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McClanahan, Rue (Eddi-Rue) b. February 21, 1934 d. June 3, 2010
Actress. Best known as the co-star of the popular TV sitcom The Golden Girls. Born Eddi-Rue McClanahan, she grew up in Ardmore, Oklahoma, graduated from the University of Tulsa, and began a career as an actress in 1957. In 1969 she made her Broadway debut as Sally Weber in the original production of the musical Jimmy Shine, starring Dustin Hoffman. McClanahan's most noteworthy roles were on television from the 1970s to the 1990s, beginning with stints on the daytime dramas Another World and...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Cause of death: Stroke
Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend
Bombeck (Fiste), Erma b. February 21, 1927 d. April 22, 1996
Newspaper Columnist. For three decades she chronicled life's absurdities in a syndicated column carried by hundreds of newspapers. She was born Erma Louise Fiste in Dayton, Ohio to a father who was a city crane operator. At age fifteen, she was hired by the Dayton Herald as a copygirl. Shirley Temple came to Dayton premiering her latest movie. Erma interviewed her and the story was published on the feature page. That day marked the beginning of her writing career. She enrolled at the...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Cause of death: Transplanted kidney failure
Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
Plot: Large rock (shipped in from her home in Arizona)
Nurse, Rebecca b. February 21, 1622 d. July 19, 1692
Convicted of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. In most cases, the bodies of those hanged or pressed were cast off into a shallow ditch, not deserving of a Christian burial due to the charge of witchcraft. However, the family of Rebecca Nurse, according to legend, got to her body, removed it from the ditch in Salem and buried it in secret on the family farm in Salem Village (now Danvers, MA). Where, exactly, is lost to history. Several years after her execution, it was agreed...[Read More]
Nurse Homestead Cemetery, Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Nurse, Rebecca [cenotaph] b. February 21, 1622 d. July 16, 1692
Convicted of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. In most cases, the bodies of those hanged or pressed were cast off into a shallow ditch, not deserving of a Christian burial due to the charge of witchcraft. However, the family of Rebecca Nurse, according to legend, got to her body, removed it from the ditch in Salem and buried it in secret on the family farm in Salem Village (now Danvers, MA). Where, exactly, is lost to history. Several years after her execution, it was agreed...[Read More]
Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Zorrilla, José b. February 21, 1817 d. January 23, 1893
Author. He was born in Valladolid, Castilla-León, Spain. A leader of the Spanish Romantic movement, he wrote some 25 plays, mostly between the years 1840 and 1845. Zorrilla is best remembered for his play "Don Juan Tenorio" (1844). It has become Spanish tradition to stage this drama every year on All Saints Day. He died of a brain tumor. (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Cementerio del Carmen, Valladolid, Castilla y Leon, Spain
Plot: Panteón de Vallisoletanos Ilustres
Segovia, Andrés b. February 21, 1893 d. June 2, 1987
Classical Musician. One of the most important classical guitarists in the 20th Century, he adapted many classical pieces to the guitar.
Casa Museo de Linares, Andalucia, Andalucia, Spain
Sheridan, Ann (Clara Lou) b. February 21, 1915 d. January 21, 1967
Actress. The youngest of five children, the daughter of a Texas auto mechanic and a housewife, Ann Sheridan came to Hollywood as the 18-year-old winner of Paramount’s 1933 “Search for Beauty” contest, and made her film debut in a 1934 film of the same name. She was a college student at North Texas State Teacher’s College, when her sister thought she was beautiful enough to send in a picture of Ann in a bathing suit to Paramount Pictures. Billed under her real name, she played small parts in...[Read More] (Bio by: Craig Johnson)
Cause of death: Cancer
Hollywood Forever, Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Chapel Columbarium, 2nd floor, east wall
Peter III b. February 21, 1728 d. July 17, 1762
Tsar of Russia. According to the old Julian calendar Russia was still using at the time, he was born on February 10, 1728; the date on the modern Gregorian calendar was February 21. He was the son of Duke Karl Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorp and Peter the Great's daughter Anna, and was originally given the name Karl Peter Ulrich. He became the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp when his father died in 1739. Until age fourteen, he lived and received his schooling at the court of Holstein. In November of...[Read More] (Bio by: Carrie-Anne)
St. Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russian Federation
Simone, Nina b. February 21, 1933 d. April 21, 2003
Jazz Singer/Vocalist. Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, in Tryon, North Carolina, being raised in a family of 8 children. At a young age she wanted to be a pianist so she began taking lessons, later being accepted to the Juilliard School of Music in New York. She supported her self by generating her wages while teaching piano lessons to others. Later she received a job at a nightclub in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but on one condition-that she sang as well as play the piano, and she agreed...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Cremated, Ashes scattered, Ashes scattered in several African countries
Ramsay, George Douglas b. February 21, 1802 d. May 23, 1882
Civil War Union Brevetted Major General. Born in Dumfries, Virginia, he graduated from the US Military Academy in 1820, was commissioned an officer of artillery, served in the Mexican War and was brevetted a Major for gallantry there. At the start of the Civil War, he was a member of the ordnance board when made Lieutenant Colonel in August, 1861 and was in charge of Washington arsenal until 1863. In September 1863, he was promoted Brigadier General chief of ordnance, US Army Washington D.C...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Lot 270 East
