Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 21

Births

 * 1645 – Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
 * 1842 – Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
 * 1866 – H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
 * 1874 – Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
 * 1912 – Chuck Jones, American animator (d. 2002)
 * 1931 – Larry Hagman, American actor (d. 2012) (pictured)
 * 1945 – Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
 * 1947 – Stephen King, American author
 * 1950 – Bill Murray, American actor
 * 1954 – Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2022)
 * 1963 – Curtly Ambrose, West Indian cricketer
 * 1968 – Ricki Lake, American actress and talk show hostess
 * 1972 – Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis)

Deaths

 * 19 BC – Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
 * 1558 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)
 * 1832 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
 * 1860 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)