Famous Deaths on 21 Jul

Famous Deaths on 21 Jul

1403 - Henry Percy, English nobleman and soldier (b. ca.1364)
1425 - Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
1688 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
1793 - Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
1796 - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
1798 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
1880 - Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
1889 - Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
1899 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
1932 - Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player
1938 - Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
1941 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
1943 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900)
1944 - Claus von Stauffenberg, German, leader of failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, by execution (b. 1907)
1944 - Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff (b. 1880)
1946 - Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
1948 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born American artist (b. 1904)
1967 - Basil Rathbone, English actor (b. 1892)
1967 - Albert Lutuli, South African politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1967 - Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (b. 1907)
1968 - Ruth St. Denis, dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
1970 - Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
1970 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
1972 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
1982 - Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)
1986 - Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
1991 - Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut (b. 1923)
1998 - Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
2001 - Sivaji Ganesan, South Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927)
2001 - Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
2003 - John Davies, New Zealand Olympic Committee president (b. 1938)
2003 - Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
2004 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
2004 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918)
2005 - Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
2005 - Lord Alfred Hayes, British Wrestling Announcer for WWE (b. 1928)
2006 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
2006 - Ta Mok, "The Khmer Rouge Butcher", war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926)