Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of May 21:
0427 -BC- Plato (Aristocles), Athens(?)
1471 Albrecht Dürer Nürnberg 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 representative (Union), died in 1876
1808 Gérard 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
1822 Mosby Monroe Parsons Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1865
1825 George Lafayette Beal Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1826 Danillo II ruler of Montenegro
1834 Charles-Albert Gobat Switzerland, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)
1835 Newton Martin Curtis Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1841 Joseph Parry composer
1843 Louis Renault French lawyer
1851 Léon Bourgeois France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)
1855 Emile A G Verhaeren Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)
1858 José Battle Ordonez Uruguay, politician
1860 Willam Einthoven Dutch physiologist/inventor (electrocardiograph)
1865 C J Thomsen Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
1867 John James Ferris cricketer (mighty Australian bowler of late 1880's)
1867 Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque composer
1872 Henry Warren Boston MA, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
1873 Emil Ermatinger Switzerland, literature historian
1873 Everard Verachtert Flemish translator (I speak beschaafd Dutch)
1878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss US, inventor (hydroplane)
1878 Louis L H de Visser Dutch MP (CPN)
1880 Pablo Luna y Carne composer
1882 Georgine M "May" Basting actress (Hostage Rights of Aemstel)
1887 Mabel Taliaferro New York NY, 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 Arthur Carr cricket captain (England vs Australia 1926)
1893 Simon Delmonte actor/director (Boemeladvocaat)
1898 Armand Hammer New York NY, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum)
1898 Charles Hába Czechoslovakia, violinist/composer
1899 Ilse Lagner writer
1899 Ralph Sanford Springfield MA, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
19-- Anthony Corder rocker (Tora Tora-Walkin' Shoes)
19-- Booth Savage Fredericton New Brunswick Canada, actor (Jason West-Hot Shots)
19-- John Ricco rock guitarist (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century)
19-- John Zee New York NY, actor (Bring 'em Back Alive)
19-- Lynnie Greene Boston MA, actress (Maria-On Our Own)
1901 Horace Heidt Alameda CA, orchestra leader (Swift Show Wagon)
1901 Suzanne Lilar [Verbist], France/Belgian writer (Le burlador)
1903 Ali Sastroamidjojo Indonesian attorney/minister/premier (1953..7)
1903 Manly Wade Wellman Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Planet)
1903 Pedro Aramburu President of Argentina
1904 Fats [Thomas Wright] Waller New York NY, jazz singer/composer (Ain't Misbehavin')
1904 Robert Montgomery Beacon NY, actor/director (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack)
1905 Edward Lockspeiser composer
1906 Helen Willis Moody Roark tennis player (US Open 1923-25, 27-29, 31)
1906 Keith Rigg cricketer (Australian Test batsman in the thirties)
1909 Guy de Rothschild French banker
1911 André Renard Belgian worker's union leader (Syndical Unifié)[or 5/25]
1916 Harold Robbins New York NY, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy)
1916 Joseph Janni producer
1916 Leonard Manasseh architect
1917 Dennis Day New York NY, Irish tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show, Danny Boy)
1917 Heather Swift local councillor
1917 Jean-Louis Curtis French writer (Just Causes)
1917 Raymond Burr New Westminster British Columbia Canada, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)
1917 Ronald John Bilsland Colville businessman
1918 Leonard Mullens rubber physicist
1919 Lord Maxwell senator/professor (college of Justice Scotland)
1919 Mark Wood bishop (Ludlow)
1920 Anthony Steel London, actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse)
1921 Andrei Sakharov Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75)
1923 Bettye Danoff LPGA golfer
1923 Doris Mae Akers gospel singer/songwriter
1924 Peggy Cass Boston MA, actress/TV panelist (To Tell the Truth, Mame)
1924 Robert Parris Philadelphia PA, composer (Book of Imaginary Beings)
1926 Dan Perlsweig horse trainer
1926 Joseph Horovitz composer
