21 November: today's birthdays

• François-Marie Arouet - French writer, philosopher and historian, best-known as Voltaire
• Björk - Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician, born Björk Guðmundsdóttir 
• Olav Duun - Norwegian writer, one of the most important in Norwegian literature
• Coleman Hawkins - American saxophonist, one of the greatest American jazz tenor saxophonist
• Goldie Hawn - American actress, film director and producer, born Goldie Jean Hawn. She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Toni Simmons in the film Cactus Flower (1969). She is the mother of American actress Kate Hudson
• Alberto Juantorena - Former Cuban athlete
• Jacques Laffite - Former French racing driver
• René Magritte - Belgian surrealist painter, born ​René François Ghislain Magritte
• John Ortiz - American film, television, and theatre actor
• Paul Ludwig Carl Heinrich Rée - German philosopher, friend of German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
• Friedrich Schleiermacher - German philosopher, theologian and teacher. Considered the father of modern Theology
• Voltaire - Pen name of François-Marie Arouet, French writer, philosopher and historian
• Erlend Øye - Norwegian musician