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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 21st of August 1192 | EVENT | Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shogun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192) |
| 21st of August 1680 | EVENT | Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt. |
| 21st of August 1689 | EVENT | The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland. |
| 21st of August 1760 | EVENT | The church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayaguez (Puerto Rico)" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city. |
| 21st of August 1770 | EVENT | James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales. |
| 21st of August 1772 | EVENT | King Gustav III completes his coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot. |
| 21st of August 1808 | EVENT | Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War. |
| 21st of August 1810 | EVENT | Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates. |
| 21st of August 1821 | EVENT | Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances. |
| 21st of August 1831 | EVENT | Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion. |
| 21st of August 1852 | EVENT | Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory. |
| 21st of August 1863 | EVENT | Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre. |
| 21st of August 1878 | EVENT | The American Bar Association is founded. |
| 21st of August 1879 | EVENT | 1879 - The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland. |
| 21st of August 1888 | EVENT | The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs. |
| 21st of August 1911 | EVENT | The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee. |
| 21st of August 1918 | EVENT | World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins. |
| 21st of August 1928 | EVENT | WRNY began regularly scheduled television broadcasts in New York City. |
| 21st of August 1942 | EVENT | World War II: the Guadalcanal campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru. |
| 21st of August 1942 | EVENT | World War II: a Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus. |
| 21st of August 1944 | EVENT | Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins. |
| 21st of August 1945 | EVENT | Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. |
| 21st of August 1959 | EVENT | President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day |
| 21st of August 1963 | EVENT | Xa Loi Pagoda raids: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead. |
| 21st of August 1968 | EVENT | James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine. |
| 21st of August 1968 | EVENT | Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring; on the same day, Nicolae Ceausescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet maneuver, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals. |
| 21st of August 1969 | EVENT | An Australian, Michael Dennis Rohan, sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire |
| 21st of August 1971 | EVENT | A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured. |
| 21st of August 1976 | EVENT | Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea. |
| 21st of August 1983 | EVENT | Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport). |
| 21st of August 1986 | EVENT | Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range. |
| 21st of August 1991 | EVENT | Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union. |
| 21st of August 1991 | EVENT | Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses. |
| 21st of August 1992 | EVENT | Ruby Ridge Standoff in Idaho |
| 21st of August 1993 | EVENT | NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft. |
| 21st of August 2001 | EVENT | The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. |
| 21st of August 2001 | EVENT | NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. |
| 21st of August 2007 | EVENT | Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph (266 km/h). Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5. |
| 21st of August 1165 | BIRTHDAY | King Philip II of France (d. 1223) |
| 21st of August 1535 | BIRTHDAY | Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619) |
| 21st of August 1567 | BIRTHDAY | Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (d. 1622) |
| 21st of August 1597 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) |
| 21st of August 1643 | BIRTHDAY | King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683) |
| 21st of August 1660 | BIRTHDAY | Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer (d. 1737) |
| 21st of August 1665 | BIRTHDAY | Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) |
| 21st of August 1670 | BIRTHDAY | James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734) |
| 21st of August 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805) |
| 21st of August 1754 | BIRTHDAY | William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839) |
| 21st of August 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833) |
| 21st of August 1765 | BIRTHDAY | William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837) |
| 21st of August 1789 | BIRTHDAY | Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857) |
| 21st of August 1798 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Michelet, French historian (d. 1874) |
| 21st of August 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880) |
| 21st of August 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (d. 1876) |
| 21st of August 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891) |
| 21st of August 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Frederic Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856) |
| 21st of August 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903) |
| 21st of August 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (d. 1889) |
| 21st of August 1869 | BIRTHDAY | William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish/Australian poet (d. 1963) |
| 21st of August 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator (d. 1898) |
| 21st of August 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Girulatis, German football manager (d. 1963) |
| 21st of August 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007) |
| 21st of August 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Vanel, French actor and director (d. 1989) |
| 21st of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Angel Karaliychev, Bulgarian writer (d. 1972) |
| 21st of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | William "Count" Basie, American bandleader (d. 1984) |
| 21st of August 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Friz Freleng, American movie animator (d. 1995) |
| 21st of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004) |
| 21st of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (d. 1992) |
| 21st of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995) |
| 21st of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (d. 1998) |
| 21st of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004) |
| 21st of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996) |
| 21st of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Buck, American sports announcer (d. 2002) |
| 21st of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Schenkel, American sports journalist (d. 2005) |
| 21st of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996) |
| 21st of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003) |
| 21st of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Grable, American professional wrestler (d. 2008) |
| 21st of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) |
| 21st of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Bud McFadin, American football player (d. 2006) |
| 21st of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Art Farmer, American trumpet player (d. 1999) |
| 21st of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | X. J. Kennedy, American poet |
| 21st of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Severin, American comic book artist and colorist |
| 21st of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Perry, American film director (d. 1995) |
| 21st of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002) |
| 21st of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter |
| 21st of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (d. 1994) |
| 21st of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano |
| 21st of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician( d. 2001) |
| 21st of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist |
| 21st of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (d. 1999) |
| 21st of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Radish Tordia, painter of Figurative Art from Georgia |
| 21st of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Stone, American novelist |
| 21st of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Gustavo Noboa, former President of Ecuador |
| 21st of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor |
| 21st of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Williams III, American actor |
| 21st of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | James Burton, American guitarist |
| 21st of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Festus Mogae, president of Botswana |
| 21st of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Wilson, American director, writer and actor |
| 21st of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie DeShannon, American singer |
| 21st of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Weir, Australian film director |
| 21st of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Perry Christie, former prime minister of the Bahamas |
| 21st of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry DaVanon, baseball player |
| 21st of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (d. 2006) |
| 21st of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Patty McCormack, American actress |
| 21st of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Loretta Devine, American actress |
| 21st of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer |
| 21st of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Bremer, American criminal, who shot George C Wallace in May 1972. |
| 21st of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist |
| 21st of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Smith, American television journalist |
| 21st of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Char Margolis, American medium |
| 21st of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Margo Kane, Canadian playwright. |
| 21st of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Hughes, British bassist and vocalist (Finders Keepers/Trapeze/Deep Purple) |
| 21st of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Hart, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 21st of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (d. 2002) |
| 21st of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jiri Paroubek, former Czech prime minister |
| 21st of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Stang, American writer |
| 21st of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Archie Griffin, former American football player and only two-time Heisman Trophy winner. |
| 21st of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Chip Coffey, American psychic, medium and television personality. |
| 21st of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Cattrall, English-born actress |
| 21st of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | John Tester, US Senator from Montana |
| 21st of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jim McMahon, American football player |
| 21st of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | David Morales, American disc jockey |
| 21st of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Hillenburg, American animator and cartoonist |
| 21st of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer |
| 21st of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John Korfas, Greek basketball player |
| 21st of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Stryker, American actor |
| 21st of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Richmond Arquette, American actor |
| 21st of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | King Mohammed VI of Morocco |
| 21st of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Trinity Loren, American actress and model (d. 1998) |
| 21st of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Bullinger, American baseball player |
| 21st of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Caryn Mower, American actress, stuntwoman and former professional wrestler |
| 21st of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | John Wetteland, Major League Baseball player |
| 21st of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Serj Tankian, Armenian-born singer (System of a Down) |
| 21st of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress |
| 21st of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Bewick, AFL footballer |
| 21st of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Josee Chouinard, Canadian figure skater |
| 21st of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Jones, American professional wrestler |
| 21st of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Dekker, Dutch cyclist |
| 21st of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Liam Howlett, British musician (The Prodigy) |
| 21st of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mamadou Diallo, Senegalese Soccer player |
| 21st of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Harvey, Australian Rules Footballer (St Kilda Football Club) |
| 21st of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 21st of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolay Valuev, Russian boxer |
| 21st of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google |
| 21st of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Katich, Australian cricketer |
| 21st of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Alicia Witt, American actress |
| 21st of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player |
| 21st of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican American soccer player |
| 21st of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Vazquez, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 21st of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Vertis, Greek singer |
| 21st of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Wu, Taiwanese Actress |
| 21st of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Buxton, English rugby union player |
| 21st of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Bhumika Chawla, Indian Actress |
| 21st of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Reuben Droughns, American football player |
| 21st of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player |
| 21st of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Marquis, American baseball player |
| 21st of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Lee, Irish footballer |
| 21st of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kelis Rogers-Jones, American singer |
| 21st of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Menard, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver |
| 21st of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Burney Lamar, American race car driver |
| 21st of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jarrod Lyle, Australian Golfer |
| 21st of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Collie Buddz, (Colin Harper) Reggae & Dancehall artist |
| 21st of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Eaton, New Zealand All Black rugby player |
| 21st of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Harrington, American professional BMX rider |
| 21st of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Chantelle Houghton, British TV personality |
| 21st of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Brody Jenner, American actor |
| 21st of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Scott McDonald, Australian footballer (Celtic F.C.) |
| 21st of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alizee Jacotey, French singer |
| 21st of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Dexter, South African cricketer |
| 21st of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Schuman, American actress |
| 21st of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | B.J. Upton, American baseball player |
| 21st of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa M, French singer |
| 21st of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Nee, American strongman |
| 21st of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter |
| 21st of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Wout Brama, Dutch international footballer (FC Twente) |
| 21st of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Kibum, a member of Korean boy band Super junior. actor and singer |
| 21st of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Setara, English singer-songwriter |
| 21st of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Paris Bennett, American singer and finalist on American Idol (season 5) |
| 21st of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Hayden Panettiere, American actress, model and singer |
| 21st of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Judd Trump, English snooker player |
| 21st of August 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron Argon, American electronic and death metal musician |
| 21st of August 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Fabian Heimpel, German rugby player |
| 21st of August 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Bo Burnham, American comedic singer-songwriter and Internet Celebrity |
| 21st of August 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Kavanagh, English songwriter and actor |
| 21st of August 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress |
| 21st of August 1153 | DEATH | Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (Born 1090) |
| 21st of August 1157 | DEATH | King Alfonso VII of Castile (Born 1104/1105) |
| 21st of August 1271 | DEATH | Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (Born 1220) |
| 21st of August 1581 | DEATH | Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (Born 1527) |
| 21st of August 1614 | DEATH | Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian noble and alleged serial killer (Born 1560) |
| 21st of August 1627 | DEATH | Jacques Mauduit, French composer (Born 1557) |
| 21st of August 1673 | DEATH | Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier |
| 21st of August 1689 | DEATH | William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier |
| 21st of August 1762 | DEATH | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (Born 1689) |
| 21st of August 1763 | DEATH | Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (Born 1710) |
| 21st of August 1796 | DEATH | John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (Born 1721) |
| 21st of August 1814 | DEATH | Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (Born 1753) |
| 21st of August 1836 | DEATH | Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (Born 1785) |
| 21st of August 1838 | DEATH | Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (Born 1781) |
| 21st of August 1854 | DEATH | Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (Born 1777) |
| 21st of August 1870 | DEATH | Ma Xinyi, Chinese Viceroy of Liangjiang and statesman (Born 1821) |
| 21st of August 1926 | DEATH | Ugyen Wangchuck, first king of Bhutan (Born1862) |
| 21st of August 1935 | DEATH | John Hartley, English tennis player (Born 1849) |
| 21st of August 1940 | DEATH | Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (Born 1879) |
| 21st of August 1940 | DEATH | Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (Born 1863) |
| 21st of August 1940 | DEATH | Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (Born 1882) |
| 21st of August 1943 | DEATH | Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize (Born 1857) |
| 21st of August 1947 | DEATH | Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (Born 1881) |
| 21st of August 1951 | DEATH | Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (Born 1905) |
| 21st of August 1957 | DEATH | Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1902) |
| 21st of August 1957 | DEATH | Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (Born 1888) |
| 21st of August 1960 | DEATH | David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (Born 1886) |
| 21st of August 1964 | DEATH | Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (Born 1893) |
| 21st of August 1971 | DEATH | George Jackson, American Black Panther Party figure (Born 1941) |
| 21st of August 1974 | DEATH | Buford Pusser, American law enforcement official (Born 1937) |
| 21st of August 1978 | DEATH | Charles Eames, American designer and architect (Born 1907) |
| 21st of August 1979 | DEATH | Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (Born 1910) |
| 21st of August 1981 | DEATH | Michael Devine, 1981 Irish hunger strike figure (Born 1954) |
| 21st of August 1982 | DEATH | Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (Born 1899) |
| 21st of August 1983 | DEATH | Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader (Born 1932) |
| 21st of August 1988 | DEATH | Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (Born 1912) |
| 21st of August 1988 | DEATH | Teddy Diaz, Filipino rock guitarist (The Dawn) (Born 1963) |
| 21st of August 1989 | DEATH | Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (Born 1945) |
| 21st of August 1992 | DEATH | Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (Born 1894) |
| 21st of August 1995 | DEATH | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1910) |
| 21st of August 1997 | DEATH | Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (Born 1921) |
| 21st of August 2000 | DEATH | Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer (Born 1928) |
| 21st of August 2000 | DEATH | Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (Born 1930) |
| 21st of August 2000 | DEATH | Tomata du Plenty, artist and lead singer of The Screamers. (Born 1948) |
| 21st of August 2001 | DEATH | Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1927) |
| 21st of August 2003 | DEATH | Wesley Willis, American musician (Born 1963) |
| 21st of August 2003 | DEATH | Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and aid worker (Born 1946) |
| 21st of August 2005 | DEATH | Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (Born 1925) |
| 21st of August 2005 | DEATH | Robert Moog, American inventor (Born 1934) |
| 21st of August 2005 | DEATH | Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (Born 1936) |
| 21st of August 2005 | DEATH | Martin Dillon, American opera singer (Born 1957) |
| 21st of August 2006 | DEATH | Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (Born 1916) |
| 21st of August 2006 | DEATH | S. Yizhar (aka Yizhar Smilansky), Israeli author (Born 1916) |
| 21st of August 2006 | DEATH | Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (Born 1941) |
| 21st of August 2007 | DEATH | Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (Born 1918) |
| 21st of August 2007 | DEATH | Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (Born 1960) |
| 21st of August 2007 | DEATH | Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (Born 1981) |
| 21st of August 2008 | DEATH | Jerry Finn, American record producer (Born 1969) |
| 21st of August 2009 | DEATH | Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (Born 1930) |
| 21st of August 2009 | DEATH | Dean Turner, Australian musician (Born 1972) |
| 21st of August 2010 | DEATH | Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentinean writer (Born 1941) |
| 21st of August 2010 | DEATH | Nancy Dolman, Canadian actress and comedienne (Born 1950) |