Famous Deaths on 21 Aug

Famous Deaths on 21 Aug

1153 - Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090)
1157 - King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)
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 - Martin Dillon, tenor, American opera singer (b. 1957)
2005 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
2005 - Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
2005 - Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
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)