Famous Deaths Happened In August - 21

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

1157  Death of King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105) on this day in history.   

1190  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on this day in history.   

1245  On August - 21 alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

1271  On this day in history death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)   

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  Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies on August - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

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 August - 21.   

1763  Death of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710) on this day in history.   

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  Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62 on August - 21.   

1812  On August - 21 silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67   

1814  Death of Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753) on this day in history.   

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  Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64 on August - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1932  Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1935  Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1940  On August - 21 death of leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62   

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1165  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on this day in history.   

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

1567  On this day in history birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint   

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  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on August - 21.   

1665  On August - 21 birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)