February 15
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February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 319 more days in the year (320 in leap years).
[change] Events
- 1764 – The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established.
- 1835 – The first constitutional law in modern Serbia is adopted.
- 1944 – World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino in Italy begins.
- 1956 – Urho Kekkonen is elected President of Finland.
- 1965 – The Maple Leaf flag becomes Canada's flag
- 1967 – Chicago, a musical group forms.
- 1971 – Britain adopts decimal currency.
- 1989 – The last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan.
- 2003 – Millions of people around the world protest against the planned US-led invasion of Iraq.
- 2005 – YouTube is founded.
[change] Births
- 1564 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician (died 1642)
- 1571 – Michael Praetorius, German composer (died 1621)
- 1710 – King Louis XV of France (died 1774)
- 1748 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (died 1832)
- 1812 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweller (died 1902)
- 1820 – Susan B. Anthony, American women's civil rights leader (died 1906)
- 1845 – Elihu Root, American politician (died 1937)
- 1861 – Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist (died 1938)
- 1861 – Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and mathematician (died 1947)
- 1873 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German chemist (died 1964)
- 1874 – Ernest Shackleton, Irish Antarctic explorer (died 1922)
- 1905 – Harold Arlen, American composer (died 1986)
- 1907 – Cesar Romero, American actor (died 1994)
- 1909 – Miep Gies, Dutch helper of Anne Frank and other Jews (died 2010)
- 1910 – Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian (died 2008)
- 1910 – Stanley Vann, British musician (died 2010)
- 1914 – Kevin McCarthy, American actor (died 2010)
- 1931 – Claire Bloom, British actress
- 1935 – Roger Chaffee, American astronaut (died 1967)
- 1948 – Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist
- 1951 – Jane Seymour, British actress
- 1951 – Melissa Manchester, American singer
- 1954 – Matt Groening, writer, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama
- 1964 – Chris Farley, American comedian (died 1997)
- 1971 – Alex Borstein, American actress
- 1972 – Jaromir Jagr, Czech ice hockey player
- 1979 – Scott Severin, Scottish footballer
- 1981 – Heurelho Gomes, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 – David Degen, Swiss footballer
- 1983 – Philipp Degen, Swiss footballer
[change] Deaths
- 1145 – Pope Lucius II
- 1621 – Michael Praetorius, German composer (b. 1571)
- 1637 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1678)
- 1738 – Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
- 1775 – Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (b. 1690)
- 1781 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (b. 1729)
- 1818 – Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)
- 1835 – Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773)
- 1847 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794)
- 1848 – Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771)
- 1849 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (b. 1804)
- 1857 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804)
- 1869 – Mirza Ghalib, poet of Urdu (b. 1796)
- 1926 – Piero Gobetti, Italian publisher, activist and politician (b. 1901)
- 1928 – H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
- 1932 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, Broadway actress (b. 1865)
- 1959 – Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
- 1964 – Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1880)
- 1965 – Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
- 1966 – Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect and historian of gardens (b. 1909)
- 1973 – Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1973 – Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1974 – Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
- 1981 – Mike Bloomfield, American musician (b. 1944)
- 1981 – Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)
- 1984 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
- 1988 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- 1996 – Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941)
- 1996 – McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
- 1999 – Big L (Lamont Coleman), American rapper (b. 1974)
- 1999 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
- 2002 – Howard K. Smith, American journalist (b. 1914)
- 2002 – Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
- 2004 – Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and International Court of Justice judge (b. 1917)
- 2004 – Jan Miner, American actress (b. 1917)
- 2005 – Samuel Francis, American journalist (b. 1947)
