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)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)