History Deaths on December 21

John Eisenhower, American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (b. 1922)

#John_Eisenhower

Thomas the Apostle, Roman martyr and saint (b. 1 AD)

#Thomas_the_Apostle

Stella Adler, American actress and educator (b. 1901)

#Stella_Adler

Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1934)

#Udo_Jürgens

Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1927)

#Enzo_Bearzot

Jack Hobbs, English cricketer and journalist (b. 1882)

#Jack_Hobbs

Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)

#Saparmurat_Niyazov

Richard Long, American actor and director (b. 1927)

#Richard_Long_(actor)

Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)

#Knud_Rasmussen

Vittorio Pozzo, Italian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1886)

#Vittorio_Pozzo

Sir Hugh Paterson, Baronet of Bannockburn (b. 1659)

#Sir_Hugh_Paterson,_1st_Baronet

Bruce McCandless II, US astronaut who conducted the first untethered spacewalk (b. 1937)

#Bruce_McCandless_II

Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)

#Kurt_Tucholsky

James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist (b. 1755)

#James_Parkinson

Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author and poet (b. 1313)

#Giovanni_Boccaccio

Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer and politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)

#Frank_B._Kellogg

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1896)

#F._Scott_Fitzgerald

Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)

#Nikolaas_Tinbergen

Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)

#Francis_Garnier

Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)

#Friedrich_August_von_Quenstedt

Peter Canisius, Dutch priest and saint (b. 1521)

#Peter_Canisius

Lion Feuchtwanger, German-American author and playwright (b. 1884)

#Lion_Feuchtwanger

Kenneth Edwards, American golfer (b. 1886)

#Kenneth_Edwards_(golfer)

George S. Patton, American general (b. 1885)

#George_S._Patton

Constantine III, king of Armenia (b. 1313)

#Constantine_III,_King_of_Armenia

Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer (b. 1891)

#Claude_Champagne

John Seymour, English courtier (b. 1474)

#John_Seymour_(1474-1536)

Carl Van Vechten, American author and photographer (b. 1880)

#Carl_Van_Vechten

Al-Mu'izz, Fatimid caliph (b. 932)

#Al-Mu'izz_li-Din_Allah

Albert King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1924)

#Albert_King

I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)

#I._L._Patterson

Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1244)

#Henry_I,_Landgrave_of_Hesse

John Newton, English soldier and minister (b. 1725)

#John_Newton

Kaarlo Koskelo, Finnish-American wrestler and businessman (b. 1888)

#Kaarlo_Koskelo

Jean de la Cassière, 51st Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1502)

#Jean_de_la_Cassière

Berthold von Henneberg, German archbishop (b. 1442)

#Berthold_von_Henneberg

Hincmar, French archbishop and historian (b. 806)

#Hincmar

Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)

#Ted_Healy

Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, engraver, and painter (b. 1883)

#Rosanjin

Sitor Situmorang, Indonesian poet and author (b. 1923)

#Sitor_Situmorang

Billie Whitelaw, English actress (b. 1932)

Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929)

Christos Lambrakis, Greek journalist and businessman (b. 1934)

Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

Autar Singh Paintal, Indian physiologist and neurologist (b. 1925)

Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (b. 1904)

Nathan Milstein, Russian-American violinist and composer (b. 1903)

Paul de Man, Belgian-born philosopher, literary critic and theorist (b. 1919)

Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jullundhri, Pakistani poet and composer (b. 1900)

H.B. Warner, English actor (b. 1875)

Eric Coates, English-American viola player and composer (b. 1886)

Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)

Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)

Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)

Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)

Catherine Vasa, Swedish princess (b. 1539)

William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1541)

Marguerite de Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)

Thomas Hemenhale, bishop of Worcester

Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Walid, D??? al-Mu?laq of Tayyibi Isma'ilism (b. c. 1128)

Hugh of Tuscany, Italian margrave (b. 950)

Sun Sheng, Chinese chancellor