context: Until the end of his life he lived in his house in Vyoshenskaya (nowadays a museum). He transferred the Stalin Prize to the Defense Fund, and transferred the Lenin Prize for the novel “Virgin Soil Upturned” to the Karginsky Village Council of the Bazkovsky District of the Rostov Region for the construction of a new school, and the Nobel Prize for the construction of a school in Vyoshenskaya. He was fond of hunting and fishing. Since the 1960s, he has actually moved away from literature. The writer died of laryngeal cancer on February 21, 1984. Mikhail Sholokhov was buried in the village on the banks of the Don, but not in the cemetery, but in the courtyard of the house in which he lived.
question: When did Mikhail Sholokhov die?
answers.text: February 21, 1984