February 15

Birthdays

  • 1483
    Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30)
  • 1497
    Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant reformer
  • 1519
    Pedro Menendez de Aviles, explored Florida & founded St. Augustine
  • 1564
    Galileo Galilei, astronomer in Pisa -- Italy
  • 1710
    Louis XV, king of France (1710-74)
  • 1726
    Abraham Clark, farmer/lawyer & signer of Declaration of Independence
  • 1748
    Jeremy Bentham, Utilitarian philosopher & economist
  • 1797
    Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
  • 1803
    John Augustus Sutter, of gold rush fame
  • 1809
    Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor
  • 1820
    Susan B Anthony, Woman's suffragette
  • 1845
    Elihu Root ,(R), U.S. secretary of state (Nobel Peace Prize 1912)
  • 1861
    Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician & philosopher
  • 1882
    John Barrymore, Actor (or 0215)
  • 1901
    Christmas Humphreys, British lawyer & writer & Buddhist
  • 1907
    Cesar Romero, Actor (Ocean's 11)
  • 1911
    Leonard Woodcock, labor leader
  • 1914
    Kevin McCarthy, Actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers & Howling)
  • 1927
    Harvey Korman, Actor (Carol Burnett Show & Blazing Saddles)
  • 1929
    James Schlesinger, former U.S. secretary of defense
  • 1931
    Claire Bloom, Actress (Charly Look Back in Anger) in London England
  • 1933
    Susan Brownmiller
  • 1934
    Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer programmer & inventor of PASCAL
  • 1943
    Florinda Bolkan
  • 1944
    Alexander A. Serebrov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-7 & T-8)
  • 1947
    Marisa Berenson, in New York
  • 1951
    Jane Seymour, in Middlesex England -- Actress (East of Eden & Lassiter)
  • 1951
    Melissa Manchester, singer in Bronx NY
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