Famous Deaths In August - 21

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

1157  On this day in history 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 August - 21.  

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  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  

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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 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  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 this day in history.  

1785  On this day in history 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  Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62 on this day in history.  

1812  Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

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

1870  Death of Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821) on August - 21.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1911  W R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies on this day in history.  

1932  On August - 21 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 this day in history.  

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

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

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

1597  On August - 21 birth of roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)  

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

1643  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.