February 21

## Events
### Up to 1900 
* 362 &ndash; Athanasius returns to Alexandria.
* 1245 &ndash; Bishop Thomas, the first–known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
* 1431 &ndash; The trial of Joan of Arc begins.
* 1437 &ndash; King James I of Scotland is murdered.
* 1440 &ndash; The Prussian Confederation is formed.
* 1543 &ndash; Battle of Wayna Daga – Combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeat Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.
* 1613 &ndash; Mikhail I is elected unanimously as Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia .
* 1743 &ndash; The premiere in London of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Samson
* 1804 &ndash; The first self–propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren ironworks in Wales.
* 1808 &ndash; Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops enter then–Swedish territory in Eastern Finland, starting the Finnish War, which later results in Russia taking control of Finland.
* 1842 &ndash; John J. Greenough patents the sewing machine.
* 1848 &ndash; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
* 1858 &ndash; Corinth, Greece, is destroyed by an earthquake. The city is rebuilt 6 kilometers away.
* 1862 &ndash; American Civil War: The Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in the New Mexico territory.
* 1874 &ndash; The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first newspaper.
* 1875 &ndash; Jeanne Calment was born. She then went on to live for 122 years 164 days, the longest confirmed lifespan for any human being in history.
* 1878 &ndash; The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
* 1885 &ndash; The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
* 1893 &ndash; Thomas Edison receives two U.S. patents for a "Cut Out for Incandescent Electric Lamps" and for a "Stop Device".

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1902 &ndash; Harvey Cushing carries out the first brain surgery.
* 1907 &ndash; British passenger ship *Berlin* sinks in a storm in the harbor of Hoek van Holland, Netherlands, killing 128 people.
* 1913 &ndash; Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
* 1916 &ndash; World War I: In France the Battle of Verdun begins.
* 1918 &ndash; The last–surviving Carolina Parakeet dies in Cincinnati Zoo, making the species extinct.
* 1919 &ndash; German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated.
* 1921 &ndash; The Republic of Georgia's first Constitution is adopted.
* 1921 &ndash; Persian Prime Minister Fathollah Akbar Sepahdar is removed from power in a coup.
* 1925 &ndash; The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
* 1937 &ndash; Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile; League of Nations banned foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
* 1945 &ndash; World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS *Bismarck Sea* and damage the USS *Saratoga*.
* 1947 &ndash; In New York City Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
* 1948 &ndash; NASCAR is incorporated.

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1952 &ndash; Language Martyrs' Day, marking language–revolution in the then East Pakistan through Bengali Language Movement (currently, the independent state of People's Republic of Bangladesh)
* 1952 &ndash; Churchill government in the UK abolishes Identity Cards to "set the people free".
* 1953 &ndash; Francis Crick and James D. Watson discover the structure of the DNA molecule.
* 1958 &ndash; The peace symbol, commissioned by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
* 1960 &ndash; Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalizes all businesses in Cuba.
* 1960 &ndash; The first Olympic biathlon is held, during the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California. Over 20 kilometers, Sweden's Klas Lestander becomes the first Olympic champion in this event.
* 1965 &ndash; Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
* 1970 &ndash; Swissair Flight 330: A mid–air bomb explosion and subsequent crash kills 38 passengers and nine crew members near Zürich, Switzerland.
* 1971 &ndash; The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
* 1972 &ndash; President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
* 1972 &ndash; The Soviet unmanned spaceship *Luna 20* lands on the Moon.
* 1973 &ndash; Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down a Libyan Airlines jet killing 108.
* 1974 &ndash; The long–running Japanese comic strip Sazae-san publishes its final installment in the Asahi Shimbun.
* 1974 &ndash; The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal in carrying out a truce with Egypt.
* 1975 &ndash; Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
* 1976 &ndash; The first Winter Paralympics are held in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden.
* 1988 &ndash; Jimmy Swaggart, on his own televangelism program being tapped in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, confesses that he is guilty of an unspecified sin and will be temporarily leaving the pulpit.
* 1995 &ndash; Serkadji prison mutiny in Algeria; 4 guards and 96 prisoners killed in a day and a half.
* 1995 &ndash; Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
* 1995 &ndash; Jeanne Calment reaches the age of 120 years, the first person known to have reached this age.
* 2000 &ndash; David Letterman returns to The Late Show over a month after having an emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery.

