Famous Deaths Happened In August - 21

1131  On August - 21 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  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on this day in history.   

1245  On this day in history alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

1271  Death of Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220) on August - 21.   

1516  On August - 21 john III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78   

1581  Death of Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527) on this day in history.   

1614  Death of Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560) on this day in history.   

1627  Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1629  On August - 21 camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies   

1673  On this day in history isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51   

1689  Death of William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier on this day in history.   

1723  Dimitrie Cantemir, philosopher/monarch of Moldova 1710-11, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

1762  On August - 21 death of lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)   

1763  On this day in history death of charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)   

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

1785  On August - 21 jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies   

1796  On this day in history death of john McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)   

1798  On this day in history corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62   

1812  Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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 August - 21.   

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

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on August - 21.   

1856  Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1864  On August - 21 john Calhoun Sanders, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24   

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

1888  Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1898  On August - 21 nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40   

1905  On this day in history jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80   

1911  On this day in history w R Wister, cricketer (USA v Canada 1859), dies   

1932  On this day in history frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80   

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

1940  On this day in history death of leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62   

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1165  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on August - 21.   

1535  On August - 21 birth of shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)   

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

1597  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on August - 21.   

1642  On August - 21 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  On this day in history birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)