Notable Birthdays for Oct. 21
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Those born this date include:
- English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1772
- Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize, in 1833
- Dancer/choreographer Ted Shawn in 1891
- Conductor Georg Solti in 1912
- Jazz trumpeter John Dizzy Gillespie, in 1917
- Former pitcher Whitey Ford in 1928 (age 82)
- Author Ursula K. Le Guin in 1929 (age 81)
- Actress-author Carrie Fisher in 1956 (age 54)
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