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December 21 Deaths in History - December 21 Birthdays - December 21 Events
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December 21, 2001 Dick Schaap, sportscaster/writer, Flashing Before My Eyes, dies at 67 December 21, 2001 Foster Brooks, comic, ", ""professional lush"", ", dies at 89 December 21, 2000 Thomas Yohe, TV producer/innovator, Schoolhouse Rock, dies at 63 December 21, 1997 Bruce Woodcock, boxer, dies at 76 December 21, 1997 Michael Lyne, air-marshal, dies at 78 December 21, 1996 Margaret E Rey, author of children's books, dies at 90 December 21, 1996 Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts, dies at 96 December 21, 1995 Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law, dies at 72 December 21, 1995 Trenchard Cox, museum director, dies at 90 December 21, 1994 Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State, dies at 85 December 21, 1994 Shauna McDonald Brown, British TV producer, dies at 37 December 21, 1993 Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100 December 21, 1992 Albert King, U.S. blues singer/guitarist (Crosscut Saw), dies at 71 December 21, 1992 Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian/US violist (Beethoven, Bach), dies at 87 December 21, 1992 Stella Adler, U.S. actress (Love on Toast), dies at 90 December 21, 1992 Sybil Andrews, English/Canada painter, dies at 94 December 21, 1989 Elena Ceaucescu, wife of Romanian dictator Nicolae, executed December 21, 1989 Jan Cikker, composer, dies at 78 December 21, 1989 Nicolae Ceaucescu, Romanian dictator (1945-89), executed December 21, 1988 Bob Steele, [Robert Bradbury], dies after short illness at 60 December 21, 1988 Nicholas Tinbergen, Dutch/British biologist, dies at 81 December 21, 1987 Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies December 21, 1983 Rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at 73 December 21, 1980 Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90 December 21, 1975 William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61 December 21, 1974 Richard Long, actor (Nanny and Professor), dies at 47 December 21, 1972 Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70 December 21, 1967 Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55 December 21, 1967 Stuart Erwin, actor (Trouble With Father), dies of heart attack at 64 December 21, 1965 Claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74 December 21, 1958 H[arry] B[yron] Warner, actor (10 Commandments, New Moon), dies at 83 December 21, 1958 Lion Feuchtwanger, philosopher and writer (Der falsche Nero), dies at 74 December 21, 1957 Eric Coates, composer, dies at 71 December 21, 1956 Lewis M Terman, psychologist (Genetic studies of genius), dies at 79 December 21, 1955 Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65 December 21, 1948 Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/min of War, hanged December 21, 1945 George S Patton, U.S. General (Sicily/Normandy), dies in car crash at 60 December 21, 1945 George S. Patton, American Soldier December 21, 1942 Leendert Round, sculptor (Giraffen, Blijdorp), dies at 63 December 21, 1940 F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44 December 21, 1937 Frank Kellog, U.S. foreign minister (Nobel 1929), dies at 80 December 21, 1935 Kurt Tucholsky, Ger journalist and writer (Panter, Tiger and Co), dies at 45 December 21, 1933 Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54 December 21, 1931 John-French Cantre, Flemish wood carver/painter/cartoonist, dies at 45 December 21, 1928 Luigi Cadorna, Italian fieldmarshal (WW I, Caporetto), dies at 78 December 21, 1921 P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84 December 21, 1921 P. B. S. Pinchback, American Politician December 21, 1920 Claude Tozer, cricketer (dashing NSW batsman, shot to death December 21, 1907 Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58 December 21, 1906 Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 58 December 21, 1890 Niels Vilhelm Gade, Danish composer, dies at 73 December 21, 1889 Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham, dies at 61 December 21, 1864 William Henry Fry, composer, dies at 51 December 21, 1859 Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist, dies at 66 December 21, 1820 Charles-Franeois Dumonchau, composer, dies at 45 December 21, 1765 Joseph Thaddaus Stammel, Austrian sculptor, dies at 70 December 21, 1755 Caspar Ruetz, composer, dies at 47 December 21, 1736 Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini), dies at 45 December 21, 1734 Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 54 December 21, 1674 Rutger van Haersolte, viceroy of Overijsselse, dies at about 66 December 21, 1597 Petrus Canisius, Dutch jesuit/saint, dies at 76 December 21, 1579 Juan de Juanes, [Vicente J Maeip], Spanish relig painter, dies at 56 December 21, 1429 Jacquemart de Bleharies, Tournay "heretic", burned to death December 21, 1375 Boccaccio, writer, dies December 21, 1375 Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies December 21, 1308 Henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies December 21, 918 Conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies |