Anniversaries 14 February

Birth

Babur20

1st Mughal Emperor 1483–1530

Richard Owen Cambridge1

British poet 1717–1802

Thomas Robert Malthus60

British political economist 1766–1834

Frederick Douglass274

American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman 1818–1895

Frank Harris10

Irish journalist and rogue 1856–1931

Израэль Зангвилл1

1864–1926

Edmund Landau7

German Jewish mathematician 1877–1938

Kōki Hirota7

Japanese politician executed 1878–1948

George Jean Nathan12

American drama critic and magazine editor 1882–1958

Jack Benny70

comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and … 1894–1974

Max Horkheimer61

German philosopher and sociologist 1895–1973

Andrei Zhdanov2

Soviet politician 1896–1948

Fritz Zwicky3

Swiss astronomer 1898–1974

A. M. Klein5

writer, journalist, lawyer 1909–1972

Woody Hayes1

American football player and coach 1913–1987

Jimmy Hoffa19

American labor leader 1913–1982

Joseph O`Connor1

Anglo-Irish actor and playwright 1916–2001

Hugh Downs8

American broadcaster 1921

Catherine Ponder2

American priest 1927

Eugene Fama6

American economist and Nobel laureate in Economics 1939

Paul Tsongas3

American politician 1941–1997

Michael Bloomberg56

American businessman and politician, former mayor of New Yo… 1942

Аарон Руссо1

film producer 1943–2007

Carl Bernstein6

American journalist 1944

James P. Gray19

American judge 1945

Manis Friedman3

American rabbi 1946

Donald H. Liles7

American engineer 1947

Kevin Keegan6

English footballer 1951

Christopher Monckton10

British public speaker and hereditary peer 1952

Sushma Swaraj3

Indian politician 1952–2019

Niranjanananda Saraswati2

Hindu guru, successor of Paramahamsa Satyananda 1960

Kevyn Aucoin2

American make-up artist and photographer 1962–2002

Rod Dreher2

American journalist 1967

Mark Rutte1

50th Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1967

Antonius Subianto Bunjamin1

Indonesian catholic priest 1968

Scott McClellan20

Former White House press secretary 1968

David Kaiser2

American physicist 1971

Rob Thomas8

American singer 1972

Jeru the Damaja1

American Hip Hop artist 1972

Morgan Murphy (food critic)14

Southern writer 1972

Death

Richard II of England2

King of England 1367–1400

William Blackstone15

English jurist, judge and Tory politician 1723–1780

John Dickinson10

American politician 1732–1808

Vicente Guerrero1

leading revolutionary generals of the Mexican War of Indepe… 1782–1831

William T. Sherman44

American General, businessman, educator, and author. 1820–1891

David Hilbert30

German prominent mathematician 1862–1943

P.G. Wodehouse302

English author 1881–1975

Julian Huxley38

English biologist, philosopher, author 1887–1975

Abdur Rab Nishtar1

Pakistani politician 1899–1958

Reginald Maudling3

British politician 1917–1979

Paul E. Meehl2

American psychologist 1920–2003

Dick Francis4

English jockey and crime writer 1920–2010

Richard S. Prather1

American writer 1921–2007

Montague Levine1

British surgeon 1922–2013

John Ehrlichman1

Lawyer, Watergate co-conspirator, writer 1925–1999

Philip Levine4

Poet 1928–2015

Clayton Williams1

American businessman 1931–2020

Ronald Dworkin5

American legal philosopher 1931–2013

Christopher Lasch1

American historian 1932–1994

Ounsi el-Hajj2

Lebanese poet, journalist, and translator 1937–2014

Rafic Hariri3

Lebanese businessman and politician 1944–2005

Richard Laymon1

American writer 1947–2001

Morgan Tsvangirai3

former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe 1952–2018

Mary Crow Dog4

Lakota author and indigenous rights activist 1954–2013

Andrea Levy1

British writer 1956–2019

Haidakhan Babaji45

teacher in northern India