Famous Deaths on 21 Sep

Famous Deaths on 21 Sep

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)
19 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
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 - Bob Mason, British actor (b. 1952)
2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939)
2006 - Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946)
2007 - Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)
2007 - Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian Olympic gold medalist (b. 1929)
2007 - Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (b. 1919)
454 - Aëtius, Roman general (bc. 396)