October 21 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1125 – Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer
• 1204 – Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman
• 1221 – Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)
• 1266 – Birger jarl, Swedish statesman (b. 1210)
• 1422 – King Charles VI of France (b. 1368)
• 1500 – Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442)
• 1505 – Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician
• 1558 – Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian scholar (b. 1484)
• 1600 – Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
• 1623 – William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (b. 1546)
• 1662 – Henry Lawes, English composer (b. 1595)
• 1687 – Sir Edmund Waller, English poet (b. 1606)
• 1765 – Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)
• 1775 – Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
• 1777 – Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (b. 1720)
• 1805 – Horatio Nelson, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1758)
• 1805 – George Duff, Royal Navy Captain, killed in action at the Battle of Trafalgar (b.1764)
• 1805 – John Cooke, Royal Navy Captain, killed in action at the Battle of Trafalgar (b.1763)
• 1821 – Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (b. 1752)
• 1872 – Jacques Babinet, French physicist (b. 1794)
• 1873 – Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (b. 1807)
• 1896 – James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
• 1903 – Jinmaku Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12^th Yokozuna (b. 1829)
• 1904 – Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (b. 1877)
• 1907 – Jules Chevalier, French priest (b. 1824)
• 1931 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian writer (b. 1862)
• 1940 – William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
• 1944 – Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
• 1952 – Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (b. 1871)
• 1963 – Józef Franczak, last cursed soldier – anticommunist underground in Poland (b. 1918)
• 1965 – Bill Black, American musician (b. 1926)
• 1969 – Jack Kerouac, American novelist (b. 1922)
• 1969 – Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
• 1973 – Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver (b. 1932)
• 1975 – Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1887)
• 1978 – Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician (b. 1895)
• 1980 – Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (b. 1906)
• 1984 – François Truffaut, French film director (b. 1932)
• 1985 – Dan White, American politician, assailant in the Moscone-Milk assassinations (b. 1946)
• 1986 – Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (b. 1922)
• 1989 – Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (b. 1910)
• 1990 – Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1921)
• 1991 – Lorenc Antoni, Kosovo Albanian composer (b. 1909)
• 1992 – Jim Garrison, American attorney (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Sam Zolotow, American theater reporter (b. 1899)
• 1995 – Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (b. 1967)
• 1995 – Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (b. 1919)
• 1995 – Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (b. 1916)
• 1996 – Georgios Zoitakis, Greek Army general and regent (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Francis W. Sargent, 64^th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1915)
• 1999 – Lars Bo, Danish artist and writer (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Fred Berry, American actor (b. 1951)
• 2003 – Luis A. Ferré, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1904)
• 2003 – Louise Day Hicks, American politician (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
• 2006 – Sandy West, American musician (The Runaways) (b. 1959)
• 2007 – Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts) (b. 1951)