Famous Birthdays In May - 21

1471  On this day in history birth of albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker  

1527  On May - 21 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 this day in history birth of frederich Karl Erbach, composer  

1688  Alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock) was born on May - 21.  

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

1722  On May - 21 birth of wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer  

1755  On this day in history birth of alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)  

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1763  On this day in history birth of joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)  

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 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 May - 21.  

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 May - 21.  

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 May - 21.  

1841  On May - 21 birth of joseph Parry, composer  

1843  On May - 21 birth of louis Renault, French lawyer  

1843  On May - 21 birth of charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)  

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

1851  On May - 21 birth of leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)  

1853  Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905) was born on this day in history.  

1855  On May - 21 birth of emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)  

1858  On this day in history birth of jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician  

1860  On May - 21 birth of willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph)  

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0987  Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies on this day in history.  

1254  On this day in history 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 this day in history hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R  

1607  Death of John Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549) on this day in history.  

1639  On May - 21 giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70