Famous Deaths on 21 Apr

Famous Deaths on 21 Apr

1073 - Pope Alexander II
1109 - Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
1142 - Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079)
1329 - Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
1509 - King Henry VII of England (b. 1457)
1551 - Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1557 - Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495)
1574 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1519)
1699 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639)
1701 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667)
1719 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640)
1720 - Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646)
1722 - Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (b. 1673)
1792 - Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746)
1793 - John Michell, English seismologist (b. 1724)
1815 - Joseph Winston, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746)
1825 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathemattician (b. 1765)
1852 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
1868 - Henry James O'Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
1910 - Mark Twain, American author and humorist (b. 1835)
1918 - Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1892)
1922 - Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
1924 - Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
1930 - Robert Bridges, English poet (b. 1844)
1938 - Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
1945 - Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
1946 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
1956 - Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895)
1965 - Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1971 - François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Haitian dictator (b. 1907)
1973 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1977 - Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892)
1978 - Sandy Denny, British vocalist (b. 1947)
1978 - Thomas Wyatt Turner, American civil rights advocate and agricultural engineer (b. 1877)
1980 - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
1980 - Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894)
1983 - Walter Slezak, Austrian actor (b. 1902)
1985 - Rudi Gernreich, Austrian fashion designer (b. 1922)
1985 - Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (b. 1902)
1985 - Tancredo de Almeida Neves, Brazil banker and elected president (b. 1910)
1986 - Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930)
1989 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912)
1990 - Erté, French artist (b. 1892)
1991 - Willi Boskovsky, Austrian violinist and conductor (b. 1909)
1996 - Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (b. 1944)
1996 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, American bookie and sports broadcaster (b. 1919)
1998 - Jean Francois Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1924)
1999 - Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor and musician (b. 1904)
2000 - Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (b. 1929)
2003 - Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
2004 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (b. 1918)
2005 - Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941)
2006 - T.K. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician (b. 1922)
2006 - Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager (b. 1931)
2007 - Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941)
2008 - Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)