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 January - 21.   

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

1118  On January - 21 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  On this day in history 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 January - 21.   

1626  On this day in history john Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62   

1638  On January - 21 death of ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570)   

1665  On this day in history domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72   

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

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

1686  Nicolas-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies on January - 21.   

1699  On this day in history death of obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)   

1704  Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83 on January - 21.   

1706  Death of Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649) on January - 21.   

1710  On January - 21 death of johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)   

1722  On this day in history death of charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)   

1731  Death of Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669) on January - 21.   

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  Death of Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689) on this day in history.   

1774  On this day in history mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56   

1793  On January - 21 death of louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38   

1795  Death of Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728) on January - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

1815  On this day in history m Claudius, writer, dies at 74   

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

1831  On this day in history achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49   

1851  Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

1870  On this day in history death of alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)   

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1337  Charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80) was born on this day in history.   

1338  On January - 21 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 this day in history.   

1721  James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794) was born on January - 21.   

1735  On January - 21 birth of johann Gottfried Eckard, composer   

1743  On January - 21 birth of john Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)   

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