November 21
Saint’s Day for Honorio, Rufo, Esteban and Celso.
1564 - The Basque conquistador, Miguel López de Legazpi, sets sail from Mexico for the Philippines. He became the first Spanish governor general of the Philippines and founded Manila.
2000 - Terrorist gang ETA assassinated former socialist minister Ernest Lluch
Julio Anguita - www.elcomunista.net
1651 - Tomás Vicente Tosca, mathematician, cartographer and theologian (d. 1723)
1848 - José Tartiere, businessman (d. 1927)
1852 - Francisco Tárrega, guitarist and composer born in Villarreal (d. 1909)
1885 - Pedro Gual Villalbí, economist and politician (d. 1968)
1901 - Francisco Cantera Burgos, humanist, herbalist and historian (d. 1978)
1921 - Pepe Luis Vázquez, bullfighter.
1922 - María Casares (Pérez), Spanish-French actress (Orpheus, Lectrice) born in A Coruña (d. 1996)
1941 - Julio Anguita, Mayor of Córdoba 1979-1986, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) 1988-1998, and General Coordinator of the Izquierda Unida left-wing coalition, 1989-2000, was born on this day in Fuengirola, Málaga province.
1946 - Emma Cohen, actress.
1954 - Carmen Avendaño, Galician activist against drug trafficking.
1956 - José Ramón de la Morena, journalist.
1973 - The actress and model, Inés Sastre, was born in Valladolid.
1978 - Lucía Jiménez, actress and singer
1984 - Álvaro Bautista, motorcycle racer (125cc World Champion 2006) born in Talavera de la Reina
1985 - Jesús Navas, footballer utility (45 caps 2021; Sevilla, Manchester City), born in Los Palacios
Deaths
1150 - García Ramírez of Navarre (b. 1112)
1874 - Marià Fortuny, painter (b. 1838)
1911 - Escolástico Rubio Gómez, politician (b. 1846)
1946 - Eduardo Marquina, writer (b. 1879)
1975 - Luis Felipe Vivanco, poet (b. 1907)
2000 - Ernest Lluch, the former Socialist Minister, is murdered by ETA in the car park of his building in Barcelona.(b. 1937)
2006 - José María Jover, historian (b. 1920)
2007 - Fernando Fernán Gómez,actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
