Famous Deaths Happened In January - 21

0304  Death of Saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291) on January - 21.   

0879  Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies on January - 21.   

0917  Death of Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880) on January - 21.   

1118  On January - 21 paschalis II, [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies   

1519  On January - 21 death of vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)   

1527  Death of Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (c. 1489) on this day in history.   

1546  On January - 21 death of azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)   

1596  John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 on January - 21.   

1609  On January - 21 joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68   

1626  On this day in history john Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62   

1638  Death of Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570) on this day in history.   

1665  Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72 on January - 21.   

1670  Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80 on January - 21.   

1683  On January - 21 anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61   

1686  Nicolas-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies on January - 21.   

1699  Death of Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616) on January - 21.   

1704  Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83 on this day in history.   

1706  On this day in history death of adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)   

1710  On January - 21 death of johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)   

1722  On January - 21 death of charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)   

1731  Death of Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669) on this day in history.   

1746  Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60 on January - 21.   

1766  On this day in history death of james Quin, English actor (b. 1693)   

1773  On this day in history death of alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)   

1774  On this day in history mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56   

1793  On this day in history death of louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38   

1795  On this day in history death of samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)   

1809  Death of Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729) on this day in history.   

1814  Death of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737) on this day in history.   

1815  M Claudius, writer, dies at 74 on January - 21.   

1823  On this day in history death of cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761)   

1831  Achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49 on January - 21.   

1851  On this day in history gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49   

1870  Death of Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812) on this day in history.   

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1337  Charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80) was born on January - 21.   

1338  On this day in history birth of king Charles V of France (d. 1380)   

1571  John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam) was born on this day in history.   

1659  On January - 21 birth of adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect   

1721  On this day in history birth of james Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)   

1735  On January - 21 birth of johann Gottfried Eckard, composer   

1743  John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton) was born on January - 21.   

1746  Johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS] was born on January - 21.