Famous Personalities Born In May - 21

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

1527  Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98) was born on May - 21.   

1633  On this day in history birth of joseph de La Barre, composer   

1653  On May - 21 birth of eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697)   

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 May - 21 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 May - 21.   

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

1775  On this day in history birth of lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano   

1780  On May - 21 birth of elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse   

1792  Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843) was born on this day in history.   

1796  On May - 21 birth of reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876   

1821  John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director was born on May - 21.   

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  George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) was born on May - 21.   

1826  Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro was born on May - 21.   

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

1832  On this day in history birth of elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)   

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

1835  Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) was born on this day in history.   

1835  FrantiÅ¡ek Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884) was born on this day in history.   

1841  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

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

1858  On May - 21 birth of jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician   

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

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0987  On May - 21 louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies   

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 this day in history.   

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

1607  On this day in history death of john Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549)   

1639  Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70 on this day in history.