Anniversaries 21 February
Birth
![Shah Waliullah Dehlawi photo]()
Indian muslim scholar
1703–1762
![Elizabeth Willing Powel photo]()
American socialite and women letter writer
1743–1830
![John Henry Newman photo]()
English cleric and cardinal
1801–1890
![Marie Bilders-van Bosse photo]()
painter from the Netherlands
1837–1900
![Jeanne Calment photo]()
French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human…
1875–1934
![The Mother photo]()
spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo
1878–1973
![Sacha Guitry photo]()
French dramatist and playwright
1885–1957
![Henri Peyre photo]()
American linguist
1901–1988
![Anaïs Nin photo]()
writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
1903–1977
![W. H. Auden photo]()
Anglo-American poet
1907–1973
![Aron Brand Auraban photo]()
Israeli physician
1910–1977
![Douglas Bader photo]()
British World War II flying ace
1910–1982
![John Rawls photo]()
American political philosopher
1921–2002
![Pierre Hadot photo]()
French historian and philosopher
1922–2010
![Robert Mugabe photo]()
former President of Zimbabwe
1924–2019
![Sam Peckinpah photo]()
American film director and screenwriter
1925–1984
![Erma Bombeck photo]()
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope…
1927–1996
![Nina Simone photo]()
American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil r…
1933–2003
![Barbara Jordan photo]()
American politician
1936–1996
![John Lewis (civil rights leader) photo]()
American politician and civil rights leader
1940
![David Geffen photo]()
American record executive, film producer, theatrical produc…
1943
![Alan Rickman photo]()
English film, television and stage actor
1946–2016
![Olympia Snowe photo]()
United States Senator from Maine
1947
![Sahle-Work Zewde photo]()
President of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
1950
![Kelsey Grammer photo]()
American actor, comedian, producer, director, writer, voice…
1955
![Ha Jin photo]()
Chinese-American novelist, short story writer and poet
1956
![David D. Levine photo]()
science fiction writer
1961
![Chuck Palahniuk photo]()
American novelist, essayist
1962
![David Foster Wallace photo]()
American fiction writer and essayist
1962–2008
![Karl Lauterbach photo]()
German politician and Federal Minister of Health
1963
![Albert Bryan photo]()
Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
1968
![James Dean Bradfield photo]()
Welsh musician, lead singer and guitarist of the Manic Stre…
1969
![Bret Weinstein photo]()
biologist, professor, public intellectual
1969
![Jacob M. Appel photo]()
American author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social …
1973
![Darrell Edward Brooks photo]()
American rapper and suspect of 2021 Waukesha parade attack
1982
![Corbin Bleu photo]()
American actor, model, dancer, producer, and singer-songwri…
1989
Death
![Pope Julius II photo]()
pope from 1503 to 1513
1443–1513
![Baruch Spinoza photo]()
Dutch philosopher
1632–1677
![Robert Hall photo]()
British Baptist pastor
1764–1831
![Helen Hooven Santmyer photo]()
American novelist
1895–1986
![Augusto Sandino photo]()
Nicaraguan revolutionary
1895–1934
![Gershom Scholem photo]()
German-born Israeli philosopher and historian
1897–1982
![Mary Lasker photo]()
American health activist and founder of Lasker Awards
1900–1994
![Gertrude B. Elion photo]()
American biochemist and pharmacologist
1918–1999
![Billy Graham photo]()
American Christian evangelist
1918–2018
![Margot Fonteyn photo]()
English ballerina
1919–1991
![Kenneth Arrow photo]()
American economist
1921–2017
![Desmond Leslie photo]()
British pilot, film maker, writer, and musician
1921–2001
![Robert Bolt photo]()
English playwright
1924–1995
![Malcolm X photo]()
American human rights activist
1925–1965
![Frank Delaney photo]()
Irish writer and journalist
1942–2017
