Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 14
Births
[edit]- 1483 - Babur, Moghul emperor of India (d. 1530) (pictured)
- 1894 - Jack Benny, American actor and comedian (d. 1974)
- 1895 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973)
- 1913 - Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader (disappeared 1975)
- 1921 - Hugh Downs, American television host (d. 2020)
Deaths
[edit]- 1400 - King Richard II of England (murdered) (b. 1367)
- 1779 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (b. 1728)
- 1891 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General (b. 1820)
- 1975 - P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)