Famous Deaths Happened 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  On August - 21 alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

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

1516  John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1581  Death of Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527) on August - 21.   

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  Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49   

1762  On this day in history death of lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)   

1763  On August - 21 death of charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)   

1772  Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29 on August - 21.   

1785  On this day in history jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies   

1796  On August - 21 death of john McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)   

1798  On August - 21 corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62   

1812  Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67 on August - 21.   

1814  On August - 21 death of benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)   

1824  John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 on August - 21.   

1836  Death of Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785) on August - 21.   

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1856  On August - 21 peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64   

1864  John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24 on August - 21.   

1870  On August - 21 death of ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821)   

1888  On August - 21 simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70   

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  W R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies on August - 21.   

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

1935  On August - 21 josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76   

1940  Death of Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62 on this day in history.   

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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  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 August - 21.   

1665  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on August - 21.