February 14th, 1616

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Born on February 14th, 1616 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on February 14th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on February 14th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (February 1616)

Born on February 14th, 1616

Weekday

Sunday

February 14th, 1616 was a Sunday.

Age

408

People born on February 14th, 1616 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 408 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♒

Aquarius (The Water-Bearer)

January 21st, 1616 - February 19th, 1616

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 149,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 908 days, exactly on October 22nd, 2026, people who were born on February 14th, 1616 will be 150,000 days old!

149,092 Days

21,298 Weeks

4,898 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on February 14th?

February 14th, 2011

Arab Spring: The Bahraini uprising began with youth-organized protests on the Day of Rage.

2008 Northern Illinois University shooting

February 14th, 2008

A gunman opened fire into a crowded lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, killing five people and injuring twenty-one others.

February 14th, 1992

Sri Temasek (pictured), the official residence of the prime minister of Singapore, was declared a national monument.

February 14th, 1990

NASA's Voyager 1 space probe took the Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth (cropped version pictured) from a record distance of 40.5 au (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi).

February 14th, 1989

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses, a novel considered to be blasphemous by some Muslims.

February 14th, 1981

48 people died when a fire broke out during a Valentine's Day dance at a Dublin nightclub.

February 14th, 1979

Adolph Dubs, United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped by unknown agents and killed during a gun battle between Afghan police and the perpetrators.

February 14th, 1961

Lawrencium, the radioactive synthetic element with atomic number 103, was first synthesized at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

February 14th, 1943

World War II: General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim's 5th Panzer Army launched a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.

February 14th, 1938

The Singapore Naval Base, the cornerstone of the Singapore strategy, a British naval defence policy, was opened.

February 14th, 1924

The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was renamed as International Business Machines (IBM), later growing into one of the world's largest companies by market capitalization.

February 14th, 1919

The Battle of Bereza Kartuska, the first serious armed conflict of the Polish–Soviet War, took place near present-day Biaroza, Belarus.

February 14th, 1914

The animated film Gertie the Dinosaur was released, later greatly influencing future animators such as the Fleischer brothers and Walt Disney.

February 14th, 1852

The Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, was founded in London.

February 14th, 1804

Serb chieftains elected Đorđe Petrović as their leader and began an uprising against the Ottoman Empire.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 14th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on February 14th?

Karol G

Colombian singer-songwriter and businesswoman (1991–)

*February 14th, 1991, Medellín

Elley Duhé

American singer

*February 14th, 1992, Mobile

Henriett Koósz

Paralympic tennis and badminton player

*February 14th, 1980, Kőszeg

Herwig Wolfram

Austrian historian

*February 14th, 1934, Vienna

Ville Lång

Finnish badminton player

*February 14th, 1985, Lahti

Salakjit Ponsana

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1984, Bangkok

Kristian Blummenfelt

Norwegian triathlete

*February 14th, 1994, Bergen

Karin Schnaase

German badminton player

*February 14th, 1985, Lüdinghausen

Peter Ahlwardt

German theologian and philosopher (1710-1791)

*February 14th, 1710, Greifswald †March 1st, 1791, Greifswald

Daniel Miller

British music producer and founder of Mute Records

*February 14th, 1951, London

Josef Durm

German architect and architectural historian

*February 14th, 1837, Karlsruhe †April 3rd, 1919, Karlsruhe

John Wilkins

Secretary of the Royal Society and Bishop of Chester

*February 14th, 1614, Fawsley †November 19th, 1672, London

Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

*February 14th, 1949, Brooklyn †May 19th, 2017, Paris

Simon Pegg

English actor (born 1970)

*February 14th, 1970, Brockworth

Klaudia Pintér

Hungarian beach handball player

*February 14th, 2001, Budapest

Tan Aik Huang

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1946, Singapore

Gita Nabavi

Swedish politician

*February 14th, 1982, Tehran

Tang Jiuhong

Chinese badminton player

*February 14th, 1969, Anhua County

Qin Yiyuan

Chinese badminton player

*February 14th, 1973, Guangxi

Danai Gurira

American actress

*February 14th, 1978, Grinnell

Same year
Born in 1616

John Wallis

English mathematician (*1616 – †1703)

*November 23rd, 1616, Ashford †October 28th, 1703, Oxford

Eustache Le Sueur

French artist and one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting (1617-1655)

*November 19th, 1616, Paris †April 30th, 1655, Paris

Roger L'Estrange

English pamphleteer and author, and staunch defender of royalist claims (1616-1704)

*December 17th, 1616, Hunstanton †December 11th, 1704, London

Ferdinand Bol

Dutch painter (1616-1680)

*June 24th, 1616, Dordrecht †June 30th, 1680, Amsterdam

Francisco Enríquez de Villacorta

*October 18th, 1616, Alcalá de Henares †January 1st, 1680, Alcalá de Henares

David Lewis

English Jesuit Catholic priest and martyr

*January 1st, 1616, Abergavenny †August 27th, 1679, Usk

Henry Stone

British artist

*January 1st, 1616, London †August 24th, 1653, London

Johann Jakob Froberger

German composer and keyboardist

*May 18th, 1616, Stuttgart †May 7th, 1667, Héricourt

Carlo Dolci

Italian painter (1616-1686)

*May 25th, 1616, Florence †January 17th, 1686, Florence

Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau

German poet

*December 25th, 1616, Wrocław †April 18th, 1679, Wrocław

Andreas Gryphius

German poet and dramatist

*October 2nd, 1616, Głogów †July 16th, 1664, Głogów

Johann Brever

German author and theologian

*January 1st, 1616, Lutherstadt Eisleben †January 1st, 1700, Riga

Antoinette Bourignon

17th-century French-Flemish mystic

*January 13th, 1616, Lille †October 30th, 1680, Franeker

Trijntje Keever

Tallest female

*January 10th, 1616, Edam †July 22nd, 1633, Veere

Sophie Elisabeth of Brandenburg

Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg

*February 1st, 1616, Moritzburg †March 16th, 1650, Schloss Altenburg

John Leverett

Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony

*July 7th, 1616, Boston †March 16th, 1679, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Christen Aagaard

Danish poet

*January 27th, 1616, Viborg †February 5th, 1664, Ribe

Nicholas Culpeper

English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (1616-1654)

*October 18th, 1616, Surrey †January 10th, 1654, London

Pietro Andrea Ziani

Italian organist and composer (1616-1684)

*December 21st, 1616, Venice †February 12th, 1684, Naples

Christian Günther II, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Arnstadt

Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Arnstadt

*April 1st, 1616, Ebeleben †September 10th, 1666, Arnstadt

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 14th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on February 14th.

Valentine's Day!

Traditionally Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14 each year.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XIV.II.MDCXVI

14.2.1616

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

X = 10

V = 5

IV = 4

I = 1

Leap year

Yes: 1616 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

Calendar
February 1616

February 1616

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
5	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
6	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
7	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
8	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
9	29