February 21st Deaths |
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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, 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) | 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, 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) | Death | Alex Thepot, French footballer (born in 1906) | |
| 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) | Death | Louis Hayward, British actor (born in 1909) | |
| February 21st, 1984 (February 21 1984) | Death | Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1905) | |
| February 21st, 1982 (February 21 1982) | Death | Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey (born in 1922) | |
| February 21st, 1980 (February 21 1980) | Death | Alfred Andersch, German writer | |
| February 21st, 1978 (February 21 1978) | Death | Mieczyslaw Zywczynski, Polish historian and priest (born in 1901) | |
| February 21st, 1974 (February 21 1974) | Death | Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (born in 1930) | |
| 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, 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) | 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) | Death | Malcolm X, American black activist (born in 1925) | Malcolm X Quotes |
| February 21st, 1960 (February 21 1960) | Death | Jacques Becker, French film director and screenwriter (born in 1906) | |
| February 21st, 1958 (February 21 1958) | Death | Duncan Edwards, English footballer (born in 1936) | |
| February 21st, 1949 (February 21 1949) | Death | Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (born in 1894) | |
| February 21st, 1946 (February 21 1946) | Death | Jose Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (born in 1911) | |
| 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, 1941 (February 21 1941) | Death | Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1891) | |
| February 21st, 1938 (February 21 1938) | Death | George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (born in 1868) | |
| February 21st, 1934 (February 21 1934) | Death | Augusto Nicolas Calderon Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot (assassinated) (born in 1895) | |
| February 21st, 1926 (February 21 1926) | Death | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1853) | |
| 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) | Death | Kurt Eisner, German socialist (assassinated), leader of socialist revolution of 1918 in Bavaria (born in 1867) | |
| February 21st, 1901 (February 21 1901) | Death | George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (born in 1851) | |
| February 21st, 1862 (February 21 1862) | Death | Justinus Kerner, German poet (born in 1786) | |
| February 21st, 1846 (February 21 1846) | Death | Emperor Ninko of Japan (born in 1800) | |
| 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) | Death | Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (born in 1756) | |
| February 21st, 1788 (February 21 1788) | Death | Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (born in 1723) | |
| February 21st, 1730 (February 21 1730) | Death | Pope Benedict XIII (born in 1649) | |
| February 21st, 1715 (February 21 1715) | Death | Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (born in 1637) | |
| February 21st, 1677 (February 21 1677) | Death | Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (born in 1632) | Baruch Spinoza Quotes |
| February 21st, 1668 (February 21 1668) | Death | John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (born in 1616) | |
| February 21st, 1595 (February 21 1595) | Death | Robert Southwell, English Jesuit priest and poet (executed) | Robert South Quotes |
| February 21st, 1554 (February 21 1554) | Death | Hieronymus Bock, German botanist (born in 1498) | |
| 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, 1471 (February 21 1471) | Death | John of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop | |
| February 21st, 1437 (February 21 1437) | Death | King James I of Scotland (born in 1394) | |
