On This Day — September 21
4329 noted people were born and 1793 died on September 21 in our archive, including Charles Nicolle, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and Joanne Berger-Sweeney.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on September 21
Charles Nicolle
1866 – 1936
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1853 – 1926
Joanne Berger-Sweeney
b. 1958
Louis Paul Cailletet
1832 – 1913
Norio Kaifu
1943 – 2019
Boris Mironov
b. 1942
Boris Nevzorov
b. 1955
Charles Clarke
b. 1950
Charlotte Froese Fischer
1929 – 2024
David John Wales
b. 1963
David Moore Robinson
1880 – 1958
Dean Baquet
b. 1956
Dmitry Manuilsky
1883 – 1959
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
1902 – 1973
Eduard Norden
1868 – 1941
Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta
1875 – 1950
Emyr Jones Parry
b. 1947
Françoise Giroud
1916 – 2003
George Hamilton Seymour
1797 – 1880
Iachim Grosul
1912 – 1976
Jean-Jacques de Peretti
b. 1946
Joachim Herrmann
b. 1956
Johan Mauritz Nordenstam
1802 – 1882
John Wordsworth
1843 – 1911
Joseph Leonard Walsh
1895 – 1973
Juan de la Cierva
1895 – 1936
Leonid Nevzlin
b. 1959
Louis-Charles Malassez
1842 – 1909
Mart Siimann
b. 1946
Masoumeh Ebtekar
b. 1960
Mikalay Barysyevich
1923 – 2015
Naira Hovakimyan
b. 1966
Okano Keijirō
1865 – 1925
Olof Swartz
1760 – 1818
Owen Harding Wangensteen
1898 – 1981
R. James Woolsey, Jr.
1941 – 2026
Reinhard Marx
b. 1953
Rinat Akhmetov
b. 1966
Samantha Power
b. 1970
Shinzō Abe
1954 – 2022
Tomás Moulian
b. 1939
Vitaly Ginzburg
1916 – 2009
Yakov Sinai
b. 1935
Aarne Üksküla
1937 – 2017
Adrien Prévost de Longpérier
1816 – 1882
Agnivesh
1939 – 2020
Agustín Santos Maraver
b. 1955
Aleksandr Anoprienko
b. 1957
Alka Lamba
b. 1975
Allen Lane
1902 – 1970
Andrew E. Dessler
b. 1964
Andrey Kostin
b. 1956
Antanas Valionis
b. 1950
Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy
1758 – 1838
Anton Soedjarwo
1930 – 1988
António de Sousa Franco
1942 – 2004
Aslan Maskhadov
1951 – 2005
Bojan Mohar
b. 1956
Brian Kolfage
b. 1982
Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter
1725 – 1793
Carlo Costamagna
1881 – 1965
Carmen Jiménez
1920 – 2016
Cass Sunstein
b. 1954
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe
1867 – 1958
Charles Bean Euan-Smith
1842 – 1910
Charles Lamoureux
1834 – 1899
Christopher Gore
1758 – 1827
Chuck Jones
1912 – 2002
Clifford Alexander, Jr.
1933 – 2022
Constantin Cheianu
b. 1959
Daniela Kolářová
b. 1946
David Hulme
b. 1952
David J. Thouless
1934 – 2019
David K. Wyatt
1937 – 2006
David Mazzucchelli
b. 1960
Devon Mathis
b. 1982
Dieter Lüst
b. 1956
Dominique Rey
b. 1952
Don Dunstan
1926 – 1999
Donald A. B. Lindberg
1933 – 2019
Donald Arthur Glaser
1926 – 2013
Edgars Rinkēvičs
b. 1973
Edward J. Larson
b. 1953
Edward Larkin
1880 – 1915
Ellen Victoria Futter
b. 1949
Ethel Percy Andrus
1884 – 1967
Fannie Flagg
b. 1944
Fereydoon Hoveyda
1924 – 2006
Francis Hopkinson
1737 – 1791
Franciszek Mączyński
1874 – 1947
François Goulard
b. 1953
Frederick Coutts
1899 – 1986
Frédéric Beigbeder
b. 1965
George Charles Hawker
1818 – 1895
George Husband Baird MacLeod
1828 – 1892
George Simion
b. 1986
Georgi Kulishev
1885 – 1974
Gita Wirjawan
b. 1965
Gustave Moynier
1826 – 1910
György Sándor
1912 – 2005
H. G. Wells
1866 – 1946
Hachirō Arita
1884 – 1965
Hari Singh I of Kashmir
1895 – 1961
Haruko Arimura
b. 1970
Helen Foster Snow
1907 – 1997
Helen Haines
b. 1961
Henry D. Cooke
1879 – 1958
Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński
1869 – 1928
Herbert Wagner
b. 1948
Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg
1779 – 1840
Hernán Larraín
b. 1947
Hishida Shunsō
1874 – 1911
Inna Sovsun
b. 1984
Iryna Venediktova
b. 1978
Jacques Helbronner
1873 – 1943
James Ashmore Creelman
1894 – 1941
James E. Talmage
1862 – 1933
Jan Olbrycht
b. 1952
Jan Woleński
b. 1940
Jay Triano
b. 1958
Jean Lannes
b. 1947
Jean-Marie Tarascon
b. 1953
Jens Kehlet Nørskov
b. 1952
Jerome L. Johnson
b. 1935
Jimmy Armfield
1935 – 2018
John Allan Broun
1817 – 1879
John Demers
b. 1971
John Edwin Pomfret
1898 – 1981
John Gofman
1918 – 2007
Jolanta Fedak
1960 – 2020
Joseph Backstein
1945 – 2024
Juan Cruz Alli
b. 1942
Juan José Arreola
1918 – 2001
Julián Besteiro
1870 – 1940
Jörg-Uwe Hahn
b. 1956
K. Ananda Rau
1893 – 1966
Karl Joseph Eberth
1835 – 1926
Kathryn Hess
b. 1967
Kerttu Saalasti
1907 – 1995
Kevin Buzzard
b. 1968
Kevin Rudd
b. 1957
Khalaf Khalafov
b. 1959
Kim Shin
1922 – 2016
Kwame Nkrumah
1909 – 1972
Larry Heck
b. 1963
Learie Constantine
1901 – 1971
Lee Alvin DuBridge
1901 – 1994
Lee Hui-ho
1922 – 2019
Leo Loeb
1869 – 1959
Loïk Le Floch-Prigent
1943 – 2025
Luba Skořepová
1923 – 2016
Luis Cernuda
1902 – 1963
Lykourgos Angelopoulos
1941 – 2014
Maksymilian Rylo
1715 – 1793
Manuel Trajtenberg
b. 1950
Marina Orgeeva
b. 1959
Mario Bunge
1919 – 2020
Marion Koopmans
b. 1956
Mark Levin
b. 1957
Marsha Norman
b. 1947
Martin L. Pipes
1850 – 1932
Martin Shakkum
b. 1951
Maryna Tkachuk
b. 1964
María Teresa Dova
b. 1959
Michael Dombeck
b. 1948
Michael Knight
b. 1952
Mikhail Kovalchuk
b. 1946
Moritz Leuenberger
b. 1946
Muhammad Bijawi
b. 1929
Nicolas Saudray
b. 1942
O. Meredith Wilson
1909 – 1998
Oleksiy Lyubchenko
b. 1971
Oluremi Tinubu
b. 1960
Pablo da Silveira
b. 1962
Pat Lipsky
b. 1941
Patti Clare
b. 1958
Paul Tseng
b. 1959
Paul de Jersey
b. 1948
Pavel Mironov
1900 – 1969
Pekka Aikio
b. 1944
Peter Gärdenfors
b. 1949
Peter J. Bickel
b. 1940
Philip Chetwode
1869 – 1950
Philip D. Zelikow
b. 1954
Philip M. Breedlove
b. 1955
Ricki Lake
b. 1968
Robert White
1926 – 2015
Ron Rash
b. 1953
Ruediger Lentz
b. 1947
Sammy Mahdi
b. 1988
Santos Abril y Castelló
b. 1935
Sasson Somekh
1933 – 2019
Sergei Tsivilyov
b. 1961
Sergio Zavoli
1923 – 2020
Shang Zhen
1888 – 1978
Shimamura Hayao
1858 – 1923
Shun Otokita
b. 1983
Siarhiej Chamienka
b. 1966
Stephen King
b. 1947
Steve Beshear
b. 1944
… and 4,129 more
Died on September 21
Edward Arthur Milne
1896 – 1950
Maurice Nivat
1937 – 2017
Abraham Flexner
1866 – 1959
Antoine Meillet
1866 – 1936
Arthur Ashkin
1922 – 2020
Bernardo Houssay
1887 – 1971
Charles Rees
1927 – 2006
Edward Brooke Lee
