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  Death of Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880) on January - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

1546  On January - 21 death of azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)   

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

1609  On January - 21 joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68   

1626  On this day in history john Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62   

1638  Death of Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570) on this day in history.   

1665  Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72 on January - 21.   

1670  Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80 on January - 21.   

1683  On January - 21 anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61   

1686  On January - 21 nicolas-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies   

1699  On January - 21 death of obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)   

1704  Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83 on January - 21.   

1706  On January - 21 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  On January - 21 death of thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)   

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

1766  On this day in history death of james Quin, English actor (b. 1693)   

1773  On this day in history death of alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)   

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

1793  On January - 21 death of louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries at 38   

1795  On this day in history death of samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)   

1809  On this day in history death of josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729)   

1814  Death of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737) on January - 21.   

1815  M Claudius, writer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

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  Death of Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812) on this day in history.   

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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 January - 21.   

1659  Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect was born on January - 21.   

1721  James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794) was born on January - 21.   

1735  On January - 21 birth of johann Gottfried Eckard, composer   

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

1746  On this day in history birth of johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS]