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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 21st of February 0362 | EVENT | Athanasius returns to Alexandria. |
| 21st of February 1245 | EVENT | Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. |
| 21st of February 1440 | EVENT | The Prussian Confederation is formed. |
| 21st of February 1543 | EVENT | Battle of Wayna Daga : A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn. |
| 21st of February 1613 | EVENT | Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia. |
| 21st of February 1804 | EVENT | The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales. |
| 21st of February 1842 | EVENT | John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine. |
| 21st of February 1848 | EVENT | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto. |
| 21st of February 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory. |
| 21st of February 1874 | EVENT | The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition. |
| 21st of February 1878 | EVENT | The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut. |
| 21st of February 1885 | EVENT | The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated. |
| 21st of February 1913 | EVENT | Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars. |
| 21st of February 1916 | EVENT | World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins. |
| 21st of February 1918 | EVENT | The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. |
| 21st of February 1919 | EVENT | Kurt Eisner, German socialist, is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany. |
| 21st of February 1921 | EVENT | Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution. |
| 21st of February 1925 | EVENT | The New Yorker publishes its first issue. |
| 21st of February 1937 | EVENT | Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile. |
| 21st of February 1937 | EVENT | The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War. |
| 21st of February 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga. |
| 21st of February 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. |
| 21st of February 1948 | EVENT | NASCAR is incorporated. |
| 21st of February 1952 | EVENT | The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free". |
| 21st of February 1958 | EVENT | The Peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. |
| 21st of February 1965 | EVENT | Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam. |
| 21st of February 1970 | EVENT | Swissair Flight 330: A mid-air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 21st of February 1971 | EVENT | The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. |
| 21st of February 1972 | EVENT | President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations. |
| 21st of February 1972 | EVENT | The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon. |
| 21st of February 1973 | EVENT | Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108. |
| 21st of February 1974 | EVENT | The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt. |
| 21st of February 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. |
| 21st of February 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. |
| 21st of February 2004 | EVENT | The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome. |
| 21st of February 1484 | BIRTHDAY | Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (d. 1535) |
| 21st of February 1556 | BIRTHDAY | Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (d. 1615) |
| 21st of February 1621 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Nurse, English colonist executed during Salem witch trials (d. 1692) |
| 21st of February 1675 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750) |
| 21st of February 1703 | BIRTHDAY | Shah Waliullah, Islamic Scholar and Reformer (d. 1762) |
| 21st of February 1705 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781) |
| 21st of February 1721 | BIRTHDAY | John McKinly, American physician (d. 1796) |
| 21st of February 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808) |
| 21st of February 1728 | BIRTHDAY | Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762) |
| 21st of February 1783 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Catharina of Wurttemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835) |
| 21st of February 1791 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (d. 1857) |
| 21st of February 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican president (d. 1876) |
| 21st of February 1801 | BIRTHDAY | John Henry Newman, English Catholic cardinal (d. 1890) |
| 21st of February 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish dramatist (d. 1893) |
| 21st of February 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Scribner I, American publisher (d. 1871) |
| 21st of February 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Delibes, French composer (d. 1891) |
| 21st of February 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Charles-Marie Widor, French composer (d. 1937) |
| 21st of February 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Karel Matej Capek-Chod, Czech journalist (d. 1927) |
| 21st of February 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952) |
| 21st of February 1865 | BIRTHDAY | John Haden Badley, English school founder (d. 1967) |
| 21st of February 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire (d. 1934) |
| 21st of February 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian and longest-lived human on record (d. 1997) |
| 21st of February 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956) |
| 21st of February 1878 | BIRTHDAY | The Mother, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1973) |
| 21st of February 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952) |
| 21st of February 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Sacha Guitry, Russian dramatist (d. 1957) |
| 21st of February 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (d. 1965) |
| 21st of February 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d. 1987) |
| 21st of February 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Celia Lovsky, Russian-born actress (d. 1979) |
| 21st of February 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976) |
| 21st of February 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Madeleine Renaud, French theater actress (d. 1994) |
| 21st of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Fairfax M. Cone, American advertising executive (d. 1977) |
| 21st of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (d. 1976) |
| 21st of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Anais Nin, French diarist (d. 1977) |
| 21st of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973) |
| 21st of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Erni, Swiss painter |
| 21st of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Bader, British pilot (d. 1982) |
| 21st of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Carmine Galante, American gangster (d. 1979) |
| 21st of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Waring, British sports commentator (d. 1986) |
| 21st of February 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (d. 1997) |
| 21st of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish fighter pilot (d. 1999) |
| 21st of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Sheridan, American actress (d. 1967) |
| 21st of February 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Lucille Bremer, American actress (d. 1996) |
| 21st of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | John Rawls, American philosopher (d. 2002) |
| 21st of February 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe 1980-1987; President of Zimbabwe 1987-present |
| 21st of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Peckinpah, American director (d. 1984) |
| 21st of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer |
| 21st of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Mercure, French-Canadian musician and composer (d. 1966) |
| 21st of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Erma Bombeck, American humorist (d. 1996) |
| 21st of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto "Chespirito" Gomez Bolanos, Mexican actor |
| 21st of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | James Beck, English actor (d. 1973) |
| 21st of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Simone, American singer (d. 2003) |
| 21st of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Rue McClanahan, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 21st of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Mark McManus, Scottish actor (d. 1994) |
| 21st of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Pelletier, French Canadian political operative |
| 21st of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Jordan, American politician (d. 1996) |
| 21st of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Lockwood, American actor |
| 21st of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | King Harald V of Norway |
| 21st of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Gethin, British racing driver |
| 21st of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | John Lewis, American politician and civil rights activist |
| 21st of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | James Wong, Hong Kong composer (d. 2004) |
| 21st of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Margarethe von Trotta, German actress and film director |
| 21st of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | David Geffen, American record producer |
| 21st of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Newton, British musician |
| 21st of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Momper, German politician |
| 21st of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | D'Anna Fortunato, American mezzo-soprano |
| 21st of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Tyne Daly, American actress |
| 21st of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Daniels, British actor |
| 21st of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Rickman, English actor |
| 21st of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Ryan, Boston sports columnist |
| 21st of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Vito Rizzuto, Sicilian-born alleged Mafia boss |
| 21st of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Sokolov, Russian journalist (d. 2006) |
| 21st of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Olympia Snowe, American politician |
| 21st of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Echols, American musician |
| 21st of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Hellstrom, Swedish footballer |
| 21st of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Harrison, American musician |
| 21st of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Frank, German footballer |
| 21st of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Welnick, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 2006) |
| 21st of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Jacques Burnel, British musician |
| 21st of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | William Petersen, American actor |
| 21st of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Ebersole, American actress |
| 21st of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (d. 1976) |
| 21st of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Pickering, English disc jockey and musician |
| 21st of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Kelsey Grammer, American actor |
| 21st of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Burns, Irish singer |
| 21st of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer |
| 21st of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Trammell, baseball player and manager |
| 21st of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Coleman, American actor |
| 21st of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Maria Cano, Spanish musician |
| 21st of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Emmett McAuliffe, American radio show host and lawyer |
| 21st of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Laurent Petitguillaume, French radio and television host |
| 21st of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Wynn, American singer |
| 21st of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Atkins, American actor |
| 21st of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Hackett, American actress |
| 21st of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Bertha Faye, American wrestler (d. 2001) |
| 21st of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Feltz, British television presenter |
| 21st of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Palahniuk, American writer |
