Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 21
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Births
- 1816 - Charlotte Brontë, English author (d. 1855) (pictured)
- 1838 - John Muir, American environmentalist (d. 1914)
- 1926 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
- 1935 - Charles Grodin, American actor (d. 2021)
- 1958 - Andie MacDowell, American actress
Deaths
- 1509 - King Henry VII of England (b. 1457)
- 1699 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639)
- 1910 - Mark Twain, American author and humorist (b. 1835)
- 1918 - Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot, known as the Red Baron (b. 1892)
- 1946 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
- 1971 - François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Haitian dictator (b. 1907)