Famous Deaths on 21st August

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1131 - Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies
1157 - King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)
1190 - Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies
1245 - Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies
1271 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
1516 - John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78
1581 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
1627 - Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69
1629 - Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies
1673 - Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51
1673 - John de Love I, vice-admiral, dies in sea battle at about 54
1689 - William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier
1723 - Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49
1762 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
1763 - Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1772 - Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29
1772 - Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer, dies at 48
1785 - Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies
1796 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
1798 - Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62
1812 - Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67
1814 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
1824 - John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70
1824 - Santiago Ferrer, composer, dies at 62
1836 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
1838 - A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57
1856 - Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64
1864 - John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24
1870 - Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821)
1888 - Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70
1898 - Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40
1905 - Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80
1911 - W R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies
1932 - Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80
1935 - Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76
1935 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1940) 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Ramón Mercader at 62
1940 - Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer, dies at 68
1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
1940 - Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882)
1942 - Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies
1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86
1947 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies
1949 - Gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75
1951 - (Leonard) Constant Lambert, English composer (Rio Grande), dies at 45
1952 - Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies
1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
1957 - Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1958 - Stevan Hristic, composer, dies at 73
1958 - Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show), dies at 44
1960 - David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)
1963 - John Gunn, cricketer (England all-rounder in 6 Tests 1901-05), dies
1964 - Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/min of Just, dies
1968 - Vladimir Boudnik, Czech sculptor, commits suicide at about 45
1970 - Timothy Mather Spelman, composer, dies at 79
1971 - George Jackson, US prisoner, shot to death at 29
1976 - Ken James, cricketer (kept wicket for NZ in 11 Tests), dies
1977 - Octavus L "Octave" van Aerschot, actor (Scandal in Paris), dies at 87
1977 - Danny Lockin, American actor/dancer, dies from bleeding to death after being stabbed 100 times
1978 - Charles Eames, US chair manufacturer, dies at 71
1978 - Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (44 Tests for India, 2,109 runs), dies
1979 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
1980 - Jack Cheetham, cricketer (15 Tests as S Afr capt, won 7 lost 5), dies
1981 - Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer, dies at 85
1982 - Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies
1983 - Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed at 50
1987 - Karl Bruck, entertainer, dies
1988 - Hans Gunther Adler, German writer, dies at 78
1988 - Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
1989 - Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1990 - George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya
1991 - Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101
1991 - Richard Wilson, producer/writer/actor (Pay or Die), dies at 75
1991 - Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect, dies
1992 - Lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), dies after illness at 74
1992 - Theo van Tijn, Marxist/social-historian, dies at 65
1992 - Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (b. 1894)
1994 - Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL), dies of breast cancer at 35
1994 - Hein Fentener van Vlissingen, eccentric millionaire, dies at 73
1995 - Anatole Fistoulari, conductor, dies at 88
1995 - Hilda Beatritz Guevara, daughter of Che Guevara, dies at 39
1995 - James Truitte, dancer, dies at 72
1995 - Ken Rickards, cricketer (104 runs at 34 66 for WI 1948-52), dies
1995 - Len Martin, sports broadcaster, dies at 76
1995 - Manfred Donike, chemist Drug Test pioneer, dies at 61
1995 - Nanni Loy, film Director, dies at 69
1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, physicist (Nobel-1983), dies at 84
1996 - Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69
1996 - Sidney George Gray, company secretary, dies at 82
1997 - Misael Pastrana Borrero, Pres of Colombia (1970-74), dies
1997 - Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)
2000 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2001 - Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2003 - Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and aid worker (b. 1946)
2003 - Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
2005 - Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2005 - Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
2005 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
2005 - Martin Dillon, tenor, American opera singer (b. 1957)
2006 - Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)
2006 - Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
2007 - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)
2007 - Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (b. 1918)
2007 - Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (b. 1981)
2008 - Jerry Finn, American record producer (b. 1969)
2009 - Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (b. 1930)
2009 - Dean Turner, Australian musician (b. 1972)
2010 - Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentinean writer (b. 1941)
2010 - Nancy Dolman, Canadian actress and comedienne (b. 1950)
2012 - Georg Leber, German politician, dies at 91
2012 - William Thurston, American mathematician, dies from melanoma at 65