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February 21
(Redirected from 21 February)
February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 313 days remaining, 314 in leap years.
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300-1899
1900-1949
1950-1999
2000-2099
Births
1600-1899
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1688 - Reigning Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
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1728 - Peter III, Tsar of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
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1791 - John Mercer , chemist and industrialist (d. 1866)
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1844 - Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer (d. 1937)
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1867 - Otto Hermann Kahn, millionaire and benefactor (d. 1934)
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1880 - Waldemar Bonsels, writer (d. 1952)
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1885 - Sacha Guitry, dramatist, writer, director, actor (d. 1957)
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1893 - Celia Lovsky , actress (d. 1979)
- 1893 - Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d. 1987)
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1895 - Henrik Carl Peter Dam Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)
1900-1949
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1903 - Anaïs Nin, writer (d. 1977)
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1907 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
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1925 - Sam Peckinpah, director (d. 1984)
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1924 - Robert Mugabe First Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
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1927 - Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist (d. 1996)
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1927 - Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer
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1933 - Nina Simone, singer (d. 2003)
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1934 - Rue McClanahan, actress
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1936 - Barbara Jordan, American politician from Texas (d. 1996)
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1937 - King Harald V of Norway
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1937 - Gary Lockwood, actor
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1942 - Margarethe von Trotta, actor, film director, writer
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1943 - David Geffen, producer
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1946 - Tyne Daly, actress
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1946 - Alan Rickman, actor
1950-1999
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1953 - William Petersen, actor
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1955 - Kelsey Grammer, actor
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1958 - Mary Chapin Carpenter, singer
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1961 - Davey Allison, automobile racer (d. 1993)
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1961 - Chuck Palahniuk, writer
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1962 - David Foster Wallace, American author
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1963 - William Baldwin, actor
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1972 - Seo Taiji, Korean pop musician
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1974 - Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist
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1975 - Affirmed, race horse (d. 2001)
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1979 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress, singer
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1986 - Charlotte Church, singer
Deaths
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1513 - Pope Julius II (b. 1443)
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1824 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (b. 1781)
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1938 - George Ellery Hale, astronomer
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1945 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner
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1965 - Malcolm X, Black Muslim Movement activist (b. 1925)
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1967 - Charles Beaumont, writer (b. 1929)
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1991 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer
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1994 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician
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1995 - Calder Willingham , writer
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2002 - John Thaw, actor (b. 1942)
Holidays and observances
February 20 - February 22 - January 21 - March 21 -- listing of all days
Last updated: 02-08-2005 09:29:58
Last updated: 05-03-2005 17:50:55
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