Famous Birthdays In February - 15

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

1803  On this day in history birth of john Augustus Sutter, Swiss/US colonist (New Helvetia Ca, Sutter Mill)  

1807  Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer was born on February - 15.  

1809  On February - 15 birth of cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper)  

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

1811  On this day in history birth of domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74)  

1812  Charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly Ct, jeweler (Tiffany) was born on this day in history.  

1817  Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter was born on this day in history.  

1819  Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor (typewriter) was born on this day in history.  

1820  On this day in history birth of susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette  

1821  Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet was born on February - 15.  

1822  Theodor Uhlig, composer was born on this day in history.  

1823  On February - 15 birth of li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton  

1825  Carter Harrison, Sr., American politician (d. 1893) was born on this day in history.  

1826  On February - 15 birth of george J Stoney, Irish physicist  

1828  On this day in history birth of johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary)  

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  On this day in history birth of alexander Stuart Webb, Major General (Union Army), died in 1911  

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

1841  Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian politician (d. 1913) was born on this day in history.  

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 February - 15 birth of gustav Hollaender, composer  

1856  On February - 15 birth of frank Harris, Galway England, writer  

1856  On this day in history birth of emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (d. 1926)  

1858  William Pickering, Boston, astronomer (9th & 10th moons of Saturn) was born on this day in history.  

1861  Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher (Adv of Ideas) was born on February - 15.  

1861  Halford John Mackinder, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer was born on this day in history.  

1866  Bannister Fletcher, London, architect & architectural historian was born on February - 15.  

1874  On February - 15 birth of emilis Melngailis, composer  

1874  On February - 15 birth of ernest H Shackleton, Kilkee Ireland, explorer (Endurance, Antarctica)  

1877  On this day in history birth of louis Renault, French automobile executive (d. 1944)  

1882  John Barrymore, [Blythe], Phila, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) was born on February - 15.  

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1043  On February - 15 gisela, wife of RC-German emperor Conrad II the Salier, dies at 52  

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 February - 15.  

1580  On this day in history cunerus Petri, Dutch theologist/bishop of Leeuwarden, dies  

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

1600  On February - 15 jose the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru), dies at 59(?)