August 21st
131 Notable deaths
Wang Dongxing
Former vice chairman of the communist party of china (1916-2015).
Born January 1st, 1916 in Yiyang County, Jiangxi. [ref]
Died August 21st, 2015 at 99 years old in Beijing. [ref]
Dorothy Burgess
Film, stage actress.
Born March 4th, 1907 in Los Angeles.
Died August 21st, 1961 at 54 years old in Riverside (tuberculosis).
Yitzhak Sadeh
Israeli general.
Born August 10th, 1890 in Lublin.
Died August 21st, 1952 at 62 years old in Tel Aviv. [ref]
Sergio Toppi
Italian cartoonist (1932–2012).
Born October 11th, 1932 in Milan.
Died August 21st, 2012 at 79 years old in Milan (cancer). [ref]
Kurt Neumann
American film director.
Born April 5th, 1908 in Nuremberg. [ref]
Died August 21st, 1958 at 50 years old in Los Angeles. [ref]
Steven R. Nagel
American astronaut (1946-2014).
Born October 27th, 1946 in Canton.
Died August 21st, 2014 at 67 years old in Columbia (cancer). [ref]
Nikolay Punin
Russian art historian.
Born November 16th, 1888 in Helsinki. [ref]
Died August 21st, 1953 at 64 years old in Vorkuta Gulag, Abez labor camp. [ref]
Bajram Rexhepi
Prime minister of kosovo (1954-2017).
Born June 3rd, 1954 in Mitrovica.
Died August 21st, 2017 at 63 years old in Istanbul (cerebral hemorrhage).
Hanna Mina
Syrian writer.
Born March 9th, 1924 in Latakia. [ref]
Died August 21st, 2018 at 94 years old in Damascus.
Alexei Panshin
American writer and critic.
Born August 14th, 1940 in Lansing.
Died August 21st, 2022 at 82 years old (cardiac arrest). [ref]
Deaths 61 to 70 of 131
When I shall die, let it be doing that I had designed. Ovid