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What happend on 21. February in History
In our data base we found 314 events happened on 21. February:
• 362: Athanasius returns to Alexandria. [category: Events]
• 1245: Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. [category: Events]
• 1437: King James I of Scotland (b. 1394) [category: Deaths]
• 1440: The Prussian Confederation is formed. [category: Events]
• 1471: John of Rokycan, Czech Hussite theologian [category: Deaths]
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• 1484: Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (d. 1535) [category: Births]
• 1513: Pope Julius II (b. 1443) [category: Deaths]
• 1543: Ahmed Gragn, Sultan of Adal [category: Deaths]
• 1543: Battle of Wayna Daga – A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn. [category: Events]
• 1554: Hieronymus Bock, German botanist (b. 1498) [category: Deaths]
• 1556: Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (d. 1615) [category: Births]
• 1595: Robert Southwell, English Jesuit priest and poet [category: Deaths]
• 1613: Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia. [category: Events]
• 1621: Rebecca Nurse, English colonist executed during Salem witch trials (d. 1692) [category: Births]
• 1668: John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (b. 1616) [category: Deaths]
• 1675: Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750) [category: Births]
• 1677: Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (b. 1632) [category: Deaths]
• 1703: Shah Waliullah, Islamic Scholar and Reformer (d. 1762) [category: Births]
• 1705: Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781) [category: Births]
• 1715: Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (b. 1637) [category: Deaths]
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• 1721: John McKinly, American physician (d. 1796) [category: Births]
• 1723: Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808) [category: Births]
• 1728: Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762) [category: Births]
• 1730: Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649) [category: Deaths]
• 1783: Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835) [category: Births]
• 1788: Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723) [category: Deaths]
• 1791: Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (d. 1857) [category: Births]
• 1794: Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican president (d. 1876) [category: Births]
• 1801: John Henry Newman, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1890) [category: Births]
• 1804: The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales. [category: Events]
• 1808: Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish war, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia. [category: Events]
• 1817: Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish dramatist (d. 1893) [category: Births]
• 1821: Charles Scribner I, American publisher (d. 1871) [category: Births]
• 1821: Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756) [category: Deaths]
• 1824: Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (b. 1781) [category: Deaths]
• 1836: Léo Delibes, French composer (d. 1891) [category: Births]
• 1842: John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine. [category: Events]
• 1844: Charles-Marie Widor, French composer (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1846: Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800) [category: Deaths]
• 1848: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto. [category: Events]
• 1860: Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1860: Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (d. 1927) [category: Births]
• 1862: Justinus Kerner, German poet (b. 1786) [category: Deaths]
• 1862: American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory. [category: Events]
• 1865: John Haden Badley, English school founder (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1867: Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1874: The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition. [category: Events]
• 1875: Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1876: Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1878: Mirra Alfassa, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1878: The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut. [category: Events]
• 1880: Otto Christman, Canadian football player (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1880: Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1882: William Jeremiah Tuttle, American freestyle swimmer and water polo player (d. 1930) [category: Births]
• 1885: Sacha Guitry, Russian dramatist (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1885: The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated. [category: Events]
• 1887: Korechika Anami, Japanese general (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1888: Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1891: James Timberlake, American lawman (b. 1846) [category: Deaths]
• 1893: Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1893: Celia Lovsky, Russian-born actress (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1895: Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1896: Suryakant Tripathi, Indian Poet.(d.1961) [category: Births]
• 1900: Madeleine Renaud, French theater actress (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1900: Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African Gunmaker (b. 1853) [category: Deaths]
• 1901: George Francis Fitzgerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851) [category: Deaths]
• 1903: Anaïs Nin, French diarist (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1903: Fairfax M. Cone, American advertising executive (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1903: Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1903: Scrapper Blackwell, American blues guitarist and singer (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1907: W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1909: Hans Erni, Swiss painter [category: Births]
• 1910: Carmine Galante, American gangster (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1910: Douglas Bader, British pilot (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1910: Eddie Waring, British sports commentator (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1912: Marjorie Lane, American actress and singer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1912: Nikita Magaloff, Russian pianist (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1913: Roger Laurent, Belgian race car driver (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1913: Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars. [category: Events]
• 1914: Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish pilot (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1915: Ann Sheridan, American actress (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1916: World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins. [category: Events]
• 1917: Lucille Bremer, American actress (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1918: The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. [category: Events]
• 1919: Kehat Shorr, Israeli shooting coach (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1919: Kurt Eisner, German socialist (assassinated), leader of socialist revolution of 1918 in Bavaria (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1919: Kurt Eisner, German socialist, is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany. [category: Events]
• 1920: Jacinta Marto, witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1921: John Rawls, American philosopher (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1921: Peter Whalley, Canadian cartoonist and sculptor (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1921: Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution. [category: Events]
• 1924: Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe 1987–present [category: Births]
• 1925: Sam Peckinpah, American director (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1925: The New Yorker publishes its first issue. [category: Events]
• 1926: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: Erma Bombeck, American humorist (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1927: Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1927: Pierre Mercure, Canadian musician and composer (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1929: James Beck, English actor (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1929: Roberto "Chespirito" Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor [category: Births]
• 1930: Pedro R. Dean, Filipino Metropolitan Archbishop-emeritus of Palo [category: Births]
• 1933: Nina Simone, American singer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1934: Rue McClanahan, American actress (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1934: Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: Jean Pelletier, Canadian political operative [category: Births]
• 1935: Mark McManus, Scottish actor (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1936: Barbara Jordan, American politician (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1937: Gary Lockwood, American actor [category: Births]
• 1937: King Harald V of Norway [category: Births]
• 1937: Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile. [category: Events]
• 1937: The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War. [category: Events]
• 1938: Bobby Charles, American singer and songwriter (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1938: George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: John Lewis, American politician and civil rights activist [category: Births]
• 1940: Peter Gethin, British racing driver (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1940: Wong Jim, Hong Kong composer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1941: Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Margarethe von Trotta, German actress and film director [category: Births]
• 1943: David Geffen, American record producer [category: Births]
• 1944: Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: D'Anna Fortunato, American mezzo-soprano [category: Births]
• 1945: Paul Newton, British musician (Uriah Heep) [category: Births]
• 1945: Walter Momper, German politician [category: Births]
• 1945: Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga. [category: Events]
• 1946: Alan Rickman, English actor [category: Births]
• 1946: Anthony Daniels, British actor [category: Births]
• 1946: Bob Ryan, American sports columnist [category: Births]
• 1946: Tyne Daly, American actress [category: Births]
• 1946: Vito Rizzuto, Sicilian-born Canadian head of Rizzuto crime family [category: Births]
• 1946: José Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Johnny Echols, American musician (Love) [category: Births]
• 1947: Olympia Snowe, American politician [category: Births]
• 1947: Victor Sokolov, Russian journalist (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1947: In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America. [category: Events]
• 1948: NASCAR is incorporated. [category: Events]
• 1949: Jerry Harrison, American musician (Talking Heads and The Modern Lovers) [category: Births]
• 1949: Ronnie Hellström, Swedish footballer [category: Births]
• 1949: Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Vince Welnick, American musician (The Grateful Dead and The Tubes) (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1951: Wolfgang Frank, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1952: Jean Jacques Burnel, British musician (The Stranglers) [category: Births]
• 1952: Jeffrey Shaara, American novelist [category: Births]
• 1952: The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). [category: Events]
• 1952: The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free". [category: Events]
• 1953: Christine Ebersole, American actress [category: Births]
• 1953: William Petersen, American actor [category: Births]
• 1954: Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1954: Mike Pickering, English disc jockey and musician (Quando Quango and M People) [category: Births]
• 1955: Kelsey Grammer, American actor [category: Births]
• 1958: Alan Trammell, American baseball player and manager [category: Births]
• 1958: Jack Coleman, American actor [category: Births]
• 1958: Jake Burns, Irish singer (Stiff Little Fingers) [category: Births]
• 1958: Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer [category: Births]
• 1958: Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: The Peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. [category: Events]
• 1959: Emmett McAuliffe, American radio show host and lawyer [category: Births]
• 1959: José María Cano, Spanish musician (Mecano) [category: Births]
• 1960: Laurent Petitguillaume, French radio and television host [category: Births]
• 1960: Steve Wynn, American singer/songwriter (Dream Syndicate) [category: Births]
• 1960: Jacques Becker, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Bertha Faye, American wrestler (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1961: Christopher Atkins, American actor [category: Births]
• 1961: Martha Hackett, American actress [category: Births]
• 1962: Chuck Palahniuk, American writer [category: Births]
• 1962: David Foster Wallace, American writer (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1962: Vanessa Feltz, British television presenter [category: Births]
• 1963: William Baldwin, American actor [category: Births]
• 1964: Huw Higginson, British actor [category: Births]
• 1964: Jane Tomlinson, British cancer campaigner (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1964: Mark Kelly, American astronaut [category: Births]
• 1964: Scott Kelly, American astronaut [category: Births]
• 1965: Malcolm X, Black American civil rights leader (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam. [category: Events]
• 1966: Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Leroy Burrell, American runner [category: Births]
• 1967: Silke-Beate Knoll, German athlete [category: Births]
• 1967: Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: Aunjanue Ellis, American actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Chen Wei, Chinese dissident [category: Births]
• 1969: Corey Harris, American musician [category: Births]
• 1969: James Dean Bradfield, Welsh musician (Manic Street Preachers) [category: Births]
• 1969: Tony Meola, American footballer [category: Births]
• 1970: Eric Wilson, American bass player (Sublime, Sublime with Rome and Long Beach Dub Allstars) [category: Births]
• 1970: Michael Slater, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1970: Swissair Flight 330: A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zürich, Switzerland. [category: Events]
• 1971: Randy Blythe, American musician (Lamb of God) [category: Births]
• 1971: The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. [category: Events]
• 1972: Seo Taiji, Korean musician (Sinawe) [category: Births]
• 1972: Bronislava Nijinska, Polish-Russian ballet dancer (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Eugène Tisserant, French Catholic Cardinal (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations. [category: Events]
• 1972: The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon. [category: Events]
• 1973: Bowie Tsang, Taiwanese singer and TV host [category: Births]
• 1973: Brian Rolston, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1973: Heri Joensen, Faroese musician (Týr) [category: Births]
• 1973: Jacob M. Appel, American bioethicist [category: Births]
• 1973: Justin Sane, American musician (Anti-Flag) [category: Births]
• 1973: Marina Stets, Belarusian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1973: Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108. [category: Events]
• 1974: Iván Campo, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist [category: Births]
• 1974: Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt. [category: Events]
• 1975: Troy Slaten, American actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Wish Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) [category: Births]
• 1975: 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. [category: Events]
• 1976: Michael McIntyre English Comedian [category: Births]
• 1976: Ryan Smyth, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1976: The inaugural Winter Paralympic Games opened in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. [category: Events]
• 1977: Chad Hutchinson, baseball and football player [category: Births]
• 1977: Kevin Rose, American businessman and television host, founded Digg [category: Births]
• 1977: Owen King, American writer and journalist [category: Births]
• 1977: Steve Francis, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Nolan Strong, a Detroit doo-wop singer with The Diablos (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Kim Ha Neul, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Nicole Parker, American actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Park Eun-hye, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Carly Colón, Puerto Rican wrestler [category: Births]
• 1979: Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Lonnie Ford, American football player [category: Births]
• 1979: Pascal Chimbonda, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1980: Brodus Clay, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1980: Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, 5th king of Bhutan [category: Births]
• 1980: Jim Vandermeer, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1980: Parthiva Sureshwaren, Indian racing driver [category: Births]
• 1980: Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer [category: Births]
• 1980: Yannick Lupien, Canadian freestyle swimmer [category: Births]
• 1980: Alfred Andersch, German writer (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Jun Kaname, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Erika Köth, German coloratura soprano (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Andre Barrett, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Bernhard Auinger, Austrian racing driver [category: Births]
• 1982: Chantal Claret, American singer (Morningwood) [category: Births]
• 1982: Tebogo Jacko Magubane, South African DJ and Radio Producer [category: Births]
• 1982: Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Braylon Edwards, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: Franklin Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Mélanie Laurent, French actress and director [category: Births]
• 1984: Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1984: David Odonkor, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: James Wisniewski, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1984: Karina, Japanese model and actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Marco Paoloni, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Bob Burton, American speedcuber [category: Births]
• 1985: Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Jamaal Westerman, Canadian football player [category: Births]
• 1985: Jarrod Atkinson, Australian rules footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Simon Cusden, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1985: Louis Hayward, British actor (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Charlotte Church, Welsh singer [category: Births]
• 1986: Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este [category: Births]
• 1986: Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Ashley Greene, American model and actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Ellen Page, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Enrique David Mateo, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Noel Odell, English mountaineer, last person to see Mallory and Irvine alive (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Matthias de Zordo, German javelin thrower [category: Births]
• 1989: Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1989: Jem Karacan, English-born Turkish footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Josh Walker, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Kristin Herrera, American actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Scout Taylor-Compton, American actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Alex Thépot, French footballer (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: David Addy, Ghanaian footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Mattias Tedenby, Swedish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1991: Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Dorothy Auchterlonie, Australian academic, literary critic and poet (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Nutan Behl, Indian actress (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Phil Jones, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1993: Steve Leo Beleck, Cameroonian footballer [category: Births]
• 1994: Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Jorge José Emiliano dos Santos, Brazilian Football Referee (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. [category: Events]
• 1996: Sophie Turner, English actress [category: Births]
• 1996: Morton Gould, American composer (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish fighter pilot (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Wilmer David Mizell, baseball player (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball coach (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Isabella Acres, American actress [category: Births]
• 2002: Harold Furth, Austrian-born physicist (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: John Thaw, English actor (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Eddie Thomson, Scottish football player and coach (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Albert Chartier, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Guido Molinari, Canadian artist (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Ara Berberian, American opera singer (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Eugene Scott, American religious broadcaster (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Gérard Bessette, French-Canadian novelist and poet (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Neil Chotem, Canadien conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Sunny Lowry, first British woman to swim the English Channel (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Abdulredha Buhmaid, Bahraini protester killed by army (b. 1982) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Bernard Nathanson, American abortionist turned pro-life activist (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Dwayne McDuffie, American writer of comic books and television (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Benjamin Romualdez, Filipino politician (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Colin Ireland, British serial killer (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: February 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Feralia (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: International Mother Language Day (UNESCO) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Language Movement Day (Bangladesh) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pepin of Landen [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Peter Damian [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Randoald [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The first day of Musikahan Festival, celebrated until February 27. (Tagum City) [category: Holidays and observances]