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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 21st of October 1096 | EVENT | People's Crusade: The Turkish army annihilates the People's Army of the West. |
| 21st of October 1512 | EVENT | Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. |
| 21st of October 1520 | EVENT | Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan. |
| 21st of October 1600 | EVENT | Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate that in effect rules Japan until the mid-nineteenth century. |
| 21st of October 1774 | EVENT | First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America. |
| 21st of October 1797 | EVENT | In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched. |
| 21st of October 1805 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signals almost the end of French maritime power and leaves Britain's navy unchallenged until the 20th century. |
| 21st of October 1805 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at the Battle of Ulm. 30,000 prisoners are captured and 10,000 casualties inflicted on the losers. |
| 21st of October 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. |
| 21st of October 1824 | EVENT | Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement. |
| 21st of October 1854 | EVENT | Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War. |
| 21st of October 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff : Union 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. |
| 21st of October 1867 | EVENT | Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty : Near 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. |
| 21st of October 1879 | EVENT | Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13 1/2 hours before burning out). |
| 21st of October 1892 | EVENT | Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893. |
| 21st of October 1895 | EVENT | The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade. |
| 21st of October 1902 | EVENT | In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends. |
| 21st of October 1912 | EVENT | During the First Balkan War, Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces |
| 21st of October 1921 | EVENT | President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south. |
| 21st of October 1921 | EVENT | George Melford's silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers. |
| 21st of October 1931 | EVENT | The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d'etat attempt. |
| 21st of October 1944 | EVENT | The first kamikaze attack: A Japanese plane carrying a 200 kilograms (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began. |
| 21st of October 1945 | EVENT | Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time. |
| 21st of October 1945 | EVENT | Argentine military officer and politician Juan Peron marries actress Eva Peron. |
| 21st of October 1959 | EVENT | In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens to the public. |
| 21st of October 1959 | EVENT | President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA. |
| 21st of October 1965 | EVENT | Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun. |
| 21st of October 1966 | EVENT | Aberfan disaster: A slag heap collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren. |
| 21st of October 1967 | EVENT | Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, D.C.. 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. Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe. |
| 21st of October 1969 | EVENT | A coup d'etat in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power. |
| 21st of October 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. |
| 21st of October 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. |
| 21st of October 1977 | EVENT | The European Patent Institute is founded. |
| 21st of October 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. |
| 21st of October 1979 | EVENT | Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs. |
| 21st of October 1983 | EVENT | The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. |
| 21st of October 1986 | EVENT | In Lebanon, pro-Iranian kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991). |
| 21st of October 1987 | EVENT | Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses. |
| 21st of October 1994 | EVENT | In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses. |
| 21st of October 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. |
| 21st of October 2003 | EVENT | Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz. |
| 21st of October 1449 | BIRTHDAY | George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III (d. 1478) |
| 21st of October 1527 | BIRTHDAY | Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1578) |
| 21st of October 1581 | BIRTHDAY | Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641) |
| 21st of October 1650 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Bart, French admiral (d. 1702) |
| 21st of October 1660 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist (d. 1734) |
| 21st of October 1675 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710) |
| 21st of October 1687 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759) |
| 21st of October 1712 | BIRTHDAY | Sir James Steuart, British economist (d. 1780) |
| 21st of October 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (d. 1801) |
| 21st of October 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816) |
| 21st of October 1762 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (d. 1818) |
| 21st of October 1772 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet (d. 1834) |
| 21st of October 1775 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (d. 1844) |
| 21st of October 1790 | BIRTHDAY | Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer (d. 1869) |
| 21st of October 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896) |
| 21st of October 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Will Carleton, American poet (d. 1912) |
| 21st of October 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Giacosa, Italian writer (d. 1906) |
| 21st of October 1851 | BIRTHDAY | George Ulyett, English cricketer (d. 1898) |
| 21st of October 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Claire Waldoff, German singer and entertainer (d. 1957) |
| 21st of October 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Burton Ely, American aviation pioneer (d. 1911) |
| 21st of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (d. 1965) |
| 21st of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Edna Purviance, American actress (d. 1958) |
| 21st of October 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Putsep, Estonian wrestler and Olympic medalist (d. 1960) |
| 21st of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (d. 1985) |
| 21st of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1997) |
| 21st of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Alfredo Pian, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990) |
| 21st of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Gardner, American mathematician and writer (d. 2010) |
| 21st of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz musician (d. 1993) |
| 21st of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Milton Himmelfarb, American sociographer (d. 2006) |
| 21st of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Malcolm Arnold, British composer (d. 2006) |
| 21st of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Liliane Bettencourt, heir to L'Oreal |
| 21st of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Celia Cruz, Cuban singer, Queen of Salsa (d. 2003) |
| 21st of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Joyce Randolph, American actress |
| 21st of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Rossiter, English Comedian/Actor (d. 1984) |
| 21st of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Wintersteller, Austrian mountaineer who made the first ascent of Broad Peak |
| 21st of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Whitey Ford, American baseball player |
| 21st of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Ursula K. Le Guin, American author |
| 21st of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Stepanovich Silayev, Last prime minister of the Soviet Union |
| 21st of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Vivian Pickles, English actress |
| 21st of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2001) |
| 21st of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Geoff Boycott, English cricketer |
| 21st of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Manfred Mann, English musician |
| 21st of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Frances FitzGerald, American journalist and author |
| 21st of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Cropper, American musician |
| 21st of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Sheindlin, American judge ("Judge Judy") |
| 21st of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Elvin Bishop, American musician |
| 21st of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Grice, Australian racing driver |
| 21st of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Lamoriello, New Jersey Devils General Manager |
| 21st of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Tariq Ali, Pakistani author and historian |
| 21st of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Everett McGill, American actor |
| 21st of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Hill, American sportscaster |
| 21st of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lux Interior, American singer (The Cramps) (d. 2009) |
| 21st of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Loughnane, American musician |
| 21st of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Everett, American actor |
| 21st of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Vigneron, American Catholic Archbishop of Detroit |
| 21st of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Shaye Cohen, Historian and Professor at Harvard University |
| 21st of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Briere, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1971) |
| 21st of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Keenan, Canadian ice hockey coach |
| 21st of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Netanyahu, 9th Prime Minister of Israel |
| 21st of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald McNair, American astronaut (d. 1986) |
| 21st of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Chappell, Australian cricketer |
| 21st of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Hoey, American poet and novelist |
| 21st of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Patti Davis, American actress and novelist, daughter of Ronald Reagan |
| 21st of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Brent Mydland, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (d. 1990) |
| 21st of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Caffey, American musician (The Go-Go's) |
| 21st of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Mandelson, British politician |
| 21st of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Green, American musician (d. 1982) |
| 21st of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Tobin, Canadian premier of Newfoundland |
| 21st of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Rich Mullins, American musician (d. 1997) |
| 21st of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer |
| 21st of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 21st of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Lukather, American musician |
| 21st of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Cope, English musician and writer |
