On this day: 15 February
Events, births and deaths on 15 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Muhsin Hendricks
- Deaths · Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa
- Deaths · George Armitage
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · George Gaynes
- Deaths · Vanity
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1928 · Deaths · H. H. Asquith
- 1934 · Births · Niklaus Wirth
- 1929 · Births · Graham Hill
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1043 · Deaths · Gisela of Swabia
Events · 21
- 1493(Julian date)Columbus Letter on the First Voyage — 1493 Columbus letter on the first voyage
- 1763Treaty of Hubertusburg — 1763 peace treaty ending the Third Silesian War, part of the Seven Years' War
- 1798Roman Republic — republic at Italy between 1798–1799
- 1907Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 — international agreement between Japan and the U.S.
- 19151915 Singapore Mutiny — mutiny
- 1933Attempted assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt — 1933 shooting in Miami, Florida, United States
- 1944Narva Offensive February 1944 — 1944 campaign fought between the German army detachment "Narwa" and the Soviet Leningrad Front
- 1961Sabena Flight 548 — aviation accident
- 1965flag of Canada — national flag of Canada
- 1970Dominicana DC-9 air disaster — Aviation accident
- 1971Decimal Day — day in 1971 when the United Kingdom and Ireland decimalized their currencies
- 1989Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan — final phase of the Soviet–Afghan War
- 1991Visegrád Group — cultural and political alliance in Central Europe
- 1992Air Transport International Flight 805 — flight that crashed in Ohio on February 15, 1992
- 1996Shawinigan Handshake — chokehold move by the Canadian head of state
- 200315 February 2003 anti-war protest — international protests
- 2010Halle train collision — train wreck
- 2011Libyan Civil War — 2011 armed conflict in the North African country of Libya
- 2012Comayagua prison fire — Deadly 2012 fire in Comayagua, Honduras
- 2013Chelyabinsk meteor — near-Earth asteroid that fell over Russia in 2013
- 20212021 Congo River disaster — ship sinking
Births · 60
- 1377Ladislaus of Naples — king of Naples (1377-1414)
- 1472(Julian date)Piero the Unfortunate — Italian noble (1472-1504)
- 1564(Julian date)Galileo Galilei — Italian polymath (1564–1642)
- 1638Zeb-un-Nisa — Mughal princess and poet
- 1710Louis XV of France — King of France and Navarre 1715 to 1774 (1710–1774)
- 1749Jeremy Bentham — British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
- 1759Friedrich August Wolf — German philologist
- 1809Cyrus McCormick — American inventor and businessman (1809–1884)
- 1811Domingo Faustino Sarmiento — Argentinian politician and writer (1811-1888)
- 1820Susan B. Anthony — American women's rights activist (1820–1906)
- 1823Li Hongzhang — Chinese politician, general and diplomat; governor of Zhili of the late Qing dynasty; Trade Minister of the Beiyang Government (1823–1901)
- 1835(Julian date)Dimitrios Vikelas — Greek businessman and writer; president of the International Olympic Committee (1835-1908)
- 1841Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales — President of Brazil (1841-1913)
- 1845Elihu Root — American politician (1845-1937)
- 1856Emil Kraepelin — German psychiatrist (1856–1926)
- 1861Alfred North Whitehead — English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)
- 1861Charles Édouard Guillaume — Swiss physicist (1861-1938)
- 1873Hans von Euler-Chelpin — Swedish scientist (1873-1964)
- 1874Ernest Shackleton — Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer (1874–1922)
- 1890Robert Ley — German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes (1890-1945)
- 1898Totò — Italian actor (1898–1967)
- 1899Gale Sondergaard — American actress (1899–1985)
- 1899Georges Auric — French composer
- 1905Harold Arlen — American composer of popular music (1905-1986)
- 1907Cesar Romero — American actor (1907–1994)
Deaths · 60
- 670(Julian date)Oswiu — 7th-century Anglo-Saxon king
- 706(Julian date)Tiberios III — Byzantine emperor from 698 to 705
- 706(Julian date)Leontius — Byzantine emperor from 695 to 698
- 1043Gisela of Swabia — 11th century empress of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1145(Julian date)Lucius II — pope of the Catholic Church from 1144 to 1145
- 1152(Julian date)Conrad III of Germany — Hohenstaufen dynasty king (r. 1138–1152)
- 1508(Julian date)Giovanni II Bentivoglio — Italian noble (1443-1508)
- 1600José de Acosta — Spanish missionary and writer (1539 or 1540–1600)
- 1621Michael Praetorius — German composer, organist, and music theorist
- 1637Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor — Holy Roman Emperor
- 1738Matthias Braun — Czech sculptor
- 1781Gotthold Ephraim Lessing — German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic (1729-1781)
- 1818Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen — German general (1746–1818)
- 1842Archibald Menzies — Scottish surgeon, botanist and naturalist (1754-1842)
- 1844Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1801 to 1804
- 1847Germinal Pierre Dandelin — mathematician, soldier, engineering professor (1794–1847)
- 1849Pierre François Verhulst — Belgian mathematician (1804–1849)
- 1857Michael Glinka — Russian composer (1804–1857)
- 1869Mirza Ghalib — Indian poet (1797-1869)
- 1897Prince Dimitrie Ghica — Romanian politician (1816-1897)
- 1900Adrien René Franchet — French botanist (1834-1900)
- 1905Lew Wallace — American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of 'Ben Hur' (1827-1905)
- 1911Theodor Escherich — Austrian doctor (1857–1911)
- 1928H. H. Asquith — British politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916 (1852–1928)
- 1933Pat Sullivan — Australian animator (1887–1933)
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