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Events on Tuesday 21 July 1998 3
1907 – 1998Robert Young (1907-1998)American actor, the father in Father Knows Best and the doctor in Marcus Welby, M.D.
1923 – 1998Alan Shepard (1923-1998)Died 21 July 1998, aged 74Alan Shepard, the first American to travel into space aboard Freedom 7 in 1961 and commander of the Apollo 14 Moon landing in 1971, died of leukemia on 21 July 1998. He was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts.
1998Robert Young dies in Westlake VillageRobert Young dies aged 91.