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was an American professional boxer and the world heavyweight champion from June 14, 1934, to June 13, 1935.
Notable Deaths on November 21
1959 — Max Baer
American boxer, referee, and actor (born 1909)
November 21 has 117 recorded notable deaths across history, from 615 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
117 source records
615 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on November 21
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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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Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III was an American actor and television director.
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In 1930, Raman received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him" and became the first Asian and non-White person to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Peter Grant was an English music manager, best known as the manager of Led Zeppelin from their creation in 1968 to their breakup in 1980.
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Kaysone Phomvihane was a Laotian politician and revolutionary who served as the first leader of the Communist Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 1955 until his death in 1992.
More major people who died on November 21
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1993
Bill Bixby
American actor (born 1934)
Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III was an American actor and television director. His career spanned more than three decades, including appearances on stage, in films, and on television series.
1970
C. V. Raman
Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S.
1995
Peter Grant
English actor and manager (born 1935)
Peter Grant was an English music manager, best known as the manager of Led Zeppelin from their creation in 1968 to their breakup in 1980.
1992
Kaysone Phomvihane
Laotian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Laos (born 1920)
Kaysone Phomvihane was a Laotian politician and revolutionary who served as the first leader of the Communist Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 1955 until his death in 1992.
2015
Bob Foster
American boxer and police officer (born 1938)
Robert Wayne Foster was an American professional boxer who fought as a light heavyweight and heavyweight.
1907
Paula Modersohn-Becker
German painter (born 1876)
Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German Expressionist painter and draftswoman of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is noted for the many self-portraits, including nudes.
1555
Georgius Agricola
German mineralogist, philologist, and scholar (born 1490)
Georgius Agricola was a German Renaissance humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist.
1970
Newsy Lalonde
Canadian lacrosse and ice hockey player (born 1887)
Édouard Cyrille "Newsy" Lalonde was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League (NHL) and a professional lacrosse player.
1325
Yury of Moscow
Prince of Moscow and Vladimir
Yury (Georgy) Danilovich was Prince of Moscow from 1303 to 1325 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1318 to 1322. He contested the title of Grand Prince of Vladimir with his uncle Mikhail of Tver.
1881
Ami Boué
German-Austrian geologist and ethnographer (born 1794)
Ami Boué was a geologist of French Huguenot origin. Born at Hamburg, he was trained in Edinburgh and across Europe.
1916
Franz Joseph I
Emperor of Austria (born 1830)
Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the ruler of the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his death in 1916.
1775
John Hill
English botanist and author (born 1719)
Sir John Hill was an English composer, actor, author and botanist. He contributed to contemporary periodicals and engaged in literary battles with poets, playwrights and scientists.
1942
J. B. M. Hertzog
South African general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of South Africa (born 1866)
General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, better known as Barry Hertzog or J. B. M. Hertzog, was a South African general and politician.
1957
Francis Burton Harrison
American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines (born 1873)
Francis Burton Harrison was an American-Filipino statesman who served four terms in the United States House of Representatives between 1903 and 1913 and was appointed governor-general of the Philippines by President of…
1984
Ben Wilson
American basketball player (born 1967)
Benjamin Wilson Jr. was an American high school basketball player from Chicago, Illinois. Wilson, a Neal F. Simeon Vocational High School basketball player, was regarded as the top high school player in the U.S.
2016
Hassan Sadpara
Pakistani mountaineer and adventurer (born 1963)
Hassan Sadpara PP was a Pakistani mountaineer and adventurer from Skardu in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
2007
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1921)
Fernando Fernández Gómez, better known as Fernando Fernán Gómez, was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director, novelist, and playwright.
1945
Robert Benchley
American humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor (born 1889)
Robert Charles Benchley was an American humorist, newspaper columnist and actor.
2013
Vern Mikkelsen
American basketball player and coach (born 1928)
Arild Verner Agerskov Mikkelsen was an American professional basketball player.