Approximately 150,707 people died worldwide on May 21, 1995. Natural disasters in 1995 * Anderson Hills Tornado * 1995 Chicago heat wave * Great Hanshin earthquake * Heat Wave of 1995 Derecho Series * May 8th 1995 Louisiana Flood People who died on May 21 (various years) * 2006 - Billy Walker, American singer * 2006 - Spencer Clark, American racecar driver * 2006 - Katherine Dunham, American dancer * 2006 - Cherd Songsri, Thai film director * 2005 - Howard Morris, American comic actor and director * 2003 - Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer * 2003 - Frank D. White, American politician * 2002 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist * 2000 - Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur * 2000 - Sir John Gielgud, British actor * 2000 - Barbara Cartland, English author * 1999 - Karnail "Bugz" Pitts, American rapper (D12) * 1996 - Lash LaRue, American actor * 1996 - Paul Delph, American musician and producer * 1991 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India * 1988 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer * 1984 - Ann Little, American actress * 1981 - Patsy O'Hara, Irish hunger striker * 1973 - Vaughn Monroe, American musician * 1970 - E. L. Grant Watson, Australian biologist * 1965 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer * 1964 - James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate * 1957 - Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer * 1952 - John Garfield, American actor * 1949 - Klaus Mann, German writer * 1935 - Jane Addams, American social worker, Nobel laureate * 1929 - Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom * 1920 - Venustiano Carranza, 54th President of Mexico * 1919 - Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician * 1915 - Leonid Gobyato, Russian general * 1911 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer * 1895 - Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer * 1894 - August Kundt, German physicist * 1894 - Emile Henry, French anarchist * 1879 - Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer * 1862 - John Drew, Irish-born American actor * 1844 - Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer * 1790 - Thomas Warton, English poet * 1786 - Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist * 1771 - Christopher Smart, English poet * 1742 - Lars Roberg, Swedish physician * 1724 - Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman * 1719 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic * 1690 - John Eliot, English Puritan missionary * 1686 - (N. S.) Otto von Guericke, German scientist * 1670 - Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer * 1664 - Elizabeth Poole, Puritan businesswoman * 1650 - James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish royalist * 1647 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet * 1639 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian * 1607 - John Rainolds, English scholar * 1542 - Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer * 1524 - Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier * 1512 - Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena * 1481 - King Christian I of Denmark, Norway and Sweden * 1254 - Conrad IV of Germany * 987 - King Louis V of France +++ may they rest in peace +++