February 21st
Holidays and Celebrations
International Mother Language Day (UN)
Language Movement Day (Bangladesh) * (See Below)
John Lewis Day * (See Below)
NASCAR Day * (See Below)
Communist Manifesto Day * (See Below)
Malcom X Remembrance Day * (See Below)
Anniversary of the Battle of Wayna Daga * (See Below)
Chineese New Year, Lunar New Year, Spring Festival Lunar Calender (2013) * CLICK HERE
Martyrs Day (Bangladesh)
Anniversary of the Washington Monument Dedication
Introduce A Girl to Engineering Day
Elmo's Birthday, Sesame Street Charchter
Card Reading Day
Clam Chowder Day
National Sticky Bun Day
Feast of Saint Peter Damiani
Feast of Saint Pepin of Landen
Feast of Saint Randoald
* Cologne Carnival Cologne, Germany - Thu before Mardi Gras (3-6)
* Santa Cruz de Tenerife Carnival, Canary Islands (2-5)
* Mazatlan Carnival Mazatlan, Mexico (2-5)
* Language Movement Day A.K. A. Language Martyrs' Day, celebrated by Bengali speaking people for gaining right of mother tongue. (Bangladesh)
* John Lewis Day, John Lewis is an American politician and 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist (b. 1940)
* NASCAR Day - On this day in 1948 NASCAR was incorporated.
* Communist Manifesto Day - In 1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto.
* Malcom X Remembrance Day - In 1965 Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
* Anniversary of the Battle of Wayna Daga - In 1543 a combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.
Toast of The Day
"I drink to Woman
for each of them who makes a fool out of a man,
there is another who makes a man out of a fool."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Red Headed Slut
1 Part Jagermeister
1 Part Peach Schnapps
1 Part Cranberry Juice
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and strain into a rocks glass.
Wine of The Day
B.R. Cohn 2007 Silver Label
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon
North Coast
$25
Beer of The Day
Paradox Grain
Brewer - BrewDog, Fraserburgh, UK
Style - Whiskey Barrel Aged Stout
BrewDog partners with Duncan Taylor Ltd of Huntly, aging its Paradox Grain in the casks of Scotch whiskeys.
Joke of The Day
A drunk phoned police to report that thieves had been in his car. "They've stolen the dashboard, the steering wheel, the brake pedal, the radio, and even the accelerator," he cried out.
However, before the police investigation could start, the phone rang a second time and the same voice came over the line. "Never mind," he said with a hiccup, "I got in the back seat by mistake."
Quote of the Day
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."
- Unknown
Whiskey of The Day
Canadian LTD Blended Canadian Whiskey
$10
February Observances
AMD/Low Vision Awareness MonthAdopt A Rescued Rabbit Month
Aggressive Driving Month
American Heart Month
National Heart Healthy Month
American History Month
An Affair to Remember Month
Avocado and Banana Month
Bake for Family Fun Month
Beans (Dried and Fresh) Month
Berry Fresh Month
Black History Month
Burn Awareness Month
Canned Food Month
Celebration of Chocolate Month
Creative Romance Month
Dog Training Education Month
Exotic Vegetables and Star Fruit Month
Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month
From Africa to Virginia Month
National Get To Know An Independent Real Estate Broker Month
Grapefruit Month
Great American Pie Month a.k.a American Pie Month
International Boost Self-Esteem Month
International Expect Success Month
International Friendship Month
International Hoof-care Month
Jobs in Golf Month
Library Lovers' Month
Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month
Marijuana Awareness Month
National African American History Month
National Bird Feeding Month
National Black History Month
National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
National Cherry Month
National Children's Dental Health Month
National Condom Month
National Embroidery Month
National Fiber Focus Month
National Grapefruit Month
National Hot Breakfast Month
National Laugh-Friendly Month
National Mend A Broken Heart Month
National Parent Leadership Month
National Pet Dental Health Month
National Snack Food Month
National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
National Therapeutic Recreation Month
National Time Management Month
National Weddings Month
National Wild Bird Feeding Month
Parent Leadership Month, Natl
Plant The Seeds Of Greatness Month
Potato Lover’s Month
Pull Your Sofa Off The Wall Month
Relationship Wellness Month
Responsible Pet Owner's Month
Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month
Senior Independence Month
Spay/Neuter Awareness Month
Spiritual Teachers Month
Spunky Old Broads Month
Sweet Potato Month
Truck Month (GM)
Wise Health Care Consumer Month
Worldwide Renaissance of the Heart Month
Youth Leadership Month
Observances this Week
National Condom Week, Third Week of February
National Nestbox Week, Third Week of February
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week, Third Week of February
Great Backyard Bird Count, Third Weekend of February
National Date (fruit) Week, Third Week of February
National Entrepreneurship Week, Third Week of February
National FFA Week, Week of George Washington's Birthday, Sat to Sat
Brotherhood Week, Third Week of February
Sisterhood Week, Third Week of February
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week, Third Week of February
National Engineers Week, Week of George Washington's Birthday
National Justice for Animals Week, Week of George Washington's Birthday
Historical Events on February 21st
362 Athanasius returns to Alexandria.
630 Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem.
717 Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1173 Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket Absp of Canterbury
1188 Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku.
1245 Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after having confessed to torture and forgery.
1349 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
1413 Henry V becomes King of England.
1421 Battle of Beauge-French beat British
1431 England begins trial against Joan of Arc
1440 The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1492 Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus
1556 In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
1564 Philip II routes cardinal Granvelle to Franche-Comte
1574 Spanish garrison of Middelburg Neth surrenders
1583 Groningen Neth begins using Gregorian calendar
1598 Boris Godunov crowned tsar
1610 King James I addresses English House of Commons
1613 Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar
1673 Michiel A de Ruyter appointed lt-admiral-general of Dutch fleet
1675 Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland
1681 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London
1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe
1702 Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament
1764 John Wilkes thrown out of Engl House of Commons for "Essay on Women"
1777 English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting US flag
1782 US congress resolves establishment of a US mint
1788 Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana, leaves most of the town in ruins.
1788 Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to Pres Washington in NY as Sec of State
1791 Capt Hopley Yeaton of NH becomes 1st commissioned officer in USN
1792 Congress passes Pres Succession Act
1795 Freedom of worship established in France under constitution
1797 Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to British
1800 With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
1801 The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
1804 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales
1804 French civil Code of Napoleon is adopted as French civil law.
1821 First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
1824 Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
1826 Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna
1828 1st American Indian newspaper in US, "Cherokee Phoenix," published
1835 Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass
1842 1st known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Wash DC
1843 Preacher William Miller of Mass predicts the world will end today
1844 The Bahá'í calendar begins (Baha 1, 1). This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
1844 The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
1846 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Mass
1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California
1853 US authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces
1857 An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
1857 Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US
1857 US issues flying eagle cents
1858 Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston, Mass)
1859 Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
1859 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
1860 US extradition treaty with Sweden
1861 Navaho indians elect Herrero Grande as chief
1862 Confederate Constitution & presidency are declared permanent
1862 Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, NM
1863 Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon
1864 Battle at Okolona, Mississippi
1864 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore
1864 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
1865 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
1866 Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
1866 Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree
1868 1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in NYC
1871 Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1871 Otto von Bismarck is elevated to rank of Fürst (Prince)and appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
1874 Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier
1874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication
1874 US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House
1878 1st telephone book issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut)
1882 NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours
1883 2nd French government of Ferry begins
1885 Washington Monument dedicated (Wash DC)
1887 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)
1887 Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
1888 Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender," premieres in London
1890 Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law
1891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years
1895 NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
1899 British & French accord about West-Africa
1902 Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation
1903 Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, DC
1904 National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming Mich
1905 Albert Einstein publishes his theory on special relativity.
1907 SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Neth (142 dead)
1907 US invades Honduras
1909 John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London
1909 Moran & MacFarland (US) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)
1910 John Galsworthy's "Justice," premieres in London
1911 Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse élégique)
1913 Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
1914 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld
1914 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Norman M Scott
1914 White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China
1915 20th Russian Army corps surrenders
1915 World's Fair in SF opens
1916 Battle of Verdun in WW I begins (1 million casualties)
1916 JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as gov-gen of Neth Indies
1917 1st female US Navy Petty Officer is Loretta Walsh
1917 British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die
1917 Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die
1918 Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine
1918 The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins during World War I
1918 The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1919 German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria
1919 Revolutionary strike in Barcelona
1919 The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
1920 Darius Milhaud & Jean Cocteau's ballet, premieres in Paris
1921 Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
1921 Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St NYC
1922 Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die
1922 Great Britain grants Egypt independence
1922 KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1922 WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions
1923 Andre Charlot's musical "Rats," premieres in London
1923 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
1924 First foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)
1924 Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US
1925 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published
1925 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
1925 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar
1925 Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg
1927 Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch," premieres
1927 Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee
1928 Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1930 Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures," premieres in NYC
1931 Alka Seltzer introduced
1931 Chicago White Sox & NY Giants play 1st exhibition night game
1931 KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
1931 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1931 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1932 Andre Tardieu becomes premier of France
1932 Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin
1933 Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi Germany concentration camp, is completed.
1933 Hitler, Guring, Prince Ruprecht, Bruning & top army meet in Berlin
1934 Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play
1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
1934 Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by Natl Guard
1935 Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier," premieres in Paris
1935 Persia officially renamed Iran
1935 Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans.'
1937 Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile.
1937 Ponce Massacre, 18 people and a 7-year-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed PR Governor, Blanton C. Winship at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade
1937 The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
1939 Belgian government of Pierlot forms
1939 Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland
1941 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 Omar Bradley is promoted to the rank of brigadier general
1942 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1942 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
1942 US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht
1943 Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia
1943 Dutch RC bishops protest against persecution of Jews
1943 German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia
1943 Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
1944 "War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (NYC only)
1944 Gen Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy
1945 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa
1945 Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties
1945 British Army captures Goch
1945 British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma in World War II
1945 During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
1945 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police
1945 Operation Carthage British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school; 125 civilians are killed during World War II.
1945 US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line
1946 Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt
1946 Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933
1946 UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
1947 1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember"
1947 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land
1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur
1947 Pres Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States
1947 Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, NZ v England at Christchurch
1947 Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champ
1948 "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
1948 NASCAR is incorporated.
1949 WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami, FL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting
1951 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
1951 SC House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated
1952 "3 Wishes for Jamie" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 94 perfs
1952 Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
1952 Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement)
1952 Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition
1952 Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage (Michael Wilding)
1952 Tornadoes in Ark, Tenn, Mo, Miss, Ala & Ky cause 343 deaths, 31 storms crosses 6 states killing 340 in South-Central US
1953 "Maggie" closes at National Theater NYC after 5 performances
1953 F Crick & J Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule
1953 Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81
1953 NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse)
1954 KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls, MT (ABC/CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus desires Cyprus joining Greece
1955 Brooklyn Bulletin ask Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums"
1956 28th Academy Awards "Marty," Anna Magnani & Ernest Borgnine win
1957 Dodgers (Fort Worth) & Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises
1957 Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending," premieres in NYC
1958 "Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances
1958 1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award
1958 Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president (99.9% vote)
1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1959 "Juno" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 16 performances
1959 21st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: California beats W Va 71-70
1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
1960 Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1960 Sharpeville Massacre, Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC
1961 Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for then record ($3,925,000)
1961 Beatles' 1st appearance at the Cavern Club
1961 Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Die Physiker," premieres in Zurich
1961 Gabon adopts constitution
1961 Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry Test reaches 172 km
1962 A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds
1962 Bekkers of Bosch makes TV speech in Neth for birth control
1962 Dutch RC bishop Beckers declares himself in favor of birth control
1962 Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Neth
1962 Philadelphia retires pitcher Robin Roberts' # 36
1963 Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
1963 Alcatraz federal penitentiary in SF Bay closed
1963 David Hendon & Douglas Cross' musical premieres in London
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 26th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Duke 98-83, UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0)
1964 Beatles' "She Loves You," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1964 In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'età" ("I'm not old enough").
1964 UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to US
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1965 Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1965 NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes, takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact.
1966 Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution
1966 Supreme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
1968 "Royals" chosen as the name of new KC AL franchise
1968 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin
1968 Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000
1968 Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
1968 Hill, Hawkins & Coghill's musical premieres in London
1968 Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases
1968 Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé
1969 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes)
1969 Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Wash Senators
1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 32nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, UCLA beats Jacksonville 80-69
1970 Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand"
1970 Pathet Lao conquerors Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy
1970 The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
1970 Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany becoming the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
1971 Gavaskar scores 1st of his 34 Test Cricket tons, 116 at Georgetown
1971 Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1971 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
1971 Series of tornadoes cuts through Miss & La killing 117
1971 The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1971 Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2"
1971 WCPB TV channel 28 in Salisbury, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 Michael Weller's "Moonchildren," premieres in NYC
1972 Richard Nixon becomes 1st US president to visit China
1972 US Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote
1973 Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out
1973 Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHLer to score 500 goals
1973 Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108
1974 Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall
1974 Israeli forces leave western Suez
1974 Silver hits record $5.96½ an ounce in London
1974 Yugoslavia adopts constitution
1975 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years
1975 John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album
1975 John Mitchell, HR Haldeman & John D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 yrs
1976 "Rockabye Hamlet" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 7 perfs
1976 Cardinal Willebrands installed as archbishop of Utrecht
1977 74 Unification Church couples wed in NYC
1978 Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training)
1979 2 Iowa girls HS basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters game was won 4-2 in 4th overtime period
1979 Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel
1979 Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite & Corsa-B (550/580 km)
1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1500m in 1:55.44
1980 Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olymp gold (giant slalom)
1980 On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who shot J.R.?"
1980 US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
1981 "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured
1981 Charles Rocket clearly says "fuck" on Saturday Night Live
1981 Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k)
1981 NASA launches Comstar D-4
1982 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 1604 perfs
1982 "Little Johnny Jones" opens & closes at Alvin Theater NYC
1982 "Little Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 36 performances
1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
1982 Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard
1982 Movie "Annie" premieres
1982 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1983 Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 m 7.1 s
1983 NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak
1983 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled
1984 Border scores 100* v WI Trinidad after 98* in 1st cricket innings
1984 NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule
1984 Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon
1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
1985 Arthur Ashe is named to Intl Tennis Hall of Fame
1985 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed
1985 Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
1985 Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skateing race
1985 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
1985 Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator
1986 199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
1986 Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) & 3 km (4:18.02)
1986 Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
1986 Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks
1987 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1987 PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (Ÿ17 million)
1987 Syrian army marches into Beirut
1988 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards, Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr
1988 Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane
1988 Gustafson skates world record 10km (13:48.20)
1988 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation
1989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral
1989 Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling
1989 Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
1989 US bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1B st value)
1989 US capture record 820 lbs of heroin ($1 B street value)[dup]
1990 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 149 perfs
1990 "Normal Life" starring Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV
1990 "Sydney" starring Valerie Bertinelli premieres on CBS-TV
1990 32nd Grammy Awards, Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time wins
1990 Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president, after 75 years of South African rule.
1991 "Lost in Yonkers" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 780 perfs
1991 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide
1991 Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome
1991 Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," premieres in NYC
1991 Tatsumi Fujinami beats Ric Flair for NWA wrestling championship
1991 UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
1991 USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable
1992 2nd WLAF season begins
1992 Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympic gold medal in women's fig skating
1992 Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul NZ in exciting World Cup semi
1993 43rd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City
1993 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1993 Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint
1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m)
1993 South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl
1994 66th Academy Awards "Schindler's List," Tom Hanks & Holly Hunter win
1994 Anne P Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of Natl History
1994 Dudley Moore arrested for hitting girlfriend
1994 Watne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals
1995 CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans
1995 NJ officially dedicates the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295
1995 NYC agrees to sell it's 2 owned radio stations (WNYC AM & FM)
1995 RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado
1996 "Night of the Iguana" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 perfs
1996 Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit
1997 "Empire Strikes Back, special edition," premieres
1997 Ice Dance won by Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov (Rus)
1997 In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49.
1997 STS 82 (Discovery 22) lands
1997 Wrestlemania XIII
1998 Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1998 Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland.
1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.l.
2002 In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2004 In Malaysia, the 11th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority.
2004 The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome.
2006 Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M in damage.
2007 Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns from office. His resignation is rejected by the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano
2012 Yemen voters go to the polls for a presidential election where the only candidate on the ballot paper is vice-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi
2014 11 people are killed after a Libyan Air Force plan crashes in Tunisia
2013 21 people are killed and 54 are injured in a bombing in Hyderabad, India
2013 83 people are killed and 250 are injured in a series of bombing attacks in Damascus, Syria
2013 American scientists use a 3D printer to create a living lab-grown ear from collagen and animal ear cell cultures. In the future, it is hoped, similar ears could be grown to use as transplants for human patients suffering from ear trauma or amputation
2014 10 words from the 15th C Voynich manuscript have been decoded
2014 11 people are killed after a Libyan Air Force plan crashes in Tunisia
2014 US President Barack Obama meets with the Dalai Lama
2014 Police in Kiev open fire on protesters: 27 killed and around 570 injured
2015 "Saving Christmas" wins worst film at the 35th Golden Raspberry Awards
2016 Bombings in the Syrian cities of Homs and Damascus kill 140 people, Islamic State claims responsibility
2016 Lock of John Lennon's hair sells for $35,000 at an auction in Dallas, Texas
Born on February 21st
1417 Louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)
1484 Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (d. 1535)
1484 Joachim I Nestor, elector (Brandenburg, Constitution)
1556 Sethus Calvisius, German calendar reformer (d. 1615)
1674 Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer
1675 Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)
1684 Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator)
1690 Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer
1703 Shah Waliullah, Islamic Scholar and Reformer (d. 1762)
1705 Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781)
1710 Willem van Haren, Frisian nobleman/poet (Human Life)
1721 John McKinly, American physician (d. 1796)
1723 Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
1728 Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian tsar (1762), husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
1730 Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter
1744 Eise J Eisinga, Frisia, built planetarium Franeker
1776 Vincenzo Lavigna, composer
1779 Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer
1783 Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835)
1785 Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author (Die Sterner)
1791 Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (d. 1857)
1794 Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico (1833-36) (d. 1876)
1795 Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer
1800 John Henry Winder, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1801 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, composer
1801 John Henry Newman, English Catholic cardinal and author (Dream of Gerontius) (d. 1890)
1802 George Douglas Ramsey, Bvt Major general (Union Army), died in 1882
1805 David Tod, US diplomat/(Gov-R-Ohio, 1861-63)
1814 Nicolo Gabrielli, composer
1815 Ernest Meissonier, French painter/sculptor
1817 Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish dramatist (El rey Loco) (d. 1893)
1821 Charles Scribner, American publisher (Scribner Catalog) (d. 1871)
1829 Johnson Hagood, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1831 Eduard Rappoldi, composer
1836 Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer
1836 Emil Hartmann, composer
1836 Léo Delibes, French composer (d. 1891)
1844 Charles-Marie Widor, French composer (Paris Conservatory) (d. 1937)
1852 (James) Burner Matthews, US playwright/critic (NY Times)
1855 Alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame)
1856 Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam)
1857 Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907)
1860 Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952)
1860 Karel Matej Capek-Chod, Czech journalist (d. 1927)
1861 Pierre Breville, composer
1865 John Haden Badley, English school founder (d. 1967)
1867 Otto Hermann Kahn
1867 Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co (d. 1934)
1875 Jeanne Louise Calment, France, French supercentenarian and longest-lived human on record (died at 122) (d. 1997)
1876 Constantin Brancusi, Romanian/French sculptor (Princesse X)
1876 Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
1877 Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist
1878 Fritz Cortolezis, composer
1878 The Mother, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1973)
1880 Frank Orth, Phila Pa, actor (Boston Blackie, Brothers)
1880 Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952)
1881 Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
1883 J M M "Mick" Commaille, cricketer (dual South African cricket/soccer rep)
1885 Sacha Guitry, France, actor and playwright (Story of a Cheat) (d. 1957)
1887 Savielly (Xavier) G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
1888 Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (d. 1965)
1888 Florence Bates, TX, actress (Moon & Sixpence, Love Crazy, San Antonio)
1888 Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Religious Build Up)
1889 Felix Aylmer, actor (Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, St Joan)
1893 Andrés Segovia, Spanish classical guitarist (d. 1987)
1893 Celia Lovsky, Russian-born actress (d. 1979)
1893 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter)
1895 Carl Peter Henrik Dam Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1896 Sylvain Poons, Dutch cabaret performer (Blue Jackets)
1897 Celia Lovsky, Vienna Aus, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek)
1898 Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet dancers/choreographer (Gayaneh)
1900 Madeleine Renaud, French theater actress (Plaisir) (d. 1994)
1900 Sydney Arnold, English comic/actor (Miss Jones & Son)
1902 Arthur D Nock, English/US historian (St Paul)
1902 Bob (Hijman) Scholte, Dutch vocalist [or 1909]
1902 John Smallenbroek, Dutch minister of Internal Affairs [or 1909]
1903 Anaïs Nin, French diarist (d. 1977)
1903 Eric Fogg, composer
1903 Fairfax M. Cone, American advertising executive (d. 1977)
1903 Madeleine Renaud, Paris France, actress (Helene, Longest Day)
1903 Raymond Queneau (M Presle), French author (Un Enfant a Dit) (d. 1976)
1903 Thomas Yawkey, baseball owner (Boston Red Sox)
1904 Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/poet
1907 W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
1907 Wystan Hugh Auden, US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948)
1909 George G F van Renesse, Dutch pianist and music director
