Deaths on 21 September
2000s
Raquel Blandón
2024
Guatemalan lawyer and activist (1943–2024)
Benny Golson
2024
American jazz saxophonist and composer (1929–2024)
Eddie Low
2024
Musical artist
Mercury Morris
2024
American football player (1947–2024)
Walewska Oliveira
2023
Brazilian volleyball player (1979–2023)
Raju Srivastav
2022
Indian comedian, actor and politician (1963–2022)
Willie Garson
2021
American actor (1964–2021)
Arthur Ashkin
2020
American physicist (1922–2020)
Trần Đại Quang
2018
President of Vietnam from 2016 to 2018
Vitaliy Masol
2018
Ukrainian statesman (1928–2018)
Yoram Gross
2015
Polish-Australian animation producer and director (1926–2015)
Ray Warleigh
2015
Australian jazz saxophonist (1938–2015)
Richard Williamson (American football)
2015
American football player and coach (1941–2015)
Michael Harari
2014
Israeli intelligence officer (1927–2014), involved in the failed Lillehammer affair
Caldwell Jones
2014
American basketball player (1950–2014)
Sheldon Patinkin
2014
American stage director
Kofi Awoonor
2013
Ghanaian poet and author (1935–2013)
Michel Brault
2013
Canadian filmmaker
Harl H. Haas Jr.
2013
American politician (1932–2013)
Walter Wallmann
2013
German politician (1932–2013)
Ko Wierenga
2013
Dutch politician
José Curbelo
2012
American pianist and manager
Yehuda Elkana
2012
Israeli philosopher
Sven Hassel
2012
Danish writer (1917–2012)
Bill King (Royal Navy officer)
2012
British naval officer, yachtsman, author
Tom Umphlett
2012
American baseball player (1930–2012)
Jun Henmi
2011
Japanese writer and poet
Robert Ginty
2009
American actor (1948–2009)
Hallgeir Brenden
2007
Norwegian cross-country skier (1929–2007)
Alice Ghostley
2007
American actress and singer (1923–2007)
Tasos Athanasiadis
2006
Greek writer (1913–2006)
Robert L. Forward
2002
American physicist and writer (1932–2002)
Jacques Flynn
2000
Canadian politician
Leonid Rogozov
2000
Russian doctor who performed an auto-appendectomy (1934–2000)
1900s
Florence Griffith Joyner
1998
American track and field hurdle athlete (1959–1998)
Rudy Perpich
1995
American politician
Tarachand Barjatya
1992
Indian film producer (1914–1992)
Gordon Bashford
1991
British automobile designer
Takis Kanellopoulos
1990
Greek film director
Rajani Thiranagama
1989
Human rights activist
Jaco Pastorius
1987
American jazz bassist (1951–1987)
Gu Long
1985
Taiwanese novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director
Birgit Tengroth
1983
Swedish actress (1915–1983)
Xavier Zubiri
1983
Spanish philosopher (1898–1983)
Ivan Bagramyan
1982
Marshal of the Soviet Union (1897–1982)
Benjamin Graham
1976
American financial analyst, investor, and professor (1894–1976)
Orlando Letelier
1976
Chilean economist, politician and diplomat (1932–1976)
Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu
1975
Turkist painter and poet (1911–1975)
Walter Brennan
1974
American actor (1894–1974)
Jacqueline Susann
1974
American novelist and actress (1918–1974)
Henry de Montherlant
1972
French writer (1895–1972)
Bernardo Houssay
1971
Argentine physician (1887–1971)
Paul Reynaud
1966
French politician and lawyer (1878–1966)
Josef Müller (entomologist)
1964
Paulino Masip
1963
Spanish writer (1899–1963)
Bo Carter
1962
American blues musician (1893–1964)
Peter Whitehead (racing driver)
1958
British racing driver (1914–1958)
Haakon VII
1957
King of Norway from 1905 to 1957
Bill Struth
1956
Scottish football manager (1875–1956)
Kokichi Mikimoto
1954
Japanese entrepreneur (1858–1954)
Necmettin Sadak
1953
Turkish politician (1890–1953)
Harry Carey (actor)
1947
American actor (1878-1947)
Alexander Koshetz
1944
Ukrainian conductor, composer, ethnographer, writer, and musicologist (1875–1944)
Artur Phleps
1944
Waffen-SS officer (1881–1944)
John Symes (cricketer)
1942
English cricketer
Armand Călinescu
1939
Prime Minister of Romania in 1939
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
1938
Croatian writer (1874–1938)
Osgood Perkins (actor, born 1892)
1937
American actor (1892–1937)
Kenji Miyazawa
1933
Japanese writer (1896–1933)
Léon Charles Thévenin
1926
French telegraph engineer (1857–1926)
Samuel Arnold (conspirator)
1906
Lincoln conspirator (1834–1906)
Nikolay Benardos
1905
Chief Joseph
1904
Native American leader (1840–1904)
1800s
Manuel Montt
1880
President of Chile from 1851 to 1861
Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont
1874
French geologist (1798–1874)
Arthur Schopenhauer
1860
German philosopher (1788–1860)
Walter Scott
1832
Scottish novelist (1771–1832)
Emanuel Schikaneder
1812
German actor and singer (1751–1812)
Before 1800
George Read (American politician, born 1733)
1798
American Founding Father and politician (1733–1798)
François Séverin Marceau
1796
French general (1769–1796)
John Balguy
1748
English divine and philosopher (1686-1748)
Sawai Jai Singh
1743
Maharaja of Amber (1688–1743)
Johann Heinrich Acker
1719
German writer
Ivan Mazepa
1709
Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks from 1687 to 1708
Hong Taiji
1643
Founding emperor of the Qing dynasty
William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
1637
Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
1629
Dutch colonial administrator
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle
1586
Burgundian statesman
Gerolamo Cardano
1576
Italian Renaissance polymath (1501–1576)
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
1558
Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556
Richard Fitzalan, 4th Earl of Arundel
1397
4th Earl Arundel (1346–1397)
Edward II
1327
King of England from 1307 to 1327
William of Kilkenny
1256
13th-century Bishop of Ely and Chancellor of England
Andrew II of Hungary
1235
King of Hungary and Croatia from 1205 to 1235
Lembitu
1217
Estonian elder (died 1217)
Caupo of Turaida
1217
Livonian noble (died 1217)
Otto-William, Count of Burgundy
1026
Count of Burgundy (c. 958 – 1026)
Pope Conon
687
Head of the Catholic Church from 686 to 687
Flavius Aetius
454
Roman general and statesman (c. 390 – 454)
Virgil
-19
1st-century-BC Roman poet