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The following is a list of notable world figures who died on June 21st.

	1305 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
	1377 - King Edward III of England (b. 1312)
	1527 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469)
	1529 - John Skelton, English poet
	1547 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
	1582 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
	1591 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (b. 1568)
	1621 - Kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)
	1652 - Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573)
	1738 - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)
	1796 - Richard Gridley, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1710)
	1824 - Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)
	1865 - Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)
	1874 - Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
	1893 - Leland Stanford, American Business Tycoon and founder of Stanford University
	1908 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)
	1914 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
	1934 - Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)
	1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
	1952 - Wilfrid 'Wop' May, Canadian aviation pioneer (b. 1896)
	1957 - Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
	1964 - James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
	1964 - Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
	1964 - Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939)
	1969 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b. 1934)
	1970 - Sukarno, President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
	1976 - Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902)
	1979 - Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (b. 1938)
	1980 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
	1985 - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
	1986 - Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author
	1997 - Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labor leader (b. 1900)
	1997 - Shintaro Katsu Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
	2000 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
	2001 - John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1916)
	2001 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
	2003 - Roger Neilson, Canadian hockey coach (b. 1934)
	2003 - Leon Uris, American writer (b. 1924)
	2004 - Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)
	2005 - Jaime Cardinal Sin, Filipino Catholic Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)

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