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  On this day in history birth of john Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan)  

1561  Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author was born on this day in history.  

1567  Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621) was born on this day in history.  

1637  On this day in history birth of catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child)  

1645  Johann Lohner, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

1692  Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet was born on this day in history.  

1694  On this day in history birth of voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (. 1778)  

0496  On this day in history death of pope Gelasius I  

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

1481  On this day in history ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87  

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  Benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies on this day in history.