On This Day — November 21
3816 noted people were born and 1928 died on November 21 in our archive, including Barry Ramachandra Rao, Bertrand Meyer and Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on November 21
Barry Ramachandra Rao
1922 – 2005
Bertrand Meyer
b. 1950
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah
b. 1940
Andrei Kobyakow
b. 1960
Andrii Yermak
b. 1971
Andrzej Papierz
b. 1966
Arnold Cassola
b. 1953
Aryeh Eliav
1921 – 2010
Clyde Summers
1918 – 2010
Désiré Mercier
1851 – 1926
Edmée Chandon
1885 – 1944
Harold Nicolson
1886 – 1968
Henri Laborit
1914 – 1995
Hieronymous Theodor Richter
1824 – 1898
Ignazio Visco
b. 1949
Irja Seurujärvi-Kari
b. 1947
Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui
1798 – 1854
K. S. Chandrasekharan
1920 – 2017
Kay Patterson
b. 1944
Konstantin Remchukov
b. 1954
Laurie E. Locascio
b. 1961
Laurier LaPierre
1929 – 2012
Lawrence Goldfarb
b. 1958
Marjorie Housepian Dobkin
1922 – 2013
Mikhail Tarasenko
1947 – 2025
Nikolay Lyubimov
b. 1971
Otto Fricke
b. 1965
Robert Kindersley, 1st Baron Kindersley
1871 – 1954
Rudolf Kochendörffer
1911 – 1980
Sigfrid Edström
1870 – 1964
Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms
1931 – 2025
Víctor Hipólito Martínez
1924 – 2017
Walter Krämer
b. 1948
Wim Crouwel
1928 – 2019
Émile Ripert
1882 – 1948
Akshay Venkatesh
b. 1981
Alexander Kondrashov
b. 1983
Alfredo Sáenz Abad
b. 1942
Alison Rodger
b. 1959
Anders Johan Malmgren
1834 – 1897
Anders Lindquist
b. 1942
Andrew Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin
1849 – 1942
Andriy Stryzhak
b. 1947
Anna Wallén
b. 1980
Anthony G. Brown
b. 1961
Arthur E. Brown, Jr.
b. 1929
Arthur Quiller-Couch
1863 – 1944
Auguste Chauveau
1827 – 1917
Ben Bot
b. 1937
Benedict XV
1854 – 1922
Bernard D. Meltzer
1914 – 2007
Bishop Kyrillos Katerelos
b. 1956
Bolesław Kieniewicz
1907 – 1969
Bong-Kiun Kaang
b. 1961
Bret Stephens
b. 1973
Camillo Rondani
1808 – 1879
Charles H. Stonestreet
1813 – 1885
Chen Zhili
b. 1942
Chung Il-kwon
1917 – 1994
Claud Jacob
1863 – 1948
Clemente Solaro, Count La Margherita
1792 – 1869
Clyde Foster
1931 – 2017
Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro
1857 – 1929
Daniel Chwolson
1819 – 1911
Derek Yach
b. 1955
Dick Durbin
b. 1944
Dimitrios Vernardakis
1833 – 1907
Dora María Téllez
b. 1955
Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons
1790 – 1858
Eimuntas Nekrošius
1952 – 2018
Elena Kazimirtchak-Polonskaïa
1902 – 1992
Emmett Reid Dunn
1894 – 1956
Erik Lindahl
1891 – 1960
Etta Zuber Falconer
1933 – 2002
Eva Rieger
b. 1940
Ferenc Kósa
1937 – 2018
Fereydun Ebrahimi
1919 – 1947
Foster Hewitt
1902 – 1985
Freddy Delbaen
b. 1946
Gaston Tissandier
1843 – 1899
Georg Scheffers
1866 – 1945
Georges Cabanier
1906 – 1976
Giorgi Chubinashvili
1885 – 1973
Gottlieb Christoph Adolf von Harless
1806 – 1879
Gregory John Hartmayer
b. 1951
Gunnar Kangro
1913 – 1975
Gustav Radbruch
1878 – 1949
Gyula Hevesi
1890 – 1970
Harekrishna Mahatab
1899 – 1987
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul
b. 1942
Henry Hartsfield
1933 – 2014
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
1773 – 1840
Hugh McCormick Smith
1865 – 1941
Hugo Osvald
1892 – 1970
Ignacio Urquizu
b. 1978
Ildar Khalikov
b. 1967
Ina Rama
b. 1972
Inés Sastre
b. 1973
Ira Sachs
b. 1965
Jacques Senard
1919 – 2020
Jacqui Heinrich
b. 1988
James Braid
b. 1988
James DePreist
1936 – 2013
James Paterson
b. 1987
Jay Nordlinger
b. 1963
Jimmi Simpson
b. 1975
Joanna Lichocka
b. 1969
Joe Darling
1870 – 1946
John Francis Thackeray
b. 1952
John Kerin
1937 – 2023
John N. Kennedy
b. 1951
John T. McNaughton
1921 – 1967
José Ramón de la Morena
b. 1956
Juan de Solórzano Pereira
1575 – 1655
Józef Baryła
1924 – 2016
Karen Davila
b. 1970
Kathryn Thirlwall
b. 1957
Kozo Tashima
b. 1957
Li Mi
1902 – 1973
Lincoln Clark Andrews
1867 – 1940
Lord Davies of Abersoch
b. 1952
Lorenzo Guerini
b. 1966
Louis Napoléon Champagne
1860 – 1911
Luis A. Aguilar
b. 1953
Luís Filipe Castro Mendes
b. 1950
Lynton K. Caldwell
1913 – 2006
Malin Falkenmark
1925 – 2023
Manuel Estrada Cabrera
1859 – 1924
Margaret Lyons
1923 – 2019
Margaret Sharp, Baroness Sharp of Guildford
b. 1938
Margery C. Carlson
1892 – 1985
Martha Schwartz
b. 1950
Michael Zickerick
b. 1948
Michel Suleiman
b. 1948
Mikhail Koshkin
1898 – 1940
Miodrag Lekić
b. 1947
Mohamed Hag Ali Hassan
b. 1947
Mulayam Singh Yadav
1939 – 2022
Mykhailo Drapatyi
b. 1982
Mykhailo Tsymbaliuk
b. 1964
Nahum Admoni
b. 1929
Natalia Makarova
b. 1940
Nick Sibbeston
b. 1943
Nikolai Durov
b. 1980
Nikolai Simonov
1901 – 1973
Nilza de Sena
b. 1976
Oleksander Hrekov
1875 – 1958
Phil Bredesen
b. 1943
Raman Parimala
b. 1948
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
1643 – 1687
Renée Wagener
b. 1962
Ricardo Rio
b. 1972
Richard R. Taylor
1922 – 1978
Robert Brieger
b. 1956
Robert C. Duncan
1923 – 2003
Rodion Kuzmin
1891 – 1949
Romuald Iodko
1894 – 1974
Scotty McLennan
b. 1948
Sergi Rodríguez López-Ros
b. 1970
Serhiy Storozhenko
b. 1949
Stanisław Ryniak
1915 – 2004
Stanley Jackson
1870 – 1947
Stuart B. Levy
1938 – 2019
Tadeusz Pankiewicz
1908 – 1993
Terunobu Fujimori
b. 1946
Thawan Thamrongnawasawat
1901 – 1988
Thomas Roth
b. 1951
Thorsten Glauber
b. 1970
Tina Howe
1937 – 2023
Tomasz Czyszek
b. 1974
Vahe Gurzadyan
b. 1955
Viačasław Daniłovič
b. 1973
Victor Chernozhukov
b. 1974
Vladimir Antonovich Suslov
b. 1939
Walter Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore
1845 – 1929
Walter William Skeat
1835 – 1912
William A. Edelstein
1944 – 2014
William Martin Murphy
1844 – 1919
William Wakefield Baum
1926 – 2015
Xie Jin
1923 – 2008
Yoon Nung-min
1927 – 2009
Yoshihisa Yamamoto
b. 1950
Yōsei Ide
b. 1977
Yōsuke Suzuki
b. 1975
Abdallah Bou Habib
1941 – 2025
Abdul Alkalimat
b. 1942
Abdul Wahid
b. 1980
Adair Blain
1894 – 1983
Ajai Malhotra
b. 1953
Ajaz Ahmed Khan
b. 1968
Alain Meyer
b. 1949
Alan Purisima
b. 1959
Albert C. Burrage
1859 – 1931
Alcante
b. 1970
Alessandro Rossi
1819 – 1898
Alex Tanguay
b. 1979
Alexander Henry Haliday
1807 – 1870
Alexander Skachkov
b. 1960
Alfonso Calderón
1930 – 2009
Alfred A. Foucher
1865 – 1952
… and 3,616 more
Died on November 21
Francesco Tricomi
1897 – 1978
Paul Michaux
1854 – 1923
Abdus Salam
1926 – 1996
Aivars Endziņš
1940 – 2023
Andrea Verga
1811 – 1895
Carmina Virgili
1927 – 2014
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
1888 – 1970
Charles Francis Adams Sr.
1807 – 1886
Danshi Tatekawa
1935 – 2011
Eli Hurvitz
1932 – 2011
Ernest Lluch
1937 – 2000
Ernst Fuchs
1851 – 1930
George Springate
1938 – 2019
Gustaf Svanberg
1802 – 1882
Jean-Claude Risset
1938 – 2016
Jérôme Franel
1859 – 1939
Konstantin Feoktistov
1926 – 2009
Laureano Ladrón de Guevara
1889 – 1968
Laurits Tuxen
1853 – 1927
László Rédei
1900 – 1980
Malcolm Adiseshiah
1910 – 1994
Pehr G. Gyllenhammar
1935 – 2024
Pierre Gaxotte
1895 – 1982
Roger Lhermitte
1920 – 2016
Tadeusz Wojciechowski
1838 – 1919
Thomas Gresham
1519 – 1579
Abdol-Hossein Farmanfarma
1857 – 1939
Aileen Fox
1907 – 2005
Albert Pézard
1875 – 1927
Alois Riehl
1844 – 1924
Ami Boué
1794 – 1881
Andreas Zelinka
1802 – 1868
Anton Mavretič
1934 – 2019
Arthur Forbes, 9th Earl of Granard
1915 – 1992
Artur Lemba
1885 – 1963
Boris Kumm
1897 – 1958
Boris Rohdendorf
1904 – 1977
Bruno Rossi
1905 – 1993
Béla Miklós
1890 – 1948
Catherine Bauer Wurster
1905 – 1964
Cyril Clarke
1907 – 2000
David Grenfell
1881 – 1968
Deshbandhu Gupta
1901 – 1951
Edward Bawden
1903 – 1989
Esaias Tegnér the Younger
1843 – 1928
Frank Martin
1890 – 1974
Gaetano Giardino
1864 – 1935
Grayson L. Kirk
1903 – 1997
Gustav Roch
1839 – 1866
Hans Zassenhaus
1912 – 1991
Harold Young
1923 – 2006
Henry Moncrieff Smith
1873 – 1951
Ibrahim Hananu
1869 – 1935
Ismail Fahmi
1922 – 1997
Ivan Yershov
1867 – 1943
Jaan-Mati Punning
1940 – 2009
James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury
1746 – 1820
James O'Mara
1873 – 1948
Jerónimo Saavedra
1936 – 2023
John A. King
1817 – 1900
John P. McConnell
1908 – 1986
John Scaddan
1876 – 1934
John V. L. Pruyn
1811 – 1877
Josef Lux
1956 – 1999
Josef Svoboda
1929 – 2022
Lev Perovski
1792 – 1856
Lu Zhiwei
1894 – 1970
Margit Frenk
1925 – 2025
Marius Hægstad
1850 – 1927
Masatoshi Kurata
1939 – 2016
Meena Alexander
1951 – 2018
Muteesa II of Buganda
1924 – 1969
Nuzhat Katzav
1932 – 2022
Oliver Friggieri
1947 – 2020
Paul Murray Kendall
1911 – 1973
Paul von Ragué Schleyer
1930 – 2014
René Reille
1835 – 1898
Robert Bly
1926 – 2021
Robert Rössle
1876 – 1956
Rudolf Deyl
1912 – 1967
Salahuddin of Selangor
1926 – 2001
Siegfried Großmann
1930 – 2025
Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet
1800 – 1874
T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar
1903 – 1991
Teijirō Toyoda
1885 – 1961
Viktor Toponogov
1930 – 2004
Václav Chaloupecký
1882 – 1951
Walter Wyman
1848 – 1911
Willem Jacob Luyten
1899 – 1994
William Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen
1807 – 1886
William Green
1870 – 1952
William Lowe Bryan
1860 – 1955
Władysław Pobóg-Malinowski
1899 – 1962
Yaşar Büyükanıt
1940 – 2019
Émile Paul Amable Guépratte
1856 – 1939
Émile Reinaud
1854 – 1924
Afanasy Fet
1820 – 1892
Agnes Pockels
1862 – 1935
Albert H. Bosch
1908 – 2005
Alejandro Posadas
1870 – 1902
Alexander M. Patch
1889 – 1945
Alexis Simon Belle
1674 – 1734
Algirdas Šocikas
1928 – 2012
Alpheus Waters Wilson
1834 – 1916
Ameen Faheem
1939 – 2015
Andrés Mignucci
1957 – 2022
Angela Gotelli
1905 – 1996
Anne McCaffrey
1926 – 2011
Antonin Raymond
1888 – 1976
Antonio Escohotado
1941 – 2021
Antonio Maria Panebianco
1808 – 1885
Arie van Deursen
1931 – 2011
Arthur Lakes
1844 – 1917
Asja Lācis
1891 – 1979
Asongo Alalaparu
1941 – 2021
Benjamin Franklin Mudge
1817 – 1879
Benjamin Ward Richardson
1828 – 1896
Bernard Rimland
1928 – 2006
Bill Haarlow
1913 – 2003
Bonté Elgood
1874 – 1960
Bruno Leoni
1913 – 1967
Carl Fieger
1893 – 1960
Carolyn Coroneos Dormon
1888 – 1971
Charles Eugene of Lorraine, Prince of Lambesc
1751 – 1825
Clarence H. Beecher
1877 – 1959
Cris Agterberg
1883 – 1948
Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer
1753 – 1823
Ditta Pásztory-Bartók
1903 – 1982
Doris Abele
1901 – 2021
Dorothy Jeakins
1914 – 1995
Eduardo Marquina
1879 – 1946
Edward R. Schowalter, Jr.
1927 – 2003
Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner
1859 – 1920
Eleanor Manning
1906 – 1986
Eli Zeira
1928 – 2025
Elias Florence
1797 – 1880
Elizabeth Burchenal
1876 – 1959
Emilio Joaquim da Silva Maia
1808 – 1859
Emily Squires
1941 – 2012
Emmanuel d'Alzon
1810 – 1880
Erich Grützner
1910 – 2001
Eugene Reybold
1884 – 1961
Eugène Rambert
1830 – 1886
Fernand Picard
1906 – 1993
Fernando Fernán Gómez
1921 – 2007
Florence Harding
1860 – 1924
Francis Burton Harrison
1873 – 1957
Francis Dolan Collins
1841 – 1891
Franz Joseph I of Austria
1830 – 1916
François de Nicolay
1919 – 1963
Frederic Rogers, 1st Baron Blachford
1811 – 1889
Friedhelm Waldhausen
1938 – 2024
Gahan Wilson
1930 – 2019
Ganson Purcell
Garret Hobart
1844 – 1899
George C. Woodruff
1805 – 1885
George Cox
1824 – 1901
George Howard
1935 – 2018
Gleb Plaksin
1925 – 2008
Gregor Duncan
1950 – 2025
Gregory H. Adamian
1926 – 2015
Gustav Brühl
1871 – 1939
Hal Patterson
1932 – 2011
Harold Geneen
1910 – 1997
Harry von Zell
1906 – 1981
Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss of Gera
1858 – 1928
Helen Daniels Bader
1927 – 1989
Henry Ponsonby
1825 – 1895
Herbert Saffir
1917 – 2007
Hersh David Nomberg
1876 – 1927
Horatio Seymour
1778 – 1857
Hugh Sidey
1927 – 2005
Igor Korobov
1956 – 2018
J. William Ditter
1888 – 1943
James Barry Munnik Hertzog
1866 – 1942
James Meadows Rendel
1799 – 1856
Jan Brożek
1585 – 1652
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
1802 – 1861
Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas
1701 – 1781
Jerry Colonna
1904 – 1986
Jim Folsom
1908 – 1987
Jim Thorn
1882 – 1956
Joaquín de Montserrat, marqués de Cruillas
1700 – 1771
John Eatton Le Conte
1784 – 1860
John George
1936 – 2008
John Loaring
1915 – 1969
John W. Morton
1842 – 1914
John Woodburn
1843 – 1902
Jonas Rein
1760 – 1821
Joseph Caillaux
1863 – 1944
Joseph D. Patch
1885 – 1966
Joseph McKenna
1843 – 1926
Joseph Robert Love
1839 – 1914
José Longinos Ellauri
1789 – 1867
José Olaguer Feliú
1857 – 1929
João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha
1790 – 1876
Kanyama Chiume
1929 – 2007
Karel Raška
1909 – 1987
Karol Rathaus
1895 – 1954
Karol Stanisław "Panie Kochanku" Radziwiłł
1734 – 1790
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