On This Day — October 21
3855 noted people were born and 1906 died on October 21 in our archive, including Andre Geim, Sergey Guriyev and Adolph Strecker.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 21
Andre Geim
b. 1958
Sergey Guriyev
b. 1971
Adolph Strecker
1822 – 1871
Albert Bourla
b. 1961
André Jagendorf
1926 – 2017
Benjamin Netanyahu
b. 1949
Betty Oyella Bigombe
b. 1952
Christopher A. Sims
1942 – 2026
Daniel Akerson
b. 1948
Enrica Malcovati
1894 – 1990
Enrico Betti
1823 – 1892
Frank Vandenbroucke
b. 1955
Georg von Siemens
1839 – 1901
Giovanni Battista Guccia
1855 – 1914
Holger Forchhammer
1866 – 1946
James E. Gunn
b. 1938
John George Findlay
1862 – 1929
John Stenhouse
1809 – 1880
Judy Sheindlin
b. 1942
Klaus Holetschek
b. 1964
Llewellyn Thomas
1903 – 1992
Ludimar Hermann
1838 – 1914
Marcell Jankovics
1941 – 2021
Mark S. Ghiorso
b. 1954
Mark Sedwill
b. 1964
Mary Blair
1911 – 1978
Milomir Kovac
1962 – 2022
Mukharbek Didigov
b. 1952
Natalya Komarova
b. 1955
Oswald Avery
1877 – 1955
Patricia Espinosa
b. 1958
Patrick S. Moore
b. 1956
Pete Worden
b. 1949
Raoul Kopelman
1933 – 2023
Richard Faull
b. 1945
Sorley MacLean
1911 – 1996
Tan Kah Kee
1874 – 1961
Thomas Cavalier-Smith
1942 – 2021
Vadim Gigin
b. 1977
Victor A. McKusick
1921 – 2008
Václav Voska
1918 – 1982
Waldir Pires
1926 – 2018
Wolfgang Ketterle
b. 1957
A. Arnim White
1889 – 1981
Agnes Mulder
b. 1973
Ahmed Tewfik
b. 1960
Alan Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway
1835 – 1901
Aleksandr Yakovenko
b. 1954
Aleksandr Yezhevsky
1915 – 2017
Alexander Macdonald
1918 – 2014
Allan Grice
b. 1942
Allen Henry Vigneron
b. 1948
Alphonse de Lamartine
1790 – 1869
Archibald Lamont
1907 – 1985
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston
1851 – 1926
Ariela Luna
b. 1958
Arun Sarin
b. 1954
Ashok Lavasa
b. 1957
Aukje de Vries
b. 1964
Borislav Novaković
b. 1964
Brian Tobin
b. 1954
Bruce Lipton
b. 1944
Carlo Emanuele Basile
1885 – 1972
Carlos Veiga
b. 1949
Caroline Hill
b. 1961
Cecil Thomas
b. 1952
Cesare Previti
b. 1934
Chang Kia-ngau
1889 – 1979
Christine Ondoa
b. 1968
Claudia Aravena Abughosh
b. 1968
Daniel Picouly
b. 1948
Dattatreyudu Nori
b. 1947
Dave Hodgson
b. 1959
David H. Armstrong
1812 – 1893
David Smétanine
b. 1974
Dexter S. Kimball
1865 – 1952
Dmitri Zelenin
1878 – 1954
Dmitry Gordon
b. 1967
Dominique Moïsi
b. 1946
Donald L. Ritter
b. 1940
Douglas G. Hurley
b. 1966
Edmondo de Amicis
1846 – 1908
Egon Wellesz
1885 – 1974
Elena Sanayeva
b. 1942
Ernest Dunlop Swinton
1868 – 1951
Evan Harris
b. 1965
Fadi Elhusseini
b. 1975
Farooq Abdullah
b. 1937
Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete
1856 – 1920
Frans Wolters
1943 – 2005
Fred Hersch
b. 1955
Geoffrey Nice
b. 1945
Georg Ernst Stahl
1659 – 1734
Georg Solti
1912 – 1997
George Troup
1863 – 1941
Gregor McLennan
1952 – 2026
Guy Fleetwood Wilson
1850 – 1940
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais
1823 – 1871
Herman Willem Daendels
1762 – 1818
Hitoshi Kihara
1893 – 1986
Hope Hicks
b. 1988
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
1921 – 2015
Ivan Silayev
1930 – 2023
Iván Thays
b. 1968
Jack G. Downing
1940 – 2021
James L. McConaughy
1887 – 1948
Jan Hendrik Bruinier
b. 1971
Javier Alfonso Cendón
b. 1983
Jay Norwood Darling
1876 – 1962
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
b. 1944
Jerrold D. Green
b. 1948
Jerry Lewis
1934 – 2021
Joachim Bauer
b. 1951
John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland
1696 – 1779
John Ohleyer Moseley
1893 – 1955
Joseph S. Clark Jr.
