Famous Deaths Happened In August - 21

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  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 August - 21.   

1516  John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78 on August - 21.   

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  Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69 on August - 21.   

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

1673  Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 on August - 21.   

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 August - 21.   

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  On this day in history 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  Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67 on August - 21.   

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 this day in history death of claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)   

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on August - 21.   

1856  On this day in history peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64   

1864  John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24 on August - 21.   

1870  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1905  On August - 21 jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80   

1911  W R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies on this day in history.   

1932  On August - 21 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 this day in history.   

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1165  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on August - 21.   

1535  On August - 21 birth of shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)   

1567  On this day in history birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint   

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

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 August - 21 birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)