February 15

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February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 319 more days in the year (320 in leap years).

[edit] Events

• 1965 - The Maple Leaf flag becomes Canada's flag
• 1967 - Chicago, a musical group forms.
• 1971 - Britain adopts decimal currency.

[edit] Births

• 1564 - Galileo Galilei, astronomer (died 1642)
• 1820 - Susan B. Anthony, American women's civil rights leader
• 1954 - Matt Groening - writer, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama
• 1964 - Chris Farley, comedian

[edit] Deaths

• 1145 - Pope Lucius II
• 1621 - Michael Praetorius, German composer
• 1637 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1678)
• 1738 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
• 1775 - Peter Dens, Belgian Catholic theologian (b. 1690)
• 1781 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (b. 1729)
• 1818 - Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)
• 1835 - Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773)
• 1847 - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794)
• 1848 - Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771)
• 1849 - Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (b. 1804)
• 1857 - Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804)
• 1932 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, Broadway actress (b. 1865)
• 1959 - Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1964 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1880)
• 1965 - Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
• 1966 - Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect and historian of gardens (b. 1909)
• 1973 - Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1973 - Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1974 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
• 1981 - Mike Bloomfield, American musician (b. 1944)
• 1981 - Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)
• 1984 - Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
• 1988 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1996 - Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941)
• 1996 - McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1999 - Big L (Lamont Coleman), American rapper (b. 1974)
• 1999 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
• 2002 - Howard K. Smith, American journalist (b. 1914)
• 2002 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
• 2004 - Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and International Court of Justice judge (b. 1917)
• 2004 - Jan Miner, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2005 - Samuel Francis, American journalist (b. 1947)