Famous Deaths In June - 21

0524  Chlodomir, king of the France to Orleans (511-24), dies at about 28 on June - 21.  

1205  On June - 21 death of enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice (b. 1107)  

1208  On this day in history philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen, Roman-German King, dies  

1305  On June - 21 death of king Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)  

1377  Edward III, king of England (1327-77), dies on June - 21.  

1421  Death of Jean Le Maingre, Marshal of France (b. 1366) on June - 21.  

1527  On this day in history niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57  

1529  John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69 on this day in history.  

1547  On June - 21 death of sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)  

1573  On this day in history antonie van Burgundy, mayor of sealand, dies in battle  

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1582  On this day in history death of oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)  

1591  On this day in history aloysius [Luigi] van Gonzaga, Prince/Italian Jesuit saint, dies  

1621  On June - 21 death of kryštof Harant, Polish soldier, writer, and composer (b. 1564)  

1652  Death of Inigo Jones, English architect (b. 1573) on June - 21.  

1738  On this day in history death of charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English statesman (b. 1674)  

1824  On this day in history death of Étienne Aignan, French writer (b. 1773)  

1865  On this day in history death of frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)  

1874  On this day in history death of anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)  

1876  Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79 on June - 21.  

1884  On June - 21 alexander, prince/last male descendent of Johan W Friso, dies  

1887  On June - 21 adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67  

1893  Death of Leland Stanford, American business tycoon and founder of Stanford University on this day in history.  

1900  On June - 21 polibo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 69  

1908  On this day in history nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64  

1913  Stefan O Iosif, Romanian poet (Beautiful Irine), dies at 37 on June - 21.  

1914  Glauco Velasquez, composer, dies at 30 on this day in history.  

1925  Jan H Leopold, poet/classical (translated Omar Khayyam), dies at 60 on June - 21.  

1934  Death of [James] Thorne Smith, US, sci-fi author (Stray Lamb, Turnabout) on June - 21.  

1940  On June - 21 edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies  

1944  Jan Bonekamp, Dutch resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft, dies on June - 21.  

1945  On June - 21 josef Hora, Czech writer/poet (Sinking Shadows), dies at 53  

1946  Heinrich Kaminski, composer, dies at 59 on June - 21.  

1951  Death of Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867) on June - 21.  

1954  On this day in history death of gideon Sundback, American inventor, perfected the zipper (b. 1880)  

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1002  On June - 21 birth of leo IX, [Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54)  

1002  Pope Leo IX (d. 1054) was born on June - 21.  

1226  On this day in history birth of king Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)  

1528  On June - 21 birth of maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (1603)  

1577  On this day in history birth of giovanni Del Turco, composer  

1596  On this day in history birth of michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov  

1639  Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723) was born on June - 21.  

1640  On June - 21 birth of abraham Mignon, still life painter