Famous Personalities Born In May - 21

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

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

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

1653  On May - 21 birth of eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697)   

1671  On May - 21 birth of azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer   

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  On this day in history birth of antonio Corbisiero, composer   

1722  On this day in history birth of wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer   

1755  Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810) was born on May - 21.   

1763  On May - 21 birth of joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)   

1775  On May - 21 birth of lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano   

1780  Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse was born on this day in history.   

1792  Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843) was born on May - 21.   

1796  On May - 21 birth of reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876   

1821  On this day in history birth of john F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director   

1822  On May - 21 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  William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899) was born on May - 21.   

1832  On May - 21 birth of elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)   

1834  On this day in history birth of charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)   

1835  On this day in history birth of newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1835  On this day in history birth of frantiÅ¡ek Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)   

1841  On May - 21 birth of joseph Parry, composer   

1843  On this day in history birth of louis Renault, French lawyer   

1843  Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914) was born on May - 21.   

1850  Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914) was born on May - 21.   

1851  On this day in history birth of leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)   

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 this day in history.   

1858  On May - 21 birth of jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician   

1860  Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph) was born on this day in history.   

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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  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 this day in history.   

1542  On May - 21 hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R   

1607  Death of John Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549) on this day in history.   

1639  On May - 21 giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70