütting , German actress and politician
- 1928 : Pierre Dumay , French racing car driver
- 1929 : Billy Barton , American country and rockabilly musician
- 1929 : Peter Brüning , German painter and sculptor
- 1929 : Marilyn French , American writer and literary scholar
- 1929 : Violeta Stephen , Dominican singer
- 1929 : Niall Tóibín , Irish comedian and actor
- 1930 : Arthur Bialas , German football player
- 1930 : Bryn Meredith , Welsh rugby player
- 1931 : Malcolm Williamson , Australian composer
- 1932 : Heinrich Lummer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Interior Senator of Berlin
- 1936 : James DePreist , American conductor and music educator
- 1940 : Götz Adriani , German art historian
- 1940 : Alberto Villalpando , Bolivian composer
- 1941 : Hans Hermann Henrix , German theologian and author
- 1941 : Margriet de Moor , Dutch writer
- 1942 : Afa Anoa'i , Samoan-American wrestler and wrestling manager
- 1942 : Brigitte Blobel , German children's book author and journalist
- 1942 : Andrew Love , American musician
- 1942 : Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1943 : Jacques Laffite , French Formula 1 racing driver
- 1943 : Viktor Sidjak , Soviet saber fencer, Olympic champion
- 1945 : Goldie Hawn , American actress
- 1945 : Karl-Dieter Möller , German television journalist
- 1946 : Heinz Bosl , German dancer
- 1947 : Klaus Esser , German manager
- 1948 : Werner Lorant , German football player and coach
- 1948 : Alphonse Mouzon , American jazz drummer, composer and producer
- 1949 : Rainer Brüninghaus , German jazz pianist
- 1950 : Alberto Juantorena , Cuban athlete
1951-1975
- 1951 : Thomas Roth , German journalist
- 1952 : Corny Littmann , German theater maker, actor, director and LGBT activist
- 1952 : Lorna Luft , American singer and actress
- 1953 : René Weller , German boxer
- 1955 : Gudrun Gabriel , Austrian actress
- 1955 : Dora María Téllez , Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter
- 1959 : Orlando Maldonado , Puerto Rican boxer, world champion
- 1960 : Rudolf Anschober , Austrian politician
- 1960 : Algirdas Astrauskas , Lithuanian economist and politician
- 1960 : Tomma Galonska , German actress, director, performance artist
- 1960 : Silvan-Pierre Leirich , German actor
- 1960 : Brian McNamara , American actor
- 1961 : Martin Andermatt , Swiss football player and coach
- 1961 : Takami Akai , Japanese illustrator, character designer and game creator
- 1961 : Maria Kawamura , Japanese voice actress
- 1961 : Eduard Heindl , German scientist and entrepreneur
- 1962 : Sabine Busch , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1963 : Christian Amsler , Swiss politician
- 1963 : Peter Bosz , Dutch football player and coach
- 1963 : Dave Molyneux , British motorcycle racer and designer
- 1963 : Nicollette Sheridan , American actress
- 1964 : Yvette Clarke , American politician
- 1964 : Andreas Pittler , Austrian author
- 1965 : Björk , Icelandic musician
- 1966 : Troy Kenneth Aikman , American football player
- 1966 : José Charbonneau , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 : Ulrike Auhagen , German classical philologist
- 1967 : Toshihiko Koga , Japanese judoka
- 1968 : Inka Bause , German pop singer
- 1968 : Katsutomo Kaneishi , Japanese racing car driver
- 1969 : Olivia Jones , German drag queen
- 1970 : Dante Washington , American football player and commentator
- 1971 : Michael Strahan , American football player
- 1972 : Franziska Heinz , German handball player and trainer
- 1972 : Oliver Otto , German soccer player
- 1972 : Thomas Schleicher , Austrian judoka
- 1975 : Florian Ambrosius , German television presenter
1976-2000
- 1976 : Martin Meichelbeck , German soccer player
- 1977 : Annie , Norwegian singer
- 1977 : Tobias Sammet , German singer ( Edguy )
- 1978 : David Ameln , German opera singer (tenor, tenorbuffo)
- 1979 : Vincenzo Iaquinta , Italian football player
- 1979 : Marija Sidorowa , Russian handball player
- 1980 : Anđelko Đuričić , Serbian football player
- 1981 : Jonny Magallón , Mexican soccer player
- 1983 : Daniela Iraschko , Austrian ski jumper
- 1984 : Álvaro Bautista , Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1984 : Andreas Gabalier , Austrian singer
- 1984 : Tobias Mahncke , German handball player
- 1984 : Jena Malone , American film actress
- 1985 : Michael Hamlin , American football player
- 1985 : Carly Rae Jepsen , Canadian singer
- 1985 : Nadine Müller , German athlete
- 1986 : Johannes van den Bergh , German football player
- 1986 : Kristof Goddaert , Belgian cyclist
- 1987 : Stefan Glarner , Swiss football player
- 1987 : Anju Jason , marshallian Taekwondoin
- 1988 : Eric Frenzel , German Nordic combined athlete
- 1988 : Larry Sanders , American basketball player
- 1988 : Preston Zimmerman , American football player
- 1989 : Gernot Auer , Austrian road cyclist
- 1989 : Fabian Delph , English soccer player
- 1989 : Antoine Roussel , French ice hockey player
- 1990 : Andre Blake , Jamaican soccer player
- 1990 : Simon Makienok , Danish football player
- 1990 : Emmanuel Mayuka , Zambian soccer player
- 1990 : Ilie Sánchez , Spanish soccer player
- 1991 : Diego Demme , German soccer player
- 1991 : Marius Fartum , Norwegian badminton player
- 1991 : Dejan Jakovljevic , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1992 : Conor Maynard , British pop singer
- 1994 : Saúl , Spanish soccer player
- 1996 : Gina Lückenkemper , German athlete
- 1996 : Maximilian Rolka , Polish-German handball player
- 1998 : Colleen Furgeson , Marshallese swimmer
- 2000 : Dārta Zunte , Latvian skeleton skier
Died
Before the 16th century
- 874 : Ratold , Bishop of Strasbourg
- 1011 : Reizei , Emperor of Japan
- 1062 : al-Qudai , chronicler and judge of the Fatimid caliphate
- 1099 : Hermann III. von Hochstaden , Archbishop of Cologne
- 1136 : William of Corbeil , Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1150 : García IV , King of Navarre
- 1161 : Wilhelm III. , Earl of Nevers
- 1221 : Alix von Thouars , Duchess of Brittany and Vice Countess of Thouars
- 1291 : Simon von Schöneck , Bishop of Worms
- 1325 : Juri I. Daniilowitsch , Prince of Moscow
- 1361 : Philip I , Duke of Burgundy
- 1376 : Pierre de La Jugie , Archbishop of Saragossa, Archbishop of Narbonne and Archbishop of Rouen
- 1458 : Andrieu d'Humières , Burgundian nobleman and military man
16th to 18th century
- 1517 : Sikandar Lodi , Sultan of Delhi
- 1549 : Ebba Eriksdotter Wasa , Swedish noblewoman, mother-in-law of the Swedish King Gustav I. Wasa
- 1555 : Georgius Agricola , German polymath ( father of mineralogy )
- 1579 : Thomas Gresham , co-owner of the largest English trading house of his era
- 1604 : Hercule , Lord of Monaco
- 1626 : Anna Maria , Princess of Hessen-Kassel and Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken
- 1668 : Adolf Wilhelm , Duke of Saxony-Eisenach
- 1671 : Michael Wendler , German moral philosopher and Lutheran theologian
- 1675 : Georg Wilhelm I of Liegnitz-Brieg-Wohlau , the last legitimate male descendant of the Silesian Piast family
- 1695 : Henry Purcell , English composer
- 1734 : Alexis Simon Belle , French painter
- 1771 : Joaquín de Montserrat , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain
- 1782 : Jacques de Vaucanson , French engineer and inventor
- 1796 : Angelo Soliman , African valet, prince tutor to Hereditary Prince Alois I of Liechtenstein and Freemason
19th century
Georgius Agricola
(† 1555)
Johannes Bückler
(† 1803)
Heinrich von Kleist
(† 1811)
Yoshida Shōin
(† 1859)
Friedrich Albert Lange
(† 1875)
- 1803 : Johannes Bückler , German robber captain ("Schinderhannes")
- 1811 : Heinrich von Kleist , German playwright, storyteller, poet and publicist
- 1811 : Henriette Vogel , friend of Heinrich von Kleist
- 1814 : Gabriel Gervais Chardin , French painter
- 1819 : Wilhelm Aschenberg , German pastor
- 1821 : Jonas Rein , Norwegian poet
- 1835 : Hanaoka Seishū , Japanese surgeon
- 1839 : Nikolaus von Flüe , Swiss officer in the French service and governor
- 1844 : Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg , Swiss educator and farmer
- 1844 : Ivan Andreevich Krylow , Russian fabulous poet
- 1849 : François-Marius Granet , French painter
- 1851 : Johann Friedrich Christian Werneburg , German mathematician and physicist
- 1852 : Ludwig Gustav von Thile , Prussian general, head of the military cabinet
- 1859 : Antonio Arcioni , Swiss officer and general
- 1859 : Yoshida Shōin , Japanese intellectual and revolutionary
- 1861 : Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire , French Dominican
- 1863 : Joseph Mayseder , Austrian violinist and composer
- 1870 : Karel Jaromír Erben , Czech poet and historian
- 1871 : Johann Florian Heller , Austrian doctor and chemist
- 1872 : Torgeir Augundsson , Norwegian composer
- 1875 : Friedrich Albert Lange , German philosopher (Neo-Kantian), educator, economist and socialist
- 1876 : Vinzenz Jakob von Zuccalmaglio , German writer and poet
- 1882 : Georgiana Archer , Scottish teacher
- 1883 : Achatius von Auerswald , German judge and administrative lawyer
- 1886 : Charles Francis Adams, senior , American lawyer and politician
- 1886 : Johannes Scherr , German cultural historian
- 1888 : Elias Erkko , Finnish writer
- 1894 : William Wirt Allen , American Confederate Brigadier General in the Civil War
