Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 15

Births

• 1564 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642) (pictured)
• 1820 - Susan B. Anthony, American feminist and suffragist (d. 1906)
• 1845 - Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1937)
• 1882 - John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)
• 1964 - Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)

Deaths

• 1844 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757)
• 1959 - Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1879)
• 1965 - Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
• 1984 - Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
• 1988 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1918)