August 21 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 1157 - King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)


• 1153 - Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090)


• 1271 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)


• 1581 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)


• 1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)


• 1627 - Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557)


• 1673 - Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier


• 1689 - William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier


• 1762 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)


• 1763 - Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)


• 1796 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)


• 1814 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)


• 1836 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)


• 1838 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)


• 1870 - Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821)


• 1935 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)


• 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)


• 1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)


• 1940 - Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882)


• 1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize (b. 1857)


• 1947 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)


• 1951 - Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (b. 1905)


• 1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)


• 1957 - Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)


• 1960 - David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)


• 1964 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (b. 1893)


• 1971 - George Jackson, American prisoner, Soledad Brother, Black Panther (b. 1941)


• 1978 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (b. 1907)


• 1979 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)


• 1981 - Michael Devine, the last man to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b. 1954)


• 1982 - Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)


• 1983 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader (b. 1932)


• 1988 - Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)


• 1989 - Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)


• 1992 - Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (b. 1894)


• 1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)


• 1997 - Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)


• 2000 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)


• 2001 - Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)


• 2003 - Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and aid worker (b. 1946)


• 2003 - Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)


• 2005 - Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)


• 2005 - Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)


• 2005 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)


• 2005 - Martin Dillon, tenor, American opera singer (b. 1957)


• 2006 - Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)


• 2006 - Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)


• 2007 - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)


• 2007 - Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (b. 1918)


• 2007 - Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (b. 1981)