On This Day — July 21
3863 noted people were born and 1914 died on July 21 in our archive, including Ivan Đaja, Antonia Handler Chayes and Béla Tarr.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on July 21
Ivan Đaja
1884 – 1957
Antonia Handler Chayes
b. 1929
Béla Tarr
1955 – 2026
Dannel Malloy
b. 1955
David M. Kennedy
1905 – 1996
Diogo de Freitas do Amaral
1941 – 2019
Domingo Cavallo
b. 1946
Douglas W. Owsley
b. 1951
Fernand Holweck
1890 – 1941
Guillermo Ortiz Martínez
b. 1948
Gustav von Schönberg
1839 – 1908
Hector Hetherington
1888 – 1965
Henri Victor Regnault
1810 – 1878
Jean Casimir Félix Guyon
1831 – 1920
Jean Daniel
1920 – 2020
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
b. 1947
Jim Clyburn
b. 1940
John Evans Atta Mills
1944 – 2012
John Negroponte
b. 1939
Josué Guébo
b. 1972
Julian Huppert
b. 1978
Jānis Peive
1906 – 1976
Malcolm McKenna
1930 – 2008
Maxim Oreshkin
b. 1982
Oleg Panteleyev
1952 – 2016
Paul Nicklen
b. 1968
Philippe Ariès
1914 – 1984
Robert Alexander Falla
1901 – 1979
Robert Andrew Burns
b. 1943
Rudolph A. Marcus
1923 – 2026
Sarah Gillett
b. 1956
Sergey Popov
b. 1949
Siddhartha Mukherjee
b. 1970
Stefan Löfven
b. 1957
Tatyana Lebedeva
b. 1976
Thomas Charles Hope
1766 – 1844
Witold Dzielski
b. 1977
Xavier Bosch i Sancho
b. 1967
Abdeljelil Temimi
b. 1938
Ahmad Zeidabadi
b. 1966
Albert Edelfelt
1854 – 1905
Alexandra van Huffelen
b. 1968
Anna Freixas Farré
b. 1946
Barbara J. Grosz
b. 1948
Betty Molesworth Allen
1913 – 2002
Boris Dittrich
b. 1955
Boudewijn Bouckaert
b. 1947
Boudewijn Revis
b. 1974
Buchi Emecheta
1944 – 2017
Christophe Collignon
b. 1969
Connie Schultz
b. 1957
Crit Luallen
b. 1952
Daniel Tarschys
b. 1943
David Eby
b. 1977
Dirom Grey Crawford
1857 – 1942
Donald A. Bailey
1945 – 2020
Edith Bernardin
1903 – 1994
Edolphus Towns
b. 1934
Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
1826 – 1893
Emilio Moran
b. 1946
Emma Hwang
b. 1970
Erich Saling
1925 – 2021
Erlan Abdyldayev
b. 1966
Francesc de Paula Burguera i Escrivà
1928 – 2015
Garry Trudeau
b. 1948
George Dewey Clyde
1898 – 1972
George Frederick Dick
1881 – 1967
George Gawler
1795 – 1869
Gordon Rausser
b. 1943
Graham Kendall
b. 1961
Helga Trüpel
b. 1958
Henry Granger Knight
1878 – 1942
Henry Rogers Seager
1870 – 1930
Henryk Milcarz
b. 1950
Herbert Slaught
1861 – 1937
Hirofumi Uzawa
1928 – 2014
Hugh P. Possingham
b. 1962
Ida Anak Agung Gde Agung
1921 – 1999
Ilya Baldynov
1903 – 1980
Irina Smirnova
b. 1960
Jacek Sauk
b. 1944
Jane C. Ginsburg
b. 1955
Janet Reno
1938 – 2016
Jens Beckert
b. 1967
Jessica King
b. 1975
Johann Karl Philipp von Cobenzl
1712 – 1770
John Barrasso
b. 1952
John Gardner
1933 – 1982
John H. Manley
1907 – 1990
John McAlpine
1906 – 1984
Jonathan Miller
1934 – 2019
Joost van Vollenhoven
1877 – 1918
Joseph Coutts
b. 1945
Joseph Harkness
1850 – 1930
Jude Patrick Dougherty
1930 – 2021
Julia Pierson
b. 1959
Jørgen Herman Vogt
1784 – 1862
Kay Brownbill
1914 – 2002
Kazimierz Moczarski
1907 – 1975
Ken Starr
1946 – 2022
Kita Reikichi
1885 – 1961
Lakshmi Puri
b. 1952
León Roldós Aguilera
b. 1942
Lisa Lodwick
1988 – 2022
Lovis Corinth
1858 – 1925
Luca Trevisan
