September 21
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Births
- 1452 - Girolamo Savonarola, Dominican priest and ruler of Florence (d. 1498)
- 1866 - H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
- 1934 - Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwrit
- 1957 - Ethan Coen, American film director
Deaths
- 19 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
- 1558 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
- 1576 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (b. 1501)
- 1586 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517)
- 1626 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543)
- 1719 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
- 1743 - Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688)
- 1748 - John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
- 1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)
- 1798 - George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)
- 1832 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
- 1860 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
- 1874 - Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist (b. 1794)
- 1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)
- 1904 - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)
- 1906 - Samuel Arnold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1838)
- 1926 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)
- 1938 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874)
- 1939 - Armand Călinescu Romanian prime-minister (assassinated) (b. 1893)
- 1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
- 1957 - King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)
- 1963 - Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)
- 1966 - Paul Reynaud, French politician (b. 1878)
- 1971 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- 1972 - Henry de Montherlant, French writer (b. 1896)
- 1974 - Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
- 1974 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (b. 1918)
- 1976 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean diplomat (b. 1932)
- 1982 - Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet general (b. 1897)
- 1985 - Gu Long, Taiwanese writer of wuxia novels (b. 1937)
- 1987 - Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (b. 1951)
- 1988 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914)
- 1995 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)
- 1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)
- 2000 - Bryan Smith, Man who ran over Stephen King (b. 1957)
- 2002 - Robert L. Forward, American physicist and writer (b. 1932)
- 2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939)
- 2004 - Bob Mason, British actor (b. 1952)
- 2006 - Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946)
Notes
* Arthur Schopenhauer * Stephen King * H. G. Wells * Anthony Comstock * Georges Bernier * Girolamo Savonarola * Princess Marie Bonaparte * Virgil * Leonard Cohen o Walter Scott o Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor o U-Roy
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