Historical Deaths Today: 21 September

Deaths

• 19 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)


• 454 - Aëtius, Roman general (bc. 396)


• 1217 - Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian soldier


• 1327 - King Edward II of England (b. 1284)


• 1397 - Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)


• 1542 - Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet


• 1558 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)


• 1576 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (b. 1501)


• 1586 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517)


• 1626 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543)


• 1719 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)


• 1743 - Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688)


• 1748 - John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)


• 1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)


• 1798 - George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)


• 1832 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)


• 1860 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)


• 1874 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (b. 1794)


• 1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)


• 1904 - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)


• 1906 - Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838)


• 1926 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)


• 1938 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874)


• 1939 - Armand Călinescu Romanian prime-minister (assassinated) (b. 1893)


• 1946 - Olga Engl, Austrian actress (b. 1971)


• 1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)


• 1957 - King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)


• 1963 - Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)


• 1966 - Paul Reynaud, French politician (b. 1878)


• 1971 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)


• 1972 - Henry de Montherlant, French writer (b. 1896)


• 1974 - Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)


• 1974 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (b. 1918)


• 1976 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean diplomat (b. 1932)


• 1982 - Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)


• 1985 - Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)


• 1987 - Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (b. 1951)


• 1988 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914


• 1995 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)


• 1997 - Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)


• 1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)


• 2000 - Bryan Smith, Man who ran over Stephen King (b. 1957)


• 2002 - Robert L. Forward, American physicist and writer (b. 1932)


• 2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939)


• 2004 - Bob Mason, British actor (b. 1952)


• 2006 - Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946)


• 2007 - Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian Olympic gold medalist (b. 1929)


• 2007 - Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)


• 2007 - Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (b. 1919)