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Birthdays of Personalities on November 21

1495 : John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan)
1561 : Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author
1637 : Catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child)
1692 : Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet
1694 : Voltaire, [Fran‡ois-Marie Arouet], France, thinker (Candide)
1724 : John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist
1729 : Josiah Bartlett, US physician/judge/signer (Decl of Independence)
1768 : Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher
1785 : William Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion)
1787 : Barry Cornwall, [Bryan Waller Procter], British? poet
1787 : Samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)
1817 : Richard Brooke Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1828 : William McComb, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1918
1829 : Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet
1831 : John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1834 : Henrietta (Hetty) Green, financier (Witch of Wall Street)
1834 : Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1893
1840 : Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia
1851 : D‚sir‚ J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal
1853 : Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17)
1854 : Benedict XV, [Giacomo PGB marques della Chiessa], 258th Pope (1914-22)
1861 : Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet
1863 : Arthur Quiller-Couch, [Q], editor (Oxford Book of English Verse)
1867 : Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian chemist
1878 : Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer/minister of Justice
1880 : Franz Hessel, writer
1886 : Harold G Nicolson, English diplomat/author (Good Behaviour)
1898 : Ren‚ Magritte, Belgian surrealistic painter (This is Not a Pipe)
1902 : Michail A Suslov, Russian party ideologist [OS=Nov 8]
1904 : Coleman Hawkins, virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz
1907 : Jim Bishop, author (The Day Lincoln was Shot)
1907 : M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor
1912 : Anne Bolt, photo-journalist/trade unionist
1917 : Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer
1920 : Stan Musial, outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ)
1921 : Geza Anda, Hungarian/Swiss pianist (Mozart/Bart¢k)
1925 : Johan "Poncke" Princen, KNIL-defector/civil rights in Djakarta
1929 : Marilyn French, US author (The Women's Room)
1933 : Frank Brake, English multi-millionaire
1933 : Henry Hartsfield Jr, Birmingham Ala, astro (STS-4, STS 41-D, STS 61A)
1933 : Jean Shepard, Pauls Valley Okla, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1936 : James De Preist, Philadelphia Penn, conductor (Mitropolos 1964)
1937 : Marlo Thomas, [Mrs Phil Donahue], Detroit Mich (That Girl!, Jenny)
1940 : Dr John, [Rebennack], New Orleans La, vocalist (I Was in Right Place)
1940 : Natalia Makarova, Leningrad, ballerina (Kirov)/defected 1970
1941 : David Porter, US songwriter (Soul Man)
1941 : George Morren, Flemish painter/sculptor
1942 : Tweety Bird, cartoon character
1943 : Larry Mahan, Oregon, rodeo champ (1967-70)
1944 : Richard J Durbin, (Rep-D-IL, 1983- )
1947 : Dick W de Cloe, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1948 : Alphonse Mouson, rocker
1948 : Lonnie Jordan, San Diego Ca, rock keyboardist/vocalist (War)
1950 : Livingston Taylor, Boston, rocker (I Will be in Love With You)
1953 : Tina Brown, journalist publisher (New Yorker, Tattler)
1956 : Mariana Simionescu, Tirgu Neamt Romania, 1st wife of Bjorn Borg
1957 : Jim Brown, rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1965 : Bjork, Iceland, singer (Like Someone in Love)
1967 : Kelly Gallagher, Myrtle Beach SC, playmate (Sep, 1994)
1973 : Brent Smith, tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1980 : Danielle Hartsell, Ann Arbor Mich, pairs skater (& Steve Hartsell)

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