Famous Personalities Born In August - 21

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

1535  On this day in history birth of shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)   

1567  Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint was born on August - 21.   

1597  On this day in history 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 August - 21.   

1660  On this day in history birth of hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building   

1665  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on this day in history.   

1670  On this day in history birth of james FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734)   

1689  On August - 21 birth of jose Pradas Gallen, composer   

1721  Lucretia W van Winter-van Merken, Dutch poet was born on August - 21.   

1725  On August - 21 birth of jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter   

1751  On August - 21 birth of johann Georg Witthauer, composer   

1754  On August - 21 birth of william Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)   

1754  On August - 21 birth of banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833)   

1765  William IV, king of England (1830-37) was born on August - 21.   

1765  On this day in history birth of william IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)   

1780  On August - 21 birth of jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor (Slovenian Grammar)   

1789  Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician was born on August - 21.   

1798  On August - 21 birth of jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour)   

1800  On August - 21 birth of hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)   

1801  Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian was born on August - 21.   

1806  On this day in history birth of johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer   

1809  On August - 21 birth of francesco Schira, composer   

1810  On this day in history birth of thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1813  On this day in history birth of jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)   

1816  On August - 21 birth of charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)   

1821  William Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 was born on August - 21.   

1824  On this day in history birth of john Sanford Mason, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897   

1825  Kate Fanny Loder, composer was born on August - 21.   

1826  Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903) was born on this day in history.   

1829  On this day in history birth of otto Goldschmidt, composer   

1847  On this day in history birth of arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader   

1852  On August - 21 birth of benedetto Junck, composer   

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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  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on August - 21.   

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 August - 21.   

1614  Death of Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560) on August - 21.