1971 – 2024
Luis A. Eguiguren
1887 – 1967
Luis Alberto Riart
1880 – 1953
Marco Maciel
1940 – 2021
Marcus Optendrenk
b. 1969
Maria Tripodi
b. 1982
Marie-Claire Bancquart
1932 – 2019
Marshall McLuhan
1911 – 1980
Masahisa Fujita
b. 1943
Matthew Prior
1664 – 1721
Michael Connelly
b. 1956
Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin
1838 – 1903
Mikhail Zadornov
1948 – 2017
Milan Rastislav Štefánik
1880 – 1919
Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk
1915 – 2002
Morris Iemma
b. 1961
Nigel Priestley
1943 – 2014
Nikola Petkov
1893 – 1947
Norman Birnbaum
1926 – 2019
Oksen Lisovyi
b. 1972
Owen Lanyon
1842 – 1887
Patricia Flatley Brennan
b. 1953
Paul Hedqvist
1895 – 1977
Paul Vitanyi
b. 1944
Paul Wellstone
1944 – 2002
Phil Roe
b. 1945
Polly Matzinger
b. 1947
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
1825 – 1903
Rahimuddin Khan
1926 – 2022
Robert Munro
1835 – 1920
Robert Simpson Woodward
1849 – 1924
Ross Kemp
b. 1964
Sara Seager
b. 1971
Serhii Bychkov
b. 1961
Seymour Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst
1864 – 1943
Shabab Mustafa
b. 1986
Shaffaq Mohammed
b. 1972
Shlomo Havlin
b. 1942
Simion Bărnuţiu
1808 – 1864
Simon Reeve
b. 1972
Sixtus IV
1414 – 1484
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1693 – 1768
Ulrich Schrade
1943 – 2009
Umashankar Joshi
1911 – 1988
Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale
b. 1962
Victor Leemans
1901 – 1971
Vladimir Isakov
b. 1950
Vladimir Kasatonov
1910 – 1989
Vlado Dimovski
b. 1960
Véronique Tadjo
b. 1955
Víctor Mirecki Larramat
1847 – 1921
W. Brian Arthur
b. 1946
Walter Bowers Pillsbury
1872 – 1960
Wilhelm Harster
1904 – 1991
Willem Hoekzema
b. 1939
William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale
1787 – 1872
William Sharp Macleay
1792 – 1865
William Stokoe
1919 – 2000
Özge Samancı
b. 1975
A. D. Hope
1907 – 2000
Abrar-ul-Haq
b. 1968
Adam Papée
1895 – 1990
Aditya Shrivastava
b. 1968
Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah
b. 1952
Alan B. Gold
1917 – 2005
Alberto Montezuma Hurtado
1906 – 1987
Alex Dancyg
1948 – 2024
Alexander Halavais
b. 1971
Alexandre Baldy
b. 1980
Alexandre Herchcovitch
b. 1971
Alexis-François Artaud De Montor
1772 – 1849
Alfonso I d'Este
1476 – 1534
Alfred Brandon
1883 – 1974
Ali Mufiz
b. 1944
Alojz Rebula
1924 – 2018
Alysia Reiner
b. 1970
Amnon Wolf
b. 1971
Américo Amorim
1934 – 2017
Anat Schwartz
b. 1978
André Berthon
1882 – 1962
Andrés Palma
b. 1955
Angus MacNeil
b. 1970
Anne Simon
b. 1980
Anny Felbermayer
1924 – 2014
Anthony Annan
b. 1986
Arlette Chabot
b. 1951
Arthur F. Whittem
1879 – 1958
Arthur Walderne St. Clair Tisdall
1890 – 1915
Audrey Stevens Niyogi
1932 – 2010
August E. Johansen
1905 – 1995
Augustin Legrand
b. 1975
Aureliano Coutinho, Viscount of Sepetiba
1800 – 1855
Benjamin Woods Labaree
1927 – 2021
Betty Gilpin
b. 1986
Bhaskar Vira
b. 1967
… and 3,663 more
Died on July 21
Gustaf Retzius
1842 – 1919
Alan Shepard
1923 – 1998
Andrzej Łapicki
1924 – 2012
Aristid von Grosse
1905 – 1985
Boris Alexandrovich Bakhmeteff
1880 – 1951
Bruce Sundlun
1920 – 2011
Carl Troll
1899 – 1975
Carlo Bo
1911 – 2001
