July 21 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1403 – Henry Percy, English nobleman and soldier (b. 1364)
• 1425 – Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
• 1688 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
• 1793 – Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
• 1796 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
• 1798 – François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
• 1878 – Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (b. 1851)
• 1880 – Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
• 1889 – Nelson Dewey, American politician (b. 1813)
• 1899 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
• 1932 – Bill Gleason, American baseball player (b. 1858)
• 1938 – Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
• 1941 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
• 1943 – Charlie Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900)
• 1944 – Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German military officer and head of the failed 20 July Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler (b. 1907)
• 1944 – Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff (b. 1880)
• 1946 – Gualberto Villarroel, Bolivian politician (b. 1908)
• 1948 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born American artist (b. 1904)
• 1967 – Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (b. 1907)
• 1967 – Albert Lutuli, South African politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1967 – Basil Rathbone, English actor (b. 1892)
• 1968 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
• 1970 – Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
• 1970 – Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
• 1972 – Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
• 1972 – Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Third king of Bhutan (b. 1928)
• 1977 – Lee Miller, American photographer (b. 1907)
• 1982 – Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)
• 1986 – Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
• 1991 – Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
• 1998 – Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
• 1998 – Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
• 2000 – Marc Reisner, American writer (b. 1948)
• 2001 – Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
• 2001 – Sivaji Ganesan, Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927)
• 2003 – John Davies, New Zealander athlete (b. 1938)
• 2003 – Matt Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Alfred Hayes, British wrestling announcer (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Michael Chapman, British classical bassoonist (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
• 2006 – Ta Mok, Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Herbert "Herbie" Kalin, American singer (The Kalin Twins) (b. 1934)
• 2010 – Luis Corvalán, Chilean communist leader (b. 1916)