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February 14

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1952 Winter Olympics

74 years ago

Born this day

1967

Mark Rutte

Turns 59

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860th

Abdul Qadir Gilani

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Famous births28

1368 · 658 yrs

Sigismund

Sigismund of Luxembourg (15 February 1368 – 9 December 1437) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1433 until his death in 1437. As the husband of Mary, Queen of Hungary, he was King of Hungary and Croatia (jure uxoris) from 1387.

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RoyaltyDied aged 69

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1404 · 622 yrs

Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti (Italian:; 14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths.

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ArtDied aged 68

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1483 · 543 yrs

Babur

Babur (Persian: ببر, Persian:; 14 February 1483 – 26 December 1530; born Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad) was the founder of the Mughal Empire in South Asia. He was a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan through his father and mother, respectively.

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LiteratureDied aged 47

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1818 · 208 yrs

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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LiteratureDied aged 77

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1869 · 157 yrs

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a British meteorologist and physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Compton for his invention of the cloud chamber.

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ScienceDied aged 90

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1869 · 157 yrs

Nadezhda Krupskaya

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (Russian: Надежда Константиновна Крупская, IPA:; 26 February 1869 – 27 February 1939) was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. She was a leading figure in the Bolshevik party and was married to Vladimir Lenin.

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PoliticsDied aged 70

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1882 · 144 yrs

John Barrymore

John Barrymore (born John Sidney Blyth; February 14 or 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an American actor on stage, screen, and radio.

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1895 · 131 yrs

Max Horkheimer

Max Horkheimer ( HORK-hy-mər; German:; 14 February 1895 – 7 July 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist best known for his role in developing critical theory as director of the Institute for Social Research, commonly associated with the Frankfurt School.

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PhilosophyWould be 131

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1896 · 130 yrs

Andrei Zhdanov

Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov (Russian: Андрей Александрович Жданов, IPA:; 26 February 1896 – 31 August 1948) was a Soviet politician.

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PoliticsWould be 130

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1898 · 128 yrs

Fritz Zwicky

Fritz Zwicky (German:; February 14, 1898 – February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and observational astronomy.

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ScienceWould be 128

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1917 · 109 yrs

Herbert A. Hauptman

Herbert Aaron Hauptman (February 14, 1917 – October 23, 2011) was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials.

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ScienceWould be 109

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1942 · 84 yrs

Michael Bloomberg

Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman and politician. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P., and was its CEO from 1981 to 2001, and again from 2014 to 2023.

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BusinessAge 84

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Famous deaths11

1166 · 860 yrs

Abdul Qadir Gilani

Abdul Qadir Gilani (c. 1077 or 1078 – c. 1166) was a Hanbali scholar, preacher, and Sufi mystic leader who was the eponym of the Qadiriyya, one of the oldest Sufi orders. He was born in c. 1077 or 1078 in the town of Na'if, Rezvanshahr in Gilan, Persia, and died in 1166 in Baghdad.

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ReligionDied aged 87

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1779 · 247 yrs

James Cook

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who led three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779.

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ExplorationDied aged 50

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1891 · 135 yrs

William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman ( tih-KUM-sə; February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American businessman, author, and United States Army general in the Union army during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

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MilitaryDied aged 71

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1943 · 83 yrs

David Hilbert

David Hilbert (German:; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics and one of the most influential mathematicians of all time.

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ScienceDied aged 81

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1975 · 51 yrs

P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse ( WUUD-howss; 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.

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LiteratureWould be 145

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1975 · 51 yrs

Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis.

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ScienceWould be 139

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2004 · 22 yrs

Marco Pantani

Marco Pantani (Italian:; 13 January 1970 – 14 February 2004) was an Italian road racing cyclist, widely regarded as one of the greatest climbing specialists in the history of the sport by measures of his legacy, credits from other riders, and records.

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SportsWould be 56

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2005 · 21 yrs

Rafiq Hariri

Rafic Bahaa El Deen al-Hariri (Arabic: رفيق بهاء الدين الحريري, romanized: Rafīq Bahāʾ ad-Dīn al-Ḥarīrī; 1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005) was a Lebanese businessman and politician who served as prime minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2004. Hariri headed five cabinets during his tenure.

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PoliticsWould be 81

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2018 · 8 yrs

Morgan Tsvangirai

Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (Shona pronunciation:; 10 March 1952 – 14 February 2018) was a Zimbabwean politician who was Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013.

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PoliticsWould be 74

2018 · 8 yrs

Ruud Lubbers

Rudolphus Franciscus Marie "Ruud" Lubbers (Dutch pronunciation:; 7 May 1939 – 14 February 2018) was a Dutch politician, diplomat and businessman who served as prime minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994, and as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 2001 to 2005.

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PoliticsWould be 87

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2021 · 5 yrs

Carlos Menem

Carlos Saúl Menem (Spanish pronunciation:; 2 July 1930 – 14 February 2021) was an Argentine politician who served as the president of Argentina for ten years, from 1989 to 1999.

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PoliticsWould be 96

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Events5

1804 · 222 yrs

First Serbian Uprising

The First Serbian Uprising was an uprising of Serbs in Orašac against the Dahije, and later the Ottoman Empire from 14 February 1804 to 7 October 1813. The uprising began as a local revolt against renegade janissary officers who had seized power in a coup d'état against the Ottoman sultan.

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War

1952 · 74 yrs

1952 Winter Olympics

The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games (Norwegian: De 6. olympiske vinterleker; Nynorsk: Dei 6.

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Sports

1980 · 46 yrs

1980 Winter Olympics

The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States.

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Sports

1992 · 34 yrs

Russia–Ukraine relations

There are currently no diplomatic or bilateral relations between Russia and Ukraine. The two states have been at war since Russia invaded the Crimean peninsula in February 2014, and Russian-controlled armed groups seized Donbas government buildings in May 2014.

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History

2011 · 15 yrs

2011 Bahraini uprising

The 2011 Bahraini uprising was a series of anti-government protests in Bahrain led by the Shia-dominant and some Sunni minority Bahraini opposition from 2011 until 2014.

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