July 21 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1403 – Henry Percy, English nobleman and soldier (b. 1364)
  • 1425 – Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
  • 1688 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
  • 1793 – Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
  • 1796 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
  • 1798 – François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
  • 1878 – Sam Bass, American criminal (b. 1851)
  • 1880 – Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
  • 1889 – Nelson Dewey, American politician (b. 1813)
  • 1899 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
  • 1932 – Bill Gleason, American baseball player (b. 1858)
  • 1938 – Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
  • 1941 – Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
  • 1943 – Charley Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900)
  • 1944 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German military officer, head of the 20 July plot (b. 1907)
  • 1946 – Gualberto Villarroel, Bolivian politician (b. 1908)
  • 1948 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter (b. 1904)
  • 1967 – Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (b. 1907)
  • 1967 – Albert Lutuli, South African politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
  • 1967 – Basil Rathbone, English actor (b. 1892)
  • 1968 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
  • 1970 – Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
  • 1970 – Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
  • 1972 – Ralph Craig, American sprinter (b. 1889)
  • 1972 – Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Bhutanese king (b. 1928)
  • 1977 – Lee Miller, American photographer (b. 1907)
  • 1982 – Dave Garroway, American journalist (b. 1913)
  • 1986 – Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
  • 1991 – Paul Warwick, English race car driver (b. 1969)
  • 1994 – Marijac, French cartoonist (b. 1908)
  • 1998 – Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
  • 1998 – Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
  • 2000 – Marc Reisner, American writer (b. 1948)
  • 2001 – Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
  • 2001 – Sivaji Ganesan, Indian actor (b. 1927)
  • 2003 – John Davies, New Zealand runner (b. 1938)
  • 2003 – Matt Jefferies, American set designer and writer (b. 1921)
  • 2004 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (b. 1929)
  • 2004 – Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
  • 2005 – Long John Baldry, English singer and actor (The Steampacket and Bluesology) (b. 1941)
  • 2005 – Alfred Hayes, English wrestler and manager (b. 1928)
  • 2005 – Michael Chapman, English bassoonist (b. 1934)
  • 2006 – Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-American actor (b. 1933)
  • 2006 – Ta Mok, Cambodian monk (b. 1926)
  • 2006 – Herbie Kalin, American singer (Kalin Twins) (b. 1934)
  • 2006 – J. Madison Wright Morris, American actress (b. 1984)
  • 2007 – Dubravko Škiljan, Croatian linguist (b. 1949)
  • 2010 – Luis Corvalán, Chilean politician (b. 1916)
  • 2012 – Alexander Cockburn, American journalist (b. 1941)
  • 2012 – Ismail Hutson, Malaysian actor (b. 1938)
  • 2012 – Andrzej Łapicki, Polish actor (b. 1924)
  • 2012 – Ali Podrimja, Albanian poet (b. 1942)
  • 2012 – Angharad Rees, Welsh actress (b. 1949)
  • 2012 – Gene Stipe, American politician (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – Don Wilson, English cricketer (b. 1937)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    This is the 184th Demonstration.
    ...
    What we do is not beautiful
    hurts no one makes no one desperate
    we do not break the panes of safety glass
    stretching between people on the street
    and the deaths they hire.
    Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.
    Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)