Famous Deaths In January - 21

0304  Death of Saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291) on January - 21.   

0879  On January - 21 boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies   

0917  Death of Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880) on this day in history.   

1118  Paschalis II, [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies on January - 21.   

1519  Death of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475) on this day in history.   

1527  On this day in history death of juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (c. 1489)   

1546  Death of Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491) on January - 21.   

1596  John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 on January - 21.   

1609  Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1626  On January - 21 john Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62   

1638  On January - 21 death of ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570)   

1665  Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1670  Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80 on January - 21.   

1683  On this day in history anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61   

1686  On January - 21 nicolas-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies   

1699  On January - 21 death of obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)   

1704  On this day in history willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83   

1706  On January - 21 death of adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)   

1710  On this day in history death of johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)   

1722  Death of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661) on this day in history.   

1731  Death of Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669) on this day in history.   

1746  On this day in history gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60   

1766  On January - 21 death of james Quin, English actor (b. 1693)   

1773  On January - 21 death of alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)   

1774  On this day in history mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56   

1793  Death of Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38 on this day in history.   

1795  Death of Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728) on January - 21.   

1809  Death of Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729) on this day in history.   

1814  On January - 21 death of jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)   

1815  On January - 21 m Claudius, writer, dies at 74   

1823  Death of Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761) on January - 21.   

1831  Achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

1851  Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

1870  Death of Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812) on January - 21.   

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1337  On January - 21 birth of charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80)   

1338  King Charles V of France (d. 1380) was born on January - 21.   

1571  On this day in history birth of john I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam)   

1659  On this day in history birth of adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect   

1721  On this day in history birth of james Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)   

1735  On January - 21 birth of johann Gottfried Eckard, composer   

1743  On this day in history birth of john Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)   

1746  Johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS] was born on January - 21.