Famous Birthdays In May - 21
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
1471 On May - 21 birth of albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker
1527 On this day in history birth of philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)
1633 Joseph de La Barre, composer was born on May - 21.
1653 On this day in history birth of eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697)
1671 On this day in history birth of azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer
1680 On May - 21 birth of frederich Karl Erbach, composer
1688 Alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock) was born on this day in history.
1720 Antonio Corbisiero, composer was born on May - 21.
1722 On May - 21 birth of wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer
1755 On May - 21 birth of alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)
1763 Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820) was born on May - 21.
1775 On May - 21 birth of lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano
1780 Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse was born on this day in history.
1792 On May - 21 birth of gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
1796 On May - 21 birth of reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876
1821 On this day in history birth of john F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director
1822 On this day in history birth of dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1822 Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1865 was born on this day in history.
1825 On May - 21 birth of george Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 On this day in history birth of danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
1827 William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899) was born on this day in history.
1832 Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917) was born on this day in history.
1834 Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902) was born on this day in history.
1835 On this day in history birth of newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1835 František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884) was born on this day in history.
1841 Joseph Parry, composer was born on May - 21.
1843 On May - 21 birth of louis Renault, French lawyer
1843 On this day in history birth of charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
1850 On this day in history birth of giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
1851 Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920) was born on this day in history.
1853 Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905) was born on this day in history.
1855 On this day in history birth of emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)
1858 Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician was born on this day in history.
1860 On May - 21 birth of willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph)