November 21: Today's Notable Birthdays

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November 21st was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

November 21st Birthdays: Famous Artists

Andrew Davis, American film director (Above the Law, Chain Reaction, Code of Silence, Collateral Damage, The Final Terror, The Fugitive, The Guardian, Holes, The Package, A Perfect Murder, Steal Big Steal Little, Stony Island and Under Siege), was born on November 21, 1947.

Belgian Surrealist artist Rene Francois Ghislain Magritte (The Assault, Empire of Light, The Empty Mask, The Flavor of Tears, La Grande Famille, The Human Condition, The Last Jockey, The Light of Coincidences, The Mysteries of the Horizon, Persian Letters and Voice of Space) was born on November 21, 1898. (CTRL-click here to view samples of Rene Magritte's artwork online.)

George Morren, Flemish painter (Les Perches à Haricots, Le Piano and Prime Avril), was born on November 21, 1941.

November 21st Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Troy Aikman, American professional football quarterback (Dallas Cowboys), was born on November 21, 1966.

Alberto Juantorena Danger, Cuban runner and Olympic gold medalist (1976), was born on November 21, 1950.

George Kenneth (Ken) Griffey, Jr., American professional baseball player, was born on November 21, 1969.

Stanley Frank (Stan the Man) Musial, American professional baseball outfielder and batting champion (St. Louis Cardinals), was born on November 21, 1920.

Franz Pfnur, German slalom skier and Olympic gold medalist (1936), was born on November 21, 1908.

November 21st Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

British author Beryl Bainbridge (According to Queeney, An Awfully Big Adventure, Another Part of the Wood, The Birthday Boys, Every Man for Himself, Harriet Said, Master Georgie, Sweet William, The Dressmaker, Winter Garden and Young Adolf) was born on November 21, 1934.

Jim Bishop, American journalist and author (The Day Christ Died, The Day Kennedy Was Shot and The Days of Martin Luther King, Jr.), was born on November 21, 1907.

Sir Arthur (Q) Quiller-Couch, British editor and author (Dead Man's Rock, Hetty Wesley, Oxford Book of English Verse and Oxford Book of English Prose), was born on November 21, 1863.

François Marie Arouet de Voltaire, French philosopher, playwright and author (Candide, Eriphile, Irène, Mahomet, Mérope, Nanine, Oedipe, The Orphan of China, Socrates and Zaire), was born on November 21, 1694.

November 21st Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

Sir Samuel Cunard, British shipbuilder and founder of the first Atlantic steamship line, was born on November 21, 1787.

American heiress and financier Henrietta Howland (Hetty) Robinson Green was born on November 21, 1834. Hetty Green was known as "The Witch of Wall Street."

November 21st Birthdays: Famous Performers

American silent film actress Alice Beatrice Calhoun (Between Friends, Bride of the Desert, Flowing Gold, The Man from Brodney's, The Man Next Door, Pampered Youth, The Power of the Weak and Savage Passions) was born on November 21, 1900.

Joseph Campanella, American actor (Ben, The Colbys, The Lawyers, Mannix, Meteor, The Nurses, Original Intent, The President's Plane Is Missing, Sky Hei$t and The St. Valentine's Day Massacre) and television personality (Emergency Call and The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau), was born on November 21, 1927.

American contemporary Christian guitarist, singer and songwriter ("All About Love," "All Things New," "Be Still and Know," "Busy Man," "Christmas Is All in the Heart," "Dive," "Fingerprints of God," "For the Sake of the Call," "Free," "Go There With You," "God Is God," "The Great Adventure," "Great Expectations," "Heartbeat of Heaven," "Heart's Cry," "Heaven in the Real World," "His Eyes," "Hold on to Jesus," "I Will Not Go Quietly," "King of the Jungle," "Let Us Pray," "Live Out Loud," "Lord of the Dance," "Love You with My Life," "Magnificent Obsession," "Miracle of the Moment," "More to This Life," "No Better Place," "Not Home Yet," "Signs of Life," "Sometimes He Comes in the Clouds," "Speechless," "That's Paradise," "When You Are a Soldier" and "Where We Belong") Stephen Curtis Chapman was born on November 21, 1962.

Robert Drivas Choromokos, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, The Defenders, The F.B.I., The Illustrated Man, N.Y.P.D, Our Private World, Route 66 and Where It's At ), was born on November 21, 1938.

British actor Nickolas Grace (Brideshead Revisited, Diamond's Edge, Heat and Dust and Robin of Sherwood) was born on November 21, 1947.

Corinne Griffith, American actress (Back Pay, Black Oxen, DeClassee, The Divine Lady, The Garden of Eden, Lily Christine and Paradise Alley) and author (Antiques I Have Known, Eggs I Have Known, Hollywood Stories, I'm Lucky at Cards, My Life with the Redskins, Papa's Delicate Condition, Taxation Without Representation, This You Won't Believe and Truth is Stranger), was born on November 21, 1894. Corinne Griffith was known as "The Orchid Lady of the Screen."

Icelandic singer and songwriter Bjork Gudmundsdottir ("All Is Full of Love," "Army Of Me," "Bachelorette," "Big Time Sensuality," "Hidden Place," "Human Behaviour," "Hunter," "Hyperballad," "Isobel," "It's in Our Hands," "Jóga," "Pagan Poetry," "Play Dead," "Possibly Maybe" and "Venus As A Boy") was born on November 21, 1965.

Chauncey (Black) Hannibal, American R&B and hip hop singer (BlackStreet), was born on November 21, 1968.

American jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader Coleman Hawkins (Fletcher Henderson Band), was born on November 21, 1904.

