Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 21

Births

 * 1597 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
 * 1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
 * 1891 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
 * 1904 - William "Count" Basie, (pictured) American bandleader (d. 1984)
 * 1906 - Friz Freleng, American movie animator (d. 1995)
 * 1920 - Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996)
 * 1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, ex-dictator of Argentina (d. 2013)
 * 1938 - Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor (d. 2020)
 * 1956 - Kim Cattrall, English-born actress
 * 1963 - King Mohammed VI of Morocco
 * 1984 - Alizée Jacotey, French singer

Deaths

 * 1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
 * 1762 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
 * 1935 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
 * 1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
 * 1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize (b. 1857)
 * 1947 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
 * 1981 - Michael Devine, the last man to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b. 1954)
 * 1982 - Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
 * 1983 - Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippine opposition leader (b. 1932)
 * 1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)

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