On This Day — February 21
4119 noted people were born and 2096 died on February 21 in our archive, including Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead, A. G. Hopkins and Alexander Dickson.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 21
Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead
1900 – 1977
A. G. Hopkins
b. 1938
Alexander Dickson
1836 – 1887
Anton Vratuša
1915 – 2017
Anton von Störck
1731 – 1803
Barbara Jordan
1936 – 1996
Charles-Marie Widor
1844 – 1937
Clifford Taubes
b. 1954
Cristina Garmendia
b. 1962
Cynthia Kenyon
b. 1954
David Frost
b. 1965
David Miller
1890 – 1973
Edgar Kant
1902 – 1978
Edward Chaplin
b. 1951
Fernando Gomes
b. 1952
Friedrich Carl von Savigny
1779 – 1861
Haldane Robert Mayer
b. 1941
Isaac Julien
b. 1960
Josep Piqué
1955 – 2023
Karl Lauterbach
b. 1963
Kevin Rose
b. 1977
Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez
1870 – 1970
Marc Boegner
1881 – 1970
Mark Kelly
b. 1964
Michael Roger Oldfield Thomas
1858 – 1929
Mustafa Babanli
b. 1968
Nijolė Ambrazaitytė
1939 – 2016
Olexander Slobodian
b. 1956
Olympia Snowe
b. 1947
Paul Kirchhof
b. 1943
Pedro Gómez de la Serna
1806 – 1871
Peter Salovey
b. 1958
Petro Tolochko
1938 – 2024
Pierre Deffontaines
1894 – 1978
Reinhart Dozy
1820 – 1883
Roger Koenker
b. 1947
Sally Jewell
b. 1956
Scott Kelly
b. 1964
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
1894 – 1955
Ursula Bellugi
1931 – 2022
Victor Marijnen
1917 – 1975
Victòria Camps
b. 1941
Vladimir Wiese
1886 – 1954
Abhijit Banerjee
b. 1961
Aegidius Strauch
1632 – 1682
Agnes Yewande Savage
1906 – 1964
Alice Freeman Palmer
1855 – 1902
Ann Sheridan
1915 – 1967
Anna Romanova
b. 1985
Anthony Daniels
b. 1946
Antoine Karam
b. 1950
Ariella Azoulay
b. 1962
Arminas Lydeka
b. 1968
Artūras Zuokas
b. 1968
Audrey Pulvar
b. 1972
August Socin
1837 – 1899
Bernard Griffin
1899 – 1956
Butet Manurung
b. 1972
Caspar Wistar Hodge, Sr.
1830 – 1891
Charles D. Coryell
1912 – 1971
Charles Townshend
1861 – 1924
Charles-François-Prosper Guérin
1875 – 1939
Dagmar Roth-Behrendt
b. 1953
David Foster Wallace
1962 – 2008
David Naccache
b. 1967
Dmitriy Ovsyannikov
b. 1977
Doménica Tabacchi
b. 1973
Donald Prothero
b. 1954
Dov Sadan
1902 – 1989
Edith Standen
1905 – 1998
Eduard Oscar Schmidt
1823 – 1886
Edward Felix Norton
1884 – 1954
Emil Frei
1924 – 2013
Emilio Azcárraga Jean
b. 1968
Erich Trefftz
1888 – 1937
Eva Nordmark
b. 1971
Ezra Ripley Thayer
1866 – 1915
Fausto Pocar
b. 1939
Fernando Calderón de la Barca, 1st Marquis of Reinosa
1811 – 1890
Franca Helg
1920 – 1989
Francis Baring, 6th Baron Northbrook
b. 1954
Francisco X. Alarcón
1954 – 2016
Frank Brunner
b. 1949
Félix Paiva
1877 – 1965
Gabriela Cwojdzińska
1928 – 2022
Gaston Caperton
b. 1940
George Wilson
1818 – 1859
György Hajós
1912 – 1972
Ha Jin
b. 1956
Hannah Fry
b. 1984
Harald V of Norway
1937 – 2026
Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer
1801 – 1888
Helen Ghosh
b. 1956
Helen Octavia Dickens
1909 – 2001
Henrik Dam
1895 – 1976
Hermann Pister
1885 – 1948
Hindrek Meri
1934 – 2009
Igor Levitin
b. 1952
Illya Yemetz
b. 1956
Ira Condict
1764 – 1811
Jack Binion
b. 1937
Jacob M. Appel
b. 1973
Jacques Decour
1910 – 1942
James Dutton
b. 1954
James Peter Hill
1873 – 1954
Jan Kalivoda
1801 – 1866
Jan Smallenbroek
1909 – 1974
Janet Fookes, Baroness Fookes
b. 1936
Jason Jorjani
b. 1981
Jean Capart
1877 – 1947
Jean Dupas
1882 – 1964
Jean Marc Dalpé
b. 1957
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
1815 – 1891
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
b. 1980
Jim McLay
b. 1945
John C. Keegan
b. 1952
John Henry Newman
1801 – 1890
John Lewis
1940 – 2020
John Nicholas Brown II
1900 – 1979
John Rawls
1921 – 2002
John Shimkus
b. 1958
John Struthers
1823 – 1899
Jonathan Safran Foer
b. 1977
Joseph Caffarelli
1760 – 1845
Joseph Planta
1744 – 1827
José Félix Estigarribia
1888 – 1940
Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson
b. 1939
Jörg Kukies
b. 1968
K. A. Manoharan
b. 1951
Katherine Newman
b. 1953
Kazimierz Kleina
b. 1958
Kirill Kondrashin
1914 – 1981
Korechika Anami
1887 – 1945
Lars Ramkilde Knudsen
b. 1962
Lekso Aleksishvili
b. 1974
Leo Scheffczyk
1920 – 2005
Lojze Krakar
1926 – 1995
Louis R. Gottschalk
1899 – 1975
Lucien Gallois
1857 – 1941
Ludwig Ramberg
1874 – 1940
Luigi Manconi
b. 1948
László Rudas
1885 – 1950
Léo Delibes
1836 – 1891
M. E. Grant Duff
1829 – 1906
Margalith Galun
1927 – 2012
Margarethe von Trotta
b. 1942
Mart Järvik
b. 1956
Mary Chapin Carpenter
b. 1958
Metaksia Simonyan
1926 – 1987
Mick Connelly
1916 – 2003
Mikhail Rodzianko
1859 – 1924
Miklós Laczkovich
b. 1948
Nadia Marcinko
b. 1985
Nicolae Ch. Quintescu
1841 – 1913
Ogawa Masataka
1865 – 1930
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs
1822 – 1908
Orazio Svelto
1936 – 2026
Ottmar Schreiner
1946 – 2013
Paula Vennells
b. 1959
Phil Hare
b. 1949
Pierre Hadot
1922 – 2010
Rachel Félix
1821 – 1858
Reg Turnbull
1908 – 2006
Ricardo Bonilla González
b. 1950
Richard A. Lupoff
1935 – 2020
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo
1822 – 1872
Robert Mugabe
1924 – 2019
Ron Clarke
1937 – 2015
Sahle-Work Zewde
b. 1950
Sari Essayah
b. 1967
Siegfried Bracke
b. 1953
Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet
1783 – 1847
Sousa Dantas
1831 – 1894
Stanley Colville
1861 – 1939
Stavros Theodorakis
b. 1963
Stefanie Stantcheva
b. 1986
Stephan Toscani
b. 1967
Stephen Holmes
b. 1948
Sydney Copeman
1862 – 1947
Tadeusz Tomaszewski
b. 1959
Thelma Estrin
1924 – 2014
Theodor Hartig
1805 – 1880
Thomas Bath
1875 – 1956
Thomas Sterling
1851 – 1930
Tom Gehrels
1925 – 2011
Troy A. Paredes
b. 1971
Ville Skinnari
b. 1974
Vitaly Churkin
1952 – 2017
Vladimir Kvint
b. 1949
Vladimir Resin
b. 1936
Vladimir Sokolov
1936 – 1999
W. H. Auden
1907 – 1973
Walter Momper
b. 1945
William Hathaway
1924 – 2013
William Petersen
b. 1953
William Winter
1923 – 2020
Xhafer Deva
1904 – 1978
Ye Duzheng
1916 – 2013
Yevgeny Vodolazkin
b. 1964
Yoshio Kimura
1905 – 1986
… and 3,919 more
Died on February 21
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1853 – 1926
Howard Florey
1898 – 1968
John G. Trump
1907 – 1985
Osborne Reynolds
1842 – 1912
Roger Guillemin
1924 – 2024
Aldo Andreotti
1924 – 1980
Alojzy Orszulik
1928 – 2019
Andrew Ranicki
1948 – 2018
Bing Zhi
1886 – 1965
Charles Piazzi Smyth
1817 – 1900
Charles Thévenin
1764 – 1838
Dick White
1906 – 1993
Ekvtime Takaishvili
1863 – 1953
Frederick Banting
1891 – 1941
George Ellery Hale
1868 – 1938
George FitzGerald
1851 – 1901
Hanns Hopp
1890 – 1971
Harold Furth
1930 – 2002
Henryk Arctowski
1871 – 1958
Herbert Mills Birdwood
1837 – 1907
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
1929 – 2009
Johannes Semper
1892 – 1970
John D. Hoffman
1922 – 2004
John E. Fryer
1938 – 2003
Julio Rey Pastor
1888 – 1962
Margot Fonteyn
1919 – 1991
Mary Edwards Walker
1832 – 1919
Maurice de Bunsen
1852 – 1932
Petro Hryhorenko
1907 – 1987
Sufi Abu Taleb
1925 – 2008
Vahagn Davtyan
1922 – 1996
Ziya Bunyadov
1921 – 1997
Abdul Taib Mahmud
1936 – 2024
Acacio Gabriel Viegas
1856 – 1933
Aleksei Yuryevich German
1938 – 2013
Alexander Lvovich Kazembek
1902 – 1977
Andrey Voronikhin
1759 – 1814
Anne-Antoine-Jules de Clermont-Tonnerre
1749 – 1830
Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy
1758 – 1838
Bernard B. Fall
1926 – 1967
Bertram Wolfe
1896 – 1977
Celeste Sánchez-Romero
1990 – 2022
Charles Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey
1885 – 1947
Clint Hill
1932 – 2025
Comfort A. Adams
1868 – 1958
Dan Kiley
1912 – 2004
David Humphreys
1752 – 1818
Domingo Mercante
1898 – 1976
Edwin Franko Goldman
1878 – 1956
Edwin Kessler
1928 – 2017
Emil Wichmann
1856 – 1938
Erik Gustaf Boström
1842 – 1907
Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel
1804 – 1861
Eugène Tisserant
1884 – 1972
Eugène de Beauharnais
1781 – 1824
Evan Mecham
1924 – 2008
Fali Sam Nariman
1929 – 2024
František Josef Studnička
1836 – 1903
George Bowen
1821 – 1899
George Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle
1799 – 1891
George Oxenden
1651 – 1703
Gerrit Bol
1906 – 1989
Gershom Scholem
1897 – 1982
Gertrude B. Elion
1918 – 1999
Gustav Hellmann
1854 – 1939
Gérard Bessette
1920 – 2005
Hagar Olsson
1893 – 1978
Halina Auderska
1904 – 2000
Henry Wade
1876 – 1955
Hideo Itokawa
1912 – 1999
Inge Lehmann
1888 – 1993
Isaac Jacob Schoenberg
1903 – 1990
J. S. Ewart
1849 – 1933
Jacek Karpiński
1927 – 2010
James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk
1827 – 1905
James Prioleau Richards
1894 – 1979
Jan Lityński
1946 – 2021
Johan Didrik af Wingård
1778 – 1854
Johannes Schmidt
1877 – 1933
John Hubley
1914 – 1977
John Maxwell
1859 – 1929
John R. Schmidhauser
1922 – 2018
John Sherman Cooper
1901 – 1991
Judith Pipher
1940 – 2022
Juliusz Leo
1861 – 1918
Ján Kuciak
1990 – 2018
Karel Kosik
1926 – 2003
Kenneth Arrow
1921 – 2017
Lawrence D. Brown
1940 – 2018
MaryAnn Bin-Sallik
1940 – 2026
Michael J. B. Messemer
1851 – 1894
Milan Raspopović
1936 – 2025
Missak Manouchian
1909 – 1944
Murray Gerstenhaber
1927 – 2024
Nikolai Severov
1887 – 1957
Nikolay Valerianovich Bibikov
1842 – 1923
Paul Farmer
1959 – 2022
Pieter Philip van Bosse
1809 – 1879
Rafael Karsten
1879 – 1956
Ramón Iribarren Cavanilles
1900 – 1967
Richard Luce
1867 – 1952
Robert Burgess
1947 – 2022
Roden Cutler
1916 – 2002
Russell W. Peterson
1916 – 2011
Sergey Averintsev
1937 – 2004
Stanley Donen
1924 – 2019
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
1773 – 1865
Stepan Khmara
1937 – 2024
Sunny Lowry
1911 – 2008
Sándor Márai
1900 – 1989
Valery Taliyev
1872 – 1932
Violet Archer
1913 – 2000
Vladimir Dzhunkovsky
1865 – 1938
Vladimir Makovsky
1846 – 1920
Vladimir Motyl
1927 – 2010
William Frend
1757 – 1841
William Rutherford
1839 – 1899
Yves Le Trocquer
1877 – 1938
Zdzisław Beksiński
1929 – 2005
Abdul Jabbar
1919 – 1952
Abram W. Harris
1858 – 1935
Abul Barkat
1927 – 1952
Afonso Celso, Viscount of Ouro Preto
1836 – 1912
Ahmad Shah Qajar
1898 – 1930
Aizu Yaichi
1881 – 1956
Albin Roussin
1781 – 1854
Aleksei Gubarev
1931 – 2015
Alf Bakke
1927 – 2025
Alfred Spencer Heathcote
1832 – 1912
Ali Çetinkaya
1878 – 1949
Alvin B. Koeneman
1933 – 2018
Alvin Olin King
1890 – 1958
Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick
1520 – 1590
Anatoliy Turusin
1939 – 2022
Angie Debo
1890 – 1988
Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen
1863 – 1945
Antoine Danchet
1671 – 1748
Anton Jürgenstein
1861 – 1933
Antonio Bichi
1614 – 1691
Antonio Díaz-Miguel
1934 – 2000
Antonín Švorc
1934 – 2011
Archibald B. Darragh
1840 – 1927
Ashurst Gilbert
1786 – 1870
Auguste Bonheur
1824 – 1884
Barbara Stolterfoht
1940 – 2021
Baruch Podolsky
1940 – 2011
Benedict XIII
1649 – 1730
Benjamin F. Prescott
1833 – 1895
Benjamin Franklin Buchanan
1857 – 1932
Benjamin W. Chidlaw
1900 – 1977
Bernhard Solger
1849 – 1935
Bertrando Spaventa
1817 – 1883
Billy Graham
1918 – 2018
Bob Godfrey
1921 – 2013
Bronislava Nijinska
1891 – 1972
Bruce Millan
1927 – 2013
Carl Patsch
1865 – 1945
Charles D. Madsen
1906 – 1975
Charles J. King
1925 – 2016
Charles L. Carpenter
1902 – 1992
Charles W. Woodford
1931 – 2009
Charles de Kerchove de Denterghem
1819 – 1882
Chester Lauck
1902 – 1980
Christos Christovasilis
1862 – 1937
Clark Terry
1920 – 2015
Claudio Gabriele de Launay
1786 – 1850
Cornelis van Eesteren
1897 – 1988
Cyril Wagstaff
1878 – 1934
Dan Simmons
1948 – 2026
Daryl Jackson
1937 – 2026
Dermot Ryan
1924 – 1985
Dick Klugman
1924 – 2011
Doctor Willard Bliss
1825 – 1889
Doug Wilkerson
1947 – 2021
Dudley Long North
1748 – 1829
Duncan Edwards
1936 – 1958
E Dongchen
1939 – 2019
Edward Fitzgerald
1833 – 1907
Efeso Collins
1974 – 2024
Eldor Urazbayev
1940 – 2012
Ellis O. Briggs
1899 – 1976
Emerico Amari
1810 – 1870
Emil Holub
1847 – 1902
Emil Hübner
1834 – 1901
Emily Jordan Folger
1858 – 1936
Emlyn Hooson, Baron Hooson
1925 – 2012
Enrique Gil Gilbert
1912 – 1973
Eric Melrose Brown
1919 – 2016
Ernest Vandiver
1918 – 2005
Eva Jessye
1895 – 1992
Ewan Christian
1814 – 1895
Fernando Remacha
1898 – 1984
France Avčin
1910 – 1984
Francis Wharton
1820 – 1889
Francis Xavier Ford
1892 – 1952
Frank Delaney
1942 – 2017
Frank L. Horton
1918 – 2004
Frank Mace MacFarland
1869 – 1951
Franz von Rinecker
1811 – 1883
Fremont O. Phillips
1856 – 1936
… and 1,896 more