Famous Deaths In August - 21

1131  On this day in history boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies   

1157  On August - 21 death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)   

1190  On this day in history godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies   

1245  On August - 21 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  John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1581  Death of Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527) on this day in history.   

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 August - 21 camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies   

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  Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49 on August - 21.   

1762  Death of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689) on August - 21.   

1763  On this day in history death of charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)   

1772  Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1798  On this day in history corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62   

1812  Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67 on August - 21.   

1814  Death of Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753) on August - 21.   

1824  John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1836  On this day in history death of claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)   

1838  On August - 21 a v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57   

1856  On August - 21 peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64   

1864  John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24 on August - 21.   

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 August - 21.   

1905  On this day in history jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80   

1911  W R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies on August - 21.   

1932  On August - 21 frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80   

1935  Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 on August - 21.   

1940  Death of Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62 on August - 21.   

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1165  On August - 21 birth of philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)   

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

1567  Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint was born on this day in history.   

1597  On August - 21 birth of roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)   

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 this day in history.   

1660  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on August - 21.   

1665  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on August - 21.