| 20191 | February 21 | Death | 1982 – Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897) |
| 20192 | February 21 | Death | 1982 – Murray the K, American radio host (b. 1922) |
| 20193 | February 21 | Death | 1984 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) |
| 20194 | February 21 | Death | 1985 – Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909) |
| 20195 | February 21 | Death | 1986 – Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese centenarian (b. 1865) |
| 20196 | February 21 | Death | 1986 – Helen Hooven Santmyer, American author, poet, and academic (b. 1895) |
| 20197 | February 21 | Death | 1987 – Noel Odell, English geologist and mountaineer (b. 1890) |
| 20198 | February 21 | Death | 1991 – Nutan, Indian actress and singer (b. 1936) |
| 20199 | February 21 | Death | 1991 – Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915) |
| 20200 | February 21 | Death | 1993 – Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist (b. 1888) |
| 20201 | February 21 | Death | 1994 – Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913) |
| 20202 | February 21 | Death | 1996 – Morton Gould, American pianist and composer (b. 1913) |
| 20203 | February 21 | Death | 1999 – Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) |
| 20204 | February 21 | Death | 1999 – Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (b. 1914) |
| 20205 | February 21 | Death | 1999 – Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player and politician (b. 1930) |
| 20206 | February 21 | Death | 2000 – Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball player and coach (b. 1933) |
| 20207 | February 21 | Death | 2002 – John Thaw, English actor and producer (b. 1942) |
| 20208 | February 21 | Death | 2004 – John Charles, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1931) |
| 20209 | February 21 | Death | 2005 – Ara Berberian, American actor and singer (b. 1930) |
| 20210 | February 21 | Death | 2005 – Gérard Bessette, Canadian author and poet (b. 1920) |
| 20211 | February 21 | Death | 2005 – Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban author, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1929) |
| 20212 | February 21 | Death | 2005 – Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor (b. 1929) |
| 20213 | February 21 | Death | 2008 – Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928) |
| 20214 | February 21 | Death | 2008 – Neil Chotem, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1920) |
| 20215 | February 21 | Death | 2011 – Abdulredha Buhmaid, Bahraini protester (b. 1982) |
| 20216 | February 21 | Death | 2011 – Dwayne McDuffie, American author and screenwriter, co-founded Milestone Media (b. 1962) |
| 20217 | February 21 | Death | 2011 – Bernard Nathanson, American physician and activist (b. 1926) |
| 20218 | February 21 | Death | 2012 – H. M. Darmstandler, American general (b. 1922) |
| 20219 | February 21 | Death | 2012 – Colin Ireland, English serial killer (b. 1954) |
| 20220 | February 21 | Death | 2012 – Gladys O'Connor, English-Canadian actress (b. 1903) |