Birthdates Which Occur on May 21:
427 -BC- Plato [Aristocles], Athens(?), Greek philosopher (Politeia)
1471 Albrecht Drer Nrnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker
1527 Philip II King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)
1633 Joseph de La Barre composer
1671 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia composer
1680 Frederich Karl Erbach composer
1688 Alexander Pope England, poet (Rape of the Lock)
1720 Antonio Corbisiero composer
1722 Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle composer
1775 Lucien Bonaparte prince of Canino/Musignano
1780 Elizabeth Fry Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse
1796 Reverdy Johnson rep (Union), died in 1876
1808 G‚rard de Nerval [Labrunie], French poet/writer (Sylvia)
1821 John F Loudon Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director
1822 Dabney Herndon Maury Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
and Mosby Monroe Parsons Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1865
1825 George Lafayette Beal Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 Danillo II ruler of Montenegro
1834 Charles-Albert Gobat Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)
1835 Newton Martin Curtis Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1841 Joseph Parry composer
1843 Louis Renault French lawyer
1851 L‚on Bourgeois France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)
1855 Emile A G Verhaeren Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)
1858 Jos‚ Battle Ordonez Uruguay, politician
1860 Willam Einthoven Dutch physiologist (electrocardiograph)
1865 C J Thomsen Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
1867 Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque composer
1872 Henry Warren Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
1873 Emil Ermatinger Switz, literature historian
and Everard Verachtert Flemish translator (I speak beschaafd Dutch)
1878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss US, inventor (hydroplane)
and Louis L H de Visser Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CPN)
1880 Pablo Luna y Carne composer
1882 Georgine M "May" Basting actress (Hostage Rights of Aemstel)
1887 Mabel Taliaferro NYC, actress (Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back)
1888 May Aufderheide composer
1890 Albert van Raalte conductor (AVRO-orchestra)
1892 John Peale Bishop US poet (This Side of Paradise)
1893 Simon Delmonte actor/director (Boemeladvocaat)
1898 Armand Hammer NYC, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum)
and Charles H ba Czech violinist/composer
and Karel Haba composer
1899 Ralph Sanford Springfield Mass, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
19-- Anthony Corder rocker (Tora Tora-Walkin' Shoes)
and Booth Savage Frederickton NB Canada, actor (Jason West-Hot Shots)
and Isabel Pandora spanish entertainer
and Jeanne Bates SF CA, actress (Mom, Eraserhead, Strangler)
and John Ricco rock guitarist (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century)
and John Zee NYC, actor (Bring 'em Back Alive)
and Lynnie Greene Boston Mass, actress (Maria-On Our Own)
and Richard Libertini Cambridge Mass, actor (Soap, Ghost)
1901 Horace Heidt Alameda Calif, orch leader (Swift Show Wagon)
and Suzanne Lilar [Verbist], France/Belgian writer (Le burlador)
1903 Ali Sastroamidjojo Indonesian attorney/minister/premier (1953..7)
and Manly Wade Wellman Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Planet)
and Pedro Aramburu president Argentina
1904 Robert Montgomery Beacon NY, actor/dir (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack)
and [Thomas] Fats Waller jazz pianist, composer (Ain't Misbehavin')
1905 Edward Lockspeiser composer
1909 Guy de Rothschild banker
1911 Andr‚ Renard Belgian worker's union leader (Syndical Unifi‚)[or 5/25]
1916 Harold Robbins author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers)
and Helen Willis Moody Roark tennis player (US Open 1923-25, 27-29, 31)
and Leonard Manasseh architect
1917 Dennis Day NYC, singer/actor (Jack Benny Show)
and Jean-Louis Curtis French writer (Just Causes)
and Raymond Burr BC Canada, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)
1918 Leonard Mullens rubber physicist
1919 Lord Maxwell College of Justice (Scotland)/senator
and Mark Wood bishop of Ludlow
1920 Anthony Steel London, actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse)
1921 Andrei Sakharov Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75)
1924 Peggy Cass Boston MA, TV panelist, actress (To Tell the Truth)
and Robert Parris Philadelphia, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings)
1926 Dan Perlsweig horse trainer
and Joseph Horovitz composer
and Rick Jason NYC, actor (Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn)
and Robert Creeley Mass, poet/novelist (Island)
1927 Kay Kendall Yorkshire England, actress (Genevieve, Les Girls)
1929 Charles Wadsworth Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center)
and Robert Welch designer/silversmith
1930 David Smith principal/vice chancellor (Edinburgh University)
and Malcolm Fraser PM of Australia
and Stanley Wells director (Shakespeare Institute U of Birmingham)
1931 Desmond Wilcox broadcaster
and George Vassiliou president of Cyprus (1988-93)
1932 John Armitage principal (College of St Hilda & St Bede Durham)
and Robert Sherlaw Johnson composer
1933 Barry Norman Britain, film critic (Film Greats)
1934 Phillip King British sculptor
1935 Terry Lightfoot clarinetist/bandleader
1936 Ama Samy Burma, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher/disciple of Yamada Koun
and Dipak Nandy founder (Runnymead Trust)
1937 Marsha Grant NYC, XXX actress (Naughty Blue Knickers)
1938 David Groh Bkln NY, actor (Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day)
1939 Heinz Holliger composer
1941 Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko USSR, cosmonaut (TM-4)
and Ronald Isley Cincinnati Ohio, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)
1942 David Hunt Wales sec of state
and Robert C Springer St Louis, Col USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38)
1943 Hilton Valentine rock guitarist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1944 Janet Dailey US, author
and Marcie Blane rocker
and Mary Robinson pres of Republic of Ireland
and Mike Degett horse trainer
1945 Ernst Messerschmid Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
1946 David Hill Australian TV-reporter/owner (Fox Sports)
and Ronald Bear actor/director (Havana, Make-up)
1947 Bill Champlin Oakland Ca, rocker
and Richard Hatch Santa Monica Calif, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1948 Leo Sayer [Gerard], England, singer (When I Need Love)
1949 Andrew Nell editor (Sunday Times)
and Arno Hintjens Belgian singer (T C Matic)
and Rosalind Plowright soprano
1950 Roger Hodgson London, rocker
1952 Mr T [Lawrence Tero], Chicago, actor (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T)
1954 Marina Langner Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up (1975)
1955 John Glavin rock keyboardist (Molly Hatchet
and Stan Lynch Gainesville Fl, rock drummer (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers)
1956 Joanna M C "Annemarie" Henselmans singer/cabaretiŠre (School Desk)
1957 Judge Reinhold Wilmington DE, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
and Sue Woodstra Colton Ca, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
1958 Mike Barson rock keyboardist (Madness)
1959 Nick Cassavet‚s actor (Rosemary's Baby, Quiet Cool)
1961 Tim Lever keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round)
1963 Yelena Vodorezova USSR, figure skater (Olympic-1976)
1964 Annabel Schofield Llanelli Wales, actress (Laurel Ellis-Dallas)
1972 Alesha Oreskovich Tampa FL, playmate (Jun, 1993)
1985 Frustaci Septuplets Calif, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7
Deaths Which Occured May 21:
987 Louis V last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies
1254 Koenraad IV RC-German king (1237-54), dies at 26
1481 Christian I king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies
1524 Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk general/premier, dies at about 80
1542 Hernando de Soto dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R
1639 Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70
1647 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65
1650 James G Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged
1690 John Eliot English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85
1703 Roemer Vlacq Dutch admiral, dies in battle
1725 Robert Haley earl of Oxford English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63
1786 Carl W Scheele Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43
1790 Thomas Warton English poet (Oxford sausage), dies
1810 Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont French spy, dies at 81
1812 Joseph Wolfl composer, dies at 38
1815 Roman Hoffstetter composer, dies at 73
1817 Johann Friedrich Christmann composer, dies at 64
1844 Guiseppi Baini composer, dies at 68
1860 Johannes Frederick Frohlich composer, dies at 53
1885 Gavril Yakimovich Lomakin composer, dies at 73
1894 August A Kundt German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54
1895 Franz von Suppe Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76
1897 Karol Mikuli composer, dies at 77
1919 Victor AD S‚galen [Max An‚ly], French ship's doctor/writer, dies
1924 Bobby Franks killed by Leopold & Loeb, at 14
1926 Arthur A R Firbank British writer (Valmouth, Prancing Nigger), dies
Georgy L'vovich Catoire composer, dies at 65
1933 John Henry Mackay Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69
1935 Hugo de Vries botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87
Jane Addams a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65
1949 Klaus Mann German writer, dies at 42
1952 John Garfield actor (Juarez, Air Force), dies at 39
1954 Janos Hammerschlag composer, dies at 68
1966 Pat O'Malley silent film actor, dies at 75
1968 Doris Lloyd actress (Oliver Twist), dies of heart strain at 71
1970 Vinton Hayworth actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63
1971 Dennis King actor (Devil's Brother), dies of heart ailment at 73
1973 Carlo E Gadda Italian engineer/writer (Giornale Guerra), dies at 79
George Breakstone actor/director (Great Expectations), dies at 53
Vaughn Monroe singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
1976 Sulo Nikolai Salonen composer, dies at 77
1978 Joseph EA "Jo" Spier cartoonist/water colors painter, dies at 77
1980 Ida Kaminska actress (Shop on Main Street), dies
1981 Yuki Shimoda actor (Farewell to Manzanar), dies
1983 Finn Einar Mortensen composer, dies at 61
1984 Andrea Leeds actress (Stage Door, Earthbound), dies of cancer at 70
Ann Little actress (Roaring Road), dies
1987 Alejandro Rey actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57
1988 Dino Conte Grandi Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92
1990 Franklyn Seales actor (Onion Field), dies of AIDS at 37
Mary Victor Bruce who flew around empire state bldg in 1930, dies
Moelvi Mohammed Farouk Indian spiritual leader, murdered
1991 Bobby Dale dies at 92
Bobby Dale dies at 92
Rajiv Gandhi Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated
1992 Brendan Nulholland Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59, dies
Elizabeth David British cookbook writer, dies
Mrithi gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24
Skip Stephenson TV host (Real People), dies
1993 John Frost English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80
John Holland actor (They Saved Hitler's Brain), dies at 65
1994 John Henry Weidner Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81
1995 Les Aspin sec of defense (1993-95), dies of stroke at 57
Holidays Which Occur May 21:
Chile Battle of Inquique/Navy Day (1879)
Macedonia, Greece Anastenarides Feast-dance barefoot on hot coals
NY Armed Forces Day
US Lindbergh Flight Day (1927)
Religious Observances on May 21:
RC Month of Mary
Orthodox Feast of SS Constantine & Helen
1690 Luth Commemoration of John Eliot, missionary to Indians
Things to Remember for May 21:
Correct Posture Month-National Physical Fitness & Sports Month
Flower-Hawthorne & Lily of the Valley Gem-Emerald
Good Car Keeping Month-National Bike Month-Better Sleep Month
National Barbecue Month-National Photo Month-National Egg Month
National Car Maintainence-Foot Health Month
National Duckling Month-Reverse Your Work Schedule Month
National Salad Month-National Hamburger Month
National Tavern-Steelmark-Senior Citizen Month
Sight Saving Month-Touring Theatre Month
[Ancient Rome] Agonalia
621 Astrological sign: Gemini
Highlights in History Which Occur May 21:
143 Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed
685 Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians
996 Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor
1040 King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
1216 French crown prince Louis enters England
1420 Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English
1471 King Edwards IV enters London
1502 Portuguese admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena
1526 -Jun 8] Sermon of Bathe, Aargau: TC evangelical theology
1553 English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley
1602 Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
1674 General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland
1683 West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
1793 Cura‡ao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange
1804 Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
1809 Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon
1825 Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia
1832 1st Democratic party national convention
1846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
