Famous Deaths 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 August - 21 godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies  

1245  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on August - 21.  

1271  On August - 21 death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)  

1516  On August - 21 john III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78  

1581  On August - 21 death of sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)  

1614  Death of Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560) on August - 21.  

1627  Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69 on August - 21.  

1629  Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies on this day in history.  

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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 this day in history.  

1723  On August - 21 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  On August - 21 alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29  

1785  On August - 21 jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies  

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

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 August - 21.  

1836  Death of Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785) on August - 21.  

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on this day in history.  

1856  Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

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

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  On August - 21 nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40  

1905  Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 on August - 21.  

1911  On this day in history w R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies  

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

1935  On August - 21 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  On August - 21 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 this day in history.  

1643  On this day in history birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)  

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

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