Famous Deaths Happened In August - 21
Friday, 23 May 2025
1131 Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on August - 21.
1157 Death of King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105) on August - 21.
1190 Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on August - 21.
1245 Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on this day in history.
1271 Death of Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220) on this day in history.
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 August - 21.
1614 On August - 21 death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
1627 On this day in history jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69
1629 Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies on this day in history.
1673 On August - 21 isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51
1689 Death of William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier on August - 21.
1723 On August - 21 dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49
1762 On this day in history 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 Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies on this day in history.
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 On this day in history silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67
1814 Death of Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753) on this day in history.
1824 John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 on August - 21.
1836 On August - 21 death of claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
1838 On this day in history a v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57
1856 Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64 on August - 21.
1864 John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24 on August - 21.
1870 Death of Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821) on this day in history.
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 this day in history jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80
1911 On this day in history w R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies
1932 On this day in history frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80
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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