Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/May/May 21


 * 996 – Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
 * 1471 – Birth of artist Albrecht Dürer
 * 1873 – Birth of neurologist Hans Berger, inventor of electroencephalography
 * 1936 – Birth of biologist Günter Blobel, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * 1945 – Birth of astronaut Ernst Messerschmid