Timeline November 2021

Events in November 2021 12

• 1930 – 2021 Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021) Died 26 November 2021, aged 91 American composer and lyricist whose Sweeney Todd, Company and Into the Woods remade the American musical.
• 1934 – 2021 Lee Elder (1934-2021) Died 28 November 2021, aged 87 American golfer who in 1975 became the first Black player to compete in the Masters.
• 1936 – 2021 Dean Stockwell (1936-2021) American actor with a career of seven decades, from child star to Blue Velvet, Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica.
• 1936 – 2021 Frederik Willem de Klerk (1936-2021) Died 11 November 2021, aged 85 South African president who released Nelson Mandela and dismantled apartheid, sharing the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with him.
• 2021 Dell spins off VMware Dell Technologies spins off its 81% stake in VMware on 1 November 2021, distributing VMware shares to Dell stockholders and eliminating $14 billion of debt. VMware becomes fully independent with a market cap of approximately $65 billion. Dell retains its core infrastructure business: servers, storage, networking and PCs, generating $101 billion in annual revenues. Broadcom subsequently acquires VMware in 2023 for $61 billion.
• 2021 Global COVID-19 deaths pass five million A toll reached in under two years Recorded deaths from COVID-19 passed five million worldwide on 1 November 2021, with the true figure widely believed to be considerably higher.
• 2021 Kyndryl spinoff — IBM simplifies IBM completes the spinoff of Kyndryl — its managed infrastructure services division — on 3 November 2021, listing it as an independent company on the NYSE. Kyndryl begins with $19 billion in revenues and 90,000 employees, making it one of the world's largest IT services companies. For IBM, the spinoff removes the legacy services business that was dragging down growth and margins, leaving a more focused company oriented around hybrid cloud (Red Hat/OpenShift) and AI.
• 2021 Eternals #4 film of 2021 — $402m worldwide Directed by Chloé Zhao. A group of ancient beings who secretly lived on Earth for thousands of years reunite to battle the monstrous Deviants.
• 2021 Dean Stockwell dies in Ojai Dean Stockwell dies aged 85.
• 2021 COP26 concludes with the Glasgow Climate Pact Coal phase-down agreed after a late intervention The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow closed on 13 November 2021 with a pact that for the first time named coal, though India's late intervention softened phase-out to phase-down.
• 2021 Omicron variant identified in southern Africa A heavily mutated variant that outran every predecessor South African scientists reported the Omicron variant on 24 November 2021. Far more transmissible than earlier strains, it drove the largest infection wave of the pandemic within weeks.
• 2021 Barbados becomes a republic Elizabeth II removed as head of state after 396 years Barbados removed Queen Elizabeth II as head of state on 30 November 2021, becoming a republic 55 years after independence and 396 years after English settlement.