More Notable Birthdays on February 21: 1946 - Alan Rickman, actor, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves 1927 - Erma Bombeck, born in Dayton, Ohio, humorist, Grass is Always Greener... 1907 - W. H. Auden, U.S., poet, Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948 1903 - Anais Nin, born in Paris, novelist, Winter of Artifice, House of Incense