September 21 - Deaths

Deaths

• 19 BC – Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
• 454 – Flavius Aetius, Roman general (b. 396)
• 687 – Pope Conon (b. 630)
• 1217 – Lembitu, Estonian military leader
• 1217 – Caupo of Turaida
• 1235 – Andrew II of Hungary (b. 1175)
• 1327 – Edward II of England (b. 1284)
• 1397 – Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1346)
• 1558 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
• 1576 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (b. 1501)
• 1586 – Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French cardinal (b. 1517)
• 1626 – François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières, French soldier (b. 1543)
• 1719 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
• 1743 – Jai Singh II, Indian king (b. 1688)
• 1748 – John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
• 1796 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
• 1798 – George Read, American lawyer and politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)
• 1810 – Mir Taqi Mir, Indian poet (b. 1723)
• 1812 – Emanuel Schikaneder, German actor and singer (b. 1751)
• 1832 – Walter Scott, Scottish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1771)
• 1860 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
• 1874 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (b. 1794)
• 1875 – Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (b. 1826)
• 1880 – Manuel Montt, Chilean politician and scholar, 6th President of Chile (b. 1809)
• 1897 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
• 1904 – Chief Joseph, American tribal leader (b. 1840)
• 1906 – Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (b. 1838)
• 1926 – Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer (b. 1857)
• 1938 – Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author (b. 1874)
• 1939 – Armand Călinescu, Romanian politician, 39th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1893)
• 1942 – John Symes, English cricketer (b. 1879)
• 1944 – Artur Phleps, German SS officer (b. 1881)
• 1946 – Olga Engl, Austrian actress (b. 1871)
• 1954 – Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese businessman (b. 1858)
• 1956 – Bill Struth, Scottish football manager (b. 1875)
• 1957 – Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)
• 1962 – Bo Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mississippi Sheiks) (b. 1892)
• 1963 – Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)
• 1966 – Paul Reynaud, French politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (b. 1878)
• 1971 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1972 – Henry de Montherlant, French author (b. 1896)
• 1974 – Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1974 – Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (b. 1918)
• 1976 – Orlando Letelier, Chilean economist, politician, and diplomat (b. 1932)
• 1982 – Ivan Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
• 1985 – Gu Long, Chinese author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 1987 – Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, composer, and producer (Weather Report and Trio of Doom) (b. 1951)
• 1988 – Glenn Robert Davis, American politician (b. 1914)
• 1990 – Takis Kanellopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 1992 – Tarachand Barjatya, Indian film producer, founder of Rajshri Productions (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Rudy Perpich, American politician, 36th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1928)
• 1997 – Jennifer Holt, American actress (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Florence Griffith-Joyner, American runner (b. 1959)
• 2000 – Jacques Flynn, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Leonid Rogozov, Russian surgeon (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Robert L. Forward, American physicist and author (b. 1932)
• 2002 – Rocco Rock, American wrestler (b. 1953)
• 2004 – Bob Mason, English actor (b. 1952)
• 2006 – Tasos Athanasiadis, Greek author (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Bad Company and King Crimson) (b. 1946)
• 2007 – Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian skier (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Rex Humbard, American evangelist (b. 1919)
• 2011 – Troy Davis, American murderer (b. 1968)
• 2011 – Jun Henmi, Japanese author and poet (b. 1939)
• 2011 – Pamela Ann Rymer, American judge (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Mike Baker, English journalist (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Henry Bauchau, Belgian psychoanalyst and author (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Ed Conlin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2012 – José Curbelo, Cuban-American pianist and manager (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Yehuda Elkana, Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Karl-Gustav Kaisla, Finnish ice hockey referee (b. 1943)
• 2012 – G. Kasturi, Indian journalist (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Bill King, English navy officer and author (b. 1910)
• 2012 – Michael Rye, American voice actor (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Bruno Schettino, Italian archbishop (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Mike Sparken, French race car driver (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Tom Umphlett, American baseball player (b. 1930)