Famous Birthdays In November - 21

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  Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621) was born on November - 21.   

1637  On November - 21 birth of catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child)   

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

1683  On November - 21 birth of johann Michael Muller, composer   

1692  On November - 21 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.   

1724  On November - 21 birth of john Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist   

1729  Josiah Bartlett, US physician/judge/signer (Decl of Independence) was born on this day in history.   

1742  Alessandro Felici, composer was born on this day in history.   

1761  Dorothy Jordan, British actress (d. 1816) was born on November - 21.   

1768  Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher was born on this day in history.   

1785  On November - 21 birth of william Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion)   

1787  On November - 21 birth of samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)   

1811  On this day in history birth of zeng Guofan, Chinese military (d. 1872)   

1817  On November - 21 birth of richard Brooke Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

1828  On this day in history birth of william McComb, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1918   

1829  On November - 21 birth of peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet   

1831  John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886 was born on this day in history.   

1834  On this day in history birth of henrietta (Hetty) Green, financier (Witch of Wall Street)   

1834  On this day in history birth of joseph Jackson Bartlett, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1893   

1840  Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia was born on November - 21.   

1851  On November - 21 birth of desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal   

1852  Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer was born on this day in history.   

1853  Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17) was born on November - 21.   

1854  Benedict XV, [Giacomo PGB marques della Chiessa], 258th Pope (1914-22) was born on November - 21.   

1860  Tom Horn, American gunman (d. 1903) was born on November - 21.   

1861  On this day in history birth of joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet   

1863  Arthur Quiller-Couch, [Q], editor (Oxford Book of English Verse) was born on this day in history.   

1863  Mina Dilis-Beersmans, Flemish actress/wife of John Dilis (Poppenhuis) was born on this day in history.   

1867  On November - 21 birth of vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian chemist   

1870  On November - 21 birth of joe Darling, cricketer (Australian lefty batsman at turn of century)   

1870  On this day in history birth of stanley Jackson, cricketer (captain of England, governor of Bengal)   

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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  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 November - 21 benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies