Famous Personalities Born In May - 21
Wednesday, 02 April 2025
1471 On this day in history 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 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 May - 21.
1671 On this day in history birth of azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer
1680 On this day in history 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
1722 Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer was born on May - 21.
1755 Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810) was born on May - 21.
1763 On this day in history birth of joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)
1775 Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano was born on May - 21.
1780 On this day in history birth of elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse
1792 Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843) was born on May - 21.
1796 Reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876 was born on May - 21.
1821 On May - 21 birth of john F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director
1822 On this day in history 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 George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) was born on this day in history.
1826 On May - 21 birth of danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
1827 On this day in history birth of william P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
1832 On this day in history birth of elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)
1834 Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902) was born on this day in history.
1835 On this day in history birth of newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1835 On May - 21 birth of františek Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
1841 On this day in history birth of joseph Parry, composer
1843 On May - 21 birth of louis Renault, French lawyer
1843 On May - 21 birth of charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
1850 On May - 21 birth of giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
1851 Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920) was born on this day in history.
1853 On this day in history birth of jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
1855 Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes) was born on May - 21.
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)