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  Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697) was born on May - 21.  

1671  Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer was born on May - 21.  

1680  Frederich Karl Erbach, composer was born on May - 21.  

1688  On May - 21 birth of alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock)  

1720  On May - 21 birth of antonio Corbisiero, composer  

1722  On May - 21 birth of wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer  

1755  On May - 21 birth of alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)  

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1763  On May - 21 birth of joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)  

1775  On May - 21 birth of lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano  

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 this day in history.  

1796  On May - 21 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  On May - 21 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 May - 21 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  Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917) was born on this day in history.  

1834  On May - 21 birth of charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)  

1835  Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) was born on this day in history.  

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

1841  On this day in history birth of joseph Parry, composer  

1843  Louis Renault, French lawyer was born on this day in history.  

1843  Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914) was born on May - 21.  

1850  On this day in history birth of giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)  

1851  On this day in history birth of leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)  

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 this day in history birth of jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician  

1860  On May - 21 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  On May - 21 death of pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena  

1524  Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80 on May - 21.  

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