Oct 17 Katherine Griffith [Kiernan], American actress (Pollyanna, Fast Company), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 45 Oct 17 Yaa Asantewaa, Ghanaian queen of Ashanti Empire, led fight against British colonialism, dies at 80 or 81 Oct 18 King Ludwig III, the last king of Bavaria (1913-18), dies at 76 Oct 19 Antonio Granjo, premier (Portugal), murdered Oct 23 John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor and vet (pneumatic rubber tire, Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81 Oct 25 Bat Masterson, American gunfighter in the Wild West, dies of a heart attack at 67 Sep 1921 Famous Deaths by Year Nov 1921 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide
Assassination
Drug Overdose
Gunshot Wound
Murder
Plane Crash
Suicide