| 21st of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | David Foster Wallace, American writer (d. 2008) |
| 21st of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | William Baldwin, American actor |
| 21st of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mark E. Kelly and Scott J. Kelly, American astronauts |
| 21st of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Tomlinson, British cancer campaigner (d. 2007) |
| 21st of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Huw Higginson, British actor |
| 21st of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Leroy Burrell, American runner |
| 21st of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | James Dean Bradfield, Welsh musician |
| 21st of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Aunjanue Ellis, American actress |
| 21st of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Harris, American musician |
| 21st of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Meola, American footballer |
| 21st of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Wilson, American musician |
| 21st of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Slater, Australian cricketer |
| 21st of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Fat Pat, American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (d. 1998) |
| 21st of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Blythe, American musician |
| 21st of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Seo Taiji, Korean musician |
| 21st of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Heri Joensen, Faroese musician |
| 21st of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Bowie Tsang, Taiwanese singer and TV host |
| 21st of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Sane, American punk musician |
| 21st of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob M. Appel, American bioethicist |
| 21st of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist |
| 21st of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Campo, Spanish footballer |
| 21st of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Wish Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) |
| 21st of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Smyth, Canadian hockey player |
| 21st of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Michael McIntyre English Comedian |
| 21st of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Owen King, American writer and journalist |
| 21st of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Francis, American basketball player |
| 21st of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Rose, American television host and Internet entrepreneur |
| 21st of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Hutchinson, baseball and football player |
| 21st of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Park Eun-hye, South Korean actress |
| 21st of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Parker, American actress |
| 21st of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Ha Neul, South Korean actress |
| 21st of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Pascal Chimbonda, French footballer |
| 21st of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Carly "Carlito" Colon, Puerto Rican professional wrestler |
| 21st of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress |
| 21st of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lonnie Ford, American football player |
| 21st of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Parthiva Sureshwaren, Indian racing driver |
| 21st of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Vandermeer, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 21st of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, 5th king of Bhutan |
| 21st of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer |
| 21st of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 21st of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jun Kaname, Japanese actor |
| 21st of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Bernhard Auinger, Austrian racing driver |
| 21st of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Chantal Claret, American musician |
| 21st of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Franklin Gutierrez, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 21st of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Braylon Edwards, American football player |
| 21st of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Melanie Laurent, French actress and director |
| 21st of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Ellis, New Zealand All Black rugby union player |
| 21st of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | David Odonkor, German footballer |
| 21st of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Paoloni, Italian footballer |
| 21st of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Karina, Japanese model and actress |
| 21st of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jarrod Atkinson, Australian rules footballer |
| 21st of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer |
| 21st of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jamaal Westerman, Canadian football player |
| 21st of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Burton, American speedcuber |
| 21st of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Cusden, English cricketer |
| 21st of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Church, Welsh singer |
| 21st of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este |
| 21st of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Enrique David Mateo, Brazilian footballer |
| 21st of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Greene, American model and actress |
| 21st of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Page, Canadian actress |
| 21st of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Matthias de Zordo, German javelin thrower |
| 21st of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Kristin Herrera, American actress |
| 21st of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer |
| 21st of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Scout Taylor-Compton, American actress |
| 21st of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Walker, English footballer |
| 21st of February 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Isabella Acres, American actress |
| 21st of February 1437 | DEATH | King James I of Scotland (Born 1394) |
