February 21st famous deaths
List of celebrities and famous people who died on February 21st
2019 - 2010
Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 2019 - 2010
2011American abortionist turned pro-life activist (Born 1926)
2009 - 2000
Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 2009 - 2000
2008first British woman to swim the English Channel (Born 1911)
American actor (Born 1928)
Cuban novelist (Born 1929)
American opera singer (Born 1930)
French-Canadian novelist and poet (Born 1920)
American religious broadcaster (Born 1929)
Canadian painter and art collector (d. 2004)
Scottish football player and coach (Born 1947)
Austrian-born physicist (Born 1939)
Spanish basketball coach (Born 1933)
1999 - 1990
Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1999 - 1990
1999Finnish soldier and pilot (d. 1999)
baseball player (Born 1930)
catholic priest/crusader, dies at age 75.
Painter, dies at 81
educationalist, dies at age 67.
science fiction writer/editor, dies at age 81.
polar geographer, dies at age 75.
British playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70
Brazilian Football Referee (Born 1954)
German fighter pilot & NATO commander (Born 1913)
Architect, dies at 68
child psychiatrist, dies at age 54.
Car maker (Lamborghini), dies at 76
British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies.
Dies at 98
Singer, dies at 83
US singer/actress (Eva Jessye Choir), dies at age 97.
British dancer, one of the world's outstanding ballerinas for 45 years. Fonteyn began dance lessons at 4 and entered Sadler Wells ballet school at 14 with a debut the following year. She met Nureyev in 1962 and their dance partnership was legendary. In 1956, she was knighted, becoming a Dame of the British Empire. She met Roberto Arias at Cambridge …
Australian academic, literary critic and poet (Born 1915)
Indian actress (Born 1936)
1989 - 1980
Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1989 - 1980
1989French footballer (Born 1906)
English mountaineer, last person to see Mallory and Irvine alive (Born 1890)
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Johannesburg, South Africa -- Actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors)
Dutch cabaret performer (Floris), dies at age 47.
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Actress / comedienne (3 Broadway Girls), dies of a stroke at 89
Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965)
American impresario and disc jockey (Born 1922)
German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian, born and raised in Germany. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah, becoming the first Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
German-Swiss author and publisher (d. 1980)
1979 - 1970
Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1979 - 1970
1979Composer
Polish historian and priest (Born 1901)
a Detroit doo-wop singer with The Diablos (Born 1934)
Scottish actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74
Canadian hockey player (Born 1930)
Chinese general and politician (Born 1914)
French Catholic Cardinal (Born 1884)
Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1972)
Composer, dies at 79
1969 - 1960
Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1969 - 1960
1969Mexican-born US Olympic fencer
Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1898)
American writer (Born 1929)
Canadian lawyer and politician 21st Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1966)
American activist who came from humble roots to rise to a position of national prominence as a civil rights activist. As a youthful black rebel, he was convicted of burglary in 1946 and served prison time. In 1963, he formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). He took the Moslem name of El-Hajji Malik El-Shabazz; however, he was suspended as …
French film director and screenwriter (Born 1906)
1959 - 1950
Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1959 - 1950
1958English footballer (Born 1936)
Composer, dies at 78
Dutch actor (Gay Death), dies at 63
1949 - 1940
Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1949 - 1940
1949Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (Born 1894)
Composer, dies at 78
Composer, dies at 80
Belgian World War II collaborator (Born 1911)
China -- English 400m runner (1924 Olympics - Gold Medalist)
Hungarian-born race car driver (Born 1873)
Canadian physician who, with Charles H. Best, was one of the first to extract (1921) the hormone insulin from the pancreas. Injections of insulin proved to be the first effective treatment for diabetes, a disease in which glucose accumulates in abnormally high quantities in the blood. Banting and Best completed their experiments in 1922. The following year Banting and Macleod …
1939 - 1930
Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1939 - 1930
1938American astronomer (Born 1868)
Composer, dies at 39
Nicaraguan revolutionary (Born 1895)
1929 - 1920
Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1929 - 1920
1925Composer, dies at 52
Composer, dies at 78
witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (Born 1910)
1919 - 1910
Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1919 - 1910
1919dies at age 77.
German socialist, is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
murdered at age 46.
1909 - 1900
Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1909 - 1900
1901Irish mathematician (Born 1851)
South African Gunmaker (Born 1853)