February 15th
Holidays and Celebrations
Flag Day (Canada) * CLICK HERE
Susan B. Anthony Day * (See Below)
John Frum Day (Vanuatu)
Galileo Day * (See Below) Chineese New Year, Lunar New Year, Spring Festival Lunar Calender (2013) * CLICK HERE
Snow Moon (> UTC -1) The Second full Moon of the 1st Quarter in the Northern Hemisphere (2013) * CLICK HERE
Corn Moon (> UTC -1) The Second full Moon of the 1st Quarter in the Southern Hemisphere (2013) * CLICK HERE
Decimal Day (Ireland abandons £sd)
Total Defence Day (Singapore)
Third and final day of Lupercalia (Ancient Rome)
Remember the Maine Day
Establishment Day (St. Louis, MO) In 1764 The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established.
Nat King Cole Remembrance Day, American singer and musician (D: 1965 - b. 1919)
National Gum Drop Day (USA)
Matt Groening Day, American cartoonist (b.1954)
Chris Farley Day, American actor and comedian (1964 - d. 1997)
Singles Awareness Day
Angelman Syndrome Day
National Hippo Day
Candlemas in the Julian Calender (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Feast of Saint Quinidius
Feast of Saint Siegfried of Sweden
Feast of Saints Faustin and Jovita
Feast of Saint Claude de la Colombière
* Galileo Day - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (b.1564 d. 1642) Fête de la Noisetier Translation: Hazel Day (French Republican) The 27th day of the Month of Pluviôse in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Champagne costs too much,
Whiskey's too rough,
Vodka puts big mouths in gear.
This little refrain
Should help to explain
Why it's better to order a beer!"
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
After Sex
1 part Absolut New Orleans Vodka
1 part creme de bananes
2-3 parts orange juice
Fill a double old fashioned glass with ice, add vodka and creme de bananas, Top off with orange juice, Stir and Serve
Wine of The Day
Pessagno 2008 "Intrinity"
Style - Chardonnay
Santa Lucia Highlands
$50
Beer of The Day
Spaten Optimator
Brewer - Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu ; Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Style - Doppelbock
ABV - 7.2%
Joke of The Day
A lady is having a bad day at the roulette tables in 'Vegas. She's
down to her last $50. Exasperated, she exclaims, "What rotten luck!
What in the world should I do now?" A man standing next to her, trying
to calm her down, suggests, "I don't know... why don't you play your
age?"
He walks away. Moments later, his attention is grabbed by a great
commotion at the roulette table. Maybe she won! He rushes back to the
table and pushes his way through the crowd. The lady is lying limp on
the floor, with the table operator kneeling over her.
The man is stunned. He asks, "What happened? Is she all right?" The
operator replies, "I don't know. She put all her money on 29, and 36
came up. Then she just fainted!"
Quote of the Day
"In water one sees one's own face, But in wine one beholds the heart of another."
- French proverb
Whisky of The Day
The Dalmore 15 Year Old Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky
$80
February Observances
AMD/Low Vision Awareness MonthAdopt A Rescued Rabbit Month
Aggressive Driving Month
American Heart Month
National Heart Healthy Month
American History Month
An Affair to Remember Month
Avocado and Banana Month
Bake for Family Fun Month
Beans (Dried and Fresh) Month
Berry Fresh Month
Black History Month
Burn Awareness Month
Canned Food Month
Celebration of Chocolate Month
Creative Romance Month
Dog Training Education Month
Exotic Vegetables and Star Fruit Month
Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month
From Africa to Virginia Month
National Get To Know An Independent Real Estate Broker Month
Grapefruit Month
Great American Pie Month a.k.a American Pie Month
International Boost Self-Esteem Month
International Expect Success Month
International Friendship Month
International Hoof-care Month
Jobs in Golf Month
Library Lovers' Month
Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month
Marijuana Awareness Month
National African American History Month
National Bird Feeding Month
National Black History Month
National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
National Cherry Month
National Children's Dental Health Month
National Condom Month
National Embroidery Month
National Fiber Focus Month
National Grapefruit Month
National Hot Breakfast Month
National Laugh-Friendly Month
National Mend A Broken Heart Month
National Parent Leadership Month
National Pet Dental Health Month
National Snack Food Month
National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
National Therapeutic Recreation Month
National Time Management Month
National Weddings Month
National Wild Bird Feeding Month
Parent Leadership Month, Natl
Plant The Seeds Of Greatness Month
Potato Lover’s Month
Pull Your Sofa Off The Wall Month
Relationship Wellness Month
Responsible Pet Owner's Month
Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month
Senior Independence Month
Spay/Neuter Awareness Month
Spiritual Teachers Month
Spunky Old Broads Month
Sweet Potato Month
Truck Month (GM)
Wise Health Care Consumer Month
Worldwide Renaissance of the Heart Month
Youth Leadership Month
Observances this Week
International Flirting Week of Valentines Day
National Condom Week Third Week of February
National Nestbox Week Third Week of February
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week Third Week of February
Great Backyard Bird Count Third Weekend of February
National Date (fruit) Week Third Week of February
National Entrepreneurship Week Third Week of February
National FFA Week Week of George Washington's Birthday, Sat to Sat
Brotherhood Week Third Week of February
Sisterhood Week Third Week of February
National FFA Week Week of George Washington's Birthday, Sat to Sat
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week Third Week of February
Historical Events on FGebruary 15th
399 Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death
590 Khosrau II is crowned as king of Persia
732 Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line
1145 Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III
1313 Peace of Angleur
1386 Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders
1539 Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo
1552 Dutch coast hit by heavy storm
1563 Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania
1637 Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor
1677 King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands
1686 Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide," premieres in Paris
1689 German Parliament declares war on France
1745 Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny," premieres in London
1763 Austria, Prussia & Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg
1764 The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established, founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue.
1768 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia
1775 Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI
1797 Battle of Cape St Vincent
1799 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania
1804 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery
1804 Serbian revolution started.
1805 Harmony Society is officially formed.
1835 The first constitutional law in modern Serbia was adopted.
1842 1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC
1845 William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector
1848 Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
1851 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave
1852 Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits its first patient.
1861 Ft Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
1862 General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee, American Civil War.
1864 Fire in Rotterdam Neth damages Museum Boymans
1869 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped
1870 Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn
1876 Historic Elm at Boston blown down
1879 American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
1882 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin
1891 AIK is founded at Biblioteksgatan 8 in Stockholm by Isidor Behrens.
1895 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans
1898 The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing more than 260. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain, The Spanish-American War: .
1900 General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes
1902 Underground railway (U-Bahn)
1903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom
1905 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)
1906 The British Labour Party is organised.
1909 The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
1910 The Boy Scouts of America is founded.
1912 Fram reaches latitude 78° 41' S, farthest south ever by ship
1913 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC
1916 NY Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500
1917 SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated
1918 1st WW I US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland
1918 Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar
1919 American Legion organizes in Paris
1921 Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 v England, Australian Test Cricket rec
1922 Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex
1926 Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St NYC
1926 Contract air mail service begins in US
1930 Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes
1931 1st Dracula movie released
1931 Spring training site of NY Yankees in St Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager
1932 3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY
1932 Australia beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hrs 53 min playing time
1932 George Burns & Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show"
1932 John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," premieres in NYC
1932 US bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer & Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold)
1933 In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.
1933 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party
1933 Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
1933 Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin
1936 -60°F (-51°C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record)
1936 Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)
1936 Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold
1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched
1939 Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes," premieres in NYC
1941 Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"
1942 German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery
1942 Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
1942 The Fall of Singapore, World War II. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history. The Sook Ching massacre begins.
1943 Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid
1944 891 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 Bombing & shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins, World War II
1946 Bank of England nationalized
1947 "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" closes at Century Theater NYC after 60 perfs
1948 Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan
1949 Dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad
1950 KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China sign a mutual defense treaty.
1950 WM Inge's "Come Back, Little Sheba," premieres in NYC
1950 WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released
1952 King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
1954 1st bevatron in operation-Berkeley, California
1954 WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced
1956 Pirates & KC A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white
1956 Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland
1957 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
1958 Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB
1958 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN
1958 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA
1958 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA
1958 Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra
1959 Antonio Segni forms Italian government
1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Tournament
1961 Australia beat WI 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever
1961 Entire US figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash
1961 Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team, several coaches and family.
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)
1963 Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
1964 Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
1964 Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton
1965 A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
1965 Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf
1965 John Lennon passes his driving test
1965 Maple Leaf becomes official flag of Canada
1966 Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater
1967 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted
1967 D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber
1967 Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23)
1968 Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver
1968 WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 A Dominican DC-9 crashes into the sea during takeoff from Santo Domingo, killing 102.
1970 Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater
1970 Carol Mann wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1970 KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo
1971 The Decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day, After 1,200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal.
1972 Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager
1972 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos
1972 Pres Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time
1972 Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
1973 Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak
1973 USSR launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)
1976 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
1976 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1976 The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by the national referendum.
1977 Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election
1978 England all out 64 for 1st loss to NZ in cricket (Boycott capt)
1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Fla
1978 Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 Zaire revises constitution
1979 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey wins
1979 Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hrs 40 mins
1979 Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 sec
1980 Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals
1981 Joanne Carner wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1981 Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, NY
1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw
1982 The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 rig workers.
1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq
1985 STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23
1986 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
1986 Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election
1986 Phil Natl Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
1987 ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series
1987 Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
1987 Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92)
1987 Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater
1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
1989 Soviet Union ends occupation of Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.
1990 Baseball owners lock out players
1991 Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die
1991 The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
1991 Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117
1992 100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox
1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys
1993 Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogota Colombia
1993 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester NY on WNVE 95.1 FM
1993 Katie Elizabeth Hillyard was born, famous English young composer of the year 2007.England
1994 US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
1995 Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns
1995 Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17
1995 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
1996 At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
1996 Mortar attack on the US Embassy in Athens, Greece.
1997 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski
1997 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge
1998 Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship
1998 Daytona 500 race
1999 Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party, widely recognized as terrorist organization), was arrested in Kenya.
2000 Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.
2001 First draft of the complete Human Genome is published in Nature
2002 At the Tri-State Crematory in La Fayette, Georgia, investigators find uncremated bodies disposed of in the woods and buildings on the crematorium's property. The discovery reveals one of the worst incidents of abuse in the funeral service industry.
2003 Protests against the Iraq war occur in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people took part, making this the largest peace demonstration in the history of the world.
2005 YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.
2011 Libyan protests begin opposing Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi's rule
2012 Fire at Comayagua prison, Honduras, kills 358
2012 United Kingdom unemployment rate reaches 17 year high of 8.4%
2013 A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,491 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century. The meteor, along with a coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid, prompts international concern regarding the vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes
2013 "2012 DA14", an asteroid with a 50m diameter, comes within 27,700km of Earth
2014 Tammam Salam is elected Prime Minister of Lebanon after a 10 month gridlock
2015 West beats East 163-158 at New York City in the 64th NBA All-Star Game
2016 Best Song "Thinging Out Loud" by Ed Sheeran, Best Album "1989" by Taylor Swift at the 58th Grammy Awards
Born on February 15th
1368 Sigismund, Nornberg Germany, Holy Roman emperor (1410-37)
1458 Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490)
1471 Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1503)
1483 Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30
1497 Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant
1519 Pedro Menendez de Aviles, explorer (found St Augustine Florida)
1524 Charles de Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims
1557 Alfonso Fontanelli, composer
1564 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)
1571 Michael Praetorius, German composer (Syntagma music) (d. 1621)
1620 François Charpentier, French archaeologist (d. 1702)
