February 21st All Events |
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| February 21st, 2008 (February 21 2008) | Death | Sunny Lowry, First British woman to swim the English Channel (born in 1911) | |
| February 21st, 2008 (February 21 2008) | Death | Ben Chapman, American actor (born in 1928) | |
| February 21st, 2007 (February 21 2007) | Event | Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns from office. His resignation is rejected by the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano. | |
| February 21st, 2005 (February 21 2005) | Death | Ara Berberian, American opera singer (born in 1930) | |
| February 21st, 2005 (February 21 2005) | Death | Gerard Bessette, Quebec novelist and poet (born in 1920) | |
| February 21st, 2005 (February 21 2005) | Death | Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (born in 1929) | |
| February 21st, 2005 (February 21 2005) | Death | Eugene Scott, American religious broadcaster (born in 1929) | |
| February 21st, 2004 (February 21 2004) | Event | The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome. | |
| February 21st, 2004 (February 21 2004) | Death | John Charles, Welsh footballer (born in 1931) | |
| February 21st, 2004 (February 21 2004) | Death | Guido Molinari, Canadian artist (born in 1933) | |
| February 21st, 2003 (February 21 2003) | Death | Eddie Thomson, Scottish football player and coach (born in 1947) | |
| February 21st, 2002 (February 21 2002) | Death | Harold Furth, Austrian-born physicist (born in 1939) | |
| February 21st, 2002 (February 21 2002) | Death | John Thaw, English actor (born in 1942) | |
| February 21st, 2000 (February 21 2000) | Death | Antonio Diaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball coach (born in 1933) | |
| February 21st, 1999 (February 21 1999) | Death | Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1918) | |
| February 21st, 1999 (February 21 1999) | Death | Wilmer David Mizell, baseball player (born in 1930) | |
| February 21st, 1996 (February 21 1996) | Death | Morton Gould, American composer (born in 1913) | |
| February 21st, 1995 (February 21 1995) | Event | Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. | |
| February 21st, 1994 (February 21 1994) | Death | Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (b.1913) | |
| February 21st, 1991 (February 21 1991) | Death | Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (born in 1919) | Margot Fonteyn Quotes |
| February 21st, 1989 (February 21 1989) | Birth | Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer | |
| February 21st, 1989 (February 21 1989) | Birth | Kristin Herrera, American actress | |
| February 21st, 1989 (February 21 1989) | Birth | Scout Taylor-Compton, American actress | |
| February 21st, 1989 (February 21 1989) | Birth | Josh Walker, English footballer | |
| February 21st, 1989 (February 21 1989) | Death | Alex Thepot, French footballer (born in 1906) | |
| February 21st, 1987 (February 21 1987) | Birth | Ellen Page, Canadian actress | |
| February 21st, 1987 (February 21 1987) | Birth | Burgess Abernethy, Australian Actor | |
| February 21st, 1986 (February 21 1986) | Birth | Charlotte Church, Welsh singer | |
| February 21st, 1986 (February 21 1986) | Birth | Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este | |
| February 21st, 1986 (February 21 1986) | Death | Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (born in 1895) | |
| February 21st, 1986 (February 21 1986) | Death | Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese sugarcane farmer, also the world s oldest man ever (born in 1865) | |
| February 21st, 1985 (February 21 1985) | Birth | Bob Burton, American speedcuber | |
| February 21st, 1985 (February 21 1985) | Birth | Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer | |
| February 21st, 1985 (February 21 1985) | Death | Louis Hayward, British actor (born in 1909) | |
| February 21st, 1984 (February 21 1984) | Birth | Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby union player | |
| February 21st, 1984 (February 21 1984) | Birth | David Odonkor, German footballer | |
| February 21st, 1984 (February 21 1984) | Birth | Karina, Japanese model and actress | |
| February 21st, 1984 (February 21 1984) | Death | Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1905) | |
| February 21st, 1983 (February 21 1983) | Birth | Braylon Edwards, American football player | |
| February 21st, 1983 (February 21 1983) | Birth | Franklin Gutierrez, Venezuelan baseball player | |
| February 21st, 1982 (February 21 1982) | Birth | Bernhard Auinger, Austrian racing driver | |
| February 21st, 1982 (February 21 1982) | Death | Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey (born in 1922) | |
| February 21st, 1980 (February 21 1980) | Birth | Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| February 21st, 1980 (February 21 1980) | Birth | Jim Vandermeer, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| February 21st, 1980 (February 21 1980) | Birth | Parthiva Sureshwaren, Indian racing driver | |
| February 21st, 1980 (February 21 1980) | Birth | Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer | |
| February 21st, 1980 (February 21 1980) | Death | Alfred Andersch, German writer | |
| February 21st, 1979 (February 21 1979) | Birth | Pascal Chimbonda, French footballer | |
| February 21st, 1979 (February 21 1979) | Birth | Carly "Carlito" Colon, Puerto Rican professional wrestler | |
| February 21st, 1979 (February 21 1979) | Birth | Lonnie Ford, American football player | |
| February 21st, 1979 (February 21 1979) | Birth | Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress | |
| February 21st, 1978 (February 21 1978) | Birth | Park Eun-hye, South Korean actress | |
| February 21st, 1978 (February 21 1978) | Birth | Kim Ha Neul, South Korean actress | |
| February 21st, 1978 (February 21 1978) | Birth | Nicole Parker, American actress | |
| February 21st, 1978 (February 21 1978) | Death | Mieczyslaw Zywczynski, Polish historian and priest (born in 1901) | |
| February 21st, 1977 (February 21 1977) | Birth | Steve Francis, American basketball player | |
| February 21st, 1977 (February 21 1977) | Birth | Chad Hutchinson, baseball and football player | |
| February 21st, 1977 (February 21 1977) | Birth | Kevin Rose, American television host and Internet entrepreneur | |
| February 21st, 1976 (February 21 1976) | Birth | Ryan Smyth, Canadian hockey player | |
| February 21st, 1975 (February 21 1975) | Event | Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison. | John Mitchell Quotes |
| February 21st, 1974 (February 21 1974) | Event | The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt. | |
| February 21st, 1974 (February 21 1974) | Birth | Ivan Campo, Spanish footballer | |
| February 21st, 1974 (February 21 1974) | Birth | Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist | |
| February 21st, 1974 (February 21 1974) | Birth | Wish Bone, American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) | |
| February 21st, 1974 (February 21 1974) | Death | Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (born in 1930) | |
| February 21st, 1973 (February 21 1973) | Event | Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet killing 108. | |
| February 21st, 1973 (February 21 1973) | Birth | Heri Joensen, Faroese musician | |
| February 21st, 1973 (February 21 1973) | Birth | Bowie Tsang, Taiwanese singer and TV host | |
| February 21st, 1972 (February 21 1972) | Event | President Richard Nixon visits the People s Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations. | |
| February 21st, 1972 (February 21 1972) | Event | The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon. | |
| February 21st, 1972 (February 21 1972) | Birth | Seo Taiji, Korean musician | |
| February 21st, 1972 (February 21 1972) | Death | Bronislava Nijinska, Polish-Russian ballet dancer (born in 1891) | |
| February 21st, 1972 (February 21 1972) | Death | Eugene Tisserant, French Catholic candinal (born in 1884) | |
| February 21st, 1971 (February 21 1971) | Event | The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. | |
| February 21st, 1971 (February 21 1971) | Birth | Randy Blythe, American musician | |
| February 21st, 1970 (February 21 1970) | Event | Swissair Flight 330: A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zurich, Switzerland. | |
| February 21st, 1970 (February 21 1970) | Birth | Michael Slater, Australian cricketer | |
| February 21st, 1969 (February 21 1969) | Birth | James Dean Bradfield, Welsh musician | James Dean Quotes |
| February 21st, 1969 (February 21 1969) | Birth | Tony Meola, American footballer | |
| February 21st, 1969 (February 21 1969) | Birth | Eric Wilson, American musician | |
| February 21st, 1968 (February 21 1968) | Death | Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmocologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1898) | |
