Famous Deaths Happened In August - 21

1131  On this day in history 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 August - 21.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1627  On August - 21 jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69   

1629  On this day in history camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies   

1673  Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

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

1723  Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

1762  On August - 21 death of lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)   

1763  On August - 21 death of charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)   

1772  Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29 on August - 21.   

1785  On this day in history jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies   

1796  Death of John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721) on August - 21.   

1798  On August - 21 corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62   

1812  On August - 21 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 August - 21.   

1836  Death of Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785) on this day in history.   

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70   

1898  Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40 on August - 21.   

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

1911  On August - 21 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  On August - 21 death of leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62   

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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  On this day in history birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

1643  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on August - 21.   

1660  On August - 21 birth of hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building   

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