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| October 21st, 2007 (October 21 2007) | Event | San Diego County has its worst wildfire disaster in San Diegan history as the Harris and Witch Fires blazed across the county. Together, they have burned at least 200,000 acres (810 km?) of landied in Only one casualty has been reported. | |
| October 21st, 2007 (October 21 2007) | Death | Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts) (born in 1951) | |
| October 21st, 2005 (October 21 2005) | Death | Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (born in 1989) | |
| October 21st, 2003 (October 21 2003) | Event | Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz. | |
| October 21st, 2003 (October 21 2003) | Death | Fred Berry, American actor (born in 1951) | |
| October 21st, 2003 (October 21 2003) | Death | Luis A. Ferre, Governor of Puerto Rico (born in 1940) | |
| October 21st, 2003 (October 21 2003) | Death | Louise Day Hicks, American politician (born in 1916) | |
| October 21st, 2003 (October 21 2003) | Death | Elliott Smith, American musician (born in 1969) | Elliott Smith Quotes |
| October 21st, 2001 (October 21 2001) | Event | "United We Stand" benefit concert for September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims, held at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC. Event organized and headlined by Michael Jackson, also featuring pop stars Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, The Backstreet Boys, and others. | Michael Jackson Quotes |
| October 21st, 1998 (October 21 1998) | Death | Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (born in 1915) | |
| October 21st, 1995 (October 21 1995) | Event | Dayton Agreement The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. | |
| October 21st, 1995 (October 21 1995) | Death | Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (born in 1967) | |
| October 21st, 1995 (October 21 1995) | Death | Jesus Blasco, Spanish comic book author (born in 1919) | |
| October 21st, 1995 (October 21 1995) | Death | Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (born in 1916) | |
| October 21st, 1994 (October 21 1994) | Event | North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections. | |
| October 21st, 1994 (October 21 1994) | Event | In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses. | |
| October 21st, 1992 (October 21 1992) | Death | Jim Garrison, American attorney (born in 1921) | |
| October 21st, 1990 (October 21 1990) | Event | The first Apple Day, is held in Covent Garden, London. | |
| October 21st, 1990 (October 21 1990) | Birth | Ricky Rubio, Spanish basketball player | |
| October 21st, 1990 (October 21 1990) | Death | Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian spiritual leader (born in 1921) | |
| October 21st, 1989 (October 21 1989) | Death | Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (born in 1910) | |
| October 21st, 1987 (October 21 1987) | Event | Former Miss America Bess Myerson is arrested on charges of bribery, conspiracy, and mail fraud, all involving an alimony-fixing scandal. She is later found not guilty. | |
| October 21st, 1986 (October 21 1986) | Event | In Lebanon, pro-Iranian kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he was released in August 1991). | |
| October 21st, 1986 (October 21 1986) | Birth | Alex Kew, British actor | |
| October 21st, 1986 (October 21 1986) | Birth | Christopher Uckermann, Mexican actor and singer in the Latin pop group RBD | |
| October 21st, 1986 (October 21 1986) | Death | Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (born in 1922) | |
| October 21st, 1984 (October 21 1984) | Birth | Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, French Canadian short track speed skater | |
| October 21st, 1984 (October 21 1984) | Birth | Kenny Cooper, American soccer player | |
| October 21st, 1984 (October 21 1984) | Birth | Marvin Mitchell, American football player | |
| October 21st, 1984 (October 21 1984) | Birth | Kieran Richardson, English footballer | |
| October 21st, 1984 (October 21 1984) | Death | Francois Truffaut, French film director (born in 1932) | |
| October 21st, 1983 (October 21 1983) | Event | The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. | |
| October 21st, 1983 (October 21 1983) | Birth | Zack Greinke, American baseball player | |
| October 21st, 1983 (October 21 1983) | Birth | Ninette Tayeb, Israeli singer | |
| October 21st, 1983 (October 21 1983) | Birth | Andy Marte, Dominican baseball player | |
| October 21st, 1982 (October 21 1982) | Birth | James White, American basketball player | |
| October 21st, 1982 (October 21 1982) | Birth | Matt Dallas, American Actor | |
| October 21st, 1981 (October 21 1981) | Birth | Nemanja Vidic, Serbian footballer | |
| October 21st, 1980 (October 21 1980) | Birth | Kim Kardashian, American socialite | |
| October 21st, 1980 (October 21 1980) | Birth | Brian Pittman, American musician (Relient K) | |
| October 21st, 1980 (October 21 1980) | Death | Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (born in 1906) | |
| October 21st, 1979 (October 21 1979) | Birth | Khalil Greene, American baseball player | |
| October 21st, 1979 (October 21 1979) | Birth | Gabe Gross, American baseball player | |
| October 21st, 1978 (October 21 1978) | Event | Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft. | |
| October 21st, 1978 (October 21 1978) | Birth | Will Estes, American actor | |
| October 21st, 1978 (October 21 1978) | Birth | Joey Harrington, American football player | |
| October 21st, 1978 (October 21 1978) | Death | Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician (born in 1895) | Anastas Mikoyan Quotes |
| October 21st, 1977 (October 21 1977) | Event | The European Patent Institute is founded. | |
| October 21st, 1976 (October 21 1976) | Birth | Jeremy Miller, American TV actor | |
| October 21st, 1976 (October 21 1976) | Birth | Lavinia Milosovici, Romanian gymnast | |
| October 21st, 1976 (October 21 1976) | Birth | Josh Ritter, American musician | |
| October 21st, 1976 (October 21 1976) | Birth | Melanie Turgeon, French Canadian alpine skier | |
| October 21st, 1975 (October 21 1975) | Birth | Toby Hall, American baseball player | |
| October 21st, 1975 (October 21 1975) | Birth | Henrique Hilario, Portuguese footballer | |
| October 21st, 1975 (October 21 1975) | Death | Charles Reidpath, American athlete (born in 1887) | |
| October 21st, 1973 (October 21 1973) | Event | John Paul Getty III s ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn t arrive until November 8. | |
| October 21st, 1973 (October 21 1973) | Event | Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game. | |
| October 21st, 1973 (October 21 1973) | Birth | Lera Auerbach, Russian composer | |
| October 21st, 1973 (October 21 1973) | Birth | Charlie Lowell, American Musician | |
| October 21st, 1973 (October 21 1973) | Death | Nasif Estefano, Argentine racing driver (born in 1932) | |
| October 21st, 1972 (October 21 1972) | Birth | Felicity Andersen, Australian actress | |
| October 21st, 1972 (October 21 1972) | Birth | Saffron Burrows, English actress | |
| October 21st, 1972 (October 21 1972) | Birth | Masakazu Morita, seiyu and actor | |
| October 21st, 1972 (October 21 1972) | Birth | Matthew Friedberger, American musician (The Fiery Furnaces) | Ric Berger Quotes |
| October 21st, 1972 (October 21 1972) | Birth | Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian professor of international law | |
| October 21st, 1971 (October 21 1971) | Birth | Damien Martyn, Australian cricketer | |
| October 21st, 1971 (October 21 1971) | Birth | Jade Jagger, Socialite and Jewellery Designer | |
| October 21st, 1971 (October 21 1971) | Birth | Nick Oliveri, American musician | |
| October 21st, 1971 (October 21 1971) | Birth | Paul Norman Telfer, Scottish footballer | |
| October 21st, 1969 (October 21 1969) | Event | A coup d etat in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power. | |
| October 21st, 1969 (October 21 1969) | Birth | Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, crown prince of Bahrain | |
| October 21st, 1969 (October 21 1969) | Birth | Mo Lewis, American football player | |
| October 21st, 1969 (October 21 1969) | Death | Jack Kerouac, American novelist (born in 1922) | Jack Kerouac Quotes |
| October 21st, 1969 (October 21 1969) | Death | Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (born in 1882) | |
| October 21st, 1968 (October 21 1968) | Birth | Melora Walters, American actress | |
| October 21st, 1967 (October 21 1967) | Event | Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, DC. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility (event lasts until October 23; 683 people were arrested). Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe. | |
| October 21st, 1967 (October 21 1967) | Birth | Paul Ince, English footballer | |
| October 21st, 1966 (October 21 1966) | Event | Aberfan disaster: A coal tip falls on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren. | |
| October 21st, 1965 (October 21 1965) | Event | Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun. | |
| October 21st, 1965 (October 21 1965) | Birth | Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, Spanish footballer | |
| October 21st, 1965 (October 21 1965) | Death | Bill Black, American musician (born in 1926) | |
| October 21st, 1964 (October 21 1964) | Birth | Jon Carin, American musician (Pink Floyd, The Who) | |
| October 21st, 1962 (October 21 1962) | Birth | David Campese, Australian rugby union footballer | |
| October 21st, 1959 (October 21 1959) | Event | In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. | Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes |
| October 21st, 1959 (October 21 1959) | Event | US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA. | Wernher von Braun Quotes |
| October 21st, 1959 (October 21 1959) | Birth | George Bell, Dominican baseball player | |
| October 21st, 1959 (October 21 1959) | Birth | Tony Ganios, American Actor | |
| October 21st, 1959 (October 21 1959) | Birth | Rose McDowall, Scottish musician | |
| October 21st, 1959 (October 21 1959) | Birth | Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor | |
| October 21st, 1957 (October 21 1957) | Birth | Julian Cope, English musician and writer | Julian Quotes |
| October 21st, 1957 (October 21 1957) | Birth | Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel laureate | |
| October 21st, 1957 (October 21 1957) | Birth | Steve Lukather, American musician | |
| October 21st, 1956 (October 21 1956) | Birth | Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer | Carrie Fisher Quotes |
| October 21st, 1955 (October 21 1955) | Birth | Rich Mullins, American musician (died in 1997) | |
| October 21st, 1954 (October 21 1954) | Birth | Brian Tobin, Canadian premier of Newfoundland | |
| October 21st, 1953 (October 21 1953) | Birth | Keith Green, American musician (died in 1982) | |
| October 21st, 1953 (October 21 1953) | Birth | Peter Mandelson, British politician | |
| October 21st, 1953 (October 21 1953) | Birth | Charlotte Caffey, American musician (The Go-Go s) | |
| October 21st, 1952 (October 21 1952) | Birth | Trevor Chappell, Australian cricketer | |
| October 21st, 1952 (October 21 1952) | Birth | Patti Davis, American actress and novelist | |
| October 21st, 1952 (October 21 1952) | Birth | Allen Hoey, American poet and novelist | |
| October 21st, 1952 (October 21 1952) | Birth | Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (died in 1990) | |
| October 21st, 1950 (October 21 1950) | Birth | Ronald McNair, American astronaut (died in 1986) | |
| October 21st, 1949 (October 21 1949) | Birth | Michel Briere, Canadian ice hockey player (died in 1971) | |
| October 21st, 1949 (October 21 1949) | Birth | Mike Keenan, Canadian ice hockey coach | |
| October 21st, 1949 (October 21 1949) | Birth | Benjamin Netanyahu, 9th Prime Minister of Israel | |
| October 21st, 1948 (October 21 1948) | Birth | Shaye Cohen, Historian and Professor at Harvard University | |
| October 21st, 1948 (October 21 1948) | Birth | Tom Everett, American actor | |
| October 21st, 1946 (October 21 1946) | Birth | Jim Hill, American sportscaster | |
| October 21st, 1946 (October 21 1946) | Birth | Lux Interior, American singer (The Cramps) | |
| October 21st, 1946 (October 21 1946) | Birth | Lee Loughnane, American musician | |
| October 21st, 1945 (October 21 1945) | Event | Women s suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time. | |
| October 21st, 1945 (October 21 1945) | Event | Argentine military officer and politician Juan Peron married actress Evita. | |
| October 21st, 1945 (October 21 1945) | Birth | Everett McGill, American actor | Eric Gill Quotes |
| October 21st, 1944 (October 21 1944) | Event | The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began. | |
| October 21st, 1944 (October 21 1944) | Death | Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (born in 1877) | |
| October 21st, 1943 (October 21 1943) | Birth | Tariq Ali, Pakistani author and historian | Tariq Ali Quotes |
| October 21st, 1943 (October 21 1943) | Birth | Brian Piccolo, American football player (died in 1970) | |
| October 21st, 1942 (October 21 1942) | Birth | Elvin Bishop, American musician | |
| October 21st, 1942 (October 21 1942) | Birth | Judy Sheindlin, American judge ("Judge Judy") | |
| October 21st, 1942 (October 21 1942) | Birth | Allan Grice, Australian racing driver | |
| October 21st, 1941 (October 21 1941) | Event | 7000 Serbs were shot in Kragujevac, Serbia by Nazi Germans. | |
| October 21st, 1941 (October 21 1941) | Birth | Steve Cropper, American musician | |
| October 21st, 1940 (October 21 1940) | Birth | Geoff Boycott, English cricketer | |
| October 21st, 1940 (October 21 1940) | Birth | Manfred Mann, English musician | |
| October 21st, 1940 (October 21 1940) | Death | William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (born in 1866) | |
| October 21st, 1938 (October 21 1938) | Birth | Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (died in 2001) | |
| October 21st, 1931 (October 21 1931) | Death | Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian writer (born in 1862) | |
| October 21st, 1930 (October 21 1930) | Birth | Ivan Stepanovich Silayev, Last prime minister of the Soviet Union | |
| October 21st, 1929 (October 21 1929) | Birth | Ursula K. Le Guin, American author | |
| October 21st, 1928 (October 21 1928) | Birth | Whitey Ford, American baseball player | |
| October 21st, 1925 (October 21 1925) | Birth | Louis J. Robichaud, Canadian premier of New Brunswick (died in 2005) | |
| October 21st, 1924 (October 21 1924) | Birth | Celia Cruz, Cuban singer, Queen of Salsa. (died in 2003) | |
| October 21st, 1924 (October 21 1924) | Birth | Joyce Randolph, American actress | |
| October 21st, 1922 (October 21 1922) | Birth | Liliane de Bettencourt, heir to L Oreal | |
| October 21st, 1921 (October 21 1921) | Event | President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south. | Warren G. Harding Quotes |
| October 21st, 1921 (October 21 1921) | Birth | Sir Malcolm Arnold, British composer (died in 2006) | |
| October 21st, 1917 (October 21 1917) | Birth | Dizzy Gillespie, American musician (died in 1993) | Eric Gill Quotes |
| October 21st, 1914 (October 21 1914) | Birth | Martin Gardner, American mathematician and writer | |
| October 21st, 1912 (October 21 1912) | Birth | Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (died in 1997) | Sir Georg Solti Quotes |
| October 21st, 1912 (October 21 1912) | Birth | Alfredo Pian, Argentine racing driver (died in 1990) | |
| October 21st, 1907 (October 21 1907) | Birth | Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (died in 1985) | |
| October 21st, 1907 (October 21 1907) | Birth | Jules Chevalier, French priest (born in 1824) | |
| October 21st, 1906 (October 21 1906) | Birth | Lillian Asplund, last American Titanic survivor (died in 2006) | |
| October 21st, 1904 (October 21 1904) | Birth | Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (died in 1967) | |
| October 21st, 1904 (October 21 1904) | Death | Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (born in 1877) | |
| October 21st, 1902 (October 21 1902) | Event | In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends. | |
| October 21st, 1898 (October 21 1898) | Birth | Eduard Putsep, Estonian wresler and Olympic medalist (died in 1960) | |
| October 21st, 1896 (October 21 1896) | Death | James Henry Greathead, British engineer (born in 1844) | Henry James Quotes |
| October 21st, 1895 (October 21 1895) | Event | The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade. | |
| October 21st, 1895 (October 21 1895) | Birth | Edna Purviance, American actress (died in 1958) | |
| October 21st, 1894 (October 21 1894) | Birth | Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (died in 1965) | |
| October 21st, 1892 (October 21 1892) | Event | Opening ceremonies for the World s Columbian Exposition were held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893. | |
| October 21st, 1886 (October 21 1886) | Birth | Eugene Burton Ely, American aviation pioneer (died in 1911) | |
| October 21st, 1879 (October 21 1879) | Event | Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13? hours before burning out). | |
| October 21st, 1873 (October 21 1873) | Death | Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (born in 1807) | |
| October 21st, 1872 (October 21 1872) | Death | Jacques Babinet, French physicist (born in 1794) | |
| October 21st, 1867 (October 21 1867) | Event | Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge TreatyNear Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma. | |
| October 21st, 1861 (October 21 1861) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Ball s BluffUnion forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting. | Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| October 21st, 1854 (October 21 1854) | Event | Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War. | Florence Nightingale Quotes |
| October 21st, 1851 (October 21 1851) | Birth | George Ulyett, English cricketer (died in 1898) | |
| October 21st, 1847 (October 21 1847) | Birth | Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian writer (died in 1906) | |
| October 21st, 1833 (October 21 1833) | Birth | Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (died in 1896) | Alfred Nobel Quotes |
| October 21st, 1824 (October 21 1824) | Event | Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement. | |
| October 21st, 1821 (October 21 1821) | Birth | Eduard Heine, German mathematician (died in 1881) | |
| October 21st, 1816 (October 21 1816) | Event | The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia. | |
