Famous Birthdays In May - 21

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  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  Frederich Karl Erbach, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

1720  On May - 21 birth of antonio Corbisiero, composer  

1722  On this day in history birth of wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer  

1755  Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810) was born on this day in history.  

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1763  Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820) was born on May - 21.  

1775  Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano was born on this day in history.  

1780  On this day in history birth of elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse  

1792  On this day in history birth of gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)  

1796  On this day in history 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  Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900 was born on this day in history.  

1822  Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1865 was born on May - 21.  

1825  On May - 21 birth of george Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)  

1826  On May - 21 birth of danillo II, ruler of Montenegro  

1827  On this day in history birth of william P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)  

1832  Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917) was born on this day in history.  

1834  On May - 21 birth of charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)  

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 May - 21.  

1841  On May - 21 birth of joseph Parry, composer  

1843  Louis Renault, French lawyer was born on May - 21.  

1843  Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914) was born on May - 21.  

1850  Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914) was born on this day in history.  

1851  Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920) was born on May - 21.  

1853  Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905) was born on May - 21.  

1855  Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes) was born on this day in history.  

1858  Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician was born on this day in history.  

1860  Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph) was born on May - 21.  

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0987  On this day in history louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies  

1254  On May - 21 koenraad IV, RC-German king (1237-54), dies at 26  

1481  Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies on this day in history.  

1512  Death of Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena on May - 21.  

1524  Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80 on this day in history.  

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 May - 21 giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70