Famous Deaths In January - 21

0304  Death of Saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291) on this day in history.   

0879  Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies on this day in history.   

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

1118  Paschalis II, [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies on January - 21.   

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  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 January - 21.   

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.   

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

1665  Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1686  Nicolas-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1766  Death of James Quin, English actor (b. 1693) on January - 21.   

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

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  On January - 21 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 this day in history.   

1815  On January - 21 m Claudius, writer, dies at 74   

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

1831  Achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

1851  Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49 on January - 21.   

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 January - 21.   

1571  On January - 21 birth of john I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam)   

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 this day in history.   

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

1743  On January - 21 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]