February 14 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 14, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♒︎ Aquarius
Jan 20 – Feb 18
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#48 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 14 birthdays
Frederick Douglass · African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist1818
C. T. R. Wilson · Scottish physicist and meteorologist1869
Jack Benny · American comedic entertainer1894
Max Horkheimer · German philosopher and sociologist1895
Thelma Ritter · American actress and vaudevillian1902
Herbert A. Hauptman · American mathematician1917
Eugene Fama · American economist and Nobel laureate in Economics1939
Michael Bloomberg · American businessman and politician1942
Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein · Monarch of Liechtenstein1945
Gregory Hines · American actor and dancer1946
Richard Neal · American politician1949
Kevin Keegan · English association football player and manager1951
Mark Rutte · Secretary General of NATO since 2024 and former Prime Minister1967
Simon Pegg · English actor1970
Danai Gurira · Zimbabwean-American actress1978
Bacary Sagna · French footballer1983
Edinson Cavani · Uruguayan association football player1987
Ángel Di María · Argentine footballer1988
Christian Eriksen · Danish association football player1992
Madison Iseman · American actress1997
On this day in history
1961Lawrencium, the radioactive synthetic element with atomic number 103, was first synthesized at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
1990The NASA space probe Voyager 1 took Pale Blue Dot (detail pictured), a photograph of Earth from a record distance of 40.5 astronomical units (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi).
2011Arab Spring: On the Day of Rage, Bahraini youths began an uprising against the government in 55 marches across 25 locations.
2018Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
1945President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
1983United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
1992Sri Temasek, the official residence of the prime minister of Singapore, was declared a national monument.
2005The online video platform YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim.
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