On This Day — June 21
4095 noted people were born and 1804 died on June 21 in our archive, including Max Wolf, Norman L. Bowen and Shirin Ebadi.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on June 21
Max Wolf
1863 – 1932
Norman L. Bowen
1887 – 1956
Shirin Ebadi
b. 1947
Siméon Denis Poisson
1781 – 1840
Alastair G. W. Cameron
1925 – 2005
Aleksi Lehtonen
1891 – 1951
Alojzy Orszulik
1928 – 2019
Archibald MacMechan
1862 – 1933
Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes
1879 – 1954
Bernard Ingham
1932 – 2023
Dana Rohrabacher
b. 1947
David L. Gunn
b. 1937
Dimitris Papaioannou
b. 1964
Fernando Savater
b. 1947
François Baroin
b. 1965
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
1826 – 1902
Fritz Lange
1864 – 1952
Gennady Padalka
b. 1958
Giovanni Spadolini
1925 – 1994
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1646 – 1716
Hadja Lahbib
b. 1970
Harald Norvik
b. 1946
Heinrich Brunner
1840 – 1915
Heinrich Wölfflin
1864 – 1945
Hugh Newall
1857 – 1944
Humphry Rolleston
1862 – 1944
Iñaki Antigüedad
b. 1955
John Rhys
1840 – 1915
Joseph Ki-Zerbo
1922 – 2006
Joseph Lieutaud
1703 – 1780
Joyce Jacobson Kaufman
1929 – 2016
Krzysztof Żuk
b. 1957
Luis Antonio Tagle
b. 1957
Malcolm Rifkind
b. 1946
Marjorie Margolies
b. 1942
Martha Craig Daughtrey
b. 1942
Mary McCarthy
1912 – 1989
Muir Gray
b. 1944
Nikolai Todorov
1921 – 2003
Notker Wolf
1940 – 2024
Pascual de Gayangos y Arce
1809 – 1897
Pavel Krasheninnikov
b. 1964
Pavel Tarakanov
b. 1982
Rafael Catalá
b. 1961
Raymond Chevallier
1929 – 2004
Rosanne Somerson
b. 1954
Tibor Szele
1918 – 1955
Trygve Reenskaug
1930 – 2024
Ursula Keller
b. 1959
Wilhelm von Bezold
1837 – 1907
William Stubbs
1825 – 1901
William, Prince of Wales
b. 1982
Wojciech Świętosławski
1881 – 1968
Yingluck Shinawatra
b. 1967
Adam Zagajewski
1945 – 2021
Alan Charlton
b. 1952
Albert Sauveur
1863 – 1939
Alexander Boyarchuk
1931 – 2015
Alexander J. Dallas
1759 – 1817
Alois Hába
1893 – 1973
Alojzy Rafał Estreicher
1786 – 1852
Anders Sandøe Ørsted
1816 – 1872
Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd
1791 – 1854
Andrzej Rzymkowski
1911 – 1986
André Guillaumin
1885 – 1974
Anne Carson
b. 1950
Arnold Barratt McMillin
b. 1941
Averil Mansfield
b. 1937
Ben Bederson
b. 1964
Benazir Bhutto
1953 – 2007
Cathy Davidson
b. 1949
Chad Wolf
b. 1976
Choe Yong-gon
1900 – 1976
Christian Ernst Stahl
1848 – 1919
Christian Mumenthaler
b. 1969
Damrong Rajanubhab
1862 – 1943
Dan Burton
b. 1938
Dan Naveh
b. 1960
Daniel Rosenfeld
b. 1952
Danylo Yanevsky
b. 1956
David Beerling
b. 1965
Dudley Wright Knox
1877 – 1960
Désiré Collen
b. 1943
Edward Snowden
b. 1983
Emil Preetorius
1883 – 1973
Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases
1766 – 1842
Endre Süli
b. 1956
Ernst Fehr
b. 1956
Essop Pahad
1939 – 2023
Ferdinand André Fouqué
1828 – 1904
Françoise Sagan
1935 – 2004
Friedrich Kluge
1856 – 1926
Fyodor Dubasov
1845 – 1912
Gadeer Mreeh
b. 1984
Gerald Kaufman
1930 – 2017
Gretchen Carlson
b. 1966
Guglielmo Ferrero
1871 – 1942
Gustav Guanella
1909 – 1982
Guy Lux
1919 – 2003
Hans Peter Doskozil
b. 1970
Harry D. Felt
1902 – 1992
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
1887 – 1965
Hein Verbruggen
1941 – 2017
Heinrich Scheuch
1864 – 1946
Helma Neppérus
b. 1950
Henry Lamb
1883 – 1960
Henry Ossawa Tanner
1859 – 1937
Herb Kawainui Kane
1928 – 2011
Ian McEwan
b. 1948
Ilia Shumanov
b. 1981
Jacques Hébert
1923 – 2007
James Halliwell-Phillipps
1820 – 1889
James Joll
1918 – 1994
James L. Patton
b. 1941
Jan Pinkava
b. 1963
Jan-Gunnar Winther
b. 1962
Jane Russell
1921 – 2011
Janusz Jędrzejewicz
1885 – 1951
Jean-Claude Sikorav
b. 1957
Jennifer Larmore
b. 1958
Jim Douglas
b. 1951
Joachim Stamp
b. 1970
John Mueller
b. 1937
John Wesley Snyder
1895 – 1985
Joko Widodo
b. 1961
Jon Moynihan
b. 1948
Jorge Moragas
b. 1965
Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp
1880 – 1941
José Raúl Vera López
b. 1945
K. R. Gowri Amma
1919 – 2021
Kate Brown
b. 1960
Laynie Browne
b. 1966
Lee Hong-yuan
b. 1956
Leigh Saufley
b. 1954
Lindsey Prather
b. 1988
Ludwig von Löfftz
1845 – 1910
Luis Castañeda Lossio
1945 – 2022
Luis de Onís y González-Vara
1762 – 1827
Machado de Assis
1839 – 1908
Margaret Heckler
1931 – 2018
Maria Petrovna Lilina
1866 – 1943
Marina Matulović-Dropulić
b. 1942
Martha G. Welch
b. 1944
Martha Van Rensselaer
1864 – 1932
Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi
b. 1946
Michael Ruse
1940 – 2024
Mickey Levy
b. 1951
Mike Pieciak
b. 1983
Nikolaus Nilles
1828 – 1907
Oleg Kononenko
b. 1964
Paolo Soleri
1919 – 2013
Paul Chernoff
1942 – 2017
Paul Frederick Zweifel
1929 – 2017
Paul Preston
b. 1946
Paul Rabinow
1944 – 2021
Pavlo Zibrov
b. 1957
Peter Sim
1917 – 2015
Philippe Hersant
b. 1948
Pier Luigi Nervi
1891 – 1979
Pierre Omidyar
b. 1967
Pierre Paul Royer-Collard
1763 – 1845
Pontus Hultén
1924 – 2006
Pyotr Sumin
1946 – 2011
Ralph Block
1889 – 1974
Reinhold Niebuhr
1892 – 1971
Robert Dewar
1945 – 2015
Robert Malenka
b. 1955
Robert Menasse
b. 1954
Robin Quinville
b. 1956
Rosa Galvez
b. 1961
Samuel Griffith
1845 – 1920
Sergey Sobyanin
b. 1958
Serhii Sukhomlyn
b. 1971
Shane Osborn
b. 1974
Sidney Smith
1764 – 1840
Silver Donald Cameron
1937 – 2020
Stefan Doernberg
1924 – 2010
Susan Meiselas
b. 1948
Terashima Munenori
1832 – 1893
Terence Etherton
1951 – 2025
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington
1780 – 1858
Tim Bray
b. 1955
Togo D. West, Jr.
1942 – 2018
Tracy Fullerton
b. 1965
Upinder Singh Bhalla
b. 1963
Valeri Zolotukhin
1941 – 2013
Viktor Alksnis
1950 – 2025
Vladimir Voronkov
b. 1953
Willem Hendrik Keesom
1876 – 1956
William Boyd
1885 – 1979
William Brede Kristensen
1867 – 1953
William Dobinson Halliburton
1860 – 1931
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
1813 – 1865
William Frankena
1908 – 1994
William H. Parker
1905 – 1966
William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst
1819 – 1876
Witold Wenclik
1911 – 1993
Wolfgang Haken
1928 – 2022
Yang Liwei
b. 1965
Yuri Burago
b. 1936
… and 3,895 more
Died on June 21
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
1860 – 1948
Doris Sands Johnson
1921 – 1983
François Lehideux
1904 – 1998
Anders Jonas Ångström
1814 – 1874
Edwin Hewitt
1920 – 1999
Frederick Crews
1933 – 2024
Frederick W. Smith
1944 – 2025
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto
1751 – 1814
Hendrik Wade Bode
1905 – 1982
Henri Tresca
1814 – 1885
Jean-Pierre Kahane
1926 – 2017
Joan Fuster
1922 – 1992
Johannes Stark
1874 – 1957
Josiah Conder
1852 – 1920
Jānis Pauļuks
1865 – 1937
Kermit Gordon
1916 – 1976
Louis Jacques Thénard
1777 – 1857
O. J. Tuulio
1878 – 1941
Paul Gochet
1932 – 2011
Philip Coppens
1930 – 2017
Reuben Dimond Mussey
1780 – 1866
Sam Eyde
1866 – 1940
Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet
1803 – 1865
Wolfgang Doeblin
1915 – 1940
Zeev Sternhell
1935 – 2020
Adolf Ivar Arwidsson
1791 – 1858
Aleksandr Riabeka
1959 – 2026
Alvin D. Loving
1935 – 2005
Andreas Peter Bernstorff
1735 – 1797
Anna Schwartz
1915 – 2012
Anthony Hoskins
1828 – 1901
Anton Joseph Kerner von Marilaun
1831 – 1898
Arne Rostad
1894 – 1969
Boris L'vovitsch Astaurov
1904 – 1974
Carlo Bernardini
1930 – 2018
Carroll O'Connor
1924 – 2001
Charles Dillon Perrine
1867 – 1951
Charles Krauthammer
1950 – 2018
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
1674 – 1738
Chen Yuan
1880 – 1971
Clarence H. Miller
1930 – 2019
Claude Farrère
1876 – 1957
Curtis W. Tarr
1924 – 2013
César Guillaume de La Luzerne
1738 – 1821
Dimitris Christofias
1946 – 2019
Edgard Pisani
1918 – 2016
Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice
1846 – 1935
Edmund Weiss
1837 – 1917
Edward Abramowski
1868 – 1918
Edward Hallaran Bennett
1837 – 1907
Edward Twining, Baron Twining
1899 – 1967
Emmanuel Régis
1855 – 1918
Errol Harris
1908 – 2009
Ferdinand Rudio
1856 – 1929
Feridun Cemal Erkin
1899 – 1980
Frances Dove
1847 – 1942
Francisco Javier de Cienfuegos y Jovellanos
1766 – 1847
Franz von Liszt
1851 – 1919
Fredrik Elfving
1854 – 1942
Gavin de Beer
1899 – 1972
Giovanni Battista Caprara Montecuccoli
1733 – 1810
Grigory Barenblatt
1927 – 2018
Gunther Schuller
1925 – 2015
Guy Roberge
1915 – 1991
György Bálint
1919 – 2020
Helen Thom Edwards
1936 – 2016
Jaime Sin
1928 – 2005
Jan Jesenius
1566 – 1621
Jean Guéguinou
1941 – 2021
Jean-Marc Mousson
1776 – 1861
Johannes Steuchius
1676 – 1742
John Heslop
1925 – 2014
John McCallum
1950 – 2025
John Smith
1580 – 1631
K. Srinivasan
1887 – 1959
Kalle Jutila
1891 – 1966
Karekin I
1867 – 1952
Keith Locke
1944 – 2024
Kunio Hatoyama
1948 – 2016
Kurt Seibt
1908 – 2002
Laurence Street
1926 – 2018
Leland Stanford
1824 – 1893
Leonel Brizola
1922 – 2004
Lev Kassil
1905 – 1970
Li Xiannian
1909 – 1992
Ludvig Vibe
1803 – 1881
Luther Youngdahl
1896 – 1978
Maciej Rataj
1884 – 1940
Miguel Colmeiro
1816 – 1901
Mostafa Chamran
