Famous Deaths on April 21

Italian film director (1931-2016)

Nigerian jurist (1930-2020)

British civil engineer

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1947)

(1831-1901)

Hungarian jurist, politician (1873–1936)

Norwegian politician and businessman (1873-1968)

American author and humorist (1835–1910)

British writer (1844-1930)

British writer (1846-1929)

Brazilian poet (1833–1902)

Brazilian politician (1910-1975)

Peruvian photographer and academic (1900-1986)

Brazilian engineer (1873–1947)

Italian conductor (1910–1996)

Taiwanese poet

Turkish novelist (1910–1973)

Union Army General (1798-1879)

English footballer, and British Army officer (1838-1900)

Norwegian politician

Serbian writer

French mathematician and astronomer (1640-1718)

Spanish diplomat and writer (1664-1721)

Swiss naturalist and physician (1702–1729)

Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate from 1517 to 1526

Italian architect and painter (1444–1514)

Canon and archdeacon of Grosswardein in Hungary, archdeacon of Ödenburg in 1243, canon of Zagreb in 1249 then archbishop of Split; d. in Split 4/14/1266

Illegitimate son of Pepin of Italy