Famous Birthdays 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  Joseph de La Barre, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

1720  Antonio Corbisiero, composer was born on this day in history.  

1722  On May - 21 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 May - 21 birth of lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano  

1780  On this day in history 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 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  On May - 21 birth of mosby Monroe Parsons, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1865  

1825  On May - 21 birth of george Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)  

1826  On this day in history birth of danillo II, ruler of Montenegro  

1827  William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899) was born on this day in history.  

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

1834  Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902) was born on May - 21.  

1835  On May - 21 birth of newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)  

1835  František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884) was born on May - 21.  

1841  Joseph Parry, composer was born on May - 21.  

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

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 May - 21.  

1858  Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician was born on May - 21.  

1860  Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph) was born on May - 21.  

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0987  Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies on May - 21.  

1254  Koenraad IV, RC-German king (1237-54), dies at 26 on May - 21.  

1481  Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies on this day in history.  

1512  On May - 21 death of pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena  

1524  On this day in history thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80  

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 May - 21.  

1639  On this day in history giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70