On this day: 14 February
Events, births and deaths on 14 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Steven Stucky
- Deaths · Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1918 · Events · Gregorian calendar
- 1917 · Births · Herbert A. Hauptman
- 1933 · Births ·
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1009 · Deaths · Bruno of Querfurt
- 1010 · Deaths · Fujiwara no Korechika
Events · 36
- 842(Julian date)Oaths of Strasbourg — military pact
- 1130(Julian date)1130 papal election — 1130 election of the Catholic pope
- 1349(Julian date)Strasbourg massacre — 14-century pogrom in Strasbourg, Holy Roman Empire
- 1779death of James Cook — 1779 killing of Captain James Cook in Hawaii
- 1779Battle of Kettle Creek — 1779 American Revolutionary War battle
- 1797Battle of Cape St. Vincent — 1797 naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars
- 1804First Serbian Uprising — part of the Serbian Revolution
- 1852Great Ormond Street Hospital — children's hospital in London
- 1859Oregon — state of the United States of America
- 1900Battle of the Tugela Heights — 1900 battle of the Second Boer War
- 1903United States Department of Commerce and Labor — former executive department of the United States government; split into two departments in 1913
- 1912Arizona — state of the United States of America
- 1918Gregorian calendar — internationally accepted civil calendar, first used in 1582
- 1919Battle of Bereza Kartuska — 1919 and 1920 battles in the Polish–Soviet War
- 1929Saint Valentine's Day Massacre — February 1929 gang showdown in Chicago, Illinois, USA
- 1943Battle of Sidi Bou Zid — 1943 battle in Tunisia
- 1949The Knesset — unicameral national legislature of Israel
- 1949Asbestos Strike — 1949 labor dispute in Quebec, Canada
- 1950Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance — former military alliance treaty
- 19521952 Winter Olympics — 6th edition of Winter Olympics, in Oslo, Norway
- 19801980 Winter Olympics — 13th edition of Winter Olympics, in Lake Placid, USA
- 1990Pale Blue Dot — photograph of planet Earth taken on 14 February 1990 by the unmanned Voyager 1 spaceprobe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers
- 1990Family Portrait — 38-part mosaic image of the Solar System acquired by Voyager 1
- 1990Indian Airlines Flight 605 — plane crash in Bangalore, India
- 1992Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 386 — Cholera outbreak
- 1998Yaoundé train explosion — 1998 accident in Cameroon
- 2005YouTube — American video-sharing platform owned by Alphabet Inc.
- 2005Cedar Revolution — 2005 anti-Syrian protest movement in Lebanon
- 2005assassination of Rafic Hariri — 2005 murder in Beirut, Lebanon
- 2008Northern Illinois University shooting — school shooting on Valentines Day, 2008
- 20112011 Bahraini uprising — Protests in Bahrain that started on February 14, 2011
- 2011Day of Rage — Name given by protesters in Bahrain to 14 February 2011, the first day of the national uprising as part of the Arab Spring
- 2018Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting — 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, USA
- 20192019 Pulwama attack — terrorist attack
- 2020Ntumbo attack — 2020 attack in Cameroon
- 20242024 Kinmen Chinese motorboat capsizing incident — maritime incident in the Taiwan Strait
Births · 60
- 1404(Julian date)Leon Battista Alberti — Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
- 1483(Julian date)Babur — founder of the Mughal Empire (1526–1530)
- 1602Francesco Cavalli — Italian composer (1602–1676)
- 1614John Wilkins — Secretary of the Royal Society and Bishop of Chester
- 1763Jean Victor Marie Moreau — French General (1763–1813)
- 1828Edmond François Valentin About — French writer and critic (1828-1885)
- 1839Hermann Hankel — German mathematician (1839–1873)
- 1869Charles Thomson Rees Wilson — Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)
- 1877Edmund Landau — German Jewish mathematician (1877–1938)
- 1878Kōki Hirota — Japanese prime minister, diplomat, and war criminal (1878-1948)
- 1882John Barrymore — American actor (1882–1942)
- 1888Chandrashekhar Agashe — Indian industrialist and entrepreneur (1888–1956)
- 1894Jack Benny — American comedic entertainer (1894–1974)
- 1895Max Horkheimer — German philosopher and sociologist (1895–1973)
- 1898Fritz Zwicky — Swiss astronomer (1898–1974)
- 1902Thelma Ritter — American actress and vaudevillian (1902-1969)
- 1912Tibor Sekelj — Hungarian author and explorer (1912–1988)
- 1913
- 1916Masaki Kobayashi — Japanese film director (1916–1996)
- 1917Herbert A. Hauptman — American mathematician (1917–2011)
- 1927Lois Maxwell — Canadian actress (1927–2007)
- 1932Alexander Kluge — German writer, philosopher, academic and film director (1932–2026)
- 1932Harriet Andersson — Swedish actress (born 1932)
- 1933
- 1936Anna German — Polish singer, popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union (1936-1982)
Deaths · 60
- 269(Julian date)Saint Valentine — 3rd-century Roman Christian saint (175–273)
- 1009(Julian date)Bruno of Querfurt — Missionary archbishop and martyr
- 1140Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia — Duke of Bohemia from 1125 to 1140
- 1140(Julian date)Leo I, Prince of Armenia — Prince of Armenia
- 1318(Julian date)Margaret of France — Queen of England
- 1400Richard II of England — King of England from 1377 to 1399
- 1549(Julian date)Il Sodoma — Italian Renaissance painter (1477-1549)
- 1676Abraham Bosse — French artist (1604-1676)
- 1714Maria Luisa of Savoy — Queen consort of Spain (1688-1714)
- 1744John Hadley — English mathematician and astronomer; (1682-1744)
- 1779James Cook — British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)
- 1780William Blackstone — English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)
- 1808John Dickinson — American politician (1732-1808)
- 1831Vicente Guerrero — leading revolutionary generals of the War of Independence and President of Mexico (1782-1831)
- 1831Henry Maudslay — British engineer
- 1885Jules Vallès — French journalist and author (1832-1885)
- 1891William Tecumseh Sherman — United States Army general (1820–1891)
- 1894Eugène Charles Catalan — French and Belgian mathematician (1814–1894)
- 1910Giovanni Passannante — Italian anarchist (1849–1910)
- 1929Thomas Burke — American sprinter
- 1933Carl Correns — German botanist and geneticist (1864–1933)
- 1937Erkki Melartin — Finnish conductor and composer (1875-1937)
- 1943David Hilbert — German mathematician (1862–1943)
- 1943Dora Gerson — German actress (1899–1943)
- 1950Karl Guthe Jansky — American physicist and radio engineer
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