November 21 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on November 21, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Topaz
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
How common
#47 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous November 21 birthdays
Lewis H. Morgan · American anthropologist1818
Victoria, Princess Royal · British princess1840
Pope Benedict XV · Pope of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 19221854
Alexander Berkman · Russian-American anarchist and writer1870
René Magritte · Belgian surrealist1898
Mikhail Suslov · Soviet-era statesman1902
Fairuz · Lebanese singer and actress1935
Harold Ramis · American actor, comedian, and filmmaker1944
Goldie Hawn · American actress1945
Michel Sogny · French pianist1947
Michel Suleiman · 12th President of Lebanon1948
Nicollette Sheridan · English-born American actress1963
Peter Bosz · Dutch association football player and manager1963
Björk · Icelandic singer1965
Yoshiteru Yamashita · Japanese association football player1977
Vincenzo Iaquinta · Italian association football player1979
Jena Malone · American actress1984
Jesús Navas · Spanish association football player1985
Carly Rae Jepsen · Canadian singer1985
Saúl · Spanish association football player1994
On this day in history
1959American disc jockey Alan Freed, who popularized the term rock and roll, was fired from WABC-AM for his role in the payola scandal.
1961La Ronde, the first revolving restaurant in the United States, was inaugurated.
1964The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
1970Vietnam War: American forces raided the North Vietnamese Sơn Tây prison camp in an attempt to rescue 61 American POWs who were thought to be held there.
1922Rebecca Latimer Felton became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, albeit for only one day.
1945Manzanar, a camp in California for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was closed.
2013Massive protests start in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych suspended signing the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement.
2017Robert Mugabe formally resigns as President of Zimbabwe, after thirty-seven years in office.
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