Famous Deaths Happened In January - 21

0304  Death of Saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291) on January - 21.   

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

0917  Death of Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880) on January - 21.   

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

1519  Death of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475) on this day in history.   

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

1546  Death of Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491) on this day in history.   

1596  John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1609  Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1626  John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1638  Death of Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570) on this day in history.   

1665  Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72 on January - 21.   

1670  Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1683  On this day in history anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61   

1686  On January - 21 nicolas-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies   

1699  Death of Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616) on this day in history.   

1704  On January - 21 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  On this day in history death of johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)   

1722  Death of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661) on this day in history.   

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

1746  On this day in history gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60   

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

1773  On January - 21 death of alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)   

1774  Mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1793  Death of Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38 on January - 21.   

1795  On January - 21 death of samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)   

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

1814  Death of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737) on this day in history.   

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 January - 21.   

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

1870  Death of Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812) on this day in history.   

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1337  On this day in history birth of charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80)   

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

1571  John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam) was born on January - 21.   

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

1721  On January - 21 birth of james Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)   

1735  Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1746  Johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS] was born on this day in history.