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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 15th of February 0590 | EVENT | Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. |
| 15th of February 1113 | EVENT | Pope Paschal II issued a bull sanctioning the establishment of the Order of Hospitallers. |
| 15th of February 1493 | EVENT | While on board the Nina, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World. |
| 15th of February 1637 | EVENT | Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 15th of February 1764 | EVENT | The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established. |
| 15th of February 1804 | EVENT | The Serbian revolution begins. |
| 15th of February 1835 | EVENT | The first constitutional law in modern Serbia is adopted. |
| 15th of February 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee. |
| 15th of February 1879 | EVENT | Women's rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| 15th of February 1898 | EVENT | Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing more than 260. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain. |
| 15th of February 1906 | EVENT | The British Labour Party is organised. |
| 15th of February 1909 | EVENT | The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250. |
| 15th of February 1933 | EVENT | In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933. |
| 15th of February 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history. The Sook Ching massacre begins. |
| 15th of February 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy, begins. |
| 15th of February 1946 | EVENT | ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. |
| 15th of February 1949 | EVENT | Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls. |
| 15th of February 1952 | EVENT | King George VI is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. |
| 15th of February 1954 | EVENT | Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska. |
| 15th of February 1961 | EVENT | Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team, several coaches and family members. |
| 15th of February 1965 | EVENT | A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner. |
| 15th of February 1970 | EVENT | A Dominican DC-9 crashes into the sea during takeoff from Santo Domingo, killing 102. |
| 15th of February 1971 | EVENT | The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day. |
| 15th of February 1972 | EVENT | Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time. |
| 15th of February 1972 | EVENT | Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time. |
| 15th of February 1976 | EVENT | The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by national referendum. |
| 15th of February 1979 | EVENT | Don Dunstan resigns as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation. |
| 15th of February 1982 | EVENT | The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers. |
| 15th of February 1989 | EVENT | Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan. |
| 15th of February 1991 | EVENT | The Visegrad Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. |
| 15th of February 1994 | EVENT | Standard of the President of Russia is established. |
| 15th of February 1996 | EVENT | At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people. |
| 15th of February 1999 | EVENT | Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party, is arrested in Kenya. |
| 15th of February 2000 | EVENT | Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails. |
| 15th of February 2001 | EVENT | First draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature. |
| 15th of February 2003 | EVENT | Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8 million to 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history. |
| 15th of February 1458 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (d. 1490) |
| 15th of February 1471 | BIRTHDAY | Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1503) |
| 15th of February 1564 | BIRTHDAY | Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642) |
| 15th of February 1571 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Praetorius, German composer (d. 1621) |
| 15th of February 1620 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Charpentier, French archaeologist (d. 1702) |
| 15th of February 1705 | BIRTHDAY | Charles-Andre van Loo, French painter (d. 1765) |
| 15th of February 1710 | BIRTHDAY | King Louis XV of France (d. 1774) |
| 15th of February 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Clark, American founding father (d. 1794) |
| 15th of February 1734 | BIRTHDAY | William Stacy, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1802) |
| 15th of February 1739 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre-Theodore Brongniart, French architect (d. 1813) |
| 15th of February 1748 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (d. 1832) |
| 15th of February 1759 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich August Wolf, German archaeologist (d. 1824) |
| 15th of February 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Floride Calhoun, Second Lady of the United States (d. 1866) |
| 15th of February 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Cyrus McCormick, American inventor (d. 1884) |
| 15th of February 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Dumont, Belgian geologist (d. 1857) |
| 15th of February 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweler (d. 1902) |
| 15th of February 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist (d. 1906) |
| 15th of February 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Carter Harrison, Sr., American politician (d. 1893) |
| 15th of February 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author (d. 1908) |
| 15th of February 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Titu Maiorescu, Romanian Prime Minister (d. 1917) |
| 15th of February 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian politician (d. 1913) |
| 15th of February 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Elihu Root, American statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1937) |
| 15th of February 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (d. 1927) |
| 15th of February 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Rickman Godlee, English surgeon (d. 1925) |
| 15th of February 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (d. 1926) |
| 15th of February 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1947) |
| 15th of February 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Edouard Guillaume, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1938) |
