Portal:Literature/Adil archive/February/21
- 1677 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher died
- 1821 – Charles Scribner, American publisher born
- 1880 – Waldemar Bonsels, German writer born
- 1888 – Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright born
- 1903 – Anaïs Nin, French writer born
- 1903 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist born
- 1907 – W. H. Auden, English poet born
- 1962 – David Foster Wallace, American writer born
- 2005 – Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist died