Died On February 21st
Discover the most famous people who died on February 21. The list includes people like Malcolm X, Baruch Spinoza, Frederick Banting, Eric Liddell, Margot Fonteyn. Famous personalities featured on this list, include journalists, soldiers, physicists and political leaders and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands & Germany and many more countries.
Malcolm X19 May 1925, American
Activist
Billy Graham07 November 1918, American
Evangelist
Baruch Spinoza24 November 1632, Dutch
Dutch philosopher
Frederick Banting14 November 1891, Canadian
Discoverer of Insulin
Eric Liddell16 January 1902, Scottish
Pope Julius II05 December 1443, Italian
Pope
James I of Scotland10 December 1394, Scottish
King of Scotland
Margot Fonteyn18 May 1919, British
Ballerina
Kenneth Arrow23 August 1921, American
Economist & Political Theorist
Mary Edwards Walker26 November 1832, American
Surgeon, Feminist, Activist
Howard Florey24 September 1898, Australian
Pathologist and Pharmacologist
Gertrude B. Elion23 January 1918, American
Biochemist, Pharmacologist
Augusto César Sandino18 May 1895, Nicaraguan
Nicaraguan revolutionary Leader
Pope Benedict XIII02 February 1649, Italian
Servant of God
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes21 September 1853, Dutch
Physicist
Frederick McKinley Jones17 May 1893, American
Inventor
Jethro Tull30 March 1674, British
Agricultural Pioneer
Inge Lehmann13 May 1888, Danish
Seismologist, Geophysicist
John Thaw03 January 1942, British
Actor
Emma Chambers11 March 1964, British
Actress
Tim Horton12 January 1930, Canadian
Ice hockey player
Beverley Owen13 May 1937, American
Actress
John Charles27 December 1931, British, Welsh
Association football player, Association football
Stanley Donen13 April 1924, American
American film and dance director
Heinz Hitler14 March 1920, German
Duncan Edwards01 October 1936, British
Footballer
Harvey Kurtzman03 October 1924, American
Writer, Journalist
Gustave Caillebotte19 August 1848, French
Painter, Art collector, Patron of the arts,
Eugène de Beauharnais03 September 1781, German
Military commander
Gaius Caesar0020 BC, Italian
Roman officer
Kurt Eisner14 May 1867, German
Politician, Writer, Journalist
Johannes Steinhoff15 September 1913, German
Aviator
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Clark Terry14 December 1920, American
Composer, Trumpeter, Songwriter, Bandleader, Music
Gershom Scholem05 December 1897, Israeli
Philosopher, Librarian, Historian, Educationist,
John Sherman Cooper23 August 1901, American
Politician, Judge, Lawyer, Diplomat, American
Khoo Teck Puat13 January 1917, Australian, Malaysian, Singaporean
Entrepreneur, Banker
Ilmari Juutilainen21 February 1914, Finnish
Aviator, Military personnel
Sher Ali Khan1823 AD, Afghan
Emir of Afghanistan
Sándor Márai11 April 1900, Hungarian
Writer
Osborne Reynolds23 August 1842, British
Physicist, Civil engineer, Engineer
George Ellery Hale29 June 1868, American
Astronomer, Journalist
Henry Peach Robinson09 July 1830
Photographer
Guillermo Cabrera Infante22 April 1929, Cuban, Spanish, British
Linguist, Screenwriter, Translator, Essayist,
Howard Walter Florey24 September 1898, British
Australian pharmacologist
Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov24 May 1905, Russian, Russian
Novelist
Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes21 September 1853, Dutch
Frederick Jones17 May 1893, American
American inventor
Albert Wolff19 January 1884, Dutch
conductor, Choir director, Composer, Pianist
Dwayne Glenn McDuffie20 February 1962, American
American writer
Alexei Guerman20 July 1938, Russian