Famous Deaths Happened 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 this day in history.   

1245  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on August - 21.   

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 August - 21.   

1581  Death of Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527) on August - 21.   

1614  On this day in history death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)   

1627  Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

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

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 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 August - 21.   

1763  On this day in history 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 August - 21.   

1796  On August - 21 death of john McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)   

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  Death of Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753) on this day in history.   

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  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on August - 21.   

1856  Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

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 August - 21.   

1888  Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70 on August - 21.   

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

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

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

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  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  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on August - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

1665  On this day in history birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)