February 15
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Art and culture
- 2005 - YouTube, the popular Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.
Births
- 1564 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)
- 1820 - Susan B. Anthony, American feminist and suffragist (d. 1906)
- 1856 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (d. 1926)
- 1861 - Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1947)
- 1883 - Sax Rohmer, English author (d. 1959)
- 1899 - Georges Auric, French composer (d. 1983)
- 1941 - Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress
- 1941 - Brian Holland, American songwriter and producer
- 1948 - Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist (Maus)
Deaths
- 1637 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1578)
- 2005 - Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
notes
- 1637 - Jeremy Bentham (February 15 , 1748 O.S. (February 26, 1748 N.S.) – June 6, 1832) was an English jurist, philosopher,
- 1637 - Zéro de conduite It was first shown on April 7, 1933. It was subsequently banned in France until February 15, 1946.
- 1637 - Marie Liljedahl (15 February 1950, Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish actress who had a brief career in the late 1960s in the films of Joseph W. Sarno and Jesus Franco.
- 1637 - Wilhelm Jensen (15 February 1837 - 24 November 1911) was a German writer.
- 1637 - Georges Auric (February 15, 1899 – July 23, 1983) was a French composer. The many films that he scored included Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (1946), Passport To Pimlico (1948), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), Roman Holiday (1953), Le Salaire de la Peur (1953), Lola Montes (1955), Rififi (1956), Notre-Dame de Paris (1956), Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Goodbye Again (1961), and Therese and Isabelle (1968).
- 1637 - Revue fantaisiste La Revue fantaisiste was a French literary and arts periodical founded by Catulle Mendès and first published on February 15 1861.The periodical counted Baudelaire, Banville, Alphonse Daudet, Théophile Gautier, and Champfleury among its collaborators, and published several of Rodolphe Bresdin's etchings.
- 1637 - Jean-Joseph Carriès (February 15, 1855 - July 1, 1894) was a French sculptor, ceramist, miniaturist and artist of the grotesque.
- 1637 - Erika Remberg
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