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February 21, 2005 Gene Scott, American Clergyman February 21, 2004 Bart Howard, American Composer February 21, 2003 Tom Glazer, American Musician February 21, 2002 John Thaw, actor, Inspector Morse, dies at 60 February 21, 2000 Clifton Daniel, American Editor February 21, 1997 Kenneth Rowntree, painter, dies at 81 February 21, 1997 Michael Hollings, catholic priest/crusader, dies at 75 February 21, 1996 Horace Leonard Gold, science fiction writer/editor, dies at 81 February 21, 1996 Jean Burroughs, educationalist, dies at 67 February 21, 1996 Morton Gould, composer, dies at 82 February 21, 1996 Terence Edward Armstrong, polar geographer, dies at 75 February 21, 1995 Robert Bolt, British playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70 February 21, 1994 Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect, dies at 68 February 21, 1994 William Elgin Swinton, child Psychiatrist, dies at 54 February 21, 1993 Ferrucci Lamborghini, car maker (Lamborghini), dies at 76 February 21, 1992 Eva A Jessye, U.S. singer and actress (Eva Jessye Choir), dies at 97 February 21, 1992 Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies February 21, 1992 Jane Pickens Langley Hoving, singer, dies at 83 February 21, 1992 Kate A ter Horst-Arriens, Dutch nurse (Battle of Arnhem), dies at 85 February 21, 1992 Roberto D'Aubuisson, El Salvadorian founder (ARENA), dies February 21, 1992 William S Magginetti, dies at 98 February 21, 1991 Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71 February 21, 1991 Roger Swaybill, actor and writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point), dies at 47 February 21, 1985 Eric Herfst, Dutch cabaret performer (Floris), dies at 47 February 21, 1985 Ina Claire, actress/comedienne (3 Bdwy Girls), dies of stroke at 89 February 21, 1985 Louis Hayward, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), dies of lung cancer at 75 February 21, 1984 Michail A Sholochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies February 21, 1980 Chester H Lauck, actor (2 Weeks to Live, Goin' to Town), dies at 78 February 21, 1979 Ray Whitley, composer, dies February 21, 1976 Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies at 32 February 21, 1976 Frieda Inescort, Scottish actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74 February 21, 1971 Adolph Weiss, composer, dies at 79 February 21, 1969 Jose de Capriles, Mexican-born U.S. Olympic fencer, dies February 21, 1968 Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65 February 21, 1965 Malcolm X, [Little], black Moslem leader, assassinated in New York City at 39 February 21, 1965 Malcom X, American Clergyman February 21, 1961 Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Switz, poet, dies at 73 February 21, 1956 Edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78 February 21, 1951 Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Gay Death), dies at 63 February 21, 1949 Ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78 February 21, 1948 Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer, dies at 80 February 21, 1945 Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (Olympic-gold 1924), dies at 43 February 21, 1938 Albert Huybrechts, composer, dies at 39 February 21, 1938 George Ellery Hale, astronomer, dies February 21, 1926 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72 February 21, 1925 Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer, dies at 52 February 21, 1924 Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi, composer, dies at 78 February 21, 1919 Giovanni Bolzoni, composer, dies at 77 February 21, 1919 Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19), murdered at 46 February 21, 1919 Karl von Hohenzollern, Prince of Belgium, dies February 21, 1919 Kurt Eisner, premier Bayern (soc), murdered at 51 February 21, 1901 Henry Peach Robinson, British Photographer February 21, 1894 Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding designer/painter, dies at 45 February 21, 1884 John Pike Hullah, composer, dies at 71 February 21, 1879 Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69 February 21, 1876 Henry John Gauntlett, composer, dies at 70 February 21, 1872 Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82 February 21, 1864 Jeffery Forrest, U.S. Confederate brig-general, dies in battle February 21, 1862 Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75 February 21, 1852 Nikolai Gogol, Russian playwright (Dead Soles), dies February 21, 1842 Wojciech Zywny, composer, dies at 85 February 21, 1803 Edward Despard, last person drawn and quartered in England February 21, 1790 Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer, dies at 64 February 21, 1730 Benedict XIII, [Pietro F Orsini], Pope (1724-30), dies at 81 February 21, 1711 Joan van Hoorn, Governor-General of Neth-Indies (1707-09), dies at 57 February 21, 1689 Isaacus Vossius, Dutch [Isaac Vos], librarian, dies February 21, 1684 Pieter van den Abeelen, Dutch medallist/jeweller, dies at about 75 February 21, 1677 [Benedictus] Baruch Spinoza, philosopher, dies at 44 February 21, 1677 Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher February 21, 1653 Adriaen Pauw, master of Heemstede/Dutch Grand Pensionary, dies at 71 February 21, 1648 Christian IV, king of Denmark/Norway, dies February 21, 1624 Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about 28 February 21, 1595 Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged February 21, 1554 Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies February 21, 1513 Julius II, [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Pope (1503-13), dies at 69 February 21, 556 Maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (Basilica S Stefano), dies |