December 21st famous deaths

List of celebrities and famous people who died on December 21st

2019 - 2010

Famous deaths on December 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 2019 - 2010

• Enzo Bearzot

  Italian football player and coach (Born 1927).

2009 - 2000

Famous deaths on December 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 2009 - 2000

• Ken Hendricks

  American businessman (Born in 1941)

• Scobie Breasley

  Australian jockey (Born 1914)

• Elrod Hendricks

  American baseball player and coach (Born in 1940).

• Autar Singh Paintal

  Indian medical scientist (Born in 1925)

• Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

  Spanish businessman (Born in 1924)

• Dick Schaap

  Sportscaster / author (Bo Knows Bo, Instant Replay)

1999 - 1990

Famous deaths on December 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1999 - 1990

• Ernst Gunther Schenck

  German physician (Born 1904)

• Karl Denver

  Scottish-English singer (d. 1998)

• Amie Comeaux

  American country music singer (Born 1976).

• Michael Lyne

  Air-marshal dies at the age of 78.

• Bruce Woodcock

  Boxer dies at the age of 76.

• Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant

  Patron of the arts, died at the age of 96.

• Robert Francis Vere Heuston

  Professor of law dies at 72.

• Trenchard Cox

  museum director, dies at age 90.

• Shauna McDonald Brown

  British television producer dies at the age of 37.

• Philip Christison

  At 100 years old, a British general (Rangoon) dies.

• Albert King

  American blues singer/guitarist Crosscut Saw, dies at the age of 71 (born in 1923).

• Sybil Andrews

  English/Canada painter dies at the age of 94.

• Stella Adler

  American actress Love on Toast dies at the age of 90 (born in 1901).

• Stella Adler

  American actress Love on Toast dies at the age of 90 (born in 1901).

• Nathan Milstein

  Ukrainian/US Violinist (Beethoven and Bach), dies aged 87 (born 1903).

• Clarence Johnson

  American aeronautical engineer (Born in 1910).

1989 - 1980

Famous deaths on December 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1989 - 1980

• Jan Cikker

  Composer dies at 78

• Elena Ceaucescu

  Executed wife of Nicolae, Romanian Dictator

• Rotimi Fani-Kayode

  Nigerian-born British photographer (Born1955)

• Nicolae Ceaucescu

  Romanian Dictator (1945-89), executed

• Nicholas Tinbergen

  Dutch/British biologist dies at 81

• Bob Steele [Robert Bradbury]

  After a short illness, 60-year-old woman dies

• John Spence

  American musician (No Doubt) (Born 1969)

• Robert Paige

  Actor (Son Of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong).

• Rod Cameron

  Actor (Santa Fe Passage and Stampede), is killed at 73

• Allan Dwan

  Canadian-American screenwriter and producer (d. 1981).

• Marc Connelly

  Playwright (One minute please) dies at 90

1979 - 1970

Famous deaths on December 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1979 - 1970

• Richard Long

  American author and historian (d. 2013).

• James Henry Govier

  British artist (Born 1910).

• Horace Mann Bond

  President of Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), died at the age of 70.

1969 - 1960

Famous deaths on December 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1969 - 1960

• Louis Washkansky

  After living 18 days, the man who was the first to have a heart transplant dies in Cape Town.

• Stuart Erwin

  Actor, Trouble With Father, dies at 64 from a heart attack

• Claude Champagne

  Canadian composer and pianist of the violin (d. 1965).

• Claude Adonai Champagne

  Composer dies at 74

• Carl Van Vechten

  American photographer and writer (Born 1880).

1959 - 1950

Famous deaths on December 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1959 - 1950

• Rosanjin

  Japanese calligrapher, restaurateur and ceramicist (Born 1883)

• H[arry] B[yron] Warner

  Actor (10 Commandments and New Moon), is killed at 83

• Lion Feuchtwanger

  Philosopher / writer (Der falsche Nero), dies at 74

• Eric Coates

  British composer and viola musician who was a specialist in semi-classical orchestral works. His songs and instrumental pieces were very popular, including "Sleepy Lagoon", 1930, and "London Suite," 33. He was an ex-member of the Hambourg String Quartet and was a violinist for major symphonies 1912-1918. He also played on international tours and performed radio shows.

• Lewis M Terman

  Scientist (Genetic studies on genius), who dies at the age of 79.

• Dorothy Bernard

  Actress (Margaret Life With Father), dies aged 65

1949 - 1940

Famous deaths on December 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1949 - 1940

• Seishiro Itagaki

  Japanese General/Minister of War, hanged

• George S Patton

  At 60, a car accident kills the US General (Sicily/Normandy).

• Leendert Round

  sculptor (Giraffen, Blijdorp), dies at age 63.

• F Scott Fitzgerald

  Author Zelda dies at 44 from a heart attack

1939 - 1930

Famous deaths on December 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1939 - 1930

• Frank Kellog

  At age 80, the US foreign minister (Nobel Prize 1929), is killed.

• Kurt Tucholsky

  German-Jewish journalist, satirical essayist and poet, well-known for his cabaret songs.

• Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen

  Greenlandic polar explorer (Born 1879).

• Knud J V Rasmussen

  Thule, a Danish Pole explorer, dies at the age of 54.

1929 - 1920

Famous deaths on December 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1929 - 1920

• Luigi Cadorna

  Italian fieldmarshal (WWII, Caporetto) dies at the age of 78.

• P B S Pinchback major Reconstruction politician

  At the age of 84, he dies.

• Mohammed Abdullah Hassan

  Somalian nationalist leader (Born in 1856).

1909 - 1900

Famous deaths on December 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1909 - 1900

• Oskar Lassar German dermatologist (public baths)

  At the age of 58, she dies.

• Adalbert von Goldschmidt composer

  At the age of 58, she dies.

• Roger Wolcott

  American politician (Born 1847)