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Born in 1921

1,245 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. François Reichenbach

    film producer, film director

    1921–1993 · aged 71

    July 3 · 1921

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées

  2. Vittorio Caprioli

    film actor, stage actor

    1921–1989 · aged 68

    August 15 · 1921

    Source: Discogs

  3. Hong Deok-young

    association football coach, association football referee

    1921–2005 · aged 84

    May 5 · 1921

    Source: Transfermarkt

  4. Carol Emshwiller

    novelist, science fiction writer

    1921–2019 · aged 97

    April 12 · 1921

    Source: SNAC

  5. Jerome Hines

    musician, singer

    1921–2003 · aged 81

    November 8 · 1921

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  6. Betty Wilson

    cricketer

    1921–2010 · aged 88

    November 21 · 1921

    No external source identified

  7. Maria Gorokhovskaya

    artistic gymnast

    1921–2001 · aged 79

    October 17 · 1921

    Source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)

  8. Jackie Searl

    film actor, television actor

    1921–1991 · aged 69

    July 7 · 1921

    No external source identified

  9. Barbara Farrell Vucanovich

    politician

    1921–2013 · aged 91

    June 22 · 1921

    Source: SNAC

  10. Antony Padiyara

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1921–2000 · aged 79

    February 11 · 1921

    No external source identified

  11. Vladimir Katriuk

    beekeeper, butcher

    1921–2015 · aged 93

    October 1 · 1921

    No external source identified

  12. Yehoshafat Harkabi

    major general, writer

    1921–1994 · aged 72

    September 21 · 1921

    No external source identified

  13. Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal

    journalist, politician

    1921–1973 · aged 52

    March 12 · 1921

    No external source identified

  14. Richard T. Whitcomb

    military flight engineer, engineer

    1921–2009 · aged 88

    February 21 · 1921

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  15. John Davis

    weightlifter

    1921–1984 · aged 63

    January 12 · 1921

    No external source identified

  16. Frank Moore Cross

    historian, university teacher

    1921–2012 · aged 91

    July 13 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  17. Turi Ferro*

    television actor, stage actor

    Date disputed

    January 10 · 1921

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  18. Ida Fink

    musician, short story writer

    1921–2011 · aged 89

    November 1 · 1921

    Source: e-teatr.pl

  19. Francis Blanche

    poet, lyricist

    1921–1974 · aged 52

    July 20 · 1921

    Source: SNAC

  20. Oldřich Černík

    politician

    1921–1994 · aged 72

    October 27 · 1921

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  21. Vera Belik

    armed forces, aircraft pilot

    1921–1944 · aged 23

    June 12 · 1921

    No external source identified

  22. Victor A. McKusick

    geneticist, physician

    1921–2008 · aged 86

    October 21 · 1921

    Source: www.academie-medecine.fr

  23. Margaret Gowing

    historian, economist

    1921–1998 · aged 77

    April 26 · 1921

    Source: SNAC

  24. Arthur Hertzberg

    writer, rabbi

    1921–2006 · aged 84

    June 9 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  25. Johan Witteveen

    politician, banker

    1921–2019 · aged 97

    June 12 · 1921

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  26. Bernard d'Espagnat

    philosopher, physicist

    1921–2015 · aged 93

    August 22 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  27. Čestmír Vycpálek

    association football coach, association football player

    1921–2002 · aged 80

    May 15 · 1921

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  28. Ziya Bunyadov*

    orientalist, historian

    Date disputed

    December 24 · 1921

    No external source identified

  29. Fausto Tozzi

    film actor, actor

    1921–1978 · aged 57

    October 29 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  30. Gilbert Durand

    French resistance fighter, anthropologist

    1921–2012 · aged 91

    May 1 · 1921

    Source: Who's Who in France

  31. Leon Henkin

    philosopher, logician

    1921–2006 · aged 85

    April 19 · 1921

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  32. Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo

    diplomat, politician

    1921–1973 · aged 51

    September 2 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  33. Ruth de Souza

    actor

    1921–2019 · aged 98

    May 12 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  34. Jorge Luis Felipe

    diplomat, politician

    1921–1970 · aged 49

    January 11 · 1921

    No external source identified

  35. Robert Simpson

    film editor, musicographer

    1921–1997 · aged 76

    March 2 · 1921

    Source: Discogs

  36. Christopher Okoro Cole

    politician

    1921–1990

    April 17 · 1921

    No external source identified

  37. Gilbert Stork

    university teacher, chemist

    1921–2017

    December 31 · 1921

    Source: SNAC

  38. Sena Jurinac

    opera singer, actor

    1921–2011 · aged 90

    October 24 · 1921

    Source: Croatian Biographical Lexicon

  39. André Turcat

    test pilot, aircraft pilot

    1921–2016 · aged 94

    October 23 · 1921

    Source: liberation.fr

  40. Nadezhda Troyan

    partisan, spy

    1921–2011 · aged 89

    October 24 · 1921

    No external source identified

  41. Viktors Bertholds

    1921–2009 · aged 88

    January 16 · 1921

    No external source identified

  42. Ben Weisman

    lyricist, composer

    1921–2007 · aged 85

    November 16 · 1921

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  43. Wanda Półtawska*

    physician, psychologist

    Date disputed

    November 2 · 1921

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  44. Olivier Clément

    poet, historian

    1921–2009 · aged 87

    November 17 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  45. Mary Osborne

