Deaths on 21 October
2000s
Francisco Pinto Balsemão
2025
Prime Minister of Portugal from 1981 to 1983
Mimi Hines
2024
Canadian singer and comedian (1933–2024)
Bobby Charlton
2023
English footballer and manager (1937–2023)
Bobi (dog)
2023
Revoked Guinness World Record holder for oldest dog ever
Bill Hayden
2023
Australian politician (1933–2023)
Bernard Haitink
2021
Dutch conductor (1929–2021)
Frank Bough
2020
English television presenter (1933–2020)
France Bučar
2015
Slovenian politician, legal expert and author
Marty Ingels
2015
American actor (1936–2015)
Norman W. Moore
2015
Sheldon Wolin
2015
American political theorist (1922–2015)
Ben Bradlee
2014
Executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991
Nelson Bunker Hunt
2014
American businessman (1926–2014)
Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
2014
Iranian Ayatollah (1931–2014)
Edith Kawelohea McKinzie
2014
American genealogist and hula expert (1925–2014)
Gough Whitlam
2014
Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975
Bud Adams
2013
American football executive, owner (1923–2013)
Gianni Ferrio
2013
Italian composer (1924–2013)
Rune T. Kidde
2013
Danish writer, storyteller, musician and artist
Colonel Robert Morris
2013
American singer
Major Owens
2013
American politician (1936–2013)
Tony Summers
2013
British swimmer
Óscar Yanes
2013
Venezuelan journalist (1927–2013)
Yash Chopra
2012
Indian film director and film producer (1932–2012)
Antoni Dobrowolski
2012
Polish educator and Holocaust survivor (1904–2012)
Jaroslav Kozlík
2012
Czech educator, volleyball player and theorist of education
Alf Kumalo
2012
South African photographer (1930–2012)
George McGovern
2012
American politician and historian (1922–2012)
Hikmet Bilâ
2011
Turkish journalist, columnist and writer
Tone Pavček
2011
Slovene poet, translator and essayist
A. Ayyappan
2010
Indian poet
Paul Fox (musician)
2007
British musical artist (1951–2007)
Sandy West
2006
American rock musician (1959–2006)
Louise Day Hicks
2003
American politician and lawyer (1916–2003)
Luis A. Ferré
2003
Governor of Puerto Rico
Elliott Smith
2003
American musician (1969–2003)
Edward J. Mortola
2002
American academic and chancellor
1900s
Lars Bo
1999
Danish artist and writer
Ahmet Taner Kışlalı
1999
Turkish professor, politician, and commentator (1939-1999)
Francis Sargent
1998
American politician (1915–1998)
Georgios Zoitakis
1996
Regent of Greece from 1967 to 1972
The Andrews Sisters
1995
American vocal group
Jesús Blasco
1995
Spanish author and artist of comic books (1919–1995)
Nancy Graves
1995
American painter and sculptor (1939–1995)
Shannon Hoon
1995
American singer-songwriter (1967–1995)
Sam Zolotow
1993
American theatre critic
Ante Ciliga
1992
Croatian politician, writer and publisher (1898–1992)
Jim Garrison
1992
American district attorney (1921–1992)
Lorenc Antoni
1991
Albanian composer, conductor, and ethnomusicologist (1909–1991)
Dany Chamoun
1990
Lebanese politician (1934–1990)
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
1990
Indian spiritual Guru, philosopher, social reformer, linguist, author and composer
Jean Image
1989
French filmmaker
Lionel Murphy
1986
Australian politician (1922–1986)
Dan White
1985
American politician and assassin (1946–1985)
François Truffaut
1984
French film director (1932–1984)
Joseph P. Lordi
1983
American lawyer (1919-1983)
Radka Toneff
1982
Norwegian singer
Hans Asperger
1980
Austrian physician (1906–1980)
Anastas Mikoyan
1978
Soviet statesman and revolutionary (1895–1978)
Ferit Tüzün
1977
Turkish composer
Charles Reidpath
1975
American athlete
Nasif Estéfano
1973
Argentine racing driver (1932–1973)
Minnie Evans
1971
African American female painter (1892–1987)
Li Linsi
1970
Chinese educator and diplomat (1896–1970)
Jack Kerouac
1969
American writer (1922–1969)
Wacław Sierpiński
1969
Polish mathematician (1882–1969)
Bill Black
1965
American bassist (1926–1965)
Józef Franczak
1963
Polish resistance member
Hans Merensky
1952
South African geologist, conservationist & philanthropist
Alois Kayser
1944
German missionary (1877–1944)
Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton
1941
Australian naturalist and teacher (1852–1941)
William G. Conley
1940
American politician (1866–1940)
Hendrik Wortman
1939
Dutch civil engineer (1859–1939)
Dorothy Hale
1938
American socialite (1905–1938)
Arthur Schnitzler
1931
Austrian author and dramatist (1862–1931)
Borisav Stanković
1927
Serbian writer (1876–1927)
Jules Chevalier
1907
French Roman Catholic priest
Isabelle Eberhardt
1904
Swiss explorer and writer
Jinmaku Kyūgorō
1903
Japanese sumo wrestler
1800s
James Henry Greathead
1896
English mechanical and civil engineer (1844–1896)
Johan Sebastian Welhaven
1873
Norwegian writer (1807–1873)
Jacques Babinet
1872
French physicist, mathematician and astronomer (1794–1872)
Edward D. Baker
1861
American politician, lawyer and military leader (1811–1861)
Muthuswami Dikshitar
1835
Composer of Carnatic Music (1776–1835)
Dorothea Ackermann
1821
German actress (1752–1821)
John Cooke (Royal Navy officer)
1805
Royal Navy Captain (1762–1805)
George Duff
1805
Royal Navy officer (1764–1805)
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
1805
British Royal Navy officer (1758–1805)
Before 1800
Samuel Foote
1777
British actor and playwright (1720–1777)
Peyton Randolph
1775
Founding Father of the United States (1721–1775)
Giovanni Paolo Panini
1765
Italian painter and architect (1691–1765)
Edmund Waller
1687
English poet and politician (1606–1687)
Henry Lawes
1662
English musician and composer
William Wade (English politician)
1623
16th/17th-century English statesman
Ōtani Yoshitsugu
1600
Japanese samurai (1558–1565)
Julius Caesar Scaliger
1558
Italian scholar, physician and philosopher (1484–1558)
Pietro Aretino
1556
16th century Italian author and blackmailer
Paul Scriptoris
1505
German Franciscan mathematician, Scotist and professor
Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado
1500
Emperor of Japan from 1464 to 1500
Charles VI of France
1422
King of France from 1380 to 1422
Geoffrey de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville
1314
Anglo-French noble (c. 1226–1314)
Birger Jarl
1266
Jarl of Sweden from 1248 to 1266
Alix, Duchess of Brittany
1221
Duchess of Brittany from 1203 to 1221
Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester
1204
English nobleman
Cosmas of Prague
1125
Czech priest (c. 1045–1125)
Walter Sans Avoir
1096
Leader of the People's Crusade (d. 1096)
Gero (archbishop of Magdeburg)
1023
Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1012 to 1023
Zhenzhu Khan
645
Khan of Xueyantuo