| October 21st, 1805 (October 21 1805) | Event | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signalled the virtual end of French maritime power and left Britain navally unchallenged until the twentieth century. | |
| October 21st, 1805 (October 21 1805) | Event | Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at Ulm, reaping Napoleon over 30,000 prisoners and inflicting 10,000 casualties on the losers. Ulm was considered to be one of Napoleon s finest hours. | |
| October 21st, 1805 (October 21 1805) | Death | Horatio Nelson, British admiral (born in 1758) | Horatio Nelson Quotes |
| October 21st, 1797 (October 21 1797) | Event | In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched. | |
| October 21st, 1790 (October 21 1790) | Birth | Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer (died in 1869) | Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes |
| October 21st, 1777 (October 21 1777) | Death | Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (born in 1720) | Samuel Foote Quotes |
| October 21st, 1775 (October 21 1775) | Birth | Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (died in 1844) | |
| October 21st, 1775 (October 21 1775) | Death | Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (born in 1721) | |
| October 21st, 1774 (October 21 1774) | Event | First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America. | |
| October 21st, 1772 (October 21 1772) | Birth | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet (died in 1834) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
| October 21st, 1765 (October 21 1765) | Death | Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (born in 1691) | |
| October 21st, 1762 (October 21 1762) | Birth | Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (died in 1818) | |
| October 21st, 1757 (October 21 1757) | Birth | Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (died in 1816) | |
| October 21st, 1725 (October 21 1725) | Birth | Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (died in 1801) | |
| October 21st, 1712 (October 21 1712) | Birth | Sir James Steuart, British economist (died in 1780) | |
| October 21st, 1687 (October 21 1687) | Birth | Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died in 1759) | |
| October 21st, 1687 (October 21 1687) | Death | Sir Edmund Waller, English poet (born in 1606) | Edmund Waller Quotes |
| October 21st, 1675 (October 21 1675) | Birth | Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (died in 1710) | |
| October 21st, 1662 (October 21 1662) | Death | Henry Lawes, English composer (born in 1595) | |
| October 21st, 1660 (October 21 1660) | Birth | Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist (died in 1734) | |
| October 21st, 1650 (October 21 1650) | Birth | Jean Bart, French admiral (died in 1702) | |
| October 21st, 1623 (October 21 1623) | Death | William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (born in 1546) | |
| October 21st, 1600 (October 21 1600) | Event | Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate, who in effect rule Japan until the mid-nineteenth century. | |
| October 21st, 1600 (October 21 1600) | Death | Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (born in 1557) | |
| October 21st, 1581 (October 21 1581) | Birth | Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (died in 1641) | |
| October 21st, 1558 (October 21 1558) | Death | Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian scholar (born in 1484) | Julius Caesar Quotes |
| October 21st, 1527 (October 21 1527) | Birth | Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (died in 1578) | |
| October 21st, 1520 (October 21 1520) | Event | Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan. | |
| October 21st, 1512 (October 21 1512) | Event | Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. | Martin Luther Quotes |
| October 21st, 1505 (October 21 1505) | Death | Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician | |
| October 21st, 1500 (October 21 1500) | Death | Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (born in 1442) | |
| October 21st, 1449 (October 21 1449) | Birth | George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III (died in 1478) | |
| October 21st, 1422 (October 21 1422) | Death | King Charles VI of France (born in 1368) | |
| October 21st, 1266 (October 21 1266) | Death | Birger jarl, Swedish statesman (born in 1210) | |
| October 21st, 1221 (October 21 1221) | Death | Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (born in 1201) | |
| October 21st, 1204 (October 21 1204) | Death | Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman | |
| October 21st, 1125 (October 21 1125) | Death | Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer | |
