Famous Birthdays In May - 21
Saturday, 02 December 2023
1471 Albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker was born on May - 21.
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 this day in history.
1653 On this day in history birth of eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697)
1671 On May - 21 birth of azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer
1680 Frederich Karl Erbach, composer was born on May - 21.
1688 On this day in history birth of alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock)
1720 Antonio Corbisiero, composer was born on this day in history.
1722 On this day in history birth of wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer
1755 On May - 21 birth of alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)
1763 On this day in history birth of joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)
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 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 John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director was born on May - 21.
1822 On May - 21 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 this day in history.
1826 Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro was born on this day in history.
1827 William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899) was born on this day in history.
1832 Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917) was born on this day in history.
1834 On this day in history 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 this day in history.
1841 On May - 21 birth of joseph Parry, composer
1843 On this day in history birth of louis Renault, French lawyer
1843 Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914) was born on this day in history.
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 May - 21.
1855 On this day in history 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 this day in history birth of willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph)