Saturday, February 20, 2016

February 21 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Deaths


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1484Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg  (d. 11 Jul 1535)
      Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, 1499–1535
1556 – Sethus Calvisius  (d. 1615)
      German astronomer, composer, and theorist
1621 – Rebecca Nurse  (d. 1692)
      English-American victim of the Salem witch trials
1635:  Thomas Flatman  (d. 8 Dec 1688)
      English poet and miniature painter
1705 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (d. 1781)
1721 – John McKinly  (d. 1796)
      Irish-American physician and politician
      1st Governor of Delaware
1723 – Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian and author (d. 1808)
1728Peter III of Russia (d. 17 Jul 1762)
      Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias (1762)
1738 – Franz Ludwig von Cancrin  (d. 1812)
      German minerologist employed by Catherine the Great
1755:  Anne Macvicar Grant  (d. 7 Nov 1838)
      Scottish American poet and author
1783Catharina of Württemberg (d. 29 Nov 1835)
      Queen consort of Westphalia, 1807-1813
1791 – Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1857)
1794Antonio López de Santa Anna  (d. 21 Jun 1876)
      Mexican general and politician, 8th President of Mexico
1801Bl. John Henry Newman, English cardinal (d. 11 Aug 1890)
1817 – José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (d. 1893)
1821 – Charles Scribner I  (d. 26 Aug 1871)
      American publisher, founded Charles Scribner's Sons
1836 – Léo Delibes, French pianist and composer (d. 1891)
1837 – Phillip Blashki, Polish businessman and JP (d. 1916)
1844 – Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (d. 1937)
1860 – Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist and author (d. 1927)
1860 – Goscombe John, Welsh-English sculptor (d. 1952)
1865 – John Haden Badley  (d. 1967)
      English author and educator, founded the Bedales School
1867 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German banker and philanthropist (d. 1934)
1875 – Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian (d. 1997)
1876 – Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
1878 – Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (d. 1973)
1880 – Waldemar Bonsels, German author (d. 1952)
1885 – Sacha Guitry  (d. 1957)
      Russian-French actor, director, and playwright
1887 – Korechika Anami  (d. 1945)
      Japanese general and politician, 54th Japanese Minister of War
1888 – Clemence Dane, English author and playwright (d. 1965)
1892 – Harry Stack Sullivan  (d. 1949)
      American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
1893 – Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress (d. 1979)
1893 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d. 1987)
1894 – Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar  (d. 1955)
      Indian chemist and academic
1895 – Henrik Dam  (d. 1976)
      Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1896 – Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (d. 1961)
1899 – Sigrid Holmquist, Swedish actress (d. 1970)
1900 – Madeleine Renaud, French actress (d. 1994)
1902 – Arthur Nock  (d. 1963)
      English classicist, theologian, and Harvard University professor
1903 – Francis Hillman "Scrapper" Blackwell  (d. 7 Oct 1962)
      American singer and guitarist
1903:  Fairfax M. Cone  (d. 20 Jun 1977)
      American businessman and advertising executive
1903 – Anaïs Nin, French-American author (d. 14 Jan 1977)
1903 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and author (d. 1976)
1903:  Thomas Austin "Tom" Yawkey  (d. 9 Jul 1976)
      American industrialist and baseball executive
      Owner of the Boston Red Sox, 1933-1976
1907 – W. H. Auden  (d. 29 Sep 1973)
      English-American poet, playwright, and composer
1909 – Hans Erni, Swiss painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 2015)
1910 – Douglas Bader, English captain and pilot (d. 1982)
1910 – Carmine Galante, American gangster (d. 1979)
1912 – Arline Judge, American actress (d. 1974)
1913 – Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (d. 1997)
1914 – Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (d. 1999)
1914 – Zachary Scott, American actor (d. 3 Oct 1965)
1915 – Ann Sheridan, American actress (d. 21 Jan 1967)
1917 – Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (d. 1996)
1921 – John Rawls  (d. 24 Nov 2002)
      American philosopher and academic
1921 – Peter Whalley, Canadian cartoonist and sculptor (d. 2007)
1924 – Thelma Estrin  (d. 2014)
      American computer scientist and engineer
1924 – Robert Mugabe
       Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe
1925 – Sam Peckinpah, American director and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1925 – John Travilla "Dr. Jack" Ramsay  (d. 28 Apr 2014)
     American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1927 – Erma Bombeck  (d. 22 Apr 1996)
      American journalist and author
1927 – Hubert de Givenchy
      French fashion designer, founded Givenchy
1929 – Roberto Gómez Bolaños (bka Chespirito)
      Mexican actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1930 – Pedro R. Dean, Filipino archbishop
1933 – Nina Simone, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2003)
1934 – Rue McClanahan, American actress and singer (d. 3 Jun 2010)
1935 – Richard A. Lupoff, American author
1936 – Barbara Jordan, American lawyer and politician (d. 1996)
1937 – Harald V of Norway
      King of Norway, 1991-present
1937 – Ron Clarke, Australian runner and politician (d. 2015)
1937 – Jilly Cooper, English journalist and author
1937 – Gary Lockwood, American actor
1938 – Bobby Charles, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1940 – Peter Gethin, English race car driver (d. 2011)
1940 – Wong Jim  (d. 2004)
      Hong Kong actor, screenwriter, and composer
1940 – John Lewis, American politician
1940:  Peter McEnery, English actor
1942 – Tony Martin  (d. 2013)
      Trinidadian-American historian and educator
1942 – Margarethe von Trotta, German actress and director
1943 – David Geffen
      American film and record producer
      co-founded DreamWorks and Geffen Records
1945 – Paul Newton, English bass player (Uriah Heep)
1946 – Tyne Daly, American actress and singer
1946 – Anthony Daniels, English actor and producer
1946 – Alan Rickman  (d. 2016)
     , English actor, director, and screenwriter
1946 – Vito Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian mob boss (d. 2013)
1946 – Bob Ryan, American journalist and author
1947 – Johnny Echols
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Love)
1947 – Olympia Snowe, American politician
1947 – Victor Sokolov, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
1948 – Bill Slayback, American baseball player and singer (d. 2015)
1949 – Frank Brunner, American illustrator
1949 – Jerry Harrison
      American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
      (Talking Heads and The Modern Lovers)
1951 – Dos Caras, Mexican wrestler and actor
1951:  William McDonough, American architect
1951 – Vince Welnick  (d. 2006)
      American keyboard player
      (Grateful Dead, The Tubes, and Missing Man Formation)
1952 – Jean-Jacques Burnel
      English bass player, songwriter, and producer (The Stranglers)
1952 – Jeff Shaara, American author
1953 – Christine Ebersole, American actress and singer
1953 – William Petersen, American actor and producer
1954 – Victor Martinez, Mexican-American author and poet (d. 2011)
1954 – Mike Pickering
      English DJ and saxophonist (Quando Quango and M People)
1955 – Kelsey Grammer
      American actor, singer, director, and producer
1958 – Jake Burns
      Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Stiff Little Fingers)
1958 – Mary Chapin Carpenter
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1958:  Jack Coleman, American actor
1958:  John Shimkus
      U.S. Representative, R. IL, 1997-present
1958 – Alan Trammell, American baseball player and manager
1959 – José María Cano
      Spanish singer-songwriter and painter (Mecano)
1960 – Issac Julien, British installation artist and filmmaker
1960 – Plamen Oresharski
      Bulgarian economist and politician
      52nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1960 – Laurent Petitguillaume, French radio and television host
1960 – Steve Wynn
      American singer-songwriter
      (The Dream Syndicate and The Baseball Project)
1961:  Christopher Atkins, American actor
1961:  Martha Hackett, American actress
1962 – Vanessa Feltz, English journalist and actress
1962:  Randy Lerner
      American entrepreneur and sports team owner
      majority owner of the Cleveland Browns, 2002-2012
1962:  Chuck Palahniuk, American journalist and author
1962 – David Foster Wallace, American author and academic (d. 2008)
1963 – William Baldwin, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1964 – Mark Kelly, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
1964 – Scott Kelly, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
1964 – Jane Tomlinson, English runner and activist (d. 2007)
1967 – Leroy Burrell, American runner and coach
1969 – James Dean Bradfield
      Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (Manic Street Preachers)
1969 – Aunjanue Ellis, American actress
1969 – Tony Meola, American soccer player
1969 – Cathy Richardson
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (Jefferson Starship and Big Brother and the Holding Company)
1970 – Michael Slater, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
1970 – Eric Wilson
      American bass player
      (Sublime, Sublime with Rome and Long Beach Dub Allstars)
1971 – Randy Blythe, American singer-songwriter (Lamb of God)
1972 – Seo Taiji, South Korean singer-songwriter (Sinawe)
1973:  Justin Cathal Geever  (bka Justin Sane)
     American guitarist and singer/songwriter (Anti-Flag)
1973 – Heri Joensen, Faroese singer-songwriter and guitarist (Týr)
1973 – Brian Rolston, American ice hockey player
1973 – Bowie Tsang, Taiwanese singer and actress
1974 – Iván Campo, Spanish footballer
1974 – Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist
1975 – Wish Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-n-Harmony)
1976 – Tomasz Kiełbowicz, Polish footballer
1976 – Ryan Smyth, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Jonathan Safran Foer, American author and academic
1977 – Steve Francis, American basketball player
1977 – Owen King, American author
1977 – Kevin Rose
      American businessman and television host, founded Digg
1978 – Park Eun-hye, South Korean actress
1978 – Kim Ha-neul, South Korean actress
1978:  Kumail Nanjiani
      Pakistani-American stand-up comedian, actor and podcast host
1978 – Nicole Parker, American actress and comedian
1979 – Pascal Chimbonda, Guadeloupean-French footballer
1979 – Carly Colón, Puerto Rican and Canadian wrestler
1979 – Shane Gibson  (d. 2014)
      American guitarist (stOrk and Jonathan Davis and the SFA)
1979 – Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and producer
1979:  Bryan Lee O'Malley, Canadian cartoonist
1979 – Jordan Peele, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1980 – Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
1980 – Yannick Lupien, Canadian swimmer
1980:  Brendan Sexton III, American actor
1980 – Kayoko Shibata, Japanese actress, singer, and model
1980 – Jim Vandermeer, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Bhutanese king
1981 – Jun Kaname, Japanese actor
1982 – Andre Barrett, American basketball player
1982 – Chantal Claret
      American singer-songwriter and actress (Morningwood)
1982 – Tebogo Jacko Magubane, South African DJ and producer
1983 – Braylon Edwards, American football player
1983 – Franklin Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player
1983 – Mélanie Laurent
      French actress, singer, director, and screenwriter
1984 – Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby player
1984 – David Odonkor, German footballer
1984 – Marco Paoloni, Italian footballer
1984 – James Wisniewski, American ice hockey player
1985 – Crimson, American wrestler and actor
1985 – Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
1985 – Jamaal Westerman, American football player
1986Prince Amedeo of Belgium
      Archduke of Austria-Este, Prince Imperial of Austria,
            Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia
1986 – Charlotte Church, Welsh singer-songwriter and actress
1987 – Eniola Aluko, Nigerian-English footballer
1987 – Ashley Greene, American model and actress
1987:  Tuppence Middleton, English actress
1987 – Ellen Page, Canadian actress
1988 – Mario Falcone, English television personality
1989 – Kristin Herrera, American actress
1989 – Jem Karacan, English-Turkish footballer
1989 – Corbin Bleu Reivers (bka Corbin Bleu)
      American actor, model, dancer, producer, and singer-songwriter
1989 – Josh Walker, English footballer
1990 – David Addy, Ghanaian footballer
1990 – Thabiso Baholo, Lesotho swimmer
1990 – Mattias Tedenby, Swedish ice hockey player
1991 – Gregory Mertens, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
1991 – Ji So-yun, South Korean footballer
1991 – Devon Travis, American baseball player
1993 – Masaki Suda, Japanese actor
1994 – Tang Haochen, Chinese tennis player
1994 – Charalampos Mavrias, Greek footballer
1994:  Hayley Orrantia, American actress, singer, and songwriter
1996 – Sophie Turner, English actress
2000 – Yuto Miyazawa, Japanese guitarist
2001 – Isabella Acres, American actress
2002 – Marcus & Martinus, Norwegian twin singers


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1437 – James I of Scotland (b. 1394)
1471 – Jan Rokycana, Czech bishop and theologian (b. 1396)
1513 – Pope Julius II (b. 1443)
1543 – Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Somalian general (b. 1507)
1554 – Hieronymus Bock, German botanist and physician (b. 1498)
1595 – Robert Southwell, English priest and poet (b. 1561)
1668 – John Thurloe, English secretary and spy (b. 1616)
1677 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar (b. 1632)
1715 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician (b. 1637)
1730 – Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
1788 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer and academic (b. 1723)
1821 – Georg Friedrich von Martens, German jurist and diplomat (b. 1756)
1824 – Eugène de Beauharnais, French general (b. 1781)
1846 – Emperor Ninkō of Japan (b. 1800)
1862 – Justinus Kerner, German poet and physician (b. 1786)
1891 – James Timberlake, American lieutenant and police officer (b. 1846)
1900 – Marthinus Nikolaas Ras  (b. 1853)
      South African farmer, soldier, and gun maker
1919 – Kurt Eisner  (b. 1867)
      German journalist and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria
1926 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes  (b. 1853)
      Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1934 – Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader (b. 1895)
1938 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and academic (b. 1868)
1941 – Frederick Banting  (b. 1891)
      Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 – Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-French race car driver (b. 1873)
1945 – Eric Liddell, Chinese-Scottish rugby player and runner (b. 1902)
1946 – José Streel, Belgian journalist (b. 1911)
1949 – Tan Malaka, Indonesian educator and activist (b. 1894)
1956 – Ray Smith, English cricketer (b. 1914)
1958 – Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
1960 – Jacques Becker, French director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1965 – Malcolm X, American minister and activist (b. 1925)
1966 – Paul Comtois  (b. 1895)
      Canadian politician, 21st Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
1967 – Charles Beaumont, American author (b. 1929)
1968 – Howard Florey  (b. 1898)
      Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1972 – Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914)
1972 – Bronislava Nijinska, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
1972 – Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (b. 1884)
1974 – Tim Horton  (b. 1930)
      Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, co-founded Tim Hortons
1977 – Gerald Barry, British Army officer and cricketer (b. 1896)
1977 – Nolan Strong, American singer (Nolan Strong & the Diablos) (b. 1934)
1980 – Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (b. 1914)
1982 – Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897)
1984 – Mikhail Sholokhov  (b. 1905)
      Russian author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1985 – Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)
1986 – Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese centenarian (b. 1865)
1986 – Helen Hooven Santmyer, American author, poet, and academic (b. 1895)
1987 – Noel Odell, English geologist and mountaineer (b. 1890)
1991 – Nutan, Indian actress and singer (b. 1936)
1991 – Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)
1993 – Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist (b. 1888)
1994 – Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
1996 – Morton Gould, American pianist and composer (b. 1913)
1999 – Gertrude B. Elion  (b. 1918)
      American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1999 – Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (b. 1914)
1999 – Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player and politician (b. 1930)
2000 – Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball player and coach (b. 1933)
2002 – John Thaw, English actor and producer (b. 1942)
2004 – John Charles, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1931)
2005 – Gérard Bessette, Canadian author and poet (b. 1920)
2005 – Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban author, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1929)
2005 – Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor (b. 1929)
2008 – Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)
2008 – Neil Chotem, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1920)
2011 – Abdulredha Buhmaid, Bahraini protester (b. 1982)
2011 – Dwayne McDuffie  (b. 1962)
      American author and screenwriter, co-founded Milestone Media
2011 – Bernard Nathanson, American physician and activist (b. 1926)
2012 – H. M. Darmstandler, American general (b. 1922)
2012 – Barney Rosset, American publisher (b. 1922)
2013 – Hasse Jeppson, Swedish footballer (b. 1925)
2013 – Masahiro Kanagawa, Japanese murderer (b. 1983)
2013 – Kaoru Kobayashi, Japanese criminal (b. 1968)
2013 – Magic Slim, American singer and guitarist (b. 1937)
2014 – Héctor Maestri, Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1935)
2014 – Cornelius Schnauber  (b. 1939)
      German–American historian, playwright, and academic
2014 – John Strawson, English general (b. 1921)
2015 – Aleksei Gubarev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1931)
2015 – Robert O. Marshall, American businessman (b. 1939)
2015 – Sadeq Tabatabaei, Iranian journalist and politician (b. 1943)
2015 – Clark Terry, American trumpet player, composer, and educator (b. 1920)


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