Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 21 December today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for December 21
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on December 21
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 0072 | Thomas the Apostle, Roman martyr and saint (b. 1 AD) |
| 882 | Hincmar, French archbishop and historian (b. 806) |
| 956 | Sun Sheng, Chinese chancellor |
| 1001 | Hugh of Tuscany, Italian margrave (b. 950) |
| 1308 | Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1244) |
| 1338 | Thomas Hemenhale, bishop of Worcester |
| 1362 | Constantine III, king of Armenia (b. 1313) |
| 1375 | Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author and poet (b. 1313) |
| 1504 | Berthold von Henneberg, German archbishop (b. 1442) |
| 1536 | John Seymour, English courtier (b. 1474) |
| 1549 | Marguerite de Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492) |
| 1581 | Jean de la Cassière, 51st Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1502) |
| 1597 | Peter Canisius, Dutch priest and saint (b. 1521) |
| 1608 | William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1541) |
| 1610 | Catherine Vasa, Swedish princess (b. 1539) |
| 1701 | Sir Hugh Paterson, Baronet of Bannockburn (b. 1659) |
| 1807 | John Newton, English soldier and minister (b. 1725) |
| 1824 | James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist (b. 1755) |
| 1869 | Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791) |
| 1873 | Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839) |
| 1889 | Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809) |
| 1920 | Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, leader of the Dervish movement (b. 1856) |
| 1929 | I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859) |
| 1933 | Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879) |
| 1935 | Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878) |
| 1937 | Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882) |
| 1940 | F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1896) |
| 1945 | George S. Patton, American general (b. 1885) |
| 1948 | Władysław Witwicki, Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist (b. 1878) |
| 1952 | Kenneth Edwards, American golfer (b. 1886) |
| 1953 | Kaarlo Koskelo, Finnish-American wrestler and businessman (b. 1888) |
| 1957 | Eric Coates, English viola player and composer (b. 1886) |
| 1958 | H.B. Warner, English actor (b. 1875) |
| 1959 | Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, engraver, and painter (b. 1883) |
| 1963 | Jack Hobbs, English cricketer and journalist (b. 1882) |
| 1964 | Carl Van Vechten, American author and photographer (b. 1880) |
| 1965 | Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer (b. 1891) |
| 1968 | Vittorio Pozzo, Italian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1886) |
| 1974 | Richard Long, American actor and director (b. 1927) |
| 1982 | Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jullundhri, Pakistani poet and composer (b. 1900) |
| 1983 | Paul de Man, Belgian-born philosopher, literary critic and theorist (b. 1919) |
| 1988 | Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) |
| 1992 | Stella Adler, American actress and educator (b. 1901) |
| 1998 | Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (b. 1904) |
| 2004 | Autar Singh Paintal, Indian physiologist and neurologist (b. 1925) |
| 2006 | Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940) |
| 2009 | Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) |
| 2010 | Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1927) |
| 2013 | Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929) |
| 2014 | Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1934) |
| 2017 | Bruce McCandless II, US astronaut who conducted the first untethered spacewalk (b. 1937) |
| 2019 | Andrew Clennel Palmer, British engineer (b. 1938) |
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