Today in History
21 September
287 births · 100 deaths · 52 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1947
Don Felder
American musician (b. 1947)
Notable Births
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Alisha Palmowski
b. 2006
British racing driver (born 2006)
Wang Junkai
b. 1999
Chinese actor and singer (born 1999)
Alexander Isak
b. 1999
Swedish footballer (born 1999)
Yainer Díaz
b. 1998
Dominican baseball player (born 1998)
Bruno Caboclo
b. 1995
Brazilian basketball player (born 1995)
Devin Williams (baseball)
b. 1994
American baseball player (born 1994)
Don Felder
b. 1947
American musician (b. 1947)
Ian Albery
b. 1936
English theatre consultant
Notable Deaths
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Raquel Blandón
d. 2024
Guatemalan lawyer and activist (1943–2024)
Benny Golson
d. 2024
American jazz saxophonist and composer (1929–2024)
Eddie Low
d. 2024
Musical artist
Mercury Morris
d. 2024
American football player (1947–2024)
Walewska Oliveira
d. 2023
Brazilian volleyball player (1979–2023)
Raju Srivastav
d. 2022
Indian comedian, actor and politician (1963–2022)
Willie Garson
d. 2021
American actor (1964–2021)
Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont
d. 1874
French geologist (1798–1874)
On This Day in History
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2019
A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.
2019 Albania earthquake
2018
LGBT rights activist Zak Kostopoulos is beaten to death on a busy street in Athens
Zak Kostopoulos
2015
Adventist Health System agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle allegations of fraud. It was the largest a hospital network has ever paid.
AdventHealth
2013
Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
Al-Shabaab (militant group)
2012
Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.
Egyptians
2003
The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.
Galileo (spacecraft)
2001
America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
America: A Tribute to Heroes
2001
Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
Murder of Ross Parker