| 19981 | February 21 | Birth | 1887 – Korechika Anami, Japanese general and politician, 54th Japanese Minister of War (d. 1945) |
| 19982 | February 21 | Birth | 1888 – Clemence Dane, English author and playwright (d. 1965) |
| 19983 | February 21 | Birth | 1892 – Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 1949) |
| 19984 | February 21 | Birth | 1893 – Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress (d. 1979) |
| 19985 | February 21 | Birth | 1893 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (d. 1987) |
| 19986 | February 21 | Birth | 1894 – Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian chemist and academic (d. 1955) |
| 19987 | February 21 | Birth | 1895 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976) |
| 19988 | February 21 | Birth | 1896 – Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (d. 1961) |
| 19989 | February 21 | Birth | 1899 – Sigrid Holmquist, Swedish actress (d. 1970) |
| 19990 | February 21 | Birth | 1900 – Madeleine Renaud, French actress (d. 1994) |
| 19991 | February 21 | Birth | 1903 – Scrapper Blackwell, American singer and guitarist (d. 1962) |
| 19992 | February 21 | Birth | 1903 – Anaïs Nin, French-American author (d. 1977) |
| 19993 | February 21 | Birth | 1903 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and author (d. 1976) |
| 19994 | February 21 | Birth | 1907 – W. H. Auden, English-American poet, playwright, and composer (d. 1973) |
| 19995 | February 21 | Birth | 1909 – Hans Erni, Swiss painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 2015) |
| 19996 | February 21 | Birth | 1910 – Douglas Bader, English captain and pilot (d. 1982) |
| 19997 | February 21 | Birth | 1910 – Carmine Galante, American gangster (d. 1979) |
| 19998 | February 21 | Birth | 1912 – Arline Judge, American actress and singer (d. 1974) |
| 19999 | February 21 | Birth | 1913 – Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (d. 1997) |
| 20000 | February 21 | Birth | 1914 – Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (d. 1999) |
| 20001 | February 21 | Birth | 1914 – Zachary Scott, American actor (d. 1965) |
| 20002 | February 21 | Birth | 1915 – Ann Sheridan, American actress and singer (d. 1967) |
| 20003 | February 21 | Birth | 1917 – Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (d. 1996) |
| 20004 | February 21 | Birth | 1919 – Kehat Shorr, Israeli target shooter and coach (d. 1972) |
| 20005 | February 21 | Birth | 1921 – John Rawls, American philosopher and academic (d. 2002) |
| 20006 | February 21 | Birth | 1921 – Peter Whalley, Canadian cartoonist and sculptor (d. 2007) |
| 20007 | February 21 | Birth | 1924 – Thelma Estrin, American computer scientist and engineer (d. 2014) |
| 20008 | February 21 | Birth | 1924 – Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe |
| 20009 | February 21 | Birth | 1925 – Sam Peckinpah, American director and screenwriter (d. 1984) |
| 20010 | February 21 | Birth | 1925 – Jack Ramsay, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2014) |