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Feb 15 1368

Sigismund Holy Roman emperor (1410-37) born in Nuremberg Kingdom of Germany (d. 1437)

Feb 15 1471

Piero di Lorenzo de Medici ruler of Florence (d. 1503)

Feb 15 1519

Pedro Menndez de Avils Spanish admiral and explorer who founded St. Augustine Florida born in Avils Spain (d. 1574)

Feb 15 1524

Charles de Guise archbishopcardinal of Reims

Feb 15 1571

Michael Praetorius Kreuzberg Germany composer (Syntagma music)

Feb 15 1620

Francois Charpentier French scholararchaeologist

Feb 15 1650

Anne Jules duke de Noailles marshal of France (hugenot)

Feb 15 1660

Frans Anneessens Belgian merchantdean of artisans

Feb 15 1666

Antonio M Valsalva Italian anatomist (eardrums glottis)

Feb 15 1707

Claude Prosper novelist born in Paris France

Feb 15 1710

Louis XV the Well-Beloved Versailles King of France (1715-74)

Feb 15 1726

Abraham Clark Elizabethtown New Jersey American politician signed Declaration of Independence

Feb 15 1739

Alexandre-Thodore Brongniart French architect (d. 1813)

Feb 15 1748

Jeremy Bentham London England philosopheroriginator (Utilitarian)

Feb 15 1759

Friedrich A Wolfius [Wolf] German philological (Prolegomena)

Feb 15 1764

Jens I Baggesen Danish writerlinguist (Danske Vrker)

Feb 15 1795

Charles Niellon Belgian brigade general (10 day campaign)

Feb 15 1797

Henry Engelhard Steinway piano maker (Steinway)

Feb 15 1800

Frederik W Conrad Dutch hydraulic engineerrailway pioneer

Feb 15 1803

John Augustus Sutter SwissUS colonist (New Helvetia Ca Sutter Mill)

Feb 15 1809

Andr Dumont Belgian geologist born in Lige Belgium (d. 1857)

Feb 15 1811

Domingo F Sarmiento President of Argentina (1868-74)

Feb 15 1812

Charles Lewis Tiffany jeweler (Tiffany) born in Killingly Connecticut

Feb 15 1817

Charles F Daubigny French restauranteurpainter

Feb 15 1821

Abraham de Amorie van der de Have theologistpoet

Feb 15 1823

Li Hung-Tshang Chinese rebel leaderviceroy of Tsheli Canton

Feb 15 1825

Carter Harrison Sr. American politician (d. 1893)

Feb 15 1828

Johan H van Dale schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary)

Feb 15 1829

Silas Weir Mitchell American physician (discovered causalgia erythromelalgia) and author (Roland Blake Hugh Wynne) born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania (d. 1914)

Feb 15 1834

William Preece English electrical engineerwireless pioneer

Feb 15 1835

Alexander Stuart Webb Major General (Union Army) (d. 1911)

Feb 15 1841

Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles Brazilian politician (d. 1913)

Feb 15 1845

Elihu Root (R)US Secretary of State (1905-09)Nobel Peace Prize (1912)

Feb 15 1386 Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders

Feb 15 1539 Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo

Feb 15 1637 Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor

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