Died On August 21st
Discover the most famous people who died on August 21. The list includes people like Leon Trotsky, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Bismillah Khan, James Wilson, George Jackson. Famous personalities featured on this list, include political leaders, physicists, composers and poets and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, India, Italy & Germany and many more countries.
Leon Trotsky07 November 1879, Russian, Ukrainian, Russian
Founder and first leader of the Red Army
Elizabeth Báthory07 August 1560, Hungarian
Countess, Serial Killer
Robert Hansen15 February 1939, American
Serial Killer
Stefán Karl Stefánsson10 July 1975, Icelander, American
Actor
Buford Pusser12 December 1937, American
Sheriff
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar19 October 1910, Indian
Bismillah Khan21 March 1913, Indian
William Herschel15 November 1738, German, British
Astronomer, Composer
James Wilson14 September 1742, American, Scottish
Founding Fathers of the United States
Charles Eames17 June 1907, American
George Jackson23 September 1941, American
African-American Left-Wing Activist & Marxist
Danitra Vance13 July 1954, American
American comedian
Ettore Bugatti15 September 1882, French, Italian
entrepreneur, engineer, racecar driver
Vinoo Mankad12 April 1917, Indian
Cricketer
Robert Moog23 May 1934, American
Inventor, Engineer, University teacher
Giuseppe Meazza23 August 1910, Italian
Association football player, Association football
Henrik Pontoppidan24 July 1857, Danish
writer
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu15 May 1689
Explorer, Poet, Writer, Playwright
Palmiro Togliatti26 March 1893, Italian
Politician
William Thurston30 October 1946, American
Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher
Albert Reynolds03 November 1932, Irish
Politician
Dai Vernon11 June 1894, Canadian, American
Stage magician
Benigno Aquino, Jr.27 November 1932, Filipino
Dimitrie Cantemir26 October 1673
Anthropologist, Linguist, Historian, Philosopher,
Sophia Magdalena of Denmark03 July 1746, Danish
Claude-Louis Navier10 February 1785, French
physicist, economist, mathematician, engineer of
Yuri Nikulin18 December 1921, Russian, Russian
Russian-Soviet actor
Adelbert von Chamisso30 January 1781, German, French
Botanist, Poet, Pteridologist, Bryologist, Writer
Wolfgang Vogel30 October 1925, German
Jurist, University teacher, Lawyer
Ustad Bismillah Khan21 March 1913, Indian
William Lyon Phelps02 January 1865, American
Writer, University teacher
Alfonso VII of León01 March 1105, Spanish
King
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Helen Flanders Dunbar14 May 1902, American
Psychiatrist, Physician
William Ralph Meredith31 March 1840, Canadian
Politician, Lawyer, Judge
Douglas Horton27 July 1891, American
Protestant, Academic leader
The Lady Mary Wortley Montagu15 May 1689, British