Anniversaries 21 October

Birth

George Colman the Younger11

English dramatist and writer 1762–1836

Samuel Taylor Coleridge220

English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

Alphonse de Lamartine19

French writer, poet, and politician 1790–1869

Samuel Francis Smith3

Protestant Christian Minister Patriotic hymn writer 1808–1895

Enoch Fitch Burr5

American astronomer 1818–1907

Alfred Nobel16

Swedish chemist, innovator, and armaments manufacturer 1833–1896

Will Carleton10

poet. 1845–1912

Dexter S. Kimball7

American engineer 1865–1952

Leo Burnett9

American advertising executive 1891–1971

Paul Brunton4

British philosopher 1898–1981

John Strachey2

British politician and writer (1901-1963) 1901–1963

Patrick Kavanagh10

poet 1904–1967

Sorley MacLean6

Scottish poet 1911–1996

Georg Solti5

Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor 1912–1997

Martin Gardner16

recreational mathematician and philosopher 1914–2010

Celia Cruz4

Cuban singer (1925-2003) 1925–2003

Yu Kwang-chung2

Taiwanese poet 1928–2017

Ursula K. Le Guin292

American writer 1929–2018

Rudolph Rummel57

American academic 1932–2014

Geoff Boycott9

cricket player of England 1940

Judith Sheindlin44

American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author 1942

Paul Churchland11

Canadian philosopher 1942

Tariq Ali10

British Pakistani writer, journalist, and historian 1943

Mandy Rice-Davies1

British actress 1944–2014

Bruce H. Lipton3

US biologist 1944

William Leonard Pickard3

American writer and researcher 1945

Benjamín Netanyahu41

Israeli prime minister 1949

Mai Chisamba5

1952

Peter Mandelson3

British Labour politician 1953

Rich Mullins30

American christian musician 1955–1997

Carrie Fisher49

American actress, screenwriter and novelist 1956–2016

Attila the Stockbroker11

punk poet, folk punk musician and songwriter 1957

Brigitte Gabriel1

American journalist 1964

Ted Budd2

American politician 1971

Hal Duncan1

Scottish writer 1971

Tamerlan Tsarnaev2

Chechen-American perpetrator of the 2013 Boston Marathon bo… 1986–2013

Natalie Wynn21

YouTube personality 1988

Miracle Davis3

American actress and writer 1991

Death

Pietro Aretino4

Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer 1492–1556

Edmund Waller25

English poet and politician 1606–1687

Samuel Foote4

British dramatist 1720–1777

Horatio Nelson38

Royal Navy Admiral 1758–1805

Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné1

Swiss historian 1794–1872

Jacques Babinet1

French physicist, mathematician and astronomer 1794–1872

Charles Eliot Norton1

American art historian 1827–1908

Robert Barr (writer)3

Scottish-Canadian novelist 1849–1912

Arthur Schnitzler2

Austrian writer 1862–1931

Isabelle Eberhardt3

Swiss explorer and author 1877–1904

Anastas Mikoyan14

Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman 1895–1978

Guido Beck1

German physicist 1903–1988

Luis A. Ferré10

American politician 1904–2003

Gough Whitlam10

Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia 1916–2014

Jim Garrison8

American judge 1921–1992

Jack Kerouac266

American writer 1922–1969

Sheldon S. Wolin3

American political philosopher 1922–2015

George S. McGovern5

American politician, Congressman, senator, Democratic presi… 1922–2012

Linda Goodman1

American astrologer 1925–1995

Robert Faurisson1

French Holocaust specialist 1929–2018

Ted Sizer2

American education reformer 1932–2009

Francois Truffaut6

film director 1932–1984

Shannon Hoon1

singer-songwriter 1967–1995

Elliott Smith51

American singer-songwriter 1969–2003

Halyna Hutchins4

Ukrainian-American cinematographer and investigative journa… 1979–2021