Famous Deaths In August - 21
Tuesday, 06 June 2023
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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