June 21 - Deaths

Deaths

• 223 – Liu Bei, Emperor of Shu Han (b. 161)
• 1040 – Fulk III, Count of Anjou (b. 972)
• 1171 – Walter de Luci, Normand-born Abbot of Battle Abbey (b. 1103)
• 1205 – Enrico Dandolo, 42nd Doge of Venice (b. 1107)
• 1208 – Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and Duke of Swabia (b. 1177)
• 1305 – King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
• 1377 – King Edward III of England (b. 1312)
• 1421 – Jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366)
• 1521 – Leonardo Loredan, 76th Doge of Venice (b. 1436)
• 1527 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469)
• 1529 – John Skelton, English poet
• 1547 – Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
• 1558 – Piero Strozzi, Italian military leader (b. 1558)
• 1582 – Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
• 1591 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568)
• 1596 – Jean Liebault, French agronomist (b. 1535)
• 1621 – Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer and composer (b. 1564)
• 1621 – Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (b. 1575)
• 1631 – John Smith, English explorer (b. c. 1580)
• 1652 – Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
• 1661 – Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (b. 1599)
• 1737 – Matthieu Marais, French jurist (b. 1664)
• 1738 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
• 1796 – Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)
• 1824 – Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
• 1865 – Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
• 1874 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
• 1876 – Antonio López de Santa Anna, President of Mexico (b. 1794)
• 1893 – Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University (b. 1824)
• 1908 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)
• 1914 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1917 – Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (b. 1856)
• 1929 – Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, British politician (b. 1864)
• 1934 – Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
• 1940 – Smedley Butler, American Marines general (b. 1881)
• 1951 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
• 1952 – Wilfrid R. "Wop" May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
• 1954 – Gideon Sundback, American inventor who perfected the zipper (b. 1880)
• 1957 – Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
• 1957 – Claude Farrère, French writer (b. 1876)
• 1964 – James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
• 1964 – Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
• 1964 – Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1969 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
• 1970 – Sukarno, President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
• 1976 – Margaret Herrick, American director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Angus MacLise, American composer, drummer (Velvet Underground), mystic and shaman (b. 1938)
• 1980 – Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
• 1985 – Ettore Boiardi, Italian chef, founder of Chef Boyardee (b. 1897)
• 1985 – Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
• 1986 – Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer, singer (Rahbani Brothers) and producer (b. 1923)
• 1987 – Madman Muntz, American entrepreneur, businessman, electrical engineer and TV commercial actor (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Li Xiannian, President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (b. 1928)
• 1994 – William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer (b. 1906)
• 1997 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
• 1997 – Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)
• 1998 – Al Campanis, American baseball executive (b. 1916)
• 1998 – Anastasio Ballestrero, Italian Cardinal
• 1999 – Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
• 2000 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
• 2001 – John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2001 – Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
• 2002 – Timothy Findley, Canadian novelist and playwright (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1934)
• 2003 – Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Jason Moran, Australian criminal (b. 1967)
• 2004 – Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Jaime Sin, Filipino Cardinal Archbishop of Manila, prominent leader during the People Power Revolution (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Jared C. Monti, Medal Of Honor Recipient (b. 1975)
• 2007 – Bob Evans, American restaurateur (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962)
• 2008 – Kermit Love, American puppeteer (b. 1916)