Famous Deaths on July 21

Robert Burns

1796 Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies at 37

1798 François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal, dies at 64
1821 Maurice J M prince de Broglie, bishop of Ghent, dies at about 55
1831 Emil Aarestrup, Danish physician and poet (Ritornellen), dies at 55
1840 Moses Waddel, American educator, minister and bestselling author (Memoirs of the Life of Miss Caroline Elizabeth Smelt), dies at 70
1861 Francis Stebbins Bartow, Confederate colonel, dies in battle at 44
1878 Sam Bass, American Old West train robber and outlaw, dies at 27

1880 Hiram Walden, American politician, dies at 79
1888 Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade), dies at 53
1889 Nelson Dewey, American politician, 1st Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1813)
1891 Franco Faccio, Italian composer and conductor, dies at 51
1892 Henry Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (1855-58), dies at 73
1899 Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
1910 Johan Peter Selmer, composer, dies at 66
1917 Christopher J Forster, British RAF-pilot/capt, dies in battle
1922 Djemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey, murdered
1924 Dudley Allen Sargent, American physician and educator (Harvard U gymnasium), dies at 74
1927 J J Lyons, cricketer (14 Tests for Australia), dies
1928 Ellen Alice Terry, British Shakespearean actress and director (Imperial Theatre), dies at 81
1932 Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player
1938 Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860)
1941 Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet, dies at 68
1943 Charles William Paddock, 100m runner (Olympic gold 1920), dies at 42
1944 Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau
1944 Henning von Tresckow, Gen-Maj, "July 20th plotter", commits suicide
1946 Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia (b. 1908)
1948 Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American abstract painter, dies at 43
1948 Donald Nichols Tweedy, American composer, dies at 58
1950 Albert Riemenschneider, American musician and composer, dies at 71
1952 Silvio Cator, Haitian athlete long jumper (Olympic silver 1928), dies at 51
1957 Bernard Spooner, US inventor (bulletproof jacket), dies
1957 Rockley Wilson, cricketer (bro of Clem, Test for England 1921), dies

1962 G. M. Trevelyan [George Macaulay Trevelyan], British historian and academic, dies at 86
1966 Eugeen Calleen, Flemish sculptor, dies at 83
1967 Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies

Basil Rathbone

1967 Basil Rathbone, British actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies of heart attack at 75

1967 Jimmie Foxx, American Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman (9-time MLB All Star), dies at 59
1967 Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box), dies at 80
1968 Ruth St. Denis, American modern dance pioneer and teacher (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91
1970 Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
1970 Bob Kalsu, American football player, dies at 25
1972 Jigme Dori Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, dies
1972 Ralph Craig, American athlete (Olympic gold 1912), dies at 83
1973 Russell Hardie, American actor (Sequoia, In Old Kentucky), dies after long illness at 69
1974 Willem F K Hussem, painter/poet (Steltlopen on Sea), dies at 74
1975 Billy West [Roy B Weissburg], Russian actor, Charlie Chaplin impersonator and silent film director (Further Perils of Laurel & Hardy), dies at 82
1975 Fie Carelsen, actress (Malle Gevallen), dies at 85
1975 George Petty, American pin-up artist, dies at 81
1976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated
1977 Lee Miller, American photographer (War correspondent for Vogue in WWII), dies at 70
1979 Ludwig Renn, German writer, dies at 90
1982 Dave Garroway, TV host (Today Show), dies at 69
1982 Jean J A Girault, French director (Gendarme Saint-Tropez), dies at 58
1984 Michael Osborne, American rock guitarist and vocalist (Axe), dies at 34
1985 Mickey Shaughnessy, actor (Chicago Teddy Bears), dies at 65
1985 Vicki Vola, actress (Miss Miller-Mr District Attorney)
1986 Paulo Correia, Guinee-Bissaus colonel/putschist, executed
1986 Virginia Hewitt, American actress (Carol-Space Patrol), dies of cancer at 60
1986 Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)
1990 Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (Buenos Aires Affair), dies at 57
1990 Sacha Piteoff, dies of heart failure at 70
1990 Stanley Shapiro, dies of leukemia at 65

1991 Theodore Wilson, dies at 47
1991 Paul Warwick, English racing driver (b. 1969)
1993 Henk Kersting, bureau chef (Associated Press-WW II), dies at 88
1993 Piet Wielinga, TV producer (Dutch Glory), dies at 56
1993 Robert J Glass, film producer (ET), is killed at 53
1993 Richard Tee, American pianist, singer and arranger (Slip' Slidin' Away, In Your Eyes), dies of prostate cancer at 49
1994 Dorothy Collins [Marjorie Chandler], Canadian-American singer and actress (Your Hit Parade), dies at 67
1994 John Ernest, American constructionist artist, dies at 72
1995 Edwin "Russell" House, saxophonist, dies at 65
1995 Elleston Trevor, author, dies
1995 Jon Boulle, motorcyclist, dies at 59
1996 Francis James Claude Piggott, soldier, dies at 85
1996 Gerald McArthur, detective, dies at 70
1996 Herb Edelman, American actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5), dies of emphysema 62
1996 James Tye, safety expert, dies at 74
1996 John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot, dies at 50
1996 Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet, dies at 79
1996 Wolf Morris, actor (Padmasambhava-Dr Who), dies at 71
1998 Alan Shepard, American astronaut and 1st American in space, dies of leukemia at 74
1998 Robert Young, American actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby, M.D.), dies at 91
2001 Steve Barton, American actor (b. 1954)
2001 Sivaji Ganesan, South Indian Tamil actor (b. 1927)
2002 Gus Dudgeon [Angus Boyd Dudgeon], British pop record producer (Elton John, David Bowie), dies in a car crash at 59
2002 John Cunningham, British Royal Air Force night fighter ace (WW II), dies at 84
2003 John Davies, New Zealand Olympic Committee president (b. 1938)
2003 Walter M. "Matt" Jefferies, American film art director (b. 1921)
2004 Jerry Goldsmith, American pianist and composer (Twilight Zone, Planet Of The Apes), dies of colon cancer at 75
2004 Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1918)
2004 Julian Ridsdale, British politician (C), Member of Parliament for Harwich (1954-92), dies at 89
2005 Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
2005 Lord Alfred Hayes, British Wrestling Announcer for WWE (b. 1928)
2006 Mako, Japanese-American actor (The Sand Pebbles), dies at 72
2006 Ta Mok, "The Khmer Rouge Butcher", war criminal in Democratic Kampuchea (b. 1926)
2008 Lord Stokes [Donald Stokes], English industrialist, dies at 94
2010 Ralph Houk, MLB catcher, coach, manager (6-time World Series champion), dies at 90
2010 Luis Corvalán, Chilean communist leader (b. 1916)
2012 Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist, dies from cancer at 72
2012 James D. Ramage, American Naval Aviator in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War, dies at 96
2015 E. L. Doctorow, American author (Ragtime, Billy Bathgate), dies at 84
2015 Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American folk singer and actor (The Russians Are Coming), dies at 91
2017 John Heard, American actor (Home Alone, Cat People, Big), dies at 71
2017 Peter Doohan, Australian professional tennis player, dies from motor neurone disease at 56
2018 Jonathan Gold, American food critic who was the first in his field to win a Pulitzer Prize, dies of pancreatic cancer at 57