Famous Birthdays In May - 21

1471  Albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker was born on May - 21.  

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

1671  On this day in history birth of azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer  

1680  Frederich Karl Erbach, composer was born on May - 21.  

1688  On May - 21 birth of alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock)  

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

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

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

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

1775  Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano was born on May - 21.  

1780  On this day in history 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  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 May - 21.  

1825  George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) was born on May - 21.  

1826  On this day in history 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  On May - 21 birth of charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)  

1835  On May - 21 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  Louis Renault, French lawyer was born on this day in history.  

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

1850  On May - 21 birth of giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)  

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

1860  Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph) was born on this day in history.  

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

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 May - 21.  

1512  On this day in history 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  Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R on this day in history.  

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.