Famous Deaths In August - 21

1131  On August - 21 boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies  

1157  Death of King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105) on this day in history.  

1190  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on this day in history.  

1245  On this day in history alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies  

1271  Death of Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220) on August - 21.  

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

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

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

1689  On August - 21 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  On August - 21 death of charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)  

1772  Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29 on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62  

1812  On August - 21 silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67  

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 August - 21.  

1838  On August - 21 a v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57  

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  Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70 on this day in history.  

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

1905  On this day in history jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80  

1911  W R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies on this day in history.  

1932  Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.  

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 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 August - 21.  

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