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

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  On this day in history birth of johann Lohner, composer   

1683  Johann Michael Muller, composer was born on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history death of philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)   

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  On this day in history death of annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507)   

1579  Death of Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier on this day in history.   

1580  Death of Willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed on this day in history.   

1610  Benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies on this day in history.