Events

Pre-1600

• 484 King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.

• 1303 The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.

• 1386 King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.

• 1525 A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.

• 1527 Coronation of Ferdinand I as the king of Bohemia in Prague.

• 1538 Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and King John Zápolya of Hungary and Croatia.

• 1582 With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.

• 1597 The last battle of the Cudgel War takes place on the Santavuori Hill in Ilmajoki, Ostrobothnia.

1601–1900

• 1607 L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.

• 1711 Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, is premièred.

• 1739 Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.

• 1803 In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.

• 1809 London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving its owner, Irish writer and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, destitute.

• 1809 Britain invades and captures the French colony of Martinique.

• 1812 Treaty of Paris between Napoleon and Frederick William III of Prussia against Russia is signed.

• 1813 Sinking of HMS Peacock by USS Hornet on the Demerara River, Guyana.

• 1821 Final stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain with Plan of Iguala.

• 1822 The first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.

• 1826 The signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marks the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War.

• 1831 The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.

• 1848 King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.

• 1854 A Penny Red with perforations becomes the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.

• 1863 Arizona is organized as a United States territory.

• 1868 Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.

• 1875 The hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high-profile civil servants and dignitaries.

• 1876 The stage première of Peer Gynt, a play by Henrik Ibsen with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Christiania (Oslo), Norway.

• 1881 China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.

• 1895 Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence; the war ends along with the Spanish–American War in 1898.

1901–present

• 1916 The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.

• 1917 World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.

• 1918 Estonian Declaration of Independence.

• 1920 Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.

• 1920 The Nazi Party (NSDAP) is founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany.

• 1942 Seven hundred ninety-one Romanian Jewish refugees and crew members are killed after the MV Struma is torpedoed by the Soviet Navy.

• 1942 Voice of America makes its first broadcast.

• 1942 The Battle of Los Angeles: A false alarm leads to an anti-aircraft barrage that lasts into the early hours of February 25.

• 1943 World War II: First large-scale protest march resulting in clashes with the Axis occupation forces and collaborationist police in Athens against rumours of forced mobilization of Greek workers for work in Germany.

• 1945 Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.

• 1946 Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, is elected to his first term as President of Argentina.

• 1949 The Armistice Agreements are signed, to formally end the hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

• 1966 Ghanaian coup d'état by National Liberation Council overthrows Kwame Nkrumah's Government

• 1967 Cultural Revolution: Zhang Chunqiao announces the dissolution of the Shanghai People's Commune, replacing its local government with a revolutionary committee.

• 1968 Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnamese forces led by Ngô Quang Trưởng recapture the citadel of Hué.

• 1971 The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed three days earlier. P. K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.

• 1976 The 1976 constitution of Cuba is formally proclaimed.

• 1978 The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.

• 1981 The 6.7 Gulf of Corinth earthquake affects Central Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Twenty-two people are killed, 400 are injured, and damage totals $812million.

• 1983 A special commission of the United States Congress condemns the Japanese American internment during World War II.

• 1984 A child and an adult man are killed and 12 others are injured in the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles.

• 1989 United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section.

• 1991 Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.

• 1996 Two civilian airplanes operated by the Miami-based group Brothers to the Rescue are shot down in international waters by the Cuban Air Force.

• 1999 China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes in Rui'an, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.

• 2000 Pope John Paul II arrives in Egypt for a three-day stay as part of the Great Jubilee, marking the first papal visit in modern Egyptian history

• 2004 The 6.3 Al Hoceima earthquake strikes northern Morocco with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 628 people are killed, 926 are injured, and up to 15,000 are displaced.

• 2006 Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in an attempt to subdue a possible military coup.

• 2007 Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.

• 2008 Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years. He would remain as head of the Communist Party for another three years.

• 2011 Space Shuttle Discovery launches on its final mission, STS-133.

• 2015 A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.

• 2016 Tara Air Flight 193, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, crashes, with 23 fatalities, in Solighopte, Myagdi District, Dhaulagiri Zone, while en route from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport.

• 2020 Mahathir Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia following an attempt to replace the Pakatan Harapan government, which triggered the 2020-2022 Malaysian political crisis.

• 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War: Days after recognising Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, Russian president Vladimir Putin orders the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1103 Emperor Toba of Japan (died 1156)

• 1304 Ibn Battuta, Moroccan explorer

• 1360 Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy

• 1413 Louis, Duke of Savoy (died 1465)

• 1463 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher (died 1494)

• 1494 Johan Friis, Danish statesman (died 1570)

• 1500 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1558)

• 1536 Pope Clement VIII (died 1605)

• 1545 John of Austria (died 1578)

• 1553 Cherubino Alberti, Italian engraver and painter (died 1615)

• 1557 Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1619)

• 1593 Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford, English soldier and courtier (died 1625)

• 1595 Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish author and poet (died 1640)

1601–1900

• 1604 Arcangela Tarabotti, Venetian nun and feminist (died 1652)

• 1619 Charles Le Brun, French painter and theorist (died 1690)

• 1622 Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (died 1665)

• 1709 Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer (died 1782)

• 1721 John McKinly, Irish-American physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware (died 1796)

• 1723 John Burgoyne, English general and politician (died 1792)

• 1736 Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1806)

• 1743 Joseph Banks, English botanist and explorer (died 1820)

• 1762 Charles Frederick Horn, German-English composer and educator (died 1830)

• 1767 Rama II of Siam (died 1824)

• 1774 Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (died 1850)

• 1786 Martin W. Bates, American lawyer and politician (died 1869)

• 1786 Wilhelm Grimm, German anthropologist, author, and academic (died 1859)

• 1788 Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian-German painter (died 1857)

• 1797 Samuel Lover, Irish composer, writer and painter (died 1868)

• 1827 Lydia Becker, English-French activist (died 1890)

• 1829 Friedrich Spielhagen, German novelist, literary theorist and translator

• 1830 Karolina Světlá, Czech female author

• 1831 Leo von Caprivi, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1899)

• 1835 Julius Vogel, English-New Zealand journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1899)

• 1836 Winslow Homer, American painter and illustrator (died 1910)

• 1837 Rosalía de Castro, Spanish poet (died 1885)

• 1842 Arrigo Boito, Italian journalist, author, and composer (died 1918)

• 1848 Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian engineer, lawyer, and politician (died 1907)

• 1852 George Moore, Irish author, poet, and playwright (died 1933)

• 1857 Emma Ann Browne, British-born Australian philanthropist (died 1941)

• 1868 Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player (died 1949)

• 1869 Zara DuPont, American suffragist (died 1946)

• 1874 Honus Wagner, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1955)

• 1877 Rudolph Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1972)

• 1877 Ettie Rout, Australian-New Zealand educator and activist (died 1936)

• 1881 Moulay Abd al-Aziz bin Hassan, Sultan of Morocco (died 1943)

• 1885 Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (died 1966)

• 1885 Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author, poet, and painter (died 1939)

• 1890 Marjorie Main, American actress (died 1975)

• 1895 Şehzade Osman Fuad, Ottoman prince (died 1973)

• 1896 Richard Thorpe, American director and screenwriter (died 1991)

• 1898 Kurt Tank, German pilot and engineer (died 1983)

• 1900 Irmgard Bartenieff, German-American dancer and physical therapist, leading pioneer of dance therapy (died 1981)

1901–present

• 1903 Vladimir Bartol, Italian-Slovene author and playwright (died 1967)

• 1908 Telford Taylor, American general, lawyer, and historian (died 1998)

• 1909 August Derleth, American anthologist and author (died 1971)

• 1914 Ralph Erskine, English-Swedish architect, designed The Ark and Byker Wall (died 2005)

• 1914 Weldon Kees, American author, poet, painter, and pianist (died 1955)

• 1915 Jim Ferrier, Australian golfer (died 1986)

• 1919 John Carl Warnecke, American architect (died 2010)

• 1921 Abe Vigoda, American actor (died 2016)

• 1922 Richard Hamilton, English painter and academic (died 2011)

• 1922 Steven Hill, American actor (died 2016)

• 1924 Hal Herring, American football player and coach (died 2014)

• 1924 Erik Nielsen, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (died 2008)

• 1924 F. G. Bailey, British-American anthropologist (died 2020)

• 1925 Bud Day, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2013)

• 1926 Dave Sands, Australian boxer (died 1952)

• 1927 Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (died 2017)

• 1929 Kintarō Ōki, South Korean wrestler (died 2006)

• 1930 Barbara Lawrence, American model and actress (died 2013)

• 1931 Dominic Chianese, American actor and singer

• 1931 Brian Close, English cricketer and coach (died 2015)

• 1932 Michel Legrand, French pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2019)

• 1932 Zell Miller, American sergeant and politician, 79th Governor of Georgia (died 2018)

• 1932 John Vernon, Canadian-American actor (died 2005)

• 1933 Judah Folkman, American physician and biologist (died 2008)

• 1933 Ali Mazrui, Kenyan-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (died 2014)

• 1933 David "Fathead" Newman, American saxophonist and composer (died 2009)

• 1934 Bettino Craxi, Italian lawyer and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (died 2000)

• 1934 Johnny Hills, English footballer (died 2021)

• 1934 George Ryan, American politician, 39th Governor of Illinois (died 2025)

• 1934 Renata Scotto, Italian soprano (died 2023)

• 1935 Ryhor Baradulin, Belarusian poet, essayist, and translator (died 2014)

• 1936 Carol D'Onofrio, American public health researcher (died 2020)

• 1936 Guillermo O'Donnell, Argentine political scientist (died 2011)

• 1938 James Farentino, American actor (died 2012)

• 1938 Phil Knight, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Nike, Inc.

• 1938 Kathleen Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow, British life peer

• 1939 Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (died 2013)

• 1940 Pete Duel, American actor (died 1971)

• 1940 Jimmy Ellis, American boxer (died 2014)

• 1940 Denis Law, Scottish footballer and sportscaster (died 2025)

• 1941 Joanie Sommers, American singer and actress

• 1942 Paul Jones, English singer, harmonica player, and actor

• 1942 Celia Kaye, American actress

• 1942 Joe Lieberman, American lawyer and politician (died 2024)

• 1942 Jenny O'Hara, American actress

• 1942 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Indian philosopher, theorist, and academic

• 1943 Kent Haruf, American novelist (died 2014)

• 1943 Gigi Meroni, Italian footballer (died 1967)

• 1943 Pablo Milanés, Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2022)

• 1944 Nicky Hopkins, English keyboard player (died 1994)

• 1944 Ivica Račan, Croatian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (died 2007)

• 1944 David Wineland, American physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

• 1945 Barry Bostwick, American actor and singer

• 1946 Grigory Margulis, Russian mathematician and academic

• 1947 Rupert Holmes, English-American singer-songwriter and playwright

• 1947 Edward James Olmos, American actor and director

• 1948 Jayalalithaa, Indian actress and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (died 2016)

• 1948 Dennis Waterman, English actor (died 2022)

• 1948 GM Quader, Bangladeshi politician

• 1949 John Lever, English Test cricketer

• 1950 George Thorogood, American musician

• 1951 David Ford, Northern Irish social worker and politician

• 1951 Derek Randall, English cricketer

• 1951 Debra Jo Rupp, American actress

• 1951 Helen Shaver, Canadian actress and director

• 1951 Laimdota Straujuma, Latvian economist and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Latvia

• 1951 Andrew Leung, Hong Kong politician, 3rd President of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong

• 1952 Tommy Burleson, American basketball player

• 1953 Anatoli Kozhemyakin, Soviet footballer (died 1974)

• 1954 Plastic Bertrand, Belgian singer-songwriter and producer

• 1954 Judith Ortiz Cofer, Puerto Rican author (died 2016)

• 1954 Sid Meier, Canadian-American game designer and programmer, created the Civilization series

• 1954 Mike Pickering, English DJ and saxophonist

• 1954 Željko Glasnović, Croatian politician and general

• 1954 Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby, British peer, writer, and entrepreneur

