Events

Pre-1600

748 __NOTOC__ Year 748 ( DCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 748 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calenda ...

– Abbasid Revolution: The

Hashimi Al-Hashimi, also transliterated Al-Hashemi ( ar, الهاشمي), Hashemi, Hashimi or Hashmi ( fa, هاشمی) is an Arabic, Arabian, and Persian surname.Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the

Abbasid The Abbasid Caliphate ( or ; ar, الْخِلَافَةُ الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, ') was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abdul-Muttal ...

revolt. * 842 –

Charles the Bald Charles the Bald (french: Charles le Chauve; 13 June 823 – 6 October 877), also known as Charles II, was a 9th-century king of West Francia (843–877), king of Italy (875–877) and emperor of the Carolingian Empire (875–877). After a s ...

and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages. *

1014 Year in topic Year 1014 ( MXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1014th in topic the 1014th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 14th year o ...

– Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria,

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of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor. *

1130 Year 1130 ( MCXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events * January 22 – Jin–Song Wars: Jin forces take Hangzhou. * February 4 – Jin–Song Wars: Jin forces ...

– The troubled 1130 papal election exposes a rift within the College of Cardinals. *

1349 Year 1349 ( MCCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * January 22 – An earthquake affects L'Aquila in southern Italy with a maximum Merca ...

– Several hundred

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are

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by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from Strasbourg. * 1530 – Spanish conquistadores, led by Nuño de Guzmán, overthrow and execute Tangaxuan II, the last independent monarch of the Tarascan state in present-day central

Mexico Mexico ( Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guate ...

. * 1556 – Having been declared a heretic and laicized by

Pope Paul IV Pope Paul IV, born Gian Pietro Carafa, C.R. ( la, Paulus IV; it, Paolo IV; 28 June 1476 – 18 August 1559) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 23 May 1555 to his death in August 1559. While serving as pap ...

on 4 December 1555, Archbishop of Canterbury

Thomas Cranmer Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He helped build the case for the annulment of Henry ...

is publicly defrocked at Christ Church Cathedral. * 1556 – Coronation of Akbar as ruler of the

Mughal Empire The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the ...

1601–1900

1613 Events January–June * January 11 – Workers in a sandpit in the Dauphiné region of France discover the skeleton of what is alleged to be a 30-foot tall man (the remains, it is supposed, of the giant Teutobochus, a legendary ...

– Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate at

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, London. * 1655 – The

Mapuche The Mapuche ( (Mapuche & Spanish: )) are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who s ...

s launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile beginning the

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. *

1778 Events January–March * January 18 – Third voyage of James Cook: Captain James Cook, with ships HMS ''Resolution'' and HMS ''Discovery'', first views Oahu then Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands of the Pacific Ocean, which he na ...

– The

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is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral

Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte Count Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte,In the 18th century, spelling could vary and the name is sometimes spelt "Piquet" and "La Mothe" also known as La Motte-Picquet (born 1 November 1720 in Rennes; died 10 June 1791 in Brest) was a French ...

renders a nine gun salute to , commanded by

John Paul Jones John Paul Jones (born John Paul; July 6, 1747 July 18, 1792) was a Scottish-American naval captain who was the United States' first well-known naval commander in the American Revolutionary War. He made many friends among U.S political elites ( ...

. *

1779 Events January–March * January 11 – British troops surrender to the Marathas in Wadgaon, India, and are forced to return all territories acquired since 1773. * January 11 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manip ...

–

American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of ...

: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in

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. * 1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii. * 1797 –

French Revolutionary Wars The French Revolutionary Wars (french: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution. They pitted France against Britain, Austria, Pruss ...

: Battle of Cape St. Vincent: John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar. *

1804 Events January–March * January 1 – Haiti gains independence from France, and becomes the first black republic, having the only successful slave revolt ever. * February 4 – The Sokoto Caliphate is founded in West Africa. * Februar ...

– Karađorđe leads the First Serbian Uprising against the

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. *

1831 Events January–March * January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing '' The Liberator'', an anti-slavery newspaper, in Boston, Massachusetts. * January 10 – Japanese department store, Takashimaya in Kyoto establ ...

– Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach

Sabagadis Sabagadis Woldu (; horse name: Abba Garray; baptismal name: Za-Manfas Qedus; 1780 – 1831) was a governor of Tigray Province of the Ethiopian Empire from 1822 to 1831. Sabagadis gained some notoriety in the first decade of the 19th century for r ...

in the

Battle of Debre Abbay The Battle of Debre Abbay, also known as the Battle of Mai Islami, was a conflict between Ras Marye of Yejju, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia, and his rival from Tigray, Dejazmach Sabagadis of Agame. Although Ras Marye lost his life in the ba ...

. * 1835 – The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the

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, is formed in

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. *

1849 Events January–March * January 1 – France begins issue of the Ceres series, the nation's first postage stamps. * January 5 – Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The Austrian army, led by Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, enters in th ...

– In New York City,

James Knox Polk James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. He previously was the 13th speaker of the House of Representatives (1835–1839) and ninth governor of Tennessee (18 ...

becomes the first serving

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to have his photograph taken. * 1852 – Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in

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. * 1855 –

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is linked by

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to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between

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Marshall, Texas. *

1859 Events January–March * January 21 – José Mariano Salas (1797–1867) becomes Conservative interim President of Mexico. * January 24 ( O. S.) – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexandru Ioan Cuza (Romania since 1866, final u ...

–

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is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state. * 1876 –

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applies for a

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for the

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, as does Elisha Gray. *

1879 Events January–March * January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War. * January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins. * Janu ...

– The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army occupies the

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n port city of Antofagasta. *

1899 Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a c ...

– Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections. *

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), ...

– The

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begins the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.

1901–present

1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been ...

– The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor). * 1912 –

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is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state. * 1912 – The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines. * 1918 – Russia adopts the

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. *

1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the ...

– The

Polish–Soviet War The Polish–Soviet War (Polish–Bolshevik War, Polish–Soviet War, Polish–Russian War 1919–1921) * russian: Советско-польская война (''Sovetsko-polskaya voyna'', Soviet-Polish War), Польский фронт (' ...

begins. * 1920 – The League of Women Voters is founded in

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. * 1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). * 1929 –

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: Seven people, six of them

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rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in

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. * 1942 – Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of

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. *

1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...

–

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: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated. * 1943 – World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in

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. * 1944 – World War II: In the action of 14 February 1944, a

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submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian Regia Marina submarine in the

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. * 1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British

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and the

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begin fire-bombing

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. * 1945 – World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken

bombing of Prague Prague, the capital and largest city of the German-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was bombed several times by the Allies during World War II. The first Allied aircraft to fly over Prague was a single bomber of the French Air Force ...

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by a

squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet

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's Vistula–Oder Offensive. * 1945 – World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans * 1945 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets King Ibn Saud of

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aboard the , officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations. * 1946 – The Bank of England is nationalized. * 1949 – The

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(parliament of

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) convenes for the first time. * 1949 – The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in

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. * 1961 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California. * 1966 –

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is decimalized. * 1979 – In Kabul,

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militants kidnap the American

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, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police. * 1983 – United American Bank of

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collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud. * 1989 – Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster. * 1989 –

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ian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging

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to kill Salman Rushdie, author of '' The Satanic Verses''. * 1990 – Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in

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, India. * 1990 – The '' Voyager 1'' spacecraft takes the photograph of planet

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that later becomes famous as '' Pale Blue Dot''. * 1998 – An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé,

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, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120. * 2000 – The spacecraft '' NEAR Shoemaker'' enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. * 2003 – Iraq disarmament crisis:

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Executive Chairman

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reports to the

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that disarmament inspectors have found no weapons of mass destruction in Ba'athist Iraq. * 2004 – In a suburb of

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, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 28 people, and wounding 193 others. * 2005 – In

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, 23 people, including former

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Rafic Hariri, are killed when the equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT is detonated while Hariri's

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drives through the city. * 2005 – Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected

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-linked militants that hit

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, Davao City, and General Santos City, all in the Philippines. * 2005 –

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is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for

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s. * 2008 –

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: A gunman opens fire in a lecture hall of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County, Illinois, resulting in six fatalities (including the gunman) and 21 injuries. * 2011 – As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a 'Day of Rage'. * 2018 –

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resigns as President of South Africa. * 2018 – A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in

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is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 15 injuries. *

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–

Pulwama attack The 2019 Pulwama attack occurred on 14 February 2019, when a convoy of vehicles carrying Indian security personnel on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethapora in the Pulwama district ...

takes place in

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in Pulwama district,

Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir may refer to: * Kashmir, the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent * Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), a region administered by India as a union territory * Jammu and Kashmir (state), a region administered ...

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel and a suicide bomber were killed and 35 were injured.

Births

Pre-1600

* 1404 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher (d. 1472) *

1408 Year 1408 ( MCDVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * February 19 – Battle of Bramham Moor: A royalist army defeats the last remnants of ...

– John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel (d. 1435) *

1452 Year 1452 ( MCDLII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * February – Alexăndrel retakes the throne of Moldavia, in his long struggle with ...

– Pandolfo Petrucci, tyrant of Siena (d. 1512) * 1468 – Johannes Werner, German priest and mathematician (d. 1522) *

1483 Year 1483 ( MCDLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * January 1 – The Jews are expelled from Andalusia. * February 11 – Th ...

– Babur, Moghul emperor (d. 1530) *

1490 Year 1490 ( MCDXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * January 4 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who ally themselves with the ...

– Valentin Friedland, German scholar and educationist of the Reformation (d. 1556) *

1513 Year 1513 (Roman numerals, MDXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * March 9 – Pope Leo X (layman Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici) succe ...

–

Domenico Ferrabosco Domenico Maria Ferrabosco (14 February 1513 – February 1574) was an Italian composer and singer of the Renaissance, and the eldest musician in a large prominent family from Bologna. He spent his career both in Bologna and Rome. His surviving m ...

, Italian composer (d. 1573) *

1545 Year 1545 ( MDXLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * February 22 – A firman of the Ottoman Empire is issued for the dethronement of Radu ...

–

Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara Lucrezia de' Medici (14 February 1545 – 21 April 1561) was a member of the House of Medici and by marriage Duchess consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio from 1558–1561. Married to the intended husband of her elder sister Maria, who died you ...

(d. 1561)

1601–1900

* 1602 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (d. 1676) *

1614 Events January–June * February – King James I of England condemns duels, in his proclamation ''Against Private Challenges and Combats''. * April 5 – Pocahontas is forced into child marriage with English colonist John Rolfe in Ja ...

– John Wilkins, English bishop, academic and natural philosopher (d. 1672) * 1625 – Countess Palatine Maria Euphrosyne of Zweibrücken, Swedish princess (d. 1687) * 1628 – Valentine Greatrakes, Irish faith healer (d. 1683) * 1640 – Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (d. 1693) *

1670 Events January–March * January 17 – Raphael Levy, a Jewish resident of the city of Metz in France is burned at the stake after having been accused of the September 25 abduction and ritual murder of a small child who had disa ...

– Rajaram Raj Bhonsle, third Chhatrapati of the

Maratha Empire The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern Indian confederation that came to dominate much of the Indian subcontinent in the 18th century. Maratha rule formally began in 1674 with the coronation of S ...

(d. 1700) *

1679 Events January–June * January 24 – King Charles II of England dissolves the "Cavalier Parliament", after nearly 18 years. * February 3 – Moroccan troops from Fez are killed, along with their commander Moussa ben Ahmed be ...

– Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, German organist and composer (d. 1735) * 1692 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French author and playwright (d. 1754) *

1701 In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January 12 – Parts of the Netherlands adopt the Gregorian cal ...

–

Enrique Flórez Enrique or Henrique Flórez de Setién y Huidobro (July 21, 1702August 20, 1773) was a Spanish historian. Biography Flórez was born in Villadiego Villadiego is a Spanish town and municipality in the comarca of Odra-Pisuerga, in west of the p ...

, Spanish historian and author (d. 1773) * 1763 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (d. 1813) * 1782 – Eleanora Atherton, English philanthropist (d. 1870) *

1784 Events January–March * January 6 – Treaty of Constantinople: The Ottoman Empire agrees to Russia's annexation of the Crimea. * January 14 – The Congress of the United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Brit ...

–

Heinrich Baermann Heinrich Joseph Baermann (also spelled Bärmann; 14 February 1784 – 11 June 1847) was a German clarinet virtuoso of the Romantic era who is generally considered as being not only an outstanding performer of his time, but highly influential in t ...

, German clarinetist (d. 1847) * 1799 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Polish painter and illustrator (d. 1842) *

1800 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 18), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 12 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 16), ...

