Famous Deaths Happened In January - 21

0304  Death of Saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291) on January - 21.   

0879  Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies on January - 21.   

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  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 this day in history.   

1626  John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

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

1665  On January - 21 domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72   

1670  On this day in history 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 January - 21.   

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

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

1731  On this day in history death of thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)   

1746  Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1766  Death of James Quin, English actor (b. 1693) on January - 21.   

1773  Death of Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history death of samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)   

1809  Death of Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729) on January - 21.   

1814  On January - 21 death of jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)   

1815  On January - 21 m Claudius, writer, dies at 74   

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

1831  Achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1659  On January - 21 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 this day in history.   

1743  John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton) was born on this day in history.   

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