• 1955 Steve Jobs, American businessman, co-founded Apple Computer and Pixar (died 2011)

• 1955 Eddie Johnson, American basketball player (died 2020)

• 1955 Alain Prost, French race car driver

• 1956 Judith Butler, American philosopher, theorist, and author

• 1956 Eddie Murray, American baseball player and coach

• 1956 Paula Zahn, American journalist and producer

• 1958 Sammy Kershaw, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1958 Mark Moses, American actor

• 1959 Beth Broderick, American actress and director

• 1959 Mike Whitney, Australian cricketer and television host

• 1959 Abhishek Singhvi, Indian politician

• 1959 François Villeroy de Galhau, 30th Governor of the Bank of France

• 1961 Emilio Rivera, American actor

• 1961 Erna Solberg, Norwegian politician, 35th Prime Minister of Norway

• 1961 John Grogan, British politician

• 1962 Kelly Craft, American businesswoman and diplomat

• 1962 Michelle Shocked, American singer-songwriter

• 1963 Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Indian filmmaker and composer

• 1963 Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro

• 1963 Mike Vernon, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1963 Mateu Alemany, Spanish lawyer, football director of FC Barcelona

• 1964 Russell Ingall, British-Australian race car driver and sportscaster

• 1964 Elizabeth Wilson, American politician

• 1965 Paul Gruber, American football player

• 1965 Jane Swift, American businesswoman and politician, Governor of Massachusetts

• 1966 Billy Zane, American actor and producer

• 1966 Katie Allen, Australian politician and medical researcher

• 1967 Brian Schmidt, Australian astrophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1968 Mitch Hedberg, American comedian and actor (died 2005)

• 1969 Kim Seung-woo, South Korean actor

• 1970 Jeff Garcia, American football player and coach

• 1970 Neil Sullivan, Scottish footballer and coach

• 1970 Jonathan Ward, American actor

• 1971 Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish race car driver

• 1971 Gillian Flynn, American author, screenwriter, and producer

• 1971 Brian Savage, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1972 Teodor Currentzis, Greek conductor and composer

• 1972 Manon Rhéaume, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1973 Alexei Kovalev, Russian ice hockey player and pilot

• 1973 Philipp Rösler, German politician

• 1974 Mike Lowell, Puerto Rican baseball player

• 1974 Khadzhimurad Magomedov, Russian freestyle wrestler

• 1974 Gila Gamliel, Israeli politician and Minister of Science, Technology and Space

• 1975 Ashley MacIsaac, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler

• 1976 Marco Campos, Brazilian race car driver (died 1995)

• 1976 Zach Johnson, American golfer

• 1976 Bradley McGee, Australian cyclist and coach

• 1977 Jason Akermanis, Australian footballer and coach

• 1977 Bronson Arroyo, American baseball player

• 1977 Floyd Mayweather Jr., American boxer

• 1980 Shinsuke Nakamura, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist

• 1980 Jorrit Faassen, Dutch businessman

• 1981 Jonas Andersson, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1981 Felipe Baloy, Panamanian footballer

• 1981 Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player

• 1981 Mohammad Sami, Pakistani cricketer

• 1981 Bob Sanders, American football player

• 1982 Nick Blackburn, American baseball player

• 1982 Fala Chen, Chinese actress and singer

• 1982 Klára Koukalová, Czech tennis player

• 1982 Emanuel Villa, Argentine footballer

• 1984 Wilson Bethel, American actor

• 1984 Corey Graves, American wrestler and sportscaster

• 1984 Nani, Indian actor and film producer

• 1985 Nakash Aziz, Indian playback singer and composer

• 1986 Wojtek Wolski, Polish-Canadian ice hockey player

• 1987 Kim Kyu-jong, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor

• 1987 Ashley Walker, American-Romanian basketball player

• 1987 Mario Suárez, Spanish footballer

• 1987 Christopher Trimmel, Austrian footballer

• 1988 Rodrigue Beaubois, French basketball player

• 1988 Alexander Koch, American actor

• 1988 Connie Ramsay, Scottish judoka

• 1988 Maksym Radziwill, Polish-Canadian mathematician

• 1989 Trace Cyrus, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1989 Daniel Kaluuya, English actor

