Notable Deaths on April 21st
April 21st Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1073 |
Alexander II, [Anselmo da Baggio], Pope (1061-73), dies |
1109 |
Anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies |
1142 |
Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079) |
1329 |
Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282) |
1509 |
Henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52 |
1551 |
Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510) |
1552 |
Peter Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German astronomer, dies at 50 |
1557 |
Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495) |
1574 |
Cosimo de Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54 |
1652 |
Pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66 |
1696 |
Andres de Sola, composer, dies at 61 |
1699 |
Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639) |
1699 |
Jean Racine, Mitridate, re di Ponto |
1701 |
Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667) |
1719 |
Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640) |
1720 |
Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646) |
1722 |
Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (b. 1673) |
1730 |
Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79 |
1736 |
Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye, dies at 72 |
1780 |
Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 60 |
1792 |
Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746) |
1793 |
John Michell, English seismologist (b. 1724) |
1815 |
Joseph Winston, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746) |
1825 |
Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathemattician (b. 1765) |
1852 |
Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787) |
1868 |
Henry James O'Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh |
1871 |
Elisabeth Grube, writer, dies |
1878 |
Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62 |
1878 |
Temistocle Solera, Giovanna d'Arco |
1898 |
Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78 |
1899 |
Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80 |
1900 |
Heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55 |
1910 |
Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74 |
1910 |
Mark Twain, Tom and Huck |
1913 |
Robert V. Ferguson, Venus and Adonis |
1916 |
Guy Rathbone, Julius Caesar |
1917 |
F.C. Burnand, Cox and Box |
1918 |
"Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25 |
1918 |
Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], German pilot dies after his plane his shot down at 25 |
1918 |
Manfred von Richthofen, |
1919 |
Jules Védrines, Max dans les airs |
1922 |
Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858) |
1922 |
Charles Arling, Back to God's Country |
1924 |
Eleanora Duse, Ital actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64 |
1924 |
Eleonora Duse, Cenere |
1924 |
Marie Corelli, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan |
1925 |
Alphonse Winckler, The Messers. Lumière at Cards |
1926 |
Alva Garbo, En lyckoriddare |
1929 |
Mrs. W.K. Clifford, Eve's Lover |
1930 |
Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79 |
1930 |
Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85 |
1933 |
Joseph Kilgour, Janice Meredith |
1935 |
Byron Douglas, The Plunger |
1935 |
George Farren, The Cinderella Man |
1935 |
J. Gordon Russell, Tumbleweeds |
1935 |
Russell Gordon, Rounding Up the Law |
1935 |
Millard Webb, Glorifying the American Girl |
1936 |
Alexandria Carlisle, The Tides of Fate |
1938 |
Muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65 |
1938 |
Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877) |
1939 |
Herman Finck, composer, dies at 66 |
1939 |
Leo Dryden, The Entertainer |
1939 |
Joe Young, King Kong |
1939 |
Herman Finck, The Fourth War |
1940 |
Timothy O'Donnell, Love My Dog |
1940 |
Richard Robles, Lost Horizon |
1941 |
Adlersfeld-Ballestrem, The White Roses of Ravensberg |
1941 |
Arthur Kraußneck, The Chronicles of the Gray House |
1941 |
Harold B. Franklin, The Villain Still Pursued Her |
1942 |
C.M. Hallard, The Pauper Millionaire |
1942 |
Monte Brewer, Mr. Dynamite |
1943 |
Alfred Hall, Pretty Dolly |
1944 |
Neil Porter, Gallows Glorious |
1945 |
John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25 |
1945 |
Hanne Mertens, Ich verweigere die Aussage |
1946 |
Robert Graham, cricketer (3 wkts for S Afr in 2 Tests 1898-99), dies |
1946 |
John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883) |
1946 |
John Maynard Keynes, |
1947 |
William Lord Wright, The Indians Are Coming |
1947 |
J.C. Nugent, Wise Girls |
1948 |
Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer, dies at 66 |
1948 |
W.P. Mathewson, The Grapes of Wrath |
1949 |
Freddy Anderson, Halfway to Heaven |
1950 |
Adam Wieniawski, Straszny dwór |
1950 |
Frederic R. Bechdolt, Thieves' Gold |
1951 |
Ivar Kåge, A Guest Is Coming |
1952 |
Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61 |
1952 |
[Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62 |
1952 |
Stafford Cripps, Robinson Charley |
1952 |
Leslie Banks, The Man Who Knew Too Much |
1952 |
Willy Mullens, Strand te Blankenberge |
1953 |
Emmett King, God of Mankind |
1954 |
Anton De Verdier, Doctor Nicholson and the Blue Diamond |
1955 |
Philippa Frederiksen, Champagneruset |
1956 |
Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895) |
1956 |
Angelo Dibona, Cavalieri della montagna |
1956 |
Charles MacArthur, His Girl Friday |
1957 |
Andrew Leigh, The Curse of Frankenstein |
1958 |
Giulio Neri, Rigoletto |
1958 |
Clare Kummer, Harmony at Home |
1960 |
Marcello Giorda, The Great War |
1960 |
Fred Howard, Rain |
1961 |
James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57 |
1961 |
James Melton, The James Melton Show |
1962 |
Frederick Handley Page, designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies |
1962 |
Bob Wickersham, Imagination |
1963 |
Marcel Delaître, Le Corbeau: The Raven |
1965 |
Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72 |
1965 |
Tom Connors Jr., What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
1966 |
Harry Hilliard, Romeo and Juliet |
1967 |
Andre L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77 |
1967 |
Shinpei Takagi, Seven Samurai |
1968 |
Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69 |
1968 |
Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt |
1971 |
Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81 |
1971 |
Francois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti, dies at 64 |
1972 |
Sergey Tikhonov, Delovye lyudi |
1972 |
Ezio D'Errico, Cortocircuito |
1973 |
Ursula Jeans, actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66 |
1973 |
Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894) |
1974 |
Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (b. 1895) |
1975 |
Jack Allan Westrup, composer, dies at 70 |
1975 |
Rex Moore, Shane |
1977 |
Gummo [Milton] Marx, US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84 |
1977 |
Joe Garland, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader |
1978 |
Sandy Denny, country singer, dies at 37 |
1978 |
Jerry Stagg, Fight for the Title |
1978 |
Sandy Denny, Crush |
1980 |
Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894) |
1980 |
Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928) |
1981 |
Harry Lee, cricketer (scored 18 & 1 in only Test for England), dies |
1981 |
Eddie Sauter, Mickey One |
1982 |
Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80 |
