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Marlo Thomas is best known for starring as Ann Marie in a sitcom series That Girl (1966–1971) and her children's franchise Free to Be...
Famous Birthdays on November 21
1937 — Marlo Thomas
American actress, producer, and activist
November 21 has 208 recorded notable births across history, from 1495 to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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- 1969 The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI. Source
- 1959 American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal. Source
- 1916 World War I: Mines from SM U-73 sink HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the war. Source
- 1894 Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the remaining inhabitants. Source
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Nicollette Sheridan began her career as a fashion model before landing a role in the short-lived ABC primetime soap opera Paper Dolls in 1984, as well as starring in the romantic comedy film The Sure Thing (1985).
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The first overall pick in the 1987 draft and a 13-time All-Star, Griffey is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time.
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After transferring from the Oklahoma Sooners, he played college football for the UCLA Bruins and won the Davey O'Brien Award in 1988.
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Powell is known as one of the most versatile and athletic female dancers of the Hollywood studio era.
More major people born on November 21
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1963
Nicollette Sheridan
English actress
Nicollette Sheridan is an English-American Actress. She began her career as a fashion model before landing a role in the short-lived ABC primetime soap opera Paper Dolls in 1984, as well as starring in the romantic…
1969
Ken Griffey Jr.
American baseball player and actor
George Kenneth Griffey Jr., nicknamed "Junior" and "the Kid", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in Major League Baseball (MLB).
1966
Troy Aikman
American football player and sportscaster
Troy Kenneth Aikman is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys.
1912
Eleanor Powell
American actress and dancer (died 1982)
Eleanor Torrey Powell was an American dancer and actress. Best remembered for her tap dance numbers in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s, she was one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's top dancing stars during the Golden Age…
1970
Justin Langer
Australian cricketer and coach
Justin Lee Langer is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer.
1944
Earl Monroe
American basketball player
Vernon Earl Monroe is an American former professional basketball player. He played for two teams, the Baltimore Bullets and the New York Knicks, during his career in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
1897
Mollie Steimer
Russian-American activist (died 1980)
Mollie Steimer was an anarchist activist. A Ukrainian Jew, she left Russia and settled in New York City in 1913. She quickly became involved in the local anarchist movement and was caught up in the case of Abrams v.
1904
Coleman Hawkins
American saxophonist and clarinet player (died 1969)
Coleman Randolph Hawkins, nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E.
1768
Friedrich Schleiermacher
German theologian, philosopher, and scholar (died 1834)
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was a German Reformed theologian, pastor, philosopher, and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant…
1931
Lewis Binford
American archaeologist and academic (died 2011)
Lewis Roberts Binford was an American archaeologist known for his influential work in archaeological theory, ethnoarchaeology and the Paleolithic archaeology.
1955
Peter Koppes
Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Peter Koppes is an Australian guitarist, best known as a founding and almost-continuous member of the independent rock band The Church. He is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing mandolin, drums, piano, and harmonica.
1903
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Polish-American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater.
1941
Juliet Mills
English-American actress
Juliet Maryon Mills is an English and American actress. The daughter of actor Sir John Mills and older sister of actress Hayley Mills, she began her career as a child actress and was nominated at age 18 for a Tony Award…
1924
Joseph Campanella
American actor (died 2018)
Joseph Anthony Campanella was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 200 television and film roles from the early 1950s to 2009.
1944
Harold Ramis
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)
Harold Allen Ramis was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker.
1984
Jena Malone
American actress and singer
Jena Malone is an American actress. Malone spent her early life in Sparks, Nevada, and in Las Vegas, while her mother acted in local theater productions.
1495
John Bale
English bishop and historian (died 1563)
John Bale was an English churchman, historian controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory in Ireland.
1953
Tina Brown
English-American journalist and author
Christina Hambley Brown, Lady Evans, is a British and American journalist, magazine editor, columnist, broadcaster, and author.
1870
Joe Darling
Australian cricketer and politician (died 1946)
Joseph Darling was an Australian cricketer who played 34 Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1894 and 1905. As captain, he led Australia in a total of 21 Tests, winning seven and losing four.