Catherine Chisholm
1878 – 1952
Christian August Brandis
1790 – 1867
E. Newton Harvey
1887 – 1959
Edward B. Lewis
1918 – 2004
Edwin Bailey Elliott
1851 – 1937
Emil Gabrielian
1931 – 2010
Francesco Paolo Cantelli
1875 – 1966
G. M. Trevelyan
1876 – 1962
Gaetano Martino
1900 – 1967
Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers
1821 – 1901
Jesús de Polanco
1929 – 2007
John Cotton Dana
1856 – 1929
Karl von Czyhlarz
1833 – 1914
Luzius Wildhaber
1937 – 2020
Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker
1811 – 1886
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
1790 – 1855
R. James Woolsey, Jr.
1941 – 2026
Rex Ingram
1892 – 1950
Rexford Tugwell
1891 – 1979
Roger Godement
1921 – 2016
Stanisław Stomma
1908 – 2005
Vladimir Iosifovich Petviashvili
1936 – 1993
William R. Dickinson
1931 – 2015
Yrjö Väisälä
1891 – 1971
Adam Stanisław Sapieha
1828 – 1903
Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
1898 – 1967
Alexander Hamilton Rice
1875 – 1956
Alvah Bessie
1904 – 1985
André Lussier
1933 – 2009
Anne Dufourmantelle
1964 – 2017
Arkhip Kuindzhi
1841 – 1910
Arsen Aydinian
1823 – 1902
Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham
1868 – 1947
Baron Henri Hottinguer
1868 – 1943
Bruce Bolt
1930 – 2005
Carl Hermann Credner
1841 – 1913
Carlos Benjamin de Lyra
1927 – 1974
Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury
1780 – 1845
Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt
1784 – 1861
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
1907 – 1944
Dave Garroway
1913 – 1982
DeWitt C. Smith, Jr.
1920 – 2005
Djemal Pasha
1872 – 1922
E. L. Doctorow
1931 – 2015
Eižens Laube
1880 – 1967
Ellis Robins, 1st Baron Robins
1884 – 1962
Elwy Yost
1925 – 2011
Eremia Grigorescu
1863 – 1919
Erkki Toivanen
1938 – 2011
Ernst Schäfer
1910 – 1992
Eugène Vinaver
1899 – 1979
Francisco Rodríguez Adrados
1922 – 2020
Fred Norris Robinson
1871 – 1966
Friedrich Wilhelm Schubert
1799 – 1868
Harald Hove
1949 – 2014
Henri Alexis Brialmont
1821 – 1903
James Adair
1743 – 1798
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde
1610 – 1688
John Baptist Miège
1815 – 1884
John Brian Christopherson
1868 – 1955
Joji Yuasa
1929 – 2024
Jon van Rood
1926 – 2017
Joseph Bradney
1859 – 1933
José Manuel Estepa Llaurens
1926 – 2019
Jun Etō
1932 – 1999
Karl von Piloty
1826 – 1886
Kazimierz Świątek
1914 – 2011
L. Dana Wilgress
1892 – 1969
Louis-Hubert Lyautey
1854 – 1934
Luc Hoffmann
1923 – 2016
Ludwig Renn
1889 – 1979
Lyudmila Zhivkova
1942 – 1981
Massimo Bontempelli
1878 – 1960
Maurice L'Abbé
1920 – 2006
Michael Baumgarten
1812 – 1889
Michael Somogyi
1883 – 1971
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov
1907 – 1970
Mikhail Volpin
1902 – 1988
Otto Kirchner
1846 – 1920
Pekka Myrberg
1892 – 1976
Philip Fox
1878 – 1944
Pieter Nanninck
1500 – 1557
Robert Clavering
1676 – 1747
Robert M. Morgenthau
1919 – 2019
Ryu Matsumoto
1951 – 2018
Sauveur François Morand
1697 – 1773
Sid Hurst
1918 – 2016
Slavomir Miklovš
1934 – 2011
Stepan Malkhasyants
1857 – 1947
Svetozar Rittig
1873 – 1961
Theodore Bikel
1924 – 2015
Thomas Dehler
1897 – 1967
Traian Bratu
1875 – 1940
Verena Meyer
1929 – 2018
Vladimír Čermák
1929 – 2004
William Zisman
1905 – 1986
Zhang Yuzhe
1902 – 1986
Zoran Radmilović
1933 – 1985
Édouard Risler
1873 – 1929
A. J. Mundella
1825 – 1897
Abid Sadykov
1913 – 1987
Abu Taher
1938 – 1976
Adam Laurence Adamson
1884 – 1984
Adolf Lichtenstein
1884 – 1950
Ahmad Matloub
1936 – 2018
Alan Bird
1906 – 1962
Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo
1934 – 2021
Aleksandr Nikitenko
1804 – 1877
Aleksandr Smirnov
1958 – 2021
Alene Duerk
1920 – 2018
Alfred Hayes
1928 – 2005
Alice Everett
1865 – 1949
Allan Wilson
1934 – 1991
Amand Goegg
1820 – 1897
Amnon Linn
1924 – 2016
Andrzej Grubba
1958 – 2005
András Littay
1884 – 1967
André Coyne
1891 – 1960
Angharad Rees
1944 – 2012
Ann Clwyd
1937 – 2023
Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux
1737 – 1793
Antonina Grégoire
1914 – 1952
Antonio de Mendoza
1494 – 1552
António de Araújo e Azevedo, 1st Count of Barca
1754 – 1817
Archibald Constable
1774 – 1827
Aslan bey Gardashov
1866 – 1920
Augustus Saunders
1801 – 1878
Bartholomäus Bernhardi of Feldkirchen
1487 – 1551
Bartolus de Saxoferrato
1313 – 1357
Basil Rathbone
1892 – 1967
Bert Fish
1875 – 1943
Bob Kalsu
1945 – 1970
Bohdan Lepky
1872 – 1941
Boris Giuliano
1930 – 1979
Bruce Anderson
1950 – 2025
Charles Duclerc
1812 – 1888
Charles H. Page
1843 – 1912
Charles L. Guy
1856 – 1930
Charles Manners-Sutton
1755 – 1828
Christopher Ewart-Biggs
1921 – 1976
Claude Bonin-Pissarro
1921 – 2021
Conrad von Reventlow
1644 – 1708
Conrado Ríos Gallardo
1896 – 1983
Daniel Sennert
1572 – 1637
Danilo Lokar
1892 – 1989
David A. Stafford
1893 – 1959
David James
1854 – 1926
David O'Keefe
1864 – 1943
David Ogilvy
1911 – 1999
Desmond O'Malley
1939 – 2021
Don Soderquist
1934 – 2016
Donald Cressey
1919 – 1987
Dudley Allen Sargent
1849 – 1924
Dungkar Lozang Trinlé
1927 – 1997
Edgar C. Otálvora
1959 – 2026
Edwin Hoernle
1883 – 1952
Edwin James George Pitman
1897 – 1993
El Kazovsky
1948 – 2008
Elene Dzamashvili
1942 – 2020
Elizabeth P. Farrington
1898 – 1984
Emma Wold
1873 – 1950
Ernst Majonica
1920 – 1997
Ferdinand Keller
1800 – 1881
Firmino Pires Ferreira
1848 – 1930
Francis Joseph Bayldon
1872 – 1948
Francis S. Bartow
1816 – 1861
Franco Faccio
1840 – 1891
Frank Henderson
1836 – 1889
František Brož
1896 – 1962
Frederic Ives Lord
1897 – 1967
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
1875 – 1930
Frederick Low
1828 – 1894
Frieda S. Miller
1890 – 1973
Friedrich Schlie
1839 – 1902
Gene Stipe
1926 – 2012
George Mikhailovich, Count Brasov
1910 – 1931
George Richard Pickett
1939 – 2024
George Woodward Greene
1831 – 1895
Georgy Aleksandrov
1908 – 1961
Giovanni Frattini
1852 – 1925
Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville
1872 – 1939
Grigory Klyachkin
1866 – 1946
Heinrich Dumoulin
1905 – 1995
Heinz Edelmann
1934 – 2009
Helen Chambers
1879 – 1935
Henri de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle
1871 – 1953
Henry Gardner
1819 – 1892
Henry J. Nowak
1935 – 2024
Henry Percy
1364 – 1403
Henry W. Griffith
1897 – 1956
Herbert Atkinson Barker
1869 – 1950
Hercule de Serre
1776 – 1824
… and 1,714 more