On this day: 21 November
Events, births and deaths on 21 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Eli Zeira
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · William Wakefield Baum
- Deaths · Edward Cummins
- Births · Matti Ranin
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1011 · Deaths · Emperor Reizei
Events · 22
- 1789North Carolina — state of the United States of America
- 1806Continental System — embargo of Napoleonic Europe against Britain
- 1894Battle of Lushunkou — 1894 battle of the First Sino-Japanese War
- 1918flag of Estonia — national flag of the Republic of Estonia
- 1918Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 — United Kingdom legislation
- 1920Bloody Sunday — British attack at Croke Park, Dublin, during the Irish War of Independence
- 1927Columbine Mine massacre — 1927 police shooting of striking miners in Serene, Colorado, United States
- 1947
- 1970Operation Ivory Coast — 1970 military operation
- 1974Birmingham pub bombings — occurred on 21 November 1974, when bombs exploded in two public houses in central Birmingham
- 19791979 U.S. embassy burning in Islamabad — 1979 attack on the U.S. embassy to Pakistan in Islamabad
- 1980MGM Grand fire — deadliest fire in Nevada history
- 1990Bangkok Airways Flight 125 — 1990 aviation accident
- 1990Straits Exchange Foundation — organization
- 1995Dayton Agreement — late-1995 treaty ending the Bosnian War
- 1996Humberto Vidal Explosion — explosion in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico in 1996
- 2004China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210 — plane crash
- 20122012 Tel Aviv bus bombing — terror attack in Tel Aviv
- 2013Euromaidan — 2013–2014 pro-european protests in Ukraine
- 2013Riga supermarket roof collapse — 2013 disaster in Riga, Latvia
- 20212021 Waukesha Christmas Parade attack — 2021 vehicular mass murder in Wisconsin
- 20222022 Cianjur earthquake — 2022 earthquake centered in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia
Births · 60
- 1694Voltaire — French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)
- 1768Friedrich Schleiermacher — German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar (1768-1834)
- 1818Lewis H. Morgan — American anthropologist (1818–1881)
- 1834Hetty Green — American financier (1834–1916)
- 1840Victoria, Princess Royal — British princess (1840-1901), Empress of Germany and Queen consort of Prussia from March to June 1888
- 1852Francisco Tárrega — Spanish composer and classical guitarist (1852-1909)
- 1854Benedict XV — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922
- 1866Sigbjørn Obstfelder — Norwegian writer (1866–1900)
- 1870Alexander Berkman — Russian-American anarchist and writer (1870–1936)
- 1870Sigfrid Edström — Swedish industrialist and International Olympic Committee official (1870–1964)
- 1878Gustav Radbruch — German politician (1878-1949)
- 1897Vito Genovese — Italian-born American mobster(1897-1969)
- 1898René Magritte — Belgian surrealist (1898–1967)
- 1903Isaac Bashevis Singer — Polish-American writer (1904–1991)
- 1904Coleman Hawkins — American jazz saxophonist (1904–1969)
- 1910Qian Zhongshu — Chinese literary scholar and writer (1910–1998)
- 1914Abd al-Karim Qasim — Iraqi Army brigadier, nationalist and first prime minister of Iraq after the fall of the monarchy
- 1917Chung Il-kwon — South Korean general, politician (1917–1994)
- 1924Christopher Tolkien — literary scholar, writer, and editor (1924–2020)
- 1924Milka Planinc — Yugoslav politician (1924–2010)
- 1925Veljko Kadijević — Yugoslav general (1925-2014)
- 1929Marilyn French — Novelist, critic (1929-2009)
- 1932Beryl Bainbridge — English writer (1932–2010)
- 1933Henry Hartsfield — American astronaut (1933–2014)
- 1935Fairuz — Lebanese singer and actress
Deaths · 60
- 1011(Julian date)Emperor Reizei — Emperor of Japan
- 1150(Julian date)García Ramírez of Navarre — King of Navarre
- 1325(Julian date)Yury of Moscow — Grand prince of Moscow (1281-1325)
- 1361(Julian date)Philip I of Burgundy — Duke of Burgundy from 1350 until his death (1346-1361)
- 1555(Julian date)
- 1566(Julian date)Annibale Caro — Italian poet and Knight of Malta (1507-1566)
- 1579Thomas Gresham — English merchant and financier (c. 1519 – 1579)
- 1652Jan Brożek — Polish polymath (1585-1652)
- 1695Henry Purcell — English composer (1659–1695)
- 1710Bernardo Pasquini — Italian Baroque composer
- 1775John Hill — English author and botanist (1716-1775)
- 1781Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas — French politician (1701-1781)
- 1782Jacques de Vaucanson — French inventor of mechanical automata
- 1811
- 1835James Hogg — British poet and novelist (1770–1835)
- 1844Ivan Krylov — Russian writer (1769–1844)
- 1859Yoshida Shōin — Japanese politician (1830-1859)
- 1861Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire — French preacher and journalist (1802-1861)
- 1870Karel Jaromír Erben — Czech archivist, poet, ethnographer, librettist, publicist, lawyer, translator and writer (1811–1870)
- 1874Mariano Fortuny Marsal — Spanish painter (1838-1874)
- 1881Ami Boué — Austrian geologist, physician and botanist (1794-1881)
- 1899Garret Hobart — vice president of the United States from 1897 to 1899
- 1909Peder Severin Krøyer — Danish painter (1851-1909)
- 1916Franz Joseph I of Austria — Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary (1830-1916)
- 1922Ricardo Flores Magón — Mexican anarchist and social reform activist (1874–1922)
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