| February 21st, 1967 (February 21 1967) | Birth | Leroy Burrell, American runner | |
| February 21st, 1967 (February 21 1967) | Death | Charles Beaumont, American writer (born in 1929) | |
| February 21st, 1966 (February 21 1966) | Death | Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (born in 1895) | |
| February 21st, 1965 (February 21 1965) | Event | Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam. | Malcolm X Quotes |
| February 21st, 1965 (February 21 1965) | Death | Malcolm X, American black activist (born in 1925) | Malcolm X Quotes |
| February 21st, 1964 (February 21 1964) | Birth | Mark E. Kelly and Scott J. Kelly, American astronauts | |
| February 21st, 1964 (February 21 1964) | Birth | Jane Tomlinson, British cancer campaigner (died in 2007) | |
| February 21st, 1963 (February 21 1963) | Birth | William Baldwin, American actor | |
| February 21st, 1962 (February 21 1962) | Birth | Vanessa Feltz, British television presenter | |
| February 21st, 1962 (February 21 1962) | Birth | Chuck Palahniuk, American writer | Chuck Palahniuk Quotes |
| February 21st, 1962 (February 21 1962) | Birth | David Foster Wallace, American writer | David Foster Wallace Quotes |
| February 21st, 1961 (February 21 1961) | Birth | Davey Allison, American race car driver (died in 1993) | |
| February 21st, 1961 (February 21 1961) | Birth | Christopher Atkins, American actor | |
| February 21st, 1961 (February 21 1961) | Birth | Martha Hackett, American actress | |
| February 21st, 1961 (February 21 1961) | Birth | Bertha Faye, American wrestler (died in 2001) | |
| February 21st, 1960 (February 21 1960) | Event | Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| February 21st, 1960 (February 21 1960) | Birth | Steve Wynn, American singer ( | |
| February 21st, 1960 (February 21 1960) | Death | Jacques Becker, French film director and screenwriter (born in 1906) | |
| February 21st, 1959 (February 21 1959) | Birth | Jose Maria Cano, Spanish musician | |
| February 21st, 1959 (February 21 1959) | Birth | Emmett McAuliffe, American radio show host and lawyer | |
| February 21st, 1958 (February 21 1958) | Event | The Peace symbol is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. | |
| February 21st, 1958 (February 21 1958) | Birth | Jake Burns, Irish singer | |
| February 21st, 1958 (February 21 1958) | Birth | Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer | |
| February 21st, 1958 (February 21 1958) | Birth | Jack Coleman, American actor | |
| February 21st, 1958 (February 21 1958) | Birth | Alan Trammell, baseball player and manager | |
| February 21st, 1958 (February 21 1958) | Death | Duncan Edwards, English footballer (born in 1936) | |
| February 21st, 1955 (February 21 1955) | Birth | Sir Steven Fayburgh, British diplomat | |
| February 21st, 1955 (February 21 1955) | Birth | Kelsey Grammer, American actor | |
| February 21st, 1954 (February 21 1954) | Birth | Mike Pickering, English disc jockey and musician | |
| February 21st, 1954 (February 21 1954) | Birth | Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (died in 1976) | |
| February 21st, 1953 (February 21 1953) | Event | Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule. | James D. Watson Quotes |
| February 21st, 1953 (February 21 1953) | Birth | Christine Ebersole, American actress | |
| February 21st, 1953 (February 21 1953) | Birth | William Petersen, American actor | |
| February 21st, 1952 (February 21 1952) | Event | The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free". | Winston Churchill Quotes |
| February 21st, 1952 (February 21 1952) | Event | In Dhaka, East Pakistan (present Bangladesh) police open fire on a procession of students that was demanding the establishment of Bengali as the official language, killing four people and starting a country-wide protest which led to the recognition of Bengali as one of the national languages of Pakistan. The day was later declared as "International Mother Language Day" by UNESCO. | |
| February 21st, 1952 (February 21 1952) | Birth | Jean Jacques Burnel, British musician | |
| February 21st, 1951 (February 21 1951) | Birth | Vince Welnick, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (died in 2006) | |
| February 21st, 1949 (February 21 1949) | Birth | Jerry Harrison, American musician | |
| February 21st, 1949 (February 21 1949) | Birth | Ronnie Hellstrom, Swedish footballer | |
| February 21st, 1949 (February 21 1949) | Death | Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (born in 1894) | |
| February 21st, 1948 (February 21 1948) | Event | NASCAR is incorporated. | |
| February 21st, 1947 (February 21 1947) | Event | In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America. | |
| February 21st, 1947 (February 21 1947) | Birth | Johnny Echols, American musician | |
| February 21st, 1947 (February 21 1947) | Birth | Olympia Snowe, American politician | |
| February 21st, 1947 (February 21 1947) | Birth | Victor Sokolov, Russian journalist (died in 2006) | |
| February 21st, 1946 (February 21 1946) | Birth | Tyne Daly, American actress | |
| February 21st, 1946 (February 21 1946) | Birth | Anthony Daniels, British actor | Anthony Daniels Quotes |
| February 21st, 1946 (February 21 1946) | Birth | Alan Rickman, English actor | |
| February 21st, 1946 (February 21 1946) | Birth | Bob Ryan, Boston sports columnist | |
| February 21st, 1946 (February 21 1946) | Birth | Vito Rizzuto, Sicilian-born alleged mafia boss | |
| February 21st, 1946 (February 21 1946) | Death | Jose Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (born in 1911) | |
| February 21st, 1945 (February 21 1945) | Event | World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga. | |
| February 21st, 1945 (February 21 1945) | Birth | Paul Newton, British musician | |
| February 21st, 1945 (February 21 1945) | Birth | D Anna Fortunato, American mezzo-soprano | |
| February 21st, 1945 (February 21 1945) | Death | Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (born in 1902) | |
| February 21st, 1944 (February 21 1944) | Death | Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (born in 1873) | |
| February 21st, 1943 (February 21 1943) | Birth | David Geffen, American record producer | |
| February 21st, 1942 (February 21 1942) | Birth | Margarethe von Trotta, German actress and film director | |
| February 21st, 1941 (February 21 1941) | Birth | James Wong, Hong Kong composer (died in 2004) | |
| February 21st, 1941 (February 21 1941) | Death | Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1891) | |
| February 21st, 1940 (February 21 1940) | Birth | John Lewis, American politician and 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist | |
| February 21st, 1940 (February 21 1940) | Birth | Peter Gethin, British racing driver | |
| February 21st, 1938 (February 21 1938) | Death | George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (born in 1868) | |
| February 21st, 1937 (February 21 1937) | Event | Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman s Arrowbile. | |
| February 21st, 1937 (February 21 1937) | Event | The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War. | |
| February 21st, 1937 (February 21 1937) | Birth | King Harald V of Norway | |
| February 21st, 1937 (February 21 1937) | Birth | Gary Lockwood, American actor | |
| February 21st, 1936 (February 21 1936) | Birth | Barbara Jordan, American politician (died in 1996) | |
| February 21st, 1935 (February 21 1935) | Birth | Mark McManus, Scottish actor (died in 1994) | |
| February 21st, 1935 (February 21 1935) | Birth | Jean Pelletier, French Canadian political operative | |
| February 21st, 1934 (February 21 1934) | Birth | Rue McClanahan, American actress | |
| February 21st, 1934 (February 21 1934) | Death | Augusto Nicolas Calderon Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot (assassinated) (born in 1895) | |
| February 21st, 1933 (February 21 1933) | Birth | Nina Simone, American singer (died in 2003) | |
| February 21st, 1929 (February 21 1929) | Birth | Roberto "Chespirito" Carlos Bolanos, Mexican actor | Roberto Bolano Quotes |
| February 21st, 1929 (February 21 1929) | Birth | James Beck, English actor (died in 1973) | |
| February 21st, 1927 (February 21 1927) | Birth | Erma Bombeck, American humorist (died in 1996) | Erma Bombeck Quotes |
| February 21st, 1927 (February 21 1927) | Birth | Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer | |
| February 21st, 1927 (February 21 1927) | Birth | Pierre Mercure, French-Canadian musician and composer (died in 1966) | |
| February 21st, 1926 (February 21 1926) | Death | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1853) | |
| February 21st, 1925 (February 21 1925) | Event | The New Yorker publishes its first issue. | |
| February 21st, 1925 (February 21 1925) | Birth | Sam Peckinpah, American director (died in 1984) | |
| February 21st, 1924 (February 21 1924) | Birth | Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe | Robert Mugabe Quotes |
| February 21st, 1921 (February 21 1921) | Event | Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country s first constitution. | |
| February 21st, 1920 (February 21 1920) | Death | Jacinta Marto, witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (born in 1910) | |
| February 21st, 1919 (February 21 1919) | Event | Kurt Eisner, German socialist, is assassinatedied in His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany. | |
| February 21st, 1919 (February 21 1919) | Death | Kurt Eisner, German socialist (assassinated), leader of socialist revolution of 1918 in Bavaria (born in 1867) | |
| February 21st, 1918 (February 21 1918) | Event | The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. | |
| February 21st, 1917 (February 21 1917) | Birth | Lucille Bremer, American actress (died in 1996) | |
| February 21st, 1916 (February 21 1916) | Event | World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins. | |
| February 21st, 1915 (February 21 1915) | Birth | Ann Sheridan, American actress (died in 1967) | |
| February 21st, 1913 (February 21 1913) | Birth | Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (died in 1997) | |
| February 21st, 1912 (February 21 1912) | Event | Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars. | |
| February 21st, 1910 (February 21 1910) | Birth | Douglas Bader, British pilot (died in 1982) | |
| February 21st, 1910 (February 21 1910) | Birth | Carmine Galante, Italian-born gangster (died in 1979) | |
| February 21st, 1910 (February 21 1910) | Birth | Eddie Waring, British sports commentator (died in 1986) | |
| February 21st, 1907 (February 21 1907) | Birth | W. H. Auden, English poet (died in 1973) | |
| February 21st, 1903 (February 21 1903) | Birth | Fairfax M. Cone, American advertising executive (died in 1977) | |
| February 21st, 1903 (February 21 1903) | Birth | Anais Nin, French writer (died in 1977) | Anais Nin Quotes |
| February 21st, 1903 (February 21 1903) | Birth | Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (died in 1976) | |
| February 21st, 1901 (February 21 1901) | Death | George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (born in 1851) | |
| February 21st, 1900 (February 21 1900) | Birth | Madeleine Renaud, French theater actress (died in 1994) | |
| February 21st, 1895 (February 21 1895) | Birth | Carl Peter Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (died in 1976) | |
| February 21st, 1893 (February 21 1893) | Event | Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and for a "Stop Device" | |
| February 21st, 1893 (February 21 1893) | Birth | Celia Lovsky, Russian-born actress (died in 1979) | |
| February 21st, 1893 (February 21 1893) | Birth | Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist (died in 1987) | |
| February 21st, 1888 (February 21 1888) | Birth | Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (died in 1965) | |
| February 21st, 1885 (February 21 1885) | Event | The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated. | |
| February 21st, 1885 (February 21 1885) | Birth | Sacha Guitry, Russian dramatist (died in 1957) | Sacha Guitry Quotes |
| February 21st, 1880 (February 21 1880) | Birth | Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (died in 1952) | |
| February 21st, 1878 (February 21 1878) | Event | The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut. | |
| February 21st, 1878 (February 21 1878) | Birth | The Mother, Indian spiritual leader (died in 1973) | |
| February 21st, 1876 (February 21 1876) | Birth | Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (died in 1956) | |
| February 21st, 1875 (February 21 1875) | Birth | Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian and longest-lived human on record (died in 1997) | |
| February 21st, 1874 (February 21 1874) | Event | The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper. | |
| February 21st, 1867 (February 21 1867) | Birth | Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire (died in 1934) | |
| February 21st, 1865 (February 21 1865) | Birth | John Haden Badley, English school founder (died in 1967) | |
| February 21st, 1862 (February 21 1862) | Death | Justinus Kerner, German poet (born in 1786) | |
| February 21st, 1860 (February 21 1860) | Birth | Karel Matej Capek-Chod, Czech journalist (died in 1927) | Karel Capek Quotes |
| February 21st, 1860 (February 21 1860) | Birth | Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor | |
| February 21st, 1848 (February 21 1848) | Event | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto. | Karl Marx Quotes |
| February 21st, 1846 (February 21 1846) | Death | Emperor Ninko of Japan (born in 1800) | |
| February 21st, 1844 (February 21 1844) | Birth | Charles-Marie Widor, French composer (died in 1937) | |
| February 21st, 1842 (February 21 1842) | Event | John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine. | |
| February 21st, 1836 (February 21 1836) | Birth | Leo Delibes, French composer (died in 1891) | |
| February 21st, 1824 (February 21 1824) | Death | Eugene de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon s wife, Josephine (born in 1781) | |
| February 21st, 1821 (February 21 1821) | Birth | Charles Scribner, American publisher (died in 1871) | |
| February 21st, 1821 (February 21 1821) | Death | Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (born in 1756) | |
| February 21st, 1817 (February 21 1817) | Birth | Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish dramatist (died in 1893) | |
| February 21st, 1804 (February 21 1804) | Event | The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales. | |
| February 21st, 1801 (February 21 1801) | Birth | John Henry Newman, English Catholic cardinal (died in 1890) | |
| February 21st, 1794 (February 21 1794) | Birth | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican president (died in 1876) | |
| February 21st, 1791 (February 21 1791) | Birth | Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (died in 1857) | |
| February 21st, 1788 (February 21 1788) | Death | Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (born in 1723) | |
| February 21st, 1783 (February 21 1783) | Birth | Princess Catharina of Wurttemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (died in 1835) | |
| February 21st, 1743 (February 21 1743) | Event | The premiere of George Frideric Handel s oratorio, "Samson" takes place in London. | George Frideric Handel Quotes |
| February 21st, 1730 (February 21 1730) | Death | Pope Benedict XIII (born in 1649) | |
| February 21st, 1728 (February 21 1728) | Birth | Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (died in 1762) | |
| February 21st, 1723 (February 21 1723) | Birth | Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (died in 1808) | |
| February 21st, 1721 (February 21 1721) | Birth | John McKinly, American physician (died in 1796) | |
| February 21st, 1715 (February 21 1715) | Death | Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (born in 1637) | |
| February 21st, 1705 (February 21 1705) | Birth | Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (died in 1781) | |
| February 21st, 1677 (February 21 1677) | Death | Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (born in 1632) | Baruch Spinoza Quotes |
| February 21st, 1675 (February 21 1675) | Birth | Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (died in 1750) | |
| February 21st, 1668 (February 21 1668) | Death | John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (born in 1616) | |
| February 21st, 1613 (February 21 1613) | Event | Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia. | |
| February 21st, 1595 (February 21 1595) | Death | Robert Southwell, English Jesuit priest and poet (executed) | Robert South Quotes |
| February 21st, 1556 (February 21 1556) | Birth | Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (died in 1615) | |
| February 21st, 1554 (February 21 1554) | Death | Hieronymus Bock, German botanist (born in 1498) | |
| February 21st, 1543 (February 21 1543) | Event | Battle of Wayna DagaA combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn. | |
| February 21st, 1543 (February 21 1543) | Death | Ahmed Gragn, Sultan of Adal | |
| February 21st, 1513 (February 21 1513) | Death | Pope Julius II (born in 1443) | |
| February 21st, 1484 (February 21 1484) | Birth | Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (died in 1535) | |
| February 21st, 1471 (February 21 1471) | Death | John of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop | |
| February 21st, 1440 (February 21 1440) | Event | The Prussian Confederation is formed. | |
| February 21st, 1437 (February 21 1437) | Death | King James I of Scotland (born in 1394) | |
| February 21st, 1245 (February 21 1245) | Event | Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after having confessed to torture and forgery. | |
| February 21st, 0362 (February 21 0362) | Event | Athanasius returns to Alexandria. | |
