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Deaths on April 21

1918 : "Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25
1952 : [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62
1996 : A H Kardar, cricketer (3 Tests for India & 23 for Pak 1946-58), dies
1073 : Alexander II, [Anselmo da Baggio], Pope (1061-73), dies
1967 : Andr‚ L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77
1696 : Andres de Sola, composer, dies at 61
1997 : Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies
1109 : Anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1948 : Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer, dies at 66
1930 : Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79
1994 : Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93
1574 : Cosimo d' Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54
1997 : Diosdado Macapagal, Philippine president (1961-65), dies
1996 : Dzhojar Dudaev, president of Republic of Chechenia (1991), dies
1996 : Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader, dies at 52
1987 : Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77
1971 : Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81
1965 : Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72
1924 : Eleanora Duse, Ital actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64
1871 : Elisabeth Grube, writer, dies
1990 : Ert‚, art deco stylist, dies at 97
1780 : Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 60
1971 : Fran‡ois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti, dies at 64
1736 : Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye, dies at 72
1962 : Frederick Handley Page, designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies
1977 : Gummo [Milton] Marx, US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84
1993 : Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82
1981 : Harry Lee, cricketer (scored 18 & 1 in only Test for England), dies
1899 : Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80
1900 : Heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55
1509 : Henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52
1939 : Herman Finck, composer, dies at 66
1975 : Jack Allan Westrup, composer, dies at 70
1989 : James Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64
1961 : James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57
1730 : Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79
1699 : Jean Racine, French playwright (PhŠdre), dies at 59
1996 : Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies at 76
1982 : Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80
1946 : John M Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62
1945 : John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25
1990 : Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies
1952 : Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61
1898 : Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78
1910 : Mark Twain, [Samuel Clemens], auther (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74
1938 : Muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65
1968 : Norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69
1552 : Peter Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German astronomer, dies at 50
1142 : Pierre Ab‚lard, French philosopher (Sic et Non, H‚lo‹se), dies at 62
1652 : Pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66
1991 : Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74
1995 : Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93
1946 : Robert Graham, cricketer (3 wkts for S Afr in 2 Tests 1898-99), dies
1992 : Robert Harris, murderer, executed in Calif's gas chamber at 39
1996 : Robert Hersant, press baron, dies at 76
1930 : Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85
1996 : Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter, dies at 93
1985 : Rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62
1978 : Sandy Denny, country singer, dies at 37
1995 : Stafford Heginbotham, toymaker/Football Club Chairman, dies at 61
1985 : Tancredo Neves, president-elect of Brazil, dies at 75
1878 : Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62
1968 : Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt
1973 : Ursula Jeans, actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66
1992 : Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74
1991 : Willi Boskovsky, Austrian conductor (new years concert), dies at 81
1996 : Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86

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