Famous Deaths on May 21

Italian politician and journalist (1930–2008)

Polish actor

Brazilian poet, chronicler, novelist, short story writer, and translator (1920–2014)

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1925)

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Peace (1931)

University professor (1843-1910)

Journalist and writer (1890-1945)

Australian journalist and politician (1843-1902)

British Liberal politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1847–1929)

Mexican politician

Norwegian sculptor (1870-1938)

Canadian American cartoonist (1874–1932)

Canadian artist (1892-1977)

Norwegian photographer (1832–1915)

Australian fighter ace (1892-1941)

Estonian historian (1910-1996)

Austrian filmmaker (1900-1968)

South African electrical engineer

Spanish diplomat, naturalist, lawyer, historian, university teacher and director of the Saragossa botanical garden (1742 – 1814)

French officer in French Corps of Topographical Engineers

French botanist (1789-1874)

Hungarian prince (1786-1866)

Chilean writer

President of Peru

Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen

Japanese poet

Swedish artist (1658-1703)

German scientist, inventor, and politician (1602-1686)

German Count (1560–1633)

Danish general

Catholic cardinal

Emperor of Japan