Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In April - 21

1930  On April - 21 christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79   

1938  Muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1939  Herman Finck, composer, dies at 66 on April - 21.   

1945  John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25 on April - 21.   

1946  On April - 21 robert Graham, cricketer (3 wkts for S Afr in 2 Tests 1898-99), dies   

1948  Carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer, dies at 66 on April - 21.   

1952  Leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61 on April - 21.   

1956  Death of Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895) on this day in history.   

1961  On this day in history james Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57   

1962  On this day in history frederick Handley Page, designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies   

1965  On April - 21 edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72   

1967  On April - 21 andre L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77   

1968  On April - 21 norman Demuth, composer, dies at 69   

1971  On April - 21 edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81   

1973  On April - 21 ursula Jeans, actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66   

1974  Death of Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (b. 1895) on this day in history.   

1975  On April - 21 jack Allan Westrup, composer, dies at 70   

1977  Gummo [Milton] Marx, US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1978  Sandy Denny, country singer, dies at 37 on this day in history.   

1980  Death of Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894) on April - 21.   

1981  On this day in history harry Lee, cricketer (scored 18 & 1 in only Test for England), dies   

1982  Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1985  Rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1986  Death of Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930) on April - 21.   

1987  Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1989  On April - 21 james Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64   

1990  On this day in history johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies   

1991  Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Missouri), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1992  Death of Robert Harris, murderer, executed in Calif's gas chamber at 39 on this day in history.   

1993  On this day in history hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82   

1994  Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93 on this day in history.   

1995  Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93 on this day in history.   

1996  A H Kardar, cricketer (3 Tests for India & 23 for Pak 1946-58), dies on this day in history.   

1997  On this day in history andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies   

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1488  On April - 21 birth of ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot   

1546  On this day in history birth of arcangelo Crivelli, composer   

1555  On this day in history birth of ludovico Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1619)   

1619  On April - 21 birth of john A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder (Cape Colony)   

1651  Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711) was born on this day in history.   

1652  On April - 21 birth of michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719)   

1671  On this day in history birth of john Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)   

1672  Johann Philipp Kafer, composer was born on this day in history.