Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 21 February today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for February 21
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on February 21
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 004 | Gaius Caesar, Roman consul and grandson of Augustus (b. 20 BC) |
| 675 | Randoald of Grandval, prior of the Benedictine monastery of Grandval |
| 1184 | Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Japanese shōgun (b. 1154) |
| 1267 | Baldwin of Ibelin, Seneschal of Cyprus |
| 1437 | James I of Scotland (b. 1394; assassinated) |
| 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) |
| 1590 | Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English nobleman and general (b. 1528) |
| 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) |
| 1829 | Kittur Chennamma, Indian queen and freedom fighter (b. 1778) |
| 1846 | Emperor Ninkō of Japan (b. 1800) |
| 1862 | Justinus Kerner, German poet and physician (b. 1786) |
| 1888 | William Weston, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1804) |
| 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 racing driver (b. 1873) |
| 1945 | Eric Liddell, Scottish rugby player and runner (b. 1902) |
| 1946 | José Streel, Belgian journalist (b. 1911) |
| 1947 | Fannie Charles Dillon, American composer (b. 1881) |
| 1958 | Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936) |
| 1965 | Malcolm X, American minister and activist (b. 1925; assassinated) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 1995 | Robert Bolt, English dramatist (b. 1924) |
| 1996 | Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913) |
| 1999 | Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) |
| 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) |
| 2008 | Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928) |
| 2011 | Dwayne McDuffie, American author and screenwriter, co-founded Milestone Media (b. 1962) |
| 2012 | H. M. Darmstandler, American general (b. 1922) |
| 2013 | Hasse Jeppson, Swedish footballer (b. 1925) |
| 2014 | Héctor Maestri, Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1935) |
| 2015 | Aleksei Gubarev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1931) |
| 2016 | Eric Brown, Scottish-English captain and pilot (b. 1919) |
| 2017 | Jeanne Martin Cissé, Guinean teacher and politician (b. 1926) |
| 2018 | Billy Graham, American evangelist (b. 1918) |
| 2019 | Stanley Donen, American film director (b. 1924) |
| 2021 | Mireya Arboleda, Colombian classical pianist (b. 1928) |
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