December 21 - Deaths

Deaths

• 72 – Thomas the Apostle
• 882 – Hincmar, French bishop (b. 806)
• 1295 – Marguerite Berenger of Provence, wife of Louis IX of France (b. c.1221)
• 1308 – Henry I of Hesse (b. 1244)
• 1375 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (b. 1313)
• 1504 – Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442)
• 1549 – Marguerite of Navarre, wife of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)
• 1579 – Vicente Masip, Spanish painter
• 1597 – Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (b. 1521)
• 1799 – Philip Affleck, British Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty (b. 1726)
• 1807 – John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (b. 1725)
• 1824 – James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist (b. 1755)
• 1869 – Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
• 1873 – Francis Garnier, French explorer (b. 1839)
• 1889 – Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (b. 1809)
• 1900 – Roger Wolcott, American politician (b. 1847)
• 1920 – Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian nationalist leader (b. 1856)
• 1933 – Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, Greenlandic polar explorer and anthropologist (b. 1879)
• 1935 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (b. 1890)
• 1937 – Frank B. Kellogg, American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1856)
• 1940 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1896)
• 1945 – George S. Patton, American military commander (b. 1885)
• 1957 – Eric Coates, English-born American composer (b. 1886)
• 1958 – Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer (b. 1884)
• 1959 – Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, restaurateur and ceramicist (b. 1883)
• 1964 – Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (b. 1880)
• 1963 – Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (b. 1882)
• 1965 – Claude Champagne, Canadian composer (b. 1891)
• 1967 – Stuart Erwin, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1974 – James Henry Govier, British artist (b. 1910)
• 1974 – Richard Long, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1981 – Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American director and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1983 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
• 1987 – John Spence, American musician (No Doubt) (b. 1969)
• 1988 – Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)
• 1989 – Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Nigerian-born British photographer (b.1955)
• 1990 – Clarence Johnson, American aeronautical engineer (b. 1910)
• 1992 – Albert King, American blues musician (b. 1924)
• 1992 – Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Amie Comeaux, American country music singer (b. 1976)
• 1998 – Roger Avon, Durham actor (b. 1914)
• 1998 – Karl Denver, Scottish singer (b. 1931)
• 1998 – Ernst Gunther Schenck, German physician (b. 1904)
• 2001 – Dick Schaap, American sports journalist (b. 1934)
• 2003 – Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Spanish businessman (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Elrod Hendricks, American baseball player and coach (b. 1940)
• 2006 – Scobie Breasley, Australian jockey (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistanian politician (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Ken Hendricks, American businessman (b. 1941)
• 2010 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian football player and manager (b. 1927)