Ghirardelli, Domenico b. February 21, 1817 d. January 17, 1894
Candy Maker. Ghirardelli was born in Rapallo, Italy. In 1837 he married and moved to Uraguay where he obtained work at a coffee and chocolate business. In 1838 he moved to Peru where he opened his first confectionary store. By 1849 he was attracted to the United States by the prospect of gold. He sailed to California to become a prospector. Failing at this he opened a general store in Stockton. Meeting with success he opened a second location in San Francisco. During 1851 however both stores...[Read More] (Bio by: Reddfamilyhistory)
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Plot: Section 27
Cowley, Charles Henry b. February 21, 1872 d. April 25, 1916
World War I Victoria Cross recipient. Born in Baghdad, Mesopotamia, Iraq and served as a Lieutenant Commander, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. On the night of April 25, 1916 in Mesopotamia, he was in command of an attempt to re-supply the forces besieged by the Turkish at Kut-el-Amara. He with the crew of the SS Julnar started off with 270 tons of stores up the River Tigris when the ship was attacked by machinegun and artillery fire. They managed to continue but at Magasis, steel hawsers...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Body lost or destroyed, Remains never found
Loven, Christian b. February 21, 1765 d. February 11, 1854
Physiologist. Loven, first chairman of the Physiology Department at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, is famous for his discovery of the gustatory calyculi (taste buds). (Bio by: NatalieMaynor)
Maria Magdalena Kyrkogård, Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Ravenhill, George b. February 21, 1872 d. April 14, 1921
Boer War Victoria Cross Medal Recipient. He served as a Private in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, British Army. On December 15, 1899, at Colenso, Africa, Private Ravenhill went from his sheltered position under enemy fire as one of the escort to the guns. He assisted the officers and drivers who were trying to withdraw a number of guns when the detachments serving them had all been killed and wounded. He also helped to limber up one of the guns which was saved after he was wounded. For gallantry in...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Witton Cemetery, Witton, Warwickshire, England
Plot: Section 47, Grave 08654
Nin, Anais b. February 21, 1903 d. January 14, 1977
Author, Literary Critic, Poet. Born in Neuilly, France to Spanish Composer Joaquin Nin and his French-Danish wife, Rosa Culmell. In her diaries, Nin would describe that those early years with her father included incest and her later struggles with this would lead her into a study of psychoanalysis. Her father would eventually abandon the young family when she was eleven. Her mother took her and her brothers to the US where they would live in New York also spending some of their time with...[Read More] (Bio by: Catharine)
Cause of death: Cardiac arrest, malnutrition, metastaticcarcinoma
Cremated, Ashes scattered at sea, Ashes Scattered over Santa Monica Bay, California
Rochester, Nathaniel b. February 21, 1752 d. May 17, 1831
Founder of the City of Rochester New York. His father passed two years after Nathaniel's birth and his mother remarried and the family moved to North Carolina when he was seven. In 1783 he began the " manufacture of flour, rope, and nails" at Hagerstown, Maryland. Rochester became active in local politics and in 1808 he was chosen a presidential elector, and voted for James Madison. In 1800 he first visited the "Genesee country," where he had previously bought 640 acres, and in September of...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul G. Healy)
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA
Plot: Section R, Lot 11
Nishimoto, Joe M. b. February 21, 1919 d. November 14, 1944
World War II Congressional Medal Of Honor Recipient. On November 7, 1944, serving as a Private First Class, in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, he and his company were in action near La Houssiere, France. After unsuccessful attempts to dislodge the enemy from a strongly defended ridge, Nishimoto, as acting squad leader, crawled forward through a heavily mined area, hurled a grenade and destroyed a German a machine gun nest. Circling to the rear of another machine gun position, he knocked it...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Washington Colony Cemetery, Fresno, Fresno County, California, USA
Affirmed b. February 21, 1975 d. January 12, 2001
Race Horse. In 1978 he became the 11th horse to win horseracing's Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes races). A three-year old ridden by jockey Steve Cauthen that year, whose three races and other encounters that year in essence a rivalry with another top horse of the day, Alydar. Affirm captured the Derby by a length and a half, the Preakness by a neck and the Belmont by a head. Although...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Jonabell Farm Equine Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA
O'Wisiedo (Wisiedo), Mayrata (María Ostalet) b. February 21, 1930 d. May 16, 1998
Actress. On screen she appeared in "Lola, Espejo Oscuro" (1966), "El Crack" (1981), "Tacones Lejanos" (1991), "Una Mujer Bajo la Lluvia" (1991) and "El Juego de los Mensajes Invisibles" (1992). On stage she began her career in the 50s appearing on "Las Criadas," "Salomé," "Hijos de un Dios Menor" and "Antígona entre Muros." She also wrote three books "Chico No Sabe que es Perro," "Historias Brevísimas y Crueles" and "Una Taza de Té en mi Jardín". (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown
Palmer, Alice Elvira Freeman b. February 21, 1855 d. December 6, 1902
Educator. She served as President of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, becoming the first woman to head a nationally known college in the United States.
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA

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