Famous Deaths Happened In January - 21

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

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

0917  On this day in history death of erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880)   

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

1519  Death of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475) on January - 21.   

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 January - 21.   

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.   

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

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

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 January - 21.   

1704  Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83 on this day in history.   

1706  On January - 21 death of adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)   

1710  On January - 21 death of johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)   

1722  Death of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661) on this day in history.   

1731  Death of Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669) on this day in history.   

1746  Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

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

1773  On January - 21 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  Death of Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728) on this day in history.   

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

1814  Death of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737) on this day in history.   

1815  M Claudius, writer, dies at 74 on January - 21.   

1823  Death of Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761) on this day in history.   

1831  Achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49 on January - 21.   

1851  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of king Charles V of France (d. 1380)   

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  On this day in history birth of james Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)   

1735  On January - 21 birth of johann Gottfried Eckard, composer   

1743  On January - 21 birth of john Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)   

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