– Emory Washburn, American historian, lawyer, and politician, 22nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1877) *

1808 Events January–March * January 1 ** The importation of slaves into the United States is banned, as the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves takes effect; African slaves continue to be imported into Cuba, and until the island ab ...

– Michael Costa, Italian-English conductor and composer (d. 1884) * 1812 – Fernando Wood, American merchant and politician, 73rd

Mayor of New York City The mayor of New York City, officially Mayor of the City of New York, is head of the executive branch of the government of New York City and the chief executive of New York City. The mayor's office administers all city services, public proper ...

(d. 1881) * 1813 – Lydia Hamilton Smith, African-American businesswoman (d. 1884) * 1819 – Christopher Latham Sholes, American journalist and politician, invented the

typewriter A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paper by striking an inked ribbon selective ...

(d. 1890) *

1824 May 7: The almost completely deaf Beethoven premieres his Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) , Ninth Symphony Events January–March * January 8 – After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society, ...

– Winfield Scott Hancock, American general and politician (d. 1886) *

1828 Events January–March * January 4 – Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac succeeds the Comte de Villèle, as Prime Minister of France. * January 8 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized. * January 22 – Arthu ...

–

Edmond François Valentin About Edmond François Valentin About (14 February 182816 January 1885) was a French novelist, publicist and journalist. Biography About was born at Dieuze, in the Moselle '' département'' in the Lorraine region of France. In 1848 he entered the ...

, French journalist and author (d. 1885) * 1835 – Piet Paaltjens, Dutch minister and poet (d. 1894) *

1838 Events January–March * January 10 – A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London. * January 11 – At Morristown, New Jersey, Samuel Morse, Alfred Vail and Leonard Gale give the first public demonstration o ...

– Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (d. 1914) * 1846 – Julian Scott, American soldier and drummer,

Medal of Honor The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor ...

recipient (d. 1901) * 1847 – Anna Howard Shaw, American physician, minister, and activist (d. 1919) *

1848 1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the polit ...

–

Benjamin Baillaud Édouard Benjamin Baillaud (14 February 1848 – 8 July 1934) was a French astronomer. Biography Born in Chalon-sur-Saône, Baillaud studied at the École Normale Supérieure (1866-1869) and the University of Paris. He worked as an assi ...

, French astronomer and academic (d. 1934) * 1855 – Frank Harris, Irish author and journalist (d. 1931) *

– George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, inventor of the Ferris wheel (d. 1896) * 1860 – Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (d. 1954) *

1869 Events January–March * January 3 – Abdur Rahman Khan is defeated at Tinah Khan, and exiled from Afghanistan. * January 5 – Scotland's oldest professional football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded. * January 20 – E ...

– Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist,

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfre ...

laureate (d. 1959) * 1878 – Julius Nieuwland, Belgian priest, chemist and academic (d. 1936) * 1882 – John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942) * 1884 – Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor and director (d. 1947) * 1884 –

Kostas Varnalis Kostas Varnalis ( el, Κώστας Βάρναλης; 14 February 1884 – 16 December 1974) was a Greek poet. Life Varnalis was born in Burgas, Eastern Rumelia (now in Bulgaria), in 1884. As his name suggests, his family originated from Va ...

, Greek poet and playwright (d. 1974) *

1888 In Germany, 1888 is known as the Year of the Three Emperors. Currently, it is the year that, when written in Roman numerals, has the most digits (13). The next year that also has 13 digits is the year 2388. The record will be surpassed as late ...

–

Chandrashekhar Agashe Chandrashekhar Govind Agashe ( mr, चंद्रशेखर आगाशे; IAST: Candraśekhara Āgāśe; 14 February 1888 — 9 June 1956) was an Indian industrialist and lawyer, best remembered as the founder of the Brihan Maharashtra S ...

, Indian industrialist (d. 1956) * 1890 – Nina Hamnett, Welsh-English painter and author (d. 1956) * 1890 – Dick Richards, Welsh international footballer (d. 1934) *

1891 Events January–March * January 1 ** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany. ** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. **Germany takes formal possession of its new Africa ...

– Katherine Stinson, American aviator (d. 1977) * 1892 – Radola Gajda, Czech commander and politician (d. 1948) *

1894 Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...

– Jack Benny, American actor and producer (d. 1974) * 1895 – Wilhelm Burgdorf, German general (d. 1945) * 1895 – Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973) * 1898 – Bill Tilman, English mountaineer and explorer (d. 1977) * 1898 – Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-American physicist and astronomer (d. 1974) *

– Jessica Dragonette, American singer (d. 1980)

1901–present

– Stuart Erwin, American actor (d. 1967) * 1905 – Thelma Ritter, American actress and singer (d. 1969) * 1907 –

Johnny Longden John Eric "Johnny" Longden (February 14, 1907 – February 14, 2003) was an American Hall of Fame and National Champion jockey and a trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses who was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. His father emigrated to ...

, English-American jockey and trainer (d. 2003) * 1911 – Willem Johan Kolff, Dutch physician and inventor (d. 2009) * 1912 – Tibor Sekelj, Hungarian lawyer, explorer, and author (d. 1988) * 1913 – Mel Allen, American sportscaster (d. 1996) * 1913 – Woody Hayes, American football player and coach (d. 1987) * 1913 – Jimmy Hoffa, American trade union leader (d. 1975) * 1913 – James Pike, American bishop (d. 1969) * 1915 – Sally Gray, English actress and singer (d. 2006) * 1916 – Marcel Bigeard, French general (d. 2010) * 1916 – Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director and producer (d. 1996) * 1916 – Edward Platt, American actor (d. 1974) * 1917 –

Herbert A. Hauptman Herbert Aaron Hauptman (February 14, 1917 – October 23, 2011) was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in ...

, American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011) *1921 – Hugh Downs, American journalist, game show host, and producer (d. 2020) * 1921 – Hazel McCallion, Canadian businesswoman and politician, 3rd Mayor of Mississauga *1923 – Jay Hebert, American golfer (d. 1997) * 1924 – Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (d. 2017) *1927 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian-Australian model and actress (d. 2007) *1928 – William Allain, American lawyer and politician, 58th Governor of Mississippi (d. 2013) * 1928 – Vicente T. Blaz, American general and politician (d. 2014) * 1929 – Vic Morrow, American actor and director (d. 1982) *1931 – Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2006) * 1931 – Brian Kelly (actor), Brian Kelly, American actor and director (d. 2005) *1932 – Harriet Andersson, Swedish actress *1934 – Florence Henderson, American actress and singer (d. 2016) *1935 – David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, Scottish academic and diplomat, 27th Governor of Hong Kong *1936 – Anna German, Polish singer (d. 1982) *1937 – John MacGregor, Baron MacGregor of Pulham Market, English politician, Secretary of State for Transport * 1937 – Magic Sam, American singer and guitarist (d. 1969) *1939 – Razzy Bailey, American country music singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2021) * 1939 – Blowfly (musician), Blowfly, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2016) * 1939 – Eugene Fama, American economist and academic, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate *1941 – Donna Shalala, American academic and politician, 18th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services * 1941 – Paul Tsongas, American lawyer and politician (d. 1997) * 1942 – Michael Bloomberg, American businessman and politician, 108th

* 1942 – Andrew Robinson (actor), Andrew Robinson, American actor and director * 1942 – Ricardo Rodríguez (racing driver), Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1962) *

– Maceo Parker, American saxophonist * 1944 – Carl Bernstein, American journalist and author * 1944 – Alan Parker, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2020) * 1944 – Ronnie Peterson, Swedish racing driver (d. 1978) * 1945 – Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein * 1945 – Rod Masterson, American lieutenant and actor (d. 2013) * 1946 – Bernard Dowiyogo, Nauru politician, President of Nauru (d. 2003) * 1946 – Gregory Hines, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2003) *1947 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1975) * 1947 – Judd Gregg, American lawyer and politician, 76th Governor of New Hampshire *1948 – Kitten Natividad, Mexican-American actress and dancer * 1948 – Pat O'Brien (radio and television personality), Pat O'Brien, American journalist and author * 1948 – Wally Tax, Dutch singer-songwriter (d. 2005) * 1948 – Teller (magician), Teller, American magician and actor *1950 – Roger Fisher (guitarist), Roger Fisher, American guitarist and songwriter *1951 – Terry Gross, American radio host and producer * 1951 – Kevin Keegan, English footballer and manager *1952 – Sushma Swaraj, Indian lawyer and politician, Minister of External Affairs (India), Indian Minister of External Affairs (d. 2019) *1954 – Jam Mohammad Yousaf, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan (d. 2013) *1955 – Carol Kalish, American publisher (d. 1991) *1956 – Howard Davis Jr., American boxer and trainer (d. 2015) * 1956 – Dave Dravecky, American baseball player * 1956 – Katharina Fritsch, German sculptor and academic *1957 – Soile Isokoski, Finnish soprano and actress * 1957 – Alan Smith (bishop), Alan Smith, English bishop *1958 – Grant Thomas (footballer), Grant Thomas, Australian footballer and coach *1959 – Renée Fleming, American soprano and actress *1960 – Philip Jones (Royal Navy officer), Philip Jones, English admiral * 1960 – Jim Kelly, American football player and businessman * 1960 – Meg Tilly, American actress and author *1963 – Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor, director, and producer * 1963 – John Marzano, American baseball player (d. 2008) *1964 – Gianni Bugno, Italian cyclist and sportscaster * 1966 – Petr Svoboda, Czech ice hockey player and agent *1967 – Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Greek-English businessman, founded easyJet * 1967 – Manuela Maleeva, Bulgarian-Swiss tennis player * 1967 – Mark Rutte, Dutch businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands *1968 – Jules Asner, American model and television host * 1968 – Chris Lewis (cricketer), Chris Lewis, Guyanese-English cricketer * 1968 – Scott McClellan, American civil servant and author, 25th White House Press Secretary *1969 – Meg Hillier, English journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change *1970 – Giuseppe Guerini, Italian cyclist * 1970 – Sean Hill (ice hockey), Sean Hill, American ice hockey player * 1970 – Simon Pegg, English actor, director, and producer *1971 – Kris Aquino, Filipino talk show host, actress, and producer * 1971 – Gheorghe Mureșan, Romanian basketball player *1972 – Drew Bledsoe, American football player and coach * 1972 – Musōyama Masashi, Japanese sumo wrestler * 1972 – Najwa Nimri, Spanish actress and singer * 1972 – Jaan Tallinn, Estonian computer programmer, co-developed Skype * 1972 – Rob Thomas (musician), Rob Thomas, American singer-songwriter *1973 – H. D. Ackerman, South African cricketer * 1973 – Tyus Edney, American basketball player and coach * 1973 – Steve McNair, American football player (d. 2009) * 1973 – Annalisa Buffa, Italian mathematician *1974 – Valentina Vezzali, Italian fencer and politician *1976 – Liv Kristine, Norwegian singer-songwriter * 1976 – Rie Rasmussen, Danish model, film director, writer, photographer, and actress *1977 – Cadel Evans, Australian cyclist * 1977 – Jim Jefferies (comedian), Jim Jefferies, Australian comedian and actor * 1977 – Darren Purse, English footballer * 1977 – Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (d. 2007) * 1977 – Anna Erschler, Russian mathematician * 1977 – Robert J. Jackson Jr., American law professor *1978 – Richard Hamilton (basketball), Richard Hamilton, American basketball player * 1978 – Darius Songaila, Lithuanian basketball player and coach *1980 – Josh Senter, American screenwriter and producer * 1980 – Michelle Ye, Hong Kong actress and producer *1981 – Matteo Brighi, Italian footballer * 1981 – Randy de Puniet, French motorcycle racer * 1981 – Brad Halsey, American baseball player (d. 2014) *1982 – Marián Gáborík, Slovak ice hockey player * 1982 – John Halls, English footballer and model * 1982 – Lenka Tvarošková, Slovak tennis player * 1983 – Callix Crabbe, Virgin Islander baseball player * 1983 – Rocky Elsom, Australian rugby player * 1983 – Bacary Sagna, French footballer *1985 – Karima Adebibe, English model and actress * 1985 – Tyler Clippard, American baseball player * 1985 – Heart Evangelista, Filipino singer and actress * 1985 – Philippe Senderos, Swiss international footballer * 1985 – Miki Yeung, Hong Kong singer and actress *1986 – Michael Ammermüller, German racing driver * 1986 – Oliver Lee (actor), Oliver Lee, English actor, director, and screenwriter * 1986 – Gao Lin, Chinese footballer *1987 – Edinson Cavani, Uruguayan footballer * 1987 – Tom Pyatt, Canadian ice hockey player * 1987 – David Wheater, English footballer *1988 – Katie Boland, Canadian actress, producer, and screenwriter * 1988 – Ángel Di María, Argentinian footballer * 1988 – Siim Liivik, Estonian ice hockey player * 1989 – Néstor Calderón, Mexican footballer * 1989 – Adam Matuszczyk, Polish footballer * 1989 – Emma Miskew, Canadian curler * 1989 – Brandon Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player * 1989 – Jurij Tepeš, Slovenian ski jumper * 1989 – Kristian Thomas, English gymnast * 1990 – Sefa Yılmaz, German-Turkish footballer *1991 – Daniela Mona Lambin, Estonian footballer *1992 – Christian Eriksen, Danish footballer * 1992 – Freddie Highmore, English actor *1996 – Lucas Hernandez, French footballer *1997 – Jaehyun (singer), Jaehyun, South Korean singer and actor

Deaths

Pre-1600

* 869 – Saints Cyril and Methodius, Cyril, Greek missionary bishop (b. 827) * 945 – Lian Chongyu, Chinese general * 945 – Zhu Wenjin, Chinese emperor *1009 – Bruno of Querfurt, German missionary bishop *1010 – Fujiwara no Korechika, Japanese nobleman (b. 974) *1140 – Leo I, Prince of Armenia, Leo I, Armenian prince * 1140 – Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia, Sobĕslav I, duke of Bohemia *1164 – Sviatoslav Olgovich, Kievan prince *1229 – Rǫgnvaldr Guðrøðarson, king of the Isles *1317 – Margaret of France, Queen of England, Margaret of France, queen of England *1400 – Richard II of England, Richard II, king of England (b. 1367) *1440 – Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg, Dietrich of Oldenburg, German nobleman *1489 – Nicolaus von Tüngen, prince-bishop of Warmia *1528 – Edzard I, Count of East Frisia, Edzard I, German nobleman (b. 1462) *1549 – Il Sodoma, Italian painter (b. 1477) *1571 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal (b. 1517)

1601–1900

*1676 – Abraham Bosse, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1602) *1714 – Maria Luisa of Savoy, queen of Spain (b. 1688) *1737 – Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, English lawyer and politician Lord Chancellor, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685) *1744 – John Hadley, English mathematician, invented the Octant (instrument), octant (b. 1682) *

– James Cook, English captain, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1728) *1780 – William Blackstone, English jurist and politician (b. 1723) * 1782 – Singu Min, Burmese king (b. 1756) *

– John Dickinson (Pennsylvania and Delaware), John Dickinson, American lawyer and politician 5th Governor of Delaware (b. 1732) *

– Vicente Guerrero, Mexican general and politician, 2nd President of Mexico (b. 1782) * 1831 – Henry Maudslay, English engineer (b. 1771) *1870 – St. John Richardson Liddell, American general (b. 1815) *1881 – Fernando Wood, American merchant and politician, 73rd

(b. 1812) * 1884 – Lydia Hamilton Smith, African-American businesswoman (b. 1813) *1885 – Jules Vallès, French journalist and author (b. 1832) *

– William Tecumseh Sherman, American general (b. 1820) *

– Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian-French mathematician and academic (b. 1814)

1901–present

*1901 – Edward Stafford (politician), Edward Stafford, Scottish-New Zealand educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1819) *1910 – Giovanni Passannante, Italian anarchist (b. 1849) *1922 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (b. 1880; assassinated) * 1929 – Thomas Burke (athlete), Thomas Burke, American sprinter, coach, and lawyer (b. 1875) *1930 – Thomas Mackenzie, Scottish-New Zealand cartographer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1853) *1933 – Carl Correns, German botanist and geneticist (b. 1864) *1937 – Erkki Melartin, Finnish composer (b. 1875) * 1942 – Adnan Saidi, Malayan lieutenant (b. 1915) *

– Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (b. 1899) * 1943 – David Hilbert, Russian-German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1862) *1948 – Mordecai Brown, American baseball player and manager (b. 1876) * 1949 – Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi politician (b. 1901) *1950 – Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist and engineer (b. 1905) *1952 – Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (b. 1896) *1958 – Abdur Rab Nishtar, Pakistani politician, 2nd Governor of Punjab, Pakistan, Governor of Punjab (b. 1899) *1959 – Baby Dodds, American drummer (b. 1898) *1967 – Sig Ruman, German-American actor (b. 1884) *1969 – Vito Genovese, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1897) *1970 – Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer and coach (b. 1880) *1974 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer and coach (b. 1903) *1975 – Julian Huxley, English biologist and eugenicist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1887) * 1975 – P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (b. 1881) *1976 – Gertrud Dorka, German archaeologist, prehistorian and museum director (born 1893) * 1979 – Adolph Dubs, American lieutenant and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Afghanistan (b. 1920) * 1983 – Lina Radke, German runner and coach (b. 1903) *1986 – Edmund Rubbra, English composer and conductor (b. 1901) *1987 – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1904) *1988 – Frederick Loewe, German-American composer (b. 1901) * 1989 – James Bond (ornithologist), James Bond, American ornithologist and zoologist (b. 1900) * 1989 – Vincent Crane, English pianist (b. 1943) *1994 – Andrei Chikatilo, Soviet serial killer (b. 1936) * 1994 – Christopher Lasch, American historian and critic (b. 1932) *1995 – Michael V. Gazzo, American actor and playwright (b. 1923) * 1995 – U Nu, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1907) *1996 – Bob Paisley, English footballer and manager (b. 1919) * 1998 – Peter Koch (wood scientist), American industrial engineer and wood scientist (b. 1920) *1999 – John Ehrlichman, American lawyer and politician, 12th White House Counsel (b. 1925) * 1999 – Buddy Knox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1933) *2002 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1922) * 2002 – Mick Tucker, English drummer (b. 1947) * 2003 –

, English jockey and trainer (b. 1907) * 2004 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970) * 2005 – Rafic Hariri, Lebanese businessman and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1944; Assassination of Rafic Hariri, assassinated) *2006 – Lynden David Hall, English singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1974) *2007 – Ryan Larkin, Canadian animator and director (b. 1943) * 2007 – Gareth Morris, English flute player and educator (b. 1920) *2009 – Bernard Ashley (businessperson), Bernard Ashley, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Laura Ashley plc (b. 1926) * 2009 – Louie Bellson, American drummer and composer (b. 1924) *2010 – Doug Fieger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952) * 2010 – Dick Francis, Welsh jockey and author (b. 1920) * 2010 – Linnart Mäll, Estonian historian, orientalist, and translator (b. 1938) * 2011 – George Shearing, English-American pianist and composer (b. 1919) *2012 – Mike Bernardo, South African boxer and martial artist (b. 1969) * 2012 – Tonmi Lillman, Finnish drummer and producer (b. 1973) * 2012 – Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter (b. 1925) * 2012 – Péter Rusorán, Hungarian swimmer, water polo player, and coach (b. 1940) *2013 – Glenn Boyer, American historian and author (b. 1924) * 2013 – Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and scholar (b. 1931) *2014 – Tom Finney, English footballer (b. 1922) * 2014 – Chris Pearson (politician), Chris Pearson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Yukon (b. 1931) * 2014 – Mike Stepovich, American lawyer and politician, List of Governors of Alaska, Governor of Alaska Territory (b. 1919) *2015 – Louis Jourdan, French-American actor and singer (b. 1921) * 2015 – Philip Levine (poet), Philip Levine, American poet and academic (b. 1928) * 2015 – Franjo Mihalić, Croatian-Serbian runner and coach (b. 1920) *2016 – Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, English lieutenant, engineer, and politician (b. 1928) * 2016 – Steven Stucky, American composer and academic (b. 1949) * 2018 – Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Prime Minister and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1939) * 2018 – Morgan Tsvangirai, 2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (b. 1952). *2021 – Carlos Menem, Argentine former president, lawyer, and statesman (b. 1930). * 2021 – William Meninger, American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (b. 1932)William Meninger Death
, by Jessy Jackson (Inside Eko, February 16, 2021)

Holidays and observances

* Christian feast day: ** Saints Cyril and Methodius, Cyril and Methodius, patron saints of Europe (Roman Catholic Church) ** Manchan of Mohill, Manchan ** Saint Valentine, Valentine (see also Valentine's Day) ** February 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) * List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union#List of U.S. states, Statehood Day (

, United States) * List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union#List of U.S. states, Statehood Day (

, United States) * Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (Armenian Apostolic Church) * Parents' Worship Day (parts of

)

References

External links

BBC: On This Day
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