Famous Deaths In August - 21

1131  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on this day in history.  

1157  Death of King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105) on August - 21.  

1190  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on this day in history.  

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

1271  On this day in history 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  Death of Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527) on this day in history.  

1614  Death of Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560) on August - 21.  

1627  On August - 21 jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69  

1629  Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies on August - 21.  

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1673  Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 on this day in history.  

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

1723  Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49 on August - 21.  

1762  Death of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689) on August - 21.  

1763  On August - 21 death of charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)  

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

1785  Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies on this day in history.  

1796  Death of John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721) on this day in history.  

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 August - 21.  

1824  John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1836  Death of Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785) on August - 21.  

1838  On August - 21 a v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57  

1856  On this day in history peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64  

1864  John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24 on August - 21.  

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  Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40 on August - 21.  

1905  On this day in history 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  On this day in history josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76  

1940  Death of Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62 on August - 21.  

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

1535  On this day in history birth of shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)  

1567  On this day in history birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint  

1597  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on this day in history.  

1642  Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer was born on this day in history.  

1643  On August - 21 birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)  

1660  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on August - 21.  

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