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Deaths on February 21

1513 : Julius II, [Giuliano dellea Rovere], Pope (1503-13), dies at 69
1554 : Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies
1595 : Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged
1624 : Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about 28
1648 : Christian IV, king of Denmark/Norway, dies
1653 : Adriaen Pauw, master of Heemstede/Dutch Grand Pensionary, dies at 71
1677 : [Benedictus] Baruch Spinoza, philosopher, dies at 44
1684 : Pieter van den Abeelen, Dutch medallist/jeweller, dies at about 75
1689 : Isaacus Vossius, Dutch [Isaac Vos], librarian, dies
1711 : Joan van Hoorn, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1707-09), dies at 57
1730 : Benedict XIII, [Pietro F Orsini], Pope (1724-30), dies at 81
1790 : Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer, dies at 64
1803 : Edward Despard, last person drawn & quartered in England
1842 : Wojciech Zywny, composer, dies at 85
1852 : Nikolai Gogol, Russian playwright (Dead Soles), dies
1862 : Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75
1864 : Jeffery Forrest, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1872 : Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82
1876 : Henry John Gauntlett, composer, dies at 70
1879 : Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69
1884 : John Pike Hullah, composer, dies at 71
1894 : Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding designer/painter, dies at 45
1919 : Giovanni Bolzoni, composer, dies at 77
1919 : Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19), murdered at 46
1919 : Karl von Hohenzollern, Prince of Belgium, dies
1919 : Kurt Eisner, premier Bayern (soc), murdered at 51
1924 : Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi, composer, dies at 78
1925 : Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer, dies at 52
1926 : Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72
1938 : Albert Huybrechts, composer, dies at 39
1938 : George Ellery Hale, astronomer, dies
1945 : Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (Olympic-gold 1924), dies at 43
1948 : Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer, dies at 80
1949 : Ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78
1951 : Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Gay Death), dies at 63
1956 : Edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78
1961 : Blaise Cendrars, [Fr‚d‚ric Sauser-Hall], Switz, poet, dies at 73
1965 : Malcolm X, [Little], black Moslem leader, assassinated in NYC at 39
1968 : Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65
1969 : Jos‚ de Capriles, Mexican-born US Olympic fencer, dies
1971 : Adolph Weiss, composer, dies at 79
1976 : Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies at 32
1976 : Frieda Inescort, Scottish actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74
1979 : Glendon Gibbs, cricketer (Test Cricket WI v Australia 1955), dies
1979 : Ray Whitley, composer, dies
1980 : Chester H Lauck, actor (2 Weeks to Live, Goin' to Town), dies at 78
1984 : Michail A Sholochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies
1985 : Eric Herfst, Dutch cabaret performer (Floris), dies at 47
1985 : Ina Claire, actress/comedienne (3 Bdwy Girls), dies of stroke at 89
1985 : Louis Hayward, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), dies of lung cancer at 75
1991 : Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71
1991 : Roger Swaybill, actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point), dies at 47
1992 : Eva A Jessye, US singer/actress (Eva Jessye Choir), dies at 97
1992 : Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars), dies
1992 : Jane Pickens Langley Hoving, singer, dies at 83
1992 : Kate A ter Horst-Arri‰ns, Dutch nurse (Battle of Arnhem), dies at 85
1992 : Roberto D'Aubuisson, El Salvadorian founder (ARENA), dies
1992 : William S Magginetti, dies at 98
1993 : Ferrucci Lamborghini, car maker (Lamborghini), dies at 76
1994 : Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect, dies at 68
1994 : William Elgin Swinton, child Psychiatrist, dies at 54
1995 : Robert Bolt, Brit playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70
1996 : Horace Leonard Gold, sF writer/editor, dies at 81
1996 : Jean Burroughs, educationalist, dies at 67
1996 : Morton Gould, composer, dies at 82
1996 : Terence Edward Armstrong, polar geographer, dies at 75
1997 : Kenneth Rowntree, painter, dies at 81
1997 : Michael Hollings, catholic priest/crusader, dies at 75

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