Famous Personalities Born In May - 21
Thursday, 24 April 2025
1471 Albrecht Durer, Nornberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker was born on this day in history.
1527 Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98) was born on this day in history.
1633 Joseph de La Barre, composer was born on May - 21.
1653 On May - 21 birth of eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697)
1671 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer was born on this day in history.
1680 Frederich Karl Erbach, composer was born on this day in history.
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 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 this day in history.
1792 Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843) was born on May - 21.
1796 On this day in history 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 Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900 was born on this day in history.
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 Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro was born on this day in history.
1827 On May - 21 birth of william P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
1832 On May - 21 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 May - 21 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 Louis Renault, French lawyer was born on May - 21.
1843 Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914) was born on this day in history.
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 Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905) was born on May - 21.
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 May - 21.
1860 On May - 21 birth of willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph)