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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== *[[4 AD]] – [[Gaius Caesar]], Roman [[Roman consul|consul]] and grandson of [[Augustus]] (b. 20 BC) * [[675]] – [[Randoald of Grandval]], [[priory#Other prior and priories|prior]] of the [[Benedictine]] [[monastery]] of [[Grandval, Switzerland|Grandval]] *[[1184]] – [[Minamoto no Yoshinaka]], Japanese [[List of shōguns|shōgun]] (b. 1154) *[[1211]] – [[Aymon de Briançon]], archbishop of Tarentaise and crusader<ref>{{cite book |first=Joseph |last=Garin |title=Histoire féodale des seigneurs de Briançon, Savoie (996–1530) |publisher=Librairie M. Papet |year=1942 |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9799152v/f7.item |pages=72–78}}</ref> *[[1267]] – [[Baldwin of Ibelin, Seneschal of Cyprus]] *[[1437]] – [[James I of Scotland]] (b. 1394; assassinated)<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas WATERHOUSE (of Grantham.)|title=A genealogical account of the royal house of Stuart, Kings of Scotland, from the year 1043, to its union with the English Crown, ... also from that time to the commencement of the ... house of Brunswick; and down to the present period|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZqVVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA44|year=1816|pages=44|access-date=2021-02-21|archive-date=2020-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801123449/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZqVVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA44|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1471]] – [[Jan Rokycana]], Czech bishop and theologian (b. 1396) *[[1513]] – [[Pope Julius II]] (b. 1443) *[[1543]] – [[Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi]], Somalian general (b. 1507) *[[1554]] – [[Hieronymus Bock]], German botanist and physician (b. 1498) *[[1572]] – [[Cho Shik]], Korean poet and scholar (b. 1501) *[[1590]] – [[Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick]], English nobleman and general (b. 1528) *[[1595]] – [[Robert Southwell (Jesuit)|Robert Southwell]], English priest and poet (b. 1561) ===1601–1900=== *[[1677]] – [[Baruch Spinoza]], Dutch philosopher and scholar (b. 1632) *[[1715]] – [[Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore]], English politician (b. 1637) *[[1730]] – [[Pope Benedict XIII]] (b. 1649) *[[1821]] – [[Georg Friedrich von Martens]], German jurist and diplomat (b. 1756) *[[1824]] – [[Eugène de Beauharnais]], French general (b. 1781) *[[1829]] – [[Kittur Chennamma]], Indian queen and freedom fighter (b. 1778)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/printrelease.aspx?relid=148944|title=Rani Chennamma of Kitturu|website=pib.nic.in|access-date=2019-02-21|archive-date=2017-04-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418163405/http://pib.nic.in/newsite/printrelease.aspx?relid=148944|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1846]] – [[Emperor Ninkō]] of Japan (b. 1800) *[[1862]] – [[Justinus Kerner]], German poet and physician (b. 1786) *[[1888]] – [[William Weston (Australian politician)|William Weston]], English-Australian politician, 3rd [[Premier of Tasmania]] (b. 1804) *[[1891]] – [[James Timberlake]], American lieutenant and police officer (b. 1846) ===1901–present=== *[[1918]] – [[Incas (parakeet)|Incas]], [[endling|last known]] [[Carolina parakeet]] (h. {{floruit|1885}})<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://johnjames.audubon.org/last-carolina-parakeet|title=The last Carolina Parakeet|date=2015-12-22|work=John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove|access-date=2023-06-26|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The last Carolina parakeet ever, lost in memory and now just lost |last=Sullivan |first=Mallorie |work=[[The Cincinnati Enquirer]] |date=February 22, 2018 |access-date=June 26, 2023 |url= https://eu.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/02/22/last-carolina-parakeet-ever-lost-memory-and-now-just-lost/359375002/ }}</ref> *[[1919]] – [[Kurt Eisner]], German journalist and politician, [[Minister-President of Bavaria]] (b. 1867) *[[1926]] – [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]], Dutch physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1853) *[[1934]] – [[Augusto César Sandino]], Nicaraguan rebel leader (b. 1895) *[[1938]] – [[George Ellery Hale]], American astronomer and academic (b. 1868) *[[1941]] – [[Frederick Banting]], Canadian physician and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1891)<ref>{{cite book |last=Stevens |first=James |date=July 6, 2006 |title=The Maw: Searching for the Hudson Bombers |publisher= Trafford |pages=41–43 |isbn=978-1412063845}}</ref> *[[1944]] – [[Ferenc Szisz]], Hungarian-French racing driver (b. 1873) *[[1945]] – [[Eric Liddell]], Scottish rugby player and runner (b. 1902) *[[1946]] – [[José Streel]], Belgian journalist (b. 1911) *[[1947]] – [[Fannie Charles Dillon]], American composer (b. 1881)<ref>{{cite book|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1996|page=143|isbn=978-0-33351-598-3}}</ref> *[[1958]] – [[Duncan