Famous Deaths on July 21

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1995)

Canadian academic and mathematician (1920–2006)

Mexican artist (1920-2005)

Finnish astronomer and physicist

Swedish histologist (1842–1919)

Irish film director (1892–1950)

Finnish politician, writer, teacher and journalist

Canadian politician

Indian lawyer, social worker and film producer

Canadian businessman and photographer (1830–1915)

Irish composer (1910–1992)

Swedish poet (1790–1855)

American journalist (1786-1860)

French draughtsman, engraver (1783–1847)

Italian astronomer and physician

Physician and chemist

Spanish historian and lawyer

Spanish book-seller, publisher and engraver (fl. 1519-1560)

Italian renaissance painter (1476-1551)

Pope of the Catholic Church

Japanese princess

Pope from 498 to 514

Ptolemaic Greek Princess of Ancient Egypt and Queen of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia