Events & Holidays In August - 21

Mohammed VI's Birthday (Morocco)

1165  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on this day in history.   

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

1567  On this day in history 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  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on this day in history.   

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.   

1131  On this day in history boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies   

1157  On this day in history 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  On this day in history alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

1271  On this day in history death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)   

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 this day in history.   

1614  On this day in history death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)