London Times, Aug. 21, 1983:
On this day..
- 2005: Abdul Islam Siddiqui
- 1537: Baccio Valori, Michelangelo patron
- 984: Pope John XIV
- 1962: LeRoy McGahuey, the last involuntary execution in Oregon
- 1946: Vojtech Tuka, Slovakian Prime Minister
- 1897: Michele Angiolillo, assassin of Canovas
- 1941: Alexander Svanidze, Stalin's brother-in-law
- 1612: The Pendle Witches
- 1941: Sixteen Yugoslav partisans and one German soldier
- 1672: Cornelis and Johan de Witt lynched
- 1799: Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, Neapolitan Jacobin
- 1191: Muslim prisoners at Acre