Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: Aug-21

Died on This Day (Aug-21)

Person Person Description Age Anniv
James Dobson James Dobson American Evangelical Christian psychologist, author, and radio broadcaster American evangelical christian 89 1
Bill Pascrell Bill Pascrell U.S. Representative from New Jersey Member of the U.S. House of Representatives 87 2
  Anthony Scotto American mobster American mobster 87 5
Chris Kooy Chris Kooy Canadian soccer player Canadian soccer player 38 6
  Ifeanyi Chiejine Nigerian footballer Nigerian footballer 36 7
  Stefán Karl Stefánsson Icelandic actor Icelandic actor 43 8
Younes Abouyaaqoub Younes Abouyaaqoub jihadist terrorist attacks in Catalonia, Spain in August 2017 Islamic terrorist 22 9
  Antony Jay British screenwriter English writer, broadcaster, and director 86 10
Chloé Graftiaux Chloé Graftiaux Chloé Graftiaux was a Belgian sport climber and alpinist who fell to her death on the 3,773-metre Aiguille Noire de Peuterey in the Mont Blanc massif, aged 23. Belgian sport climber 23 16
Dean Turner Dean Turner Dean Turner was an Australian rock musician and record producer. Australian musician 37 17
  Sean Rigg Sean Rigg was a 40-year-old black British musician and music producer who had paranoid schizophrenia. Died in police custody in Brixton, England 40 18
Caroline Aigle Caroline Aigle Commandant Caroline Aigle was a French aviator who achieved a historical first when, at the age of 25, she became the first woman fighter pilot in the French Air Force. Pilot 32 19
Bismillah Khan Bismillah Khan Bismillah Khan , often referred to by the title Ustad, was an Indian musician credited with popularizing the shehnai, a reeded woodwind instrument. Indian musician 93 20
Jack Adams Jack Adams John Ellis Adams was a Canadian ice hockey left winger who played one season in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens, in 1940–41. Canadian ce hockey player 76 30
  Bessa Vugo Bessa Vugo was a female German biologist, who extensively contributed in the knowledge of the five senses, through powerful experiments . German biologist 71 35
Agustín Sauto Arana Agustín Sauto Arana Agustín Sauto Arana , known as Bata, was a Spanish footballer who played as a striker. Spanish footballer 78 40
Jose Cojuangco Jose Cojuangco José "Pepe" Chichioco Cojuangco Sr. was a Filipino politician who served as Representative of the 1st District of Tarlac in the Philippines from 1934 to 1946. Filipino politician 80 50
Clara C. M. Cannon Clara C. M. Cannon Clarissa Cordelia Moses Cannon was a Mormon pioneer and a member of the first-ever general presidency of the Primary organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . Mormon pioneer 87 100
Adolf Eugen Fick Adolf Eugen Fick Adolf Eugen Fick was a German-born physician and physiologist. German physiologist 71 125
Gustav Simon Gustav Simon Gustav Simon was a German surgeon. In 1848 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Giessen, and from 1848 to 1861 served as a military physician with a Hessian troop outfit. German surgeon 52 150