Famous Deaths In May - 21

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  On May - 21 christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies  

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  Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1647  On this day in history pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65  

1650  Death of James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged on May - 21.  

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

1670  On May - 21 death of niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1586)  

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

1690  On May - 21 john Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85  

1703  On May - 21 roemer Vlacq, Dutch admiral, dies in battle  

1719  Death of Pierre Poiret, French mystic (b. 1646) on this day in history.  

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

1742  On May - 21 death of lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664)  

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

1786  Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43 on May - 21.  

1790  Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies on this day in history.  

1810  On this day in history charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81  

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

1815  Roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73 on May - 21.  

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

1844  Guiseppi Baini, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

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

1862  Death of John Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827) on this day in history.  

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

1885  On May - 21 gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73  

1894  August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54 on May - 21.  

1895  On this day in history franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76  

1897  On May - 21 karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77  

1911  Death of Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (b. 1857) on May - 21.  

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1471  Albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker was born on May - 21.  

1527  On this day in history birth of philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)  

1633  On this day in history 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  Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer was born on May - 21.  

1680  Frederich Karl Erbach, composer was born on this day in history.  

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.