Famous Deaths In August - 21

1131  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on this day in history.  

1157  Death of King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105) on August - 21.  

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  Death of Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220) on this day in history.  

1516  On this day in history john III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78  

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  Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.  

1629  Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies on August - 21.  

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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 August - 21.  

1723  On August - 21 dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49  

1762  On August - 21 death of lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)  

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  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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 August - 21.  

1836  On August - 21 death of claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)  

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

1856  On this day in history 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  On August - 21 simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70  

1898  Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40 on this day in history.  

1905  Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 on this day in history.  

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

1932  On August - 21 frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80  

1935  On this day in history josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76  

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

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1165  On this day in history birth of philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)  

1535  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619) was born on this day in history.  

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  Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer was born on August - 21.  

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

1660  On August - 21 birth of hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building  

1665  On this day in history birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)