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Nov 21 1495

John Bale England bishopanti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan)

Nov 21 1561

Carolus Scribani ItalianFlemish jesuitauthor

Nov 21 1637

Catharina Questiers Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child)

Nov 21 1724

John Ekels the Old Amsterdam paintercartoonist

Nov 21 1729

Josiah Bartlett US physicianjudgesigner (Declaration of Independence)

Nov 21 1768

Friedrich Schleiermacher German theologistphilosopher

Nov 21 1787

Samuel Cunard founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)

Nov 21 1817

Richard B. Garnett Confederate Brigadier General born in Essex County Virginia (d. 1863)

Nov 21 1824

Hieronymus Theodor Richter Dresden German Mineralogist and co-discoverer of the element indium

Nov 21 1828

William McComb Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1918)

Nov 21 1831

John Franklin Miller American lawyer businessman and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in South Bend Indiana (d. 1886)

Nov 21 1834

Joseph Jackson Bartlett American attorney diplomat and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Binghamton New York (d. 1893)

Nov 21 1851

Desire J Mercier Belgian philosophercardinal

Nov 21 1854

Benedict XV [Giacomo PGB marques della Chiessa] 258th Pope (1914-22)

Nov 21 1857

Manuel Estrada Cabrera 13th President of Guatemala (1898-1920) born in Quetzaltenango Guatemala (d. 1924)

Nov 21 1863

Arthur Quiller-Couch [Q] editor (Oxford Book of English Verse)

Nov 21 1870

Joe Darling cricketer (Australian lefty batsman at turn of century)

Nov 21 1870

Stanley Jackson cricketer (captain of England governor of Bengal)

Nov 21 1870

Sigfrid Edstrm Swedish sports official (d. 1964)

Nov 21 1877

Louis Campbell-Tipton US composer born in Chicago Illinois (d. 1921)

Nov 21 1878

Gustav Radbruch German lawyerminister of Justice

Nov 21 1880

Franz Hessel German writer born in Szczecin Poland (d. 1941)

Nov 21 1886

Harold Nicolson English diplomatauthor (Good Behaviour)

Nov 21 1894

Corinne Griffith American actress dubbed The Orchid Lady of the Screen (3 Hours Lilies of Field) born in Texarkana Texas (d. 1979)

Nov 21 1898

Ren Magritte Belgian surrealistic painter (This is Not a Pipe)

Nov 21 1899

Jobyna Ralston American actress (For Heavens Sake) born in South Pittsburg Tennessee (d. 1967)

Nov 21 1900

Alice Calhoun American Silent film actress (Flowing Gold) born in Cleveland Ohio (d. 1966)

Nov 21 1902

Michail A Suslov Russian party ideologist [OSNov 8]

Nov 21 1902

Foster Hewitt Canadian radio pioneer (d. 1985)

Nov 21 1904

Coleman Hawkins virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz

Nov 21 1907

Charles Korvin [Geza Korvin Karpathi] Austrian actor (Berlin Express Ship of Fools) born in Piestany Austria-Hungary (d. 1998)

Nov 21 1907

M Eleonore Lippits 1st Dutch female missionary doctor

Nov 21 1908

Elizabeth George Speare American author (d. 1994)

Nov 21 1272 Following Henry III of Englands death on November 16 his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.

Nov 21 1317 Frederik of SierckZyrick becomes bishop of Utrecht

Nov 21 1620 Pilgrim Fathers reach America Provincetown Harbor Mass

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