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    This Is HISTORY | Birthdays

    May 21 1471

    Albrecht Durer Nornberg Germany Renaissance painterprint maker

    May 21 1653

    Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697)

    May 21 1792

    Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis French scientist (d. 1843)

    May 21 1796

    Reverdy Johnson American politician and jurist (Dred Scott v. Sandford) born in Annapolis (d. 1876)

    May 21 1799

    Mary Anning Lyme Regis Dorset British fossil collector dealer and palaeontologist (Jurassic marine fossil beds of Lyme Regis in Dorset)

    May 21 1821

    John F Loudon Dutch entrepreneurcolonial director

    May 21 1822

    Dabney Herndon Maury Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1900)

    May 21 1822

    Mosby Monroe Parsons United States officer in the MexicanAmerican War and brigadier general of the Confederate States Army born in Charlottesville Virginia (d. 1865)

    May 21 1825

    George Lafayette Beal American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Norway Maine (d. 1896)

    May 21 1827

    William P. Sprague American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)

    May 21 1832

    Elizabeth Storrs Mead American educator (d. 1917)

    May 21 1835

    Newton Martin Curtis American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in De Peyster New York (d. 1910)

    May 21 1835

    Frantiek Chvostek Moravian physician (d. 1884)

    May 21 1841

    Joseph Parry Welsh composer and musician born in Merthyr Tydfil Wales (d. 1903)

    May 21 1843

    Charles-Albert Gobat Swiss politician recipient of the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize born in Tramelan Switzerland (d. 1914)

    May 21 1843

    Louis Renault French lawyer born in Autun France (d. 1918)

    May 21 1844

    Henri Rousseau French post-impressionist painter (The Dream The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope) born in Laval France (d. 1910)

    May 21 1850

    Giuseppe Mercalli Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)

    May 21 1851

    Leon Bourgeois French politician internationalist (Nobel 1920)

    May 21 1853

    Jacques Marie Eugne Godefroy Cavaignac French politician (d. 1905)

    May 21 1855

    Emile A G Verhaeren Belgian poetwriter (Les Flammes Hautes)

    May 21 1860

    Willem Einthoven Dutch physiologist and inventor of the electrocardiodiogram (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1924) born in Semarang Dutch East Indies (d. 1927)

    May 21 1867

    John James Ferris cricketer (mighty Australian bowler of late 1880s)

    May 21 1872

    Henry Warren inventor (Telechon electric clock) born in Boston Massachusetts

    May 21 1873

    Emil Ermatinger Swiss literature historian born in Schaffhausen Switzerland (d. 1953)

    May 21 1873

    Everard Verachtert Flemish translator (I speak beschaafd Dutch)

    May 21 1878

    Glenn Hammond Curtiss American inventor (hydroplane)

    May 21 1882

    Georgine M May Basting actress (Occupier Hostage Rights of Aemstel) born (d. 1950)

    May 21 1884

    Manuel Prez y Curis Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)

    May 21 1885

    Sophie of Schnburg-Waldenburg wife of Prince William of Wied (d. 1936)

    May 21 1887

    Mabel Nell Taliaferro American actress (Sentimental Tommy My Love Come Back) born in NYC New York (d. 1979)

    May 21 1892

    John Peale Bishop US poet (This Side of Paradise)

    May 21 1893

    Arthur Carr cricket captain (England v Australia 1926)

    HISTORICAL EVENTS | ON THIS DAY

    May 21 1040 King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency

    May 21 1420 Treaty of Troyes Henry V of England and his heirs would inherit the throne of France upon the death of King Charles VI of France

    May 21 1502 Portuguese admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena

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