General Events and Observations of July 21

1403: Henry Percy, English soldier (killed in battle)
1425: Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1350)
1688: James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b. 1610)
1793: Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (b. 1739)
1796: Robert Burns, Scottish poet (b. 1759)
1798: François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (b. 1733)
1880: Hiram Walden, American politician (b. 1800)
1889: Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
1899: Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
1932: Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player
1938: Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
1941: Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
1943: Charlie Paddock, American athlete (b. 1900)
1944: Claus von Stauffenberg, German, leader of failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, by execution (b. 1907)
1944: Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff (b. 1880)
1946: Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
1967: Albert Lutuli, South African politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1967: Basil Rathbone, English actor (b. 1892)
1967: Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (b. 1907)
1968: Ruth St. Denis, dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
1970: Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
1970: Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
1972: Ralph Craig, American athlete (b. 1889)
1982: Dave Garroway, American television host (b. 1913)
1986: Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
1998: Alan Shepard, astronaut (b. 1923)
1998: Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
2001: Sivaji Ganesan, South Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927)
2001: Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
2003: John Davies, New Zealand Olympic Committee president (b. 1938)
2003: Walter M. Matt Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
2004: Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918)
2004: Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
2005: Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
2005: Lord Alfred Hayes, British Wrestling Announcer for WWE (b. 1928)
2006: Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
2006: Ta Mok, The Khmer Rouge Butcher, war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926)

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