Francis de Sales (French: François de Sales; Italian: Francesco di Sales; Arpitan: Francês de Sâles; 21 August 1567 – 28 December 1622) was a Catholic prelate from Savoy who served as Bishop of Geneva from 1602 to 1622.

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1765 · 261 yrs

William IV

William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837.

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1789 · 237 yrs

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy (21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857) was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist.

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1798 · 228 yrs

Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet (French:; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian and writer, best known for his multi-volume work Histoire de France (History of France), which chronicles the history of France from its earliest origins to the French Revolution.

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ScholarshipDied aged 75

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1853 · 173 yrs

Wilhelm Ostwald

Wilhelm Friedrich Ostwald (German:; 2 September 1853 – 4 April 1932) was a Baltic German chemist and philosopher. Ostwald is credited with being one of the founders of the field of physical chemistry, with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Walther Nernst and Svante Arrhenius.

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ScienceDied aged 78

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1862 · 164 yrs

Emilio Salgari

Emilio Salgari (Italian pronunciation:, but often erroneously pronounced; 21 August 1862 – 25 April 1911) was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction. In Italy, his extensive body of work was more widely read than that of Dante Alighieri.

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LiteratureDied aged 48

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1904 · 122 yrs

Count Basie

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording.

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1917 · 109 yrs

Leonid Hurwicz

Leonid Hurwicz (Polish pronunciation:; August 21, 1917 – June 24, 2008) was a Polish–American economist and mathematician, known for his work in game theory and mechanism design.

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1930 · 96 yrs

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002), was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and the only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II.

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1934 · 92 yrs

John L. Hall

John Lewis "Jan" Hall (born August 21, 1934) is an American physicist.

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1936 · 90 yrs

Wilt Chamberlain

Wilton Norman Chamberlain ( CHAYM-bər-lin; August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999) was an American professional basketball player. Standing 7 feet 1 inch (2.16 m) tall, he played center in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 14 seasons.

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1614 · 412 yrs

Elizabeth Báthory

Countess Elizabeth Báthory of Ecsed (Hungarian: Báthory Erzsébet, pronounced; Slovak: Alžbeta Bátoriová; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a Hungarian noblewoman, aristocrat, and alleged serial killer from the powerful House of Báthory, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary.

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RoyaltyDied aged 54

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1723 · 303 yrs

Dimitrie Cantemir

Dimitrie or Demetrius Cantemir (Romanian pronunciation:; Russian: Дмитрий Кантемир, romanized: Dmitry Kantemir; 26 October 1673 – 21 August 1723), also known by other spellings, was a Moldavian prince, statesman, and man of letters. He twice served as voivode of Moldavia (March–April 1693 and 1710–1711).

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RoyaltyDied aged 49

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1762 · 264 yrs

Mary Wortley Montagu

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 15 May 1689 – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England.

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LiteratureDied aged 73

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1838 · 188 yrs

Adelbert von Chamisso

Adelbert von Chamisso (German pronunciation:; 30 January 1781 – 21 August 1838) was a German poet, writer and botanist. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot) de Boncourt, a name referring to the family estate at Boncourt.

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LiteratureDied aged 57

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1861 · 165 yrs

Xianfeng Emperor

The Xianfeng Emperor (17 July 1831 – 22 August 1861), also known by his temple name Emperor Wenzong of Qing, personal name Yizhu, was the eighth emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the seventh Qing emperor to rule over China proper.

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1943 · 83 yrs

Henrik Pontoppidan

Henrik Pontoppidan (Danish:; 24 July 1857 – 21 August 1943) was a Danish realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." Pontoppidan's novels and short stories — informed with a desire for social progress but…

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LiteratureDied aged 86

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1979 · 47 yrs

Giuseppe Meazza

Giuseppe Meazza (Italian pronunciation:; 23 August 1910 – 21 August 1979) was an Italian football manager and player.

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1983 · 43 yrs

Ninoy Aquino

Benigno Simeón "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. ( ə-KEE-noh, Tagalog:; November 27, 1932 – August 21, 1983), was a Filipino politician and journalist who served as a senator of the Philippines (1967–1972) and governor of the province of Tarlac (1963–1967).

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1995 · 31 yrs

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) was an Indian-American astrophysicist.

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1997 · 29 yrs

Yuri Nikulin

Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin (Russian: Юрий Владимирович Никулин; 18 December 1921 – 21 August 1997) was a Soviet and Russian actor and clown who starred in many popular films.

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2005 · 21 yrs

Robert Moog

Robert Arthur Moog ( MOHG; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American electronics engineer and electronic music pioneer. He was the founder of the synthesizer manufacturer Moog Music and the inventor of the first commercial synthesizer, the Moog synthesizer, which debuted in 1964.

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2018 · 8 yrs

Stefán Karl Stefánsson

Stefán Karl Stefánsson ( STEF-ən STEF-ən-sən, Icelandic:; 10 July 1975 – 21 August 2018) was an Icelandic actor and singer. He was best known for portraying Robbie Rotten, the antagonist of the children's television series LazyTown.

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1914 · 112 yrs

Battle of Charleroi

The Battle of Charleroi (French: Bataille de Charleroi) or the Battle of the Sambre, was fought on 21 August 1914, by the French Fifth Army and the German 2nd and 3rd armies, during the Battle of the Frontiers.

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War

1944 · 82 yrs

Dumbarton Oaks Conference

The Dumbarton Oaks Conference, or, more formally, the Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization, was an international conference at which proposals for the establishment of a "general international organization", which was to become the United Nations, were formulated and negotiated.

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2011 · 15 yrs

Hurricane Irene

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2013 · 13 yrs

August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack

The Ghouta chemical attack was a chemical attack carried out by the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in the early hours of 21 August 2013 in Ghouta, Syria during the Syrian civil war. It was the deadliest use of chemical weapons in Syrian conflict and since the Iran–Iraq War.

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Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017

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