Famous Deaths In January - 21

0304  On this day in history death of saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291)   

0879  Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies on January - 21.   

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

1118  Paschalis II, [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies on this day in history.   

1519  On January - 21 death of vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)   

1527  Death of Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (c. 1489) on January - 21.   

1546  On this day in history death of azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)   

1596  On this day in history john Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66   

1609  Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68 on January - 21.   

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

1638  On this day in history death of ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570)   

1665  On this day in history domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72   

1670  On this day in history honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80   

1683  On January - 21 anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61   

1686  Nicolas-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies on this day in history.   

1699  Death of Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616) on January - 21.   

1704  Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83 on January - 21.   

1706  Death of Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649) on this day in history.   

1710  Death of Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638) on January - 21.   

1722  Death of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661) on January - 21.   

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

1746  On January - 21 gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60   

1766  Death of James Quin, English actor (b. 1693) on this day in history.   

1773  Death of Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689) on this day in history.   

1774  On January - 21 mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56   

1793  On January - 21 death of louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38   

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

1809  On this day in history death of josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729)   

1814  On this day in history death of jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)   

1815  M Claudius, writer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

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

1831  On January - 21 achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49   

1851  On this day in history gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49   

1870  On January - 21 death of alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)   

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1337  Charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80) was born on this day in history.   

1338  On this day in history birth of king Charles V of France (d. 1380)   

1571  On January - 21 birth of john I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam)   

1659  Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect was born on January - 21.   

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

1735  On this day in history birth of johann Gottfried Eckard, composer   

1743  John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton) was born on January - 21.   

1746  On January - 21 birth of johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS]