Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In April - 21

1930  Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79 on April - 21.   

1938  On April - 21 muhammad Iqbal, Brt E Indies lawyer/Pakistan national hero, dies at 65   

1939  On April - 21 herman Finck, composer, dies at 66   

1945  On April - 21 john Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25   

1946  Robert Graham, cricketer (3 wkts for S Afr in 2 Tests 1898-99), dies on this day in history.   

1948  On April - 21 carlos Lopez Buchardo, composer, dies at 66   

1952  On April - 21 leslie Banks, actor (Henry V, 21 Days, Eye Witness), dies at 61   

1956  On this day in history death of charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895)   

1961  James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57 on April - 21.   

1962  On April - 21 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  Andre L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

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

1971  Edmund Lowe, actor (Front Page Detective), dies at 81 on April - 21.   

1973  Ursula Jeans, actress (Cavalcade, Over the Moon), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1974  Death of Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (b. 1895) on April - 21.   

1975  On this day in history 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 April - 21.   

1980  On this day in history death of aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894)   

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 April - 21.   

1985  On April - 21 rudi Gernreich, US designer (miniskirt), dies at 62   

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  James Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history death of robert Harris, murderer, executed in Calif's gas chamber at 39   

1993  Hal Schumacher, baseball pitcher, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1994  On this day in history clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93   

1995  On April - 21 robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93   

1996  A H Kardar, cricketer (3 Tests for India & 23 for Pak 1946-58), dies on April - 21.   

1997  Andres Rodriguez, Paraguayan president (1989-93), dies on this day in history.   

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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  On this day in history birth of blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (d. 1711)   

1652  Michel Rolle, French mathematician (d. 1719) was born on April - 21.   

1671  John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729) was born on this day in history.   

1672  On April - 21 birth of johann Philipp Kafer, composer