Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 21

Births

• 1794 - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican president (d. 1876) (pictured)
• 1907 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
• 1924 - Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe (d. 2019)
• 1927 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (d. 1996)
• 1946 - Alan Rickman, English actor (d. 2016)
• 1986 - Charlotte Church, Welsh singer

Deaths

• 1437 - King James I of Scotland (b. 1394)
• 1677 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (b. 1632)
• 1965 - Malcolm X, American black activist (b. 1925)
• 2018 - Billy Graham, American evangelist (b. 1918)