1856 Lawrence, Kans captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
1861 Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital
1863 Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
1864 GEN David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia
1871 -July 28) French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die
1879 Battle of Iquiquw
and J Palisa discovers asteroid #197 Arete
1881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
and US Nation Lawn Tennis Association formed
1892 Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci," premieres in Milan
1897 Yerkes Observatory 40" (1m) refractor used for 1st time
1898 US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
1901 M Wolf & L Carnera discovers asteroid #480 Hansa
1904 Federation Internationale de Football Assn (Soccer) forms in Paris
1908 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
1914 Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
1916 Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
1917 Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
and M Wolf discovers asteroids #872 Holda & #873 Mechthild
1922 H E Wood discovers asteroid #982 Franklina
and Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
and Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
1924 Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
1925 George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
and Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
1926 White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
1927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
1928 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1304 Arosa
1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
and Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris
1930 NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
1931 Belgian govt of Jaspar falls
and C Jackson discovers asteroid #1196 Sheba
1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands
1933 Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
1940 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
and Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
and Reynaud forms French govt
1941 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor)
and German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
and Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
1942 Great-Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
1943 Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators
1944 Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"
1945 German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
1948 NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1952 Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1
and Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
1953 French govt of Mayer resigns
1955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
and WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms
and US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
and WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 French govt of Mollet resigns
1958 Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
and US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
1959 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens
and Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim's musical "Gypsy," premieres in NYC
1961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
1964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations
and Fire in W‚gimond Belgium resort, kills 19
and US begin intelligence flights above Laos
1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London
and Kauai King wins Kentucky Derby
1968 Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
and US sub Scorpion sinks off Azores, with all 99 crew lost
and USSR performs nuclear test (underground)
and WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death
and Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel
After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike
and Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over NY Mets
1970 National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
and USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1971 Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens
and National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn
1975 Borussia M”nchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede
and Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm
and Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
1977 Albert Innaurato's "Gemini," premieres in NYC
and Fire in hotel Duke van Brabant Brussels, kills 19
and Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins 102nd Preakness Stakes (1:54.4)
and SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
1978 118 Unification church couples wed in England
and Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect
1979 Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone
and Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR
and Mont Canadiens beat NY Rangers 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
and National Volksraad installed in Namibia
1980 "Empire Strikes Back" premieres
and Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt
1981 Fran‡ois Mitterrand becomes president of France
and NY Islanders beat Minn North Stars 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
1982 British troops lands on Falkland Islands
and E Bowell discovers asteroid #3018 Godiva
and P Wild discovers asteroid #2731 Cucula
1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission
and David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1
1985 A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discover asteroid #3305
1986 Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka
and Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
1988 Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore
and Risen Star wins Preakness
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 Nancy Lopez wins her 3rd LPGA championship
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
and Last episode of "Newhart" airs
1991 Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
1992 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
and NJ senate overrides Governor Florio's veto & lowers sales tax to 6%
1993 Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life
and Venezuela president Carlos Andr‚s P‚rez fired
1994 Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26)
and Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32)
and South Yemen secedes from Yemen
and Tabasco Cat wins 119th Preakness Stakes
1968 Nuclear sub 'Scorpion' sank 400 miles S.W. of Azores. All
99 in crew die in 10,000 feet of water.
Your Special Reminders for May 21:
141st day of year with 224 days left (Numerology = 8)
and 1907 40øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1934 90øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
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