Famous Deaths In August - 21
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
1131 Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on August - 21.
1157 On August - 21 death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)
1190 On August - 21 godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies
1245 On this day in history alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies
1271 On this day in history death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
1516 On August - 21 john III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78
1581 On this day in history death of sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
1614 On August - 21 death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
1627 Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.
1629 On this day in history camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies
1673 Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 on this day in history.
1689 On this day in history death of william Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier
1723 Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49 on August - 21.
1762 On August - 21 death of lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
1763 On August - 21 death of charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1772 On August - 21 alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29
1785 On this day in history jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies
1796 Death of John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721) on August - 21.
1798 Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62 on this day in history.
1812 Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.
1814 On August - 21 death of benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
1824 On August - 21 john Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70
1836 On this day in history death of claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
1838 A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on August - 21.
1856 On this day in history peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64
1864 On this day in history john Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24
1870 Death of Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821) on this day in history.
1888 Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70 on this day in history.
1898 Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40 on this day in history.
1905 Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 on August - 21.
1911 On August - 21 w R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies
1932 On this day in history frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80
1935 On August - 21 josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76
1940 Death of Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62 on this day in history.
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