21 February Deaths

February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 313 days remaining until the end of the year (314 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).
Deaths
675 – Randoald of Grandval, prior of the Benedictine monastery of Grandval
1437 – James I of Scotland (b. 1394)
1471 – Jan Rokycana, Czech bishop and theologian (b. 1396)
1513 – Pope Julius II (b. 1443)
1543 – Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Somalian general (b. 1507)
1554 – Hieronymus Bock, German botanist and physician (b. 1498)
1572 – Cho Shik, Korean poet and scholar (d. 1501)
1595 – Robert Southwell, English priest and poet (b. 1561)
1677 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar (b. 1632)
1715 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician (b. 1637)
1730 – Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
1821 – Georg Friedrich von Martens, German jurist and diplomat (b. 1756)
1824 – Eugène de Beauharnais, French general (b. 1781)
1846 – Emperor Ninkō of Japan (b. 1800)
1862 – Justinus Kerner, German poet and physician (b. 1786)
1891 – James Timberlake, American lieutenant and police officer (b. 1846)
1919 – Kurt Eisner, German journalist and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1867)
1926 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
1934 – Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader (b. 1895)
1938 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and academic (b. 1868)
1941 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1944 – Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-French race car driver (b. 1873)
1945 – Eric Liddell, Scottish rugby player and runner (b. 1902)
1946 – José Streel, Belgian journalist (b. 1911)
1958 – Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
1965 – Malcolm X, American minister and activist (b. 1925)
1967 – Charles Beaumont, American author and screenwriter (b. 1929)
1968 – Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1972 – Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914)
1972 – Bronislava Nijinska, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
1972 – Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (b. 1884)
1974 – Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, co-founded Tim Hortons (b. 1930)
1980 – Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (b. 1914)
1982 – Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897)
1984 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1985 – Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)
1986 – Helen Hooven Santmyer, American novelist (b. 1895)
1991 – Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)
1993 – Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)
1994 – Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
1996 – Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)
1999 – Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
1999 – Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (b. 1914)
1999 – Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player and politician (b. 1930)
2002 – John Thaw, English actor and producer (b. 1942)
2004 – John Charles, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1931)
2005 – Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban author, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1929)
2005 – Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor (b. 1929)
2008 – Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)
2008 – Neil Chotem, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1920)
2011 – Dwayne McDuffie, American author and screenwriter, co-founded Milestone Media (b. 1962)
2011 – Bernard Nathanson, American physician and activist (b. 1926)
2012 – H. M. Darmstandler, American general (b. 1922)
2012 – Barney Rosset, American publisher (b. 1922)
2013 – Hasse Jeppson, Swedish footballer (b. 1925)
2014 – Héctor Maestri, Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1935)
2014 – Matthew Robinson, Australian snowboarder (b. 1985)
2014 – Cornelius Schnauber, German–American historian, playwright, and academic (b. 1939)
2014 – John Strawson, English general (b. 1921)
2015 – Aleksei Gubarev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1931)
2015 – Robert O. Marshall, American businessman (b. 1939)
2015 – Sadeq Tabatabaei, Iranian journalist and politician (b. 1943)
2015 – Clark Terry, American trumpet player, composer, and educator (b. 1920)
2016 – Eric Brown, Scottish-English captain and pilot (b. 1919)

Source: Wikipedia