Who Was Born Today – May 21 Birthdays
Important and famous people from throughout history born on this day
Born on May 21 | ||
427 BC | Plato, Greek philosopher. | |
1527 | Philip II, king of Spain and Portugal. | |
1844 | Henri Rousseau, French painter. | |
1856 | Grace Hoadley Dodge, philanthropist, helped organize the YWCA. | |
1860 | Willem Einthoven, physiologist, inventor of the electrocardiogram. | |
1867 | Frances Densmore, ethnomusicologist. | |
1878 | Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer. | |
1898 | Armand Hammer, American entrepeneur and industrialist. | |
1902 | Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-born architect. | |
1909 | Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, artist. | |
1917 | Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason). | |
1921 | Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist. | |
1926 | Robert Creeley, poet. | |
1944 | Mary Bourke Robinson, first woman president of Ireland (1990-1997). |
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