Famous Deaths Happened In May - 21

0987  Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies on this day in history.   

1254  On May - 21 koenraad IV, RC-German king (1237-54), dies at 26   

1481  On May - 21 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  Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R on May - 21.   

1607  On May - 21 death of john Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549)   

1639  On this day in history giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70   

1647  Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65 on May - 21.   

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

1664  On May - 21 death of elizabeth Poole, Puritan businesswoman   

1670  Death of Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1586) on this day in history.   

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

1690  On this day in history john Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85   

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

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

1725  On May - 21 robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63   

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

1771  On this day in history 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  On May - 21 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  On May - 21 roman Hoffstetter, composer, dies at 73   

1817  On this day in history johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64   

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  On May - 21 death of john Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)   

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

1895  On May - 21 franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76   

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

1527  Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98) was born on May - 21.   

1633  On this day in history birth of joseph de La Barre, composer   

1653  Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697) was born on this day in history.   

1671  On this day in history birth of azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer   

1680  On May - 21 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