21December Deaths

December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 10 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).
72 – Thomas the Apostle, Roman martyr and saint (b. 1 AD)
882 – Hincmar, French archbishop and historian (b. 806)
1001 – Hugh of Tuscany, margrave of Tuscany (b. 950)
1308 – Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1244)
1375 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author and poet (b. 1313)
1504 – Berthold von Henneberg, German archbishop (b. 1442)
1549 – Marguerite de Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)
1597 – Peter Canisius, Dutch priest and saint (b. 1521)
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, Somalian general, founded the Dervish state (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)
1935 – Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
1937 – Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
1937 – Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer and politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1940 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1896)
1945 – George S. Patton, American general (b. 1885)
1952 – Kenneth Edwards, American golfer (b. 1886)
1953 – Kaarlo Koskelo, Finnish-American wrestler and businessman (b. 1888)
1957 – Eric Coates, English-American viola player and composer (b. 1886)
1958 – Lion Feuchtwanger, German-American author and playwright (b. 1884)
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)
1987 – John Spence, American singer (b. 1969)
1988 – Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
1990 – Clarence Johnson, American engineer, designed the Lockheed U-2 and Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (b. 1910)
1992 – Stella Adler, American actress and educator (b. 1901)
1992 – Albert King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1924)
1992 – Nathan Milstein, Russian-American violinist and composer (b. 1903)
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)
2009 – Christos Lambrakis, Greek journalist and businessman (b. 1934)
2010 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
2013 – Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929)
2013 – John Eisenhower, American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (b. 1922)
2013 – Richard Hart, Jamaican-English historian, lawyer, and politician (b. 1917)
2014 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1934)
2014 – Sitor Situmorang, Indonesian poet and author (b. 1923)
2014 – Billie Whitelaw, English actress (b. 1932)

Source: Wikipedia