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 this day in history.   

1190  On August - 21 godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies   

1245  On August - 21 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  On this day in history john III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78   

1581  On August - 21 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  Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1629  Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies on August - 21.   

1673  Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

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 August - 21.   

1762  On this day in history 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  Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29 on this day in history.   

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

1812  On this day in history silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67   

1814  Death of Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753) on this day in history.   

1824  John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1836  Death of Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785) on this day in history.   

1838  On this day in history a v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57   

1856  On this day in history peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64   

1864  John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24 on this day in history.   

1870  Death of Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821) on this day in history.   

1888  On this day in history simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70   

1898  Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40 on August - 21.   

1905  Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1911  On August - 21 w R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies   

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

1935  Josef Cyril Sychra, composer, dies at 76 on August - 21.   

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  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619) was born on August - 21.   

1567  On August - 21 birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint   

1597  On August - 21 birth of roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)   

1642  Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer was born on this day in history.   

1643  On this day in history birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)   

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.