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Famous People Who Died in May 1821

Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

May 5 French military leader and Emperor of the French (1804-14, 1815), dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena, officially from stomach cancer but rumours of arsenic poisoning persist

  • May 15 John Wall Calcott, English composer, dies at 54
  • May 19 Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)