[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History Oct 21

[Steve Rourke]

Births:
1328 - Hongwu Emperor of China (d. 1398)
1449 - George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV of England and Richard
III of England (d. 1478)
1527 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1578)
1581 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)

Deaths:
310 - Pope Eusebius
1125 - Cosmas of Prague, Bohemian writer
1221 - Alix of Thouars, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1201)
1266 - Birger jarl, Swedish statesman and founder of Stockholm (b. 1210)
1422 - King Charles VI of France (b. 1368)
1500 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1442)
1505 - Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician
1558 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (b. 1484)
1600 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)

Other Events:
686 - Conon becomes Pope.
1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of
Wittenberg
1600 - Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the
Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate,
who in effect rule Japan until the mid-Nineteenth century.