Famous Deaths on 21 Feb

Famous Deaths on 21 Feb

1437 - King James I of Scotland (b. 1394)
1471 - John of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop
1513 - Pope Julius II (b. 1443)
1543 - Ahmed Gragn, Sultan of Adal
1554 - Hieronymus Bock, German botanist (b. 1498)
1595 - Robert Southwell, English Jesuit priest and poet (executed)
1668 - John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (b. 1616)
1677 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (b. 1632)
1715 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (b. 1637)
1730 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
1788 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1821 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756)
1824 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (b. 1781)
1846 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800)
1862 - Justinus Kerner, German poet (b. 1786)
1901 - George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
1919 - Kurt Eisner, German socialist (assassinated), leader of socialist revolution of 1918 in Bavaria (b. 1867)
1920 - Jacinta Marto, witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (b. 1910)
1926 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
1934 - Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot (assassinated) (b. 1895)
1938 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (b. 1868)
1941 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1891)
1944 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873)
1945 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (b. 1902)
1946 - José Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (b. 1911)
1949 - Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (b. 1894)
1958 - Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
1960 - Jacques Becker, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1965 - Malcolm X, American black activist (b. 1925)
1966 - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (b. 1895)
1967 - Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
1968 - Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmocologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1898)
1972 - Bronislava Nijinska, Polish-Russian ballet dancer (b. 1891)
1972 - Eugène Tisserant, French Catholic candinal (b. 1884)
1974 - Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
1978 - Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (b. 1901)
1980 - Alfred Andersch, German writer
1982 - Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey (b. 1922)
1984 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1985 - Louis Hayward, British actor (b. 1909)
1986 - Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (b. 1895)
1986 - Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese sugarcane farmer, also the world's oldest man ever (b. 1865)
1989 - Alex Thépot, French footballer (b. 1906)
1991 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919)
1994 - Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (b.1913)
1996 - Morton Gould, American composer (b. 1913)
1999 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918)
1999 - Wilmer David Mizell, baseball player (b. 1930)
2000 - Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball coach (b. 1933)
2002 - Harold Furth, Austrian-born physicist (b. 1939)
2002 - John Thaw, English actor (b. 1942)
2003 - Eddie Thomson, Scottish football player and coach (b. 1947)
2004 - Guido Molinari, Canadian artist (b. 1933)
2004 - John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931)
2005 - Ara Berberian, American opera singer (b. 1930)
2005 - Gérard Bessette, Quebec novelist and poet (b. 1920)
2005 - Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (b. 1929)
2005 - Eugene Scott, American religious broadcaster (b. 1929)
2008 - Sunny Lowry, First British woman to swim the English Channel (b. 1911)
2008 - Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)