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February 21st famous deaths

List of celebrities and famous people who died on February 21st

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2019 - 2010

Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 2019 - 2010

2011

2009 - 2000

Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 2009 - 2000

200820052004200320022000

1999 - 1990

Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1999 - 1990

19991997199619951994199319921991
  • 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

19891987
  • English mountaineer, last person to see Mallory and Irvine alive (Born 1890)

1985
  • Louis Hayward

    Johannesburg, South Africa -- Actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors)

  • Dutch cabaret performer (Floris), dies at age 47.

  • Ina Claire

    Actress / comedienne (3 Broadway Girls), dies of a stroke at 89

19841982
  • 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.

1980

1979 - 1970

Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1979 - 1970

197919781977
  • a Detroit doo-wop singer with The Diablos (Born 1934)

1976197419721971

1969 - 1960

Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1969 - 1960

19691968
  • Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1898)

19671966
  • Canadian lawyer and politician 21st Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1966)

1965
  • 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 …

1960

1959 - 1950

Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1959 - 1950

195819561951

1949 - 1940

Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1949 - 1940

194919481946
  • Belgian World War II collaborator (Born 1911)

1945
  • China -- English 400m runner (1924 Olympics - Gold Medalist)

19441941
  • 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

19381934

1929 - 1920

Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1929 - 1920

192519241920
  • 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

1919

1909 - 1900

Famous deaths on February 21st for the celebrities who died in the years 1909 - 1900

19011900
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