1909 Hans Erni, Switz, painter and sculptor
1909 Helen O Dickens (Henderson), US physician (gynaecologist)
1910 Carmine Galante, Italian-born gangster (d. 1979)
1910 Douglas R S Bader, British pilot (WW II) (d. 1982)
1910 Eddie Waring, British sports commentator (d. 1986)
1912 Arline Judge, actress (Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent)
1912 Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist (Arkadia 598-Schubert)
1912 Patrick Murphy, English multi-millionaire
1913 Glenn M Anderson, (Rep-D-CA, 1969)
1913 Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (d. 1997)
1914 Arnold S Denker, NY, US chess champion (1944-46)
1914 Hermanus P "Piet" Mulder, Dutch journalist (Parool/VARA)
1914 Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish fighter pilot (d. 1999)
1915 Ann Sheridan, American actress (Dodge City, Another World) (d. 1967)
1915 Godfrey Brown, England, 4 X 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
1917 Lucille Bremer, American actress (d. 1996)
1917 Victor G M Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65)
1921 John Rawls, American philosopher (d. 2002)
1922 Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle)
1922 Uros Krek, composer
1923 Lola Flores, entertainer
1923 Lucille Bremer, dancer/actress (Ruthless, Ziegfeld Follies)
1923 Zvi Zeitlin, Dubrovnik Yugoslavia, violinist/prof (Eastman School)
1924 Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe (1988)
1925 Al Fann, Cleve, actor (Alvin-He's the Mayor)
1925 Jack Ramsay, NBA coach
1925 Sam Peckinpah, American director (Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs) (d. 1984)
1926 Hans Andreus (Johan W van der Zant), Dutch poet (Animal Language)
1927 Erma Bombeck, American humorist (Grass is Always Greener...) (d. 1996)
1927 Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (Audrey Hepburn)
1927 Pierre Mercure, French-Canadian musician and composer (d. 1966)
1929 James Beck, English actor (d. 1973)
1929 Roberto "Chespirito" Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor
1930 Elizabeth Adams, madame
1932 Harald V, King of Norway (1991)
1933 Nina Simone (Eunice Waymon), American singer (Porgy) (d. 2003)
1934 Rue McClanahan, American actress (Maude, Golden Girls)
1935 Jean Pelletier, French Canadian political operative
1935 Mark McManus, Scottish actor (Taggart, Nightstick, 2000 Weeks, 12th Night) (d. 1994)
1936 Barbara Jordan, American politician (Rep-D-Tx, 1972-78) (d. 1996)
1937 Gary Lockwood, American actor (2001, Survival Zone, Lieutenant)
1937 King Harald V of Norway
1937 Ron Clarke, Australia, runner (held 19 world records)
1938 Beryl F Anthony Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1979)
1939 Richard Beymer, Avoca IA, actor (West Side Story, Diary of Anne Frank)
1939 Ron Nagle, rock producer (Riding with the King)
1940 John Lewis, American politician and civil rights activist (Rep-D-Georgia)
1940 Peter Gethin, British racing driver
1940 Peter McEnery, England, actor (Game is Over, Moonspinners)
1941 Charlie Shelburne, English earl/large landowner
1941 James Wong, Hong Kong composer (d. 2004)
1942 Margarethe von Trotta, German actress and film director (Marianne)
1943 David Geffen, American record producer (Geffin, Asylum)
1943 Duncan Swift, jazz pianist
1943 Roberto Faenza, director (Cop Killers, Corrupt)
1944 Herman de Coninck, Flemish writer/poet (Impossible Work)
1944 Kitty Winn, Wash DC, actress (Beacon Hill)
1945 D'Anna Fortunato, American mezzo-soprano
1945 Paul Newton, British musician
1945 Sudhir Naik, cricketer (Indian Test batsman in 2 Tests 1974)
1946 Alan Rickman, English actor (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Harry Potter)
1946 Anthony Daniels, British actor (Star Wars C-3PO)
1946 Bob Ryan, Boston sports columnist
1946 Desmond Lewis, WI cricket batsman/keeper (avg 86.33 in 3 Tests)
1946 Tricia Nixon Cox, Richard Milhaus' daughter (or 0202)
1946 Tyne Daly, American actress (Cagney & Lacey, Angel Unchained)
1946 Vito Rizzuto, Sicilian-born alleged mafia boss
1947 Johnny Echols, American musician
1947 Olympia Snowe, American politician (Rep-R-ME, 1979)
1947 Victor Sokolov, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
1948 Larry Ragland, Richmond Va, comedian (Keep on Truckin')
1949 Jerry Harrison, American musician, keyboardist (Talking Heads)
1949 Ronnie Hellström, Swedish footballer
1951 John Parker, cricketer (NZ batsman of 70s)
1951 Michael Cotten, rock synthesizer (Tubes)
1951 Vince Welnick, American musician, keyboardist (Tubes, The Grateful Dead) (d. 2006)
1952 Jean Jacques Burnel, British musician, bassist (Stranglers-Dreamtime)
1953 Christine Ebersole, American actress (SNL, Valerie, Tootsie)
1953 William L Petersen, American actor (Return to Lonesome Dove)
1954 Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete, 800/1500m dash (Olympic-silver-1976) (d. 1976)
1954 Mike Pickering, English disc jockey and musician
1955 Kelsey Grammer, American actor
1955 Sir Steven Fayburgh, British diplomat
1956 Woody Brown, Dayton Ohio, actor (Cliff-Facts of Life)
1958 Alan Trammell, baseball player, infielder (Detroit Tigers), and manager
1958 Jack Coleman, American actor (Steven Carrington-Dynasty)
1958 Jake Burns, Irish singer
1958 Jake Steinfeld, exercise expert (Body by Jake)
1958 Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer, country vocalist (This Shirt)
1959 Emmett McAuliffe, American radio show host and lawyer
1959 José María Cano, Spanish musician
1960 Laurent Petitguillaume, French radio and television host
1960 Steve Wynn, American singer
1961 Bertha Faye, American wrestler (d. 2001)
1961 Christopher Atkins, American actor (Peter-Dallas, Blue Lagoon)
1961 Davey Allison, American race car driver (d. 1993)
1961 Martha Hackett, American actress
1961 Ranking Roger, rock vocalist (English Beat-Drowning)
1961 Yobes Ondieki, Kenya, 10K runner (world record)
1962 Chuck Palahniuk, American writer
1962 David Foster Wallace, American writer (d. 2008)
1962 Vanessa Feltz, British television presenter
1963 Greg Turner, Dunedin NZ, Australasia golfer
1963 Michael Gostigian, Newtown Sq PA, pentathelete (Oly-16th-88, 92, 96)
1963 William Baldwin, American actor
