Famous Deaths In May - 21

0987  On May - 21 louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies  

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

1481  Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies on May - 21.  

1512  On this day in history death of pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena  

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

1542  Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R on this day in history.  

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  

1647  Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65 on this day in history.  

1650  Death of James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged on this day in history.  

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1664  Death of Elizabeth Poole, Puritan businesswoman on May - 21.  

1670  Death of Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1586) on May - 21.  

1686  Death of (N. S.) Otto von Guericke, German scientist (b. 1602) on this day in history.  

1690  John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85 on May - 21.  

1703  On this day in history roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle  

1719  Death of Pierre Poiret, French mystic (b. 1646) on May - 21.  

1725  Robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63 on May - 21.  

1742  Death of Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664) on this day in history.  

1771  On May - 21 death of christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722)  

1786  On May - 21 carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43  

1790  On May - 21 thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies  

1810  Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81 on May - 21.  

1812  Joseph Wolfl, composer, dies at 38 on this day in history.  

1815  Roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

1817  Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64 on May - 21.  

1844  On May - 21 guiseppi Baini, composer, dies at 68  

1860  Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53 on this day in history.  

1862  On this day in history death of john Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)  

1879  Death of Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848) on May - 21.  

1885  Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73 on May - 21.  

1894  On May - 21 august A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54  

1895  Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76 on May - 21.  

1897  On this day in history karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77  

1911  Death of Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (b. 1857) on this day in history.  

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1471  On May - 21 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  On May - 21 birth of joseph de La Barre, composer  

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

1720  On May - 21 birth of antonio Corbisiero, composer