Timeline Sunday 21 May 2000

Events on Sunday 21 May 2000 4

• 1901 – 2000 Dame Barbara Cartland (1901-2000) Died 21 May 2000, aged 98 Barbara Cartland was among the most prolific authors in history, publishing more than 700 books, mostly chaste historical romances, and selling hundreds of millions of copies. A flamboyant figure in pink chiffon, she was step-grandmother to Diana, Princess of Wales. In her last years she dictated a new novel every couple of weeks.
• 1904 – 2000 John Gielgud (1904-2000) English actor and director, one of the great Shakespearean actors of the 20th century, who won an Oscar at 77.
• 1904 – 2000 Sir John Gielgud (1904-2000) Died 21 May 2000, aged 96 John Gielgud was regarded as one of the great classical actors of the twentieth century, celebrated above all for his Hamlet and his verse speaking. His stage career spanned some seventy years, and late in life he won an Academy Award for the film Arthur. With Olivier and Richardson he dominated the British theatre.
• 2000 John Gielgud dies in Wotton Underwood John Gielgud dies aged 96.