Famous Deaths Happened In January - 21

0304  Death of Saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291) on this day in history.   

0879  Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies on this day in history.   

0917  On January - 21 death of erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880)   

1118  Paschalis II, [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies on January - 21.   

1519  Death of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475) on January - 21.   

1527  On January - 21 death of juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (c. 1489)   

1546  Death of Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491) on January - 21.   

1596  On January - 21 john Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66   

1609  Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68 on January - 21.   

1626  John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62 on January - 21.   

1638  On January - 21 death of ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570)   

1665  On this day in history domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72   

1670  On January - 21 honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80   

1683  Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61 on January - 21.   

1686  On this day in history nicolas-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies   

1699  Death of Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616) on this day in history.   

1704  On this day in history willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83   

1706  Death of Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649) on January - 21.   

1710  On this day in history death of johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)   

1722  Death of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661) on January - 21.   

1731  On this day in history death of thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)   

1746  Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60 on January - 21.   

1766  On this day in history death of james Quin, English actor (b. 1693)   

1773  Death of Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689) on January - 21.   

1774  Mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1793  Death of Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38 on January - 21.   

1795  On January - 21 death of samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)   

1809  Death of Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729) on January - 21.   

1814  Death of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737) on January - 21.   

1815  M Claudius, writer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1823  On this day in history death of cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761)   

1831  On this day in history achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49   

1851  On this day in history gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49   

1870  On January - 21 death of alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)   

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1337  Charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80) was born on this day in history.   

1338  King Charles V of France (d. 1380) was born on January - 21.   

1571  John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam) was born on this day in history.   

1659  Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect was born on this day in history.   

1721  James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794) was born on January - 21.   

1735  On January - 21 birth of johann Gottfried Eckard, composer   

1743  John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton) was born on this day in history.   

1746  Johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS] was born on January - 21.