1901 – 1990
José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca
1728 – 1808
K. C. Wu
1903 – 1984
Kathy Webb
b. 1949
Kazimierz Świątek
1914 – 2011
Korina Sanchez
b. 1964
Kurt W. Rothschild
1914 – 2010
Lila Abu-Lughod
b. 1952
Lou Lamoriello
b. 1942
Louis Robichaud
1925 – 2005
Ludovic Ferrière
b. 1982
Lyn Allison
b. 1946
Madan Mohan Lakhera
1937 – 2026
Manuel Marín
1949 – 2017
Marcin Ociepa
b. 1984
Margaret Alison Telfer
1904 – 1974
Margaret G. Kivelson
b. 1928
Marie-Josée Fortin
b. 1958
Maryse Dubuc
b. 1977
Massimo d'Azeglio
1798 – 1866
Meg Bussert
b. 1949
Megan Smith
b. 1964
Messoud Efendiev
b. 1953
Michael J. Wade
b. 1949
Mike Keenan
b. 1949
Mikhail Astangov
1900 – 1965
Milner Tozaka
b. 1951
Mohammad Fazlhashemi
b. 1961
Molly Nesbit
b. 1952
Napoléon Henri Reber
1807 – 1880
Nicolás Repetto
1871 – 1965
Nikita Mikhalkov
b. 1945
Oliver Paasch
b. 1971
Otto von Camphausen
1812 – 1896
Paul A. Chadbourne
1823 – 1883
Petar Pešić
1871 – 1944
Peter Arnison
b. 1940
Peter Mandelson
b. 1953
Peter Paul Maria Alberdingk Thijm
1827 – 1904
Pierre Bellemare
1929 – 2018
Pierre Dux
1908 – 1990
Pilar Rahola
b. 1958
Przemysław Urbańczyk
b. 1951
Q. David Bowers
b. 1938
Richard Benyon, Baron Benyon
b. 1960
Rob Blokzijl
1943 – 2015
Robert Courts
b. 1978
Robert L. Coffey
1918 – 1949
Rolf Nordhagen
1894 – 1979
Roman Kostenko
b. 1983
Ron Meyer
b. 1981
Ronald McNair
1950 – 1986
Rudolph Rummel
1932 – 2014
Suzanne Jill Levine
b. 1946
Sylvanus James Magarey
1850 – 1901
Tadeusz Brzozowski
1749 – 1820
Tomojirō Ikenouchi
1906 – 1991
Toshiyuki Nagashima
b. 1956
Ursula K. Le Guin
1929 – 2018
Virginia Allan
1916 – 1999
Virko Baley
b. 1938
Vladimir Rvachev
1926 – 2005
Waris Dirie
b. 1965
Werner Körte
1853 – 1937
Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher
1817 – 1894
William Dodd
1869 – 1940
William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick
1773 – 1842
William Shippen
1736 – 1808
Wilopo
1909 – 1981
Xəlil Rza Ulutürk
1932 – 1994
Yakov Flier
1912 – 1977
Yu Kwang-chung
1928 – 2017
Zbigniew Turski
1908 – 1979
Zdzisław Jan Ryn
1938 – 2022
Aaron Tveit
b. 1983
Ada Fisher
1947 – 2022
Adrian Nepenin
1871 – 1917
Ai
1947 – 2010
Akira Senju
b. 1960
Alan Schaaf
b. 1987
Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough
1805 – 1860
Albert Lenoir
1801 – 1891
Alessandro Sforza, Lord of Pesaro
1409 – 1473
Alexander J. Dessler
1928 – 2023
Alexander J. Motyl
b. 1953
… and 3,655 more
Died on October 21
Ben Bradlee
1921 – 2014
Bernhard Neumann
1909 – 2002
Eduard Heine
1821 – 1881
Antonio Cassese
1937 – 2011
Bernardino Varisco
1850 – 1933
Bertrand Moingeon
1964 – 2020
Hans Asperger
1906 – 1980
Hermann Usener
1834 – 1905
James Wilfred Cook
1900 – 1975
Jerome Wiesner
1915 – 1994
Johan Kõpp
1874 – 1970
Johann Caspar Bluntschli
1808 – 1881
Pierre Mornand
1884 – 1972
Roger Bingham
1948 – 2023
Tomás Batuecas
1893 – 1972
Wacław Sierpiński
1882 – 1969
A. Arnim White
1889 – 1981
Ahmet Taner Kışlalı
1939 – 1999
Albert Lindhagen
1823 – 1887
Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley
1750 – 1830
Anastas Mikoyan
1895 – 1978
Andrzej Heidrich
1928 – 2019
Asahel C. Kendrick