• 1989 Kosta Koufos, Greek-American basketball player

• 1990 Dwayne Allen, American football player

• 1990 Derek Wolfe, American football player

• 1991 Tim Erixon, American-Swedish ice hockey player

• 1991 Madison Hubbell, American ice dancer

• 1991 O'Shea Jackson Jr., American actor and rapper

• 1991 Semih Kaya, Turkish footballer

• 1991 Christian Kabasele, Congolese-born Belgian footballer

• 1992 Stefan Ashkovski, Macedonian footballer

• 1994 Jessica Pegula, American tennis player

• 1994 Earl Sweatshirt, American rapper

• 1995 Tyler Bertuzzi, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1996 Royce Freeman, American football player

• 1997 Đurđina Jauković, Montenegrin handball player

• 2000 Antony Matheus dos Santos, Brazilian footballer

• 2000 Nichika Yamada, Japanese volleyball player

• 2003 Honey Osrin, British swimmer

• 2004 Samuele Vignato, Italian football player

• 2004 Rafael Obrador, Spanish footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 616 Æthelberht of Kent

• 951 Liu Yun, Chinese governor (jiedushi)

• 1018 Borrell, bishop of Vic

• 1114 Thomas, archbishop of York

• 1386 Charles III of Naples (born 1345)

• 1496 Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (born 1445)

• 1525 Jacques de La Palice, French nobleman and military officer (born 1470)

• 1525 Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier (born c. 1488)

• 1525 Richard de la Pole, last Yorkist claimant to the English throne (born 1480)

• 1530 Properzia de' Rossi, Italian Renaissance sculptor

• 1563 Francis, Duke of Guise (born 1519)

• 1580 Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (born 1511)

• 1588 Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist (born 1515)

1601–1900

• 1666 Nicholas Lanier, English composer and painter (born 1588)

• 1674 Prataprao Gujar, 3rd Commander-in-chief of Maratha Confederacy

• 1685 Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland (born 1629)

• 1704 Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (born 1643)

• 1714 Edmund Andros, English courtier and politician, 4th Colonial Governor of New York (born 1637)

• 1721 John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English poet and politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1648)

• 1732 Francis Charteris, Scottish soldier (born 1675)

• 1777 Joseph I of Portugal (born 1714)

• 1785 Carlo Buonaparte, Corsican lawyer and politician (born 1746)

• 1799 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (born 1742)

• 1810 Henry Cavendish, French-English physicist and chemist (born 1731)

• 1812 Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (born 1775)

• 1815 Robert Fulton, American engineer (born 1765)

• 1825 Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (born 1754)

• 1856 Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1792)

• 1876 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, American-Liberian politician, 1st President of Liberia (born 1809)

• 1879 Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (born 1825)

1901–present

• 1910 Osman Hamdi Bey, Turkish archaeologist and painter (born 1842)

• 1914 Joshua Chamberlain, American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (born 1828)

• 1925 Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1860)

• 1927 Edward Marshall Hall, English lawyer and politician (born 1858)

• 1929 André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1853)

• 1930 Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (born 1850)

• 1953 Robert La Follette Jr., American politician, senator of Wisconsin (born 1895)

• 1953 Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (born 1875)

• 1967 Mir Osman Ali Khan, Last Nizam of Hyderabad State (born 1886)

• 1970 Conrad Nagel, American actor (born 1897)

• 1974 Margaret Leech, American historian and author (born 1895)

• 1975 Hans Bellmer, German artist (born 1902)

• 1975 Nikolai Bulganin, Russian marshal and politician, 6th Premier of the Soviet Union (born 1895)

• 1978 Alma Thomas, American painter and educator (born 1891)

• 1982 Virginia Bruce, American actress (born 1910)

• 1986 Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian Bharatnatyam dancer (born 1904)

• 1986 Tommy Douglas, Scottish-Canadian minister and politician, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan (born 1904)

• 1990 Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (born 1945)

• 1990 Malcolm Forbes, American sergeant and publisher (born 1917)

• 1990 Sandro Pertini, Italian journalist and politician, 7th President of Italy (born 1896)

• 1990 Johnnie Ray, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1927)

• 1991 John Daly, American journalist and game show host (born 1914)

• 1991 George Gobel, American actor (born 1919)

• 1991 Webb Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1921)

• 1993 Danny Gallivan, Canadian sportscaster (born 1917)

• 1993 Bobby Moore, English footballer and manager (born 1941)

• 1994 Jean Sablon, French singer and actor (born 1906)

• 1994 Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (born 1916)

• 1998 Antonio Prohías, Cuban-American cartoonist (born 1921)

• 1998 Henny Youngman, English-American comedian and violinist (born 1906)

• 1999 Andre Dubus, American short story writer, essayist, and memoirist (born 1936)

• 2000 Betty Lou Beets, American murderer (born 1937)

• 2001 Theodore Marier, American composer and educator, founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (born 1912)

• 2001 Claude Shannon, American mathematician, cryptographer, and engineer (born 1916)

• 2002 Leo Ornstein, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (born 1893)

• 2004 John Randolph, American actor (born 1915)

• 2005 Coşkun Kırca, Turkish diplomat, journalist and politician (born 1927)

• 2006 Octavia E. Butler, American author and educator (born 1947)

• 2006 Don Knotts, American actor and comedian (born 1924)

• 2006 John Martin, Canadian broadcaster, co-founded MuchMusic (born 1947)

• 2006 Dennis Weaver, American actor, director, and producer (born 1924)

• 2007 Bruce Bennett, American shot putter and actor (born 1906)

• 2007 Damien Nash, American football player (born 1982)

• 2008 Larry Norman, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1947)

• 2010 Dawn Brancheau, senior animal trainer at SeaWorld (born 1969)

• 2011 Anant Pai, Indian author and illustrator (born 1929)

• 2012 Agnes Allen, American baseball player and therapist (born 1930)

• 2012 Oliver Wrong, English nephrologist and academic (born 1925)

• 2013 Virgil Johnson, American singer (born 1935)

• 2013 Con Martin, Irish footballer and manager (born 1923)

• 2014 Franny Beecher, American guitarist (born 1921)

• 2014 Alexis Hunter, New Zealand-English painter and photographer (born 1948)

• 2014 Carlos Páez Vilaró, Uruguayan painter and sculptor (born 1923)

• 2014 Harold Ramis, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1944)

• 2015 Mefodiy, Ukrainian metropolitan (born 1949)

• 2015 Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh politician and diplomat (born 1962)

• 2016 Peter Kenilorea, Solomon Islands politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (born 1943)

• 2016 Nabil Maleh, Syrian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1936)

• 2016 George C. Nichopoulos, American soldier and physician (born 1927)

• 2018 Sridevi, Indian actress (born 1963)

• 2018 Haukur Hilmarsson, Icelandic political activist and internationalist volunteer fighter (born 1986)

• 2020 Katherine Johnson, American physicist and mathematician (born 1918)

• 2021 Ronald Pickup, English actor (born 1940)

• 2023 Edith Roger, Norwegian dancer and choreographer (born 1922)

• 2024 Kumar Shahani, Indian film director and screenwriter (born 1940)

• 2025 Roberta Flack, American singer and pianist (born 1937)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Blessed Ascensión Nicol y Goñi

• Blessed Josefa Naval Girbés

• Lindel Tsen and Paul Sasaki (Anglican Church of Canada)

• Modest (bishop of Trier)

• Sergius of Cappadocia

• February 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Dragobete (Romania)

• Engineer's Day (Iran)

• Flag Day in Mexico

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Estonia from the Russian Empire in 1918; the Soviet period is considered to have been an illegal annexation.

• National Artist Day (Thailand)

• Sweden Finns' Day (Sweden)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on February 24