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October 21, 2003 Elliott Smith, singer/songwriter, Miss Misery, dies at 34 October 21, 2003 Fred Berry, comic, Whats Happening, dies at 52 October 21, 1997 Dolph Camilli, Brooklyn Dodger/MVP (1941), dies at 90 October 21, 1996 Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71 October 21, 1996 Eric Halsall, sheepdog trial commentator, dies at 76 October 21, 1996 George Houston, land economist, dies at 74 October 21, 1996 Georgios Zoitakis, leader of Greece (1967-72), dies October 21, 1996 Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49 October 21, 1996 Wang Li, politician, dies at 78 October 21, 1995 Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer, dies at 58 October 21, 1995 Maxene Andrews, vocalist (Andrews Sister), dies of heart attack at 79 October 21, 1995 Shannon Hoon, vocalist (Blind Melon), dies of drug overdose at 28 October 21, 1994 Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist, dies at 85 October 21, 1994 Jerome Bert Weisner, military Scientist/Disarmer, dies at 79 October 21, 1993 Assad Saftawi, Palestinian co-founder of al-Fatah, murdered at 58 October 21, 1993 Irving Torgoff, U.S. baseball player (Detroit Tigers), dies at 75 October 21, 1993 Melchior Ndadaye, banker/1st Hutu President of Burundi (1993), murder at 40 October 21, 1993 Sam Zolotow, U.S. theater critic (New York Times), dies at 94 October 21, 1993 Scott Heiser, U.S. photographer (Interview), dies at 44 October 21, 1992 Jackson Weaver, voice of Smokey the Bear, dies of diabetes October 21, 1992 Jim Garrison, Louisiana DA (investigate John F. Kennedy assassination), dies at 70 October 21, 1992 Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies at 94 October 21, 1987 Ying-Chin Ho, Taiwan government official, dies at 88 October 21, 1984 Dalibor Cyril Vackar, composer, dies at 78 October 21, 1984 Francois Truffaut, dir (Fahrenheit 451), dies of brain cancer at 52 October 21, 1984 Indira Gandhi, India PM, killed by her bodyguards October 21, 1983 Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop (Haarlem), dies October 21, 1978 Anastas I Mikojan, Russian politician, dies at 83 October 21, 1977 Ferit Tuzun, composer, dies at 48 October 21, 1977 Ronnie Van Zant, singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash October 21, 1977 Stevie Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash October 21, 1973 Arabi El Goni, VP/Chad parliament, murdered October 21, 1971 Etienne Gailly, Belgian marathoner (Oly-bronze-48), dies at 48 October 21, 1971 Raymond Hatton, actor (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 84 October 21, 1970 John T Scopes, U.S. teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70 October 21, 1969 Jack Kerouac, U.S. writer (Doctor Sax, On the Road), dies at 47 October 21, 1967 Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astrophysicist, dies at 94 October 21, 1966 Gertrude Hoffman, actress (Mrs Odetts-My Little Margie), dies at 95 October 21, 1965 Bill Black, rocker, dies at 39 October 21, 1965 Marie McDonald, singer and actress (Promises Promises), dies of OD at 42 October 21, 1963 George B Cressey, U.S. geographer (Crossroads), dies at 66 October 21, 1961 Nils J E Ferlin, Swedish songwriter (Goggles), dies October 21, 1943 Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II), dies October 21, 1937 Betty Carver, wife of Bernard Montgomery, buried October 21, 1931 A Schnitzler, writer, dies at 69 October 21, 1931 Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian Playwright October 21, 1924 Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 76 October 21, 1919 Sven August Korling, composer, dies at 77 October 21, 1916 Karl von Sturgkh, premier Austria, assassinated October 21, 1906 [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, actress (Small Lord), dies at 55 October 21, 1905 Jose Teodor Vilar, composer, dies at 69 October 21, 1897 Paul Kuczynski, composer, dies at 50 October 21, 1886 Jose Hernandez, Argentine poet (La vuelta the Martin Fierro), dies October 21, 1872 Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 78 October 21, 1863 Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch old-reformed vicar, dies at 55 October 21, 1861 Edward Dickinson Baker, U.S. attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50 October 21, 1861 John Breckinridge Grayson, Confederate brig-general, dies October 21, 1856 Henry FC Tollens, merchant/poet (Vienna Neˆrlands blood), dies at 76 October 21, 1831 Nat Turner, and 19 associates, hanged at 31 October 21, 1810 Franz Teyber, composer, dies at 52 October 21, 1805 Horatio Nelson, dies in Battle of Trafalgar October 21, 1805 Johann Baptist Lasser, composer, dies at 54 October 21, 1798 Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer, dies at 71 October 21, 1793 Johann Ernst Hartmann, composer, dies at 66 October 21, 1773 Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect, dies at 78 October 21, 1765 Giovanni Paolo Pannini/Panini, Italian painter/architect, dies at 73 October 21, 1708 Christian Weise, German writer (That Bose Catherine), dies October 21, 1687 Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), dies October 21, 1662 Henry Lawes, composer, dies at 66 October 21, 1650 Pedro de Espinosa, Spanish poet and writer, dies October 21, 1637 Laurens Reael, vice-governor of Ambon/poet/admiral, dies at 54 October 21, 1629 Tumengung Buraksa, Matarams/Javanese general, dies in battle October 21, 1627 Frederik de Houtman, navigator/governor of Ambon, dies at about 56 October 21, 1561 Johannes Vasaeus, Flemish humanist/historian, dies at about 49 October 21, 1558 Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician (Poetice), dies at 74 October 21, 1439 Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist/leader, dies at 53 October 21, 1422 Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422), dies at 54 |