Events
Pre-1600
* 452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. * 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and1601–1900
* 1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia. * 1797 – A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen. They were defeated by 500 British reservists. * 1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales. * 1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia. * 1828 – Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah. * 1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine. * 1848 – Karl Marx and1901–present
* 1913 – Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars. * 1916 –Births
Pre-1600
* 921 – Abe no Seimei, Japanese astrologer (died 1005) * 1397 – Isabella of Portugal (died 1471) * 1462 – Joanna la Beltraneja, princess of Castile (died 1530) * 1484 – Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1535) *1498 – Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland, English Earl (died 1549) *1541 – Philipp V, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1599) *1556 – Sethus Calvisius, German astronomer, composer, and theorist (died 1615)1601–1900
*1609 – Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian military commander (died 1680) *1621 – Rebecca Nurse, Massachusetts colonist, executed as a witch (died 1692) *1705 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral and politician (died 1781) *1728 – Peter III of Russia (died 1762) *1783 – Catharina of Württemberg (died 1835) *1788 – Francis Ronalds, British scientist, inventor and engineer who was knighted for developing the first working electric telegraph (died 1873) *1791 – Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer (died 1857) *1794 – Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and politician, 8th President of Mexico (died 1876) *1801 – John Henry Newman, English cardinal (died 1890) *1817 – José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (died 1893) *1821 – Charles Scribner I, American publisher, founded Charles Scribner's Sons (died 1871) *1836 – Léo Delibes, French pianist and composer (died 1891) *1844 – Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (died 1937) *1860 – Goscombe John, Welsh-English sculptor and academic (died 1952) *1865 – John Haden Badley, English author and educator, founded the Bedales School (died 1967) *1867 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German banker and philanthropist (died 1934) *1875 – Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian, oldest verified person ever (died 1997) * 1878 – Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (died 1973) *1881 – Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (died 1945) * 1885 – Sacha Guitry, Russian-French actor, director, and playwright (died 1957) *1887 – Korechika Anami, Japanese general and politician, 54th Ministry of War of Japan, Japanese Minister of War (died 1945) *1888 – Clemence Dane, English author and playwright (died 1965) *1892 – Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (died 1949) *1893 – Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress (died 1979) * 1893 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (died 1987) *1894 – Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian chemist and academic (died 1955) *1895 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976) * 1896 – Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Nirala, Indian poet and author (died 1961) *1900 – Jeanne Aubert, French singer and actress (died 1988)1901–present
*1902 – Arthur Nock, English theologian and academic (died 1963) *1903 – Anaïs Nin, French-American essayist and memoirist (died 1977) * 1903 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and author (died 1976) *1907 – W. H. Auden, English-American poet, playwright, and composer (died 1973) *1909 – Hans Erni, Swiss painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2015) *1910 – Douglas Bader, English fighter pilot in World War II (died 1982) *1912 – Arline Judge, American actress and singer (died 1974) *1914 – Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (died 1999) * 1914 – Zachary Scott, American actor (died 1965) * 1914 – Jean Tatlock, American psychiatrist and physician (died 1944) *1915 – Claudia Jones, Trinidad-British journalist and activist (died 1964) * 1915 – Ann Sheridan, American actress and singer (died 1967) * 1915 – Anton Vratuša, Prime Minister of Slovenia (died 2017) *1917 – Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (died 1996) * 1917 – Tadd Dameron, American pianist and composer (died 1965) * 1921 – Zdeněk Miler, Czech animator (died 2011) * 1921 – John