    singer, jazz musician

    1921–1992

    July 17 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  46. Ofelia Guilmáin

    stage actor, film actor

    1921–2005 · aged 83

    November 17 · 1921

    Source: Find a Grave

  47. Graham Leonard

    Catholic priest, theologian

    1921–2010 · aged 88

    May 8 · 1921

    No external source identified

  48. Leo Moser

    university teacher, mathematician

    1921–1970 · aged 48

    April 11 · 1921

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  49. John H. Reed

    politician, jurist

    1921–2012 · aged 91

    January 5 · 1921

    Source: SNAC

  50. Iakovos Kambanelis

    librettist, journalist

    1921–2011 · aged 89

    December 2 · 1921

    Source: kambanellis.gr

  51. Kenneth Davis*

    basketball player

    Date disputed

    1921

    Source: National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File

  52. Michalina Wisłocka

    physician, gynecologist

    1921–2005 · aged 83

    July 1 · 1921

    No external source identified

  53. Abdurrahman Sharafkandi*

    translator, journalist

    Date disputed

    1921

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  54. Snooky Pryor

    musician, composer

    1921–2006 · aged 85

    September 15 · 1921

    Source: fr.findagrave.com

  55. Joe Caroff

    graphic designer

    1921–2025 · aged 103

    August 18 · 1921

    Source: The New York Times

  56. Sam Tingle

    racing automobile driver, Formula One driver

    1921–2008 · aged 87

    August 24 · 1921

    No external source identified

  57. Eric Lenneberg

    psychologist, neurologist

    1921–1975 · aged 53

    September 19 · 1921

    No external source identified

  58. Otis G. Pike

    judge, lawyer

    1921–2014 · aged 92

    August 31 · 1921

    Source: Find a Grave

  59. David Keirsey

    university teacher, psychologist

    1921–2013 · aged 91

    August 31 · 1921

    No external source identified

  60. Carla Voltolina

    partisan, psychologist

    1921–2005 · aged 84

    June 14 · 1921

    Source: anpi.it

  61. Ted Schroeder

    tennis player

    1921–2006 · aged 84

    July 20 · 1921

    Source: 100 years of Wimbledon

  62. Héctor Abad Gómez

    writer, political activist

    1921–1987 · aged 65

    December 2 · 1921

    Source: mcnbiografias.com

  63. Ludmila Brožová-Polednová

    jurist, prosecutor

    1921–2015 · aged 93

    December 20 · 1921

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  64. Anatoly Chernyaev

    politician, historian

    1921–2017 · aged 95

    May 26 · 1921

    No external source identified

  65. Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik

    rabbi

    1921–2021 · aged 99

    October 21 · 1921

    No external source identified

  66. Vladislav Strzhelchik

    actor, drama teacher

    1921–1995 · aged 74

    January 31 · 1921

    Source: Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze

  67. Bartolomeu Anania

    Eastern Orthodox priest, writer

    1921–2011 · aged 89

    March 18 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  68. George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth

    journalist, politician

    1921–2008 · aged 87

    January 16 · 1921

    Source: The Peerage

  69. John Shelton Wilder

    politician, lawyer

    1921–2010 · aged 88

    June 3 · 1921

    Source: SNAC

  70. Sune Andersson

    association football player, association football coach

    1921–2002 · aged 81

    February 22 · 1921

    Source: FBref

  71. Thomas Molnar

    philosopher, university teacher

    1921–2010 · aged 89

    June 26 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  72. Jean-Louis Koszul

    mathematician

    1921–2018 · aged 97

    January 3 · 1921

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  73. Zorka Janů

    stage actor, film actor

    1921–1946

    July 9 · 1921

    Source: Czech National Authority Database

  74. Sergio Bruni

    musician, singer

    1921–2003 · aged 81

    September 15 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  75. Regina Bianchi

    stage actor, film actor

    1921–2013 · aged 92

    January 1 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  76. Nikolai Todorov

    diplomat, politician

    1921–2003 · aged 82

    June 21 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  77. Mona Van Duyn

    writer, editor

    1921–2004 · aged 83

    May 9 · 1921

    Source: SNAC

  78. Eusebio Castigliano

    association football player

    1921–1949 · aged 28

    February 9 · 1921

    Source: Transfermarkt

  79. Paco Godia

    Formula One driver

    1921–1990 · aged 69

    March 21 · 1921

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  80. Isabella Karle

    physicist, biophysicist

    1921–2017 · aged 95

    December 2 · 1921

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  81. Ferenc Karinthy

    dramaturge, science fiction writer

    1921–1992 · aged 70

    June 2 · 1921

    Source: NooSFere

  82. Wu Xueqian

    politician, diplomat

    1921–2008 · aged 86

    December 19 · 1921

    Source: Discogs

  83. Edvard Mirzoyan

    composer, music educator

    1921–2012 · aged 91

    May 12 · 1921

    Source: Find a Grave

  84. Hans Conrad Leipelt

    association football player, resistance fighter

    1921–1945 · aged 23

    July 18 · 1921

    No external source identified

  85. Rufina Gasheva

    professor, editor

    1921–2012 · aged 90

    October 14 · 1921

    No external source identified

  86. Giuseppe Patroni Griffi

    director, writer

    1921–2005 · aged 84

    February 27 · 1921

    Source: IMDb

  87. Robert C. Prim

    computer scientist, mathematician

    1921–2021 · aged 100

    September 25 · 1921

    No external source identified

  88. Lis Hartel

    dressage rider

    1921–2009 · aged 87

    March 14 · 1921

    Source: tradingcarddb.com

  89. Morton Kaplan

    political scientist, university teacher

    1921–2017 · aged 96

    May 9 · 1921

    No external source identified

  90. José Arribas

    association football coach, association football player

    1921–1989 · aged 68

    January 16 · 1921

    No external source identified

  91. Raghunandan Lal Bhatia

    politician

    1921–2021 · aged 99

    July 3 · 1921

    Source: rajbhavan.kerala.gov.in

  92. Ernesto Vidal

    association football player

    1921–1974

    November 15 · 1921

    Source: Istrapedia

  93. Marcel Callo

    typographer

    1921–1945 · aged 23

    December 6 · 1921

    Source: Room of Names

  94. Simone Valère

    actor, stage actor

    1921–2010 · aged 89

    August 2 · 1921

    Source: Who's Who in France

  95. János Pilinszky

    literary translator, librettist

    1921–1981 · aged 59

    November 25 · 1921

    Source: IMDb

  96. Harold Kelley

    psychologist, university teacher

    1921–2003 · aged 81

    February 16 · 1921

    Source: SNAC

  97. Berkley Bedell

    politician

    1921–2019 · aged 98

    March 5 · 1921

    No external source identified

  98. Pery Broad

    concentration camp guard, Gestapo employee

    1921–1993 · aged 72

    April 25 · 1921

    Source: Oorlogsbronnen

  99. Hannjo Hasse

    actor, film actor

    1921–1983 · aged 61

    August 31 · 1921

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  100. Jean Lacouture

    journalist, biographer

    1921–2015 · aged 94

    June 9 · 1921

    Source: Who's Who in France

  101. Antonio Ferrandis

    actor, film actor

    1921–2000 · aged 79

    February 28 · 1921

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  102. Ida Anak Agung Gde Agung

    minister, politician

    1921–1999 · aged 77

    July 21 · 1921

    Source: Onsland.nl

  103. Henry Cockburn

    association football player, association football coach

    1921–2004

    September 14 · 1921

    Source: Transfermarkt

  104. Henri Guérin

    association football player, association football coach

    1921–1995 · aged 73

    August 27 · 1921

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror

  105. Mary Abbott

    model, artist

    1921–2019 · aged 98

    July 27 · 1921

    Source: dbfineart.com

  106. Zuko Džumhur

    caricaturist, painter

    1921–1989 · aged 68

    September 24 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  107. Eugenio Coșeriu

    university teacher, philologist

    1921–2002 · aged 81

    July 27 · 1921

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  108. John Pritchard

    conductor

    1921–1989 · aged 68

    February 5 · 1921

    Source: Discogs

  109. Paul Sinibaldi

    association football player

    1921–2018

    December 3 · 1921

    Source: national-football-teams.com

  110. Jack Crompton

    association football player, association football coach

    1921–2013 · aged 91

    December 18 · 1921

    No external source identified

  111. Roger Béteille

    military flight engineer, aerospace engineer

    1921–2019 · aged 97

    August 21 · 1921

    No external source identified

  112. Alfred Preissler

    association football coach, association football player

    1921–2003 · aged 82

    April 9 · 1921

    Source: Discogs

  113. Henry Graff

    university teacher, historian

    1921–2020 · aged 98

    August 11 · 1921

    Source: nytimes.com

  114. Olgierd Zienkiewicz

    mathematician, university teacher

    1921–2009 · aged 87

    May 18 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  115. Patricia Wrightson