| 21st of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Ganios, American Actor |
| 21st of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Picheta, English film director |
| 21st of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Rose McDowall, Scottish musician |
| 21st of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | George Bell, Dominican baseball player |
| 21st of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor |
| 21st of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | David Campese, Australian rugby union footballer |
| 21st of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Carin, American musician (Pink Floyd, The Who) |
| 21st of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Hisashi Imai, Japanese musician (BUCK-TICK, Lucy) |
| 21st of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, Spanish footballer |
| 21st of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Arne Sandst?, Norwegian footballer |
| 21st of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Ince, English footballer |
| 21st of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Melora Walters, American actress |
| 21st of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kerstin Andreae, German politician |
| 21st of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandros Alexandris, Greek footballer |
| 21st of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Hancock, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 21st of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, crown prince of Bahrain |
| 21st of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mo Lewis, American football player |
| 21st of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Koo, Hong Kong actor |
| 21st of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jade Jagger, Socialite and Jewellery Designer |
| 21st of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Oliveri, American musician |
| 21st of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Damien Martyn, Australian cricketer |
| 21st of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Conor O'Shea, Irish rugby player |
| 21st of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Norman Telfer, Scottish footballer |
| 21st of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Ulsrud, Norwegian curler |
| 21st of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Felicity Andersen, Australian actress |
| 21st of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Friedberger, American musician (The Fiery Furnaces) |
| 21st of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Saffron Burrows, English actress |
| 21st of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Masakazu Morita, seiyu and actor |
| 21st of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian professor of international law |
| 21st of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lera Auerbach, Russian composer |
| 21st of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Costel Busuioc, Romanian tenor |
| 21st of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Toby Hall, American baseball player |
| 21st of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Henrique Hilario, Portuguese footballer |
| 21st of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Miller, American actor |
| 21st of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Lavinia Milosovici, Romanian gymnast |
| 21st of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Ritter, American musician |
| 21st of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Melanie Turgeon, Canadian alpine skier |
| 21st of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Henrik Klingenberg, Member of Finnish band, Sonata Arctica |
| 21st of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Harrington, American football player |
| 21st of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Will Estes, American actor |
| 21st of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Khalil Greene, American baseball player |
| 21st of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Gabe Gross, American baseball player |
| 21st of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Kardashian, American socialite, model and reality television star |
| 21st of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Pittman, American musician (Relient K) |
| 21st of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nemanja Vidic, Serbian footballer |
| 21st of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Castrogiovanni, Argentine-born Italian rugby player |
| 21st of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | James White, American basketball player |
| 21st of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Dallas, American actor |
| 21st of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Ventrone, American football player |
| 21st of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Wildsmith, American musician |
| 21st of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Chong Wei, Malaysian badminton player |
| 21st of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Zack Greinke, American baseball player |
| 21st of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Sullivan, Canadian actress |
| 21st of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Marte, Dominican baseball player |
| 21st of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Shelden Williams, American basketball player |
| 21st of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ninet Tayeb, Israeli singer |
| 21st of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Brandstater, American football player |
| 21st of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Cooper, American footballer |
| 21st of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Marvin Mitchell, American football player |
| 21st of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kieran Richardson, English footballer |
