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Birthdays of Personalities on May 21

xxxx : 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)
1688 : Alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock)
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)
1822 : Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
1822 : 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)
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/inventor (electrocardiograph)
1865 : C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
1872 : Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
1873 : Emil Ermatinger, Switz, 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)
1890 : Albert van Raalte, conductor (AVRO-orchestra)
1892 : John Peale Bishop, US poet (This Side of Paradise)
1898 : Armand Hammer, NYC, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum)
1899 : Ilse Lagner, writer
xxxx : Anthony Corder, rocker (Tora Tora-Walkin' Shoes)
xxxx : Isabel Pandora, spanish entertainer
xxxx : John Ricco, rock guitarist (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century)
1901 : Horace Heidt, Alameda Calif, orch 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 Argentina
1909 : Guy de Rothschild, French banker
1911 : Andr‚ Renard, Belgian worker's union leader (Syndical Unifi‚)[or 5/25]
1916 : Harold Robbins, NYC, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy)
1916 : Leonard Manasseh, architect
1917 : Heather Swift, local councillor
1917 : Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer (Just Causes)
1917 : Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman
1918 : Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist
1919 : Lord Maxwell, senator/prof (college of Justice Scotland)
1919 : Mark Wood, bishop (Ludlow)
1921 : Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75)
1926 : Dan Perlsweig, horse trainer
1926 : Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (Island)
1927 : George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner
1929 : Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center)
1929 : Robert Welch, designer/silversmith (Robert Welch flatware)
1930 : David Smith, principal/vice chancellor (Edinburgh University)
1930 : Malcolm Fraser, 22nd PM of Australia (Liberal, 1975-83)
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)
1933 : Barry Norman, Britain, film critic (Film Greats)
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 : Urs Widmer, writer
1941 : Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko, USSR, cosmonaut (TM-4)
1942 : David Hunt, Wales sec of state
1942 : 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
1944 : Manual Pina, fashion designer
1944 : Marcie Blane, rocker
1944 : Mary Robinson, pres 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)
1947 : Bill Champlin, Oakland Ca, rocker
1949 : Andrew Nell, editor (Sunday Times)
1949 : Rosalind Plowright, British soprano (Aida, Senta)
1950 : Roger Hodgson, London, rocker (Supertramp)
1955 : John Glavin, rock keyboardist (Molly Hatchet
1955 : Stan Lynch, Gainesville Fl, rock drummer (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers)
1958 : Mike Barson, rock keyboardist (Madness)
1961 : Tim Lever, keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round)
1967 : Rogel Nachum, Israel, Men's triple jump (Oly-1996)
1970 : Veronica Sanchez, Michoan Mexico, WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17-1994)
1972 : Alesha Oreskovich, Tampa FL, playmate (Jun, 1993)
1974 : Fairuza Balk (The Craft, Gas Food Lodging)
1985 : Frustaci Septuplets, Calif, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7

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