Goldie Jean Hawn, American comedienne, actress (Ashes to Ashes, The Banger Sisters, Bird on a Wire, Butterflies Are Free, Cactus Flower, Criss Cross, Death Becomes Her, Deceived, Everyone Says I Love You, The First Wives Club, Foul Play, HouseSitter, Lovers and Liars, The One and Only Genuine, Original Family Band, The Out-of-Towners, Overboard, Private Benjamin, Protocol, Shampoo, The Sugarland Express, Swing Shift, There's a Girl in My Soup, Town & Country and Wildcats) and Academy Award winner (1970), was born on November 21, 1945.

British indie bassist, singer and songwriter Steven Alexander (Alex) James (Blur, Fat Lies, Me Me Me and Wig Wam) was born on November 21, 1968.

Cherie Johnson, American actress (Punky Brewster), was born on November 21, 1975.

American actress Cherry Jones (24, Alex: The Life of a Child, Clubhouse, Cora Unashamed, The Cradle Will Rock, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Erin Brockovich, The Horse Whisperer, HouseSitter, The Lady in Question, Light of Day, Loving, Murder in a Small Town, Ocean's Twelve, The Perfect Storm, Polio Water, Signs, Spenser: For Hire, Swimmers, The Village and The West Wing) was born on November 21, 1956.

LeRoy (Lonnie) Jordan, American rock keyboardist and singer (War) was born on November 21, 1948.

Czechoslovakian actor Charles Korvin (Berlin Express and Ship of Fools) was born on November 21, 1907.

Rick Lenz, American actor (The Bionic Woman, Cactus Flower, Green Acres, Hec Ramsey and The Six Million Dollar Man), was born on November 21, 1939.

American actor Laurence Luckinbill (The Boys in the Band, Cocktail, The Delphi Bureau, Ike, Lyndon, Messenger of Death and Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier) was born on November 21, 1934.

Lorna Luft, American singer ("Born Again ," "Long Time," "Our Day Will Come," "Where the Boys Are" and "The Whole World's Goin' Crazee") and actress (Grease 2, My Giant, Trapper John, M.D. and Where the Boys Are '84), was born on November 21, 1952. Lorna Luft's mother was actress Judy Garland. Her half-sister is singer Liza Minelli.

American singer and actress Jena Malone (Bastard Out of Carolina, Donnie Darko, Into the Wild, Saved and Stepmom) was born on November 21, 1984.

Juliet Mills, British actress (The Cracker Factory, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Nanny and the Professor and QB VII), was born on November 21, 1941. Juliet Mills is daughter to actor John Mills and sister to actress Hayley Mills.

Kelsi Marie Osborn, American country singer (SHeDAISY), was born on November 21, 1974.

Maria Victoria (Maria Casares) Quiroga, Spanish-French actress (The Charterhouse of Parma, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Les Enfants du Paradis, Orphée and Testament of Orpheus), was born on November 21, 1922.

American silent film actress Jobyna Lancaster Ralston (For Heaven's Sake, Humor Risk, Rough Waters, Special Delivery, Why Worry and Wings) was born on November 21, 1900.

Harold Allen Ramis, American comedian (SCTV), screenwriter (Back to School, Caddyshack, Club Paradise, Ghostbusters, Meatballs, National Lampoon's Animal House, Rover Dangerfield and Stripes), actor (Airheads, Baby Boom, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, High Fidelity, As Good as It Gets, Knocked Up, National Lampoon's Vacation, Second City TV, Stealing Home, Stripes and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) and director (Analyze That, Analyze This, Bedazzled, The Ice Harvest and The Office), was born on November 21, 1944.

Ralph Meeker Rathgeber, American actor (The Anderson Tapes, CHiPs, Dirty Dozen, Four in a Jeep, Ironside, Kiss Me Deadly, Night Stalker, The Outer Limits, Paths of Glory, Picnic, St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Studio One, Teresa and Toast of the Town), was born on November 21, 1920.

American dancer and actress Cynthia Rhodes (Curse of the Crystal Eye, Dirty Dancing, Flashdance, One from the Heart, Runaway, Staying Alive and Xanadu) was born on November 21, 1956. Cynthia Rhodes married singer Richard Marx.

Brian Ritchie, American punk rock bass guitarist and singer (The Green Mist and Violent Femmes), was born on November 21, 1960.

American actress Dahlia Salem (Another World) was born on November 21, 1969.

Deborah Shelton, American actress (Body Double, Dallas and Ocean Kill), was born on November 21, 1952.

American country singer Jean Shepard ("Beautiful Lies," "A Dear John Letter," "Ozark Jubilee," "Satin Sheets," "Satisfied Mind" and "Slippin' Away") was born on November 21, 1933.

Nicollette Sheridan, British actress (Deceptions, Desperate Housewives, Knots Landing, Noises Off, Paper Dolls, Silver Strand, Spy Hard and The Sure Thing), was born on November 21, 1963.

American actress Vivian Blaine Stapleton (Guys and Dolls, Skirts Ahoy, State Fair and Those Two) was born on November 21, 1921.

Livingston Taylor, American rock singer ("I Will Be in Love with You'), was born on November 21, 1950. He is brother to singer James Taylor.

Margaret (Marlo) Thomas, American actress (Free to Be ... A Family, Held Hostage, In the Spirit, Jenny, The Joey Bishop Show, Marlo Thomas and Friends in Free to Be ... You and Me, Nobody's Child, That Girl and Tribute to Women in Comedy), was born on November 21, 1937. Daughter to actor Danny Thomas, Marlo Thomas married television personality Phil Donahue.

November 21st Birthdays: Famous Scientists

William Beaumont, American Army physician, surgeon, and digestive function research pioneer, was born on November 21, 1785.

Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff, Russian-American petrochemist, was born on November 21, 1867.

November 21st Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders

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

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Happy Birthday, November 21st.

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