People born on May 21

Alexander Pope

English poet (1688–1744)

Andrei Sakharov

Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist

Sergei Shoigu

Russian politician (born 1955)

Mario Mandžukić

Croatian association football player

Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Gregory XII

Head of the Catholic Church (1406–1415)

Willem Einthoven

Dutch physiologist

Gustav I of Sweden

King of Sweden from 1523 to 1560

Henri Rousseau

French painter (1844—1910)

Charles Albert Gobat

Swiss politician and lawyer (1843-1914)

The Notorious B.I.G.

American rapper from New York (1972–1997)

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Former General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia

Emile Verhaeren

Belgian poet (1855–1916)

Jeffrey Dahmer

American serial killer (1960–1994)

Louis Renault

French jurist (1843–1918)