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Who died on 21 October?
Celebrities who died on 21 October
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George McGovern
American politician, Congressman, senator, Democratic presidential candidate

Elliott Smith
American singer-songwriter

Jack Kerouac
American writer

Yash Chopra
Indian film director, script writer and film producer

Martha Henry
American-born Canadian actress

Marge Champion
American dancer, choreographer, and actress

François Truffaut
film director

Silvana Suárez
Argentine model and beauty queen

Ben Bradlee
executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991

Bernard Haitink
Dutch conductor and violinist

Jim Garrison
American judge

Willi Münzenberg
German politician

Marie McDonald
Actress, singer

Bob Mann
American football player

John Garrels
American hurdler, shot putter and discus thrower

Aila Meriluoto
Finnish poet, author and translator

Ilie Balaci
Romanian footballer

Joachim Rønneberg
Norwegian resistance member

Dan White
American politician, killer of Moscone and Milk

Einár
Swedish rapper

Frank Horvat
Italian photographer

Viktor Ognevyuk
Ukrainian education philosopher and university rector

Marty Ingels
American actor

Tom van Vollenhoven
South African rugby union player

Rainer Schaller
German businessman

George Butler
BritishAmerican filmmaker

Willie Brown
American football executive and former player and coach

Viola Smith
American musician

Wacław Sierpiński
mathematician

Peter Schjeldahl
American writer

May Blood, Baroness Blood
life peer, activist

Kathy Flores
American rugby union player

Raymond Hatton
American silent film actor

Denise P. Barlow
British geneticist

J. Michael Lane
American epidemiologist

Alan Cobham
British aviation pioneer

Arolde de Oliveira
Brazilian politician

Asher Tlalim
Israeli film director

José Ignacio Cabrujas
Venezuelan actor and writer

Ingo Maurer
German Industrial designer

Reggie Otero
Cuban baseball player

Peter F. Secchia
American businessperson

Josip Elic
American actor

Rudolf Bernhard
Swiss actor

Elissa Landi
Italian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s

Vada Pinson
American baseball player and coach

Marv Goodwin
American baseball player

Paul Leduc
Mexican film director