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Day of the year
October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 71 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1901–present
1907 – The
1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
1910 –
HMS Niobe arrives in
Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the
Royal Canadian Navy .
1912 –
First Balkan War : The Greek navy
completes the capture of the island of
Lemnos for use as a forward base against the
Dardanelles .
[1]
1921 – President
Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. president against
lynching in the
Deep South .
1931 – A secret society in the
Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive
coup d'état attempt .
1940 – The first edition of the
Ernest Hemingway novel
For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
1941 –
World War II : The
Kragujevac massacre against Serbian men and boys takes place.
[2]
1943 – World War II: The
Provisional Government of Free India is formally established in
Japanese-occupied Singapore .
1944 – World War II: The first kamikaze attack damages
HMAS Australia as the
Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
1944 – World War II: The
Nemmersdorf massacre against German civilians takes place.
1944 – World War II: The city of
Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, the first German city to fall to the Allies.
1945 – In the
1945 French legislative election French women vote for the first time.
1950 – Korean War: Heavy fighting begins between British and Australian forces and North Koreans during the
Battle of Yongju .
1956 – The
Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya is defeated.
1959 – In New York City, the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.
1959 – President
Dwight D. Eisenhower approves the transfer of all
US Army space-related activities to
NASA , including most of the
Army Ballistic Missile Agency .
1965 –
Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.
1966 – A colliery spoil tip
slips onto houses and a school in the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, 116 of whom were schoolchildren.
[3]
1967 – The
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon.
1969 – The
1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration.
1971 – A
gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland.
1973 –
Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
1978 – Australian civilian pilot
Frederick Valentich vanishes over the
Bass Strait south of
Melbourne , after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
[4]
1979 –
Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister
Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
1981 –
Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces.
1983 – The
metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
1984 –
Niki Lauda claims his third and final
Formula One
Drivers' Championship Title by half a point ahead of
McLaren team-mate
Alain Prost at the
Portuguese Grand Prix .
[5]
1986 – In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have
abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
1987 – The
Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian peacekeeping forces in Sri Lanka, killing 70 Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
1989 – In
Honduras , 131 people are killed when a
Boeing 727
crashes on approach to
Toncontín International Airport near the nation's capital
Tegucigalpa .
[6]
1994 – North Korea and the United States sign an
Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
1994 – In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people are killed when a span of the
Seongsu Bridge collapses .
[7]
2005 – Images of the dwarf planet
Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery.
2011 –
Iraq War : President
Barack Obama announces that the
withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq will be complete by the end of the year.
[8]
2019 – Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western
Democratic Republic of the Congo .
[9]
2019 – In
Canada , the
2019 Canadian federal election ends, resulting in incumbent Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau remaining in office, albeit with the
Liberal Party in a
minority government .
[10]
[11]
2021 – A
shooting occurs on the set of the film
Rust , in which actor
Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded, killing the director of photography,