Edwards]], English footballer (b. 1936) *[[1965]] – [[Malcolm X]], American minister and activist (b. 1925)<ref>{{cite book |last=Marable |first=Manning |author-link=Manning Marable |title=Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention |location=New York |publisher=Viking |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-670-02220-5 |title-link=Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention|pages=[https://archive.org/details/malcolmxlifeofre0000mara/page/436 436]–437}}</ref> *[[1967]] – [[Charles Beaumont]], American author and screenwriter (b. 1929) *[[1968]] – [[Howard Florey]], Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1898)<ref>{{cite book | author=Fenner, Frank | chapter=Florey, Howard Walter (Baron Florey) (1898–1968) | chapter-url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140202b.htm | title=Australian Dictionary of Biography | volume=14 | pages=188–190 | year=1996 | access-date=10 October 2008 | publisher=Melbourne University Press | archive-date=27 July 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080727170749/http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140202b.htm | url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1972]] – [[Zhang Guohua (politician, born 1914)|Zhang Guohua]], Chinese general and politician (b. 1914) * 1972 – [[Bronislava Nijinska]], Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891) * 1972 – [[Eugène Tisserant]], French cardinal (b. 1884) *[[1974]] – [[Tim Horton]], Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, co-founded [[Tim Hortons]] (b. 1930) *[[1980]] – [[Alfred Andersch]], German-Swiss author (b. 1914) *[[1982]] – [[Gershom Scholem]], German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897) *[[1984]] – [[Mikhail Sholokhov]], Russian novelist and short story writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1905) *[[1985]] – [[Louis Hayward]], South African-American actor (b. 1909) *[[1986]] – [[Helen Hooven Santmyer]], American novelist (b. 1895) *[[1991]] – [[Dorothy Auchterlonie Green]], Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915) * 1991 – [[Nutan]], Indian actress (b. 1936)<ref>{{cite news|title=Nutan dead|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19910222&printsec=frontpage|page=1|access-date=3 June 2017|work=The Indian Express|date=22 February 1991|archive-date=11 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011170042/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19910222&printsec=frontpage|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1993]] – [[Inge Lehmann]], Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888) *[[1994]] – [[Johannes Steinhoff]], German general and pilot (b. 1913) *[[1995]] – [[Robert Bolt]], English dramatist (b. 1924)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-10-22|title=OBITUARY : Robert Bolt|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-robert-bolt-1574410.html|access-date=2021-01-12|website=The Independent|language=en|archive-date=2021-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117203540/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-robert-bolt-1574410.html|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1996]] – [[Morton Gould]], American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913) *[[1999]] – [[Gertrude B. Elion]], American biochemist and pharmacologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1918) * 1999 – [[Ilmari Juutilainen]], Finnish soldier and pilot (b. 1914) * 1999 – [[Wilmer Mizell]], American baseball player and politician (b. 1930) *[[2002]] – [[John Thaw]], English actor and producer (b. 1942) *[[2004]] – [[John Charles]], Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1931) *[[2005]] – [[Guillermo Cabrera Infante]], Cuban author, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1929) * 2005 – [[Zdzisław Beksiński]], Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor (b. 1929) *[[2008]] – [[Ben Chapman (actor)|Ben Chapman]], American actor (b. 1928) *[[2011]] – [[Dwayne McDuffie]], American author and screenwriter, co-founded [[Milestone Media]] (b. 1962) * 2011 – [[Bernard Nathanson]], American physician and activist (b. 1926) *[[2012]] – [[H. M. Darmstandler]], American general (b. 1922) *[[2013]] – [[Hasse Jeppson]], Swedish footballer (b. 1925) *[[2014]] – [[Héctor Maestri]], Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1935) * 2014 – [[Matthew Robinson (snowboarder)|Matthew Robinson]], Australian snowboarder (b. 1985) * 2014 – [[Cornelius Schnauber]], German–American historian, playwright, and academic (b. 1939) *[[2015]] – [[Aleksei Gubarev]], Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1931) * 2015 – [[Sadeq Tabatabaei]], Iranian journalist and politician (b. 1943)<ref>[http://www.khabaronline.ir/%28X%281%29S%28enevwlaebei4um0plfivpywm%29%29/detail/401292/Politics/parties صادق طباطبایی درگذشت] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150307204420/http://www.khabaronline.ir/(X(1)S(enevwlaebei4um0plfivpywm))/detail/401292/Politics/parties |date=2015-03-07 }} {{in lang|fa}}</ref> * 2015 – [[Clark Terry]], American trumpet player, composer, and educator (b. 1920) *[[2016]] – [[Eric Brown (pilot)|Eric Brown]], Scottish-English captain and pilot (b. 1919) *[[2017]] – [[Jeanne Martin Cissé]], Guinean teacher and politician (b. 1926)<ref>{{cite news|last1=Freland|first1=François-Xavier|title=La Guinée endeuillée par la disparition de Jeanne Martin Cissé, figure de l'indépendance et des droits des femmes|url=http://www.jeuneafrique.com/405868/politique/guinee-endeuillee-disparition-de-jeanne-martin-cisse-figure-de-lindependance-droits-femmes/|work=Jeune Afrique|date=February 22, 2017|access-date=19 February 2019|archive-date=20 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220181448/https://www.jeuneafrique.com/405868/politique/guinee-endeuillee-disparition-de-jeanne-martin-cisse-figure-de-lindependance-droits-femmes/|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2018]] – [[Billy Graham]], American evangelist (b. 1918)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/the-rev-billy-graham-prominent-christian-evangelist-dead-at-99/|title=The Rev. Billy Graham, prominent Christian evangelist, dead at 99|date=February 21, 2018|publisher=Fox News|access-date=March 2, 2018|archive-date=March 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180301062147/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/21/rev-billy-graham-prominent-christian-evangelist-dead-at-99-fox-news-confirms.html|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2019]] – [[Stanley Donen]], American film director (b. 1924)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/23/stanley-donen-director-singin-in-the-rain-dies|title=Stanley Donen, director of Singin' in the Rain, dies aged 94|first=Martin|last=Pengelly|newspaper=The Observer |date=February 23, 2019|via=www.theguardian.com|access-date=February 21, 2021|archive-date=February 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223195206/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/23/stanley-donen-director-singin-in-the-rain-dies|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2019 – [[Peter Tork]], American musician and actor (b. 1942)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/obituaries/peter-tork-dead.html|title=Peter Tork, Court Jester of the Monkees, Is Dead at 77|first=Anita|last=Gates|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 21, 2019|access-date=February 21, 2021|archive-date=February 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190221220510/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/obituaries/peter-tork-dead.html|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2021]] – [[Mireya Arboleda]], Colombian classical pianist (b. 1928)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tiempo|first=Casa Editorial El|date=2021-02-24|title=Obituario: Mireya Arboleda de Cruz|url=https://www.eltiempo.com/vida/mujeres/obituario-mireya-arboleda-de-cruz-569178|access-date=2021-03-17|website=El Tiempo|language=spanish|archive-date=2021-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723223151/https://www.eltiempo.com/vida/mujeres/obituario-mireya-arboleda-de-cruz-569178|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2021 – [[Kevin Dann]], Australian rugby league player (b. 1958)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/02/21/panthers-mourn-loss-of-kevin-dann/|title=Panthers mourn loss of Kevin Dann|date=February 21, 2021|website=National Rugby League|access-date=February 22, 2021|archive-date=February 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221131900/https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/02/21/panthers-mourn-loss-of-kevin-dann/|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[2024]] – [[John Bahnsen]], United States Army brigadier general and decorated veteran of the Vietnam War (b. 1934)<ref>{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Fred |date=February 22, 2024 |title=John C. 'Doc' Bahnsen, 89, among most decorated U.S. combat veterans |url=https://www.morningjournalnews.com/news/local-news/2024/02/john-c-doc-bahnsen-89-among-most-decorated-u-s-combat-veterans/ |work=Morning Journal |location=Lisbon, OH}}</ref> *[[2025]] – [[Clint Hill (Secret Service)|Clint Hill]], American Secret Service agent (b. 1932)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Goldstein |first1=Richard |title=Clint Hill, Who Sprang to Kennedys' Side as Shots Were Fired, Dies at 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/us/clint-hill-dead.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=25 February 2025}}</ref> *2025 – [[Lynne Marie Stewart]], American actress (b. 1946)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ruberg |first=Sara |date=February 23, 2025 |title=Lynne Marie Stewart, Miss Yvonne on 'Pee-wee's Playhouse,' Dies at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/arts/television/lynne-marie-stewart-dead.html |access-date=March 1, 2025 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.-->
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