Anniversaries 15 February
Birth
![Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor photo]()
Monarch from the House Luxemburg, 1387 to 1437 King of Hung…
1368–1437
![Galileo Galilei photo]()
Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
1564–1642
![Jeremy Bentham photo]()
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer
1748–1832
![Susan B. Anthony photo]()
American women's rights activist
1820–1906
![Henry Benjamin Whipple photo]()
Bishop of Minnesota
1822–1901
![Silas Weir Mitchell photo]()
American physician
1829–1914
![Alfred North Whitehead photo]()
English mathematician and philosopher
1861–1947
![Paolo Troubetzkoy photo]()
Russian sculptor (1866-1938)
1866–1938
![Ernest Shackleton photo]()
Anglo-Irish polar explorer
1874–1922
![John Barrymore photo]()
American actor of stage, screen and radio
1882–1942
![Sax Rohmer photo]()
English novelist
1883–1959
![Frank Chodorov photo]()
American libertarian thinker
1887–1966
![Robert Ley photo]()
Nazi politician
1890–1945
![Masuji Ibuse photo]()
Japanese writer
1898–1993
![Hastings Banda photo]()
First president of Malawi
1898–1997
![Miep Gies photo]()
Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank
1909–2010
![Irena Sendler photo]()
Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer
1910–2008
![George Mikes photo]()
Hungarian-born British author
1912–1987
![Hale Boggs photo]()
American politician
1914–1972
![Dingiri Banda Wijetunga photo]()
President of Sri Lanka
1916–2008
![John B. Anderson photo]()
American politician
1922–2017
![Herman Kahn photo]()
American futurist
1922–1983
![Yelena Bonner photo]()
human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of d…
1923–2011
![Troy Kennedy Martin photo]()
British screenwriter
1932–2009
![Niklaus Wirth photo]()
Swiss computer scientist
1934
![Susan Brownmiller photo]()
American journalist and activist
1935
![Douglas Hofstadter photo]()
American professor of cognitive science
1945
![John Trudell photo]()
Native American rights activist, musician, poet
1946–2015
![Matthieu Ricard photo]()
French writer and Buddhist monk
1946
![Art Spiegelman photo]()
cartoonist from the United States
1948
![Jane Seymour photo]()
English-American actress
1951
![Jaromír Jágr photo]()
Czech ice hockey winger
1972
![Omarosa photo]()
American political aide and television personality
1974
![Miranda July photo]()
American performance artist, musician and writer
1974
![Brandon Boyd photo]()
American rock singer, writer and visual artist
1976
![Megan Thee Stallion photo]()
American rapper and songwriter
1995
Death
![Socrates photo]()
classical Greek Athenian philosopher
-470–-399 BC
![Gotthold Ephraim Lessing photo]()
writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic
1729–1781
![Ghalib photo]()
Urdu-Persian poet
1797–1869
![Samuel Laman Blanchard photo]()
British author and journalist
1804–1845
![Karl G. Maeser photo]()
prominent Utah educator and a member of The Church of Jesus…
1828–1901
![Mark Hanna photo]()
Republican United States Senator from Ohio
1837–1904
![Maurice Thompson photo]()
American novelist
1844–1901
![H. H. Asquith photo]()
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1852–1928
![Antonio Moreno photo]()
Spanish-American film actor and director
1887–1967
![Ben Salmon photo]()
American activist
1889–1932
![Gardiner C. Means photo]()
American economist
1896–1988
![Marion Sinclair photo]()
Australian music teacher and songwriter
1896–1988
![Martha Gellhorn photo]()
journalist from the United States
1908–1998
![Ethel Merman photo]()
American actress and singer
1908–1984
![Claud William Wright photo]()
British paleontologist
1917–2010
![Richard Feynman photo]()
American theoretical physicist
1918–1988
![Nat King Cole photo]()
American singer and jazz pianist
1919–1965
![Henry Way Kendall photo]()
American physicist
1926–1999
![Raquel Welch photo]()
American actress
1940–2023
![Khalid Abdul Muhammad photo]()
American activist
1948–2001
![Martin de Maat photo]()
American theatre director
1949–2001
![Big L (rapper) photo]()
American rapper
1974–1999
