﻿{"id":455,"date":"2009-02-05T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chayilyam.com\/stories\/?p=455"},"modified":"2009-02-05T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T12:57:00","slug":"february-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chayilyam.com\/stories\/february-14\/","title":{"rendered":"February 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small; font-weight: bold;\">February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 320 days remaining until the end of the year (321 in leap years).<\/p>\n<p>February 14 is internationally known as Valentine&#8217;s Day, named after Saint Valentinus of Terni, in Italy, executed in 270.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-weight: bold;\">Births<\/span><\/div>\n<ul style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> * 1404 &#8211; Leone Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (d. 1472)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1468 &#8211; Johann Werner, German mathematician (d. 1522)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1483 &#8211; Babur, Moghul emperor of India (d. 1530)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1602 &#8211; Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (d. 1676)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1680 &#8211; John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (d. 1737)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1692 &#8211; Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chauss\u00e9e, French writer (d. 1754)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1701 &#8211; Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (d. 1773)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1763 &#8211; Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (d. 1813)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1788 &#8211; Fernando Sor, Spanish composer (d. 1839)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1799 &#8211; Walenty Wa\u0144kowicz, Polish painter (d. 1842)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1800 &#8211; Emory Washburn, 22nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1877)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1812 &#8211; Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (d. 1846)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1819 &#8211; Joshua A. Norton, American eccentric (d. 1880)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1819 &#8211; Christopher Sholes, American inventor (d. 1890)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1824 &#8211; Winfield Scott Hancock, American Civil War Union general (d. 1886)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1828 &#8211; Edmond Fran\u00e7ois Valentin About, French writer (d. 1885)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1838 &#8211; Margaret E. Knight, American inventor, famous as female Thomas Edison, (d. 1914)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1846 &#8211; Julian Scott, American artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient. (d. 1901)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1847 &#8211; Anna Howard Shaw, American suffragette (d. 1919)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1847 &#8211; Maria Pia of Italy, queen of Portugal (d. 1911)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1848 &#8211; Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (d. 1934)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1856 &#8211; Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (d. 1931)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1859 &#8211; George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., engineer and inventor (d. 1896)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1860 &#8211; Eugen Schiffer, German politician (d. 1954)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1869 &#8211; Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1959)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1871 &#8211; Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (d. 1959)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1884 &#8211; Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor, film director (d. 1947)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1884 &#8211; Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1952)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1884 &#8211; Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (d. 1974)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1884 &#8211; Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (d. 1972)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1885 &#8211; Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim Indian\/Pakistani philosopher (d. 1949)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1890 &#8211; Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (d. 1956)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1892 &#8211; Radola Gajda, Czech military commander (d. 1948)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1894 &#8211; Jack Benny, American actor and comedian (d. 1974)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1895 &#8211; Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1898 &#8211; Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-American physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1902 &#8211; Thelma Ritter, American actress (d. 1969)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1903 &#8211; Stu Erwin, American actor (d. 1967)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1904 &#8211; Charles Oatley, Professor of electrical engineering, (scanning electron microscope), (d. 1996)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1904 &#8211; Hertta Kuusinen, Finnish communist (d. 1974)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1912 &#8211; Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (d. 1988)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1913 &#8211; Mel Allen, American sports reporter (d. 1996)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1913 &#8211; Woody Hayes, American college football coach (d. 1987)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1913 &#8211; Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1914 &#8211; Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (d. 2007)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1916 &#8211; Marcel Bigeard, French general<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1916 &#8211; Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director (d. 1996)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1916 &#8211; Edward Platt, American actor (d. 1974)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1917 &#8211; Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, Nobel Prize Laureate<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1921 &#8211; Hugh Downs, American television host<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1922 &#8211; Murray the K, American impresario and disk jockey (d. 1982)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1927 &#8211; Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (d. 2007)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1929 &#8211; Vic Morrow, American actor (d. 1982)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1931 &#8211; Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player (d. 2006)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1931 &#8211; Brian Kelly, American actor (d. 2005)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1931 &#8211; Phyllis McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1932 &#8211; Alexander Kluge, German actor and film director<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1933 &#8211; Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1934 &#8211; Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1934 &#8211; Florence Henderson, American actress<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1936 &#8211; Fanne Foxe, Argentine dancer and focus of a 1974 scandal involving Congressman Wilbur Mills.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1936 &#8211; Andrew Prine, American actor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1941 &#8211; Donna Shalala, American educator<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1941 &#8211; Paul Tsongas, United States Senator from Massachusetts (d. 1997)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1942 &#8211; Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1942 &#8211; Andrew Robinson, American actor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1942 &#8211; Ricardo Rodr\u00edguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1962)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1943 &#8211; Maceo Parker, American musician (P-Funk)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1943 &#8211; Aaron Russo, American movie producer (d. 2007)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1944 &#8211; Carl Bernstein, American journalist<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1944 &#8211; Alan Parker, British film director and writer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1944 &#8211; Ronnie Peterson, Swedish racing driver (d. 1978)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1945 &#8211; Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1946 &#8211; Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (d. 2003)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1946 &#8211; Gregory Hines, American dancer and actor (d. 2003)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1947 &#8211; Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1975)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1947 &#8211; Judd Gregg, American politician, senior senator from New Hampshire<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1948 &#8211; Pat O&#8217;Brien, American sportscaster and television host<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1948 &#8211; Teller, American magician (Penn and Teller)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1950 &#8211; Roger Fisher, American musician (Heart)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1951 &#8211; Kevin Keegan, English footballer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1951 &#8211; JoJo Starbuck, American ice skater<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1952 &#8211; Nancy Keenan, current NARAL president<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1955 &#8211; Ronald Desruelles, Belgian athlete<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1955 &#8211; James Eckhouse, American actor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1955 &#8211; Carol Kalish, American publishing executive (d. 1991)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1955 &#8211; Rip Rogers, American professional wrestler<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1957 &#8211; Alan Hunter, one of the original MTV VJs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1957 &#8211; Soile Isokoski, Finnish soprano<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1958 &#8211; Enrique Mansilla, Argentine racing driver<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1958 &#8211; Grant Thomas, Australian rules footballer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1959 &#8211; Ren\u00e9e Fleming, American soprano<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1960 &#8211; Jim Kelly, American football player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1960 &#8211; Meg Tilly, Canadian actress<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1961 &#8211; Phillip Hamilton, American author<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1961 &#8211; Latifa, Tunisian singer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1962 &#8211; Kevyn Aucoin, American cosmetologist (d. 2002)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1962 &#8211; Michael Higgs, English actor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1962 &#8211; Philippe Sella, French rugby player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1962 &#8211; Sakina Jaffrey, Indian actress<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1963 &#8211; Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1963 &#8211; John Marzano, American baseball player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1964 &#8211; Gianni Bugno, Italian cyclist<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1964 &#8211; Zach Galligan, American actor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1966 &#8211; Petr Svoboda, National Hockey League player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1967 &#8211; Manuela Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1967 &#8211; Stelios Haji-Ioannou, British entrepreneur<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1968 &#8211; Jules Asner, American television personality<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1968 &#8211; Scott McClellan, American politician<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1969 &#8211; Adriana Behar, Brazilian beach volleyball player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1969 &#8211; Harry Colon, American football player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1970 &#8211; Giuseppe Guerini, Italian cyclist<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1970 &#8211; Simon Pegg, British comedian and actor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1971 &#8211; Kris Aquino, Filipino Actress and TV Host<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1971 &#8211; Gheorghe Muresan, Romanian basketball player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1971 &#8211; Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1971 &#8211; Tommy Dreamer, American professional wrestler<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1972 &#8211; Drew Bledsoe, American football player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1972 &#8211; Big Daddy V, American professional wrestler<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1972 &#8211; Hiroshi, Japanese comedian<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1972 &#8211; Najwa Nimri, Spanish actress<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1972 &#8211; Rob Thomas, American musician (Matchbox Twenty)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1973 &#8211; Tyus Edney, American basketball player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1973 &#8211; Steve McNair, American football player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1974 &#8211; Filippa Giordano, Italian singer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1974 &#8211; Philippe L\u00e9onard, Belgian footballer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1975 &#8211; Scott Owen, Australian musician (The Living End)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1975 &#8211; Yul Kwon, American Survivor contestant<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1975 &#8211; Malik Zidi, French actor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1976 &#8211; Liv Kristine, Norwegian singer (Leaves&#8217; Eyes)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1977 &#8211; Darren Bennett, a Professional Latin Ballroom Dancer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1977 &#8211; Cadel Evans, Australian cyclist<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1977 &#8211; Darren Purse, English footballer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1977 &#8211; Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (d. 2007)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1978 &#8211; Dean Gaffney, British actor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1978 &#8211; Richard Hamilton, American basketball player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1978 &#8211; Darius Songaila, basketball player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1978 &#8211; Dwele, American R&#038;B\/Soul singer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1979 &#8211; Pablo Pallante, Uruguayan footballer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1980 &#8211; F\u00e1tima Leyva, Mexican footballer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1980 &#8211; Michelle Ye, Hong Kong actress<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1980 &#8211; Josh Senter, American screenwriter<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1982 &#8211; Mari\u00e1n G\u00e1bor\u00edk, Slovak hockey player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1983 &#8211; Bacary Sagna, French footballer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1983 &#8211; Rhydian Roberts, Welsh Singer, X factor Runner Up<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1984 &#8211; Hamed Namouchi, Tunisian footballer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1985 &#8211; Karima Adebibe, Moroccan-English actress and model<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1985 &#8211; Tyler Clippard, American baseball player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1985 &#8211; Heart Evangelista, Filipina singer, TV and movie actress<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1985 &#8211; Natsume Sano, Japanese gravure idol<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1985 &#8211; Philippe Senderos, Swiss footballer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1985 &#8211; Gonzalo Venegas, aka G1, of hip hop group Rebel Diaz<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1985 &#8211; Miki Yeung, Hong Kong singer and actress<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1986 &#8211; Michael Ammerm\u00fcller, German racing driver<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1986 &#8211; Roxanne Guinoo, Filipina actress<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1986 &#8211; Aschwin Wildeboer, Spanish swimmer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1987 &#8211; Joseph Pichler, American actor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1987 &#8211; Julia Savicheva, Russian singer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1987 &#8211; David Wheater, English footballer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1988 &#8211; \u00c1ngel Di Mar\u00eda, Argentine footballer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1988 &#8211; Asia Nitollano, American dancer, Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll winner<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1988 &#8211; Eliska Sursova, American actress<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1988 &#8211; Quentin Mosimann, Swiss singer, winner of Star Academy France 7<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1989 &#8211; Brandon Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1992 &#8211; Freddie Highmore, English actor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1994 &#8211; Paul Butcher, American actor<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-weight: bold;\">Deaths<\/span><\/div>\n<ul style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 270 &#8211; St. Valentine marking Valentines Day<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 869 &#8211; Saint Cyril, Greek monk, scholar, theologian and linguist (b. 827)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1317 &#8211; Marguerite of France, queen of Edward I of England (b. 1282)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1400 &#8211; King Richard II of England (murdered) (b. 1367)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1405 &#8211; Timur, Mongol conqueror (b. 1336)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1571 &#8211; Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (b. 1517)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1676 &#8211; Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1714 &#8211; Maria Luisa of Savoy, Queen Consort of Spain (b. 1688)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1737 &#8211; Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1744 &#8211; John Hadley, inventor (b. 1682)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1779 &#8211; James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (b. 1728)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1780 &#8211; William Blackstone, English jurist (b. 1723)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1808 &#8211; John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1831 &#8211; Vicente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero (b. 1782)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1831 &#8211; Henry Maudslay, English inventor (b. 1771)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1870 &#8211; St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (b. 1815)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1881 &#8211; Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (b. 1812)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1885 &#8211; Jules Vall\u00e8s, French writer (b. 1832)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1891 &#8211; William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General (b. 1820)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1894 &#8211; Eug\u00e8ne Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (b. 1814)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1922 &#8211; Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (assassinated) (b. 1880)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1929 &#8211; Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1942 &#8211; Adnan Bin Saidi, Officer of the Malay Regiment killed in the defense of Singapore (b. 1915)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1943 &#8211; Dora Gerson, German actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (b. 1899)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1943 &#8211; David Hilbert, German mathematician (b. 1862)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1948 &#8211; Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (b. 1876)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1949 &#8211; Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1950 &#8211; Karl Guthe Jansky, American Discoverer of cosmic radio waves (b. 1905)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1952 &#8211; Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (b. 1896)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1958 &#8211; Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1959 &#8211; Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (b. 1898)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1967 &#8211; Sig Ruman, German-American actor (b. 1884)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1969 &#8211; Vito Genovese, American gangster (b. 1897)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1970 &#8211; Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1974 &#8211; Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1975 &#8211; Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1975 &#8211; P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1978 &#8211; Paul Governali, American professional football player (b. 1921)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1979 &#8211; Adolph Dubs, American diplomat (b. 1920)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1980 &#8211; Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1983 &#8211; Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1986 &#8211; Edmund Rubbra, English Composer (b. 1901)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1987 &#8211; Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1987 &#8211; Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (b. 1908)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1988 &#8211; Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (b. 1901)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1989 &#8211; James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1990 &#8211; Tony Holiday, German singer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1994 &#8211; Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1995 &#8211; U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1995 &#8211; Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (b. 1923)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1996 &#8211; Bob Paisley, English football manager (b. 1919)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1999 &#8211; John Ehrlichman, American presidential advisor (b. 1925)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 1999 &#8211; Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 2002 &#8211; N\u00e1ndor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 2003 &#8211; Dolly, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 2003 &#8211; Johnny Longden, English jockey (b. 1907)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 2004 &#8211; Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 2005 &#8211; Najai Turpin, American boxer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 2005 &#8211; Rafik Hariri, Lebanese politician and billionaire businessman (b. 1944)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 2006 &#8211; Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 2006 &#8211; Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 2006 &#8211; Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 2007 &#8211; Gareth Morris, British flautist (b. 1920)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">    * 2007 &#8211; Ryan Larkin, Canadian animated film maker. (b. 1943)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">from http:\/\/en.wikipedia.or<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 320 days remaining until the end of the year (321 in leap years). February 14 is internationally known as Valentine&#8217;s Day, named after Saint Valentinus of Terni, in Italy, executed in 270. 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