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| August 21st, 2006 (August 21 2006) | Death | Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (born in 1941) | |
| August 21st, 2006 (August 21 2006) | Death | Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (born in 1916) | |
| August 21st, 1996 (August 21 1996) | Birth | Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress | |
| August 21st, 1986 (August 21 1986) | Event | Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range. | |
| August 21st, 1986 (August 21 1986) | Birth | Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter | |
| August 21st, 1976 (August 21 1976) | Event | Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea. | |
| August 21st, 1976 (August 21 1976) | Birth | Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player | |
| August 21st, 1976 (August 21 1976) | Birth | Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican American soccer player | |
| August 21st, 1966 (August 21 1966) | Birth | John Wetteland, Major League Baseball player | John Major Quotes |
| August 21st, 1956 (August 21 1956) | Birth | Kim Cattrall, English-born actress | |
| August 21st, 1936 (August 21 1936) | Birth | Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (died in 1999) | |
| August 21st, 1936 (August 21 1936) | Birth | Radish Tordia, Painter Of Figurative Art From Georgia | |
| August 21st, 1906 (August 21 1906) | Birth | Friz Freleng, American movie animator (died in 1995) | |
| August 21st, 1856 (August 21 1856) | Event | America s first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856) | |
| August 21st, 1836 (August 21 1836) | Death | Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (born in 1785) | |
| August 21st, 1826 (August 21 1826) | Birth | Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (died in 1903) | |
| August 21st, 1816 (August 21 1816) | Birth | Charles Frederic Gerhardt, French chemist (died in 1856) | |
| August 21st, 1796 (August 21 1796) | Death | John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (born in 1721) | |
