Famous Personalities Born In May - 21

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 frantiÅ¡ek 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)   

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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 this day in history.   

1481  On May - 21 christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies   

1512  Death of Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena on May - 21.   

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

1639  Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70 on May - 21.