Famous Birthdays In May - 21

1471  On this day in history birth of albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker  

1527  On this day in history 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  Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697) was born on May - 21.  

1671  On May - 21 birth of azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer  

1680  On this day in history 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 this day in history birth of wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer  

1755  Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810) was born on May - 21.  

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

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

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

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

1796  On this day in history 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  Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900 was born on May - 21.  

1822  Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1865 was born on this day in history.  

1825  On this day in history birth of george Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)  

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 this day in history.  

1834  On this day in history birth of charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)  

1835  Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) was born on May - 21.  

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

1841  On May - 21 birth of joseph Parry, composer  

1843  Louis Renault, French lawyer was born on May - 21.  

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 May - 21.  

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

1855  On this day in history birth of emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)  

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

1254  On this day in history koenraad IV, RC-German king (1237-54), dies at 26  

1481  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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

1607  Death of John Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549) on this day in history.  

1639  Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70 on May - 21.