Famous Deaths In August - 21
Saturday, 27 April 2024
1131 Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on August - 21.
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 On this day in history alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies
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 this day in history.
1581 On this day in history 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 On August - 21 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 this day in history.
1689 Death of William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier on this day in history.
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 On August - 21 alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29
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 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 this day in history.
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 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 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 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 Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.
1935 Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 on August - 21.
1940 Death of Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62 on August - 21.
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