Famous Deaths Happened In August - 21

1131  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on August - 21.   

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

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

1245  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on this day in history.   

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 August - 21.   

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  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  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 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 this day in history.   

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

1785  Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies on this day in history.   

1796  On August - 21 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 this day in history silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67   

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  On this day in history 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 August - 21.   

1870  Death of Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821) on this day in history.   

1888  Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

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

1905  On this day in history 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 this day in history 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  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on August - 21.   

1535  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619) was born on August - 21.   

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

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  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on this day in history.   

1660  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on August - 21.   

1665  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on this day in history.