Famous Birthdays In May - 21

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  FrantiÅ¡ek 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)  

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0987  On this day in history louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies  

1254  On May - 21 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  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 May - 21 giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70