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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 21st of November 0235 | EVENT | Pope Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope. During the persecutions of emperor Maximinus Thrax he is martyred. |
| 21st of November 1272 | EVENT | Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England. |
| 21st of November 1386 | EVENT | Timur of Samarkand captures and sacks the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, taking King Bagrat V of Georgia captive. |
| 21st of November 1620 | EVENT | Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.). |
| 21st of November 1783 | EVENT | In Paris, Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight. |
| 21st of November 1789 | EVENT | North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state. |
| 21st of November 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war. |
| 21st of November 1877 | EVENT | Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound. |
| 21st of November 1894 | EVENT | Port Arthur massacre: Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War. |
| 21st of November 1905 | EVENT | Albert Einstein's paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass : energy equivalence formula E = mc?. |
| 21st of November 1910 | EVENT | Sailors onboard Brazil's most powerful military units, including the brand-new warships Minas Geraes, Sao Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash). |
| 21st of November 1916 | EVENT | World War I: A mine explodes and sinks HMHS Britannic in the Aegean Sea, killing 30 people. |
| 21st of November 1918 | EVENT | Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as national flag of the Republic of Estonia. |
| 21st of November 1920 | EVENT | Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as "Bloody Sunday". This included fourteen British informants, fourteen Irish civilians and three Irish Republican Army prisoners. |
| 21st of November 1922 | EVENT | Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator. |
| 21st of November 1927 | EVENT | Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes. |
| 21st of November 1942 | EVENT | The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by general vehicles until 1943). |
| 21st of November 1953 | EVENT | The British Natural History Museum announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax. |
| 21st of November 1962 | EVENT | The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War. |
| 21st of November 1964 | EVENT | The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it is the world's longest suspension bridge). |
| 21st of November 1964 | EVENT | Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes. |
| 21st of November 1967 | EVENT | Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing." |
| 21st of November 1969 | EVENT | The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI. |
| 21st of November 1969 | EVENT | U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, D.C. on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free. |
| 21st of November 1970 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast : A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there. |
| 21st of November 1971 | EVENT | Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur. |
| 21st of November 1974 | EVENT | The Birmingham Pub Bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted. |
| 21st of November 1977 | EVENT | Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that 'the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem "God Save the Queen" and the poem "God Defend New Zealand", written by Thomas Bracken, as set to music by John Joseph Woods, both being of equal status as national anthems appropriate to the occasion. |
| 21st of November 1979 | EVENT | The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set on fire, killing four. (see: Foreign relations of Pakistan) |
| 21st of November 1980 | EVENT | A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history. |
| 21st of November 1980 | EVENT | Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. The resulting whirlpool sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet down to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit. |
| 21st of November 1985 | EVENT | United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison. |
| 21st of November 1986 | EVENT | Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. |
| 21st of November 1990 | EVENT | The Charter of Paris for a New Europe refocuses the efforts of the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europeon post-Cold War issues. |
| 21st of November 1995 | EVENT | The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement is formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year. |
| 21st of November 1996 | EVENT | Antonio Salinass in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33. |
| 21st of November 2002 | EVENT | NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members. |
| 21st of November 2004 | EVENT | The island of Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern half of the island receives the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed. |
| 21st of November 2004 | EVENT | The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, giving rise to massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity. |
| 21st of November 2004 | EVENT | The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt. |
| 21st of November 2006 | EVENT | Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut. |
| 21st of November 1495 | BIRTHDAY | John Bale, English churchman (d. 1563) |
| 21st of November 1567 | BIRTHDAY | Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621) |
| 21st of November 1692 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (d. 1768) |
| 21st of November 1694 | BIRTHDAY | Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778) |
| 21st of November 1729 | BIRTHDAY | Josiah Bartlett, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1795) |
| 21st of November 1761 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothea Jordan, British actress (d. 1816) |
| 21st of November 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, German theologian (d. 1834) |
| 21st of November 1787 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born shipping magnate (d. 1865) |
| 21st of November 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Zeng Guofan, Chinese military leader (d. 1872) |
| 21st of November 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Hetty Green, American businesswoman (d. 1916) |
| 21st of November 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain and German Empress (d. 1901) |
| 21st of November 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Tarrega, father of modern classical guitar (d. 1909) |
| 21st of November 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922) |
| 21st of November 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Horn, American lawman and convicted murderer (d. 1903) |
| 21st of November 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (d. 1914) |
| 21st of November 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (d. 1946) |
| 21st of November 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Sigfrid Edstrom, Swedish sports official (d. 1964) |
| 21st of November 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Radbruch, German law professor (d. 1949) |
| 21st of November 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Nicolson, British diplomat (d. 1968) |
| 21st of November 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Mollie Steimer Russian-born American anarchist (d. 1980) |
| 21st of November 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Magritte, Belgian painter (d. 1967) |
| 21st of November 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Jobyna Ralston, American actress (d. 1967) |
| 21st of November 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (d. 1985) |
| 21st of November 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Coleman Hawkins, American musician (d. 1969) |
| 21st of November 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth George Speare, American author (d. 1994) |
| 21st of November 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Eleanor Powell, American actress and dancer (d. 1983) |
| 21st of November 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Boulting, British film director (d. 2001) |
| 21st of November 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Sid Luckman, American football player (d. 1998) |
| 21st of November 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Brodie, American actor (d. 1992) |
| 21st of November 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Meeker, American actor (d. 1988) |
| 21st of November 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Musial, American baseball player |
| 21st of November 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Joonas Kokkonen, Finnish composer (d. 1996) |
| 21st of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Casares, Spanish-born actress (d. 1996) |
| 21st of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Abe Lemons, American basketball coach (d. 2002) |
| 21st of November 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Tolkien, British author |
| 21st of November 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Georgia Frontiere, American professional sports team owner (d. 2008) |
| 21st of November 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Laurier LaPierre, Canadian journalist and politician |
| 21st of November 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Marilyn French, American feminist writer (d. 2009) |
| 21st of November 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Marjan Rozanc, Slovenian writer and essayist (d. 1990) |
| 21st of November 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian scientist (d. 1985) |
| 21st of November 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (d. 2003) |
| 21st of November 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Beryl Bainbridge, British novelist (d. 2010) |
| 21st of November 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Campanella, American actor |
| 21st of November 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Laurence Luckinbill, American actor |
| 21st of November 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Fairuz, Lebanese singer |
| 21st of November 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Chang, Australian physician (d. 1991) |
| 21st of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (d. 2010) |
| 21st of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Marlo Thomas, American actress |
| 21st of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Budd Dwyer, American politician (d. 1987) |
| 21st of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. John, American musician |
| 21st of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Marcinko, American author |
| 21st of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Freddy Beras Goico, Dominican TV host and comedian (d. 2010) |
| 21st of November 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Idil Biret, Turkish pianist |
| 21st of November 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Juliet Mills, British actress |
| 21st of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Afa Anoa'i, Samoan/American wrestler |
| 21st of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, German politician |
| 21st of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Bredesen, American politician and 48th Governor of Tennessee |
| 21st of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Sidjak, Russian fencer |
| 21st of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Mahan, American rodeo cowboy |
| 21st of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Laffite, French racing driver |
| 21st of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Ramis, American actor/director |
| 21st of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Durbin, American politician |
| 21st of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Monroe, American basketball player |
| 21st of November 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Goldie Hawn, American actress |
| 21st of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jacky Lafon, Belgian actress |
| 21st of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | George Zimmer, American entrepreneur |
| 21st of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Alphonse Mouzon, American jazzist |
