Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 21
Births[edit]
- 1597 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
- 1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
- 1891 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
- 1904 - William "Count" Basie, (pictured) American bandleader (d. 1984)
- 1906 - Friz Freleng, American movie animator (d. 1995)
- 1920 - Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996)
- 1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, ex-dictator of Argentina (d. 2013)
- 1938 - Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor (d. 2020)
- 1956 - Kim Cattrall, English-born actress
- 1963 - King Mohammed VI of Morocco
- 1984 - Alizée Jacotey, French singer
Deaths[edit]
- 1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
- 1762 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
- 1935 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
- 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
- 1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize (b. 1857)
- 1947 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
- 1981 - Michael Devine, the last man to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b. 1954)
- 1982 - Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
- 1983 - Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippine opposition leader (b. 1932)
- 1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)