1982 |
Joe Sawyer, The Killing |
1983 |
George Khoury, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy |
1983 |
Walter Slezak, One Life to Live |
1984 |
Marcel Janco, Dada |
1984 |
Manuel Mujica Láinez, De la misteriosa Buenos Aires |
1984 |
Arthur S. Hyman, Huddle |
1985 |
Rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62 |
1985 |
Tancredo Neves, president-elect of Brazil, dies at 75 |
1985 |
Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (b. 1902) |
1985 |
Irving Mills, The Shawshank Redemption |
1985 |
Elinor von Wallerstein, Rotkäppchen |
1985 |
Joe Hembus, Bomber & Paganini |
1985 |
Rudi Gernreich, Exodus |
1985 |
John Welsh, Krull |
1985 |
Tancredo Neves, The JK Years: A Political Trajectory |
1986 |
Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930) |
1986 |
Sylvia Meredith, The Enemy Above |
1986 |
Marjorie Eaton, Mary Poppins |
1987 |
Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77 |
1987 |
Danton Ferrero, The Secret Seven |
1987 |
Poul Nordstrøm, Take What You Want |
1988 |
I.A.L. Diamond, Some Like It Hot |
1988 |
Adam Matejka, The Shop on Main Street |
1988 |
Fritz Bartholdt, Die Reise nach Sundevit |
1989 |
James Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64 |
1989 |
Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912) |
1989 |
Gerard Hartkamp, Hendrik IV |
1989 |
James Kirkwood Jr., A Chorus Line |
1989 |
Tommy Thompson, The Complete History of the Philadelphia Eagles |
1990 |
Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies |
1990 |
Erté, French artist (b. 1892) |
1990 |
Erté, The Restless Sex |
1990 |
Pavla Marsálková, Closely Watched Trains |
1991 |
Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74 |
1991 |
Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81 |
1991 |
Ilija Miletin, Karbon |
1991 |
Willi Boskovsky, Drop Dead Gorgeous |
1991 |
Patty Ann Gerrity, The Trouble with Angels |
1991 |
Scotty Harrel, Little Joe, the Wrangler |
1992 |
Robert Harris, murderer, executed in Calif's gas chamber at 39 |
1992 |
Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74 |
1992 |
Giovanna Galletti, Last Tango in Paris |
1992 |
Böske Sándor, Örökkön-örökké |
1992 |
Väinö Linna, Here, Beneath the North Star |
1992 |
Ida Versényi, Mephisto |
1992 |
Clarence Badger Jr., Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight? |
1992 |
Massimo Mida, Ai margini della metropoli |
1993 |
Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82 |
1993 |
Hal Schaffel, Midnight Cowboy |
1993 |
Galeazzo Benti, Io e mia sorella |
1993 |
Roman Vcelák, Mrtvý les |
1994 |
Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93 |
1994 |
Dirk Harvey, Harum Scarum |
1994 |
Raúl Soldi, Celos |
1994 |
Stefan Topaldjikoff, Nevidimiyat Mirko |
1994 |
Jacek Stwora, Kalosze szczescia |
1994 |
Walter Pinto, Bububu no Bobobó |
1994 |
Edmond Keosayan, Neulovimye mstiteli |
1994 |
Barry Fell, Introduction to INY-272 |
1994 |
Ruth Hiatt, Family Life |
1995 |
Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93 |
1995 |
Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at 61 |
1995 |
Tessie O'Shea, Bedknobs and Broomsticks |
1995 |
Milan Panic, Koraci kroz magle |
1996 |
A H Kardar, cricketer (3 Tests for India & 23 for Pak 1946-58), dies |
1996 |
Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader and President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1991), dies at 52 |
1996 |
Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies at 76 |
1996 |
Robert Hersant, press baron, dies at 76 |
1996 |
Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter, dies at 93 |
1996 |
Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86 |
1996 |
Luigi Pistilli, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
1996 |
Salah Zulfikar, Soft Hands |
1996 |
Jimmy 'The Greek' Snyder, Jimmy 'The Greek' Snyder |
1996 |
Harry Fuß, Marika |
1997 |
Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies |
1997 |
Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines (1961-65), dies aged 86 |
1997 |
Shizeng Xinma, Wan e yin wei shou |
1997 |
Hellin Auvinen-Salmi, Milka - A Film About Taboos |
1997 |
Luitgard Im, Judith |
1998 |
Jean Francois Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1924) |
1998 |
Peter Lind Hayes, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. |
1998 |
József Gáti, Richard III |
1998 |
Ronald M. Cohen, Call to Glory |
1998 |
Gregory Munroe, Alternative 3 |
1998 |
Helen Ward, Will Osborne and His Orchestra |
1998 |
Irene Vernon, Witch or Wife |
1999 |
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor and musician (b. 1904) |
1999 |
Ingrid Ohlenschläger, Raum-Bredullje |
1999 |
Fred McKinnon, Eddie Murphy: Delirious |
1999 |
Doreen Lang, The Birds |
1999 |
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Wings |
1999 |
Liz Tilberis, Catwalk |
2000 |
Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (b. 1929) |
2000 |
Al Purdy, At the Quinte Hotel |
2000 |
Neal Matthews Jr., Buffalo Gun |
2000 |
Nigar Sultana, Mughal-E-Azam |
2000 |
Anatoliy Ivanov, Day of Wrath |
2000 |
Kristine Cameron, Mahogany |
2000 |
Gunther Gerszo, Under the Volcano |
2001 |
Jack Haley Jr., That's Entertainment! |
2001 |
Tamara Altseva, Vysokaya nagrada |
2001 |
Ulla Poulsen, Den kloge Mand |
2002 |
Sam Dente, Game 4 |
2002 |
David Wood, Martha Graham: An American Original in Performance |
2002 |
Jeremiah J. Cogburn, A Meaningful Life |
2002 |
Edna Miller, She-Man: A Story of Fixation |
2002 |
Terry Walsh, Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
2003 |
Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933) |
2003 |
Jack McGee, Best Foot Forward |
2003 |
Aleksander Gawronski, Wielkie rzeczy: Siec |
2003 |
Del Armstrong, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids |
2003 |
Nina Simone, The Big Lebowski |
2004 |
Mary McGrory, American journalist (b. 1918) |
2004 |
Mary McGrory, The Kennedys: The Curse of Power |
2004 |
Tommy Yeardye, The Long Haul |
2004 |
M.J. Bogdanowicz, Friday the 13th Part III |
2004 |
Mary Selway, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi |
2004 |
Michaela Scheday, Rozznjogd |
2004 |
Robert L. Smith, Get Your Stuff |
2004 |
Vivi Ancher, Panic in Paradise |
2005 |
Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941) |
2005 |
Jimmy Thompson, Carry on Cruising |
2005 |
Anna Mae Bilson, Our Gang |
2005 |
Bob Gardiner, Closed Mondays |
2005 |
Cliff Montgomery, Hollywood Newsreel |
2005 |
Valeriano Andrés, Story of a Kiss |
2006 |
T.K. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician (b. 1922) |
2006 |
Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager (b. 1931) |
2006 |
Telê Santana, Futebol |
2006 |
Vittorio De Sisti, The Private Lesson |
2007 |
Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941) |
2007 |
Jill Richards, The Big Baby Contest |
2007 |
Charles Stuart Blackton, The Littlest Scout |
2007 |
Franklyn Boyd, Goldenrod |
2007 |
Jan Tadeusz Stanislawski, Ped do wiedzy |
2007 |
Emilio Messina, Les seins de glace |
2007 |
Pál Palásti, Nevezz csak Cucinak! |
2007 |
Parry O'Brien, Episode #9.26 |
2007 |
Lucille McNames, The Albany Branch |
2007 |
Jef van den Berg, De dame en de knecht |
2007 |
Erica Cassetti, Tarzan |
2007 |
Lobby Loyde, Bandstand |
2007 |
Boscoe Holder, The Intruder |
2007 |
Art Saaf, Adventures Into Digital Comics |
2008 |
Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939) |
2008 |
Claude Veillot, The Old Gun |
2008 |
Tibor Komáromi, Werckmeister Harmonies |
2008 |
Gustl Weishappel, Das Kamel geht durch das Nadelöhr |
2008 |
Clyde Martin, The Only Way Home |
2008 |
Monna Bell, Las recién casadas |
2008 |
Al Wilson, Blood Ties |
2008 |
Darell L. Garretson, Mixed Company |
2008 |
Adelina Campos, José do Telhado |
2008 |
Mihajlo Mijuskovic, Tajni agent Izzy |
2008 |
Aaron Shearer, Aaron Shearer: A Life with the Guitar |
2008 |
Carmem Silva, Margarette's Feast |
2009 |
Jack Jones, The Human Face of Labour |
2009 |
Santha Rama Rau, A Passage to India |
2009 |
Tony Johnson, The Screaming Skull |
2009 |
Vivian Maier, Finding Vivian Maier |
2010 |
Gustav Lorentzen, Norwegian singer-songwriter (b. 1947) |
2010 |
Juan Antonio Samaranch, International Olympic Committee president (b. 1920) |
2010 |
Gustav Lorentzen, Episode #6.5 |
2010 |
Edna Tromans, On Golden Pond |
2010 |
Kathleen Fleming, L'encerclement - La démocratie dans les rets du néolibéralisme |
2010 |
Danny Street, Tiara Tahiti |
2010 |
Juan Antonio Samaranch, Sydney 2000: Games of the XXVII Olympiad |
2010 |
Jean Le Bitoux, Le gai tapant |
2010 |
David Myerscough-Jones, The Hawk |
2010 |
Whitney Harris, Liberation & Revenge |
2010 |
Margery Marston, Tarzan and the Amazons |
2010 |
Margery Fife, Tarzan and the Amazons |
2010 |
Jean Dewever, The Honors of War |
2011 |
Ashley Nwosu, Keeping Close |
2011 |
Tine Bryld, Comedy kuren |
2011 |
Bob Asklöf, Quand les filles se déchaînent |
2011 |
Zorica Ratarov, The Misfit Brigade |
2011 |
Godfrey Philipp, Adventure Island |
2011 |
Yoshiko Tanaka, Black Rain |
2011 |
Ken Kostick, What's for Dinner? |
2012 |
Charles Colson, Nixon adviser (Watergate), dies from a brain hemorrhage at 80 |
2012 |
Morten A. Korch, Dales Skæbne |
2012 |
Harold Phox, A Day in the Death of Donny B |
2012 |
Charles Higham, The Trouble with Merle |
2012 |
Marilù Parolini, Love on the Ground |
2012 |
Albert Falco, The Silent World |
2012 |
Charles Colson, Faith in the Big House |
2012 |
Heinrich Pachl, The Hidden Word |
2012 |
Leonid Menaker, Zaveshchaniye professora Douelya |
2012 |
Bernie Landis, While You Were Sleeping |
2012 |
Gwen Crawford, Here Come the Waves |
2012 |
Doris Betts, Violet |
2012 |
Alan F. Milair, American Scary |
2013 |
Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor, dies at 107 |
2013 |
Jean-Michel Damase, Term of Trial |
2013 |
Christina Amphlett, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery |
2013 |
Swami Kriyananda, Finding Happiness |
2013 |
Norman Borisoff, To the Very End |
2013 |
Douglas Mounce, That Summer! |
2013 |
Shakuntala Devi, For Straights Only |
2014 |
Arlene McQuade, Fight for the Title |
2014 |
Aleksandr Lenkov, Little Vera |
2014 |
Daniel Anker, Scottsboro: An American Tragedy |
2014 |
Ramón Pons, Broken Embraces |
2014 |
Win Tin, Children of the Peacock |
2014 |
Craig Hill, All About Eve |
2014 |
Günter Walbeck, Die Zeugin |
2015 |
Mary Doyle Keefe, the model in the Famed 'Rosie the Riveter' Painting, dies at 92 |
2015 |
Tinkerbell the Dog, Bowden Family |
2015 |
Werner Leismann, Episode #1.59 |
2015 |
Michel Puterflam, Brotherhood of the Wolf |
2015 |
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, Luna Papa |
2015 |
Jan Matyjaszkiewicz, Pozarowisko |
2015 |
Ferenc Konrád, Montreal 1976: Games of the XXI Olympiad |
2015 |
Betsy von Furstenberg, Another World |
2015 |
Steve Byrnes, 2008 NASCAR Daytona 500 |
2015 |
Sydney Radley-Walters, In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 |
2016 |
Ex-WWE wrestling star Chyna dies aged 45 |
2016 |
Teen Wolf director Rod Daniel dies, aged 73 |
2016 |
Victoria Wood: British comedian dies aged 62 |
2017 |
'Hell's Kitchen' Chef Paulie Giganti Found Dead Aged 36 |
2017 |
Cuba Gooding Sr Dead: Cuba Gooding Jr's Dad Dies, Aged 72 |
2018 |
Swedish Electronic Dance Music DJ Avicii Dies At 28 |
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