Famous Deaths In January - 21

0304  On January - 21 death of saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291)  

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

0917  Death of Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880) on this day in history.  

1118  On this day in history paschalis II, [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies  

1519  Death of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475) on this day in history.  

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

1546  Death of Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491) on this day in history.  

1596  On January - 21 john Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66  

1609  Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68 on January - 21.  

1626  John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62 on January - 21.  

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1638  On January - 21 death of ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570)  

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

1670  On January - 21 honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80  

1683  On this day in history 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  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 January - 21.  

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

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

1766  On January - 21 death of james Quin, English actor (b. 1693)  

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

1774  Mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56 on January - 21.  

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

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

1870  On January - 21 death of alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)  

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1337  On January - 21 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  On this day in history birth of john I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam)  

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

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

1735  Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer was born on January - 21.  

1743  John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton) was born on this day in history.  

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