Famous Deaths In August - 21
Saturday, 07 September 2024
1131 Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on this day in history.
1157 On this day in history death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)
1190 On August - 21 godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies
1245 Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on this day in history.
1271 On August - 21 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 Death of Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527) on this day in history.
1614 Death of Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560) on August - 21.
1627 On this day in history jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69
1629 Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies on this day in history.
1673 On August - 21 isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51
1689 Death of William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier on August - 21.
1723 On August - 21 dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49
1762 On this day in history death of lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
1763 Death of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710) on August - 21.
1772 Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29 on August - 21.
1785 Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies on this day in history.
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 August - 21.
1812 On August - 21 silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67
1814 On this day in history death of benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
1824 John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 on August - 21.
1836 Death of Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785) on this day in history.
1838 A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on this day in history.
1856 On August - 21 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 On this day in history death of ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821)
1888 On August - 21 simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70
1898 Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40 on August - 21.
1905 Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 on this day in history.
1911 On this day in history w R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies
1932 On August - 21 frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80
1935 On August - 21 josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76
1940 On August - 21 death of leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62
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