1650 Anne Jules duke de Noailles, marshal of France (hugenot)
1660 Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/dean of artisans
1666 Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist (eardrums, glottis)
1705 Charles-André van Loo, French painter (d. 1765)
1707 Claude Prosper, Paris France, novelist
1710 Louis XV the Well-Beloved, Versailles, King of France (1715-74) (d. 1774)
1725 Abraham Clark, American founding father, signed Declaration of Independence (d. 1794)
1734 William Stacy, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1802)
1739 Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (d. 1813)
1740 Ernst Eichner, composer
1748 Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (Utilitarian) (d. 1832)
1759 Friedrich August Wolfius (Wolf), German archaeologist (Prolegomena) (d. 1824)
1760 Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer
1764 Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Danske V'rker)
1766 Thomas Malthus, Rookery Surrey UK, economist/demographer
1768 Jozef B Cannaert, [Olim], Flemish lawyer
1774 W G Frederik, prince of Orange
1780 Carel Asser, Dutch jurist
1783 Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer
1785 Claude Louis Marie Navier
1789 Friedrich Fesca, composer
1792 Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States (d. 1866)
1795 Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general (10 day campaign)
1797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (Steinway)
1800 Frederik W Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer
1803 John Augustus Sutter, Swiss/US colonist (New Helvetia Ca, Sutter Mill)
1807 Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer
1809 André Dumont, Belgian geologist (d. 1857)
1809 Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (Mechanical reaper) (d. 1884)
1811 Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74)
1812 Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweler (Tiffany) (d. 1902)
1817 Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter
1820 Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist (d. 1906)
1821 Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet
1822 Theodor Uhlig, composer
1823 Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton
1825 Carter Harrison, Sr., American politician (d. 1893)
1826 George J Stoney, Irish physicist
1828 Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary)
1829 Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Roland Blake)
1834 William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer
1835 Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General (Union Army), died in 1911
1835 Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author (d. 1908)
1840 Titu Maiorescu, Romanian Prime Minister (d. 1917)
1841 Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian politician (d. 1913)
1845 Elihu Root, American statesman, US Sec of State (1905-09), Nobel Prize Laureate (1912) (d. 1937)
1847 Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (d. 1927)
1849 Sir Rickman Godlee, English surgeon (d. 1925)
1855 Gustav Hollaender, composer
1856 Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (d. 1926)
1856 Frank Harris, Galway England, writer
1858 William Pickering, Boston, astronomer (9th & 10th moons of Saturn)
1861 Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (Adv of Ideas) (d. 1947)
1861 Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1938)
1861 Halford John Mackinder, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer
1866 Bannister Fletcher, London, architect & architectural historian
1873 Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1964)
1874 Emilis Melngailis, composer
1874 Ernest Shackleton, Irish Antarctic explorer (Endurance, Antarctica) (d. 1922)
1877 Louis Renault, French automobile executive (d. 1944)
1882 John Barrymore, American actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) (d. 1942)
1883 Sax Rohmer, English author (Dr Fu Manchu) (d. 1959)
1885 Richard Wurz, composer
1887 H M Bateman, Sutton Forest NSW, cartoonist
1890 Robert Ley, Nazi official, German chemist (NSDAP) (d. 1945)
1892 James Forrestal, 1st United States Secretary of Defense (d. 1949)
1893 Harm H Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/etcher/ceramist
1893 Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (Girl Crazy, Whoopee) (d. 1947)
1894 Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman (1st pres of UN)
1895 Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971)
1896 Arthur Shields, Irish actor (River, Enchanted Island) (d. 1970)
1897 Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1965)
1898 Allen Woodring, American runner (d. 1982)
1898 Totò (Antonio de Curtis), Italian actor and composer (Motorizzate, Noi Duri) (d. 1967)
1899 Gale Sondergaard, American actress (Cat & Canary, Road to Rio) (d. 1985)
1899 Georges Auric, French composer (d. 1983)
1899 Lillian Disney, Mrs Walt Disney
1901 Andre Parrot, French archaeologist/theologist (Assur)
1901 Christmas Humphreys, Engld, lawyer/writer/Buddhist (Awakening of Zen)
1901 Paul Haesaerts, Flemish architect/painter (Animisme)
1904 Antonin Magne, French bicyclist (Tour de France 1931, 34) (d. 1983)
1904 Mary Adshead, muralist/painter
1905 Harold Arlen (Hyman Arluck), American composer (Over the Rainbow) (d. 1986)
1906 Stephen Brown, CEO (Stone-Platt Industries)
1907 Cesar Romero, American actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, Thin Man) (d. 1994)
1907 Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (d. 1991)
1908 Sarto Fournier, Quebec politician (d. 1980)
1908 Sidney Gilliat, producer
1908 Ypk fan der Fear, Frisian writer (Reade Runen)
1909 Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes, Spanish footballer (d. 1966)
1909 Harold Beeley, British diplomat
1909 Miep Gies, Dutch biographer of Anne Frank (d. 2010)
1910 9th earl of Jersey, English large landowner/art collector
1910 Irena Sendler, Polish social worker (d. 2008)
1911 Leonard Woodcock, American labor union official (UAW) and diplomat (d. 2001)
1912 George Mikes, Hungary, British writer (How to Be an Alien)
1913 Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (d. 1997)
1913 Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (Suske & Wiske)
1914 Arthur Sydney Martin, spy catcher
1914 Hale Boggs, American politician (d. 1972)
1914 Kevin McCarthy, American actor (Invasion of Body Snatchers, Howling)
1914 R W Woods, bishop (Worcester)
1915 Paul Ferris, British author
1916 Ian Ballantine, publisher (Ballantine Books)
1916 Mary Jane Croft, American actress (d. 1999)
1918 Allan Arbus, American actor (Dr Sidney Freedman-M*A*S*H)
1918 Hank Locklin, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2009)
1920 Endicott Peabody, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1997)
1920 Ingmar Milveden, composer
1920 Piet van Aken, Flemish writer (Devil Sails to US, Niggers)
1920 Richard O'Brien, CEO (Manpower Services Commission)
1921 Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (d. 1985)
1922 Herman Kahn, NJ, writer (Thinking About the Unthinkable)
1922 John Bayard Anderson, American politician
1923 Justice Drake, British justice
1923 Keene Curtis, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Magician, Amanda's)
1923 Yelena Bonner, Russian human rights activist, widow of Andrei Sakharov
1927 Frank Dunlop, director (Edinburgh International Festival)
1927 Gottfrid Grasbeck, composer
1927 Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles) (d. 2008)
1927 William Bentley, diplomat
1929 Countess of Dysart
1929 Gerald Harper, broadcaster/actor (Tunes of Glory, Extra Day)
1929 Graham Hill, English race car driver (1962, 68 international racing champ) (d. 1975)
1929 James Schlesinger, American politician, US Secretary of Defense (1973-75)
1930 C F Payne, Cleveland, British chief constable
1930 Nico Minardos, American actor
1931 Claire Bloom, British actress
1931 Geoff Edwards, American television game show host
1931 W K Reid, British ombudsman
1931 (Patricia) Claire Bloom, London, actress (Charly, Look Back in Anger)
1932 Adrian Swire, British aircraft magnate (Cathay Pacific)
1933 Adolfo, Cardones Cuba, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan)
1934 Graham Kennedy, Australian actor (d. 2005)
1934 Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist and inventor (PASCAL)
1935 Gene Hickerson, American football player
1935 John R Block, US Secretary of Agriculture (1981-86)
1935 Roger Chaffee, American astronaut (d. 1967)
1935 Susan Brownmiller, American feminist and writer (Against Our Wills)
1936 Andrew Miller, British principal (Stirling U)
1937 Gregory Mcdonald, American author
1937 Nicholas Bayne, diplomat
1937 P J Squire, British headmaster (Bedford Modern School)
1937 Terry Everett, (Rep-R-Alabama)
1937 Zoltan Pesko, composer
1938 Jack Tinker, drama critic
1938 Lord Justice Ward, British judge
1939 Jo Clayton, US, sci-fi author (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters)
1939 Ole Ellefsæter, Norwegian cross-country skier
1939 Robert Hansen, American serial killer
1939 Tony Bloom, deputy CEO (Sketchley)
1940 Hamzah Haz, Indonesian politician
1940 John Hadl, American football player
1941 Brian Holland, American songwriter and producer (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
1941 Dan Crompton, Nottinghamshire, Chief Constable
1941 Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress (Damned, Last Valley, Word)
1944 Aleksandr A Serebrov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-7, T-8, TM-8, TM-17)
1944 Mick Avory, British drummer (The Kinks)
1944 Tineke Netelenbos, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1945 Douglas Hofstadter, American academic and writer
1945 John Helliwell, British musician (Supertramp)
1946 Clare Short, British MP
1946 Esko Seppänen, Finnish politician
1946 John Greenway, British MP
1947 David Brown, American musician (Santana) (d. 2000)
1947 John Coolidge Adams, American composer (Nixon in China)
1947 Marisa Berenson, American actress (Barry Lyndon, Death in Vienna, SOB)
1947 Rusty Hamer, American actor (Rusty-Make Room for Daddy) (d. 1990)
1948 Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist
1948 Ron "Penguin" Cey, American baseball player, 3rd baseman (LA Dodgers)
1948 Tino Insana, American voice actor
1949 Christopher Rouse, composer
1949 Earl of Carlisle
1949 Hans Graf, Austrian conductor
1949 Jess Walton, Mich, actress (Jill Foster Abbott-Young & Restless)
1949 Ken Anderson, American football player, NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1950 Donna Hanover Giuliani, TV news anchor (WPIX)/wife of Mayor Giuliani
1950 Hark Tsui, Hong Kong film director
1950 Nikolai Sergeivich Grekov, Russia, cosmonaut
1951 Jane Seymour (Joyce Frankenberg), British actress (Dr Quinn)
1951 Melissa Manchester, American singer (Don't Cry Out Loud)
1953 Derek Conway, British MP
1953 Tony Adams, Irish film producer (d. 2005)
1954 Armand Parmentier, Belgian athlete
1954 Matt Groening, American cartoonist (Life in Hell, Simpsons)
1955 Bev Francis, Australia, world women's power-lifting champion
1955 Christopher McDonald, American actor
1955 Clive Aslet, British editor (Country Life)
1955 Janice Dickinson, American Ex-Supermodel
