Famous Deaths In January - 21

0304  On January - 21 death of saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291)   

0879  Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies on this day in history.   

0917  On January - 21 death of erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880)   

1118  On this day in history paschalis II, [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies   

1519  On this day in history death of vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)   

1527  On January - 21 death of juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (c. 1489)   

1546  On January - 21 death of azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)   

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 January - 21.   

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

1683  Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1686  On this day in history nicolas-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies   

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

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

1722  On January - 21 death of charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)   

1731  On January - 21 death of thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)   

1746  Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1766  Death of James Quin, English actor (b. 1693) on January - 21.   

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 January - 21.   

1795  On this day in history death of samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)   

1809  Death of Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729) on January - 21.   

1814  Death of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737) on January - 21.   

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

1823  On January - 21 death of cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761)   

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 this day in history.   

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1337  Charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80) was born on January - 21.   

1338  King Charles V of France (d. 1380) was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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