Famous Deaths Happened In August - 21
Friday, 11 July 2025
1131 Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on August - 21.
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 this day in history.
1245 On August - 21 alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies
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 On August - 21 death of sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
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 August - 21.
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 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 Death of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710) on this day in history.
1772 Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29 on August - 21.
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 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 this day in history.
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 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 this day in history.
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 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 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 this day in history.
1940 On August - 21 death of leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62
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