Famous Deaths for 21st October 2025

1500 – Go-Tsuchimikado, 103rd Emperor of Japan (1464-1500), dies at 58
1687 – Edmund Waller, English poet (Song: Go, lovely rose) and politician, dies at 81
1861 – Edward Dickinson Baker, British-American attorney, politician (US Senator from Oregon, 1860-61; US Representative from Illinois, 1845-47, 1849-51), and Union Army officer, dies in the US Civil War Battle of Balls Bluff, Virginia at 50
1881 – Eduard Heine, German mathematician known for the Heine-Borel theorem, dies at 60
1944 – Alois Kayser, German missionary to Nauru (b. 1877)
1945 – Henry Armetta, Italian-American actor (The Black Cat, Bell for Adano, Big Store), dies from a heart attack at 57
1955 – Roy Minnett, Australian cricket all-rounder who played 9 Tests, 3 x 50, 11 wickets; NSW, dies at 69
1978 – Mel Street, American country music singer-songwriter (“Lovin’ on Back Streets”, “Lovin’ on Borrowed Time”), dies of a self-inflicted gunshot on his 45th bithday
1995 – Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, Venezuelan playwright and writer ‘Maestro of the Telenovelas’, dies at 58
2019 – Willie Brown, American Pro Football Hall of Fame cornerback, coach and executive (Super Bowl 1976, 80, 84; Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders), dies at 78

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