Famous Deaths Happened In January - 21

0304  On January - 21 death of saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291)   

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

0917  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (c. 1489)   

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 this day in history.   

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  Death of Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570) on January - 21.   

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

1670  On this day in history honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright, dies at 80   

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

1686  Nicolas-Francois Blondel, French architect, dies on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1766  On this day in history 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 January - 21.   

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

1809  On January - 21 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 January - 21.   

1831  Achim v Arnim, writer, dies at 49 on January - 21.   

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  On January - 21 birth of charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80)   

1338  King Charles V of France (d. 1380) was born on January - 21.   

1571  On January - 21 birth of john I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam)   

1659  Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect was born on this day in history.   

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 January - 21.   

1746  Johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS] was born on January - 21.