Famous Deaths Happened In August - 21

1131  On this day in history boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies   

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 August - 21.   

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 August - 21 death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)   

1627  On August - 21 jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69   

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 this day in history 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  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 August - 21.   

1796  Death of John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721) on August - 21.   

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 August - 21.   

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  Death of Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785) on this day in history.   

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on August - 21.   

1856  On August - 21 peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64   

1864  On August - 21 john Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24   

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 August - 21.   

1898  On August - 21 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  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 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  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on August - 21.   

1642  On this day in history birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

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 August - 21.