Famous Deaths for 21st February 2023

1715 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland, dies at 77
1824 – Eugène de Beauharnais, French military officer and stepson of Napoleon Bonaparte (son of Alexandre de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie), dies at 42
1872 – Pavel Gagarin, Russian politician, dies at 82
1919 – Mary Edwards Walker, American surgeon and feminist, only woman awarded Medal of Honor (US Civil War), dies at 86
1949 – Tan Malaka, Indonesian philosopher and founder (Indonesian Communist), executed at 49
1951 – Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Potasch and Perlemoer, Boefje), dies at 63
1966 – Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician, dies at 70
2002 – Harold Pruett, American actor (Sybil, Embrace of the Vampire), dies of a drug overdose at 32
2015 – Bruce Sinofsky, American documentary film director (Brother’s Keeper), dies at 58 from diabetes complications
2019 – Peter Michael Braun, German composer, dies at 82

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