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February 21st
206 Notable deaths
Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern
German prince.
Born September 1st, 1868 in Sigmaringen.
Died February 21st, 1919 at 50 years old in Namedy.
Tilla Durieux
Austrian actress and art collector who fled nazis (1880-1971).
Born August 18th, 1880 in Vienna. [ref]
Died February 21st, 1971 at 90 years old in Berlin (sepsis). [ref]
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
Russian mathematician.
Born March 30th, 1929 in Moscow. [ref]
Died February 21st, 2009 at 79 years old in Tel Aviv. [ref]
Mirko Marjanović
Serbian politician (1937-2006).
Died February 21st, 2006 at 68 years old in Belgrade.
María Luisa Alcalá
Mexican actress.
Born March 26th, 1943 in Mexico City.
Died February 21st, 2016 at 72 years old in Mexico City (myocardial infarction).
Zlatko Saračević
Croatian handball player.
Born July 5th, 1961 in Banja Luka.
Died February 21st, 2021 at 59 years old in Krapina (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Hilde Zadek
German operatic soprano (1917–2019).
Born December 15th, 1917 in Bydgoszcz.
Died February 21st, 2019 at 101 years old in Karlsruhe.
George Modelski
Political scientist.
Born January 9th, 1926 in Poznań.
Died February 21st, 2014 at 88 years old in Washington, D.C.. [ref]
Alfred Andersch
Prosaist, short story writer, publisher, and radio editor (1914-1980).
Born February 4th, 1914 in Munich.
Died February 21st, 1980 at 66 years old in Berzona (kidney failure).
Hasse Jeppson
Swedish footballer (1925-2013).
Born May 10th, 1925 in Kungsbacka.
Died February 21st, 2013 at 87 years old in Rome.
Deaths 91 to 100 of 206
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away. Terry Pratchett