1932 – 1981
Mykhailo Hrechyna
1902 – 1979
Pascal Clément
1945 – 2020
Paul-Adrien Bourdaloue
1798 – 1868
Piet Dankert
1934 – 2003
Selima Ahmad
1960 – 2026
Sukarno
1901 – 1970
Tage Erlander
1901 – 1985
Tuure Junnila
1910 – 1999
Valentina Talyzina
1935 – 2025
Victor Vâlcovici
1885 – 1970
Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon
1884 – 1976
William P. Potter
1850 – 1917
Winnie Ewing
1929 – 2023
Yaacov Agam
1928 – 2026
Yozo Ishikawa
1925 – 2014
Zheng Yanfen
1902 – 1990
Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri
1895 – 1971
Abdelkader Mesli
1902 – 1961
Abid Hussain
1926 – 2012
Abram Chasins
1903 – 1987
Adalberto Almeida y Merino
1916 – 2008
Adam M. Byrd
1859 – 1912
Alexander Winton
1860 – 1932
Alexandre-Joseph de Boisgelin
1770 – 1831
Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor
1894 – 1921
Andrew Goodman
1943 – 1964
Andrew Onderdonk
1848 – 1905
Andrey Dashkov
1775 – 1831
Angus Wilton McLean
1870 – 1935
Anselmus Boetius de Boodt
1550 – 1632
Anthony J. Naldrett
1933 – 2020
António Teixeira Lopes
1866 – 1942
Armistead Abraham Lilly
1878 – 1956
Arthur Lyon Cross
1873 – 1940
Asankhan Dzhumakhmatov
1923 – 2008
Bahram Aryana
1906 – 1985
Barbara Goodman
1932 – 2013
Barbara Robb
1912 – 1976
Beachcroft Towse
1864 – 1948
Benjamin Boothby
1803 – 1868
Berthold Ullman
1882 – 1965
Bobby Dodd
1908 – 1988
Bruce Charles Heezen
1924 – 1977
Bruno Brandes
1910 – 1985
Carl Axel Magnus Lindman
1856 – 1928
Cecil Roth
1899 – 1970
Cedric Belfrage
1904 – 1990
Charles T. Boyd
1870 – 1916
Charles of Nassau-Usingen
1712 – 1775
Con Sciacca
1947 – 2017
Cotton Warburton
1911 – 1982
Dave Schreiner
1921 – 1945
David D. Demarest
1819 – 1898
David P. Richardson
1833 – 1904
Donald Wilson
1892 – 1978
Dragan Tomić
1935 – 2022
Edmond Toupet des Vignes
1816 – 1882
Edward C. Akin
1852 – 1936
Edward Grant
1926 – 2020
Edward III of England
1312 – 1377
Elias IV of Antioch
1914 – 1979
Elise Richter
1865 – 1943
Elizabeth Coffin
1850 – 1930
Emmett Marshall Owen
1877 – 1939
Enevold Thømt
1878 – 1958
Eric Stanley
1923 – 2018
Fidel Velázquez Sánchez
1900 – 1997
Frank Duckworth
1939 – 2024
Frank Eugene Hook
1893 – 1982
François E. Matthes
1874 – 1948
François Lesure
1923 – 2001
Friedrich Tietjen
1832 – 1895
Gaston Tarry
1843 – 1913
George Ivașcu
1911 – 1988
Gerhard Hund
1932 – 2024
Gianfranco Gardin
1944 – 2024
Halina Jaroszewiczowa
1892 – 1940
Harry Prosen
1930 – 2021
Harvey A. Carr
1873 – 1954
Heinz Lanfermann
1950 – 2024
Helge Miettunen
1916 – 1986
Heliodor Píka
1897 – 1949
Henk Hofland
1927 – 2016
Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland
1532 – 1585
Henryk Sztompka
1901 – 1964
Herbert Tuttle
1846 – 1894
Hoshi Tōru
1850 – 1901
Hélène Cadou
1922 – 2014
Inaki Dorronsoro Plazaola
1947 – 2026
James King
1848 – 1900
James Power Gordon
1928 – 2013
James Rado
1932 – 2022
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.
1877 – 1952
Jan Meyers
1928 – 2019
Jane Addams
1860 – 1935
Jared C. Monti
1975 – 2006
Joaquín Abarca
1778 – 1844
Johann Georg Keyßler
1693 – 1743
Johann Martin Miller
1750 – 1814
John Duncan
1919 – 1988
John Hosea Kerr
1873 – 1958
John Patrick Kenneth Leahy
1907 – 1963
John Penn
1760 – 1834
John Skelton
1460 – 1529
John Taliaferro Thompson
1860 – 1940
John Todd
1911 – 2007
Jorge García Montes
1896 – 1982
Josef Hora
1891 – 1945
Joseph A. Bevilacqua, Sr.
1918 – 1989
Joseph C. Strasser
1940 – 2019
… and 1,604 more