Deaths on 21 February
2000s
Rondale Moore
2026
American football player (2000–2026)
Clint Hill (Secret Service)
2025
U.S. Secret Service agent (1932–2025)
Lynne Marie Stewart
2025
American actress (1946–2025)
John Bahnsen
2024
United States Army general (1934–2024)
Mireya Arboleda
2021
Colombian classical pianist (1928–2021)
Kevin Dann
2021
Australian rugby league footballer (1958–2021)
Stanley Donen
2019
American film director and choreographer (1924–2019)
Peter Tork
2019
American musician and actor (1942–2019)
Billy Graham
2018
American evangelist (1918–2018)
Jeanne Martin Cissé
2017
Politician from Guinea (1926–2017)
Eric Brown (pilot)
2016
Royal Navy test pilot, author (1920–2016)
Aleksei Gubarev
2015
Soviet general, pilot and cosmonaut (1931–2015)
Sadeq Tabatabaei
2015
Iranian diplomat (1943-2015)
Clark Terry
2015
American swing and bebop trumpeter (1920–2015)
Héctor Maestri
2014
Cuban baseball player (1935-2014)
Matthew Robinson (snowboarder)
2014
Australian snowboarder (1985–2014)
Cornelius Schnauber
2014
Hasse Jeppson
2013
Swedish footballer (1925–2013)
H. M. Darmstandler
2012
United States Air Force general
Dwayne McDuffie
2011
American comic book and television writer (1962–2011)
Bernard Nathanson
2011
American physician, activist, and writer (1926–2011)
Ben Chapman (actor)
2008
American actor
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
2005
Cuban writer (1929 – 2005)
Zdzisław Beksiński
2005
Polish artist (1929–2005)
John Charles
2004
Welsh footballer (1931–2004)
John Thaw
2002
English actor (1942–2002)
1900s
Gertrude B. Elion
1999
American biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)
Ilmari Juutilainen
1999
Finnish flying ace
Wilmer Mizell
1999
American baseball player and politician (1930–1999)
Morton Gould
1996
American composer and pianist (1913–1996)
Robert Bolt
1995
English playwright (1924–1995)
Johannes Steinhoff
1994
German general and fighter pilot during World War II (1913–1994)
Inge Lehmann
1993
Danish seismologist (1888–1993)
Dorothy Auchterlonie Green
1991
Australian writer and academic (1915–1991)
Nutan
1991
Indian actress (1936–1991)
Helen Hooven Santmyer
1986
American writer (1895–1986)
Louis Hayward
1985
South African-born British actor (1909–1985)
Mikhail Sholokhov
1984
Russian writer (1905–1984)
Gershom Scholem
1982
Israeli philosopher and historian (1897–1982)
Alfred Andersch
1980
German writer, publisher, and radio editor (1914–1980)
Tim Horton
1974
Canadian ice hockey player and businessman (1930–1974)
Zhang Guohua (politician, born 1914)
1972
Chinese general and politician (1914–1972)
Bronislava Nijinska
1972
Russian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer (1891–1972)
Eugène Tisserant
1972
French cardinal
Howard Florey
1968
Australian pathologist (1898–1968)
Charles Beaumont
1967
American author (1929–1967)
Malcolm X
1965
American civil rights activist (1925–1965)
Duncan Edwards
1958
English footballer (1936–1958)
Fannie Charles Dillon
1947
American composer
José Streel
1946
Journalist, Rexist (1911–1946)
Eric Liddell
1945
Scottish athlete and missionary (1902–1945)
Ferenc Szisz
1944
Hungarian racing driver (1873–1944)
Frederick Banting
1941
Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891–1941)
George Ellery Hale
1938
American solar astronomer (1868–1938)
Augusto César Sandino
1934
Nicaraguan anti-US-occupation leader (1895–1934)
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1926
Dutch experimental physicist (1853–1926)
Kurt Eisner
1919
German politician, revolutionary and journalist
Incas (parakeet)
1918
Last known Carolina parakeet
1800s
James Timberlake
1891
American lawman (1846–1891)
William Weston (Australian politician)
1888
Australian politician
Justinus Kerner
1862
German poet and medical writer (1786–1862)
Emperor Ninkō
1846
Emperor of Japan from 1817 to 1846
Kittur Chennamma
1829
Indian ruler of Kittur (1778-1829)
Eugène de Beauharnais
1824
French statesman and military officer (1781–1824)
Georg Friedrich von Martens
1821
German jurist and diplomat
Before 1800
Pope Benedict XIII
1730
Head of the Catholic Church from 1724 to 1730
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore
1715
English colonial administrator (1637–1715)
Baruch Spinoza
1677
Portuguese-Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
Robert Southwell (priest)
1595
English Jesuit
Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick
1590
English nobleman and general
Cho Sik
1572
Korean philosopher (1501–1572)
Hieronymus Bock
1554
German botanist (1497/98–1554)
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi
1543
16th century Imam and General of the Adal Sultanate
Pope Julius II
1513
Head of the Catholic Church from 1503 to 1513
Jan Rokycana
1471
Czech Hussite theologian
James I of Scotland
1437
15th-century King of Scots
Baldwin of Ibelin, Seneschal of Cyprus
1267
French nobleman (died 1267)
Aymon de Briançon
1211
Burgundian nobleman and Carthusian monk
Minamoto no Yoshinaka
1184
Japanese samurai lord (1154–1184)
Randoald of Grandval
675
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