Famous Deaths In January - 21

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

0879  On this day in history 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 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  John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

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.  

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

1665  Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72 on January - 21.  

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

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

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 this day in history.  

1722  On this day in history death of charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)  

1731  Death of Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669) on January - 21.  

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  On this day in history mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56  

1793  On January - 21 death of louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38  

1795  On January - 21 death of samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)  

1809  Death of Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729) on January - 21.  

1814  On January - 21 death of jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)  

1815  M Claudius, writer, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

1823  On January - 21 death of cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761)  

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

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1337  Charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80) was born on January - 21.  

1338  King Charles V of France (d. 1380) was born on January - 21.  

1571  On this day in history birth of john I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam)  

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

1743  John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton) was born on January - 21.  

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