1809 – 1895
Atko Viru
1932 – 2007
Bengt Feldreich
1925 – 2019
Bernard Jauréguiberry
1815 – 1887
Bill Hayden
1933 – 2023
Carl-Axel Torén
1887 – 1961
Charles Eliot Norton
1827 – 1908
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond
1791 – 1860
Christian Beyer
1482 – 1535
David Bates Douglass
1790 – 1849
Denise P. Barlow
1950 – 2017
Dirk Jan Struik
1894 – 2000
Earl Bakken
1924 – 2018
Edmund Waller
1606 – 1687
Edward Patrick Allen
1853 – 1926
Ejnar Hertzsprung
1873 – 1967
Felicija Bortkevičienė
1873 – 1945
Francisco Pinto Balsemão
1937 – 2025
Frank Lawrence Owsley
1890 – 1955
Frederick Sylvester North Douglas
1791 – 1819
Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk
1887 – 1974
Galiy Adilbekovich Adilbekov
1908 – 1943
George McGovern
1922 – 2012
Georgios Zoitakis
1910 – 1996
Giorgio Bernini
1928 – 2020
Giuliano Vassalli
1915 – 2009
Gough Whitlam
1916 – 2014
Gregory R. Choppin
1927 – 2015
Guido Beck
1903 – 1988
Harbhajan Singh
1920 – 2002
Helmut Moritz
1933 – 2022
Herman Lieberman
1870 – 1941
Ho Ying-chin
1890 – 1987
Hryhoriy Veryovka
1895 – 1964
Hualing Nieh Engle
1925 – 2024
Hussey Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian
1834 – 1893
Jacques Babinet
1794 – 1872
Joannes Malderus
1563 – 1633
Johan H. Andresen
1888 – 1953
Johann Wigand
1523 – 1587
John Ball
1818 – 1889
John Egerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater
1753 – 1823
John Lesinski, Jr.
1914 – 2005
Josef Kotin
1908 – 1979
José Rodrigo Rodrigo
1928 – 2016
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
1926 – 2018
Kabayama Aisuke
1865 – 1953
Karl Korsch
1886 – 1961
Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl
1874 – 1960
Kazimierz Tomczak
1883 – 1967
Kenji Kosaka
1946 – 2016
Knud Pontoppidan
1853 – 1916
Li Linsi
1896 – 1970
Lorenzo Sumulong
1905 – 1997
Luis A. Ferré
1904 – 2003
Major Owens
1936 – 2013
Marceli Porowski
1894 – 1963
May Blood, Baroness Blood
1938 – 2022
Melchior Ndadaye
1953 – 1993
Michihiko Kano
1942 – 2021
Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
1931 – 2014
Moritz Karl Ernst von Prittwitz
1795 – 1885
Natalie Zemon Davis
1928 – 2023
Nils Hertzberg
1759 – 1841
Norman Thomas Gilroy
1896 – 1977
Peter F. Secchia
1937 – 2020
Peter Schjeldahl
1942 – 2022
Robert Faurisson
1929 – 2018
Robert Gordon
1786 – 1853
Sho-Chieh Tsiang
1918 – 1993
Sidney Howe Short
1858 – 1902
Sigmund Riefler
1847 – 1912
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
1783 – 1862
Susumu Yamaguchi
1895 – 1976
Valentin Kargin
1907 – 1969
Valko Chervenkov
1900 – 1980
Volodymyr Zheliba
1934 – 2013
Zbigniew Pilarczyk
1950 – 2025
Zhou Ziqi
1869 – 1923
A. Jay Cristol
1929 – 2024
Aale Tynni
1913 – 1997
Abdul Zahir
1910 – 1982
Afrikan P. Bogaewsky
1872 – 1934
Alan Cobham
1894 – 1973
Albert R. Jonsen
1931 – 2020
Anders Rudolf du Rietz
1722 – 1792
Anis Mansour
1924 – 2011
Anna B. Lawther
1872 – 1957
Antoine Petit
1722 – 1794
Armistead C. Gordon
1855 – 1931
Arolde de Oliveira
1937 – 2020
Arthur Schnitzler
1862 – 1931
Beatrice Hicks
1919 – 1979
Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota
1919 – 2002
Benno C. Schmidt, Sr.
1913 – 1999
Bernard Haitink
1929 – 2021
Bhadase Sagan Maraj
1920 – 1971
Bill Black
1926 – 1965
Bobby Charlton
1937 – 2023
Camille Zaidan
1944 – 2019
Catherine Mary Wisnicki
1919 – 2014
Celestyn Burstin
1888 – 1938
Charles A. Shibell
1841 – 1908
Charles Draper
1869 – 1952
Charles VI of France
1368 – 1422
Charles van der Stappen
1843 – 1910
Cindy Montañez
1974 – 2023
Clark T. Hinman
1819 – 1854
Constantin von Economo
1876 – 1931
Count Karl von Stürgkh
1859 – 1916
D. R. Bendre
1896 – 1981
Dalibor Cyril Vačkář
1906 – 1984
Daniel R. Edwards
1897 – 1967
David Sutherland Nelson
1933 – 1998
Dee Hartford
1928 – 2018
Dionysis Savvopoulos
1944 – 2025
Dmitry Bagration
1863 – 1919
Dmitry Buturlin
1790 – 1849
Dominique Urbany
1903 – 1986
Donald Campbell
1866 – 1945
Dudley Pound
1877 – 1943
E. J. Paavola
1903 – 1983
Edmundo Ros
1910 – 2011
Edward Dickinson Baker
1811 – 1861
Edward Harrison DeArmond
1878 – 1948
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
1752 – 1834
Eigo Fukai
1871 – 1945
Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner
1874 – 1930
Elwell Stephen Otis
1838 – 1909
Emile Dechaineux
1902 – 1944
Emmett H. Poindexter
1892 – 1945
Ernst von Mengersdorf
1554 – 1591
Eugene Mayer
1892 – 1918
Francis Light
1740 – 1794
Frank S. Tavenner, Jr.
1895 – 1964
Frans Jozef van der Heijden
1938 – 2016
François Chamoux
1915 – 2007
François Truffaut
1932 – 1984
Fred S. Purnell
1882 – 1939
Frederick Guthrie
1833 – 1886
Friedrich Preller the Younger
1838 – 1901
Gabriel Sévèros
1541 – 1616
George FitzMaurice, 6th Earl of Orkney
1827 – 1889
George H. Gay Jr.
1917 – 1994
George Hastings
1825 – 1917
Gianni Ferrio
1924 – 2013
Giuseppe Girardini
1856 – 1923
Gregory Wannier
1911 – 1983
Guido Biscaretti di Ruffia
1867 – 1946
Hans Alfred Nieper
1928 – 1998
Harold I. Cammer
1909 – 1995
Harry H. Cooley
1893 – 1986
Heinrich Karl Fricke
1884 – 1945
Hilmi Uran
1886 – 1957
Homer I. Lewis
1919 – 2015
Hugh Franklin
1889 – 1962
Ida Alison Browne
1900 – 1976
Irv Torgoff
1917 – 1993
Ismail Saleh
1926 – 2008
Jakob Gronovius
1645 – 1716
James A. Walker
1832 – 1901
James G. Jones
1934 – 2020
James Henry Greathead
1844 – 1896
James L. Kauffman
1887 – 1963
James Woodford
1820 – 1885
Janet Erskine Stuart
1857 – 1914
Jaša Bakov
1906 – 1974
Jean Decoux
1884 – 1963
Jean Dondelinger
1931 – 2004
Jim Garrison
1921 – 1992
Joannes Josephus van Mulken
1796 – 1879
Johan Sebastian Welhaven
1807 – 1873
Johann Juncker
1679 – 1759
Johannes Bell
1868 – 1949
John Barnhill
1903 – 1973
John Forsyth
1780 – 1841
John Griffith
1848 – 1938
John H. Griffith
1905 – 2011
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