Famous Deaths In August - 21

1131  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on August - 21.   

1157  Death of King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105) on August - 21.   

1190  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on this day in history.   

1245  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on this day in history.   

1271  Death of Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220) on this day in history.   

1516  On August - 21 john III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78   

1581  On this day in history death of sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)   

1614  On August - 21 death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)   

1627  On this day in history jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69   

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  On August - 21 death of william Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier   

1723  Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

1762  On August - 21 death of lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)   

1763  Death of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710) on August - 21.   

1772  On August - 21 alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29   

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  Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62 on August - 21.   

1812  Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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

1824  On August - 21 john Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70   

1836  On August - 21 death of claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)   

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on August - 21.   

1856  Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1864  On this day in history john Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24   

1870  Death of Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821) on August - 21.   

1888  Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70 on August - 21.   

1898  On August - 21 nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40   

1905  Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 on August - 21.   

1911  On this day in history w R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies   

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

1935  On this day in history josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76   

1940  On August - 21 death of leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62   

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1165  On this day in history 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  On August - 21 birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint   

1597  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on this day in history.   

1642  On this day in history birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

1643  On August - 21 birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)   

1660  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on this day in history.   

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