Famous Deaths In August - 21

1131  On this day in history boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies  

1157  On August - 21 death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)  

1190  On August - 21 godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies  

1245  On this day in history alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies  

1271  On August - 21 death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)  

1516  On August - 21 john III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78  

1581  On this day in history death of sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)  

1614  Death of Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560) on this day in history.  

1627  On this day in history jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69  

1629  On this day in history camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies  

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1673  On this day in history isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51  

1689  On this day in history death of william Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier  

1723  On this day in history dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49  

1762  On August - 21 death of lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)  

1763  Death of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710) on this day in history.  

1772  On this day in history alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29  

1785  On August - 21 jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies  

1796  On August - 21 death of john McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)  

1798  On this day in history corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62  

1812  Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67 on August - 21.  

1814  Death of Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753) on this day in history.  

1824  On August - 21 john Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70  

1836  On this day in history death of claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)  

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on August - 21.  

1856  Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

1864  John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24 on this day in history.  

1870  On this day in history death of ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821)  

1888  Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1898  On August - 21 nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40  

1905  On August - 21 jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80  

1911  W R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies on August - 21.  

1932  Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.  

1935  Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1940  Death of Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62 on this day in history.  

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1165  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on this day in history.  

1535  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619) was born on August - 21.  

1567  On August - 21 birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint  

1597  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on August - 21.  

1642  On August - 21 birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer  

1643  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on August - 21.  

1660  On August - 21 birth of hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building  

1665  On this day in history birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)