Famous Deaths Happened In January - 21

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

0879  On January - 21 boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies   

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

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  On January - 21 death of juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (c. 1489)   

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

1596  On this day in history john Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66   

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

1626  John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1638  On this day in history death of ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570)   

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

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

1683  On this day in history anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61   

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

1699  On this day in history death of obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)   

1704  Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83 on January - 21.   

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

1710  Death of Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638) on January - 21.   

1722  Death of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661) on January - 21.   

1731  On January - 21 death of thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)   

1746  On this day in history 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 January - 21.   

1795  Death of Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1823  Death of Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761) on January - 21.   

1831  On this day in history achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49   

1851  Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

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

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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 January - 21.   

1659  Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect was born on this day in history.   

1721  On January - 21 birth of james Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)   

1735  On this day in history 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.