April 21 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1073 – Pope Alexander II
• 1109 – Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1033)
• 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 mathematician (b. 1765)
• 1852 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
• 1863 – Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (b. 1782)
• 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, Urdu philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
• 1945 – Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
• 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
• 1948 – Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (b. 1887)
• 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)
• 1974 – Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892)
• 1977 – Issy Bonn, British actor and musician (b. 1893)
• 1978 – Sandy Denny, British vocalist (b. 1947)
• 1978 – Thomas Wyatt Turner, American civil rights advocate and agricultural engineer (b. 1877)
• 1980 – Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894)
• 1980 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
• 1983 – Walter Slezak, Austrian actor (b. 1902)
• 1984 – Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943)
• 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-François 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 and former player (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941)
• 2008 – Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Gustav Lorentzen, Norwegian singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
• 2010 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, International Olympic Committee president (b. 1920)