Famous Deaths on 21 Jun

Famous Deaths on 21 Jun

1305 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
1377 - King Edward III of England (b. 1312)
1527 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469)
1529 - John Skelton, English poet
1547 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
1582 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
1591 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568)
1621 - Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)
1652 - Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
1738 - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
1796 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)
1824 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
1865 - Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
1874 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
1893 - Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University
1908 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)
1914 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
1934 - Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
1940 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (b. 1881)
1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
1952 - Wilfrid 'Wop' May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
1954 - Gideon Sundback, American inventor, perfected the zipper (b. 1880)
1957 - Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1964 - Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939)
1964 - Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
1964 - James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
1969 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
1970 - Sukarno, President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
1976 - Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902)
1979 - Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (b. 1938)
1980 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
1985 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
1986 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author (b. 1923)
1987 - Madman Muntz, American entrepreneur, businessman, electrical engineer, TV commercial actor (b. 1914)
1993 - Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
1997 - Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
1997 - Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)
1998 - Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916)
1999 - Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
2000 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
2001 - John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)
2001 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
2001 - Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
2003 - Jason Moran, Australian criminal (b. 1967)
2003 - Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
2003 - Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1934)
2004 - Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
2005 - Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)
2007 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
2008 - Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962)