Famous Deaths Happened In January - 21

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

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  Paschalis II, [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies on this day in history.   

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

1665  On January - 21 domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72   

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

1699  Death of Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616) on this day in history.   

1704  On January - 21 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 this day in history 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 this day in history death of james Quin, English actor (b. 1693)   

1773  Death of Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689) on this day in history.   

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 January - 21.   

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

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

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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 January - 21.   

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 January - 21 birth of johann Gottfried Eckard, composer   

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

1746  On January - 21 birth of johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS]