Famous Deaths on August 21, Who Died on August 21
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| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1131 | King Baldwin II of Jerusalem |
| 1148 | William II, Count of Nevers (b. c. 1089) |
| 1157 | Alfonso VII of León and Castile (b. 1105) |
| 1245 | Alexander of Hales, English theologian |
| 1271 | Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (b. 1220) |
| 1534 | Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, 44th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1464) |
| 1568 | Jean Parisot de Valette, 49th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1495) |
| 1614 | Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (b. 1560) |
| 1622 | Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana, Spanish poet and politician (b. 1582) |
| 1627 | Jacques Mauduit, French composer and academic (b. 1557) |
| 1673 | Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier (b. 1599) |
| 1689 | William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier (b. 1661) |
| 1762 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1689) |
| 1763 | Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1710) |
| 1775 | Zahir al-Umar, Arabian ruler (b. 1690) |
| 1796 | John McKinly, American physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware (b. 1721) |
| 1814 | Benjamin Thompson, American-English physicist and colonel (b. 1753) |
| 1835 | John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist and academic (b. 1773) |
| 1836 | Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (b. 1785) |
| 1838 | Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (b. 1781) |
| 1853 | Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon, French general (b. 1783) |
| 1854 | Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777) |
| 1867 | Juan Álvarez, Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1790) |
| 1870 | Ma Xinyi, Chinese general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang (b. 1821) |
| 1888 | James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1825) |
| 1905 | Alexander von Oettingen, Estonian theologian and statistician (b. 1827) |
| 1910 | Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1835) |
| 1919 | Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1875) |
| 1935 | John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849) |
| 1940 | Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882) |
| 1940 | Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (b. 1863) |
| 1940 | Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (b. 1879) |
| 1943 | Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857) |
| 1947 | Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (b. 1881) |
| 1951 | Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (b. 1905) |
| 1957 | Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1879) |
| 1957 | Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902) |
| 1957 | Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888) |
| 1960 | David B. Steinman, American engineer, designed the Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886) |
| 1964 | Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1893) |
| 1971 | George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (b. 1941) |
| 1974 | Buford Pusser, American police officer (b. 1937) |
| 1974 | Kirpal Singh, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894) |
| 1978 | Charles Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1907) |
| 1979 | Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910) |
| 1981 | Kaka Kalelkar , Indian hindi Writer(B.1885) |
| 1983 | Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino journalist and politician (b. 1932) |
| 1988 | Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963) |
| 1988 | Ray Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1912) |
| 1989 | Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945) |
| 1993 | Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano and actress (b. 1938) |
| 1995 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) |
| 1995 | Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (b. 1919) |
| 2000 | Tomata du Plenty, American singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1948) |
| 2000 | Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930) |
| 2000 | Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1928) |
| 2001 | Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927) |
| 2003 | John Coplans, British artist (b. 1920) |
| 2003 | Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and academic (b. 1946) |
| 2004 | Sachidananda Routray, Indian Oriya-language poet (b. 1916) |
| 2005 | Martin Dillon, American tenor and educator (b. 1957) |
| 2005 | Robert Moog, American businessman, founded Moog Music (b. 1934) |
| 2005 | Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet and translator (b. 1936) |
| 2005 | Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925) |
| 2006 | Bismillah Khan, Indian musician, Bharat ratna awardi (b. 1916) |
| 2006 | Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941) |
| 2007 | Siobhan Dowd, British author (b. 1960) |
| 2007 | Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American general (b. 1918) |
| 2008 | Jerry Finn, American engineer and producer (b. 1969) |
| 2009 | Rex Shelley, Singaporean engineer and author (b. 1930) |
| 2010 | Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentinean sociologist and author (b. 1941) |
| 2012 | Georg Leber, German soldier and politician, Federal Minister of Defence for Germany (b. 1920) |
| 2012 | J. Frank Raley Jr., American soldier and politician (b. 1926) |
| 2012 | Don Raleigh, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926) |
| 2012 | Guy Spitaels, Belgian academic and politician, 7th Minister-President of Wallonia (b. 1931) |
| 2012 | William Thurston, American mathematician and academic (b. 1946) |
| 2013 | Jean Berkey, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938) |
| 2013 | Sid Bernstein, American record producer (b. 1918) |
| 2013 | C. Gordon Fullerton, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1936) |
| 2013 | Fred Martin, Scottish footballer (b. 1929) |
| 2013 | Enos Nkala, Zimbabwean politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence (b. 1932) |
| 2014 | Gerry Anderson, Irish radio and television host (b. 1944) |
| 2014 | Helen Bamber, English psychotherapist and academic (b. 1925) |
| 2014 | Steven R. Nagel, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1946) |
| 2014 | Jean Redpath, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1937) |
| 2014 | Albert Reynolds, Irish businessman and politician, 9th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1932) |
| 2015 | Colin Beyer, New Zealand lawyer and businessman (b. 1938) |
| 2015 | Wang Dongxing, Chinese commander and politician (b. 1916) |
| 2015 | Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach (b. 1924) |
| 2017 | Bajram Rexhepi, First Kosovan Prime Ministers of UN mission administration in Kosovo (b. 1954) |
| 2018 | Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor and singer (b. 1975) |
| 2019 | Celso Piña, Mexican singer, composer, arranger, and accordionist (b. 1953) |
| 672 | Emperor Kōbun of Japan (b. 648) |
| 784 | Alberic, archbishop of Utrecht |
| 913 | Tang Daoxi, Chinese general |
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