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 this day in history.   

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

1118  On January - 21 paschalis II, [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies   

1519  On this day in history 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 January - 21.   

1626  On January - 21 john Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62   

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

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  Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61 on January - 21.   

1686  On this day in history 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  Death of Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649) on this day in history.   

1710  Death of Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638) on January - 21.   

1722  Death of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661) on this day in history.   

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

1746  On this day in history gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60   

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

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

1774  On this day in history 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  Death of Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728) on this day in history.   

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

1814  On this day in history death of jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)   

1815  On this day in history m Claudius, writer, dies at 74   

1823  On this day in history death of cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761)   

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 January - 21.   

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1337  Charles V, the Wise, king of France (1364-80) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

1659  On January - 21 birth of adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect   

1721  On this day in history birth of james Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)   

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

1743  On January - 21 birth of john Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)   

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