Famous Deaths Happened In August - 21

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

1157  On this day in history death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)   

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

1245  On August - 21 alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

1271  Death of Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220) on this day in history.   

1516  On August - 21 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  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.   

1673  On August - 21 isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51   

1689  On this day in history death of william Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier   

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

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  On August - 21 death of john McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)   

1798  Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62 on August - 21.   

1812  On this day in history silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67   

1814  On August - 21 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  On August - 21 death of claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)   

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

1856  On August - 21 peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64   

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 August - 21.   

1898  On this day in history nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40   

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

1911  W R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies on August - 21.   

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

1935  Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1940  On August - 21 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  On this day in history birth of shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)   

1567  Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint was born on this day in history.   

1597  On August - 21 birth of roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)   

1642  On August - 21 birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

1643  On August - 21 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  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on August - 21.