February 14

February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 320 days remaining until the end of the year (321 in leap years).

Events

• 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
• 1014 – Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1076 – Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1349 – Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remainder of their population is forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.
• 1400 – Richard II dies, most likely from starvation, in Pontefract Castle, on the orders of Henry Bolingbroke.
• 1556 – Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
• 1778 – The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
• 1779 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
• 1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
• 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: 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 – Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
• 1831 – Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
• 1835 – The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
• 1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States 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 (The National Children's Hospital in Dublin was founded over 30 years previously in 1821), is founded in London.
• 1855 – Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
• 1859 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
• 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
• 1879 – The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
• 1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
• 1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
• 1903 – The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
• 1912 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
• 1912 – In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
• 1918 – The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
• 1919 – The Polish–Soviet War begins.
• 1920 – The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
• 1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
• 1929 – Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1942 – Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
• 1943 – World War II: 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 Tunisia.
• 1944 – World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
• 1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
• 1945 – World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
• 1945 – World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
• 1945 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
• 1946 – The Bank of England is nationalized.
• 1949 – The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
• 1949 – The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
• 1950 – Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People's Liberation Army.
• 1956 – The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.
• 1961 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
• 1962 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
• 1966 – Australian currency is decimalised.
• 1979 – In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
• 1981 – Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
• 1983 – United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee 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 – Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
• 1990 – 92 people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India.
• 1998 – An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which kills 120.
• 2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
• 2002 – The Budapest Open Access Initiative, one of the cornerstones of the Open access movement, was released to the public.
• 2004 – In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
• 2005 – Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
• 2005 – Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
• 2005 – Youtube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
• 2011 – As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain begins with a 'Day of Rage'.

