Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 21

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)