1964 Alana Soares, Redondo Beach Ca, playmate (Mar, 1983)
1964 Huw Higginson, British actor
1964 Jane Tomlinson, British cancer campaigner (d. 2007)
1964 Mark E Kelly, American astronaut
1964 Scott J Kelly, American astronaut
1964 Willie Pless, CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1965 Jayson Meyer, Regina Saskatchewan, hockey defenseman (Team Germany)
1965 Keith Arthurton, cricketer (Charlestown, Nevis WI lefty bat)
1966 Bronwen Booth, London, actress (Andy-One Life to Live, Eternal Evil)
1966 Chris Donnels, US baseball infielder (Houston Astros)
1966 Edie Boyer, St Paul Minn, discus thrower
1966 Tommy Hendricks, rocker
1966 Wendy James, London England, vocalist (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1967 Bas Roorda, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen, NEC) [or Feb 13]
1967 Leroy Burrell, American runner, long jumper (Olympics-96)
1967 Patrick Lodewijks, Dutch soccer player (PSV, FC Groningen)
1968 Pellom McDaniels, NFL defensive end (KC Chiefs)
1968 Terry Allen, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings, Wash Redskins)
1969 Aunjanue Ellis, American actress
1969 Corey Harris, American musician
1969 Dean Noel, CFL full back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1969 Eric Wilson, American musician
1969 James Dean Bradfield, Welsh musician
1969 Petra Kronberger, Austrian alpine skiier (Olympic-gold-1992)
1969 Tony Meola, American footballer
1970 Fat Pat, American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (d. 1998)
1970 Javier De La Hoya, Mexican/US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1970 Marc Woodard, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 Michael Slater, Australian cricketer (devastating Aust opening bat since 1993)
1970 Patrick Pilloni, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1970 Will Moore, NFL wide receiver (NE Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 Arco Jochemsen, Dutch soccer player (SVDB, Vitesse)
1971 Jeff Schmidt, US baseball pitcher (California Angels)
1971 Jey Phillips, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Jose Solano, actor (Baywatch)
1971 Randy Blythe, American musician
1971 Terry Mickens, NFL wide reciever (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 Karl DeWolf, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1972 Seo Taiji, Korean musician
1973 Bowie Tsang, Taiwanese singer and TV host
1973 Brian Rolston, Flint, NHL left wing (Olympics-1994, NJ Devils)
1973 Heri Joensen, Faroese musician
1973 Jacob M. Appel, American bioethicist
1973 Justin Sane, American Punk Musician
1974 Alexei Lojkin, NHL forward (Belarus, Oly-98)
1974 Iván Campo, Spanish footballer
1974 Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist
1974 Rohsaan Griffin, Texas City Texas, 200m runner
1974 Wish Bone, American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1975 Scott Miller, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1975 Troy Slaten, actor (Jerry-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
1976 Robin Confer, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1976 Ryan Smyth, Canadian hockey player, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1977 Chad Hutchinson, baseball and football player
1977 Kevin Rose, American television host and Internet entrepreneur
1977 Steve Francis, American basketball player
1978 Kim Ha Neul, South Korean actress
1978 Nicole Parker, American actress
1978 Park Eun-hye, South Korean actress
1979 Carly "Carlito" Colón, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
1979 Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress (Sarah Reeves-Party of Five)
1979 Lonnie Ford, American football player
1979 Pascal Chimbonda, French footballer
1980 Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, 5th king of Bhutan
1980 Jim Vandermeer, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 Parthiva Sureshwaren, Indian racing driver
1980 Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer
1981 Jun Kaname, Japanese actor
1982 Bernhard Auinger, Austrian racing driver
1982 Chantal Claret, American musician
1983 Braylon Edwards, American football player
1983 Franklin Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player
1983 Mélanie Laurent, French actress and director
1984 Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby union player
1984 David Odonkor, German footballer
1984 Karina, Japanese model and actress
1984 Marco Paoloni, Italian footballer
1985 Bob Burton, American speedcuber
1985 Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
1985 Jamaal Westerman, Canadian football player
1985 Jarrod Atkinson, Australian rules footballer
1985 Simon Cusden, English cricketer
1986 Amedeo, Belgium, son of princess Astrid/arch duke Lorenz
1986 Charlotte Church, Welsh singer
1986 Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
1987 Ashley Greene, American model and actress
1987 Burgess Abernethy, Australian Actor
1987 Ellen Page, Canadian actress
1987 Enrique David Mateo, Brazilian footballer
1989 Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer
1989 Josh Walker, English footballer
1989 Kristin Herrera, American actress
1989 Scout Taylor-Compton, American actress
1990 Cory Kennedy, American model
Died on February 21st
556 Maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (Basilica S Stefano)
1437 King James I of Scotland (b. 1394)
1471 John of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop
1513 Julius II (Giuliano dellea Rovere), Pope (1503-13) (b. 1443)
1543 Ahmed Gragn, Sultan of Adal
1554 Hieronymus Bock, German botanist (founder of modern botany) (b. 1498)
1595 Robert Southwell, English Jesuit priest and poet, hanged
1624 Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (Sepulture)
1648 Christian IV, king of Denmark/Norway
1653 Adriaen Pauw, master of Heemstede/Dutch Grand Pensionary
1668 John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (b. 1616)
1677 Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (b. 1632)
1684 Pieter van den Abeelen, Dutch medallist/jeweller
1689 Isaacus Vossius, Dutch [Isaac Vos], librarian
1711 Joan van Hoorn, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1707-09)
1715 Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (b. 1637)
1730 Benedict XIII (Pietro F Orsini), Pope (1724-30) (b. 1649)
1788 Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1790 Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer
1803 Edward Despard, last person drawn & quartered in England
1821 Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756)
1824 Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (b. 1781)
1842 Wojciech Zywny, composer
1846 Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800)
1862 Justinus A C Kerner, German poet (b. 1786)
1864 Jeffery Forrest, US Confederate brig-general
1872 Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician
1876 Henry John Gauntlett, composer
1879 Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance
1884 John Pike Hullah, composer
1894 Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding designer/painter
1900 Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African Gunmaker (b. 1853)
1901 George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
1919 Giovanni Bolzoni, composer
1919 Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19), murdered at 46
1919 Karl von Hohenzollern, Prince of Belgium
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)
1924 Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi, composer
1925 Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer
1926 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Nobel 1913) (b. 1853)
1934 Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary (b. 1895)
1938 Albert Huybrechts, composer
1938 George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (b. 1868)
1938 George Ellery Hale, astronomer
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 (Olympic-gold 1924) (b. 1902)
1946 José Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (b. 1911)
1948 Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer
1949 Ernest Walker, composer
1949 Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (b. 1894)
1951 Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Gay Death)
1956 Edwin Franko Goldman, composer
1958 Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
1960 Jacques Becker, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1961 Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Switz, poet
1965 Malcolm X (Little), black Moslem leader, assassinated in NYC (b. 1925)
1966 Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (b. 1895)
1967 Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
1968 Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial)
1968 Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1898)
1969 Jose de Capriles, Mexican-born US Olympic fencer
1971 Adolph Weiss, composer
1972 Bronislava Nijinska, Polish-Russian ballet dancer (b. 1891)
1972 Eugène Tisserant, French Catholic Cardinal (b. 1884)
1974 Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
1976 Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes)
1976 Frieda Inescort, Scottish actress (Meet Corliss Archer)
1978 Mieczyslaw Zywczynski, Polish historian and priest (b. 1901)
1979 Glendon Gibbs, cricketer (Test Cricket WI v Australia 1955)
1979 Ray Whitley, composer
1980 Alfred Andersch, German writer (b. 1914)
1980 Chester H Lauck, actor (2 Weeks to Live, Goin' to Town)
1982 Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian (b. 1897)
1982 Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey (b. 1922)
1984 Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965) (b. 1905)
1985 Eric Herfst, Dutch cabaret performer (Floris)
1985 Ina Claire, actress/comedienne (3 Bdwy Girls)
1985 Louis Hayward, British actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors) (b. 1909)
1986 Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (b. 1895)
1986 Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese sugarcane farmer, once thought to be the world's oldest man ever but now disputed (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 Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919)
1991 Dorothy Auchterlonie, Australian academic, literary critic and poet (b. 1915)
1991 Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet)
1991 Nutan Behl, Indian actress (b. 1936)
1991 Roger Swaybill, actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point)
1992 Eva A Jessye, US singer/actress (Eva Jessye Choir)
1992 Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars)
1992 Jane Pickens Langley Hoving, singer
1992 William S Magginetti
1993 Ferrucci Lamborghini, car maker (Lamborghini)
1994 Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect
1994 Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (b. 1913)
1994 William Elgin Swinton, child Psychiatrist
1995 Robert Bolt, Brit playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty)
1996 Horace Leonard Gold, sF writer/editor, dies at 81
1996 Jean Burroughs, educationalist, dies at 67
1996 Morton Gould, American composer (b. 1913)
1996 Terence Edward Armstrong, polar geographer
1997 Kenneth Rowntree, painter
1997 Michael Hollings, catholic priest/crusader
1999 Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918)
1999 Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish fighter pilot (b. 1914)
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 Eugene Scott, American religious broadcaster (b. 1929)
2005 Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (b. 1929)
2005 Gérard Bessette, Quebec novelist and poet (b. 1920)
2008 Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)
2008 Sunny Lowry, First British woman to swim the English Channel (b. 1911)
2011 Bernard Nathanson, American abortionist turned pro-life activist (b. 1926)
2012 Barney Rosset, American publisher and free speech advocate
2012 Baron Hooson [Hugh Emlyn], British politician and peer
2012 Colin Ireland, British 'Gay Slayer' serial killer
2012 John Michuki, Kenyan politician
2012 Pierre Juneau, Canadian film and broadcast executive
2012 Eiko Ishioka, Japanese Costume designer
2015 Bruce Sinofsky, American documentary film director (Brother's Keeper)
2015 Clark Terry, American jazz trumpeter