History Deaths on February 21

Bernard Nathanson, American physician and activist (b. 1926)

#Bernard_Nathanson

Jan Rokycana, Czech bishop and theologian (b. 1396)

#Jan_Rokycana

Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)

#Duncan_Edwards

Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English nobleman and general (b. 1528)

#Ambrose_Dudley,_3rd_Earl_of_Warwick

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban author, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1929)

#Guillermo_Cabrera_Infante

Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897)

#Gershom_Scholem

Kurt Eisner, German journalist and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1867)

#Kurt_Eisner

Eric Liddell, Scottish rugby player and runner (b. 1902)

#Eric_Liddell

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)

#Heike_Kamerlingh_Onnes

Eugène de Beauharnais, French general (b. 1781)

#Eugène_de_Beauharnais

Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player and politician (b. 1930)

#Wilmer_Mizell

Malcolm X, American minister and activist (b. 1925; assassinated)

#Malcolm_X

H. M. Darmstandler, American general (b. 1922)

#H._M._Darmstandler

Kittur Chennamma, Indian queen and freedom fighter (b. 1778)

#Kittur_Chennamma

Gaius Caesar, Roman consul and grandson of Augustus (b. 20 BC)

#Gaius_Caesar

Billy Graham, American evangelist (b. 1918)

#Billy_Graham

Emperor Nink? of Japan (b. 1800)

#Emperor_Nink?

Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Somalian general (b. 1507)

#Ahmad_ibn_Ibrahim_al-Ghazi

Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

#Gertrude_B._Elion

Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)

#Frederick_Banting

Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

#Mikhail_Sholokhov

Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (b. 1884)

#Eugène_Tisserant

Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914)

#Zhang_Guohua

Eric Brown, Scottish-English captain and pilot (b. 1919)

#Eric_Brown_(pilot)

Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader (b. 1895)

#Augusto_César_Sandino

Georg Friedrich von Martens, German jurist and diplomat (b. 1756)

#Georg_Friedrich_von_Martens

Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (b. 1914)

#Ilmari_Juutilainen

Stanley Donen, American film director (b. 1924)

#Stanley_Donen

Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)

#Louis_Hayward

William Weston, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1804)

#William_Weston_(Australian_politician)

Sadeq Tabatabaei, Iranian journalist and politician (b. 1943)

#Sadeq_Tabatabaei

George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and academic (b. 1868)

#George_Ellery_Hale

Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, co-founded Tim Hortons (b. 1930)

#Tim_Horton

Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Japanese sh?gun (b. 1154)

#Minamoto_no_Yoshinaka

Hasse Jeppson, Swedish footballer (b. 1925)

#Hasse_Jeppson

Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)

#Pope_Benedict_XIII

Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)

#Johannes_Steinhoff

James Timberlake, American lieutenant and police officer (b. 1846)

#James_Timberlake

Zdzis?aw Beksi?ski, Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor (b. 1929)

#Zdzis?aw_Beksi?ski

Pope Julius II (b. 1443)

#Pope_Julius_II

James I of Scotland (b. 1394; assassinated)

#James_I_of_Scotland

Aleksei Gubarev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1931)

#Aleksei_Gubarev

Matthew Robinson, Australian snowboarder (b. 1985)

#Matthew_Robinson_(snowboarder)

Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)

#Inge_Lehmann

Clark Terry, American trumpet player, composer, and educator (b. 1920)

#Clark_Terry

Robert Southwell, English priest and poet (b. 1561)

#Robert_Southwell_(Jesuit)

Peter Tork, American musician and actor (b. 1942)

#Peter_Tork

Hieronymus Bock, German botanist and physician (b. 1498)

#Hieronymus_Bock

Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician (b. 1637)

#Charles_Calvert,_3rd_Baron_Baltimore

Justinus Kerner, German poet and physician (b. 1786)

#Justinus_Kerner

Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-French race car driver (b. 1873)

#Ferenc_Szisz

Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar (b. 1632)

#Baruch_Spinoza

Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)

#Howard_Florey

Baldwin of Ibelin, Seneschal of Cyprus

#Baldwin_of_Ibelin,_Seneschal_of_Cyprus

Jeanne Martin Cissé, Guinean teacher and politician (b. 1926)

Cornelius Schnauber, German-American historian, playwright, and academic (b. 1939)

Héctor Maestri, Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1935)

Dwayne McDuffie, American author and screenwriter, co-founded Milestone Media (b. 1962)

Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)

John Charles, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1931)

John Thaw, English actor and producer (b. 1942)

Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)

Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)

Helen Hooven Santmyer, American novelist (b. 1895)

Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (b. 1914)

Bronislava Nijinska, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)

Charles Beaumont, American author and screenwriter (b. 1929)

José Streel, Belgian journalist (b. 1911)

Cho Shik, Korean poet and scholar (d. 1501)

Randoald of Grandval, prior of the Benedictine monastery of Grandval