1892 – 1984
Erika Cremer
1900 – 1996
Ernest Fenollosa
1853 – 1908
Franz Xaver von Linsenmann
1835 – 1898
Frederick Thomas Trouton
1863 – 1922
Henri Capitant
1865 – 1937
Ivan Ivanovich Artobolevski
1905 – 1977
Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonée Elie de Beaumont
1798 – 1874
Jerrold E. Marsden
1942 – 2010
Joseph Smagorinsky
1924 – 2005
Leonidas Donskis
1962 – 2016
Léon Charles Thévenin
1857 – 1926
Park Yeong-hyo
1861 – 1939
Quintard Taylor
1948 – 2025
Shabtai Rosenne
1917 – 2010
Alexander Gorban
1952 – 2025
Ambrosio de Morales
1513 – 1591
Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle
1517 – 1586
Anton Willem Nieuwenhuis
1864 – 1953
Ashoke Kumar Sen
1913 – 1996
Benedetto Accolti the Younger
1497 – 1549
Bernard L. Austin
1902 – 1979
Camille Polonceau
1813 – 1859
Carlos Ramos Núñez
1960 – 2021
Conrad Bursian
1830 – 1883
Daniel J. Murphy
1922 – 2001
Diana Sands
1934 – 1973
Doris Debenjak
1936 – 2013
Earl Schuyler Kleinhans
1905 – 1996
Eduard Daniël van Oort
1876 – 1933
Elizabeth Blegen
1888 – 1966
Ernest Cassel
1852 – 1921
Evgeniy Shapiro
1934 – 2024
Francisco García Calderón
1834 – 1905
Frank Pratt
1942 – 2021
Geoffroy Velten
1831 – 1915
Georg von Cancrin
1774 – 1845
Gerolamo Cardano
1501 – 1576
Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică
1866 – 1934
Gilbert Meyer
1941 – 2020
Giuseppe Drago
1955 – 2016
Grzegorz Królikiewicz
1939 – 2017
Haakon VII of Norway
1872 – 1957
Harold Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye
1897 – 1988
Henri Nouwen
1932 – 1996
Henry Pybus Bell-Irving
1913 – 2002
Henry de Montherlant
1895 – 1972
Hubert Rohault de Fleury
1779 – 1866
Ivan Bagramyan
1897 – 1982
Ivan Mazepa
1639 – 1709
James Curtis Hepburn
1815 – 1911
Jean-Vincent Scheil
1858 – 1940
Jeremiah Smith
1759 – 1842
John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland
1915 – 2000
Joseph Hirsch
1910 – 1981
Julius Bredt
1855 – 1937
Katherine Hoover
1937 – 2018
Kingsley Wood
1881 – 1943
Kofi Awoonor
1935 – 2013
Mary Wright Plummer
1856 – 1916
Michel Brault
1928 – 2013
Mikhasʹ Lynʹkoŭ
1899 – 1975
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi
1935 – 2021
Necmettin Sadak
1890 – 1953
Nikolai Karotamm
1901 – 1969
Orlando Letelier
1932 – 1976
Paul Reynaud
1878 – 1966
Petar Stambolić
1912 – 2007
Richard Schorr
1867 – 1951
Robert Kean
1893 – 1980
Robert Lochner
1918 – 2003
Roland Bulirsch
1932 – 2022
Roman Vlad
1919 – 2013
Seymour Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst
1864 – 1943
Shuping Wang
1959 – 2019
Sigmund Jähn
1937 – 2019
Tamara Alyoshina
1919 – 1999
Tomasz Wołek
1947 – 2022
Tony Aubin
1907 – 1981
Trần Đại Quang
1956 – 2018
Viktor Rydberg
1828 – 1895
Vitalii Masol
1928 – 2018
Walter Scott
1771 – 1832
Walter Wallmann
1932 – 2013
Władysław Jabłoński
1872 – 1952
Xavier Pérouse de Montclos
1924 – 2018
Xu Xiangqian
1901 – 1990
Yehuda Elkana
1934 – 2012
Aharon Abuhatzira
1938 – 2021
Ahmed ‘Urabi
1841 – 1911
Ahmet Rasim
1864 – 1932
Aimo Aaltonen
1906 – 1987
Alan Charlesworth
1903 – 1978
Alan Christopher Deere
1917 – 1995
Aldo Neri
1930 – 2023
Alexander Koshetz
1875 – 1944
Alfred Mann
1917 – 2006
Alice Ghostley
1923 – 2007
Alois, Prince of Schönburg-Hartenstein
1858 – 1944
Alphonse Barthèlè Boistel
1836 – 1908
Andreas Nilsen Rygg
1868 – 1951
Andrew Brewin
1907 – 1983
Andrew Ruotolo
1952 – 1995
Anthony Comstock
1844 – 1915
Anton Neuwirth
1921 – 2004
Antoni Przybylski
1913 – 1984
Antonio Rodríguez Balinas
1928 – 2011
Antonio de Alcedo
1736 – 1812
Archibald Williams
1801 – 1863
Archie Taiaroa
1937 – 2010
Arlen Erdahl
1931 – 2023
Armand Călinescu
1893 – 1939
Armen Movsisyan
1962 – 2015
Arnold Burrowes Kemball
1820 – 1908
Arthur B. Krim
1910 – 1994
Arthur Schopenhauer
1788 – 1860
Arto Tiainen
1930 – 1998
Auguste Nélaton
1807 – 1873
Austin Flint II
1836 – 1915
Azalia Emma Peet
1887 – 1973
Barefoot Sanders
1925 – 2008
Barzilla W. Clark
1880 – 1943
Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu
1911 – 1975
Benedikt Livshits
1886 – 1938
Benjamin Cronyn
1802 – 1871
Benjamin Graham
1894 – 1976
Benjamin Hardin Helm
1831 – 1863
Benny Golson
1929 – 2024
Bernhard Harms
1876 – 1939
Bill King
1910 – 2012
Bob Nevin
1938 – 2020
Boris Teterev
1953 – 2019
C. W. Bishop
1890 – 1971
Caldwell Jones
1950 – 2014
Carl Wedl
1815 – 1891
Charles Bémont
1848 – 1939
Charles Calvin Rogers
1929 – 1990
Charles Cary Rumsey
1879 – 1922
Charles Justin Bailey
1859 – 1946
Charles V
1500 – 1558
Charles Wesley Vursell
1881 – 1974
Charles William Gray Taylor
1879 – 1950
Charles-Auguste Bertrand
1890 – 1977
Christopher Columbus Andrews
1829 – 1922
David S. Dennison, Jr.
1918 – 2001
Dean Caswell
1922 – 2022
Delio Tessa
1886 – 1939
Deng Zhongxia
1894 – 1933
Edouard Suenson
1842 – 1921
Edward Allington
1951 – 2017
Edward Keliʻiahonui
1869 – 1887
Edward Kravitz
1932 – 2025
Egidius Benedictus Watermeyer
1824 – 1867
Emma Fursch-Madi
1847 – 1894
Emma Montgomery McRae
1848 – 1919
Esfir Shub
1894 – 1959
Eugen Dühring
1833 – 1921
Fidel Pagés
1886 – 1923
Florence Griffith Joyner
1959 – 1998
Francis Aylmer Maxwell
1871 – 1917
Frank A. Dudley
1864 – 1945
Frank Rhodes
1851 – 1905
François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières
1543 – 1626
Fredrik Adelborg
1886 – 1948
Friedrich Vollmer
1867 – 1923
Garrett H. Byrne
1897 – 1989
George Denman
1819 – 1896
George Redmayne Murray
1865 – 1939
Georgia Ann Robinson
1879 – 1961
Gerhard Neukum
1944 – 2014
Gheorghe Kernbach
1863 – 1909
Giuseppe Caldarola
1946 – 2020
Giuseppe Guarino
1827 – 1897
Glenn Robert Davis
1914 – 1988
Greg Lee
1951 – 2022
Guglielmo Nasi
1879 – 1971
Gustave E. Steinback
1878 – 1959
Harry Carey
1878 – 1947
Helen Virginia Stelle
1884 – 1947
Henry E. Warren
1872 – 1957
Herman Foss
1790 – 1853
Ioannis Sykutres
1901 – 1937
Ivan Matveyevich Tolstoy
1806 – 1867
Jaco Pastorius
1951 – 1987
Jacques Flynn
1915 – 2000
Jacques-Louis Monod
1927 – 2020
James Deering
1859 – 1925
James E. Ferguson
1871 – 1944
James Henry Lane
1833 – 1907
Jedh Colby Barker
1945 – 1967
Jerome Gratian
1545 – 1614
Johan Hampus Furuhjelm
1821 – 1909
Johannes Hinderbach
1418 – 1486
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