Famous Deaths Happened In August - 21

1131  On August - 21 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 August - 21 alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

1271  Death of Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220) on this day in history.   

1516  John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1581  Death of Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527) on August - 21.   

1614  On this day in history death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)   

1627  Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

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

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

1772  Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29 on August - 21.   

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

1796  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1814  On this day in history death of benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)   

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

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

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

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

1864  On August - 21 john Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24   

1870  Death of Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821) on this day in history.   

1888  On this day in history simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70   

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

1905  Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 on August - 21.   

1911  On August - 21 w R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies   

1932  Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80 on August - 21.   

1935  Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 on August - 21.   

1940  On this day in history death of leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62   

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1165  On August - 21 birth of philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)   

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

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  On this day in history birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)   

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

1665  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on August - 21.