August 21 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1157 – King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)
• 1153 – Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090)
• 1271 – Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
• 1581 – Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
• 1614 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian noble and alleged serial killer (b. 1560)
• 1627 – Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557)
• 1673 – Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier
• 1689 – William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier
• 1762 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
• 1763 – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
• 1796 – John McKinly, American physician and President 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 Viceroy of Liangjiang and statesman (b. 1821)
• 1926 – Ugyen Wangchuck, first king of Bhutan (b.1862)
• 1935 – John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849)
• 1940 – Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
• 1940 – Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
• 1940 – Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (b. 1882)
• 1943 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize (b. 1857)
• 1947 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
• 1951 – Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• 1957 – Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
• 1957 – Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1960 – David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)
• 1964 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (b. 1893)
• 1971 – George Jackson, American Black Panther Party figure (b. 1941)
• 1978 – Charles Eames, American designer and architect (b. 1907)
• 1979 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
• 1981 – Michael Devine, 1981 Irish hunger strike figure (b. 1954)
• 1982 – Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
• 1983 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader (b. 1932)
• 1988 – Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
• 1992 – Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (b. 1894)
• 1995 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
• 1997 – Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Tomata du Plenty, artist and lead singer of 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 aid worker (b. 1946)
• 2003 – Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
• 2005 – Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Robert Moog, American inventor (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Martin Dillon, American opera singer (b. 1957)
• 2006 – Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
• 2006 – S. Yizhar (aka Yizhar Smilansky), Israeli author (b. 1916)
• 2007 – Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)
• 2007 – Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (b. 1981)
• 2008 – Jerry Finn, American record producer (b. 1969)
• 2009 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Dean Turner, Australian musician (b. 1972)
• 2010 – Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentinean writer (b. 1941)
• 2010 – Nancy Dolman, Canadian actress and comedienne (b. 1950)