Famous Deaths In August - 21

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

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

1190  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on August - 21.  

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 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 this day in history.  

1614  On August - 21 death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)  

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

1629  On August - 21 camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies  

1673  Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 on August - 21.  

1689  On August - 21 death of william Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier  

1723  Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49 on August - 21.  

1762  On this day in history death of lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)  

1763  Death of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710) on August - 21.  

1772  On this day in history alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29  

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

1812  On this day in history 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  On this day in history a v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57  

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 August - 21.  

1888  On this day in history simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70  

1898  On August - 21 nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40  

1905  On August - 21 jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80  

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 August - 21 josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76  

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 August - 21.  

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 this day in history birth of roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)  

1642  Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer was born on August - 21.  

1643  On August - 21 birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)  

1660  On this day in history 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.