Anniversaries 15 February

Birth

Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor2

Monarch from the House Luxemburg, 1387 to 1437 King of Hung… 1368–1437

Galileo Galilei70

Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer 1564–1642

Jeremy Bentham30

British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer 1748–1832

Fryderyk Skarbek4

Polish noble 1792–1866

Charles-François Daubigny6

French painter 1817–1878

Susan B. Anthony48

American women's rights activist 1820–1906

Henry Benjamin Whipple3

Bishop of Minnesota 1822–1901

Silas Weir Mitchell6

American physician 1829–1914

Alfred North Whitehead112

English mathematician and philosopher 1861–1947

Paolo Troubetzkoy1

Russian sculptor (1866-1938) 1866–1938

Ernest Shackleton11

Anglo-Irish polar explorer 1874–1922

John Barrymore4

American actor of stage, screen and radio 1882–1942

Sax Rohmer2

English novelist 1883–1959

Frank Chodorov44

American libertarian thinker 1887–1966

Robert Ley14

Nazi politician 1890–1945

Masuji Ibuse1

Japanese writer 1898–1993

Hastings Banda2

First president of Malawi 1898–1997

Mani Madhava Chakyar28

Indian actor 1899–1990

Miep Gies4

Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank 1909–2010

Irena Sendler7

Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer 1910–2008

George Mikes7

Hungarian-born British author 1912–1987

Hale Boggs2

American politician 1914–1972

Dingiri Banda Wijetunga2

President of Sri Lanka 1916–2008

Warren Leopold2

1920–1998

John B. Anderson4

American politician 1922–2017

Herman Kahn27

American futurist 1922–1983

Yelena Bonner1

human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of d… 1923–2011

Troy Kennedy Martin1

British screenwriter 1932–2009

Niklaus Wirth13

Swiss computer scientist 1934

Susan Brownmiller1

American journalist and activist 1935

Frank Serafini1

American politician 1945

Douglas Hofstadter17

American professor of cognitive science 1945

John Trudell12

Native American rights activist, musician, poet 1946–2015

Clare Short5

British politician 1946

Matthieu Ricard9

French writer and Buddhist monk 1946

Art Spiegelman13

cartoonist from the United States 1948

Ken Schoolland1

American academic 1950

Jane Seymour3

English-American actress 1951

Matt Groening25

American cartoonist 1954

Doina Ruști3

Romanian Writer 1957

Elizabeth Knox2

New Zealand writer 1959

Richard Siken54

American poet 1967

Josh Marshall7

American journalist 1969

Mario Acevedo1

football player 1969

Jaromír Jágr1

Czech ice hockey winger 1972

Omarosa1

American political aide and television personality 1974

Miranda July70

American performance artist, musician and writer 1974

Brandon Boyd106

American rock singer, writer and visual artist 1976

Conor Oberst105

American musician 1980

Megan Thee Stallion1

American rapper and songwriter 1995

Idegu Ojonugwa Shadrach23

1995

Death

Socrates168

classical Greek Athenian philosopher -470–-399 BC

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing18

writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic 1729–1781

Ghalib9

Urdu-Persian poet 1797–1869

Samuel Laman Blanchard40

British author and journalist 1804–1845

Karl G. Maeser12

prominent Utah educator and a member of The Church of Jesus… 1828–1901

Mark Hanna1

Republican United States Senator from Ohio 1837–1904

Maurice Thompson3

American novelist 1844–1901

H. H. Asquith26

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1852–1928

Antonio Moreno3

Spanish-American film actor and director 1887–1967

Ben Salmon3

American activist 1889–1932

Gardiner C. Means9

American economist 1896–1988

Marion Sinclair1

Australian music teacher and songwriter 1896–1988

Martha Gellhorn8

journalist from the United States 1908–1998

Ethel Merman1

American actress and singer 1908–1984

Claud William Wright2

British paleontologist 1917–2010

Richard Feynman181

American theoretical physicist 1918–1988

Nat King Cole8

American singer and jazz pianist 1919–1965

Henry Way Kendall2

American physicist 1926–1999

Raquel Welch3

American actress 1940–2023

Khalid Abdul Muhammad9

American activist 1948–2001

Martin de Maat17

American theatre director 1949–2001

Big L (rapper)30

American rapper 1974–1999