September 21 - Deaths

Deaths

• 19 BC – Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
• 454 – Aëtius, Roman general (b. c.396)
• 1217 – Caupo of Turaida, Livonian military leader
• 1217 – Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian military leader
• 1327 – King Edward II of England (b. 1284)
• 1397 – Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)
• 1542 – Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet
• 1558 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
• 1576 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (b. 1501)
• 1586 – Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517)
• 1626 – François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543)
• 1719 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
• 1743 – Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688)
• 1748 – John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
• 1796 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
• 1798 – George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)
• 1832 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
• 1860 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
• 1874 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (b. 1794)
• 1897 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
• 1904 – Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)
• 1906 – Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838)
• 1926 – Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
• 1938 – Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer (b. 1874)
• 1939 – Armand Călinescu, Romanian prime-minister (assassinated) (b. 1893)
• 1944 – Artur Phleps, German Waffen-SS officer (b. 1881)
• 1946 – Olga Engl, Austrian actress (b. 1871)
• 1954 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
• 1957 – King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)
• 1963 – Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)
• 1966 – Paul Reynaud, French politician (b. 1878)
• 1971 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1972 – Henry de Montherlant, French writer (b. 1896)
• 1974 – Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1974 – Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (b. 1918)
• 1976 – Orlando Letelier, Chilean diplomat (b. 1932)
• 1982 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
• 1985 – Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)
• 1987 – Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (b. 1951)
• 1988 – Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914)
• 1990 – Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek film director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 1995 – Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
• 1997 – Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)
• 2000 – Jacques Flynn, Canadian politician and senator (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Robert L. Forward, American physicist and writer (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Bob Mason, British actor (b. 1952)
• 2006 – Tasos Athanasiadis, Greek writer (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946)
• 2007 – Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian Olympic gold medalist (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (b. 1919)