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April 21, 2004 Mary McGrory, writer, The Washington Post, dies at 85 April 21, 2003 Nina Simone, singer, I Put a Spell on You, dies at 70 April 21, 2001 "Jack Haley, Jr", documentary producer, That's Entertainment!, dies at 67 April 21, 2001 Mohammad Rabbani, Afghani Politician April 21, 2000 Al Purdy, Canadian Poet April 21, 1999 Buddy Rogers, actor, Wings, dies at 94 April 21, 1997 Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies April 21, 1997 Diosdado Macapagal, Philippine president (1961-65), dies April 21, 1996 Dzhojar Dudaev, president of Republic of Chechenia (1991), dies April 21, 1996 Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader, dies at 52 April 21, 1996 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies at 76 April 21, 1996 Robert Hersant, press baron, dies at 76 April 21, 1996 Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter, dies at 93 April 21, 1996 Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86 April 21, 1995 Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93 April 21, 1995 Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at 61 April 21, 1994 Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93 April 21, 1993 Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82 April 21, 1992 Robert Harris, murderer, executed in California's gas chamber at 39 April 21, 1992 Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74 April 21, 1992 Robert Alton Harris, American Criminal April 21, 1991 Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74 April 21, 1991 Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81 April 21, 1990 Erte, art deco stylist, dies at 97 April 21, 1990 Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies April 21, 1989 James Kirkwood, actor and writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64 April 21, 1987 Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77 April 21, 1985 Rudi Gernreich, U.S. designer (miniskirt), dies at 62 April 21, 1985 Tancredo Neves, president-elect of Brazil, dies at 75 April 21, 1985 Irving Mills, American Musician April 21, 1982 Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80 April 21, 1978 Sandy Denny, country singer, dies at 37 April 21, 1977 Gummo [Milton] Marx, U.S. comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84 April 21, 1975 Jack Allan Westrup, composer, dies at 70 April 21, 1973 Ursula Jeans, actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66 April 21, 1971 Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81 April 21, 1971 Francois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti, dies at 64 April 21, 1971 Francois Duvalier, Haitian Statesman April 21, 1968 Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69 April 21, 1968 Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt April 21, 1967 Andre L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77 April 21, 1965 Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72 April 21, 1965 Edward Appleton, English Scientist April 21, 1962 Frederick Handley Page, designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies April 21, 1961 James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57 April 21, 1956 Charles MacArthur, American Playwright April 21, 1952 Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61 April 21, 1952 [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62 April 21, 1948 Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer, dies at 66 April 21, 1946 John M. Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62 April 21, 1946 John Maynard Keynes, English Economist April 21, 1945 John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25 April 21, 1939 Herman Finck, composer, dies at 66 April 21, 1938 Muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65 April 21, 1938 Muhammed Iqbal, Indian Poet April 21, 1930 Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79 April 21, 1930 Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85 April 21, 1930 Robert Bridges, English Poet April 21, 1924 Eleanora Duse, Ital actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64 April 21, 1924 Marie Corelli, English Writer April 21, 1924 Eleonora Duse, Italian Actress April 21, 1918 "Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25 April 21, 1918 Manfred von Richthofen, German Aviator April 21, 1910 Mark Twain, [Samuel Clemens], auther (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74 April 21, 1900 Heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55 April 21, 1899 Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80 April 21, 1898 Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78 April 21, 1878 Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62 April 21, 1871 Elisabeth Grube, writer, dies April 21, 1780 Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 60 April 21, 1736 Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye, dies at 72 April 21, 1731 Daniel Defoe, English Journalist April 21, 1730 Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79 April 21, 1699 Jean Racine, French playwright (Phedre), dies at 59 April 21, 1696 Andres de Sola, composer, dies at 61 April 21, 1652 Pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66 April 21, 1574 Cosimo d' Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54 April 21, 1552 Peter Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German astronomer, dies at 50 April 21, 1509 Henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52 April 21, 1142 Pierre Abelard, French philosopher (Sic et Non, Heloise), dies at 62 April 21, 1109 Anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies April 21, 1073 Alexander II, [Anselmo da Baggio], Pope (1061-73), dies |