Halyna Hutchins , and injuring director
Joel Souza .
[12]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1650 –
Jean Bart , French admiral (d. 1702)
1658 –
Henri de Boulainvilliers , French nobleman (d. 1722)
1675 –
Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
1687 –
Nicolaus I Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician and theorist (d. 1759)
1712 –
James Steuart , Scottish economist and author (d. 1780)
[14]
1725 –
Franz Moritz von Lacy , Austrian field marshal (d. 1801)
1757 –
Pierre Augereau , French general (d. 1816)
1762 –
Herman Willem Daendels , Dutch general, lawyer, and politician, 36th
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1818)
1772 –
Samuel Taylor Coleridge , English poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 1834)
1775 –
Giuseppe Baini , Italian priest, composer, and critic (d. 1844)
1790 –
Alphonse de Lamartine , French poet and politician,
French Head of State (d. 1869)
1809 –
James Clark , American Jesuit (d. 1885)
[15]
1811 –
Filippo Colini , Italian operatic baritone (d. 1863)
1821 –
Sims Reeves , English tenor and actor (d. 1900)
1833 –
Alfred Nobel , Swedish chemist and engineer, invented
dynamite and founded the
Nobel Prize (d. 1896)
1845 –
Will Carleton , American poet and journalist (d. 1912)
1847 –
Giuseppe Giacosa , Italian poet and playwright (d. 1906)
1851 –
George Ulyett , English cricketer and footballer (d. 1898)
1868 –
Ernest Swinton , British Army officer (d. 1951)
1874 –
Tan Kah Kee , Chinese businessman, community leader, communist and philanthropist (d. 1961)
1877 –
Oswald Avery , Canadian-American physician and microbiologist (d. 1955)
1884 –
Claire Waldoff , German singer and actress (d. 1957)
1886 –
Eugene Burton Ely , American soldier and pilot (d. 1911)
1887 –
Krishna Singh , Indian lawyer and politician, 1st
Chief Minister of Bihar (d. 1961)
1894 –
Edogawa Ranpo , Japanese author and critic (d. 1965)
1895 –
Paavo Johansson , Finnish javelin thrower and decathlete (d. 1983)
1895 –
Edna Purviance , American actress (d. 1958)
1896 –
Esther Shumiatcher-Hirschbein , Russian-Canadian poet and screenwriter (d. 1985)
1898 –
Eduard Pütsep , Estonian wrestler and actor (d. 1960)
1900 –
Andrée Boisson , French Olympic fencer (d. 1973)
1901–present
1902 –
Eddy Hamel , American footballer (d. 1943)
[16]
1907 –
Nikos Engonopoulos , Greek painter and poet (d. 1985)
1908 –
Niyazi Berkes , Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (d. 1988)
1911 –
Mary Blair , American illustrator and animator (d. 1978)
1912 –
Don Byas , American saxophonist and educator (d. 1972)
1912 –
Alfredo Pián , Argentinian race car driver (d. 1990)
1912 –
Georg Solti , Hungarian-English conductor and director (d. 1997)
1914 –
Martin Gardner , American mathematician and author (d. 2010)
1915 –
Owen Bradley , American country music record producer (d. 1998)
1917 –
Dizzy Gillespie , American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (d. 1993)
[17]
1918 –
Milton Himmelfarb , American sociologist and author (d. 2006)
1918 –
Albertina Sisulu , South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2011)
1919 –
Jim Wallwork , English-Canadian sergeant and pilot (d. 2013)
1921 –
Malcolm Arnold , English composer (d. 2006)
1921 –
Bruce Beeby , Australian-English actor (d. 2013)
1921 –
Robert Clothier , Canadian actor (d. 1999)
1921 –
Jim Shumate , American fiddler and composer (d. 2013)
1921 –
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld , Dutch astronomer and academic (d. 2015)
1922 –
Liliane Bettencourt , French businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 2017)
1923 –
Samuel Khachikian , Iranian director, screenwriter, and author (d. 2001)
1924 –
Joyce Randolph , American actress (d. 2024)
[18]
1924 –
Julie Wilson , American actress and singer (d. 2015)
1925 –
Celia Cruz , Cuban-American singer (d. 2003)
[17]
1925 –
Virginia Zeani , Romanian soprano and educator (d. 2023)
1926 –
Bob Rosburg , American golfer (d. 2009)
1926 –
Leonard Rossiter , English actor (d. 1984)
1927 –
Fritz Wintersteller , Austrian mountaineer (d. 2018)
1927 –
Howard Zieff , American director and photographer (d. 2009)
1928 –
Whitey Ford , American baseball player and coach (d. 2020)
[17]
1928 –
Eudóxia Maria Froehlich , Brazilian zoologist (d. 2015)
1928 –
Vern Mikkelsen , American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
1929 –
Pierre Bellemare , French radio and television host (d. 2018)
1929 –
Fritz Hollaus , Austrian footballer (d. 1994)
1929 –
Ursula K. Le Guin , American author and critic (d. 2018)
[17]
1929 –
George Stinney Jr. , wrongfully convicted African-American inmate; second youngest person in the U.S. to be executed (d. 1944)
[19]
[20]
[21]
1930 –
Ivan Silayev , Russian engineer and politician, 19th
Prime Minister of Russia (d. 2023)
1931 –
Shammi Kapoor , Indian actor and director (d. 2011)
1931 –
Jim Parks Jr. , English cricketer and manager (d. 2022)
1932 –
Pál Csernai , Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
1933 –
Maureen Duffy , English author, poet, playwright and activist
[22]
1933 –
Francisco Gento , Spanish footballer and manager (d. 2022)
1935 –
Derek Bell , Irish harp player, pianist, and songwriter (d. 2002)
1935 –
Mel Street , American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1978)
1937 –
Said Afandi al-Chirkawi , Russian spiritual leader and scholar (d. 2012)
1937 –
Hank Nelson , Australian historian and academic (d. 2012)
1938 –
Carl Brewer , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2001)
1940 –
Geoffrey Boycott , English cricketer and sportscaster
1940 –
Frances FitzGerald , American journalist and author
1940 –
Rhoda Gemignani , American actress
1940 –
Manfred Mann , South African-English keyboard player and producer
[23]
1940 –
Marita Petersen , Faroese educator and politician,
Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2001)
1941 –
Steve Cropper , American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor
[23]
1942 –
Elvin Bishop , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 –
Allan Grice , Australian race car driver and politician
1942 –
Lou Lamoriello , American ice hockey player, coach, and manager
1942 –
Judy Sheindlin , American judge and television host
[23]
1942 –
Christopher A. Sims , American economist and statistician,
Nobel Prize laureate
1942 –
John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington , English police officer and academic
1943 –
Tariq Ali , Pakistani historian and author
1943 –
Ron Elliott , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer
1944 –
Mandy Rice-Davies , English model and actress (d. 2014)
1944 –
Michael Tugendhat , English lawyer and judge
1945 –
Everett McGill , American actor
[23]
1945 –
Nikita Mikhalkov , Russian filmmaker
1945 –
Michael White , English journalist
1946 –
Jane Heal , English philosopher and academic
1946 –
Jim Hill , American football player and sportscaster
1946 –
Lux Interior , American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
1946 –
Lee Loughnane , American singer-songwriter and trumpet player
[23]
1948 –
Shaye J. D. Cohen , American historian and academic
1948 –
Allen Henry Vigneron , American archbishop
1949 –
Michel Brière , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1971)
1949 –
Mike Keenan , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1949 –
Benjamin Netanyahu , Israeli captain and politician, 9th
Prime Minister of Israel
[17]
1950 –
Ronald McNair , American physicist and astronaut (d. 1986)
[24]
1950 –
Leela Vernon , Belizean musician and cultural conservationist (d. 2017)
[25]
1952 –
Patti Davis , American actress and author
1952 –
Allen Hoey , American poet and author
1952 –
Brent Mydland , German-American keyboard player (d. 1990)
1953 –
Charlotte Caffey , American guitarist and songwriter
[23]
1953 –
Eric Faulkner , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 –
Keith Green , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and minister (d. 1982)
1953 –
Marc Johnson , American bassist, composer, and bandleader
1953 –
Peter Mandelson , English journalist and politician,
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
1954 –
Brian Tobin , Canadian journalist and politician, 6th
Premier of Newfoundland
1955 –
Dick DeVos , American businessman
1955 –
Catherine Hardwicke , American film director, producer, and screenwriter
[23]
1955 –
Fred Hersch , American pianist and composer
1955 –
Rich Mullins , American singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
1956 –
Carrie Fisher , American actress and screenwriter (d. 2016)
[17]
1956 –
Mike Tully , American pole vaulter
1957 –
Julian Cope , English singer-songwriter
[23]
1957 –
Irene Edgar , Scottish lawn bowler
[26]
1957 –
Wolfgang Ketterle , German physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate
1957 –
Steve Lukather , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
[23]
1958 –
Andre Geim , Russian-English physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate
1959 –
George Bell , Dominican baseball player
1959 –
Rose McDowall , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959 –
Andy Picheta , English director, producer, and screenwriter
1959 –
Kevin Sheedy , Welsh-Irish footballer and manager
1959 –
Ken Watanabe , Japanese actor and producer
[23]
1960 –
Melora Walters , American actress, director, and writer
[23]
1962 –
David Campese , Australian rugby player and coach
1964 –
Jon Carin , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1965 –
Ion Andoni Goikoetxea , Spanish footballer and manager
1965 –
Horace Hogan , American wrestler
1965 –
Hisashi Imai , Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 –
Phillip Price , Welsh golfer
1966 –
Igor Prins , Estonian footballer and manager
1966 –
Arne Sandstø , Norwegian footballer and manager
1967 –
Georgi Dakov , Bulgarian high jumper (d. 1996)
1967 –
Paul Ince , English footballer and manager
1967 –
Gavin Lovegrove , New Zealand javelin thrower and graphic designer
1968 –
Alexandros Alexandris , Greek footballer and manager
1968 –
Kerstin Andreae , German politician
1969 –
Michael Hancock , Australian rugby league player
1969 –
Mo Lewis , American football player
1970 –
Louis Koo , Hong Kong actor and singer
1971 –
Hal Duncan , Scottish author and poet
1971 –
Damien Martyn , Australian cricketer
1971 –
Nick Oliveri , American singer-songwriter and bass player
[23]
1971 –
Conor O'Shea , Irish rugby player and coach
1971 –
Paul Telfer , Scottish footballer and coach
1971 –
Thomas Ulsrud , Norwegian curler
1972 –
Ashutosh Agashe , Indian businessman and cricketer
1972 –
Matthew Friedberger , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 –
Orlando Thomas , American football player (d. 2014)
1972 –
Evhen Tsybulenko , Ukrainian scholar and academic
1973 –
Lera Auerbach , Russian-American pianist and composer
1973 –
Charlie Lowell , American pianist and songwriter
[23]
1974 –
Costel Busuioc , Romanian tenor
1975 –
Toby Hall , American baseball player
1975 –
Henrique Hilário , Portuguese footballer
1976 –
Henrik Gustavsson , Swedish footballer
1976 –
Jeremy Miller , American actor and singer
[23]
1976 –
Lavinia Miloșovici , Romanian gymnast
1976 –
Josh Ritter , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 –
Andrew Scott , Irish actor
[23]
1976 –
Mélanie Turgeon , Canadian skier
1978 –
Will Estes , American actor
[23]
1978 –
Joey Harrington , American football player and sportscaster
1978 –
Henrik Klingenberg , Finnish singer and keyboard player
1978 –
Michael McMillian , American actor
[23]
1979 –
Khalil Greene , American baseball player
1979 –
Gabe Gross , American baseball player
1980 –
Kim Kardashian , American reality television personality, actress, model, businesswoman and socialite
[23]
1980 –
Brian Pittman , American bass player
1981 –
Martin Castrogiovanni , Argentinian-Italian rugby player
1981 –
Nemanja Vidić , Serbian footballer
1982 –
Matt Dallas , American actor
[17]
1982 –
Jim Henderson , American baseball player
1982 –
Antony Kay , English footballer
1982 –
Hari Kondabolu , American comedian, actor, and podcaster
1982 –
Ray Ventrone , American football player
1982 –
Lee Chong Wei , Malaysian badminton player
1982 –
James White , American basketball player
1983 –
Casey Fien , American baseball player
1983 –
Zack Greinke , American baseball player
1983 –
Brent Hayden , Canadian swimmer
[27]
1983 –
Gonzalo Klusener , Argentinian footballer
1983 –
Andy Marte , Dominican baseball player (d. 2017)
1983 –
Amber Rose , American model
[17]
1983 –
Chris Sherrington , English-Scottish martial artist
1983 –
Charlotte Sullivan , Canadian actress
[23]
1983 –
Ninet Tayeb , Israeli singer
1983 –
Shelden Williams , American basketball player
1984 –
Anna Bogdanova , Russian heptathlete
1984 –
Tom Brandstater , American football player
1984 –
Kenny Cooper , American soccer player
1984 –
Anouk Leblanc-Boucher , Canadian speed skater
1984 –
José Lobatón , Venezuelan baseball player
1984 –
Marvin Mitchell , American football player
1984 –
Kieran Richardson , English footballer
1985 –
Simone Bracalello , Italian footballer
1985 –
Dean Collis , Australian rugby league player
1986 –
Almen Abdi , Swiss footballer
1986 –
Chibuzor Chilaka , Nigerian footballer
1986 –
Scott Rendell , English footballer
1987 –
Tonje Brenna , Norwegian politician
[28]
1987 –
Justin De Fratus , American baseball player
1987 –
Andrey Grechin , Russian swimmer
1988 –
Ricki Olsen , Danish footballer
1988 –
Glen Powell , American actor
[23]
1988 –
Daniel Schorn , Austrian cyclist
1989 –
Mads Dahm , Norwegian footballer
1989 –
Festus Ezeli , Nigerian-American basketball player
[29]
1989 –
Luke Murphy , English footballer
1989 –
Jonathan Viera , Spanish footballer
1989 –
Sam Vokes , English-Welsh footballer
1990 –
Bengali-Fodé Koita , French footballer
1990 –
Mathieu Peybernes , French footballer
1990 –
Ricky Rubio , Spanish basketball player
1991 –
Alexander Burmistrov , Russian ice hockey player
[30]
1991 –
Tom Eastman , English footballer
1991 –
Geoffry Hairemans , Belgian footballer
1991 –
Rob Keogh , English cricketer
1991 –
Vadaine Oliver , English footballer
1991 –
Harry Pell , English footballer
1992 –
Natasha Bassett , Australian actress
[23]
1992 –
Marzia Kjellberg , Italian businessperson and former YouTuber
1992 –
Damion Lee , American basketball player
[31]
1992 –
Bernard Tomic , German-Australian tennis player
[32]
1993 –
Kane Brown , American singer and songwriter
[33]
1995 –
Cameron Burgess , Scottish-Australian footballer
1995 –
Doja Cat , American rapper, singer and songwriter
[34]
1995 –
Antoinette Guedia Mouafo , Cameroonian swimmer
Deaths
Pre-1600
645 –
Zhenzhu Khan , khan of
Xueyantuo
1023 –
Gero , Archbishop of Magdeburg
1096 –
Walter Sans Avoir , a leader of the
First Crusade
1125 –
Cosmas of Prague , Bohemian priest and historian (b. 1045)
1204 –
Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester , English politician
1221 –
Alix, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)
1266 –
Birger Jarl , Swedish politician (b. 1210)
1314 –
Geoffrey de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville
1422 –
Charles VI of France (b. 1368)
[35]
1500 –
Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442)
1505 –
Paul Scriptoris , German mathematician and educator (b. 1460)
1556 –
Pietro Aretino , Italian author (b. 1492)
1558 –
Julius Caesar Scaliger , Italian physician and scholar (b. 1484)
1600 –
Ōtani Yoshitsugu , Japanese samurai (b. 1558)
1601–1900
1623 –
William Wade , English politician and diplomat,
Lieutenant of the Tower of London (b. 1546)
1662 –
Henry Lawes , English composer (b. 1595)
1687 –
Edmund Waller , English poet and politician (b. 1606)
1765 –
Giovanni Paolo Panini , Italian painter and architect (b. 1691)
1775 –
Peyton Randolph , American lawyer and politician, 1st
President of the Continental Congress (b. 1721)
1777 –
Samuel Foote , English actor and playwright (b. 1720)
1805 –
John Cooke , English captain (b. 1763)
[36]
1805 –
George Duff , Scottish captain (b. 1764)
1805 –
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson , English admiral (b. 1758)
1821 –
Dorothea Ackermann , German actress (b. 1752)
1835 –
Muthuswami Dikshitar , Indian poet and composer (b. 1775)
1861 –
Edward Dickinson Baker , American congressman and colonel (b. 1811)
1872 –
Jacques Babinet , French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1794)
1873 –
Johan Sebastian Welhaven , Norwegian author, poet, and critic (b. 1807)
1896 –
James Henry Greathead , South African-English engineer (b. 1844)
1901–present
1903 –
Jinmaku Kyūgorō , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th
Yokozuna (b. 1829)
1904 –
Isabelle Eberhardt , Swiss explorer and journalist (b. 1877)
1907 –
Jules Chevalier , French priest, founded the
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
1931 –
Arthur Schnitzler , Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)
1938 –
Dorothy Hale , American actress (b. 1905)
1940 –
William G. Conley , American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th
Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
1941 –
Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton , Australian biologist (b. 1852)
1944 –
Alois Kayser , German-French missionary (b. 1877)
1952 –
Hans Merensky , South African geologist and philanthropist (b. 1871)
1963 –
Józef Franczak , Polish sergeant (b. 1918)
1965 –
Bill Black , American bass player and bandleader (b. 1926)
1969 –
Jack Kerouac , American novelist and poet (b. 1922)
1969 –
Wacław Sierpiński , Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1882)
1970 –
Li Linsi , Chinese educator and diplomat (b. 1896)
1971 –
Minnie Evans , American artist (b. 1888)
1973 –
Nasif Estéfano , Argentinian race car driver (b. 1932)
1975 –
Charles Reidpath , American runner and general (b. 1887)
1977 –
Ferit Tüzün , Turkish composer (b. 1929)
1978 –
Anastas Mikoyan , Armenian-Russian civil servant and politician (b. 1895)
