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February 15 Birthdays in History - February 15 Deaths - February 15 Events
February 15, 1991 Nicholas Garland, son of Pamela Sue Martin
February 15, 1980 Conor Oberst, American Musician
February 15, 1979 Kaj-Erik Eriksen, actor, Quarantine
February 15, 1977 Brook Wackman, rocker
February 15, 1976 Brandon Boyd, American Musician
February 15, 1975 Robert Fuchs, soccer player, PSV
February 15, 1974 Erik Schulz, Port Huron, Michigan, pairs skater, & Ilana Goldfogel
February 15, 1974 Jodie McMullen, Miss Universe-Australia/Miss Congeniality 1996
February 15, 1974 Tim Hall, running back for the Oakland Raiders
February 15, 1974 Ugueth Urbina, Caracas Venezuela, pitcher for the Montreal Expos
February 15, 1973 Amy Van Dyken, 50m/100m freestyle/100m butterfly swimmer, Oly-2 g-96
February 15, 1972 Jaromir Jagr, Kladno Cze, NHL right wing, Penguins, Czech Oly-G-1998
February 15, 1972 Lance Scott, NFL offensive linesman for the Arizona Cardinals
February 15, 1971 Barbara Failey-Herbert, South Africa, golfer, 1989 winner SA Champ
February 15, 1971 Jim Butler, Iowa City Iowa, table tennis player, Olympics-92, 96
February 15, 1971 Renee O'Connor, actress, Xena Warrior Princess
February 15, 1971 Tyrone Legette, cornerback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
February 15, 1970 Gloria Trevi, Mexico, sexy spanish vocalist, A Gatas
February 15, 1970 Nathaniel Mills, Evanston, Illinois, speed skater 1994 Olympics
February 15, 1970 Tyrone Legette, NFL cornerback for the New Orleans Saints
February 15, 1969 Brian Williams, Lancaster, South Carolina, pitcher, Detroit Tigers, Astros
February 15, 1969 Edgar Bennett, NFL running back, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31
February 15, 1969 Joshua Micah Marshall, American Politician
February 15, 1968 Kurt Robin McKinney, born in Louisville, Kentucky, actor, Ned-General Hospital
February 15, 1968 Michael Easton, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Tanner-Days of Our Lives
February 15, 1967 Michael Easton, actor, Ally McBeal
February 15, 1966 Melido Perez, Dominican/US baseball pitcher, New York Yankees
February 15, 1966 Petra Huber, Austria, tennis star
February 15, 1965 Craig Matthews, cricket pace bowler, South African Test
February 15, 1964 Chris Farley, actor, SNL, Wayne's World, Coneheads
February 15, 1964 Mark Price, NBA guard, Washington Bullets, Orlando Magic
February 15, 1962 [Babette] Renee Props, Oklahoma, actress, Elly Snyder-As the World Turns
February 15, 1960 Darrell Green, NFL cornerback for the Washington Redskins
February 15, 1960 Jeanne Goldsmith, born in Los Angeles, California, WPVA volleyballer, National-5th-1987
February 15, 1960 Mikey Craig, rock bassist, Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
February 15, 1959 Ali Campbell, British reggae vocalist and guitarist, UB40-Red Red Wine
February 15, 1959 Guy De Alwis, cricket wicket-keeper, Sri Lankan mid 80s
February 15, 1959 Joe Hesketh, U.S. baseball player for the Boston Red Sox
February 15, 1957 Bienvenida Buck, Velencia Spain, lover of British Peter Harding
February 15, 1957 Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant, aristocrat
February 15, 1957 Jake E Lee, rocker, Badlands-Dreams in the Dark
February 15, 1956 Desmond Haynes, cricket, WI opener-greatest batsman in 1-day history
February 15, 1956 Hilda Beatriz "Hildita" Guevara, Cuba, daughter of "Che" Guevara
February 15, 1955 Bev Francis, Australia, world women's power-lifting champion
February 15, 1955 Clive Aslet, British editor, Country Life
February 15, 1954 Matt Groening, cartoonist, Life in Hell, Simpsons
February 15, 1953 Derek Conway, British MP
February 15, 1951 Jane Seymour, [Joyce Frankenberg], England, actress, Dr. Quinn
February 15, 1951 Melissa Manchester, born in Bronx, New York, vocalist, Don't Cry Out Loud
February 15, 1950 Donna Hanover Giuliani, TV news anchor, WPIX, /wife of Mayor Giuliani
February 15, 1950 Nikolai Sergeivich Grekov, Russia, cosmonaut
February 15, 1949 Christopher Rouse, composer
February 15, 1949 Earl of Carlisle
February 15, 1949 Jess Walton, Michigan, actress, Jill Foster Abbott-Young and Restless
February 15, 1949 Ken Anderson, NFL quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals
February 15, 1948 Ron "Penguin" Cey, born in Tacoma, Washington, 3rd baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers
February 15, 1948 Art Spiegelman, American Artist
February 15, 1947 Marisa Berenson, New York City, actress, Barry Lyndon, Death in Vienna, SOB
February 15, 1947 Rusty Hamer, Tenafly, New Jersey, actor, Rusty-Make Room for Daddy
February 15, 1946 Clare Short, British MP
February 15, 1946 John Greenway, British MP
February 15, 1945 Douglas R Hofstadter, New York City, author, Godel, Escher, Bach
February 15, 1945 Douglas Hofstadter, American Writer
February 15, 1944 Aleksandr A. Serebrov, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz T-7, T-8, TM-8, TM-17
February 15, 1944 Mick Avory, rock drummer, Kinks-Lola
February 15, 1944 Tineke Netelenbos, Dutch MP, PvdA
February 15, 1941 Brian Holland, U.S. pianist/producer, Holland/Dozier/Holland
February 15, 1941 Dan Crompton, Nottinghamshire, Chief Constable
February 15, 1941 Florinda Bolkan, Ceara Brazil, actress, Damned, Last Valley, Word
February 15, 1939 Jo Clayton, U.S., sci-fi author, Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters
February 15, 1939 Ollie Ellefsater, Norway, 3K steeplechase, Olympics-1960
February 15, 1939 Tony Bloom, deputy CEO, Sketchley
February 15, 1938 Jack Tinker, drama critic
February 15, 1938 Lord Justice Ward, British judge
February 15, 1937 Nicholas Bayne, diplomat
February 15, 1937 P J Squire, British headmaster, Bedford Modern School
February 15, 1937 Terry Everett, Rep-R-Alabama
February 15, 1937 Zoltan Pesko, composer
February 15, 1936 Andrew Miller, British principal, Stirling U
February 15, 1935 John R Block, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1981-86
February 15, 1935 Roger B Chaffee, Grand Rapids Michigan, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
February 15, 1935 Susan Brownmiller, Brooklyn, feminist author, Against Our Wills
February 15, 1935 Roger B. Chaffee, Astronaut
February 15, 1934 Niklaus Wirth, Switzerland, computer programmer/inventor, PASCAL
February 15, 1934 Graham Kennedy, Australian Entertainer
February 15, 1933 Adolfo, Cardones Cuba, fashion designer, Nancy Reagan
February 15, 1932 Adrian Swire, British aircraft magnate, Cathay Pacific
February 15, 1931 W K Reid, British ombudsman
February 15, 1931 [Patricia] Claire Bloom, London, actress, Charly, Look Back in Anger
February 15, 1931 Claire Bloom, British Actress
February 15, 1930 C F Payne, Cleveland, British chief constable
February 15, 1929 Countess of Dysart,
February 15, 1929 Gerald Harper, broadcaster/actor, Tunes of Glory, Extra Day
February 15, 1929 Graham Hill, London, auto racer, 1962, 68 international racing champ
February 15, 1929 James R. Schlesinger, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1973-75
February 15, 1927 Frank Dunlop, director, Edinburgh International Festival
February 15, 1927 Gottfrid Grasbeck, composer
February 15, 1927 Harvey Korman, Chicago, actor, Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles
February 15, 1927 William Bentley, diplomat
February 15, 1923 Justice Drake, British justice
February 15, 1923 Keene Curtis, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, actor, Magician, Amanda's
February 15, 1923 Yelena Bonner, Moscow, soviet disident/wife of Andre Sakharov
February 15, 1922 Herman Kahn, New Jersey, writer, Thinking About the Unthinkable
February 15, 1920 Ingmar Milveden, composer
February 15, 1920 Piet van Aken, Flemish writer, Devil Sails to U.S., Niggers
February 15, 1920 Richard O'Brien, CEO, Manpower Services Commission
February 15, 1918 Alan Arbus, New York City, actor, Dr. Sidney Freedman-M*A*S*H
February 15, 1916 Ian Ballantine, publisher, Ballantine Books
February 15, 1915 Paul Ferris, British author
February 15, 1914 Arthur Sydney Martin, spy catcher
February 15, 1914 Kevin McCarthy, Seattle, actor, Invasion of Body Snatchers, Howling
February 15, 1914 R. W. Woods, bishop, Worcester
February 15, 1913 Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist, Suske and Wiske
February 15, 1912 George Mikes, Hungary, British writer, How to Be an Alien
February 15, 1911 Leonard Woodcock, labor leader, UAW
February 15, 1910 9th earl of Jersey, English large landowner/art collector
February 15, 1909 Harold Beeley, British diplomat
February 15, 1908 Sidney Gilliat, producer
February 15, 1908 Ypk fan der Fear, Frisian writer, Reade Runen
February 15, 1907 Cesar Romero, born in New York City, actor, Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, Thin Man
February 15, 1907 Jean Langlais, composer
February 15, 1906 Stephen Brown, CEO, Stone-Platt Industries
February 15, 1905 Harold Arlen, [Hyman Arluck], U.S., composer, Over the Rainbow
February 15, 1904 Antonin Magne, French bicyclist, Tour de France 1931, 34
February 15, 1904 Mary Adshead, muralist/painter
February 15, 1901 Andre Parrot, French archaeologist/theologist, Assur
February 15, 1901 Christmas Humphreys, England, lawyer/writer/Buddhist, Awakening of Zen
February 15, 1901 Paul Haesaerts, Flemish architect/painter, Animisme
February 15, 1899 Gale Sondergard, Litchfield, Minnesota, actress, Cat and Canary, Road to Rio
February 15, 1899 Georges Auric, Lodve France, Composer
February 15, 1899 Lillian Disney, Mrs. Walt Disney
February 15, 1898 Ibuse Masuji, Japanese writer, Yohai Taicho, Kuroi Ame
February 15, 1898 Toto, Antonio de Curtis, Naples Italy, actor, Motorizzate, Noi Duri
February 15, 1897 Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach, elected 1965
February 15, 1896 Arthur Shields, Dublin Ireland, actor, River, Enchanted Island
February 15, 1894 Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman, 1st President of UN
February 15, 1893 Harm H Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/etcher/ceramist
February 15, 1893 Walter Donaldson, U.S. pianist/composer, Girl Crazy, Whoopee
February 15, 1892 James Forrestal, U.S., banker/minister of Navy
February 15, 1890 Robert Ley, German chemist/MP, NSDAP
February 15, 1887 H M Bateman, Sutton Forest NSW, cartoonist
February 15, 1886 Sax Rohmer, England, author, Dr. Fu Manchu
February 15, 1885 Richard Wurz, composer
February 15, 1882 John Barrymore, [Blythe], Philadelphia, actor, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
February 15, 1874 Emilis Melngailis, composer
February 15, 1874 Ernest H Shackleton, Kilkee Ireland, explorer, Endurance, Antarctica
February 15, 1866 Bannister Fletcher, London, architect and architectural historian
February 15, 1861 Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher, Adv of Ideas
February 15, 1861 Halford John Mackinder, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer
February 15, 1858 William Pickering, Boston, astronomer, 9th and 10th moons of Saturn
February 15, 1856 Frank Harris, Galway England, writer
February 15, 1855 Gustav Hollaender, composer
February 15, 1847 Robert Fuchs, composer
February 15, 1845 Elihu Root, R, /U.S. Secretary of State, 1905-09, /Nobel Peace Prize, 1912
February 15, 1835 Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General Union Army, died in 1911
February 15, 1834 William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer
February 15, 1829 Silas Weir Mitchell, U.S. physician/author, Roland Blake
February 15, 1828 Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster, New Dutch Language Dictionary
February 15, 1826 George J Stoney, Irish physicist
February 15, 1823 Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton
February 15, 1822 Theodor Uhlig, composer
February 15, 1821 Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet
February 15, 1820 Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Massachusetts, woman's suffragette
February 15, 1820 Susan B. Anthony, American Activist
February 15, 1819 Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor, typewriter
February 15, 1817 Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter
February 15, 1812 Charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly, Connecticut, jeweler, Tiffany
February 15, 1811 Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina, 1868-74
February 15, 1809 Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, Mechanical reaper
February 15, 1807 Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer
February 15, 1803 John Augustus Sutter, Swiss/US colonist, New Helvetia California, Sutter Mill
February 15, 1800 Frederik W. Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer
February 15, 1797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker, Steinway
February 15, 1795 Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general, 10 day campaign
February 15, 1789 Friedrich Fesca, composer
February 15, 1785 Claude Louis Marie Navier
February 15, 1783 Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer
February 15, 1780 Carel Asser, Dutch jurist
February 15, 1774 W G Frederik, prince of Orange
February 15, 1768 Jozef B Cannaert, [Olim], Flemish lawyer
February 15, 1766 Thomas Malthus, Rookery Surrey UK, economist/demographer
February 15, 1764 Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist, Danske V'rker
February 15, 1760 Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer
February 15, 1759 Friedrich A. Wolfius, [Wolf], German philological, Prolegomena
February 15, 1748 Jeremy Bentham, London, England philosopher/originator, Utilitarian
February 15, 1740 Ernst Eichner, composer
February 15, 1726 Abraham Clark, farmer/lawyer, signed Declaration of Independence
February 15, 1710 Louis XV the Well-Beloved, Versailles, King of France, 1715-74
February 15, 1707 Claude Prosper, Paris, France, novelist
February 15, 1705 Charles A. Vanloo, French painter
February 15, 1666 Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist, eardrums, glottis
February 15, 1660 Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/dean of artisans
February 15, 1650 Anne Jules duke de Noailles, marshal of France, hugenot
February 15, 1620 Francois Charpentier, French scholar/archaeologist
February 15, 1571 Michael Praetorius, Kreuzberg Germany, composer, Syntagma music
February 15, 1564 Galileo Galilei, Pisa Italy, astronomer/physicist
February 15, 1557 Alfonso Fontanelli, composer
February 15, 1524 Charles de Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims
February 15, 1519 Pedro Menendez de Aviles, explorer, found St. Augustine Florida
February 15, 1497 Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant
February 15, 1483 Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30
February 15, 1368 Sigismund, Nurnberg Germany, Holy Roman emperor, 1410-37
February 15, 37 Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar Nero, emperor of Rome, 54-68



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