(-) 216th Pope Julius II originally Giuliano Della Rovere aka The Fearsome Pope, dies at the age of 60 in Rome, Italy.
336 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 February 1677
(-) Philosopher Baruch de Spinoza dies at the age of 44 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
165 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 February 1848
(x) Economist Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto in London, United Kingdom.
137 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 February 1876
(+) Artist Constantin Brancusi is born in Pestiani, Goj, Romania.
110 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 February 1903
(+) Erotic writer Anaïs Nin originally Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, is born in Neuilly, France.
106 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 21 February 1907
(x) 142 Die in SS Berlin shipwreck in Hoek van Holland, the Netherlands.
103 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 February 1910
(+) Supreme Maffia-boss Carmine Galante aka Lillo the Cigar, is born in New York, New York, USA.
88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 February 1925
(+) Filmmaker Sam Peckinpah aka The Picasso of Violence, is born in Fresno, California, USA.
88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 February 1925
(x) Inauguration of a monument in memory of the victims of Serial Killer Fritz Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, in Hannover, Stocken-cemetary Abteilung 49D/189-192, Germany.
88 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 21 February 1925
(+) Cop Killer Ronald Joseph Ryan is born in Carlton, Victoria, Australia.
83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 21 February 1930
(-) Murderess Eva Dugan is executed by hanging at the age of 52 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
She was the only woman ever executed in Arizona. In a gruesome footnote during the execution, her body separated from her head, which rolled at the feet of the spectators.
80 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 February 1933
(+) Singer, songwriter and civil rights activist Nina Simone aka The High Priestess of Soul, is born in Tyron, North Carolina, USA.
69 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 February 1944
(+) Poet Herman De Coninck is born in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium.
48 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 21 February 1965
(-) Revolutionary leader Malcolm X originally Malcolm Little aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, is shot in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun by Thomas Hagan at the age of 39 in Manhattan, Audubon Ballroom, New York, USA.
41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 21 February 1972
(x) Eight members of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Rote Armee Fraktion, rob the Hypo-Bank of 285.000 marks in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
40 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 21 February 1973
(x) 108 Die in Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 Boeing 727-224 crash in the Sinaï Desert.
The plane was shot down by Israeli Jet-fighters.
18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 21 February 1995
(-) Murderer Samual Hawkins is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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