    film editor, children's writer

    1921–2010 · aged 88

    June 19 · 1921

    Source: SNAC

  116. Ion Negoițescu

    literary scholar, librarian

    1921–1993 · aged 71

    August 10 · 1921

    No external source identified

  117. Sven Ivar Seldinger

    docent, physician

    1921–1998 · aged 76

    April 19 · 1921

    Source: Base biographique

  118. Lyubov Sokolova

    actor

    1921–2001 · aged 79

    July 31 · 1921

    Source: IMDb

  119. August Kowalczyk

    theatre director, actor

    1921–2012 · aged 90

    August 15 · 1921

    Source: Auschwitz Prisoners Database

  120. Artin Penik

    tailor, activist

    1921–1982

    1921

    Source: books.google.com.tr

  121. Yekaterina Ryabova

    aircraft pilot

    1921–1974 · aged 53

    July 14 · 1921

    No external source identified

  122. Evgenii Landis

    university teacher, mathematician

    1921–1997 · aged 76

    October 6 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  123. Melba Hernández

    politician, diplomat

    1921–2014 · aged 92

    July 28 · 1921

    Source: Find a Grave

  124. Nilima Ibrahim

    writer, academic

    1921–2002 · aged 80

    October 11 · 1921

    No external source identified

  125. Stanisław Nagy

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1921–2013 · aged 91

    September 30 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  126. Carlos Franqui

    politician, writer

    1921–2010 · aged 88

    December 4 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  127. Nilüfer Gürsoy

    politician

    1921–2024 · aged 103

    June 1 · 1921

    No external source identified

  128. Celia Franca

    ballet dancer, music educator

    1921–2007 · aged 85

    June 25 · 1921

    Source: SNAC

  129. Michel Quoist

    poet, Catholic priest

    1921–1997 · aged 76

    June 18 · 1921

    Source: Autoritats UB

  130. Robert Thurston Dart

    music teacher, conductor

    1921–1971 · aged 49

    September 3 · 1921

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  131. Horace Gould

    Formula One driver

    1921–1968 · aged 47

    September 20 · 1921

    Source: racingsportscars.com

  132. Giorgio Scarlatti

    Formula One driver, racing automobile driver

    1921–1990 · aged 68

    October 2 · 1921

    No external source identified

  133. Pierre Samuel

    historian of science, mathematician

    1921–2009 · aged 87

    September 12 · 1921

    Source: BnF authorities

  134. Roberto Tucci

    Catholic priest

    1921–2015 · aged 93

    April 19 · 1921

    Source: Find a Grave

  135. Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld

    astronomer

    1921–2015 · aged 93

    October 21 · 1921

    No external source identified

  136. Alexander Kemurdzhian

    inventor, academic

    1921–2003

    October 4 · 1921

    No external source identified

  137. Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II

    politician

    1921–1975 · aged 53

    August 5 · 1921

    No external source identified

  138. Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff

    musician, presenter

    1921–1998 · aged 77

    April 27 · 1921

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  139. Prvoslav Mihajlović

    association football player, association football coach

    1921–1978 · aged 57

    April 13 · 1921

    Source: FBref

  140. Woody Bledsoe

    artificial intelligence researcher, computer scientist

    1921–1995 · aged 73

    November 12 · 1921

    Source: aaai.org

  141. Betty Jane Rhodes*

    film actor, television actor

    Date disputed

    April 21 · 1921

    Source: SNAC

  142. Rinaldo Martino*

    association football player

    Date disputed

    October 6 · 1921

    Source: Find a Grave

  143. Joonas Kokkonen

    pianist, university teacher

    1921–1996 · aged 74

    November 13 · 1921

    Source: Biografiskt lexikon för Finland

  144. Ed Souza

    association football player

    1921–1979 · aged 57

    September 22 · 1921

    Source: FBref

  145. James Cooke Brown

    philosopher, novelist

    1921–2000 · aged 78

    July 21 · 1921

    Source: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

  146. Roman Kachanov

    animator, production designer

    1921–1993 · aged 72

    February 25 · 1921

    Source: IMDb

  147. Charles A. Ferguson

    linguist, university teacher

    1921–1998 · aged 77

    July 6 · 1921

    Source: SNAC

  148. Edo Murtić

    painter, illustrator

    1921–2005 · aged 83

    May 4 · 1921

    Source: SNAC

  149. Erwin Hahn

    physicist, university teacher

    1921–2016 · aged 95

    June 9 · 1921

    Source: aip.org

  150. Moshe Gil

    historian, orientalist

    1921–2014

    February 8 · 1921

    Source: AlKindi

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