Anniversaries 21 November

Birth

Je Tsongkhapa1

Tibetan Lama 1357–1419

Voltaire167

French writer, historian, and philosopher 1694–1778

Friedrich Schleiermacher6

German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar 1768–1834

Bryan Procter4

English poet 1787–1874

Lewis H. Morgan1

United States ethnologist 1818–1881

Paul Rée1

Prussian Doctor 1849–1901

Pope Benedict XV1

258th Pope of the Catholic Church 1854–1922

Arthur Quiller-Couch7

British writer and literary critic 1863–1944

Alexander Berkman6

anarchist and writer 1870–1936

Gustav Radbruch12

German politician 1878–1949

Harold Nicolson6

British diplomat, author, diarist and politician 1886–1968

Hugh Kingsmill15

British writer and journalist 1889–1949

René Magritte6

Belgian surrealist artist 1898–1967

Isaac Bashevis Singer39

Polish-born Jewish-American author 1902–1991

Jim Bishop4

American journalist and author 1907–1987

Elizabeth George Speare7

American writer 1908–1994

Abd al-Karim Qasim36

Prime Minister of Iraq 1914–1963

Henri Laborit1

French physician, writer and philosopher 1914–1995

Christopher Tolkien1

British book editor 1924–2020

Marilyn French4

Novelist, critic 1929–2009

Anthony Downs1

English economist and politologist 1930

Beryl Bainbridge5

English novelist 1932–2010

Джеймс Маккей1

British writer and philatelist 1936–2007

Marlo Thomas1

American actress, producer, and social activist 1937

Jonathan Z. Smith1

American religion academic 1938–2017

Mulayam Singh Yadav2

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh three times 1939–2022

Margrit Kennedy12

German architect 1939–2013

Richard Marcinko2

Navy SEAL, Author 1940

Richard Durbin5

U.S. senior senator from Illinois 1944

Goldie Hawn8

American actress, film director, and producer. 1945

Felix Toppo1

1947

Juan Alberto Puiggari1

Argentine archbishop 1949

David R. Henderson2

American economist 1950

Lisa Goldstein7

fantasy and science fiction writer 1953

Steven Curtis Chapman5

American Christian music singer-songwriter, record producer… 1962

Liza Tarbuck2

English actress and television and radio presenter 1964

Björk21

Icelandic singer-songwriter 1965

Benny Mario Travas1

1966

Elizabeth Hoyt15

American writer 1970

Bret Stephens5

far-right American 1973

Billy Simmonds3

1980

Billy-Ray Belcourt1

poet, scholar, and author from the Driftpile Cree Nation 1994

Death

James Hogg3

British writer 1770–1835

Heinrich Von Kleist1

German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer 1777–1811

Charles Francis Adams3

American historical editor, politician and diplomat (1807-1… 1807–1886

Yoshida Shoin18

Japanese politician 1830–1859

Ellen Glasgow4

Novelist, short story writer 1873–1945

Edward Cadbury8

British businessman 1873–1948

Norman Lindsay1

Australian artist (1879-1969) 1879–1969

Anzia Yezierska6

American writer 1880–1970

C. V. Raman20

Indian physicist 1888–1970

Robert Benchley29

American comedian 1889–1945

Sara García6

Mexican actress 1895–1980

Quentin Crisp66

writer, Actor 1908–1999

Harold Geneen16

American businessman 1910–1997

Leah Bodine Drake1

American writer 1914–1964

Julian Jaynes43

American psychologist 1920–1997

Kaysone Phomvihane4

first General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary P… 1920–1992

Anne McCaffrey20

American-Irish novelist 1926–2011

Abdus Salam3

theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient 1926–1996