| 21st of February 1471 | DEATH | John of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop |
| 21st of February 1513 | DEATH | Pope Julius II (Born 1443) |
| 21st of February 1543 | DEATH | Ahmed Gragn, Sultan of Adal |
| 21st of February 1554 | DEATH | Hieronymus Bock, German botanist (Born 1498) |
| 21st of February 1595 | DEATH | Robert Southwell, English Jesuit priest and poet |
| 21st of February 1668 | DEATH | John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (Born 1616) |
| 21st of February 1677 | DEATH | Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (Born 1632) |
| 21st of February 1715 | DEATH | Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (Born 1637) |
| 21st of February 1730 | DEATH | Pope Benedict XIII (Born 1649) |
| 21st of February 1788 | DEATH | Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (Born 1723) |
| 21st of February 1821 | DEATH | Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (Born 1756) |
| 21st of February 1824 | DEATH | Eugene de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (Born 1781) |
| 21st of February 1846 | DEATH | Emperor Ninko of Japan (Born 1800) |
| 21st of February 1862 | DEATH | Justinus Kerner, German poet (Born 1786) |
| 21st of February 1900 | DEATH | Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African Gunmaker (Born 1853) |
| 21st of February 1901 | DEATH | George Francis Fitzgerald, Irish mathematician (Born 1851) |
| 21st of February 1919 | DEATH | Kurt Eisner, German socialist (assassinated), leader of socialist revolution of 1918 in Bavaria (Born 1867) |
| 21st of February 1920 | DEATH | Jacinta Marto, witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (Born 1910) |
| 21st of February 1926 | DEATH | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1853) |
| 21st of February 1934 | DEATH | Augusto Nicolas Calderon Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary (Born 1895) |
| 21st of February 1938 | DEATH | George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (Born 1868) |
| 21st of February 1941 | DEATH | Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1891) |
| 21st of February 1944 | DEATH | Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (Born 1873) |
| 21st of February 1945 | DEATH | Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (Born 1902) |
| 21st of February 1946 | DEATH | Jose Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (Born 1911) |
| 21st of February 1949 | DEATH | Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (Born 1894) |
| 21st of February 1958 | DEATH | Duncan Edwards, English footballer (Born 1936) |
| 21st of February 1960 | DEATH | Jacques Becker, French film director and screenwriter (Born 1906) |
| 21st of February 1965 | DEATH | Malcolm X, Black American civil rights leader (Born 1925) |
| 21st of February 1966 | DEATH | Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (Born 1895) |
| 21st of February 1967 | DEATH | Charles Beaumont, American writer (Born 1929) |
| 21st of February 1968 | DEATH | Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1898) |
| 21st of February 1972 | DEATH | Bronislava Nijinska, Polish-Russian ballet dancer (Born 1891) |
| 21st of February 1972 | DEATH | Eugene Tisserant, French Catholic Cardinal (Born 1884) |
| 21st of February 1972 | DEATH | Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (Born 1914) |
| 21st of February 1974 | DEATH | Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (Born 1930) |
| 21st of February 1977 | DEATH | Nolan Strong, a Detroit doo-wop singer with The Diablos (Born 1934) |
| 21st of February 1978 | DEATH | Mieczys?aw Zywczynski, Polish historian and priest (Born 1901) |
| 21st of February 1980 | DEATH | Alfred Andersch, German writer (Born 1914) |
| 21st of February 1982 | DEATH | Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey (Born 1922) |
| 21st of February 1982 | DEATH | Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian (Born 1897) |
| 21st of February 1984 | DEATH | Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1905) |
| 21st of February 1985 | DEATH | Louis Hayward, British actor (Born 1909) |
| 21st of February 1986 | DEATH | Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (Born 1895) |
| 21st of February 1987 | DEATH | Noel Odell, English mountaineer, last person to see Mallory and Irvine alive (Born 1890) |
| 21st of February 1989 | DEATH | Alex Thepot, French footballer (Born 1906) |
| 21st of February 1991 | DEATH | Nutan Behl, Indian actress (Born 1936) |
| 21st of February 1991 | DEATH | Dorothy Auchterlonie, Australian academic, literary critic and poet (Born 1915) |
| 21st of February 1991 | DEATH | Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (Born 1919) |
| 21st of February 1994 | DEATH | Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (Born 1913) |
| 21st of February 1995 | DEATH | Jorge Jose Emiliano dos Santos, Brazilian Football Referee (Born 1954) |
| 21st of February 1996 | DEATH | Morton Gould, American composer (Born 1913) |
| 21st of February 1999 | DEATH | Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1918) |
| 21st of February 1999 | DEATH | Wilmer David Mizell, baseball player (Born 1930) |
| 21st of February 1999 | DEATH | Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish fighter pilot (Born 1914) |
| 21st of February 2000 | DEATH | Antonio Diaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball coach (Born 1933) |
| 21st of February 2002 | DEATH | Harold Furth, Austrian-born physicist (Born 1939) |
| 21st of February 2002 | DEATH | John Thaw, English actor (Born 1942) |
| 21st of February 2003 | DEATH | Eddie Thomson, Scottish football player and coach (Born 1947) |
| 21st of February 2004 | DEATH | John Charles, Welsh footballer (Born 1931) |
| 21st of February 2004 | DEATH | Guido Molinari, Canadian artist (Born 1933) |
| 21st of February 2005 | DEATH | Gerard Bessette, French-Canadian novelist and poet (Born 1920) |
| 21st of February 2005 | DEATH | Ara Berberian, American opera singer (Born 1930) |
| 21st of February 2005 | DEATH | Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (Born 1929) |
| 21st of February 2005 | DEATH | Eugene Scott, American religious broadcaster (Born 1929) |
| 21st of February 2008 | DEATH | Sunny Lowry, first British woman to swim the English Channel (Born 1911) |
| 21st of February 2008 | DEATH | Ben Chapman, American actor (Born 1928) |
| 21st of February 2011 | DEATH | Bernard Nathanson, American abortionist turned pro-life activist (Born 1926) |