Famous Deaths In May - 21

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

1254  Koenraad IV, RC-German king (1237-54), dies at 26 on this day in history.  

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

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 May - 21 hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R  

1607  On this day in history death of john Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549)  

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  On May - 21 death of james G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged  

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

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  John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85 on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1742  Death of Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664) on May - 21.  

1771  Death of Christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722) on this day in history.  

1786  Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43 on this day in history.  

1790  Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies on May - 21.  

1810  Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81 on this day in history.  

1812  Joseph Wolfl, composer, dies at 38 on May - 21.  

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

1817  Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

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

1860  On this day in history johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer, dies at 53  

1862  On May - 21 death of john Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)  

1879  On May - 21 death of arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848)  

1885  On this day in history gavril Yakimovich Lomakin, composer, dies at 73  

1894  August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54 on this day in history.  

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

1897  Karol Mikuli, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

1911  On May - 21 death of williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (b. 1857)  

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1471  On May - 21 birth of albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker  

1527  Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98) was born on this day in history.  

1633  On May - 21 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  Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer was born on May - 21.  

1680  On May - 21 birth of frederich Karl Erbach, composer  

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

1720  Antonio Corbisiero, composer was born on May - 21.