Saturday 21 February 1903

Holidays:

• Saint Pepin of Landen
• Language Martyrs' Day - A day celebrated by Bengali speaking people for gaining right of mother tongue.
• Catholicism - Feast day of Saint Peter Damiani.
• Saint Randoald
• International Mother Language Day (UNESCO).

Famous Birthdays:

• Eric Fogg: Composer.
• Fairfax M Cone: American advertising executive (d. 1977).
• Raymond Queneau [M Presle]: French author (Un Enfant a Dit).
• Thomas Yawkey: baseball owner (Boston Red Sox).
• Anais Nin: French diarist (d. 1977).

• Anaïs Nin: French writer who authored 60 diaries in her 74 years about her SELF (often capitalized), working on perfecting her self-absorption and sex-life. Introspective from youth, she began her diaries at 15. She published four of the diaries from 1966 to 1971. Nin fancied herself an artist, when, in fact, she was a minor writer and a very, very sensitive bore. She nonetheless became an icon for the feminist movement in the 1970s, presenting herself as having successfully defied the conventions of woman
• Raymond Queneau: French novelist, poet, screenwriter, encyclopedist, multifaceted creative genius whose work influenced French prose, poetry & cinema. Death 1976/10/25.
• Dorothea Neff: Germany Actor
• Scrapper Blackwell: American singer and guitarist (d. 1962)

Facts:

• Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington DC.