November 21 - Deaths

Deaths

• 496 – Pope Gelasius I
• 1361 – Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)
• 1555 – Georg Agricola, German scientist (b. 1490)
• 1566 – Annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507)
• 1579 – Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier
• 1652 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (b. 1585)
• 1695 – Henry Purcell, English composer
• 1730 – François de Troy, French portrait artist (b. 1645)
• 1775 – John Hill, British writer
• 1811 – Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (b. 1777)
• 1844 – Ivan Krylov, Russian fabulist (b. 1769)
• 1881 – Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (b. 1794)
• 1899 – Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)
• 1916 – Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (b. 1830)
• 1922 – Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist (b. 1874).
• 1924 – Florence Harding, American First Lady (b. 1860)
• 1941 – Henrietta Vinton Davis American elocutionist and public speaker (b. 1860)
• 1942 – Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (b. 1863)
• 1945 – Robert Benchley, American writer and actor (b. 1889)
• 1945 – Alexander Patch, American general (b. 1889)
• 1945 – Al Davis, American boxer (b. 1920)
• 1953 – Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1893)
• 1957 – Francis Burton Harrison, American politician (b. 1873)
• 1958 – Mel Ott, American baseball player (b. 1909)
• 1959 – Max Baer, American boxer (b. 1909)
• 1963 – Robert Stroud, American convicted murderer and ornithologist (b. 1890)
• 1967 – C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (b. 1896)
• 1969 – Mutesa II of Buganda, President of Uganda (b. 1924)
• 1970 – Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
• 1970 – Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
• 1973 – Thomas Pelly, American politician (b. 1902)
• 1974 – John B. Gambling, American radio talk show host (b. 1897)
• 1974 – Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890)
• 1980 – Sara García, Mexican actress (b. 1895)
• 1981 – Harry Von Zell, American announcer (b. 1906)
• 1982 – John Hargrave, British Social Credit advocate (b. 1894)
• 1986 – Marcelino Sanchez, American actor (b. 1957)
• 1986 – Jerry Colonna, American comic (b. 1904)
• 1986 – Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947)
• 1988 – Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Dean Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1954)
• 1991 – Sonny Werblin, former owner of the New York Jets (b. 1907)
• 1993 – Bill Bixby, American actor and director (b. 1934)
• 1995 – Peter Grant, British rock manager and actor (b. 1935)
• 1995 – Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)
• 1996 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1926)
• 1999 – Quentin Crisp, British writer and actor (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Ernest Lluch, Spanish politician (b. 1937)
• 2001 – King Salahuddin of Malaysia (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Hadda Brooks, American jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Alfred Anderson, Scottish World War I veteran (b. 1896)
• 2005 – Hugh Sidey, American journalist (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese statesman (b. 1972)
• 2006 – Kathryn Johnston, American police shooting victim (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director and playwright (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Tom Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Noel McGregor, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Norris Church Mailer, American model and widow of Norman Mailer (b. 1949)
• 2010 – Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, American artist and writer (b. 1917)
• 2010 – David Nolan, American politicial activist (b. 1943)