Famous Deaths In August - 21

1131  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on August - 21.  

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  On this day in history death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)  

1516  On this day in history 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  Death of Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560) on this day in history.  

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  Death of William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier on August - 21.  

1723  Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

1762  Death of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689) on this day in history.  

1763  Death of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710) on August - 21.  

1772  Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29 on this day in history.  

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

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

1836  On this day in history death of claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)  

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

1898  Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40 on August - 21.  

1905  Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 on this day in history.  

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 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  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  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on August - 21.  

1660  On this day in history 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.