Famous Personalities Born In May - 21

1471  On May - 21 birth of albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker   

1527  Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98) was born on this day in history.   

1633  Joseph de La Barre, composer was born on May - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

1680  On May - 21 birth of frederich Karl Erbach, composer   

1688  Alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock) was born on this day in history.   

1720  On May - 21 birth of antonio Corbisiero, composer   

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  On May - 21 birth of joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)   

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

1780  Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse was born on this day in history.   

1792  Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843) was born on May - 21.   

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

1821  On May - 21 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 this day in history.   

1825  George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) was born on this day in history.   

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

1827  William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899) was born on May - 21.   

1832  On May - 21 birth of elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)   

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  On this day in history birth of frantiÅ¡ek Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)   

1841  On May - 21 birth of joseph Parry, composer   

1843  On this day in history 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 May - 21.   

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 May - 21.   

1855  Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes) was born on May - 21.   

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

1860  On this day in history birth of willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph)   

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0987  On this day in history 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  On May - 21 christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies   

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 May - 21.   

1542  Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R on May - 21.   

1607  On May - 21 death of john Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549)   

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