Famous Deaths In August - 21

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

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

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

1245  On this day in history 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  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  Death of Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560) on August - 21.  

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

1629  Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies on this day in history.  

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

1689  Death of William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier on this day in history.  

1723  Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49 on August - 21.  

1762  Death of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689) on this day in history.  

1763  Death of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710) on August - 21.  

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

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

1812  On August - 21 silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67  

1814  Death of Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753) on August - 21.  

1824  John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 on this day in history.  

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  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  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 August - 21.  

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  Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 on August - 21.  

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  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 this day in history birth of hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building  

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