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August 21, 2005 Robert Moog, American Inventor August 21, 2003 Wesley Willis, American Musician August 21, 2000 Robert Northshield, TV news producer, Sunday Morning, dies at 78 August 21, 1997 Misael Pastrana Borrero, President of Colombia (1970-74), dies August 21, 1996 Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69 August 21, 1996 Sidney George Gray, company secretary, dies at 82 August 21, 1995 Anatole Fistoulari, conductor, dies at 88 August 21, 1995 Hilda Beatritz Guevara, daughter of Che Guevara, dies at 39 August 21, 1995 James Truitte, dancer, dies at 72 August 21, 1995 Len Martin, sports broadcaster, dies at 76 August 21, 1995 Manfred Donike, chemist Drug Test pioneer, dies at 61 August 21, 1995 Nanni Loy, film Director, dies at 69 August 21, 1995 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, physicist (Nobel-1983), dies at 84 August 21, 1994 Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL), dies of breast cancer at 35 August 21, 1994 Hein Fentener van Vlissingen, eccentric millionaire, dies at 73 August 21, 1992 Lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), dies after illness at 74 August 21, 1992 Theo van Tijn, Marxist/social-historian, dies at 65 August 21, 1991 Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 101 August 21, 1991 Richard Wilson, producer/writer/actor (Pay or Die), dies at 75 August 21, 1991 Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect, dies August 21, 1990 George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya August 21, 1988 Hans Gunther Adler, German writer, dies at 78 August 21, 1987 Karl Bruck, entertainer, dies August 21, 1983 Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed at 50 August 21, 1982 Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies August 21, 1981 Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer, dies at 85 August 21, 1978 Charles Eames, U.S. chair manufacturer, dies at 71 August 21, 1977 Octavus L "Octave" van Aerschot, actor (Scandal in Paris), dies at 87 August 21, 1974 Mascha Kaleko, writer, dies at 48 August 21, 1971 George Jackson, U.S. prisoner, shot to death at 29 August 21, 1970 Timothy Mather Spelman, composer, dies at 79 August 21, 1968 Vladimir Boudnik, Czech sculptor, commits suicide at about 45 August 21, 1964 Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/min of Just, dies August 21, 1958 Stevan Hristic, composer, dies at 73 August 21, 1958 Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show), dies at 44 August 21, 1952 Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies August 21, 1949 Gerhard von Keussler, composer, dies at 75 August 21, 1947 Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies August 21, 1943 Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86 August 21, 1943 William Lyon Phelps, American Educator August 21, 1942 Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies August 21, 1940 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62 August 21, 1940 Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist and composer, dies at 68 August 21, 1935 Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 August 21, 1932 Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80 August 21, 1905 Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 August 21, 1898 Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40 August 21, 1888 Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70 August 21, 1864 John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24 August 21, 1856 Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64 August 21, 1838 A vs. Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 August 21, 1838 Adelbert von Chamisso, German Poet August 21, 1824 John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 August 21, 1824 Santiago Ferrer, composer, dies at 62 August 21, 1812 Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67 August 21, 1798 Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62 August 21, 1798 James Wilson, American Politician August 21, 1785 Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies August 21, 1772 Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29 August 21, 1772 Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer, dies at 48 August 21, 1723 Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49 August 21, 1673 Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 August 21, 1673 John de Love I, vice-admiral, dies in sea battle at about 54 August 21, 1629 Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies August 21, 1627 Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69 August 21, 1516 John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78 August 21, 1245 Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies August 21, 1190 Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies August 21, 1131 Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies |