Actors Who Died on February 21
- 1951 Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Potasch & Perlemoer, Boefje), dies at 63
- 1979 Ray Whitley, American country and western singer-songwriter ("Back in the Saddle Again") and actor (Tim Holt films), dies at 77
- 1980 Chester Lauck, American actor (Dreaming Out Loud, 2 Weeks to Live), dies at 78
- 1985 Eric Herfst, Dutch cabaret performer (Lurelei) and actor (Floris), dies of a brain tumor at 47
- 1985 Ina Claire [Fagan], American stage and screen actress (Ninotchika), dies of a heart attack at 91
- 1985 Louis Hayward, British-American actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors), dies of lung cancer at 75
- 1991 Nutan Bahl, Indian actress (Seema, Bandini), dies of breast cancer at 54
- 1991 Roger Swaybill, American actor and writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point), dies at 47
- 1992 Eva Jessye, American singer and choral director (Eva Jessye Choir - "Four Saints in Three Acts";"Porgy and Bess"), dies at 97
- 1993 Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist and founding editor of Mad magazine, dies at 68
- 2002 Harold Pruett, American actor (Sybil, Embrace of the Vampire), dies of a drug overdose at 32
- 2002 John Thaw, British stage and screen actor (Inspector Morse), dies of cancer at 60
- 2005 Eugene Scott, American religious broadcaster (b. 1929)
- 2008 Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2012 Pierre Juneau, Canadian film and broadcast executive, dies at 89
- 2015 Bruce Sinofsky, American documentary film director (Brother's Keeper), dies at 58 from diabetes complications
- 2018 Emma Chambers, British actress (The Vicar of Dibley, Notting Hill), dies from natural causes at 53
- 2019 Antonia Rey [Francesch], Cuban-born American actress (True Colors, Wise Guys), dies at 92
- 2019 Peter Tork [Thorkelson], American rock and folk musician and actor (The Monkees), dies from complications of adenoid cystic carcinoma at 77
- 2019 Stanley Donen, American film director and producer (Singin' in the Rain, Bedazzled, Damn Yankees), dies at 94
- 2023 Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress (Ich suche Dich, Rosemary), and beauty queen (Miss Austria, 1949), dies at 93
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