Births

• 1468 – Johannes Werner, German priest and mathematician (d. 1522)
• 1483 – Babur, Moghul emperor (d. 1530)
• 1545 – Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara (d. 1561)
• 1602 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (d. 1676)
• 1679 – Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, German composer and organist (d. 1735)
• 1680 – John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1737)
• 1692 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French playwright (d. 1754)
• 1701 – Enrique Flórez, Spanish historian (d. 1773)
• 1763 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (d. 1813)
• 1766 – Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and scholar (d. 1834)
• 1778 – Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1841)
• 1793 – Karl Christian Ulmann, Baltic German theologian (d. 1871)
• 1799 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Polish painter (d. 1842)
• 1800 – Emory Washburn, American lawyer, historian, and politician, 22nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1877)
• 1812 – Alfred Thomas Agate, American painter (d. 1846)
• 1818 – Frederick Douglass, American author and activist (d. 1895)
• 1819 – Christopher Latham Sholes, American inventor, invented the typewriter (d. 1890)
• 1824 – Winfield Scott Hancock, American general (d. 1886)
• 1828 – Edmond François Valentin About, French journalist and author (d. 1885)
• 1835 – Piet Paaltjens, Dutch minister and poet (d. 1894)
• 1838 – Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (d. 1914)
• 1846 – Julian Scott, American soldier and painter, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1901)
• 1847 – Maria Pia of Savoy (d. 1911)
• 1847 – Anna Howard Shaw, American physician, minister, and activist (d. 1919)
• 1848 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (d. 1934)
• 1856 – Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (d. 1931)
• 1859 – George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., American engineer, inventor of the Ferris wheel (d. 1896)
• 1860 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (d. 1954)
• 1869 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 1871 – Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (d. 1959)
• 1874 – Louis Handley, Italian-American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1956)
• 1882 – John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)
• 1884 – Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor and director (d. 1947)
• 1884 – Joe Jagersberger, Austrian race car driver (d. 1952)
• 1884 – Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (d. 1974)
• 1885 – Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian-Pakistani philosopher (d. 1949)
• 1890 – Nina Hamnett, Welsh painter (d. 1956)
• 1892 – Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (d. 1948)
• 1894 – Jack Benny, American actor and comedian (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)
• 1903 – Stuart Erwin, American actor (d. 1967)
• 1903 – Bernhard Leene, Dutch cyclist (d. 1988)
• 1904 – Hertta Kuusinen, Finnish politician (d. 1974)
• 1904 – Charles Oatley, English physicist and engineer (d. 1996)
• 1905 – Thelma Ritter, American actress (d. 1969)
• 1907 – Johnny Longden, English jockey (d. 2003)
• 1912 – Tibor Sekelj, Hungarian explorer and author (d. 1988)
• 1913 – Mel Allen, American journalist (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Woody Hayes, American football player and coach (d. 1987)
• 1913 – Jimmy Hoffa, American union leader (d. 1975)
• 1913 – James Pike, American bishop (d. 1969)
• 1914 – Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (d. 2007)
• 1916 – Marcel Bigeard, French general (d. 2010)
• 1916 – Sally Gray, English actress (d. 2006)
• 1916 – Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director and producer (d. 1996)
• 1916 – Edward Platt, American actor (d. 1974)
• 1917 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Judith Holzmeister, Austrian actress (d. 2008)
• 1921 – Hugh Downs, American television host and producer
• 1921 – Hazel McCallion, Canadian politician, 3rd Mayor of Mississauga
• 1921 – Robert Vaidlo, Estonian journalist and children's writer (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Murray the K, American radio host (d. 1982)
• 1923 – Juan Acuña, Spanish footballer (d. 2001)
• 1927 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (d. 2007)
• 1927 – Jerry Wolman, American businessman (d. 2013)
