[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History June 21

[Steve K. Rourke]

Births:
1002 - Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
1226 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
1535 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (d. 1596)

Deaths:
1305 - King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Poland (b. 1271)
1377 - King Edward III of England (b. 1312)
1527 - Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and political author (b. 1469)
1529 - John Skelton, English poet
1547 - Sebastiano del Piombo, Italian painter (b. 1485)
1582 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)

Other Events:
524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of
Vezerone



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