- 1899 : Garret Hobart , American politician, vice president
20th century
1901 to 1950
- 1901 : Adolf Brecher , German educator and historian
- 1909 : Peder Severin Krøyer , Norwegian-Danish painter
- 1913 : Francesco Acri , Italian philosopher and historian of philosophy
- 1916 : Franz Joseph I , Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary
- 1924 : Alois Riehl , Austrian philosopher
- 1928 : Hermann Sudermann , German playwright
- 1930 : Simon Angerpointner , German politician
- 1937 : Henri Cain , French librettist and painter
- 1938 : Leopold Godowsky , Polish-American pianist and composer
- 1941 : Basilio Khouri , Syrian Archbishop
- 1942 : Count Leopold Berchtold , Austro-Hungarian diplomat and politician
- 1942 : James Barry Munnick Hertzog , South African general and politician
- 1943 : Ernst zu Reventlow , German naval officer, writer and politician
- 1944 : Adolf Jäger , German football player
- 1945 : Robert Benchley , American humorist, theater critic, and actor
1951 to 1975
- 1953 : Felice Bonetto , Italian racing car driver
- 1953 : William Denney , American politician
- 1954 : William S. Beardsley , American politician
- 1954 : Werner Elert , German Protestant theologian
- 1954 : Karol Rathaus , Polish composer
- 1956 : Aizu Yaichi , Japanese literary scholar and poet
- 1961 : Ike Mahoney , American football player
- 1965 : Naoum Blinder , Russian-American violinist and music teacher
- 1968 : Laureano Guevara , Chilean painter
- 1969 : Rosalia Angeleri , Italian actress
- 1970 : CV Raman , Indian physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1971 : Charlotte Kramm , German actress
- 1972 : Karel Hába , Czech composer
- 1974 : Louis Bailly , Canadian violinist and music teacher
- 1974 : Marco Bontá , Chilean painter
- 1974 : Frank Martin , Swiss composer
- 1975 : Richard Freudenberg , German entrepreneur and politician
- 1975 : Gunnar Gunnarsson , Icelandic writer
1976 to 2000
- 1977 : Hartmut Gründler , German teacher, environmentalist and opponent of nuclear power
- 1978 : Willy Massoth , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1979 : Maurizio Arena , Italian actor
- 1981 : Harry von Zell , American radio and television announcer, actor and singer
- 1982 : Lee Patrick , American actress
- 1983 : Glenn Kruspe , Canadian organist, conductor and music teacher
- 1986 : Jerry Colonna , American actor, comedian, and musician
- 1987 : Dixie Boy Jordan , American country musician
- 1989 : Will Glahé , German accordionist, composer and conductor
- 1989 : Heiko Fischer , German figure skater
- 1991 : Daniel Mann , American film director
- 1992 : Severino Gazzelloni , Italian flautist
- 1992 : Silvio Meier , German activist of the left-alternative scene, victim of violence
- 1994 : Karlheinz Rudolph , German journalist and television presenter
- 1995 : Günter Matthes , German journalist
- 1995 : Leila Mourad , Egyptian film actress and singer
- 1995 : Sigrid Schneider , German politician, MdL
- 1996 : Elmo Langley , American racing driver
- 1996 : Abdus Salam , Pakistani physicist, first Muslim Nobel Prize winner
- 1997 : Erna Raupach-Petersen , German folk actress
- 1997 : Robert Simpson , English composer and musicologist
- 1998 : Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz , Polish composer and music teacher
- 1999 : Serge Lang , French sports journalist
- 2000 : Harald Leipnitz , German actor
- 2000 : Emil Zátopek , Czech long-distance runner
21st century
- 2004 : Wilhelm Gustav Illbruck , German entrepreneur and ocean sailor
- 2004 : Uwe Scholz , German choreographer and ballet director
- 2005 : Alfred Anderson , British soldier, last British witness to the 1914 Christmas Peace
- 2006 : Hassan Gouled Aptidon , Djiboutian politician
- 2006 : Věroslav Neumann , Czech composer and music teacher
- 2007 : Valda Aveling , Australian harpsichordist and pianist
- 2009 : Konstantin Petrowitsch Feoktistow , Soviet spaceman
- 2012 : Berthold Albrecht , German manager
- 2014 : Robert Richardson , British Officer, Commander of the British Sector of Berlin
- 2015 : Bob Foster , American boxer
- 2016 : Matthias Mauritz , German soccer player
- 2017 : Peter Berling , German actor and writer
- 2017 : David Cassidy , American actor and singer
- 2017 : Otto Luttrop , German soccer player and coach
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Remembrance Day of Our Lady in Jerusalem (Catholic, Orthodox)
- Wolfgang Capito , Alsatian priest, provost and reformer (Protestant)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
Commons : November 21st - Collection of images, videos and audio files
