Famous Deaths 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 this day in history.  

0917  On this day in history death of erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880)  

1118  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1609  Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1626  On January - 21 john Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62  

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1638  Death of Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570) on January - 21.  

1665  On this day in history domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72  

1670  On this day in history honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80  

1683  Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61 on January - 21.  

1686  On January - 21 nicolas-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies  

1699  On January - 21 death of obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)  

1704  On this day in history willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83  

1706  Death of Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649) on this day in history.  

1710  On this day in history death of johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)  

1722  Death of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661) on this day in history.  

1731  On this day in history death of thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)  

1746  On January - 21 gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60  

1766  Death of James Quin, English actor (b. 1693) on this day in history.  

1773  Death of Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689) on January - 21.  

1774  On January - 21 mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56  

1793  Death of Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38 on this day in history.  

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

1809  On this day in history death of josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729)  

1814  Death of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737) on January - 21.  

1815  On this day in history m Claudius, writer, dies at 74  

1823  Death of Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761) on this day in history.  

1831  On January - 21 achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49  

1851  On January - 21 gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49  

1870  On this day in history death of alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)  

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1337  On this day in history birth of charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80)  

1338  King Charles V of France (d. 1380) was born on this day in history.  

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

1659  Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect was born on January - 21.  

1721  James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794) was born on January - 21.  

1735  Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer was born on this day in history.  

1743  On this day in history birth of john Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)  

1746  On this day in history birth of johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS]