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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 21st of July 0230 | EVENT | Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope. |
| 21st of July 0285 | EVENT | Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler. |
| 21st of July 0365 | EVENT | A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami is caused by an earthquake estimated to be 8.0 on the Richter Scale. 5,000 people perished in Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside the city. |
| 21st of July 1403 | EVENT | Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England. |
| 21st of July 1545 | EVENT | The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight. |
| 21st of July 1568 | EVENT | Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen : Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau. |
| 21st of July 1718 | EVENT | The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed. |
| 21st of July 1774 | EVENT | Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending the war. |
| 21st of July 1831 | EVENT | Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians. |
| 21st of July 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run : at Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army. |
| 21st of July 1865 | EVENT | In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown. |
| 21st of July 1873 | EVENT | At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West. |
| 21st of July 1877 | EVENT | After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia. |
| 21st of July 1904 | EVENT | Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brille in Ostend, Belgium. |
| 21st of July 1918 | EVENT | U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts. |
| 21st of July 1919 | EVENT | The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people. |
| 21st of July 1925 | EVENT | Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100. |
| 21st of July 1925 | EVENT | Sir Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to break the 150 mph (241 km/h) land barrier at Pendine Sands in Wales. He drove a Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h). |
| 21st of July 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Guam : American troops land on Guam starting the battle. It would end on August 10. |
| 21st of July 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. |
| 21st of July 1949 | EVENT | The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty. |
| 21st of July 1954 | EVENT | First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam. |
| 21st of July 1959 | EVENT | Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox. |
| 21st of July 1960 | EVENT | Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and becomes the world's first woman prime minister. |
| 21st of July 1961 | EVENT | Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission : Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission). |
| 21st of July 1969 | EVENT | Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission. |
| 21st of July 1970 | EVENT | After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed. |
| 21st of July 1972 | EVENT | Bloody Friday bombings by the Provisional IRA around Belfast, Northern Ireland : 22 bombs are detonated, killing 9 and seriously injuring 130. |
| 21st of July 1973 | EVENT | In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in 1972's Munich Olympics Massacre. |
| 21st of July 1976 | EVENT | Christopher Ewart-Biggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA. |
| 21st of July 1977 | EVENT | The start of the four day long Libyan-Egyptian War. |
| 21st of July 1983 | EVENT | The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at -89.2 ?C (-128.6 ?F). |
| 21st of July 1995 | EVENT | Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan. |
| 21st of July 1997 | EVENT | The fully restored USS Constitution (aka Old Ironsides) celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years. |
| 21st of July 2001 | EVENT | At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyogo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri railway station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect. |
| 21st of July 2005 | EVENT | Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London's public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms. |
| 21st of July 1620 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682) |
| 21st of July 1664 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (d. 1721) |
| 21st of July 1693 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1768) |
| 21st of July 1710 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Mohring, German physician (d. 1792) |
| 21st of July 1762 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Hinman, pioneer road builder |
| 21st of July 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Simion Barnutiu, Romanian philosopher and politician (d. 1864) |
| 21st of July 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist (d. 1878) |
| 21st of July 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Reuter, German-born British journalist (d. 1899) |
| 21st of July 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (d. 1878) |
| 21st of July 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Christina of Austria, queen of Spain (d. 1929) |
| 21st of July 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925) |
| 21st of July 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (d. 1941) |
| 21st of July 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Aubrey Smith, English cricketer and actor (d. 1948) |
| 21st of July 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Orlik, Czech painter (d. 1932) |
| 21st of July 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Milan Rastislav Stefanik, Slovak politician and astronomer (d. 1919) |
| 21st of July 1882 | BIRTHDAY | David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (d. 1967) |
| 21st of July 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Fallada, German writer (d. 1947) |
| 21st of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1961) |
| 21st of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932) |
| 21st of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Neuberger, American financier (d. 2010) |
| 21st of July 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Harold "Jug" McSpaden, American professional golfer (d. 1996) |
| 21st of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author (d. 1980) |
| 21st of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Constance Dowling, American actress (d. 1969) |
| 21st of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 2001) |
| 21st of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 2005) |
| 21st of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Kay Starr, American singer |
| 21st of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Mollie Sugden, British comedic actress (d. 2009) |
| 21st of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate |
| 21st of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 21st of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Meacham, American actress (d. 2006) |
| 21st of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Burke, American actor (d. 2009) |
| 21st of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Jewison, Canadian film director |
| 21st of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general |
| 21st of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Karel Reisz, British film director (d. 2002) |
| 21st of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Queenie Watts, English actress (d. 1980) |
| 21st of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (d. 1998) |
| 21st of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Orton, American wrestler (d. 2006) |
| 21st of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (d. 2002) |
| 21st of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Warlick, American football player |
| 21st of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | John Gardner, American author (d. 1982) |
| 21st of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Chandu Borde, former Indian cricketer |
| 21st of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Miller, British theatre director |
| 21st of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Norbert Blum, German politician |
| 21st of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Moe Drabowsky, baseball player (d. 2006) |
| 21st of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Les Aspin, American politician (d. 1995) |
| 21st of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Kuerti, Canadian pianist, composer and conductor |
| 21st of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Reno, 79th United States Attorney General |
| 21st of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | John Negroponte, 1st United States Director of National Intelligence |
| 21st of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Herrmann, American actor |
| 21st of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Wellstone, American politician (d. 2002) |
| 21st of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Lowe, English darts player |
| 21st of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Richards, Former South African cricketer |
| 21st of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Geoff Dymock, Former Australian cricketer |
| 21st of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (d. 2008) |
| 21st of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Starr, American lawyer |
| 21st of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Whitwam, British musician (Herman's Hermits) |
| 21st of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Chetan Chauhan, Former Indian cricketer |
| 21st of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Hinton, American sportswriter |
| 21st of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English singer/songwriter |
| 21st of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Teruzane Utada, Japanese music record producer and manager |
| 21st of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist |
| 21st of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Art Hindle, Canadian actor |
| 21st of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Hirini Melbourne, New Zealand musician and composer |
| 21st of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Al Hrabosky, baseball player |
| 21st of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ubaldo Fillol, Argentinian footballer |
| 21st of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Williams, American comedian/actor |
| 21st of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | John Barrasso, American politician |
| 21st of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Susannah Carr, Australian journalist |
| 21st of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Talbot, British footballer |
| 21st of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Fatt, Chinese-Australian actor |
| 21st of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Howie Epstein, American musician (d. 2003) |
| 21st of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Taco, Dutch singer |
| 21st of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Bela Tarr, Hungarian film director |
| 21st of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Connelly, American author |
| 21st of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | George Landress, American songwriter and music producer |
| 21st of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Lovitz, American comedian |
| 21st of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Vautin, Australian rugby league player |
| 21st of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Walter, German footballer |
| 21st of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Lance Guest, American actor |
| 21st of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Martin, American musician (Faith No More) |
| 21st of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer |
| 21st of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Poole, English footballer |
| 21st of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Paulo Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist |
| 21st of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jens Weissflog, German ski jumper |
| 21st of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Kemp, British actor |
| 21st of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Bordick, American baseball player |
| 21st of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jovy Marcelo, Filipino racing driver (d. 1992) |
| 21st of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Gu?ni Bergsson, Icelandic footballer |
| 21st of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Arija Bareikis, American actress |
| 21st of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Waters, British novelist |
| 21st of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Johnnie Barnes, American football player |
| 21st of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Brandi Chastain, American soccer player |
| 21st of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Lyle Odelein, Canadian hockey player |
| 21st of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus Graf, German racing driver |
| 21st of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Godfrey, American comedian |
| 21st of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Emerson Hart, American musician (Tonic) |
| 21st of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Stasiak, American professional wrestler |
| 21st of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuel Bangue, French long jumper |
| 21st of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Nuno Markl, Portuguese comedian and radio host |
| 21st of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Gainsbourg, French actress and singer |
| 21st of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Eoin, Scottish musician (Boards of Canada) |
| 21st of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Shinjiro Otani, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 21st of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Landry, American model and actress |
| 21st of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Geoff Jenkins, American baseball player |
| 21st of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Bisson, British actor |
| 21st of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ravindra Pushpakumara, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 21st of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Sellers, American football player |
| 21st of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Casey, English golfer |
| 21st of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jaime Murray, British actress |
| 21st of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Anderson, Brazilian footballer |
| 21st of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Bartha, American actor |
| 21st of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kyoko Iwasaki, Japanese swimmer |
| 21st of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Hartnett, American actor |
| 21st of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Teale, Scottish footballer |
| 21st of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Damian Marley, Jamaican musician |
| 21st of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | David Carr, American football player |
| 21st of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andriy Voronin, Ukrainian football player |
| 21st of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tamika Catchings, American basketball player |
| 21st of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tailor James, Canadian model |
| 21st of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | CC Sabathia, American baseball player |
| 21st of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Titus Bramble, English footballer |
| 21st of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Anabelle Langlois, Canadian figure skater |
| 21st of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Blake Lewis, American musician |
| 21st of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Yushin Okami, Japanese mixed martial artist |
| 21st of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Schumacher, German cyclist |
| 21st of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Chrishell Stause, American actress |
| 21st of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Joaquin Sanchez, Spanish footballer |
| 21st of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Mao Kobayashi, Japanese actress |
| 21st of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kellen Winslow II, American football player |
| 21st of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Eiv?r Palsdottir, Faroese singer |
| 21st of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Liam Ridgewell, English footballer |
| 21st of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jurrick Juliana, Dutch footballer |
| 21st of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Von Wafer, American basketball player |
| 21st of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Paloma Faith, British singer |
| 21st of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Lengies, Canadian actress |
| 21st of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer |
| 21st of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Rory Culkin, American actor |
| 21st of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Chelsie Hightower, American professional dancer (Dancing with the Stars, former So You Think You Can Dance contestant) |
| 21st of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Gunter, Welsh footballer |
| 21st of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Juno Temple, English actress |
| 21st of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Waylett, English actor |
| 21st of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Martin, English footballer |
| 21st of July 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Rachael Flatt, American figure skater |
| 21st of July 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Giselle Klein, Canadian sprint car driver |
| 21st of July 1403 | DEATH | Henry Percy, English nobleman and soldier (Born 1364) |
| 21st of July 1425 | DEATH | Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (Born 1350) |
| 21st of July 1688 | DEATH | James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (Born 1610) |
| 21st of July 1793 | DEATH | Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, French explorer (Born 1739) |
| 21st of July 1796 | DEATH | Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Born 1759) |
| 21st of July 1798 | DEATH | Francois Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (Born 1733) |
| 21st of July 1878 | DEATH | Sam Bass, American train robber and outlaw (Born 1851) |
| 21st of July 1880 | DEATH | Hiram Walden, American politician (Born 1800) |
| 21st of July 1889 | DEATH | Nelson Dewey, American politician (Born 1813) |
| 21st of July 1899 | DEATH | Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (Born 1833) |
| 21st of July 1932 | DEATH | Bill Gleason, American baseball player (Born 1858) |
| 21st of July 1938 | DEATH | Owen Wister, American author (Born 1860) |
| 21st of July 1941 | DEATH | Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (Born 1872) |
| 21st of July 1943 | DEATH | Charlie Paddock, American athlete (Born 1900) |
| 21st of July 1944 | DEATH | Ludwig Beck, German Chief of Staff (Born 1880) |
| 21st of July 1944 | DEATH | Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German military officer and head of the failed 20 July Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler (Born 1907) |
| 21st of July 1946 | DEATH | Gualberto Villarroel, Bolivian politician (Born 1908) |
| 21st of July 1948 | DEATH | Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born American artist (Born 1904) |
| 21st of July 1967 | DEATH | Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (Born 1907) |
| 21st of July 1967 | DEATH | Albert Lutuli, South African politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate |
| 21st of July 1967 | DEATH | Basil Rathbone, English actor (Born 1892) |
| 21st of July 1968 | DEATH | Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and choreographer (Born 1878) |
| 21st of July 1970 | DEATH | Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (Born 1907) |
| 21st of July 1970 | DEATH | Bob Kalsu, American football player (Born 1945) |
| 21st of July 1972 | DEATH | Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Third king of Bhutan (Born 1928) |
| 21st of July 1972 | DEATH | Ralph Craig, American athlete (Born 1889) |
| 21st of July 1977 | DEATH | Lee Miller, American photographer (Born 1907) |
| 21st of July 1982 | DEATH | Dave Garroway, American television host (Born 1913) |
| 21st of July 1986 | DEATH | Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (Born 1892) |
| 21st of July 1991 | DEATH | Paul Warwick, English racing driver (Born 1969) |
| 21st of July 1998 | DEATH | Alan Shepard, American astronaut (Born 1923) |
| 21st of July 1998 | DEATH | Robert Young, American actor (Born 1907) |
| 21st of July 2000 | DEATH | Marc Reisner, American writer (Born 1948) |
| 21st of July 2001 | DEATH | Steve Barton, American actor (Born 1954) |
| 21st of July 2001 | DEATH | Sivaji Ganesan, Indian Tamil actor (Born 1927) |
| 21st of July 2003 | DEATH | John Davies, New Zealander athlete (Born 1938) |
| 21st of July 2003 | DEATH | Matt Jefferies, American film art director (Born 1921) |
| 21st of July 2004 | DEATH | Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (Born 1918) |
| 21st of July 2004 | DEATH | Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (Born 1929) |
| 21st of July 2005 | DEATH | Alfred Hayes, British wrestling announcer (Born 1928) |
| 21st of July 2005 | DEATH | Long John Baldry, British blues musician (Born 1941) |
| 21st of July 2005 | DEATH | Michael Chapman, British classical bassoonist (Born 1934) |
| 21st of July 2006 | DEATH | Ta Mok, Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (Born 1926) |
| 21st of July 2006 | DEATH | Mako, Japanese-born American actor (Born 1933) |
| 21st of July 2006 | DEATH | Herbert "Herbie" Kalin, American singer (The Kalin Twins) (Born 1934) |
| 21st of July 2010 | DEATH | Luis Corvalan, Chilean communist leader (Born 1916) |