February 21 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 21, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#174 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 21 birthdays
Anaïs Nin · French-born American author1903
W. H. Auden · British-American poet1907
John Rawls · American political philosopher1921
Robert Mugabe · 2nd President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 20171924
Sam Peckinpah · American film director1925
Nina Simone · American singer, songwriter and pianist and civil rights activist1933
Harald V · King of Norway1937
Alan Rickman · British actor and director1946
Sahle-Work Zewde · President of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia1950
Kelsey Grammer · American actor1955
Abhijit Banerjee · Indian American economist1961
Chuck Palahniuk · American novelist, essayist1962
David Foster Wallace · American fiction writer and essayist1962
Jennifer Love Hewitt · American actress and singer1979
Jordan Peele · American actor, comedian and filmmaker1979
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck · Fifth and reigning King of Bhutan1980
Ashley Greene · American actress1987
Elliot Page · Canadian actor1987
Corbin Bleu · American actor1989
Riyad Mahrez · Algerian footballer1991
On this day in history
1828The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.
1862American Civil War: The Confederate Army began an attempt to gain control of the Southwest with a major victory in the Battle of Valverde.
1972United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations.
1975Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
1866Lucy Hobbs Taylor became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.
1885The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
1925The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
1947In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
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