Historical Anniversaries this Week

November 20

 Births (400 years ago today): 1625 – Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (died 1654)

 Births (150 years ago today): 1875 – Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German diplomat (died 1944)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – June Christy, American singer (died 1990)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Robert F. Kennedy, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (died 1968)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director (died 2015)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Mengke Bateer, Chinese Inner Mongolian basketball player

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Dierks Bentley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Ryan Bowen, American basketball player and coach

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – J. D. Drew, American baseball player

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Joshua Gomez, American actor

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Sébastien Hamel, French footballer

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Davey Havok, American singer-songwriter

 Deaths (100 years ago today): 1925 – Alexandra of Denmark, Queen of the United Kingdom (born 1844)^[51]

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1892)^[53]

Commemorations:
Universal Children's Day
Africa Industrialization Day

November 21

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Veljko Kadijevi?, Croatian general and politician, 5th Federal Secretary of People's Defence (died 2014)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Jimmi Simpson, American actor^[25]

 Deaths (700 years ago today): 1325 – Yury of Moscow, Prince of Moscow and Vladimir

 Deaths (250 years ago today): 1775 – John Hill, English botanist and author (born 1719)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Gunnar Gunnarsson, Icelandic author (born 1889)

Commemorations:
World Television Day

November 22

 Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco two days earlier.^[30]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Jerrie Mock, American pilot (died 2014)^[106]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (died 2015)^[107]

 Deaths (150 years ago today): 1875 – Henry Wilson, American politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (born 1812)^[253]

November 23

 Births (150 years ago today): 1875 – Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (died 1933)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran engineer and politician, President of El Salvador (died 1990)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Johnny Mandel, American composer and conductor (died 2020)^[43]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – William Tebeau, African-American engineer (died 2013)^[44]

November 24

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – William F. Buckley Jr., American publisher and author, founded the National Review (died 2008)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Thomas Kohnstamm, American author

 Deaths (350 years ago today): 1675 – Guru Tegh Bahadur, Indian guru (born 1621)

 Deaths (250 years ago today): 1775 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (born 1703)

November 25

 Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – Coup of 25 November 1975, a failed military coup d'état by Portuguese far-left activists seeking to hijack the Portuguese transition to democracy to establishment a communist regime.^[18][19]

 Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.

 Births (950 years ago today): 1075 – Emperor Taizong of Jin (died 1135)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Abdelkader Benali, Moroccan-Dutch journalist and author

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Kristian Nairn, Northern Irish actor and DJ^[38]

Commemorations:
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

November 26

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, Uruguayan dictator (died 2016)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Eugene Istomin, American pianist (died 2003)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – DJ Khaled, American rapper and producer^[26]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Patrice Lauzon, Canadian figure skater

 Deaths (1050 years ago today): 975 – Conrad of Constance, German bishop and saint (bornc. 900)