1980 –
Hans Asperger , Austrian physician and psychologist (b. 1906)
1982 –
Radka Toneff , Norwegian singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
1983 –
Joseph P. Lordi , American government official (b. 1919)
1984 –
François Truffaut , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
1985 –
Dan White , American assassin and politician (b. 1946)
1986 –
Lionel Murphy , Australian jurist and politician, 22nd
Attorney-General of Australia (b. 1922)
1989 –
Jean Image , Hungarian-French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910)
1990 –
Dany Chamoun , Lebanese engineer and politician (b. 1934)
1990 –
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar , Indian spiritual guru, philosopher and author (b. 1921)
1991 –
Lorenc Antoni , Albanian composer, conductor, and musicologist (b. 1909)
1992 –
Ante Ciliga , Croatian politician, writer and publisher (b. 1898)
1992 –
Jim Garrison , American lawyer and judge (b. 1921)
1993 –
Sam Zolotow , American journalist and critic (b. 1899)
1995 –
Maxene Andrews , American singer (b. 1916)
1995 –
Jesús Blasco , Spanish author and illustrator (b. 1919)
1995 –
Nancy Graves , American sculptor and painter (b. 1939)
1995 –
Shannon Hoon , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967)
1996 –
Georgios Zoitakis , Greek general and politician (b. 1910)
1998 –
Francis W. Sargent , American soldier and politician, 64th
Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1915)
1999 –
Lars Bo , Danish author and illustrator (b. 1924)
1999 –
Ahmet Taner Kışlalı , Turkish political scientist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1939)
2002 –
Edward J. Mortola , American academic and president of Pace University (b. 1917)
[37]
2003 –
Louise Day Hicks , American politician (b. 1916)
2003 –
Luis A. Ferré , Puerto Rican engineer and politician, 3rd
Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1904)
2003 –
Elliott Smith , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1969)
2006 –
Sandy West , American singer-songwriter and drummer (b. 1959)
2007 –
Paul Fox , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)
2010 –
A. Ayyappan , Indian poet and translator (b. 1949)
2011 –
Hikmet Bilâ , Turkish journalist and author (b. 1954)
2011 –
Tone Pavček , Slovenian poet and author (b. 1928)
2012 –
Yash Chopra , Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
2012 –
Antoni Dobrowolski , Polish educator (b. 1904)
2012 –
Jaroslav Kozlík , Czech volleyball player and educator (b. 1907)
2012 –
Alf Kumalo , South African photographer and journalist (b. 1930)
2012 –
George McGovern , American historian, lieutenant, and politician (b. 1922)
2013 –
Bud Adams , American businessman (b. 1923)
2013 –
Gianni Ferrio , Italian composer and conductor (b. 1924)
2013 –
Rune T. Kidde , Danish author, poet, and illustrator (b. 1957)
2013 –
Colonel Robert Morris , American singer-songwriter and drummer (b. 1954)
2013 –
Major Owens , American librarian and politician (b. 1936)
2013 –
Tony Summers , Welsh swimmer (b. 1924)
2013 –
Oscar Yanes , Venezuelan journalist and author (b. 1927)
2014 –
Ben Bradlee , American journalist and author (b. 1921)
2014 –
Nelson Bunker Hunt , American businessman (b. 1926)
2014 –
Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani , Iranian cleric and politician,
Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1931)
2014 –
Edith Kawelohea McKinzie , Hawaiian genealogist, author, and hula expert (b. 1925)
2014 –
Gough Whitlam , Australian lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 21st
Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1916)
2015 –
France Bučar , Slovenian lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
2015 –
Marty Ingels , American actor (b. 1936)
2015 –
Norman W. Moore , English conservationist and author (b. 1923)
2015 –
Sheldon Wolin , American philosopher, theorist, and academic (b. 1922)
2020 –
Frank Bough , English television presenter (b. 1933)
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Bernard Haitink , Dutch conductor and violinist (b. 1929)
[39]
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Bobby Charlton , English footballer and manager (b. 1937)
[40]
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Bobi , Portuguese dog (b. 1992)
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Bill Hayden , Australian politician, 21st
Governor General of Australia (b. 1933)
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