Anniversaries 21 August
Birth
![`Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni photo]()
Indian historian
1540–1615
![William IV of the United Kingdom photo]()
King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and…
1765–1837
![Thomas Garrett photo]()
American abolitionist
1789–1871
![Augustin Louis Cauchy photo]()
French mathematician (1789–1857)
1789–1857
![Jules Michelet photo]()
French historian
1798–1874
![Richard Salter Storrs photo]()
American Congregational clergyman
1821–1900
![Aubrey Beardsley photo]()
English illustrator and author
1872–1898
![Sergei Biriuzov photo]()
Soviet military commander
1904–1964
![Count Basie photo]()
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer
1904–1984
![Ismat Chughtai photo]()
an Indian Urdu language writer
1911–1991
![Leonid Hurwicz photo]()
Russian-American economist and mathematician
1917–2008
![Vincent Scully photo]()
American architectural historian
1920–2017
![Albert Rees photo]()
American economist
1921–1992
![Jack Buck photo]()
American sportscaster
1924–2002
![Thomas S. Monson photo]()
president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
1927–2018
![Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon photo]()
younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The …
1930–2002
![Wilt Chamberlain photo]()
basketball player
1936–1999
![Jackie DeShannon photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1941
![Jonathan Schell photo]()
American author
1943–2014
![Peter Weir photo]()
Australian film director
1944
![Liam Cary photo]()
Fifth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baker
1947
![Sharon M. Draper photo]()
American children's writer
1948
![Joe Strummer photo]()
British musician, singer, actor and songwriter
1952–2002
![Arthur Yorinks photo]()
American writer and director
1953
![John Howe (illustrator) photo]()
Canadian illustrator
1957
![Stephen Hillenburg photo]()
American marine biologist, cartoonist, animator, storyboard…
1961–2018
![Charb photo]()
French caricaturist and journalist
1967–2015
![Vox Day photo]()
writer, actor, video game designer, blogger, far-right acti…
1968
![Silouan Oner photo]()
Antiochian Orthodox metropolitan
1970
![Sergey Brin photo]()
President of Alphabet Inc.
1973
![Hafsat Abiola photo]()
Nigerian human rights, civil rights and democracy activist
1974
![Geovanny Vicente photo]()
Political Strategist, lawyer, international consultant, col…
1986
![Robert Lewandowski photo]()
Polish association football player
1988
![Bo Burnham photo]()
American comedian, musician, and actor
1990
Death
![Thomas Tryon photo]()
British hat maker
1634–1703
![Mary Wortley Montagu photo]()
writer and poet from England
1689–1762
![James Wilson photo]()
one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a sign…
1742–1798
![Mary Mapes Dodge photo]()
Children's writer, novelist, poet, editor
1831–1905
![William Lyon Phelps photo]()
American author, critic and scholar
1865–1943
![Theodore G. Bilbo photo]()
American politician
1877–1947
![Leon Trotsky photo]()
Marxist revolutionary from Russia
1879–1940
![James P. Cannon photo]()
American politician
1890–1974
![Constant Lambert photo]()
British composer and conductor
1905–1951
![Wanda Toscanini photo]()
Italian musician
1907–1998
![Charles Eames photo]()
American designer, half of duo the Eames
1907–1978
![Bismillah Khan photo]()
Indian musician
1916–2006
![Juan Antonio Villacañas photo]()
Spanish poet, essayist and critic
1922–2001
![Richard S. Westfall photo]()
American historian
1924–1996
![Antony Jay photo]()
British screenwriter
1930–2016
![Budd Hopkins photo]()
American UFO researcher, painter and sculptor
1931–2011
![Dr. Moog photo]()
electronic music pioneer and inventor from the United States
1934–2005
![George Jackson (activist) photo]()
activist, Marxist, author, member of the Black Panther Part…
1941–1971
![Siobhan Dowd photo]()
British writer and activist
1960–2007
![Wesley Willis photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1963–2003
![Stefán Karl Stefánsson photo]()
Icelandic actor
1975–2018