| 21st of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Geyer, American film and television composer |
| 21st of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Lorna Luft, American actress and singer, daughter of Judy Garland |
| 21st of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Rothman, American film executive |
| 21st of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Cedric Maxwell, American basketball player |
| 21st of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | David Reivers, American cctor |
| 21st of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Brian McNamara, American actor |
| 21st of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Ritchie, American musician (Violent Femmes) |
| 21st of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Curtis Chapman, American musician |
| 21st of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Sabine Busch, German athlete |
| 21st of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Nicollette Sheridan, British actress |
| 21st of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Olden Polynice, Haitian basketball player |
| 21st of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Douglas, American wrestler |
| 21st of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Liza Tarbuck, British entertainer |
| 21st of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (d. 1993) |
| 21st of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Bjork, Icelandic musician |
| 21st of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Siddig, British actor |
| 21st of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Aikman, American football player |
| 21st of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tripp Cromer, American baseball player |
| 21st of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Toshihiko Koga, Japanese Judoka |
| 21st of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Inka Bause, German actress and singer |
| 21st of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Alex James, English bassist (Blur) |
| 21st of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Schemmel, American voice actor |
| 21st of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Noxon, American journalist |
| 21st of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Griffey, Jr., American baseball player |
| 21st of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Langer, Australian cricketer |
| 21st of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Strahan, American football player |
| 21st of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rain Phoenix, American singer/actress |
| 21st of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | David Tua, Samoan boxer |
| 21st of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Brook Kerr, American actress |
| 21st of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ines Sastre, Spanish model and actress |
| 21st of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Solowoniuk, Canadian drummer |
| 21st of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Cherie Johnson, American actress |
| 21st of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Moneymaker, American poker player |
| 21st of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dasha, Czech adult actress |
| 21st of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Meichelbeck, German footballer |
| 21st of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Wilson, Australian rules footballer |
| 21st of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Whiston, British ice skater |
| 21st of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Myles Heskett, Australian musician (Wolfmother) |
| 21st of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Berner, Swiss footballer |
| 21st of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jonas Jennings, American football player |
| 21st of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tobias Sammet, German singer (Edguy) |
| 21st of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Yolande James, Quebec politician |
| 21st of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Bradshaw, Australian rules footballer |
| 21st of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Tanaka, American actress |
| 21st of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Lucia Jimenez, Spanish actress |
| 21st of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stromile Swift, American basketball player |
| 21st of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Dong Wan, Korean singer (Shinhwa) |
| 21st of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Vincenzo Iaquinta, Italian footballer |
| 21st of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Tanguay, Canadian hockey player |
| 21st of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Blalock, American baseball player |
| 21st of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Leonardo Gonzalez, Costa Rican footballer |
| 21st of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Alec Brownstein, American author, director |
| 21st of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Elaine Yiu, Hong Kong actress |
| 21st of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Piet Rinke, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 21st of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Wesley Britt, American football player |
| 21st of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jonny Magallon, Mexican footballer |
| 21st of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Kalogiannidis, Greek archer |
| 21st of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Starr, American singer |
| 21st of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Langley, English rugby player |
| 21st of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Brianna Garcia, American professional wrestler |
| 21st of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Garcia, American professional wrestler |
| 21st of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alvaro Bautista, Spanish motorcycle racer |
| 21st of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jena Malone, American actress |
| 21st of November 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jesus Navas, Spanish footballer |
| 21st of November 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Nicola Silvestri, Italian footballer |
| 21st of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Bishop, American ice hockey goalie |
| 21st of November 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Douwes, Dutch kickboxer and martial artist |
| 21st of November 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Len Valjas, Canadian cross-country skier |
| 21st of November 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Fabian Delph, English footballer |
| 21st of November 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Myers, American motorcycle racer |
| 21st of November 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Bailey, American actress |
| 21st of November 0496 | DEATH | Pope Gelasius I |
| 21st of November 1361 | DEATH | Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (Born 1346) |
| 21st of November 1555 | DEATH | Georg Agricola, German scientist (Born 1490) |
| 21st of November 1566 | DEATH | Annibale Caro, Italian poet (Born 1507) |
| 21st of November 1579 | DEATH | Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier |
| 21st of November 1652 | DEATH | Jan Brozek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (Born 1585) |
| 21st of November 1695 | DEATH | Henry Purcell, English composer |
| 21st of November 1730 | DEATH | Francois de Troy, French portrait artist (Born 1645) |
| 21st of November 1775 | DEATH | John Hill, British writer |
| 21st of November 1811 | DEATH | Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (Born 1777) |
| 21st of November 1844 | DEATH | Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (Born 1769) |
| 21st of November 1881 | DEATH | Ami Boue, Austrian geologist (Born 1794) |
| 21st of November 1899 | DEATH | Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (Born 1844) |
| 21st of November 1916 | DEATH | Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (Born 1830) |
| 21st of November 1922 | DEATH | Ricardo Flores Magon, Mexican anarchist (Born 1874). |
| 21st of November 1924 | DEATH | Florence Harding, American First Lady (Born 1860) |
| 21st of November 1941 | DEATH | Henrietta Vinton Davis American elocutionist and public speaker (Born 1860) |
| 21st of November 1942 | DEATH | Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (Born 1863) |
| 21st of November 1945 | DEATH | Alexander Patch, American general (Born 1889) |
| 21st of November 1945 | DEATH | Robert Benchley, American writer and actor (Born 1889) |
| 21st of November 1945 | DEATH | Al Davis, American boxer (Born 1920) |
| 21st of November 1953 | DEATH | Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (Born 1893) |
| 21st of November 1957 | DEATH | Francis Burton Harrison, American politician (Born 1873) |
| 21st of November 1958 | DEATH | Mel Ott, American baseball player (Born 1909) |
| 21st of November 1959 | DEATH | Max Baer, American boxer (Born 1909) |
| 21st of November 1963 | DEATH | Robert Stroud, American convicted murderer and ornithologist (Born 1890) |
| 21st of November 1967 | DEATH | C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (Born 1896) |
| 21st of November 1969 | DEATH | Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (Born 1924) |
| 21st of November 1970 | DEATH | Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1887) |
| 21st of November 1970 | DEATH | Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1888) |
| 21st of November 1973 | DEATH | Thomas Pelly, American politician (Born 1902) |
| 21st of November 1974 | DEATH | John B. Gambling, American radio talk show host (Born 1897) |
| 21st of November 1974 | DEATH | Frank Martin, Swiss composer (Born 1890) |
| 21st of November 1980 | DEATH | Sara Garcia, Mexican actress (Born 1895) |
| 21st of November 1981 | DEATH | Harry Von Zell, American announcer (Born 1906) |
| 21st of November 1982 | DEATH | John Hargrave, British Social Credit advocate (Born 1894) |
| 21st of November 1986 | DEATH | Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (Born 1947) |
| 21st of November 1986 | DEATH | Marcelino Sanchez, American actor (Born 1957) |
| 21st of November 1986 | DEATH | Jerry Colonna, American comic (Born 1904) |
| 21st of November 1988 | DEATH | Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (Born 1903) |
| 21st of November 1990 | DEATH | Dean Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (Born 1954) |
| 21st of November 1991 | DEATH | Sonny Werblin, former owner of the New York Jets (Born 1907) |
| 21st of November 1993 | DEATH | Bill Bixby, American actor and director (Born 1934) |
| 21st of November 1995 | DEATH | Peter Grant, British rock manager and actor (Born 1935) |
| 21st of November 1995 | DEATH | Noel Jones, British diplomat (Born 1940) |
| 21st of November 1996 | DEATH | Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate (Born 1926) |
| 21st of November 1999 | DEATH | Quentin Crisp, British writer and actor (Born 1908) |
| 21st of November 2000 | DEATH | Ernest Lluch, Spanish politician (Born 1937) |
| 21st of November 2001 | DEATH | King Salahuddin of Malaysia (Born 1926) |
| 21st of November 2002 | DEATH | Hadda Brooks, American jazz singer, pianist, and composer (Born 1916) |
| 21st of November 2005 | DEATH | Alfred Anderson, Scottish World War I veteran (Born 1896) |
| 21st of November 2005 | DEATH | Hugh Sidey, American journalist (Born 1927) |
| 21st of November 2006 | DEATH | Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese statesman (Born 1972) |
| 21st of November 2006 | DEATH | Kathryn Johnston, American police shooting victim (Born 1914) |
| 21st of November 2006 | DEATH | Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist (Born 1915) |
| 21st of November 2007 | DEATH | Fernando Fernan Gomez, Spanish actor, director and playwright (Born 1921) |
| 21st of November 2007 | DEATH | Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1928) |
| 21st of November 2007 | DEATH | Noel McGregor, New Zealand cricketer (Born 1931) |
| 21st of November 2009 | DEATH | Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (Born 1926) |
| 21st of November 2010 | DEATH | Norris Church Mailer, American model and widow of Norman Mailer (Born 1949) |
| 21st of November 2010 | DEATH | Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, American artist and writer (Born 1917) |
| 21st of November 2010 | DEATH | David Nolan, American politicial activist (Born 1943) |