Famous Deaths In May - 21

0987  Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies on May - 21.   

1254  Koenraad IV, RC-German king (1237-54), dies at 26 on May - 21.   

1481  Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies on May - 21.   

1512  On May - 21 death of pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena   

1524  Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80 on May - 21.   

1542  On May - 21 hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R   

1607  Death of John Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549) on May - 21.   

1639  On this day in history giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70   

1647  On May - 21 pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65   

1650  On this day in history death of james G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged   

1664  Death of Elizabeth Poole, Puritan businesswoman on this day in history.   

1670  On May - 21 death of niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1586)   

1686  On May - 21 death of (N. S.) Otto von Guericke, German scientist (b. 1602)   

1690  On May - 21 john Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85   

1703  On May - 21 roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle   

1719  Death of Pierre Poiret, French mystic (b. 1646) on May - 21.   

1725  On May - 21 robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63   

1742  Death of Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664) on May - 21.   

1771  On this day in history death of christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722)   

1786  Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43 on May - 21.   

1790  On May - 21 thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies   

1810  On this day in history charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81   

1812  On May - 21 joseph Wolfl, composer, dies at 38   

1815  On May - 21 roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73   

1817  On May - 21 johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64   

1844  Guiseppi Baini, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1860  Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53 on this day in history.   

1862  Death of John Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827) on May - 21.   

1879  On May - 21 death of arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848)   

1885  On May - 21 gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73   

1894  On May - 21 august A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54   

1895  On May - 21 franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76   

1897  On this day in history karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77   

1911  Death of Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (b. 1857) on this day in history.   

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1471  Albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker was born on this day in history.   

1527  On this day in history birth of philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)   

1633  On May - 21 birth of joseph de La Barre, composer   

1653  Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697) was born on May - 21.   

1671  Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer was born on May - 21.   

1680  On this day in history birth of frederich Karl Erbach, composer   

1688  On this day in history birth of alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock)   

1720  Antonio Corbisiero, composer was born on May - 21.