Famous Deaths Happened In August - 21

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

1157  On August - 21 death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)   

1190  On this day in history godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies   

1245  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on this day in history.   

1271  On August - 21 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  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 August - 21.   

1627  On this day in history jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69   

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

1673  On this day in history isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51   

1689  On this day in history death of william Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier   

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  On August - 21 alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29   

1785  Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies on this day in history.   

1796  On this day in history 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  On August - 21 silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67   

1814  On this day in history death of benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)   

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 August - 21.   

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  On August - 21 death of ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821)   

1888  On this day in history 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  Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1911  On August - 21 w R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies   

1932  On this day in history frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80   

1935  Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 on August - 21.   

1940  Death of Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62 on August - 21.   

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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  On August - 21 birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint   

1597  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on this day in history.   

1642  On August - 21 birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

1643  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on August - 21.   

1660  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on this day in history.   

1665  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on this day in history.