1956 Desmond Haynes, cricket (WI opener-greatest batsman in 1-day history)
1956 Hilda Beatriz "Hildita" Guevara, Cuba, daughter of "Che" Guevara
1956 Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese racing driver (d. 1992)
1957 Bienvenida Buck, Velencia Spain, lover of Brit Peter Harding
1957 Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant, aristocrat
1957 Jake E Lee, rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
1957 Jimmy Spencer, American race car driver
1957 Steve Farhood, American boxing historian and analyst
1958 Chrystine Brouillet, Quebec novelist
1958 Matthew Ward, American singer, (Second Chapter of Acts), songwriter and author
1959 Ali Campbell, British singer and songwriter (UB40)
1959 Brian Propp, Canadian hockey player
1959 Guy De Alwis, cricket wicket-keeper (Sri Lankan mid 80s)
1959 Hugo Savinovich, Ecuadorian wrestler
1959 Joe Hesketh, US baseball player (Boston Red Sox)
1960 Darrell Green, American football player, NFL cornerback (Washington Redskins)
1960 Jeanne Goldsmith, LA California, WPVA volleyballer (National-5th-1987)
1960 Jock Hobbs [Michael], chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union and 21 test All Black, (d. 2012)
1960 Mikey Craig, British musician (Culture Club)
1960 Mikey Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me)
1960 Roman Kostrzewski, Polish heavy metal musician
1962 [Babette] Renee Props, Oklahoma, actress (Elly Snyder-As the World Turns)
1964 Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
1964 Chris Farley, actor (SNL, Wayne's World, Coneheads)
1964 Leland D. Melvin, NASA astronaut
1964 Mark Price, American basketball player
1964 Mark Price, NBA guard (Washington Bullets, Orlando Magic)
1965 Craig Matthews, cricket pace bowler (South African Test)
1966 Melido Perez, Dominican/US baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1966 Petra Huber, Austria, tennis star
1967 Jane Child, Canadian musician
1967 Kelley Menighan Hensley, American actress
1967 Michael Easton, actor, (Ally McBeal)
1968 Axelle Red, Belgian singer and songwriter
1968 Kurt Robin McKinney, Louisville Ky, actor (Ned-General Hospital)
1968 Michael Easton, LA California, actor (Tanner-Days of Our Lives)
1968 Mieke Suys, Belgian triathlete
1969 Brian Williams, American pitcher (Detroit Tigers, Astros)
1969 Bryan Williams, American record executive and rapper
1969 Edgar Bennett, NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 Josh Marshall, American journalist
1970 Craig Gass, American impressionist and comedian
1970 Gloria Trevi, Mexico, sexy spanish vocalist (A Gatas)
1970 Nathaniel Mills, Evanston Ill, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1970 Tyrone Legette, NFL cornerback (NO Saints)
1971 Alex Borstein, American actress
1971 Barbara Failey-Herbert, South Africa, golfer (1989 winner SA Champ)
1971 Jim Butler, Iowa City Iowa, table tennis player (Olympics-92, 96)
1971 Ray Sefo, New Zealand kickboxer
1971 Renée O'Connor, American actress and director (Xena Warrior Princess)
1971 Scott Severin, Scottish footballer
1971 Tyrone Legette, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1972 Jaromír Jágr, Czech hockey player, NHL right wing (Penguins, Czech Oly-G-1998)
1972 Lance Scott, NFL offensive linesman (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 Alex Borstein, American actress and animator
1973 Amy Van Dyken, American swimmer, 50m/100m freestyle/100m butterfly (Oly-2 g-96)
1973 Katerina Neumannová, Czech cross country skier
1973 Sarah Wynter, Australian actress
1974 Alexander Wurz, Austrian race car driver
1974 Erik Schulz, Port Huron Mich, pairs skater (& Ilana Goldfogel)
1974 Gina Lynn, American porn actress
1974 Jodie McMullen, Miss Universe-Australia/Miss Congeniality (1996)
1974 Miranda July, American performance artist
1974 Seattle Slew, American racehorse (d. 2002)
1974 Tim Hall, running back (Oakland Raiders)
1974 Tomi Putaansuu, Finnish singer (Lordi)
1974 Ugueth Urbina, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1975 Brendon Small, American comedian and animator
1975 Robert Fuchs, soccer player (PSV)
1975 Serge Aubin, Canadian hockey player
1976 Brandon Boyd, American musician (Incubus)
1976 Giorgos Karagoutis, Greek basketball player
1976 Ronnie Vannucci Jr., American musician (The Killers)
1976 Óscar Freire, Spanish cyclist
1977 Brooks Wackerman, American musician (Bad Religion)
1978 Kimberly Goss, American singer and musician (Sinergy)
1978 Tuan Le, American poker player
1979 Alenka Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
1979 Gordon Shedden, Scottish Race Car Driver
1979 Josh Low, English footballer
1979 Kaj-Erik Eriksen, actor (Quarantine)
1980 Conor Oberst, American singer and songwriter (Bright Eyes)
1981 Diego Martínez, Mexican footballer
1981 Heurelho Gomes, Brazilian footballer
1981 Jenna Morasca, American model
1981 Matt Hoopes, American musician (Relient K)
1981 Olivia Longott, American singer
1983 Ashley Tesoro, American actress and singer
1983 Don Cowie, Scottish fotballer
1983 Philipp Degen, Swiss football player
1983 Russell Martin, Canadian baseball player
1984 Dorota Rabczewska, Polish singer (Virgin)
1984 Meera Jasmine, Indian actress
1986 Amber Riley, American actress
1986 Gabriel Paletta, Argentine footballer
1987 Jarrod Sammut, Australian-Maltese rugby league player, Penrith Panthers
1988 Hironori Kusano, Japanese singer
1990 Erwin Sak, Polish footballer
1991 Nicholas Garland, son of Pamela Sue Martin
Died on Febraury 15h
1043 Gisela, wife of RC-German emperor Conrad II the Salier
1145 Lucius II (Gherardo Caccianemici), Italian Pope (1144-45)
1152 Konrad III, Roman-German King (1138-1152)
1503 Henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury (1501-03)
1568 Hendrik van Brederode, Dutch noble (Compromise of Nobles)
1580 Cunerus Petri, Dutch theologist/bishop of Leeuwarden, dies
1597 Pieter J Kies, Dutch mayor of Haarlem (1572-73)
1600 Jose the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru)
1621 Michael Praetorius, German composer (In Dulce Jubilo) (b. 1571)
1637 Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1619-37), (b. 1578)
1660 Klaas Geritsz Compaen, Dutch buccaneer/merchant
1680 Jan Swammerdam, Dutch anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature)
1701 Adam Drese, German composer
1713 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, writer
1738 Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
1744 Frantisek Antonin Mica, composer
1744 John Hadley, inventor (sextant)
1759 Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor
1761 Carlo Cecere, composer, dies at 54
1775 Peter Dens, Flemish Catholic theologian (b. 1690)
1778 Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer
1781 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (b. 1729)
1818 Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18)
1818 Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)
1820 Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public
1820 William Ellery, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence)
1831 Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe)
1832 Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer
1835 Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773)
1839 Chevalier de Lorimier, Quebec notary (b. 1803)
1841 Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car)
1843 Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek military figure (b. 1770)
1844 Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1801-04) (b. 1757)
1847 Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794)
1848 Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771)
1849 Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve) (b. 1804)
1857 Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804)
1864 Israel Zangwill, writer/Zionist/philanthropist
1864 William Dyce, painter
1865 Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65)
1869 Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796)
1885 Leopold Damrosch, composer
1887 Alexander Borodin, composer
1896 E J Nicholson, writer
1902 Wilhelmina JR Albregt-Engelman, Dutch actress
1903 Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress
1905 Lew Wallace, Union general in the American Civil War and novelist (Ben Hur) (b. 1827)
1910 Albert Fuchs, composer
1911 Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (b. 1859)
1916 Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer
1917 Charles A van Ophuysen, Dutch orientalist
1919 Pieter K Pel, Dutch internist (Pel-Ebstein fever)
1921 Hans Haym, composer
1922 Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German/Dutch anarchist/feminist
1923 Josephine B Willson Bruce, US black theorist
1924 Lionel Monckton, English composer for the musical theatre (Country Girl) (b. 1861)
1928 H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
1928 Hubert H Asquith, premier Great-Britain (1908-16)
1932 Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays) (b. 1865)
1933 Anton J Cermak, (Mayor-D-Chicago), assassinated in Miami
1939 Foppe G Scheltema, Dutch lawyer
1939 Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1926-31)
1939 Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (b. 1878)
1942 Guido Adler, Austrian musicologist
1942 Stanislav Binicki, composer
1943 William Victor Harris, composer,
1955 S Z Sakall, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca)
1956 Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (b. 1878)
1959 Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Nobel 1928) (b. 1879)
1961 Bradley Lord, American figure skater (b. 1939)
1961 Jack Whiting, actor (Top Speed, Life of the Party)
1961 Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
1961 Marubel Vinaon Owen, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1932)
1962 Vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger)
1964 Ken Hubbs, 2nd baseman (Chicago Cubs), dies in plane crash
1964 Robert L. Thornton, American businessman and politician (b. 1880)
1965 Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa) (b. 1919)
1966 Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian Roman Catholic priest, member of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group (b. 1929)
1966 Gerard Ciolek, Polish architect (b. 1909)
1967 Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor/director (It, Careers)
1967 William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador in USSR
1968 Little Walter, rocker
1970 Sir Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (b. 1882)
1971 Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (b. 1885)
1971 Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer
1972 Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist (Battle for Asia)
1972 Jef [Josephus CF] Last, Dutch poet/Indonesian politician
1973 Tim Holt, American actor (Stagecoach, Hitler's Children) (b. 1919)
1973 Wally Cox, American actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares) (b. 1924)
1974 Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
1975 Julian Huxley, biologist, dies
1975 Pelham G Wodehouse, writer, dies
1978 Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party)
1979 Alex Bradford, actor/composer (Your Arms too Short
.)
1979 Mehdi Rahimi, Iran general/milt governor of Teheran, executed
1981 Jack Crapp, cricketer (7 Tests for England 1948-49, 319 runs)
1981 Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)
1981 Mike Bloomfield, American musician (Electric Flag), drug overdose (b. 1943)
1981 Thomas Beversdorf, composer, dies at 56
1982 Rolfe Sedan, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show)
1984 Avon Long, dancer/actor (Roots: Next Generation)
1984 Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (Kid Million) (b. 1908)
1984 Leamon Hunt, US director-General in Sinai, killed by communists
1987 Jimmy Holiday, US singer (Baby I Love You), dies at 42
1987 Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer
1988 Frederick (Fritz) Loewe, composer
1988 Gardiner Means, US economist
1988 Gerard Holt, architect
1988 Neil R(onald) Jones, sf writer (Space War, Twin Worlds)
1988 Richard P Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Nobel 1965, Physical Law) (b. 1918)
1990 Henry Brandon, actor (Assault on Precinct 13)
1990 Jack Fletcher, actor (Any Wednesday)
1991 Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey
1991 Luis Escobar, Spanish actor (Don Juan My Love)
1992 María Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist (b. 1960)
1992 William Schuman, American composer (Pulitzer), President of Julliard (b. 1910)
1993 George Wallington, [Giacinto Figlia], Italian bebop-pianist
1994 Andrei Tsjikatilo, [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed
1994 Tiger Haynes, US actor (Moscow on the Hudson, Cosby Show)
1995 Francis Taylor, builder
1995 Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist/rebel
1995 Lord Taylor of Hadfield, Brit pres of Taylor Woodrow Group
1995 Nabila Diahnine, Algerian architect/feminist, murdered
1995 Sahnoun Jawhari, Tunisian Annahda-leader, dies in jail
1995 Viscount Camrose, British large landowner/Conservative
1996 Bruno Ferenc Straub, Hungarian statesman
1996 Lucio Agostini, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1913)
1996 Margaret Courtenay, actress (Royal Flash, Duet for One)
1996 McLean Stevenson, American actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry) (b. 1929)
1996 Oscar Abrams, community organiser
1996 Tommy Rettig, American actor (Lassie) (b. 1941) and computer programmer (Clipper)
1998 Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician (b. 1919)
1998 Louie Spicolli, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
1998 Martha Gelhorn, female war correspondent (Reuters)
1999 Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
1999 Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1926)
2002 Howard K. Smith, American journalist (b. 1914)
2002 Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
2004 Jan Miner, American actress (b. 1917)
2004 Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and jurist (b. 1917)
2005 Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2005 Samuel T. Francis, American journalist (b. 1947)
2007 Ray Evans, American songwriter (b. 1915)
2007 Walker Edmiston, actor (b. 1926)
2008 Amnon Netzer, Iranian-Israeli historian (b. 1934)
2008 Ashley Callie, South African actress (b. 1976)
2009 Dr. Diether H. Haenicke, university president (b. 1935)
2009 Joe Cuba, Puerto-Rican musician (b. 1931)
2012 Charles Anthony (Caruso), American Tenor
2016 Denise Matthews "Vanity", singer (Prince protege) and actress (52 Pick Up)
2016 George Gaynes, actor (Tootsie, Punky Brewster)
