What happened on September 21 ?

454 - Aëtius, Roman general

1217 - Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian soldier

1327 - King Edward II of England (b. 1284)

1397 - Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)

1542 - Juan Boscán Almogáver, Spanish poet

1558 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1500)

1576 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (b. 1501)

1586 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517)

1626 - François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France (b. 1543)

1719 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)

1743 - Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper (b. 1688)

1748 - John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)

1776 - Nathan Hale hung by the British as a spy.

1796 - François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (b. 1769)

1798 - George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1733)

1832 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)

1860 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)

1874 - Jean-Baptiste ÿlie de Beaumont, French geologist (b. 1794)

1897 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819)

1904 - Chief Joseph, Nez Perce leader (b. 1840)

1926 - Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (b. 1857)

1938 - Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic Croatian writer (b. 1874)

1939 - Armand C?linescu Romanian prime-minister (assassinated) (b. 1893)

1954 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)

1957 - King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)

1971 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)

1974 - Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)

1974 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (b. 1918)

1987 - Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (b. 1951)

1988 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914)

1995 - Rudy Perpich, American politician (b. 1928)

1998 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (b. 1959)

2002 - Robert L. Forward, American physicist and writer (b. 1932)

2004 - Barry Noble Wakeman, American naturalist and educator (b. 1939)