Anniversaries 21 November
Birth
![Voltaire photo]()
French writer, historian, and philosopher
1694–1778
![Friedrich Schleiermacher photo]()
German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar
1768–1834
![Lewis H. Morgan photo]()
United States ethnologist
1818–1881
![Paul Rée photo]()
Prussian Doctor
1849–1901
![Pope Benedict XV photo]()
258th Pope of the Catholic Church
1854–1922
![Arthur Quiller-Couch photo]()
British writer and literary critic
1863–1944
![Alexander Berkman photo]()
anarchist and writer
1870–1936
![Gustav Radbruch photo]()
German politician
1878–1949
![Harold Nicolson photo]()
British diplomat, author, diarist and politician
1886–1968
![Hugh Kingsmill photo]()
British writer and journalist
1889–1949
![René Magritte photo]()
Belgian surrealist artist
1898–1967
![Isaac Bashevis Singer photo]()
Polish-born Jewish-American author
1902–1991
![Jim Bishop photo]()
American journalist and author
1907–1987
![Elizabeth George Speare photo]()
American writer
1908–1994
![Abd al-Karim Qasim photo]()
Prime Minister of Iraq
1914–1963
![Henri Laborit photo]()
French physician, writer and philosopher
1914–1995
![Christopher Tolkien photo]()
British book editor
1924–2020
![Marilyn French photo]()
Novelist, critic
1929–2009
![Anthony Downs photo]()
English economist and politologist
1930
![Beryl Bainbridge photo]()
English novelist
1932–2010
![Джеймс Маккей photo]()
British writer and philatelist
1936–2007
![Marlo Thomas photo]()
American actress, producer, and social activist
1937
![Jonathan Z. Smith photo]()
American religion academic
1938–2017
![Mulayam Singh Yadav photo]()
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh three times
1939–2022
![Margrit Kennedy photo]()
German architect
1939–2013
![Richard Durbin photo]()
U.S. senior senator from Illinois
1944
![Goldie Hawn photo]()
American actress, film director, and producer.
1945
![Juan Alberto Puiggari photo]()
Argentine archbishop
1949
![Lisa Goldstein photo]()
fantasy and science fiction writer
1953
![Steven Curtis Chapman photo]()
American Christian music singer-songwriter, record producer…
1962
![Liza Tarbuck photo]()
English actress and television and radio presenter
1964
![Björk photo]()
Icelandic singer-songwriter
1965
![Billy-Ray Belcourt photo]()
poet, scholar, and author from the Driftpile Cree Nation
1994
Death
![Heinrich Von Kleist photo]()
German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer
1777–1811
![Charles Francis Adams photo]()
American historical editor, politician and diplomat (1807-1…
1807–1886
![Yoshida Shoin photo]()
Japanese politician
1830–1859
![Ellen Glasgow photo]()
Novelist, short story writer
1873–1945
![Edward Cadbury photo]()
British businessman
1873–1948
![Norman Lindsay photo]()
Australian artist (1879-1969)
1879–1969
![Anzia Yezierska photo]()
American writer
1880–1970
![C. V. Raman photo]()
Indian physicist
1888–1970
![Robert Benchley photo]()
American comedian
1889–1945
![Sara García photo]()
Mexican actress
1895–1980
![Harold Geneen photo]()
American businessman
1910–1997
![Leah Bodine Drake photo]()
American writer
1914–1964
![Julian Jaynes photo]()
American psychologist
1920–1997
![Kaysone Phomvihane photo]()
first General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary P…
1920–1992
![Anne McCaffrey photo]()
American-Irish novelist
1926–2011
![Abdus Salam photo]()
theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
1926–1996