• 1928 – William Allain, American soldier and politician, 58th Governor of Mississippi (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Benjamin Purcell, American colonel and politician (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Vic Morrow, American actor and director (d. 1982)
• 1931 – Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2006)
• 1931 – Brian Kelly, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Phyllis McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
• 1932 – Alexander Kluge, German actor and director
• 1933 – Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969)
• 1933 – Tom Borland, American baseball player (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor
• 1934 – Neil Davis, Australian cameraman (d. 1985)
• 1934 – Florence Henderson, American actress and singer
• 1935 – Christel Adelaar, Indonesian-Dutch actress (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Fanne Foxe, Argentinian-American stripper
• 1936 – György Kézdy, Hungarian actor (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Andrew Prine, American actor
• 1937 – Magic Sam, American singer and guitarist (d. 1969)
• 1939 – Eugene Fama, American economist
• 1940 – James Maynard, American businessman, co-founded Golden Corral
• 1941 – Donna Shalala, American academic
• 1941 – Big Jim Sullivan, English guitarist (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Paul Tsongas, American politician (d. 1997)
• 1942 – Michael Bloomberg, American businessman and politician, 108th Mayor of New York City
• 1942 – Andrew Robinson, American actor
• 1942 – Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican race car driver (d. 1962)
• 1942 – Piotr Szczepanik, Polish singer and actor
• 1943 – Eric Andersen, American singer-songwriter
• 1943 – Maceo Parker, American saxophonist (Parliament-Funkadelic, The J.B.'s, and The Horny Horns)
• 1943 – Aaron Russo, American director and producer (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Carl Bernstein, American journalist
• 1944 – Alan Parker, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1944 – Ronnie Peterson, Swedish race car driver (d. 1978)
• 1945 – Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
• 1945 – Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Bernard Dowiyogo, Nauru politician, President of Nauru (d. 2003)
• 1946 – Gregory Hines, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2003)
• 1946 – Tina Aumont, American actress (d. 2006)
• 1947 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1975)
• 1947 – Judd Gregg, American politician, 76th Governor of New Hampshire
• 1948 – Teller, American magician and actor
• 1948 – Pat O'Brien, American sportscaster
• 1950 – Roger Fisher, American guitarist (Heart and Alias)
• 1951 – Terry Gross, American radio host and producer
• 1951 – Kevin Keegan, English footballer
• 1951 – JoJo Starbuck, American ice skater
• 1952 – Nancy Keenan, American activist
• 1953 – Odds Bodkin, American author
• 1954 – Jam Mohammad Yousaf, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan (d. 2013)
• 1955 – Ronald Desruelles, Belgian long jumper
• 1955 – James Eckhouse, American actor
• 1955 – Carol Kalish, American publisher (d. 1991)
• 1956 – Dave Dravecky, American baseball player
• 1956 – Tõnu Laigu, Estonian architect
• 1957 – Alan Hunter, American television host and actor
• 1957 – Soile Isokoski, Finnish soprano
• 1958 – Francisco Javier López Peña, Spanish military leader (d. 2013)
• 1958 – Enrique Mansilla, Argentinian race car driver
• 1958 – Grant Thomas, Australian footballer
• 1959 – Renée Fleming, American soprano
• 1960 – Jim Kelly, American football player
• 1960 – Meg Tilly, American actress
• 1961 – Phillip Hamilton, American author
• 1962 – Kevyn Aucoin, American make up artist and photographer (d. 2002)
• 1962 – Michael Higgs, English actor
• 1962 – Sakina Jaffrey, American-Indian actress
• 1962 – Philippe Sella, French rugby player
• 1962 – Porsche Lynn, American exotic dancer, dominatrix, and pornographic actress
• 1963 – Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor
• 1963 – John Marzano, American baseball player (d. 2008)
• 1964 – Gianni Bugno, Italian cyclist
• 1964 – Zach Galligan, American actor
• 1966 – Petr Svoboda, Czech ice hockey player
• 1967 – Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Greek-English businessman, founded easyJet
• 1967 – Manuela Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
• 1967 – Mark Rutte, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
• 1968 – Latifa, Tunisian singer and actress
• 1968 – Jules Asner, American model
• 1968 – Scott McClellan, American civil servant and author, 25th White House Press Secretary
• 1969 – Adriana Behar, Brazilian volleyball player
• 1969 – Harry Colon, American football player
• 1970 – Giuseppe Guerini, Italian cyclist
• 1970 – Sean Hill, American ice hockey player
• 1970 – Simon Pegg, English actor, producer, and director
• 1970 – Heinrich Schmieder, German actor (d. 2010)
• 1971 – Kris Aquino, Filipino actress
• 1971 – Tommy Dreamer, American wrestler
• 1971 – Gheorghe Mureșan, Romanian basketball player
• 1971 – Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer and actress
• 1972 – Hiroshi, Japanese comedian
• 1972 – Drew Bledsoe, American football player
• 1972 – Nelson Frazier, Jr., American wrestler and actor
• 1972 – Najwa Nimri, Spanish actress and singer
• 1972 – Jaan Tallinn, Estonian computer programmer
• 1972 – Rob Thomas, American singer-songwriter (Matchbox Twenty and Tabitha's Secret)
• 1973 – Tyus Edney, American basketball player
• 1973 – Steve McNair, American football player (d. 2009)
• 1973 – Yuka Sato, Japanese figure skater
• 1974 – Filippa Giordano, Italian singer
• 1974 – Philippe Léonard, Belgian footballer
• 1975 – Xie Hui, Chinese footballer
• 1975 – Yul Kwon, American lawyer and television host
• 1975 – Scott Owen, Australian bassist (The Living End)
• 1975 – Malik Zidi, French actor
• 1976 – Liv Kristine, Norwegian singer-songwriter (Leaves' Eyes and Theatre of Tragedy)
• 1976 – Erica Leerhsen, American actress
• 1977 – Darren Bennett, English dancer
• 1977 – Donna Cruz, Filipino actress and singer
• 1977 – Cadel Evans, Australian cyclist
• 1977 – Darren Purse, English footballer
• 1977 – Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (d. 2007)
• 1977 – Jim Jefferies, Australian comedian and actor
• 1978 – Dwele, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1978 – Dean Gaffney, English actor
• 1978 – Richard Hamilton, American basketball player
• 1978 – Darius Songaila, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1979 – Paolo Ginestra, Italian footballer
• 1979 – Pablo Pallante, Uruguayan footballer
• 1980 – Fátima Leyva, Mexican footballer
• 1980 – Josh Senter, American screenwriter
• 1980 – Michelle Ye, Hong Kong actress
• 1981 – Matteo Brighi, Italian footballer
• 1981 – Randy de Puniet, French motorcycle racer
• 1981 – Ayako Hamada, Mexican-Japanese wrestler
• 1981 – Erin Torpey, American actress and singer
• 1982 – Marián Gáborík, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1982 – John Halls, English footballer
• 1982 – Andrei Jämsä, Estonian rower
• 1982 – Lenka Tvarošková, Slovak tennis player
• 1983 – Rhydian, Welsh singer and actor
• 1983 – Callix Crabbe, Virgin Islander baseball player
• 1983 – Rocky Elsom, Australian rugby player
• 1983 – Vincent Labrie, Canadian speed skater
• 1983 – Bacary Sagna, French footballer
• 1984 – Hamed Namouchi, Tunisian footballer
• 1985 – Karima Adebibe, English actress and model
• 1985 – Tyler Clippard, American baseball player
• 1985 – Heart Evangelista, Filipino singer and actress
• 1985 – John Prats, Filipino actor and dancer
• 1985 – Natsume Sano, Japanese model
• 1985 – Philippe Senderos, Swiss footballer
• 1985 – Miki Yeung, Hong Kong singer and actress (Cookies)
• 1986 – Michael Ammermüller, German race car driver
• 1986 – Roxanne Guinoo, Filipino actress
• 1986 – Markus Karl, German footballer
• 1986 – Oliver Lee, English actor
• 1986 – Gao Lin, Chinese footballer
• 1986 – Kang Min-Soo, South Korean footballer
• 1986 – Tiffany Thornton, American actress and singer
• 1986 – Aschwin Wildeboer, Spanish swimmer
• 1987 – Edinson Cavani, Uruguayan footballer
• 1987 – Joe Pichler, American actor
• 1987 – Tom Pyatt, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Yulia Savicheva, Russian singer
• 1987 – Fabian Schönheim, German footballer
• 1987 – David Wheater, English footballer
• 1988 – Katie Boland, Canadian actress
• 1988 – Siim Liivik, Estonian ice hockey player
• 1988 – Ángel di María, Argentinian footballer
• 1988 – Quentin Mosimann, Swiss singer
• 1988 – Asia Nitollano, American singer and dancer (The Pussycat Dolls)
• 1989 – Néstor Calderón, Mexican footballer
• 1989 – Christopher Handke, German footballer
• 1989 – Adam Matuszczyk, Polish footballer
• 1989 – Emma Miskew, Canadian curler
• 1989 – Denisa Smolenová, Slovak swimmer
• 1989 – Sten-Timmu Sokk, Estonian basketball player
• 1989 – Brandon Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Sefa Yılmaz, German footballer
• 1991 – Chris Rowney, English footballer
• 1991 – Rilwan Waheed, Maldivian footballer
• 1992 – Christian Eriksen, Danish footballer
• 1992 – Freddie Highmore, English actor
• 1993 – Shane Harper, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1994 – Paul Butcher, American actor

Deaths

• 269 – Saint Valentine, Roman bishop and martyr
• 869 – Saint Cyril, Greek monk, scholar, and linguist (b. 827)
• 1229 – Ragnvald Godredsson, Manx king
• 1317 – Margaret of France, Queen of England (b. 1282)
• 1400 – Richard II of England (b. 1367)
• 1571 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal (b. 1517)
• 1676 – Abraham Bosse, French illustrator (b. 1602)
• 1714 – Maria Luisa of Savoy (b. 1688)
• 1737 – Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, English lawyer and politician Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685)
• 1744 – John Hadley, English mathematician, invented the octant (b. 1682)
• 1779 – James Cook, English captain and explorer (b. 1728)
• 1780 – William Blackstone, English jurist and politician (b. 1723)
• 1782 – Singu Min, Burmese king (b. 1756)
• 1808 – John Dickinson, American lawyer and politician 5th Governor of Delaware (b. 1732)
• 1831 – 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 politician, 73rd Mayor of New York City (b. 1812)
• 1884 – Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1861)
• 1885 – Jules Vallès, French journalist and author (b. 1832)
• 1891 – William Tecumseh Sherman, American general (b. 1820)
• 1894 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian-French mathematician (b. 1814)
• 1910 – Giovanni Passannante, Italian anarchist (b. 1849)
• 1919 – Pál Luthár, Slovene-Lutheran organist, author, and educator (b. 1839)
• 1922 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (b. 1880)
• 1929 – Thomas Burke, American sprinter (b. 1875)
• 1929 – Frank Gusenberg, American gangster (b. 1892)
• 1929 – Peter Gusenberg, American gangster (b. 1889)
• 1937 – Franz Böckli, Swiss target shooter (b. 1858)
• 1942 – Adnan bin Saidi, Malayan lieutenant (b. 1915)
• 1943 – Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (b. 1899)
• 1943 – David Hilbert, German mathematician (b. 1862)
• 1948 – Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (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)
• 1954 – Henri Laurent, French fencer (b. 1881)
• 1958 – Abdur Rab Nishtar, Pakistani politician, 2nd 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 mobster (b. 1897)
• 1970 – Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880)
• 1974 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903)
• 1975 – Julian Huxley, English biologist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1887)
• 1975 – P. G. Wodehouse, English author and poet (b. 1881)
• 1978 – Paul Governali, American football player (b. 1921)
• 1979 – Adolph Dubs, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Afghanistan (b. 1920)
• 1980 – Rudra Baruah, Indian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1926)
• 1983 – Lina Radke, German runner (b. 1903)
• 1986 – Edmund Rubbra, English composer (b. 1901)
• 1987 – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Karolos Koun, Greek director (b. 1908)
• 1988 – Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (b. 1901)
• 1989 – James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
• 1989 – Vincent Crane, English pianist, for The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster (b. 1943)
• 1990 – Tony Holiday, German singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
• 1992 – Helen Vela, Filipino journalist and actress (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Andrei Chikatilo, Ukrainian-Russian serial killer (b. 1936)
• 1994 – Christopher Lasch, American historian and critic (b. 1932)
• 1994 – Rodney Orr, American race car driver (b. 1962)
• 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)
• 1999 – John Ehrlichman, American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel (b. 1925)
• 1999 – Buddy Knox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1933)
• 2002 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Mick Tucker, English drummer (Sweet) (b. 1947)
• 2003 – Dolly, Scottish cloned sheep (b. 1996)
• 2003 – Johnny Longden, English jockey (b. 1907)
• 2004 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
• 2005 – Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, Greek author and journalist (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Rafic Hariri, Lebanese businessman and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1944)
• 2005 – Najai Turpin, American boxer (b. 1981)
• 2005 – Ronnie Burgess, Welsh footballer (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Darry Cowl, French actor and singer (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Shoshana Damari, Yemeni-Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
• 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 (b. 1920)
• 2009 – Bernard Ashley, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Laura Ashley plc (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Louie Bellson, American drummer and composer (b. 1924)
• 2009 – John McGlinn, American conductor (b. 1953)
• 2010 – Doug Fieger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Knack and Sky) (b. 1952)
• 2010 – Dick Francis, Welsh jockey and author (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Linnart Mäll, Estonian historian, orientalist, and translator (b. 1938)
• 2011 – Ali Abdulhadi Mushaima, Bahraini protester (b. 1989)
• 2011 – George Shearing, English-American pianist (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Glenn Boyer, American historian and author (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Richard J. Collins, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1914)
• 2013 – Luis Cruzado, Peruvian footballer (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Frank DiPaolo, American politician (b. 1906)
• 2013 – Tim Dog, American rapper (Ultramagnetic MCs) (b. 1967)
• 2013 – Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and scholar (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Walt Easley, American football player (b. 1957)
• 2013 – Aleksander Gudzowaty, Polish economist (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Goldie Harvey, Nigerian singer-songwriter (b. 1983)
• 2013 – Mark Kamins, American radio host and producer (b. 1955)
• 2013 – Montague Levine, English physician (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Fernando Lyra, Brazilian politician (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Shadow Morton, American songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Kenneth Nance, American politician (b. 1941)
• 2013 – T. L. Osborn, American evangelist and author (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (b. 1983)
• 2013 – Kazuo Tsunoda, Japanese pilot (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Zdeněk Zikán, Czech footballer (b. 1937)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Cyril and Methodius, patron saints of Europe (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Valentine
  • February 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Communist Martyrs Day (Iraqi Communist Party)
• Statehood Day (Arizona)
• Statehood Day (Oregon)
• The second day of Lupercalia (Ancient Rome)
• Valentine's Day (International)

External links

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