Famous Deaths In August - 21

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

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  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on August - 21.  

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 August - 21.  

1581  On August - 21 death of sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)  

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 August - 21.  

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

1673  Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 on August - 21.  

1689  On August - 21 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  Death of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689) on this day in history.  

1763  On this day in history death of charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)  

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

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 August - 21.  

1824  On this day in history john Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70  

1836  On August - 21 death of claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)  

1838  On August - 21 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  On August - 21 simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70  

1898  On this day in history 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  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  On this day in history death of leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62  

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1165  On this day in history birth of philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)  

1535  On August - 21 birth of shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)  

1567  Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint was born on August - 21.  

1597  On this day in history birth of roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)  

1642  Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer was born on August - 21.  

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  On August - 21 birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)