Famous Deaths Happened In April - 21
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
1073 On April - 21 alexander II, [Anselmo da Baggio], Pope (1061-73), dies
1109 On April - 21 anselmus, philosopher/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
1142 On April - 21 death of pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079)
1329 Death of Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282) on April - 21.
1509 Henry VII, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509), dies at 52 on this day in history.
1551 On this day in history death of oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1552 Peter Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German astronomer, dies at 50 on April - 21.
1557 On April - 21 death of petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495)
1574 On this day in history cosimo d' Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54
1652 On this day in history pietro Della Valle, composer, dies at 66
1696 Andres de Sola, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.
1699 On April - 21 death of jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639)
1701 Death of Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667) on this day in history.
1719 Death of Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640) on April - 21.
1720 Death of Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646) on this day in history.
1722 Death of Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (b. 1673) on this day in history.
1730 Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps), dies at 79 on this day in history.
1736 On April - 21 frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye, dies at 72
1780 Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 60 on April - 21.
1792 On this day in history death of tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746)
1793 On this day in history death of john Michell, English seismologist (b. 1724)
1815 Death of Joseph Winston, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746) on this day in history.
1825 On April - 21 death of johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathemattician (b. 1765)
1852 Death of Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787) on April - 21.
1868 On this day in history death of henry James O'Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
1871 On April - 21 elisabeth Grube, writer, dies
1878 Temistocle Solera, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.
1898 On April - 21 louis Theodore Gouvy, composer, dies at 78
1899 Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80 on April - 21.
1900 On this day in history heinrich Vogl, composer, dies at 55
1910 Mark Twain, [Samuel Clemens], auther (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74 on April - 21.
1918 On April - 21 death of "Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25
1922 On this day in history death of alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
1924 Eleanora Duse, Ital actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64 on April - 21.
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