| 15th of February 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1964) |
| 15th of February 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Ernest Shackleton, Irish Antarctic explorer (d. 1922) |
| 15th of February 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Renault, French automobile executive (d. 1944) |
| 15th of February 1882 | BIRTHDAY | John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942) |
| 15th of February 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Sax Rohmer, English author (d. 1959) |
| 15th of February 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Ley, Nazi official (d. 1945) |
| 15th of February 1892 | BIRTHDAY | James Forrestal, American civil servant, 47th United States Secretary of the Navy and 1st United States Secretary of Defense (d. 1949) |
| 15th of February 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (d. 1947) |
| 15th of February 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971) |
| 15th of February 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Shields, Irish actor (d. 1970) |
| 15th of February 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Toto, Italian actor and composer (d. 1967) |
| 15th of February 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Woodring, American runner (d. 1982) |
| 15th of February 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Auric, French composer (d. 1983) |
| 15th of February 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Gale Sondergaard, American actress (d. 1985) |
| 15th of February 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Antonin Magne, French cyclist (d. 1983) |
| 15th of February 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Arlen, American composer (d. 1986) |
| 15th of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 15th of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (d. 1991) |
| 15th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Sarto Fournier, Quebec politician (d. 1980) |
| 15th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes, Spanish footballer (d. 1966) |
| 15th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Miep Gies, Dutch biographer of Anne Frank (d. 2010) |
| 15th of February 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Irena Sendler, Polish social worker (d. 2008) |
| 15th of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Woodcock, American labor union official and diplomat (d. 2001) |
| 15th of February 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (d. 1997) |
| 15th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin McCarthy, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 15th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Hale Boggs, American politician (d. 1972) |
| 15th of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Jane Croft, American actress (d. 1999) |
| 15th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Locklin, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2009) |
| 15th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Arbus, American actor |
| 15th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Endicott Peabody, American politician and 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1997) |
| 15th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (d. 1985) |
| 15th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | John B. Anderson, American politician |
| 15th of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Yelena Bonner, Russian human rights activist, widow of Andrei Sakharov |
| 15th of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian (d. 2008) |
| 15th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Hill, English race car driver (d. 1975) |
| 15th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | James Schlesinger, American politician, 12th United States Secretary of Defense, 9th Director of Central Intelligence, and 1st Secretary of Energy |
| 15th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Nico Minardos, American actor |
| 15th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Claire Bloom, British actress |
| 15th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Geoff Edwards, American television game show host |
| 15th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist |
| 15th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Kennedy, Australian actor (d. 2005) |
| 15th of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Brownmiller, American feminist and writer |
| 15th of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Chaffee, astronaut (d. 1967) |
| 15th of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Hickerson, American football player (d. 2008) |
| 15th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Mcdonald, American author (d. 2008) |
| 15th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Gerd Bohnsack, German football manager |
| 15th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ole Ellefsaeter, Norwegian cross-country skier |
| 15th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hansen, American serial killer |
| 15th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | John Hadl, American football player |
| 15th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Hamzah Haz, Indonesian politician |
| 15th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress |
| 15th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Holland, American songwriter and producer |
| 15th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Griselda Blanco, Colombian drug queen, Medellin Cartel |
| 15th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Avory, British drummer (The Kinks) |
| 15th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Hofstadter, American academic and writer |
| 15th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Helliwell, British musician (Supertramp) |
| 15th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Esko Seppanen, Finnish politician |
| 15th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | John Coolidge Adams, American composer |
| 15th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Marisa Berenson, American actress |
| 15th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Rusty Hamer, American actor (d. 1990) |
| 15th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | David Brown, American musician (Santana) (d. 2000) |
| 15th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Nadasdy, Hungarian linguist and poet |
| 15th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tino Insana, American voice actor |
| 15th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist |
| 15th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Cey, American baseball player |
| 15th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Anderson, American football player |
| 15th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Graf, Austrian conductor |
| 15th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Hark Tsui, Hong Kong film director |
| 15th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Seymour, British actress |
| 15th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Manchester, American singer |
| 15th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Adams, Irish film producer (d. 2005) |
| 15th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Groening, American cartoonist |
| 15th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Armand Parmentier, Belgian athlete |
| 15th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher McDonald, American actor |
| 15th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Janice Dickinson, American Ex-Supermodel |
| 15th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese racing driver (d. 1992) |
| 15th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Spencer, American race car driver |
| 15th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Farhood, American boxing historian and analyst |
| 15th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Chrystine Brouillet, Quebec novelist |
| 15th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Ward, American singer, (Second Chapter of Acts), songwriter and author |
| 15th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Propp, Canadian hockey player |
| 15th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Campbell, British singer and songwriter (UB40) |
| 15th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Savinovich, Ecuadorian wrestler |
| 15th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Kostrzewski, Polish heavy metal musician |
| 15th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Darrell Green, American football player |
| 15th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mikey Craig, British musician (Culture Club) |
| 15th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (d. 1997) |
| 15th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Price, American basketball player |
| 15th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Leland D. Melvin, NASA astronaut |
| 15th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Child, Canadian musician |
| 15th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kelley Menighan Hensley, American actress |
| 15th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Axelle Red, Belgian singer and songwriter |
| 15th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mieke Suys, Belgian triathlete |
| 15th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Marshall, American journalist |
| 15th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Williams, American record executive and rapper |
| 15th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Renee O'Connor, American actress and director |
| 15th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Borstein, American actress |
| 15th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Sefo, New Zealand kickboxer |
| 15th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jaromir Jagr, Czech hockey player |
| 15th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Van Dyken, American swimmer |
| 15th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Katerina Neumannova, Czech cross country skier |
| 15th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Wynter, Australian actress |
| 15th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Miranda July, American performance artist |
| 15th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tomi Putaansuu, Finnish singer (Lordi) |
| 15th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Gina Lynn, American porn actress |
| 15th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ugueth Urbina, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player |
| 15th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Wurz, Austrian race car driver |
| 15th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Serge Aubin, Canadian hockey player |
| 15th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Brendon Small, American comedian and animator |
| 15th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Boyd, American musician (Incubus) |
| 15th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Freire, Spanish cyclist |
| 15th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Karagoutis, Greek basketball player |
| 15th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Vannucci Jr., American musician (The Killers) |
| 15th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Brooks Wackerman, American musician |
| 15th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tuan Le, American poker player |
| 15th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kimberly Goss, American singer and musician (Sinergy) |
| 15th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Alenka Kejzar, Slovenian swimmer |
| 15th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Low, English footballer |
| 15th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Shedden, Scottish race car driver |
| 15th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Severin, Scottish footballer |
| 15th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Conor Oberst, American singer and songwriter (Bright Eyes) |
| 15th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Sole, New Zealand-born Italian rugby player |
| 15th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Hoopes, American musician (Relient K) |
| 15th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Heurelho Gomes, Brazilian footballer |
| 15th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Martinez, Mexican footballer |
| 15th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia, American singer |
| 15th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jenna Morasca, American model |
| 15th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Shameka Christon, American basketball player |
| 15th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Nodari, Italian footballer |
| 15th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Don Cowie, Scottish footballer |
| 15th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Philipp Degen, Swiss footballer |
| 15th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Martin, Canadian baseball player |
| 15th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Tesoro, American actress and singer |
| 15th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Doda, Polish singer (Virgin) |
| 15th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Paletta, Argentine footballer |
| 15th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jarrod Sammut, Australian rugby league player |
| 15th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Hironori Kusano, Japanese singer |
| 15th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jarryd Hayne, Australian rugby league player |
| 15th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Mannah, Australian rugby league player |
| 15th of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Erwin Sak, Polish footballer |
| 15th of February 1998 | BIRTHDAY | Zachary Gordon, American actor |
| 15th of February 1145 | DEATH | Pope Lucius II |
| 15th of February 1621 | DEATH | Michael Praetorius, German composer (Born 1571) |
| 15th of February 1637 | DEATH | Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1578) |
| 15th of February 1738 | DEATH | Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (Born 1684) |
| 15th of February 1775 | DEATH | Peter Dens, Flemish Catholic theologian (Born 1690) |
| 15th of February 1781 | DEATH | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (Born 1729) |
| 15th of February 1818 | DEATH | Friedrich Ludwig, Furst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (Born 1746) |
| 15th of February 1835 | DEATH | Henry Hunt, British politician (Born 1773) |
| 15th of February 1839 | DEATH | Chevalier de Lorimier, Quebec notary (Born 1803) |
| 15th of February 1842 | DEATH | Archibald Menzies, Scottish naturalist and surgeon (Born 1754) |
| 15th of February 1844 | DEATH | Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1757) |
| 15th of February 1847 | DEATH | Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (Born 1794) |
| 15th of February 1848 | DEATH | Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (Born 1771) |
| 15th of February 1849 | DEATH | Pierre Francois Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (Born 1804) |
| 15th of February 1857 | DEATH | Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (Born 1804) |
| 15th of February 1869 | DEATH | Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (Born 1796) |
| 15th of February 1905 | DEATH | Lew Wallace, Union general in the American Civil War and novelist (Born 1827) |
| 15th of February 1911 | DEATH | Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (Born 1859) |
| 15th of February 1924 | DEATH | Lionel Monckton, English composer for the musical theatre (Born 1861) |
| 15th of February 1928 | DEATH | H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1852) |
| 15th of February 1932 | DEATH | Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (Born 1865) |
| 15th of February 1939 | DEATH | Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (Born 1878) |
| 15th of February 1956 | DEATH | Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (Born 1878) |
| 15th of February 1959 | DEATH | Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1879) |
| 15th of February 1961 | DEATH | Bradley Lord, American figure skater (Born 1939) |
| 15th of February 1961 | DEATH | Laurence Owen, American figure skater (Born 1944) |
| 15th of February 1964 | DEATH | Robert L. Thornton, American businessman and politician (Born 1880) |
| 15th of February 1965 | DEATH | Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (Born 1919) |
| 15th of February 1966 | DEATH | Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian Roman Catholic priest, member of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group (Born 1929) |
| 15th of February 1966 | DEATH | Gerard Cio?ek, Polish architect (Born 1909) |
| 15th of February 1970 | DEATH | Sir Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (Born 1882) |
| 15th of February 1971 | DEATH | Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (Born 1885) |
| 15th of February 1973 | DEATH | Wally Cox, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 15th of February 1973 | DEATH | Tim Holt, American actor (Born 1919) |
| 15th of February 1974 | DEATH | Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (Born 1887) |
| 15th of February 1981 | DEATH | Mike Bloomfield, American musician (Born 1943) |
| 15th of February 1981 | DEATH | Karl Richter, German conductor (Born 1926) |
| 15th of February 1984 | DEATH | Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (Born 1908) |
| 15th of February 1988 | DEATH | Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1918) |
| 15th of February 1992 | DEATH | Maria Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist (Born 1960) |
| 15th of February 1992 | DEATH | William Schuman, American composer (Born 1910) |
| 15th of February 1996 | DEATH | Tommy Rettig, American actor (Born 1941) |
| 15th of February 1996 | DEATH | McLean Stevenson, American actor (Born 1929) |
| 15th of February 1996 | DEATH | Lucio Agostini, Canadian composer and conductor (Born 1913) |
| 15th of February 1998 | DEATH | Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician (Born 1919) |
| 15th of February 1998 | DEATH | Louie Spicolli, American professional wrestler (Born 1971) |
| 15th of February 1999 | DEATH | Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1926) |
| 15th of February 1999 | DEATH | Big L, American rapper (Born 1974) |
| 15th of February 2002 | DEATH | Howard K. Smith, American journalist (Born 1914) |
| 15th of February 2002 | DEATH | Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (Born 1963) |
| 15th of February 2004 | DEATH | Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and jurist (Born 1917) |
| 15th of February 2004 | DEATH | Jan Miner, American actress (Born 1917) |
| 15th of February 2005 | DEATH | Samuel T. Francis, American journalist (Born 1947) |
| 15th of February 2005 | DEATH | Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (Born 1944) |
| 15th of February 2007 | DEATH | Walker Edmiston, American actor (Born 1926) |
| 15th of February 2007 | DEATH | Ray Evans, American songwriter (Born 1915) |
| 15th of February 2008 | DEATH | Amnon Netzer, Iranian-Israeli historian (Born 1934) |
| 15th of February 2008 | DEATH | Ashley Callie, South African actress (Born 1976) |
| 15th of February 2009 | DEATH | Joe Cuba, Puerto-Rican musician (Born 1931) |
| 15th of February 2009 | DEATH | Dr. Diether H. Haenicke, university president (Born 1935) |
| 15th of February 2010 | DEATH | Jeanne M. Holm, American, first woman to receive general's stars in the USAF (Born 1921) |