February 21 - Deaths

Deaths

• 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
• 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)
• 1900 – Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African Gunmaker (b. 1853)
• 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 revolutionary (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, Black American civil rights leader (b. 1925)
• 1966 – Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (b. 1895)
• 1967 – Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
• 1968 – Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, 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 Cardinal (b. 1884)
• 1972 – Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914)
• 1974 – Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
• 1978 – Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (b. 1901)
• 1980 – Alfred Andersch, German writer (b. 1914)
• 1982 – Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey (b. 1922)
• 1982 – Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian (b. 1897)
• 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 and longest-lived man on record (b. 1865)
• 1987 – Noel Odell, English mountaineer, last person to see Mallory and Irvine alive (b. 1890)
• 1989 – Alex Thépot, French footballer (b. 1906)
• 1991 – Dorothy Auchterlonie, Australian academic, literary critic and poet (b. 1915)
• 1991 – Nutan Behl, Indian actress (b. 1936)
• 1991 – Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919)
• 1994 – Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (b. 1913)
• 1995 – Jorge José Emiliano dos Santos, Brazilian Football Referee (b. 1954)
• 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)
• 1999 – Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish fighter pilot (b. 1914)
• 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 – John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Guido Molinari, Canadian artist (b. 1933)
• 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)