| 21st of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, Canadian speed skater |
| 21st of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Chibuzor Chilaka, Nigerian footballer |
| 21st of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Natalee Holloway, American missing person (missing since 2005) |
| 21st of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Rubio, Spanish basketball player |
| 21st of October 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Tomic, Australian tennis player |
| 21st of October 1125 | DEATH | Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer |
| 21st of October 1204 | DEATH | Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman |
| 21st of October 1221 | DEATH | Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (Born 1201) |
| 21st of October 1266 | DEATH | Birger jarl, Swedish statesman (Born 1210) |
| 21st of October 1422 | DEATH | King Charles VI of France (Born 1368) |
| 21st of October 1500 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (Born 1442) |
| 21st of October 1505 | DEATH | Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician |
| 21st of October 1558 | DEATH | Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian scholar (Born 1484) |
| 21st of October 1600 | DEATH | Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (Born 1557) |
| 21st of October 1623 | DEATH | William Wade, English statesman and diplomat (Born 1546) |
| 21st of October 1662 | DEATH | Henry Lawes, English composer (Born 1595) |
| 21st of October 1687 | DEATH | Sir Edmund Waller, English poet (Born 1606) |
| 21st of October 1765 | DEATH | Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian painter and architect (Born 1691) |
| 21st of October 1775 | DEATH | Peyton Randolph, American president of the Continental Congress (Born 1721) |
| 21st of October 1777 | DEATH | Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor (Born 1720) |
| 21st of October 1805 | DEATH | Horatio Nelson, Royal Navy admiral (Born 1758) |
| 21st of October 1805 | DEATH | George Duff, Royal Navy Captain, killed in action at the Battle of Trafalgar (Born1764) |
| 21st of October 1805 | DEATH | John Cooke, Royal Navy Captain, killed in action at the Battle of Trafalgar (Born1763) |
| 21st of October 1821 | DEATH | Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (Born 1752) |
| 21st of October 1872 | DEATH | Jacques Babinet, French physicist (Born 1794) |
| 21st of October 1873 | DEATH | Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (Born 1807) |
| 21st of October 1896 | DEATH | James Henry Greathead, British engineer (Born 1844) |
| 21st of October 1903 | DEATH | Jinmaku Kyugoro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (Born 1829) |
| 21st of October 1904 | DEATH | Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (Born 1877) |
| 21st of October 1907 | DEATH | Jules Chevalier, French priest (Born 1824) |
| 21st of October 1931 | DEATH | Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian writer (Born 1862) |
| 21st of October 1938 | DEATH | Dorothy Hale, American socialite and actress (Born 1905) |
| 21st of October 1940 | DEATH | William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (Born 1866) |
| 21st of October 1944 | DEATH | Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (Born 1877) |
| 21st of October 1952 | DEATH | Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (Born 1871) |
| 21st of October 1963 | DEATH | Jozef Franczak, last cursed soldier : anticommunist underground in Poland (Born 1918) |
| 21st of October 1965 | DEATH | Bill Black, American musician (Born 1926) |
| 21st of October 1969 | DEATH | Jack Kerouac, American novelist (Born 1922) |
| 21st of October 1969 | DEATH | Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (Born 1882) |
| 21st of October 1973 | DEATH | Nasif Estefano, Argentine racing driver (Born 1932) |
| 21st of October 1975 | DEATH | Charles Reidpath, American athlete (Born 1887) |
| 21st of October 1978 | DEATH | Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet politician (Born 1895) |
| 21st of October 1980 | DEATH | Hans Asperger, Austrian psychologist (Born 1906) |
| 21st of October 1984 | DEATH | Francois Truffaut, French film director (Born 1932) |
| 21st of October 1985 | DEATH | Dan White, American politician, assailant in the Moscone-Milk assassinations (Born 1946) |
| 21st of October 1986 | DEATH | Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (Born 1922) |
| 21st of October 1989 | DEATH | Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (Born 1910) |
| 21st of October 1990 | DEATH | Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian spiritual leader (Born 1921) |
| 21st of October 1991 | DEATH | Lorenc Antoni, Kosovo Albanian composer (Born 1909) |
| 21st of October 1992 | DEATH | Jim Garrison, American attorney (Born 1921) |
| 21st of October 1993 | DEATH | Sam Zolotow, American theater reporter (Born 1899) |
| 21st of October 1995 | DEATH | Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (Born 1967) |
| 21st of October 1995 | DEATH | Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (Born 1916) |
| 21st of October 1995 | DEATH | Jesus Blasco, Spanish comic book author (Born 1919) |
| 21st of October 1996 | DEATH | Georgios Zoitakis, Greek Army general and regent (Born 1910) |
| 21st of October 1998 | DEATH | Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (Born 1915) |
| 21st of October 1999 | DEATH | Lars Bo, Danish artist and writer (Born 1924) |
| 21st of October 2003 | DEATH | Luis A. Ferre, Governor of Puerto Rico (Born 1904) |
| 21st of October 2003 | DEATH | Elliott Smith, American musician (Born 1969) |
| 21st of October 2003 | DEATH | Louise Day Hicks, American politician (Born 1916) |
| 21st of October 2003 | DEATH | Fred Berry, American actor (Born 1951) |
| 21st of October 2006 | DEATH | Sandy West, American musician (The Runaways) (Born 1959) |
| 21st of October 2007 | DEATH | Paul Fox, English musician and singer (The Ruts) (Born 1951) |