Famous Deaths In August - 21

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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1165  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on this day in history.   

1535  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619) was born on this day in history.   

1567  On this day in history birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint   

1597  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on August - 21.   

1642  On this day in history birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

1643  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on August - 21.   

1660  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on this day in history.   

1665  On August - 21 birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)