February 15 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 15, 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
#134 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 15 birthdays
Susan B. Anthony · American women's rights activist1820
Elihu Root · American politician1845
William Henry Pickering · American astronomer1858
Alfred North Whitehead · English mathematician and philosopher1861
Charles-Édouard Guillaume · Swiss physicist1861
Ernest Shackleton · Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer1874
Hastings Banda · First president of Malawi1898
Gale Sondergaard · American actress1899
Cesar Romero · American actor1907
Dzhokhar Dudayev · Soviet general, Chechen leader1944
John Adams · American composer1947
Tomislav Nikolić · 4th President of the Republic of Serbia1952
Matt Groening · American cartoonist1954
Milo Đukanović · 2nd President of Montenegro1962
Chris Farley · American actor and comedian1964
Adama Barrow · 3rd President of the Gambia1965
Alex Borstein · American actress1971
Doda · Polish singer1984
Rui Patrício · Portuguese association football player1988
Megan Thee Stallion · American rapper, singer and songwriter1995
On this day in history
1907Japan and the United States signed a gentleman's agreement whereby the former would not permit further emigration to the U.S., while the latter would not limit Japanese immigration.
1995Kevin Mitnick, the most wanted computer hacker at the time in the U.S., was arrested and charged with computer fraud and wire fraud.
2013A meteor exploded (video featured) over Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, producing a shock wave that injured about 1,500 people.
2018Following nationwide protests, Hailemariam Desalegn announced his resignation as prime minister of Ethiopia, remaining in post as a caretaker until he was succeeded by Abiy Ahmed.
1972Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
1979Don Dunstan resigned as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation.
1999Abdullah Öcalan, one of the founding members of the militant organization the Kurdistan Workers' Party, was arrested by Turkish security forces in Nairobi, Kenya.
2003In one of the largest anti-war rallies in history, millions around the world in approximately 800 cities took part in protests against the impending invasion of Iraq.
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