February 21st, 1901

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Born on February 21st, 1901 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on February 21st?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on February 21st
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (February 1901)

Born on February 21st, 1901

Weekday

Thursday

February 21st, 1901 was a Thursday.

Age

123

People born on February 21st, 1901 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 123 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

February 20th, 1901 - March 20th, 1901

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 44,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 11 days, exactly on May 6th, 2024, people who were born on February 21st, 1901 will be 45,000 days old!

44,989 Days

6,427 Weeks

1,478 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

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Hours

What happened on February 21st?

February 21st, 1973

After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two fighter aircraft, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.

February 21st, 1952

A number of student protesters demanding the establishment of Bengali as an official language were killed by police in Dhaka, East Pakistan.

February 21st, 1929

In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.

February 21st, 1919

Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.

February 21st, 1878

The first telephone directory, consisting of a single page, was issued to fifty subscribers in New Haven, Connecticut.

February 21st, 1866

Lucy Hobbs Taylor (pictured) became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.

February 21st, 1862

American Civil War: The Confederate Army began an attempt to gain control of the Southwest with a major victory in the Battle of Valverde.

February 21st, 1828

The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.

February 21st, 1746

Jacobite rising of 1745: The siege of Inverness ended with British forces surrendering to the Jacobite army.

February 21st, 1437

King James I of Scotland was murdered at Perth in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.

February 21st, 2022

In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations.

February 21st, 2013

At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.

February 21st, 1995

Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

February 21st, 1994

Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.

February 21st, 1975

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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 21st

Born on February 21st, 1901

Emilio Comici

Italian mountaineer

*February 21st, 1901, Trieste †October 19th, 1940, Sëlva

Pierre Lewden

French athlete

*February 21st, 1901, Libourne †April 30th, 1989, Montberthault

Same Day
Who's birthday is on February 21st?

Ernst Meyer

German historian of classical antiquity (1898-1975)

*February 21st, 1898, Pinneberg †November 18th, 1975, Zürich

Friedrich Karl Kaul

German screenwriter

*February 21st, 1906, Poznań †April 16th, 1981, East Berlin

Corbin Bleu

American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter

*February 21st, 1989, Brooklyn

Edwin L. Marin

American film director

*February 21st, 1899, Jersey City †May 2nd, 1951, Los Angeles

Joe Alwyn

English actor

*February 21st, 1991, Royal Tunbridge Wells

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

Sawan Serasinghe

Sri Lanka-born Australian badminton player

*February 21st, 1994, Galle

Robert Mugabe

2nd president of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017

*February 21st, 1924, Kutama †September 6th, 2019, Gleneagles Hospital

Marian Anderson

African-American contralto (1897–1993)

*February 21st, 1897, Philadelphia †April 8th, 1993, Portland

Lalinrat Chaiwan

Badminton player

*February 21st, 2001, Lampang

Sally Kessler

*February 21st, 1912, Cologne †March 27th, 1985, Cologne

Madeleine Renaud

French actress

*February 21st, 1900, Paris †September 23rd, 1994, Neuilly-sur-Seine

Alan Rickman

British actor and director (1946–2016)

*February 21st, 1946, Hammersmith †January 14th, 2016, London

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

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Hans Erni

Swiss painter and engraver (1909-2015)

*February 21st, 1909, Lucerne †March 21st, 2015, Lucerne

Raymond Queneau

French novelist and poet (1903–1976)

*February 21st, 1903, Le Havre †October 25th, 1976, 13th arrondissement of Paris

Clemence Dane

English novelist (1888-1965)

*February 21st, 1888, London Borough of Lewisham †March 28th, 1965, London

Kazushi Yamada

Badminton player

*February 21st, 1987, Ehime Prefecture

Tey Seu Bock

Malaysian badminton coach

*February 21st, 1973, Alor Gajah

Jelle Maas

Badminton player

*February 21st, 1991, Oosterhout

Same year
Born in 1901

Marlene Dietrich

German and American actress and singer

*December 27th, 1901, Rote Insel †May 6th, 1992, 8th arrondissement of Paris

Walt Disney

American animator and producer (1901–1966)

*December 5th, 1901, Chicago †December 15th, 1966, Burbank

Enrico Fermi

Italian-American physicist (1901-1954)

*September 29th, 1901, Rome †November 28th, 1954, Chicago

Rudolf Höss

German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz

*November 25th, 1901, Baden-Baden †April 16th, 1947, Auschwitz I concentration camp

Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich

German historian of classical antiquity, author and children's writer (1901-1979)

*September 15th, 1901, Munich †June 16th, 1979, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Hermann Heimpel

German medievalist and historian (1901-1988)

*September 19th, 1901, Munich †December 23rd, 1988, Göttingen

Karl Otto Stegmann

German motocycle racer

*May 28th, 1901, Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge †April 30th, 1930, Czechoslovakia

Margaret Mead

American anthropologist

*December 16th, 1901, Philadelphia †November 15th, 1978, New York City

Linus Pauling

American scientist

*February 28th, 1901, Portland †August 18th, 1994, Big Sur

Barbara Cartland

English writer and media personality (1901-2000)

*July 9th, 1901, Edgbaston †May 21st, 2000, Hatfield

Werner Heisenberg

German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner

*December 5th, 1901, Würzburg †February 1st, 1976, Munich

Louis Armstrong

American jazz trumpeter and singer (1901–1971)

*August 4th, 1901, New Orleans †July 6th, 1971, New York City

Sukarno

1st President of the Republic of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967

*June 6th, 1901, Surabaya †June 21st, 1970, Jakarta

Ed Begley

American actor (1901–1970)

*March 25th, 1901, Hartford †April 28th, 1970, Hollywood

Jaroslav Seifert

Czechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate

*September 23rd, 1901, Žižkov †January 10th, 1986, Prague

Gary Cooper

American actor (1901–1961)

*May 7th, 1901, Helena †May 13th, 1961, Beverly Hills

Nora Gregor

Austrian actress

*February 3rd, 1901, Gorizia †January 20th, 1949, Viña del Mar

Lucienne Boyer

French singer (1901-1983)

*August 18th, 1901, 6th arrondissement of Paris †December 6th, 1983, 10th arrondissement of Paris

Ernst Müller

German association football player (1901-1958)

*July 13th, 1901, Berlin †September 13th, 1958

Pierre Bost

French writer (1901-1975)

*September 5th, 1901, Lasalle †December 6th, 1975, Paris

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 21st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on February 21st.

The first day of the Birth Anniversary of Fifth Druk Gyalpo, celebrated until February 23. (Bhutan)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Bhutan

The first day of the Musikahan Festival, celebrated until February 27. (Tagum City, Philippines)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagum

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXI.II.MCMI

21.2.1901

Legend

M = 1000

CM = 900

X = 10

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1901 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
February 1901

February 1901

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5					1	2	3
6	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
7	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
8	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
9	25	26	27	28

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February 21st, 1901

Born on February 21st, 1901

Weekday

Thursday

Age

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Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 44,000 days old!

44,989 Days

6,427 Weeks

1,478 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on February 21st?

After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace, Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two fighter aircraft, killing 108 of the 113 people on board.

A number of student protesters demanding the establishment of Bengali as an official language were killed by police in Dhaka, East Pakistan.

In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.

Bavarian socialist Kurt Eisner, who had organized the German Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy and established Bavaria as a republic, was assassinated.

The first telephone directory, consisting of a single page, was issued to fifty subscribers in New Haven, Connecticut.

Lucy Hobbs Taylor (pictured) became the first woman to receive a doctorate from a dental college.

American Civil War: The Confederate Army began an attempt to gain control of the Southwest with a major victory in the Battle of Valverde.

The inaugural issue of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first newspaper in a Native American language, was published.

Jacobite rising of 1745: The siege of Inverness ended with British forces surrendering to the Jacobite army.

King James I of Scotland was murdered at Perth in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.

In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations.

At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.

Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.

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.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 21st

Born on February 21st, 1901

Italian mountaineer

French athlete

Same Day Who's birthday is on February 21st?

Same year Born in 1901

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 21st

Armed Forces Day (South Africa)

Birthday of King Harald V (Norway)

Felix of Hadrumetum

Pepin of Landen

Peter Damian

Randoald of Grandval

February 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Father Lini Day (Vanuatu)

Language Movement Day (Bangladesh)

International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)

The first day of the Birth Anniversary of Fifth Druk Gyalpo, celebrated until February 23. (Bhutan)

The first day of the Musikahan Festival, celebrated until February 27. (Tagum City, Philippines)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

21.2.1901

Legend

Leap year

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 44,000 days old!

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February 1901