August 21 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1157 – Alfonso VII of León and Castile (b. 1105)
• 1271 – Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (b. 1220)
• 1581 – Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese samurai (b. 1527)
• 1614 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (b. 1560)
• 1627 – Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557)
• 1673 – Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier (b. 1599)
• 1689 – William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier (b. 1661)
• 1762 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
• 1763 – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, English politician (b. 1710)
• 1796 – John McKinly, American physician and politician, 1st Governor 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)
• 1854 – Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
• 1870 – Ma Xinyi, Chinese military leader and statesman (b. 1821)
• 1910 – Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter (b. 1835)
• 1919 – Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1875)
• 1926 – Ugyen Wangchuck, Bhutanese king (b. 1862)
• 1935 – John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849)
• 1940 – Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (b. 1882)
• 1940 – Ernest Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
• 1940 – Leon Trotsky, Russian politician and theorist (b. 1879)
• 1943 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1947 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (b. 1881)
• 1951 – Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• 1957 – Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
• 1957 – Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1960 – David B. Steinman, American engineer and author, designed the Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886)
• 1964 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian politician (b. 1893)
• 1966 – Martin Dooling, American soccer player (b. 1886)
• 1971 – George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family (b. 1941)
• 1974 – Buford Pusser, American police officer (b. 1937)
• 1978 – Charles Eames, American designer and architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1907)
• 1979 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
• 1981 – Michael Devine, Irish hunger striker (b. 1954)
• 1982 – Sobhuza II, Swiss king (b. 1899)
• 1983 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)
• 1988 – Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter (The Dawn) (b. 1963)
• 1988 – Ray Eames, American designer and architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
• 1992 – Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (b. 1894)
• 1993 – Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano (b. 1938)
• 1995 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1997 – Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Tomata du Plenty, American singer (The Screamers) (b. 1948)
• 2000 – Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and academic (b. 1946)
• 2003 – Wesley Willis, American singer and keyboard player (Wesley Willis Fiasco) (b. 1963)
• 2005 – Martin Dillon, American tenor (b. 1957)
• 2005 – Robert Moog, American businessman and inventor, founded Moog Music (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Bismillah Khan, Indian shehnai player (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)
• 2006 – S. Yizhar, Israeli author and politician (b. 1916)
• 2007 – Siobhan Dowd, English author (b. 1960)
• 2007 – Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American army officer (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Haley Paige, American porn actress (b. 1981)
• 2008 – Jerry Finn, American record producer (b. 1969)
• 2009 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Dean Turner, Australian singer, bass player, and producer (Magic Dirt) (b. 1972)
• 2010 – Nancy Dolman, Canadian actress and singer (b. 1952)
• 2010 – Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentinean sociologist and author (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Paul Bassim, Lebanese prelate (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Georg Leber, German politician (b. 1920)
• 2012 – J. Frank Raley, American politician (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Don Raleigh, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Guy Spitaels, Belgian politician, 7th Minister-President of the Walloon Region (b. 1931)
• 2012 – William Thurston, American mathematician (b. 1946)