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    This Is HISTORY | Birthdays

    Feb 14 1462

    Edzard I Cirksena the Great earl of East-Friesia (1494-1528)

    Feb 14 1468

    Johann Werner German mathematician born in Nuremberg Germany (d. 1522)

    Feb 14 1487

    Henry II of Bavaria Bishop of Utrecht (1524-29) Worms (1523-52) and Freising (1541-52) born in Heidelberg Germany (d. 1552)

    Feb 14 1513

    Domenico Maria Ferrabosco Italian composer and singer of the Renaissance born in Bologna (d. 1574)

    Feb 14 1515

    Frederick III the Pious Elector Palatine of the Rhine born in Simmern Germany (d. 1576)

    Feb 14 1533

    Christianus Adrichomius Dutch Catholic priest and writer (Vita Jesu Christi) born in Delft Netherlands (d. 1585)

    Feb 14 1546

    Johann Pistorius German theologist and historian born in Nidda Germany (d. 1608)

    Feb 14 1572

    Hans Christoph Haiden German composer organist and poet

    Feb 14 1602

    Pier Francesco Cavalli Italian opera composer born in Crema Lombardy Italy (d. 1676)

    Feb 14 1621

    Sybilla Schwarz German baroque poet born in Greifswald Germany (d. 1638)

    Feb 14 1670

    Georg Gabriel Schutz German composer born in Nuremberg Germany (d. 1716)

    Feb 14 1679

    Georg Friedrich Kauffmann German composer born in Ostramondra Thuringia Germany (d. 1735)

    Feb 14 1680

    John Sidney 6th Earl of Leicester English privy councillor born in Penshurst Place Kent (d. 1737)

    Feb 14 1692

    Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chausse French writer (Lcole des Mres) born in Paris (d. 1754)

    Feb 14 1701

    Enrique Florez Spanish historian born in Valladolid Spain (d. 1773)

    Feb 14 1760

    Richard Allen 1st African American ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania (d. 1831)

    Feb 14 1763

    Jean Victor Marie Moreau French general born in Morlaix Brittany France (d. 1813)

    Feb 14 1778

    Fernando Sor Spanish composer baptized in Barcelona Spain (d. 1839)

    Feb 14 1800

    Emory Washburn 22nd Governor of Massachusetts (1854-55) born in Leicester Massachusetts (d. 1877)

    Feb 14 1806

    Lajos Count Batthyany 1st Prime Minister of Hungary born in Pozsony Kingdom of Hungary Austrian Empire (d. 1849)

    Feb 14 1812

    Alfred Thomas Agate American artist born in Sparta New York (d. 1846)

    Feb 14 1813

    Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky Russian composer born in Troitsko village Tula Russia (d. 1869)

    Feb 14 1813

    John McNeil American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada (d. 1891)

    Feb 14 1819

    James Green Martin Brigadier General (Confederate Army) born in Elizabeth City North Carolina (d. 1878)

    Feb 14 1819

    Christopher Latham Sholes American newspaper man politician and inventor of the typewriter born in Mooresburg Pennsylvania (d. 1890)

    Feb 14 1824

    Winfield Scott Hancock American politician and Major General (Union Army) born in Montgomeryville Pennsylvania (d. 1886)

    Feb 14 1828

    Edmond Franois Valentin About French writer (Le Roi des montagnes) born in Dieuze Lorraine (d. 1885)

    Feb 14 1829

    Alfred Iverson Jr. Brigadier General (Confederate Army) born in Clinton Georgia (d. 1911)

    Feb 14 1835

    Francois Haverschmidt Dutch writer (Snikken en grimlachjes) born in Leeuwarden Netherlands (d. 1894)

    Feb 14 1838

    Margaret E. Knight American inventor (flat-bottomed paper bag) described as a female Thomas Edison born in York Maine (d. 1914)

    Feb 14 1845

    Cecil De Vere 1st official British chess champion (1866) born in London (d. 1875)

    Feb 14 1846

    Julian Scott American artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient born in Johnson Vermont (d. 1901)

    Feb 14 1847

    Anna Howard Shaw American suffragette born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne England (d. 1919)

    HISTORICAL EVENTS | ON THIS DAY

    Feb 14 1014 Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II Roman German Emperor

    Feb 14 1130 Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II

    Feb 14 1556 English Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic

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