Famous Personalities Born In May - 21
Thursday, 03 April 2025
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 May - 21.
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 this day in history birth of azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer
1680 On May - 21 birth of frederich Karl Erbach, composer
1688 On this day in history birth of alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock)
1720 Antonio Corbisiero, composer was born on this day in history.
1722 On May - 21 birth of wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer
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 On this day in history birth of lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano
1780 Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse was born on May - 21.
1792 On May - 21 birth of gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
1796 On this day in history birth of reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876
1821 On May - 21 birth of john F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director
1822 Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900 was born on May - 21.
1822 On May - 21 birth of mosby Monroe Parsons, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1865
1825 On May - 21 birth of george Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro was born on May - 21.
1827 On May - 21 birth of william P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
1832 Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917) was born on this day in history.
1834 On May - 21 birth of charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)
1835 Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) was born on May - 21.
1835 František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884) was born on this day in history.
1841 Joseph Parry, composer was born on this day in history.
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 On this day in history birth of leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)
1853 Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905) was born on this day in history.
1855 Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes) was born on May - 21.
1858 Jose Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician was born on this day in history.
1860 Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph) was born on this day in history.