Page 2: Famous Personalities Born In February - 15

1800  Frederik W Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer was born on February - 15.   

1803  John Augustus Sutter, Swiss/US colonist (New Helvetia Ca, Sutter Mill) was born on this day in history.   

1807  On this day in history birth of ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer   

1809  On this day in history birth of cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper)   

1809  André Dumont, Belgian geologist (d. 1857) was born on this day in history.   

1811  On February - 15 birth of domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74)   

1812  On this day in history birth of charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly Ct, jeweler (Tiffany)   

1817  On February - 15 birth of charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter   

1819  On this day in history birth of christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor (typewriter)   

1820  Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette was born on this day in history.   

1821  On February - 15 birth of abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet   

1822  On this day in history birth of theodor Uhlig, composer   

1823  On this day in history birth of li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton   

1825  On February - 15 birth of carter Harrison, Sr., American politician (d. 1893)   

1826  On this day in history birth of george J Stoney, Irish physicist   

1828  Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary) was born on this day in history.   

1829  Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Roland Blake) was born on this day in history.   

1834  On February - 15 birth of william Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer   

1835  Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General (Union Army), died in 1911 was born on this day in history.   

1835  On this day in history birth of demetrius Vikelas, Greek author (d. 1908)   

1841  On February - 15 birth of manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian politician (d. 1913)   

1845  On February - 15 birth of elihu Root, (R)/US Sec of State (1905-09)/Nobel Peace Prize (1912)   

1847  On February - 15 birth of robert Fuchs, composer   

1855  On this day in history birth of gustav Hollaender, composer   

1856  On this day in history birth of frank Harris, Galway England, writer   

1856  Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (d. 1926) was born on this day in history.   

1858  William Pickering, Boston, astronomer (9th & 10th moons of Saturn) was born on February - 15.   

1861  On this day in history birth of alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher (Adv of Ideas)   

1861  On this day in history birth of halford John Mackinder, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer   

1866  Bannister Fletcher, London, architect & architectural historian was born on this day in history.   

1874  Emilis Melngailis, composer was born on this day in history.   

1874  Ernest H Shackleton, Kilkee Ireland, explorer (Endurance, Antarctica) was born on this day in history.   

1877  On February - 15 birth of louis Renault, French automobile executive (d. 1944)   

1882  On February - 15 birth of john Barrymore, [Blythe], Phila, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)   

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1043  Gisela, wife of RC-German emperor Conrad II the Salier, dies at 52 on February - 15.   

1145  On this day in history lucius II, [Gherardo Caccianemici], Italian Pope (1144-45), dies   

1152  Konrad III, Roman-German King (1138-1152), dies at about 58 on this day in history.   

1503  Henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury (1501-03), dies on this day in history.   

1568  Hendrik van Brederode, Dutch noble (Compromise of Nobles), dies at 36 on this day in history.   

1580  Cunerus Petri, Dutch theologist/bishop of Leeuwarden, dies on this day in history.   

1597  On this day in history pieter J Kies, Dutch mayor of Haarlem (1572-73), dies at about 66   

1600  Jose the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru), dies at 59(?) on February - 15.