About the day » Thursday February 21, 1991Calender converter

• Davy Matton, Alkmaar († 1991)
• Jens Dijkstra, Roordahuizum († 2021)

• Carl Allen Jolly (52), Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky
• Berendje Olthof (79), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Hoos (69)
• Catharina Sara Kolderman (77), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon Daams (70), amsterdam, Nederland
• Bessie Lucille Holderbaum (88), Windber, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
• Aaltje Kwint (79), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Celso Pereira Barbosa (73), Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil
• Age Smits (71), Zwolle
• Andre Hendricus Joseph Verstraete (82), Oostende, Belgium

• 1989 » Corbin Bleu, American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter
• 1990 » Mattias Tedenby, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1991 » Devon Travis, American baseball player
• 1991 » Ji So-yun, South Korean footballer
• 1991 » Joe Alwyn, English actor
• 1991 » Riyad Mahrez, Algerian footballer
• 1991 » Suppasit Jongcheveevat, Thai actor
• 1993 » Davy Klaassen, Dutch footballer
• 1993 » Masaki Suda, Japanese actor
• 1993 » Steve Leo Beleck, Cameroonian footballer

• 1984 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1985 » Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)
• 1986 » Helen Hooven Santmyer, American novelist (b. 1895)
• 1991 » Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1994 » Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player and politician (b. 1930)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
• January 13 » Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1000 others.
• April 29 » The 7.0 M_w  Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.
• June 10 » Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.
• October 18 » The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
• November 18 » After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
• November 26 » National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names.

The temperature on February 21, 1991 was between 0.1 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.