Anniversaries 21 August

Birth

`Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni16

Indian historian 1540–1615

William IV of the United Kingdom1

King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and… 1765–1837

Thomas Garrett3

American abolitionist 1789–1871

Augustin Louis Cauchy5

French mathematician (1789–1857) 1789–1857

Jules Michelet6

French historian 1798–1874

Richard Salter Storrs13

American Congregational clergyman 1821–1900

Aubrey Beardsley19

English illustrator and author 1872–1898

Sergei Biriuzov5

Soviet military commander 1904–1964

Count Basie2

American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer 1904–1984

Ismat Chughtai1

an Indian Urdu language writer 1911–1991

Leonid Hurwicz6

Russian-American economist and mathematician 1917–2008

Vincent Scully1

American architectural historian 1920–2017

Albert Rees1

American economist 1921–1992

Jack Buck18

American sportscaster 1924–2002

Thomas S. Monson10

president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1927–2018

X. J. Kennedy1

American writer 1929

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon3

younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The … 1930–2002

Wilt Chamberlain25

basketball player 1936–1999

Jackie DeShannon10

American singer-songwriter 1941

Jonathan Schell3

American author 1943–2014

Peter Weir4

Australian film director 1944

Liam Cary1

Fifth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baker 1947

Lucius Shepard17

writer 1947–2014

Sharon M. Draper12

American children's writer 1948

Lindsey Davis67

English novelist 1949

Joe Strummer39

British musician, singer, actor and songwriter 1952–2002

Arthur Yorinks1

American writer and director 1953

Edgar Moreira da Cunha1

Catholic bishop 1957

John Howe (illustrator)8

Canadian illustrator 1957

Steve Alten3

American writer 1959

Sabrina Jeffries7

American writer 1960

Stephen Hillenburg3

American marine biologist, cartoonist, animator, storyboard… 1961–2018

Jillian Medoff1

American writer 1963

Mohammed VI of Morocco17

King of Morocco 1963

Charb2

French caricaturist and journalist 1967–2015

Vox Day2

writer, actor, video game designer, blogger, far-right acti… 1968

Brad Thor2

American writer 1969

Silouan Oner1

Antiochian Orthodox metropolitan 1970

Megan Abbott8

American writer 1971

Sergey Brin6

President of Alphabet Inc. 1973

Hafsat Abiola3

Nigerian human rights, civil rights and democracy activist 1974

Alicia Witt28

American actress 1975

Jehst6

British rapper 1979

Geovanny Vicente3

Political Strategist, lawyer, international consultant, col… 1986

Robert Lewandowski13

Polish association football player 1988

Bo Burnham11

American comedian, musician, and actor 1990

Nikki Tamboli4

Indian Actress 1996

Death

Richard Crashaw10

British writer 1612–1649

Thomas Tryon3

British hat maker 1634–1703

Mary Wortley Montagu8

writer and poet from England 1689–1762

James Wilson6

one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a sign… 1742–1798

Thomas Hodgskin21

British writer 1787–1869

Mary Mapes Dodge5

Children's writer, novelist, poet, editor 1831–1905

Ernest Thayer4

American poet 1863–1940

William Lyon Phelps3

American author, critic and scholar 1865–1943

Theodore G. Bilbo4

American politician 1877–1947

Leon Trotsky106

Marxist revolutionary from Russia 1879–1940

James P. Cannon7

American politician 1890–1974

Constant Lambert13

British composer and conductor 1905–1951

Wanda Toscanini2

Italian musician 1907–1998

Charles Eames11

American designer, half of duo the Eames 1907–1978

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar2

physicist 1910–1995

Bismillah Khan15

Indian musician 1916–2006

Juan Antonio Villacañas7

Spanish poet, essayist and critic 1922–2001

Richard S. Westfall1

American historian 1924–1996

Qurratulain Hyder1

Urdu author 1927–2007

Antony Jay1

British screenwriter 1930–2016

Budd Hopkins3

American UFO researcher, painter and sculptor 1931–2011

Dr. Moog1

electronic music pioneer and inventor from the United States 1934–2005

George Jackson (activist)19

activist, Marxist, author, member of the Black Panther Part… 1941–1971

William Thurston4

mathematician 1946–2012

Siobhan Dowd1

British writer and activist 1960–2007

Wesley Willis20

American singer-songwriter 1963–2003

Stefán Karl Stefánsson3

Icelandic actor 1975–2018