Rawls, American philosopher and academic (died 2002) * 1921 – Richard T. Whitcomb, American aeronautical engineer (died 2009) *1924 – Dorothy Blum, American computer scientist and cryptanalyst (died 1980) * 1924 – Thelma Estrin, American computer scientist and engineer (died 2014) * 1924 – Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean educator and politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (died 2019) * 1925 – Sam Peckinpah, American director and screenwriter (died 1984) * 1925 – Jack Ramsay, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2014) *1927 – Erma Bombeck, American journalist and author (died 1996) * 1929 – Chespirito, Mexican actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014) *1933 – Bob Rafelson, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2022) * 1933 – Nina Simone, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2003) *1934 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (died 2010) *1935 – Richard A. Lupoff, American author (died 2020) * 1935 – Mark McManus, Scottish actor (died 1994) *1936 – Barbara Jordan, American lawyer and politician (died 1996) * 1937 – Ron Clarke, Australian runner and politician, Mayor of the Gold Coast (died 2015) * 1937 – Harald V of Norway * 1937 – Gary Lockwood, American actor *1938 – Bobby Charles, American singer-songwriter (died 2010) *1940 – Peter Gethin, English racing driver (died 2011) * 1940 – John Lewis, American activist and politician (died 2020) *1942 – Tony Martin (professor), Tony Martin, Trinidadian-American historian and academic (died 2013) * 1942 – Margarethe von Trotta, German actress, director, and screenwriter *1943 – David Geffen, American businessman, co-founded DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks and Geffen Records * 1945 – Maurice Bembridge, English golfer (died 2024) *1946 – Tyne Daly, American actress and singer * 1946 – Anthony Daniels, English actor and producer * 1946 – Alan Rickman, English actor and director (died 2016) * 1946 – Bob Ryan, American journalist and author * 1947 – Johnny Echols, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1947 – Olympia Snowe, American politician *1949 – Frank Brunner, American illustrator * 1949 – Jerry Harrison, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer * 1949 – Ronnie Hellström, Swedish footballer (died 2022) *1950 – Sahle-Work Zewde, Ethiopian politician and diplomat, 5th President of Ethiopia *1951 – Vince Welnick, American keyboard player (died 2006) * 1952 – Jean-Jacques Burnel, English bass player, songwriter, and producer * 1952 – Vitaly Churkin, Russian diplomat, former Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, Ambassador of Russia to the United Nations (died 2017) *1953 – Christine Ebersole, American actress and singer * 1953 – William Petersen, American actor and producer *1954 – Christina Rees, British politician *1955 – Kelsey Grammer, American actor, singer, and producer * 1958 – Jake Burns, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1958 – Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1958 – Kim Coates, Canadian-American actor * 1958 – Jack Coleman (actor), Jack Coleman, American actor * 1958 – Alan Trammell, American baseball player, coach, and manager *1959 – José María Cano, Spanish singer-songwriter and painter *1960 – Plamen Oresharski, Bulgarian economist and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria *1961 – Christopher Atkins, American actor and businessman * 1961 – Elliot Hirshman, American psychologist and academic *1962 – Chuck Palahniuk, American novelist and journalist * 1962 – David Foster Wallace, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 2008) *1963 – William Baldwin, American actor * 1963 – Ranking Roger, English singer-songwriter and musician (died 2019) * 1963 – Greg Turner, New Zealand golfer *1964 – Mark Kelly, American astronaut and politician * 1964 – Scott Kelly (astronaut), Scott Kelly, American astronaut *1965 – Mark Ferguson (news presenter), Mark Ferguson, Australian journalist *1967 – Leroy Burrell, American runner and coach * 1967 – Sari Essayah, Finnish athlete and politician *1969 – James Dean Bradfield, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1969 – Aunjanue Ellis, American actress and producer * 1969 – Petra Kronberger, Austrian skier * 1969 – Tony Meola, American soccer player and manager * 1969 – Cathy Richardson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist *1970 – Michael Slater, Australian cricketer and sportscaster * 1971 – Pierre Fulke, Swedish golfer * 1973 – Heri Joensen, Faroese singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1973 – Brian Rolston, American ice hockey player and coach * 1974 – Iván Campo, Spanish footballer * 1975 – Scott Miller (swimmer), Scott Miller, Australian swimmer *1976 – Michael McIntyre, English comedian, actor and television presenter * 1976 – Ryan Smyth, Canadian ice hockey player *1977 – Steve Francis, American basketball player * 1977 – Rhiannon Giddens, American musician *1978 – Erick Barkley, American basketball player *1979 – Tituss Burgess, American actor and singer * 1979 – Carlito (wrestler), Carlito, Puerto Rican wrestler * 1979 – Pascal Chimbonda, Guadeloupean-French footballer * 1979 – Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and producer * 1979 – Jordan Peele, American actor, comedian, director, producer, and screenwriter *1980 – Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player * 1980 – Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer-songwriter and producer * 1980 – Brendan Sexton III, American actor * 1980 – Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, 5th King of Bhutan *1981 – Tsuyoshi Wada, Japanese baseball player *1982 – Andre Barrett, American basketball player * 1982 – Chantal Claret, American singer-songwriter * 1982 – Tebogo Jacko Magubane, South African DJ and producer *1983 – Braylon Edwards, American football player * 1983 – Franklin Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player * 1983 – Mélanie Laurent, French actress *1984 – Andy Ellis (rugby union), Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby player * 1984 – David Odonkor, German footballer * 1984 – Marco Paoloni, Italian footballer * 1984 – James Wisniewski, American ice hockey player *1985 – Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer *1986 – Charlotte Church, Welsh singer-songwriter and actress *1987 – Eniola Aluko, English footballer * 1987 – Ashley Greene, American actress * 1987 – Elliot Page, Canadian actor *1988 – Donté Greene, American basketball player *1989 – Corbin Bleu, American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter * 1989 – Ian Cole, American ice hockey player * 1989 – Federico Fernández (footballer), Federico Fernández, Argentine footballer * 1989 – Jake Muzzin, Canadian ice hockey player *1990 – Mattias Tedenby, Swedish ice hockey player *1991 – Joe Alwyn, English actor * 1991 – Riyad Mahrez, Algerian footballer * 1991 – Ji So-yun, South Korean footballer * 1991 – Solar (singer), Solar, South Korean singer, songwriter and actress * 1991 – Devon Travis, American baseball player *1992 – Phil Jones (footballer, born 1992), Phil Jones, English footballer *1993 – Steve Leo Beleck, Cameroonian footballer * 1993 – Davy Klaassen, Dutch footballer * 1994 – Tang Haochen, Chinese tennis player * 1994 – Hayley Orrantia, American actress and singer-songwriter * 1994 – Wendy (singer), Wendy, South Korean singer *1996 – Noah Rubin (tennis), Noah Rubin, American tennis player * 1996 – Sophie Turner, English actress *1999 – Metawin Opas-iamkajorn, Thai actor and singerDeaths
Pre-1600
*4 AD – Gaius Caesar, Roman Roman consul, consul and grandson of Augustus (born 20 BC) * 675 – Randoald of Grandval, priory#Other prior and priories, prior of the Benedictine monastery of Grandval, Switzerland, Grandval *1184 – Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Japanese List of shōguns, shōgun (born 1154) *1211 – Aymon de Briançon, archbishop of Tarentaise and crusader *1267 – Baldwin of Ibelin, Seneschal of Cyprus *1437 – James I of Scotland (born 1394; assassinated) *1471 – Jan Rokycana, Czech bishop and theologian (born 1396) *1513 – Pope Julius II (born 1443) *1543 – Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Somalian general (born 1507) *1554 – Hieronymus Bock, German botanist and physician (born 1498) *1572 – Cho Shik, Korean poet and scholar (born 1501) *1590 – Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English nobleman and general (born 1528) *1595 – Robert Southwell (Jesuit), Robert Southwell, English priest and poet (born 1561)1601–1900
*1677 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and scholar (born 1632) *1715 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician (born 1637) *1730 – Pope Benedict XIII (born 1649) *1821 – Georg Friedrich von Martens, German jurist and diplomat (born 1756) *1824 – Eugène de Beauharnais, French general (born 1781) *1829 – Kittur Chennamma, Indian queen and freedom fighter (born 1778) *1846 – Emperor Ninkō of Japan (born 1800) * 1862 – Justinus Kerner, German poet and physician (born 1786) *1888 – William Weston (Australian politician), William Weston, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of Tasmania (born 1804) *1891 – James Timberlake, American lieutenant and police officer (born 1846)1901–present
* 1918 – Incas (parakeet), Incas, endling, last known Carolina parakeet (h. ) * 1919 – Kurt Eisner, German journalist and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (born 1867) *1926 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1853) *1934 – Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader (born 1895) *1938 – George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and academic (born 1868) *1941 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891) *1944 – Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-French racing driver (born 1873) * 1945 – Eric Liddell, Scottish rugby player and runner (born 1902) *1946 – José Streel, Belgian journalist (born 1911) * 1947 – Fannie Charles Dillon, American composer (born 1881) * 1958 – Duncan Edwards, English footballer (born 1936) *1965 – Malcolm X, American minister and activist (born 1925) *1967 – Charles Beaumont, American author and screenwriter (born 1929) *1968 – Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898) * 1972 – Zhang Guohua (politician, born 1914), Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (born 1914) * 1972 – Bronislava Nijinska, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (born 1891) * 1972 – Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (born 1884) * 1974 – Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, co-founded Tim Hortons (born 1930) *1980 – Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (born 1914) *1982 – Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (born 1897) *1984 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905) *1985 – Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (born 1909) *1986 – Helen Hooven Santmyer, American novelist (born 1895) *1991 – Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (born 1915) * 1991 – Nutan, Indian actress (born 1936) *1993 – Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (born 1888) * 1994 – Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (born 1913) * 1995 – Robert Bolt, English dramatist (born 1924) *1996 – Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1913) *1999 – Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918) * 1999 – Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (born 1914) * 1999 – Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player and politician (born 1930) *2002 – John Thaw, English actor and producer (born 1942) *2004 – John Charles, Welsh footballer and manager (born 1931) *2005 – Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban author, screenwriter, and critic (born 1929) * 2005 – Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor (born 1929) *2008 – Ben Chapman (actor), Ben Chapman, American actor (born 1928) *2011 – Dwayne McDuffie, American author and screenwriter, co-founded Milestone Media (born 1962) * 2011 – Bernard Nathanson, American physician and activist (born 1926) *2012 – H. M. Darmstandler, American general (born 1922) * 2013 – Hasse Jeppson, Swedish footballer (born 1925) *2014 – Héctor Maestri, Cuban-American baseball player (born 1935) * 2014 – Matthew Robinson (snowboarder), Matthew Robinson, Australian snowboarder (born 1985) * 2014 – Cornelius Schnauber, German–American historian, playwright, and academic (born 1939) *2015 – Aleksei Gubarev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1931) * 2015 – Sadeq Tabatabaei, Iranian journalist and politician (born 1943) * 2015 – Clark Terry, American trumpet player, composer, and educator (born 1920) *2016 – Eric Brown (pilot), Eric Brown, Scottish-English captain and pilot (born 1919) *2017 – Jeanne Martin Cissé, Guinean teacher and politician (born 1926) *2018 – Billy Graham, American evangelist (born 1918) *2019 – Stanley Donen, American film director (born 1924) * 2019 – Peter Tork, American musician and actor (born 1942) *2021 – Mireya Arboleda, Colombian classical pianist (born 1928) * 2021 – Kevin Dann, Australian rugby league player (born 1958) * 2024 – John Bahnsen, United States Army brigadier general and decorated veteran of the Vietnam War (born 1934) *2025 – Clint Hill (Secret Service), Clint Hill, American Secret Service agent (born 1932) *2025 – Lynne Marie Stewart, American actress (born 1946)Holidays and observances
*Armed Forces Day#South Africa, Armed Forces Day (South Africa) *Harald V of Norway, Birthday of King Harald V (Norway) *Christian feast day: **Felix of Hadrumetum **Pepin of Landen **Peter Damian **Randoald of Grandval **February 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) *Public holidays in Vanuatu, Father Lini Day (Vanuatu) *Language Movement Day (References
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