Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: 21-Aug

Died on This Day (21-Aug)

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Ifeanyi Chiejine	Ifeanyichukwu Stephanie Chiejine was a Nigerian football striker.	Nigerian footballer	36	1
	Younes Abouyaaqoub	On the afternoon of 17 August 2017, 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub drove a van into pedestrians on La Rambla in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain killing 13 people and injuring at least 130 others, one of whom died 10 days later on 27 August.	Islamic terrorist	22	3
	Albert Reynolds	Albert Reynolds was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach from 1992 to 1994, Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1992 to 1994, Minister for Finance from 1988 to 1991, Minister for Industry and Commerce from 1987 to 1988, Minister for Industry and Energy from March 1982 to December 1982, Minister for Transport from 1980 to 1981 and Minister for Posts and Telegraphs from 1979 to 1981.	Irish Prime Minister	81	6
	William Thurston	William Paul Thurston was an American mathematician.	American mathematician	65	8
	Robert Moog	Robert Arthur Moog was an American engineering physicist and pioneer of electronic music.	Electronic music pioneer	71	15
	Wesley Willis	Wesley Lawrence Willis was an American singer-songwriter and visual artist.	American musician	40	17
	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist Astronomer and Physicist who spent his professional life in the United States.	Astrophysicist	84	25
	Eduard Shpolsky	Eduard Vladimirovich Shpolsky, also Shpolsk'ii, Shpolskii was a Russian and Soviet physicist and educator, co-founder and lifelong editor of Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk journal .	Soviet physicist	82	45
	Ronald Lindsay	Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay was a British civil servant and diplomat.	British diplomat	68	75
	Gustav Struve	Gustav Struve, known as Gustav von Struve until he gave up his title , was a German surgeon, politician, lawyer and publicist, and a revolutionary during the German revolution of 1848-1849 in Baden Germany.	American journalist	64	150

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Stefán Karl Stefánsson	Stefán Karl Stefánsson is an Icelandic film and stage actor who is best known for playing the character Robbie Rotten on the television show LazyTown.	Icelandic actor	43	2
	Antony Jay	Sir Antony Rupert Jay, was an English writer, broadcaster, producer and director.	English writer, broadcaster, and director	86	4
	C. Gordon Fullerton	Charles Gordon Fullerton was a United States Air Force colonel, a USAF and NASA astronaut, and a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California.	American astronaut and test pilot	76	7
	Chloé Graftiaux	Chloé Graftiaux was a Belgian sport climber, 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	10
	Xavier de La Chevalerie	Marie-Emile Xavier Daufresne de La Chevalerie was a French diplomat.	French diplomat	84	16
	Andrzej Zawada	Andrzej Zawada was a Polish mountaineer, pioneer of winter Himalayism.	Mountain climber	72	20
	Gilbert Warrenton	Gilbert Warrenton was a prominent American silent and sound film cinematographer.	American cinematographer	86	40
	Friedrich-Wilhelm Karl	The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military of the Third Reich during World War II.	SS officer	58	50
	Edmond Butler	Edmund or Edmond Butler was a U.S. Army officer who served with the Union Army during the American Civil War and later became a prominent Indian fighter in the Northern Plains, Rocky Mountains and southwest United States in the post-Civil War era.	United States Army Medal of Honor recipient	67	125
	John Leake	Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Leake was a Royal Navy officer and politician.	Royal Navy admiral	64	300