1926 Rick Jason New York NY, actor (Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn)
1926 Robert Creeley Massachusetts, poet/novelist (The Island)
1927 George Levy antique dealer/heritage campaigner
1927 Kay Kendall Yorkshire England, actress (Genevieve, Les Girls)
1929 Charles Wadsworth Barnesville GA, pianist (Lincoln Center)
1929 Paul Winslow cricketer (big-hitter for South Africa, 108 vs England 1955)
1929 Robert Welch designer/silversmith (Robert Welch flatware)
1930 David Smith principal/vice chancellor (Edinburgh University)
1930 Malcolm Fraser PM of Australia (Liberal, 1975-83)
1930 Stanley Wells director (Shakespeare Institute University of Birmingham)
1931 Desmond Wilcox broadcaster
1931 George Vassiliou President of Cyprus (1988-93)
1932 G Wohmann writer
1932 John Armitage principal (College of St Hilda & St Bede Durham)
1932 Robert Sherlaw Johnson composer
1933 Barry Norman Britain, film critic (The Film Greats)
1933 Richard Libertini Cambridge MA, actor (Soap, Ghost)
1934 Phillip King British sculptor
1935 Terry Lightfoot clarinetist/bandleader (New Orleans Jazzmen)
1936 Ama Samy Burma, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher/disciple of Yamada Koun
1936 Dipak Nandy founder (Runnymead Trust)
1938 David Groh Brooklyn NY, actor (Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day)
1938 Urs Widmer writer
1939 Heinz Holliger composer
1941 Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko USSR, cosmonaut (TM-4)
1941 Ronald Isley Cincinnati OH, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)
1942 David Hunt Wales Secretary of state
1942 Robert C Springer St Louis, Colonel USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38)
1943 Hilton Valentine rock guitarist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1944 Janet Dailey US, author
1944 Manual Pina fashion designer
1944 Marcie Blane rocker
1944 Mary Robinson President of Republic of Ireland (Labour, 1990- )
1944 Mike Degett horse trainer
1945 Ernst Willi Messerschmid Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
1946 David Hill Australian TV-reporter/owner (Fox Sports)
1946 Ronald Bear actor/director (Havana, Make-up)
1947 Bill Champlin Oakland CA, rocker
1947 Dorothy Germain LPGA golfer
1947 Richard Hatch Santa Monica CA, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1948 Carol Potter actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
1948 Leo [Gerard] Sayer Shoreham-on-Sea England, singer (When I Need You)
1949 Andrew Nell editor (Sunday Times)
1949 Arno Hintjens Belgian singer (T C Matic)
1949 Rosalind Plowright British soprano (Aida, Senta)
1950 Roger Hodgson London, rocker (Supertramp-The Logical Song)
1951 Al Franken comedian/writer/actor (Saturday Night Live, Stuart Saves His Family)
1952 Mr T [Lawrence Tero] Chicago IL, actor (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T)
1954 Bill Abbott Sarnia Ontario, yachter (Olympics-96)
1954 Marina Langner Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up (1975)
1955 John Glavin rock keyboardist (Molly Hatchet
1955 Liaqat Ali cricket pace bowler (Pakistan in six Tests 1975-79)
1955 Stan Lynch Gainesville FL, rock drummer (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers)
1956 Joanna M C "Annemarie" Henselmans singer/cabaretière (School Desk)
1957 Judge Reinhold Wilmington DE, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
1957 Sue Woodstra Colton CA, volleyball player (Olympics-silver-1984)
1958 Mike Barson rock keyboardist (Madness)
1958 Monte Lynch cricketer (Surrey batsman, West Indies Rebel, England ODI player)
1959 Nick Cassavetés actor (Rosemary's Baby, Quiet Cool)
1960 Mark Kevin Carnevale Annapolis MD, PGA golfer (1992 Chattanooga)
1961 Tim Lever keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round)
1963 Yelena Vodorezova USSR, figure skater (Olympics-1976)
1964 Annabel Schofield Llanelli Wales, actress (Laurel Ellis-Dallas)
1964 Tom Harding Kalamazoo MI, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Transamerica)
1964 Tommy Albelin Stockholm Sweden, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1966 Manon Kelley Québec City Canada, actress (Red Lips 2)
1967 Cindy Haley Tyler TX, LPGA golfer (1987 Texas Amateur-2nd)
1967 Rogel Nachum Israel, Men's triple jump (Olympics-1996)
1967 Todd Doohan Sarnia Ontario, Canadian Tour golfer (Western Ontario Amateur-92)
1967 Tracy Simien NFL linebacker (Kansas City Chiefs)
1969 Reid Simpson Flin Flon, NHL left wing (New Jersey Devils)
1970 Dorsey Levens NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 Roman Turek Strakonice Czechoslovakia, hockey goalie (Team Czechoslovakia Republic, Olympics-98)
1970 Scott "Munnster" Munn Larkspur CA, rower (Olympics-1996)
1970 Veronica Sanchez Michoan México, WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17-1994)
1971 Eric Nies actor (MTV Real World, Grind)
1971 Jeff Stavroff Columbus OH, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Space Coast-4)
1972 Alesha Oreskovich Tampa FL, playmate (June 1993)
1972 Liliko Ogasawara Englewood NJ, middleweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1974 Fairuza Balk (The Craft Gas Food Lodging)
1978 Kandy Marshall Miss Virginia Teen USA (1996)
1981 Beth Botsford 100 meter/200 meter backstroke (Olympics-gold-96)
1985 Frustaci Septuplets California, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7
Deaths which occurred on May 21:
0987 Louis V last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies
1254 Koenraad IV Roman Catholic-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 River
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 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 A D Ségalen [Max Anély] French ship's doctor/writer, dies
1924 Bobby Franks killed by Leopold & Loeb, at 14
1926 Georgy L'vovich Catoire composer, dies at 65
1926 Ronald Arthur A Firbank British writer (Prancing Nigger), dies at 40
1929 V P F A Royle cricketer (one Test England vs Australia 1879), dies
1933 John Henry Mackay Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69
1935 Hugo de Vries botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87
1935 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
1957 Edwin St Hill cricketer (two Tests for West Indies 1930-31), dies
1966 Pat O'Malley silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75
1968 Doris Lloyd actress (Oliver Twist), dies of heart strain at 71
1970 Vinton Hayworth actor (General 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 (War Diary), dies at 79
1973 George Breakstone actor/director (Great Expectations), dies at 53
1973 Vaughn Monroe singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
1976 Sulo Nikolai Salonen composer, dies at 77
1978 Joseph EA "Jo" Spier Dutch cartoonist/water color 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
1984 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 (Silver Spoon, Onion Field), dies of AIDS at 37
1990 Mary Victor Bruce who flew around the Empire State Building in 1930, dies
1990 Moelvi Mohammed Farouk Indian spiritual leader, murdered
1991 Bobby Dale dies at 92
1991 Jean Van Joutte PM of Belgium (1952-54), dies
1991 Rajiv Gandhi Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated at 46
1992 Brendan Nulholland Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59
1992 Elizabeth David British cookbook writer, dies
1992 Mrithi gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24
1992 Skip Stephenson TV host (Real People), dies
1993 John Frost English Lieutenant-Colonel (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80
1993 John Holland actor (They Saved Hitler's Brain), dies at 65
1994 Cliff Wilson snooker player, dies at 60
1994 Forsyth Hardy documentary film pioneer, dies at 84
1994 Giovanni Goria PM of Italy (1987-88), dies
1994 John Henry Weidner Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81
1995 Kieron Walsh academic, dies at 46
1995 Les Aspin US Secretary of Defense (1993-95), dies of stroke at 56
1995 Patrick Bowles writer/translator, dies at 68
1996 Al "Lash" La Rue cowboy actor (Lash of the West), dies at 78
1996 Bobby Tulloch ornithologist, dies at 67
1996 Eric Stuart Woord archaeologist, dies at 83
1996 Laurence Dowdall lawyer, dies at 91
1996 Mary Perot Nichols journalist, dies at 79
1996 Peter Fletcher music teacher, dies at 60
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1965 BRACE ERNEST C. 03/73 RELEASED BY PL ALIVE AND WELL IN 98
1966 BUCKLEY LOUIS DETROIT MI
1966 THACKERSON WALTER A. TALLADEGA AL
1967 SIMPSON WALTER S. TRENTON NJ
1967 WROBLESKI WALTER F. FREEHOLD NJ
1968 LEMCKE DAVID E. HILTON NY
1970 ALBERT KEITH A. THIBODAUX LA 02/12/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 99
