Anniversaries 16 February

Birth

Philip Melanchthon11

German reformer 1497–1560

Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse1

German writer 1746–1803

Andreas Schelfhout8

Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer 1787–1870

Henry Wilson8

Union Army officer, Vice president, politician, historian 1812–1875

Francis Galton14

British polymath: geographer, statistician, pioneer in euge… 1822–1911

Henry Adams311

journalist, historian, academic, novelist 1838–1918

Henry M. Leland7

American businessman 1843–1932

Hugo De Vries2

Dutch botanist 1848–1935

Octave Mirbeau23

French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, … 1848–1917

Charles Taze Russell28

Founder of the Bible Student Movement 1852–1916

Charles Webster Leadbeater37

English theosophist 1854–1934

Julius Tandler1

Austrian physician & politician 1869–1936

Arthur Ponsonby31

British Liberal and later Labour politician and pacifist 1871–1946

George Macaulay Trevelyan10

Historian 1876–1962

Mikhail Tukhachevsky3

Marshal of the Soviet Union 1893–1937

Edgar Bergen1

American actor, radio performer, comedian and ventriloquist 1903–1978

George F. Kennan46

American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and histori… 1904–2005

John Bonica8

Anesthesiologist; pioneer in pain management 1917–1994

Achille Castiglioni3

Italian designers and architect 1918–2002

Harold Kelley10

American psychologist & academic 1921–2003

David Brion Davis1

American historian 1927–2019

Marilyn Stokstad27

art historian 1929–2016

Peter Porter8

British poet 1929–2010

Ricou Browning2

American film actor and director 1930

Alec Reed1

British businessman 1934

Michael A. Jackson6

British computer scientist 1936

Yuri I. Manin1

Russian mathematician 1937

Kim Jong-il18

General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea 1941–2011

Richard Ford28

American novelist and short story writer 1944

Sheldon Pollock4

American linguist 1948

Eckhart Tolle251

German writer 1948

Roger von Oech1

Creativity theorist and inventor 1948

Franchino1

CHIARA FRANCHIMNO 1953

Iain Banks139

Scottish writer 1954–2013

Rina Mor4

Israeli lawyer and former Miss Universe 1956

LeVar Burton3

actor, director 1957

Natalie Angier3

American writer 1958

John McEnroe4

US tennis player 1959

Warren Ellis21

English comics and fiction writer 1968

Jerome Bettis2

Former American football running back for the Pittsburgh St… 1972

Бо Беннет1

1972

Maureen Johnson72

writer from the USA 1973

Lorin Morgan-Richards35

American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer 1975

Lupe Fiasco44

rapper 1982

Jon Ossoff4

American politician 1987

Elizabeth Olsen1

American actress 1989

Mimo Garcia2

Bulgarian director and actor 1998

Death

Richard Mead4

British physician 1673–1754

Henry Fothergill Chorley3

English literary, art and music critic and editor 1808–1872

Giosuè Carducci1

Italian poet and teacher 1835–1907

Thomas Bracken1

poet 1843–1898

Octave Mirbeau23

French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, … 1848–1917

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield1

American theologian 1851–1921

Alice Morse Earle5

American historian 1851–1911

James Harvey Robinson9

American historian 1863–1936

Dadasaheb Phalke7

Indian producer-director-screenwriter 1870–1944

Erich Hückel1

German physical chemist known for the Debye-Hückel Theory a… 1896–1980

Cyril J. O'Donnell1

American professor 1900–1976

Chien-Shiung Wu1

Chinese American experimental physicist 1912–1997

John W. Gardner8

American politician 1912–2002

Jânio Quadros5

Brazilian politician 1917–1992

Elyse Knox2

American actress 1917–2012

Bernard Lown23

American cardiologist developer of the DC defibrillator and… 1921–2021

Boutros Boutros-Ghali14

6th Secretary-General of the United Nations 1922–2016

Charles C. Ryrie1

Dispensationalist theologian 1925–2016

Jannis Kounellis2

Greek painter, sculptor and professor of arts 1936–2017

Angela Carter43

English novelist 1940–1992

Michael Shea40

writer 1946–2014

Keith Haring3

American artist and social activist whose work responded to… 1958–1990