September 21

On This Day

25 people found

Born on this day (17)

1969(2)

Anne Burrell

19692025

American television chef

Marjane Satrapi

19692026

Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author

1954(1)

Shinzō Abe

19542022

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020

1936(1)

Yury Luzhkov

19362019

Russian politician

1934(2)

David J. Thouless

19342019

British physicist

Leonard Cohen

19342016

Canadian singer, songwriter and poet

1931(1)

Larry Hagman

19312012

American actor

1929(1)

Sándor Kocsis

19291979

Hungarian footballer

1926(1)

Donald Arthur Glaser

19262013

American physicist and neurobiologist

1914(1)

Akira Matsunaga

19141943

Japanese association football player (born 1914)

1912(1)

Rihei Sano

19121992

Japanese association football player

1909(1)

Kwame Nkrumah

19091972

Ghanaian politician

1874(1)

Gustav Holst

18741934

British composer

1866(2)

Charles Nicolle

18661936

French microbiologist

H. G. Wells

18661946

English writer

1524(1)

Pierre de Ronsard

15241585

French poet

879(1)

Charles the Simple

879929

King of West Francia

Died on this day (8)

2021(1)

Mohamed Hussein Tantawi

19352021

Egyptian Field marshal and former statesman

2020(1)

Arthur Ashkin

19222020

American physicist

2018(1)

Trần Đại Quang

19562018

8th President of Vietnam

1998(1)

Florence Griffith Joyner

19591998

American track and field athlete

1974(1)

Walter Brennan

18941974

American actor

1971(1)

Bernardo Houssay

18871971

Argentine physician

1957(1)

Haakon VII of Norway

18721957

King of Norway from 1905 to 1957

1832(1)

Walter Scott

17711832

Scottish novelist, poet and playwright