On This Day — February 15
4482 noted people were born and 2113 died on February 15 in our archive, including André Parrot, Halford Mackinder and Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 15
André Parrot
1901 – 1980
Halford Mackinder
1861 – 1947
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen
1839 – 1920
Michel Talagrand
b. 1952
Paul Ekman
1934 – 2025
André Dumont
1809 – 1857
Anu Realo
b. 1971
Arnold Christopher Ræstad
1878 – 1945
Bernd Pischetsrieder
b. 1948
Bjarni Jónsson
1920 – 2016
Carlo Maria Martini
1927 – 2012
Charles Édouard Guillaume
1861 – 1938
Dmitry Livanov
b. 1967
Douglas Hofstadter
b. 1945
Edith Major
1867 – 1951
Edwin Cameron
b. 1953
Galileo Galilei
1564 – 1642
George Cowan
1920 – 2012
George Johnstone Stoney
1826 – 1911
Herman Kahn
1922 – 1983
Jacob Mchangama
b. 1978
James Stavridis
b. 1955
Kelvin Felix
1933 – 2024
Leonard Woodcock
1911 – 2001
Mahmud Mammad-Guliev
b. 1949
Malcolm Hailey
1872 – 1969
Marian Salzman
b. 1959
Maxine Singer
1931 – 2024
Mher Grigoryan
b. 1972
Michael F. Holick
b. 1946
Niklaus Wirth
1934 – 2024
Oliver Jens Schmitt
b. 1973
Paul Koebe
1882 – 1945
Pedro Laín Entralgo
1908 – 2001
Polly Neate
b. 1966
Rafał Romanowski
b. 1978
Richard Fortey
1946 – 2025
Rickman Godlee
1849 – 1925
Sergey Knyazev
b. 1959
Shoucheng Zhang
1963 – 2018
Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet
1853 – 1923
Smilja Avramov
1918 – 2018
Sophie Bryant
1850 – 1922
Spiru Haret
1851 – 1912
Srettha Thavisin
b. 1962
Tim Barrow
b. 1964
V. A. Urechia
1834 – 1901
William Fishburn Donkin
1814 – 1869
Émile Cartailhac
1845 – 1921
Adolf Mussafia
1834 – 1905
Aleksandr Serebrov
1944 – 2013
Aleksei Alekseevich Korotnev
1854 – 1915
Alexander Vasilievich Gavrilenko
b. 1950
Alexandre François Liautard
1835 – 1918
Alfred North Whitehead
1861 – 1947
Alfredo Chiaradía
b. 1945
Andrey Kuraev
b. 1963
Andrzej Górak
b. 1951
Andrzej Gąsienica-Makowski
b. 1952
António de Almeida Santos
1926 – 2016
Arif Pashayev
b. 1934
Art Spiegelman
b. 1948
Arthur Hobhouse
1886 – 1965
Arvid Posse
1820 – 1901
Ashraf Choudhary
b. 1949
Augustin Nicolas Gilbert
1858 – 1927
Baldemar Velasquez
b. 1947
Barbara Mittler
b. 1968
Barry Cheung
b. 1958
Bashir Badr
1935 – 2026
Berthold Huber
b. 1950
Bruce Bolt
1930 – 2005
Bruce Robertson
b. 1944
Camille Rousset
1821 – 1892
Christopher Budd
b. 1960
Clare Short
b. 1946
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall
1886 – 1963
David Hall
1928 – 2016
Dimitrios Vikelas
1835 – 1908
Dubravka Stojanović
b. 1963
Dzhokhar Dudayev
1944 – 1996
Earl Blaik
1897 – 1989
Edward Byrne
b. 1952
Edward Clarke
1841 – 1931
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Sr.
1865 – 1925
Elihu Root
1845 – 1937
Elmo Nüganen
b. 1962
Emil Kraepelin
1856 – 1926
Endicott Peabody
1920 – 1997
Eno Raud
1928 – 1996
Enrico Cerulli
1898 – 1988
Ernest Shackleton
1874 – 1922
Esko Seppänen
1946 – 2025
Euseviu Popovici
1838 – 1922
Faustino Malaguti
1802 – 1878
Federico Chávez
1881 – 1978
Federico Halbherr
1857 – 1930
Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand
1786 – 1851
Flor de María Vega Zapata
b. 1958
Foy D. Kohler
1908 – 1990
Frank Ballance
1942 – 2019
Friedrich August Wolf
1759 – 1824
Friedrich Ludwig Persius
1803 – 1845
Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus
1846 – 1921
Gerald Schwarz
b. 1946
Germain Sommeiller
1815 – 1871
Giorgio Zur
1930 – 2019
Giovanni Lanza
1810 – 1882
Giuseppe Luigi Trevisanato
1801 – 1877
Glen M. Bagnell
b. 1936
Graham Lusk
1866 – 1932
Guy Touvron
1950 – 2024
Gérard Chaliand
1934 – 2025
HAP Grieshaber
1909 – 1981
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
1873 – 1964
Hardeep Singh Puri
b. 1952
Harold Warris Thompson
1908 – 1983
Hastings Banda
1898 – 1997
Henry Albert Schultens
1749 – 1793
Hmayak Siras
1902 – 1983
Hrishikesh Sulabh
b. 1955
Hugo Vogel
1855 – 1934
Igor Rudenya
b. 1968
Ilan Marek
b. 1963
Jacques Isnardon
1860 – 1930
James Forrestal
1892 – 1949
James Lewis Knight-Bruce
1791 – 1866
James R. Schlesinger
1929 – 2014
Jan Hecker
1967 – 2021
Jan Pen
1921 – 2010
Jason De León
b. 1977
Jean-François Le Sueur
1760 – 1837
Jean-Jacques Chevallier
1900 – 1983
Jean-Jacques Uhrich
1802 – 1886
Jean-Pierre Rioux
1939 – 2024
Joaquim Gomes de Souza
1829 – 1864
John Adams
b. 1947
John B. Anderson
1922 – 2017
John Barrymore
1882 – 1942
John Joseph Montgomery
1858 – 1911
John Keister
b. 1956
Josef Hlávka
1831 – 1908
Joseph George Cumming
1812 – 1868
Joseph Oughourlian
b. 1972
Joseph R. Donovan Jr.
b. 1951
Judith M. Lumley
1941 – 2018
Karl Friedrich Lessing
1808 – 1880
Larysa Trofymenko
b. 1950
Laurent Lantieri
b. 1963
Laurenz Meyer
b. 1948
Leland D. Melvin
b. 1964
Leo Arons
1860 – 1919
Leslie Griffiths
b. 1942
Li Hongzhang
1823 – 1901
Linda Woodhead
b. 1964
Louis Figuier
1819 – 1894
Luis Carlos Díaz
b. 1985
Mark Horton
b. 1956
Martin Knudsen
1871 – 1949
Masauji Hachisuka
1903 – 1953
Matome Ugaki
1890 – 1945
Matt Groening
b. 1954
Maurice Kamto
b. 1954
Mauro Vieira
b. 1951
Michael Röckner
b. 1956
Miep Gies
1909 – 2010
Milo Đukanović
b. 1962
Miloslav Ransdorf
1953 – 2016
Monica Cirinnà
b. 1963
Motohiko Kondo
1954 – 2018
Mustafa A.G. Abushagur
b. 1951
Nikolai Ge
1831 – 1894
Nikolai Velyaminov
1855 – 1920
Olga Merediz
b. 1956
Orshi Drozdik
b. 1946
Osvaldo Aranha
1894 – 1960
Pascal Poirier
1852 – 1933
Paul Groussac
1848 – 1929
Pavel Lebeshev
1940 – 2003
Pierre Louis Roederer
1754 – 1835
Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat
1936 – 2024
Ponnala Lakshmaiah
b. 1944
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
b. 1955
Rachel Makinson
1917 – 2014
Rafael Bielsa
b. 1953
Raymundo Damasceno Assis
b. 1937
Richard Blanco
b. 1968
Riho Ühtegi
b. 1964
Robert Ley
1890 – 1945
Roger Bruce Chaffee
1935 – 1967
Rosa Cursach Salas
b. 1967
Roser Bru
1923 – 2021
Russell Marshall
1936 – 2025
Sabine Sütterlin-Waack
b. 1958
Safi Qureshey
b. 1951
Sahak Ter-Gabrielyan
1886 – 1937
Shigemaru Takenokoshi
1906 – 1980
Sigurd Hofmann
1944 – 2022
Sir Max Aitken, 2nd Baronet
1910 – 1985
Stephen D. Krasner
b. 1942
… and 4,282 more
Died on February 15
Vladimir Utkin
1923 – 2000
Adriano Ossicini
1920 – 2019
Edgar Snow
1905 – 1972
Fiona Caldicott
1941 – 2021
Folke K. Skoog
1908 – 2001
Francis Penrose
1817 – 1903
George W. Snedecor
1881 – 1974
Herman Johannes Lam
1892 – 1977
Jens Evensen
1917 – 2004
John James Walker
1825 – 1900
Joris in 't Veld
1895 – 1982
Kazuhiko Nishijima
1926 – 2009
Owen Willans Richardson
1879 – 1959
Paul Berg
1926 – 2023
Richard Feynman
1918 – 1988
Theodor Escherich
1857 – 1911
Valeri Popenchenko
1937 – 1975
William Turner
1832 – 1916
Achille Liénart
1884 – 1973
Adolphe Bazaine-Vasseur
1809 – 1893
Alan Cottrell
1919 – 2012
Alexander Borodin
1833 – 1887
Alistair Mackay
1878 – 1914
Allen Bergin
1934 – 2024
Aloisius Joseph Muench
1889 – 1962
Angus MacLean
1914 – 2000
Anna Psarouda - Benaki
1934 – 2026
Bill Morrison
1928 – 2013
Bohuslav Brauner
1855 – 1935
Brunó Ferenc Straub
1914 – 1996
Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo
1764 – 1842
Catherine McArdle Kelleher
1939 – 2023
Charles Clermont-Ganneau
1846 – 1923
Chough Pyung-ok
1894 – 1960
Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander
1909 – 1974
Cornelis de Kiewiet
1902 – 1986
Czesław Madajczyk
1921 – 2008
David Monro
1813 – 1877
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
1813 – 1886
Ellis Avery
1972 – 2019
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
1578 – 1637
Francis Home
1719 – 1813
Frank Kitto
1903 – 1994
François-Xavier van der Straten-Waillet
1910 – 1998
Frederick Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol
1769 – 1859
Frode Rinnan
1905 – 1997
Georges Octave Dujardin-Beaumetz
1833 – 1895
Gerhard Riege
1930 – 1992
Gerhart Baum
1932 – 2025
Germinal Pierre Dandelin
1794 – 1847
Gerrit Ybema
1945 – 2012
Giuseppe Vigoni
1846 – 1914
H. H. Asquith
1852 – 1928
Hans Kienle
1895 – 1975
Heinrich Seeling
1852 – 1932
Henry Way Kendall
1926 – 1999
Herbert Spender-Clay
1875 – 1937
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
1882 – 1970
Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford
1860 – 1943
Jacob Axelsson Lindblom
1746 – 1819
James M. Burt
1917 – 2006
Janusz Zarzycki
1914 – 1995
Jeffery Cohelan
1914 – 1999
Joseph William Chitty
1828 – 1899
José Rebolledo de Palafox, 1st Duke of Saragossa
1775 – 1847
José Zalaquett
1942 – 2020
Karl Richter
1926 – 1981
Katherine Davies Jones
1860 – 1943
Kenneth Street
1890 – 1972
Kurt Atterberg
1887 – 1974
Louis Hippolyte Marie Nouet
1844 – 1933
Martha Gellhorn
1908 – 1998
Maxime Real del Sarte
1888 – 1954
Mehmed Celal Bey
1863 – 1926
Mečislovas Gedvilas
1901 – 1981
Mikhail Solomentsev
1913 – 2008
Mordkhe Schaechter
1927 – 2007
Mustafa 'Abd al-Raziq
1885 – 1947
Neville Blyth
1825 – 1890
Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman
1802 – 1865
Nicolas Bergeron
1975 – 2024
Norman Ernest Archer
1892 – 1970
Otto Toeplitz
1881 – 1940
Pavel Blonsky
1884 – 1941
Peter Armitage
1924 – 2024
Peter Merseburger
1928 – 2022
Pierre François Verhulst
1804 – 1849
Pieter Klazes Pel
1852 – 1919
Rajendran Raja
1948 – 2014
Ralph Teetor
1890 – 1982
Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce
1907 – 2003
Robert Luther
1822 – 1900
Roeland J. M. Nolte
1944 – 2024
Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck
1761 – 1825
Selmar Aschheim
1878 – 1965
Shulamit Bat-Dori
1904 – 1985
Simeon Radev
1879 – 1967
Son Won-il
1909 – 1980
Steven M. Wise
1950 – 2024
Stuart McLean
1948 – 2017
Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier
1859 – 1943
Tadeusz Chyliński
1911 – 1978
Thelma Estrin
1924 – 2014
Theodor Wisén
1835 – 1892
Thomas Bruice
1925 – 2019
Waldemar Verner
1914 – 1982
William Christian Bullitt, Jr.
1891 – 1967
William Henry Clinton
1769 – 1846
Włodzimierz Kiernożycki
1951 – 2025
Zdzisław Najder
1930 – 2021
A. Elizabeth Adams
1892 – 1962
Achille Manara
1827 – 1906
Achilleas Gerokostopoulos
1850 – 1900
Adam Wilhelm Moltke
1785 – 1864
Al Mahmud
1936 – 2019
Albert F. Jones
1858 – 1920
Albert Thomas
1898 – 1966
Albrecht Wagner
1827 – 1871
Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, 1st Baron Lamington
1816 – 1890
Alexander Viets Griswold
1766 – 1843
Alf Victor Guldberg
1866 – 1936
Amnon Netzer
1934 – 2008
Andrew Jameson
1855 – 1941
Andrey Petrov
1930 – 2006
Anne de Noailles
1613 – 1678
Annie Jack
1839 – 1912
Antoine Marie Chamans de Lavalette
1769 – 1830
Antonio Moreno
1887 – 1967
Artus de Cossé, comte de Secondigny
1512 – 1582
Auguste Davezac
1780 – 1851
Augustine Brohan
1824 – 1893
Barbara Guest
1920 – 2006
Barclay Henley
1843 – 1914
Basil Hall Chamberlain
1850 – 1935
Betty Dubiner
1912 – 2008
Camilo Torres Restrepo
1929 – 1966
Carol Brice
1918 – 1985
Cary Travers Grayson
1878 – 1938
Cecil Knatchbull-Hugessen, 4th Baron Brabourne
1863 – 1933
Charles Alfred Bartlett
1868 – 1945
Charles Costa de Beauregard
1835 – 1909
Charles Epstein
1933 – 2011
Charles F. Johnson
1859 – 1930
Charlotte Fairbanks
1871 – 1932
Chuang Changgong
1894 – 1962
Clarence Larson
1909 – 1999
Claud William Wright
1917 – 2010
Claudius W. Sears
1817 – 1891
Clement Francis Cornwall
1836 – 1910
Cyril Domb
1920 – 2012
Daniel Vernet
1945 – 2018
Dave Smith
1940 – 2019
David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey
1942 – 2022
Dimitrios Loundras
1885 – 1970
Dmitry Ilovaysky
1832 – 1920
Doug Cash
1919 – 2002
Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester
1573 – 1632
Dušan Sernec
1882 – 1952
E.M. Wrong
1889 – 1928
Edgars Račevskis
1936 – 2022
Edward Caradus
1885 – 1969
Edward Hitchcock Jr.
1828 – 1911
Edward Mitchell
1842 – 1909
Emil Alexander de Schweinitz
1866 – 1904
Emile Amagat
1841 – 1915
Erik Olson
1901 – 1986
Erika Simon
1927 – 2019
Ernest Howard Armstrong
1864 – 1946
Ernst Wertheim
1864 – 1920
Ethel Merman
1908 – 1984
Eugène Albertini
1880 – 1941
Eustachio Manfredi
1674 – 1739
Federico Campbell
1941 – 2014
Fernand Le Borne
1862 – 1929
Filip Bajković
1910 – 1985
Florencio Xatruch
1811 – 1893
Francesco Torti
1658 – 1741
Francisco Jê Acaiaba de Montezuma
1794 – 1870
Francisque Ravony
1942 – 2003
François de Clermont-Tonnerre
1629 – 1701
Félix Mesnil
1868 – 1938
Gene Littler
1930 – 2019
George Dunning
1920 – 1979
Georges Lepape
1887 – 1971
Gerard Antoni Ciołek
1909 – 1966
Gilbert A. Pierce
1839 – 1901
Gregor Brück
1483 – 1557
Guido Adler
1855 – 1941
Gustave Paul Lacapelle
1869 – 1942
Gérard Barray
1931 – 2024
Géza Varga
1921 – 2004
Gösta Odqvist
1913 – 2005
Heinrich von Dechen
1800 – 1889
Henri Jaspar
1870 – 1939
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
1757 – 1844
Henry Alden Clark
1850 – 1944
Henry Clay Caldwell
1832 – 1915
Henry Rono
1952 – 2024
Henry Wilbur Palmer
1839 – 1913
Hermann Axen
1916 – 1992
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