Events & Holidays In November - 21

Saint Archangel Michailo (Serbia)

St. Thomas Day (Sao Tome & Principe)

Transitional Government Day (Sao Tome & Principe)

World Television Day (International)

1495  John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan) was born on this day in history.   

1561  On this day in history birth of carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author   

1567  On this day in history birth of anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621)   

1637  Catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child) was born on this day in history.   

1645  On this day in history birth of johann Lohner, composer   

1683  On this day in history birth of johann Michael Muller, composer   

1692  On this day in history birth of carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet   

1694  Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (. 1778) was born on this day in history.   

0496  Death of Pope Gelasius I on this day in history.   

1361  Death of Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346) on this day in history.   

1481  Ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87 on this day in history.   

1555  On this day in history georg Agricola, [Bauer], German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61   

1566  Death of Annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507) on this day in history.   

1579  On this day in history death of thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier   

1580  On this day in history death of willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed   

1610  On this day in history benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies