Anniversaries 16 February
Birth
German reformer
1497–1560
Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer
1787–1870
Union Army officer, Vice president, politician, historian
1812–1875
British polymath: geographer, statistician, pioneer in euge…
1822–1911
journalist, historian, academic, novelist
1838–1918
American businessman
1843–1932
French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, …
1848–1917
Founder of the Bible Student Movement
1852–1916
English theosophist
1854–1934
Austrian physician & politician
1869–1936
British Liberal and later Labour politician and pacifist
1871–1946
Marshal of the Soviet Union
1893–1937
American actor, radio performer, comedian and ventriloquist
1903–1978
American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and histori…
1904–2005
Anesthesiologist; pioneer in pain management
1917–1994
Italian designers and architect
1918–2002
American psychologist & academic
1921–2003
American historian
1927–2019
American film actor and director
1930
British computer scientist
1936
Russian mathematician
1937
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea
1941–2011
American novelist and short story writer
1944
Creativity theorist and inventor
1948
Scottish writer
1954–2013
Israeli lawyer and former Miss Universe
1956
English comics and fiction writer
1968
Former American football running back for the Pittsburgh St…
1972
American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer
1975
Bulgarian director and actor
1998
Death
British physician
1673–1754
English literary, art and music critic and editor
1808–1872
Italian poet and teacher
1835–1907
French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, …
1848–1917
American theologian
1851–1921
American historian
1851–1911
American historian
1863–1936
Indian producer-director-screenwriter
1870–1944
German physical chemist known for the Debye-Hückel Theory a…
1896–1980
American professor
1900–1976
Chinese American experimental physicist
1912–1997
American politician
1912–2002
Brazilian politician
1917–1992
American actress
1917–2012
American cardiologist developer of the DC defibrillator and…
1921–2021
6th Secretary-General of the United Nations
1922–2016
Dispensationalist theologian
1925–2016
Greek painter, sculptor and professor of arts
1936–2017
English novelist
1940–1992
American artist and social activist whose work responded to…
1958–1990