### From 2001 
* 2003 &ndash; Over 100 concert goers die in a fire during a performance of the rock band Great White.
* 2004 &ndash; The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome.
* 2005 &ndash; A series of avalanches kill over 100 people in Kashmir.
* 2006 &ndash; The United Kingdom's biggest–ever cash robbery is carried out at a depot in Kent, England.
* 2007 &ndash; Then–Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi attempts to resign, but his resignation is rejected by President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano.
* 2012 &ndash; EU finance ministers reach an agreement on a 30 billion–Euro bailout for Greece.
* 2013 &ndash; A bombing in Damascus, Syria, kills at least 53 people.
* 2013 &ndash; Two bomb blasts in Hyderabad, India, kill 17 people.

## Births
### Up to 1900 
* 1397 &ndash; Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy (d. 1471)
* 1484 &ndash; Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (d. 1535)
* 1556 &ndash; Sethus Calvisius, German composer, chronicler and astronomer (d. 1615)
* 1591 &ndash; Gerard Desargues, French mathematician and architect (d. 1661)
* 1594 &ndash; John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1626)
* 1705 &ndash; Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (d. 1781)
* 1723 &ndash; Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
* 1728 &ndash; Tsar Peter III of Russia (d. 1762)
* 1779 &ndash; Friedrich Carl von Savigny, German jurist and historian (d. 1861)
* 1783 &ndash; Princess Catherine of Wuerttemberg, Queen Consort of Westphalia (d. 1835)
* 1791 &ndash; John Mercer, English dye and fabric chemist (d. 1866)
* 1791 &ndash; Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (d. 1857)
* 1794 &ndash; Antonio López de Santa Anna, President of Mexico (d. 1876)
* 1801 &ndash; John Henry Newman, English theologian and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1890)
* 1815 &ndash; Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, French painter (d. 1891)
* 1817 &ndash; José Zorilla y Moral, Spanish dramatist (d. 1893)
* 1821 &ndash; Rachel Félix, French actress (d. 1858)
* 1835 &ndash; Mikhail Mikeshin, Russian artist (d. 1896)
* 1836 &ndash; Leo Delibes, French composer (d. 1891)
* 1844 &ndash; Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (d. 1937)
* 1856 &ndash; Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (d. 1934)
* 1859 &ndash; Mikhail Rodzianko, Russian statesman (d. 1924)
* 1860 &ndash; Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952)
* 1865 &ndash; John Haden Badley, English school founder (d. 1967)
* 1867 &ndash; Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire (d. 1934)
* 1875 &ndash; Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian, officially the longest–lived human on record (d. 1997)
* 1876 &ndash; Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
* 1876 &ndash; Joseph Meister, first person to be inoculated against Rabies (d. 1940)
* 1878 &ndash; Mirra Alfassa, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1973)
* 1880 &ndash; Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952)
* 1880 &ndash; Otto Christman, Canadian soccer player (d. 1963)
* 1881 &ndash; Kenneth J. Alford, British composer (d. 1945)
* 1882 &ndash; William Jeremiah Tuttle, American freestyle swimmer and water polo player (d. 1930)
* 1885 &ndash; Sacha Guitry, French actor (d. 1957)
* 1887 &ndash; Korechika Anami, Japanese general (d. 1945)
* 1888 &ndash; Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (d. 1965)
* 1893 &ndash; Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d. 1987)
* 1895 &ndash; Henrik Dam, Danish chemist, won the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)
* 1899 &ndash; Bernard Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster (d. 1956)
* 1900 &ndash; Madeleine Renaud, French theatre actress (d. 1994)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1903 &ndash; Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977)
* 1903 &ndash; Raymond Queneau, French writer (d. 1976)
* 1907 &ndash; W. H. Auden, British poet (d. 1973)
* 1909 &ndash; Hans Erni, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 2015)
* 1910 &ndash; Douglas Bader, British fighter pilot (d. 1982)
* 1913 &ndash; Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (d. 1997)
* 1914 &ndash; Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish fighter pilot (d. 1999)
* 1914 &ndash; Park Su-geun, South Korean painter (d. 1965)
* 1915 &ndash; Godfrey Brown, British athlete (d. 1995)
* 1915 &ndash; Ann Sheridan, American actress (d. 1967)
* 1917 &ndash; Lucille Bremer, American actress (d. 1996)
* 1917 &ndash; Tadd Dameron, American pianist and composer (d. 1965)
* 1917 &ndash; Otto Kittel, German World War II flying ace (d. 1945)
* 1919 &ndash; Kehat Shorr, Israeli shooting coach (d. 1972)
* 1921 &ndash; John Rawls, American philosopher (d. 2002)
* 1921 &ndash; Zdenek Miler, Czech animator (d. 2011)
* 1921 &ndash; Antonio Maria Javierre Ortas, Spanish cardinal (d. 2007)
* 1924 &ndash; Robert Mugabe, former President of Zimbabwe (d. 2019)
* 1924 &ndash; Silvano Piovanelli, Italian cardinal (d. 2016)
* 1925 &ndash; Tom Gehrels, Dutch–American astronomer (d. 2011)
* 1925 &ndash; Jack Ramsay, American basketball coach (d. 2014)
* 1925 &ndash; Sam Peckinpah, American movie director (d. 1984)
* 1927 &ndash; Erma Bombeck, American writer and humorist (d. 1996)
* 1927 &ndash; Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (d. 2018)
* 1927 &ndash; Pierre Mercure, Canadian musician and composer (d. 1966)
* 1929 &ndash; Chespirito, Mexican actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2014)
* 1933 &ndash; Nina Simone, American singer and musician (d. 2003)
* 1934 &ndash; Rue McClanahan, American actress (d. 2010)
* 1935 &ndash; Mark McManus, Scottish actor (d. 1994)
* 1935 &ndash; Jean Pelletier, 37th Mayor of Quebec City
* 1936 &ndash; Barbara Jordan, American politician (d. 1996)
* 1937 &ndash; King Harald V of Norway
* 1937 &ndash; Ron Clarke, Australian athlete and politician (d. 2015)
* 1937 &ndash; Jilly Cooper, English novelist
* 1937 &ndash; Gary Lockwood, American actor
* 1938 &ndash; Bobby Charles, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
* 1938 &ndash; Lester Bird, Antiguan politician, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
* 1940 &ndash; John Lewis, American politician and civil rights activist (d. 2020)
* 1942 &ndash; Margarethe von Trotta, German movie director
* 1942 &ndash; Magnus Linklater, Scottish newspaper editor
* 1943 &ndash; David Geffen, American record producer
* 1944 &ndash; Kitty Winn, American actress
* 1945 &ndash; Paul Newton, British musician (Uriah Heep)
* 1945 &ndash; Walter Momper, German politician, former Mayor of Berlin
* 1946 &ndash; Tyne Daly, American actress
* 1946 &ndash; Anthony Daniels, British actor
* 1946 &ndash; Alan Rickman, British actor (d. 2016)
* 1947 &ndash; Victor Sokolov, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
* 1947 &ndash; Olympia Snowe, American politician, former United States Senator for Maine
* 1947 &ndash; Marcel Paquet, Belgian philosopher (d. 2014)
* 1948 &ndash; Bill Slayback, American baseball player (d. 2015)
* 1949 &ndash; Larry Drake, American actor (d. 2016)
* 1949 &ndash; Ronnie Hellström, Swedish footballer
* 1949 &ndash; Jerry Harrison, American musician
* 1950 &ndash; Hakan Nesser, Swedish writer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Vince Welnick, American musician
* 1952 &ndash; Jean-Jacques Burnel, British musician
* 1952 &ndash; Vitaly Churkin, Russian diplomat (d. 2017)
* 1952 &ndash; Igor Levitin, Russian political figure
* 1953 &ndash; William Petersen, American actor
* 1953 &ndash; Christine Ebersole, American singer
* 1954 &ndash; Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete (d. 1976)
* 1954 &ndash; Rudolf Simek, Austrian philologist
* 1955 &ndash; Kelsey Grammer, American actor
* 1956 &ndash; Ha Jin, Chinese–American writer
* 1957 &ndash; Nikolay Rastorguyev, Russian singer
* 1958 &ndash; Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1958 &ndash; Jack Coleman, American actor
* 1958 &ndash; Alan Trammell, American baseball player and manager
* 1960 &ndash; Steve Wynn, American singer-songwriter
* 1960 &ndash; Plamen Oresharski, 52nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria
* 1961 &ndash; Christopher Atkins, American actor
* 1962 &ndash; Vanessa Feltz, British television presenter
* 1962 &ndash; Chuck Palahniuk, American writer
* 1962 &ndash; David Foster Wallace, American writer (d. 2008)
* 1963 &ndash; William Baldwin, American actor
* 1964 &ndash; Huw Higginson, British actor
* 1964 &ndash; Mark Kelly, American astronaut
* 1964 &ndash; Scott Kelly, American astronaut
* 1964 &ndash; Jane Tomlinson, British cancer campaigner (d. 2007)
* 1965 &ndash; Steve Lee, Sound effects wrangler and film historian
* 1967 &ndash; Leroy Burrell, American athlete
* 1969 &ndash; James Dean Bradfield, Welsh musician (Manic Street Preachers)
* 1969 &ndash; Tony Meola, American footballer
* 1969 &ndash; Chen Wei, Chinese dissident
* 1970 &ndash; Michael Slater, Australian cricketer
* 1973 &ndash; Heri Joensen, Faroese musician
* 1973 &ndash; Brian Rolston, American ice hockey player
* 1974 &ndash; Ivan Campo, Spanish footballer
* 1974 &ndash; Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Michael McIntyre, British comedian
* 1977 &ndash; Steve Francis, American basketball player
* 1979 &ndash; Pascal Chimbonda, French footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Shane Gibson, American guitarist (d. 2014)
* 1979 &ndash; Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress
* 1979 &ndash; Jordan Peele, American actor, director and screenwriter
* 1980 &ndash; Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, King of Bhutan
* 1980 &ndash; Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
* 1981 &ndash; Jun Kaname, Japanese actor
* 1982 &ndash; Andre Barrett, American basketball player
* 1983 &ndash; Lusine Gevorkyan, Russian–Armenian singer
* 1984 &ndash; Andreas Seppi, Italian tennis player
* 1984 &ndash; David Odonkor, German footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
* 1986 &ndash; Charlotte Church, Welsh singer and TV presenter
* 1987 &ndash; Ellen Page, Canadian actress
* 1987 &ndash; Ashley Greene, American model and actress
* 1987 &ndash; Carlos Carmona, Chilean footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Eniola Aluko, English footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Tuppence Middleton, English actress
* 1988 &ndash; Matthias de Zordo, Spanish footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Josh Walker, English footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Corbin Bleu, American actor
* 1989 &ndash; Kristin Herrera, American actress
* 1989 &ndash; Scout Taylor-Compton, American actress
* 1990 &ndash; Mattias Tedenby, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1990 &ndash; David Addy, Ghanaian footballer
* 1991 &ndash; Riyad Mahrez, Algerian footballer
* 1992 &ndash; Phil Jones, British footballer
* 1996 &ndash; Sophie Turner, English actress
* 2001 &ndash; Isabella Acres, American actress

## Deaths
### Up to 1900 
* 4 &ndash; Gaius Caesar, heir to Augustus Caesar
* 1437 &ndash; King James I of Scotland (b. 1394)
* 1513 &ndash; Pope Julius II (b. 1443)
* 1543 &ndash; Ahmed Gragn, Sultan of Adal
* 1554 &ndash; Hieronymus Bock, German botanist (b. 1498)
* 1572 &ndash; Cho Shik, Korean poet and scholar (b. 1501)
* 1677 &ndash; Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (b. 1632)
* 1715 &ndash; Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the province of Maryland (b. 1637)
* 1730 &ndash; Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
* 1788 &ndash; Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)
* 1821 &ndash; Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756)
* 1824 &ndash; Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon Bonaparte's wife, Josephine (b. 1781)
* 1846 &ndash; Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800)
* 1861 &ndash; Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish missionary (b. 1800)
* 1862 &ndash; Justinus Kerner, German poet (b. 1786)
* 1894 &ndash; Gustave Caillebotte, French painter (b. 1848)
* 1900 &ndash; Charles Piazzi Smyth, Scottish astronomer (b. 1819)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1901 &ndash; George Francis Fitzgerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
* 1919 &ndash; Kurt Eisner, Bavarian socialist (b. 1867)
* 1926 &ndash; Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (b. 1853)
* 1934 &ndash; Augusto Nicolas Calderon Sandino, Nicaraguan revolutionary (b. 1895)
* 1938 &ndash; George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (b. 1868)
* 1941 &ndash; Frederick Banting, Canadian doctor, won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1891)
* 1944 &ndash; Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian–born French race car driver (b. 1873)
* 1945 &ndash; Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (b. 1902)
* 1958 &ndash; Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
* 1965 &ndash; Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
* 1967 &ndash; Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
* 1968 &ndash; Howard Walter Florey, Australian pharmacologist (b. 1898)
* 1972 &ndash; Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914)
* 1972 &ndash; Bronislava Nijinska, Polish–Russian ballet dancer (b. 1891)
* 1974 &ndash; Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
* 1980 &ndash; Mario Lanzi, Italian athlete (b. 1914)
* 1982 &ndash; Gershom Scholem, German–born Israeli Jewish philosopher (b. 1897)
* 1984 &ndash; Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian novelist (b. 1905)
* 1986 &ndash; Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese centenarian, previously thought to have been the oldest man ever (b. probably in 1890)
* 1987 &ndash; Jack Catain Jr., American businessman and convicted criminal (b. 1930)
* 1987 &ndash; Noel Odell, British mountaineer (b. 1890)
* 1989 &ndash; Alex Thepot, French footballer (b. 1906)
* 1991 &ndash; Dame Margot Fonteyn, British ballet dancer (b. 1919)
* 1994 &ndash; Johannes Steinhoff, German pilot and commander (b. 1913)
* 1995 &ndash; Calder Willingham, writer (b. 1922)
* 1996 &ndash; Morton Gould, American composer (b. 1913)
* 1997 &ndash; Josef Posipal, German footballer (b. 1927)
* 1999 &ndash; Walter Lini, 1st Prime Minister of Vanuatu (b. 1939)
* 1999 &ndash; Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish fighter pilot (b. 1914)
* 1999 &ndash; Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist (b. 1918)

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; John Thaw, British actor (b. 1942)
* 2003 &ndash; Eddie Thomson, Scottish footballer (b. 1947)
* 2004 &ndash; John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931)
* 2005 &ndash; Ara Berberian, American opera singer (b. 1930)
* 2008 &ndash; Sunny Lowry, first British woman to swim across the English Channel (b. 1911)
* 2008 &ndash; Sufi Abu Taleb, Egyptian politician (b. 1925)
* 2008 &ndash; Emmanuel Sanon, Haitian footballer (b. 1951)
* 2013 &ndash; Bruce Millan, British politician (b. 1927)
* 2013 &ndash; Bob Godfrey, British animator (b. 1921)
* 2014 &ndash; Sakis Boulas, Greek singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1954)
* 2014 &ndash; Georgette Rejewski, Dutch actress (b. 1910)
* 2014 &ndash; Francesco Di Giacomo, Italian singer (b. 1947)
* 2014 &ndash; Stanley Brotman, American federal judge (b. 1924)
* 2014 &ndash; Matthew Robinson, Australian Paralympic snowboarder (b. 1985)
* 2015 &ndash; Clark Terry, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1920)
* 2015 &ndash; Sadeq Tabatabaei, Iranian politician (b. 1943)
* 2016 &ndash; Eric Brown, Scottish test pilot (b. 1919)
* 2017 &ndash; Kenneth Arrow, American economist (b. 1921)
* 2017 &ndash; Douglas Coe, American religious leader (b. 1928)
* 2017 &ndash; Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (b. 1926)
* 2017 &ndash; Cosmo Haskard, Irish–born British Governor of the Falkland Islands (b. 1916)
* 2017 &ndash; Bengt Gustavsson, Swedish footballer (b. 1928)
* 2017 &ndash; Jeanne Martin Cissé, Guinean teacher and politician (b. 1926)
* 2017 &ndash; Brunella Bovo, Italian actress (b. 1932)
* 2017 &ndash; Ion Croitoru, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963)
* 2017 &ndash; Edwin Kessler, American atmospheric scientist (b. 1928)
* 2018 &ndash; Billy Graham, American evangelist (b. 1918)
* 2018 &ndash; Emma Chambers, English actress (b. 1964)
* 2019 &ndash; Peter Tork, American keyboardist (The Monkees) (b. 1942)
## Observances
* International Mother Language Day
* Language Movement Day (Bangladesh)
* Biikebrennen in Northern Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) and Southern Jutland (Denmark)