Famous Deaths Happened In January - 21

0304  Death of Saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291) on this day in history.   

0879  On this day in history boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies   

0917  On January - 21 death of erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880)   

1118  Paschalis II, [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies on January - 21.   

1519  On January - 21 death of vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)   

1527  Death of Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (c. 1489) on January - 21.   

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

1596  On January - 21 john Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66   

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 January - 21.   

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

1665  Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1670  On January - 21 honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80   

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

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 this day in history death of adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)   

1710  Death of Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638) on this day in history.   

1722  Death of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661) on January - 21.   

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

1746  On January - 21 gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60   

1766  On January - 21 death of james Quin, English actor (b. 1693)   

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

1774  On January - 21 mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74), dies at 56   

1793  Death of Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38 on this day in history.   

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

1809  Death of Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729) on this day in history.   

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 January - 21.   

1823  Death of Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761) on this day in history.   

1831  On January - 21 achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49   

1851  On January - 21 gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49   

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 January - 21.   

1338  King Charles V of France (d. 1380) was born on this day in history.   

1571  On this day in history birth of john I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam)   

1659  On this day in history birth of adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect   

1721  James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794) was born on this day in history.   

1735  Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer was born on January - 21.   

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

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