February 14th, 1857

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Born on February 14th, 1857 – 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 1857)

Born on February 14th, 1857

Weekday

Saturday

February 14th, 1857 was a Saturday.

Age

167

People born on February 14th, 1857 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 167 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♒

Aquarius (The Water-Bearer)

January 21st, 1857 - February 19th, 1857

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 61,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 931 days, exactly on November 15th, 2026, people who were born on February 14th, 1857 will be 62,000 days old!

61,069 Days

8,724 Weeks

2,006 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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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?

Herwig Wolfram

Austrian historian

*February 14th, 1934, Vienna

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

Ville Lång

Finnish badminton player

*February 14th, 1985, Lahti

Salakjit Ponsana

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1984, Bangkok

Josef Durm

German architect and architectural historian

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

Karin Schnaase

German badminton player

*February 14th, 1985, Lüdinghausen

Kristian Blummenfelt

Norwegian triathlete

*February 14th, 1994, Bergen

Daniel Miller

British music producer and founder of Mute Records

*February 14th, 1951, London

Benjamin Baillaud

French astronomer (1848-1934)

*February 14th, 1848, Chalon-sur-Saône †July 8th, 1934, Paris

Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

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

Tan Aik Huang

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1946, Singapore

Simon Pegg

English actor (born 1970)

*February 14th, 1970, Brockworth

Tang Jiuhong

Chinese badminton player

*February 14th, 1969, Anhua County

Klaudia Pintér

Hungarian beach handball player

*February 14th, 2001, Budapest

Qin Yiyuan

Chinese badminton player

*February 14th, 1973, Guangxi

Gita Nabavi

Swedish politician

*February 14th, 1982, Tehran

Danai Gurira

American actress

*February 14th, 1978, Grinnell

Joseph Thomson

Scottish geologist and explorer

*February 14th, 1858, Penpont †August 2nd, 1895, London

Same year
Born in 1857

Ernst Fabricius

German historian, archaeologist and scholar (1857–1942)

*September 6th, 1857, Darmstadt †March 22nd, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau

William Howard Taft

President of the United States from 1909 to 1913

*September 15th, 1857, Cincinnati †March 8th, 1930, Washington metropolitan area

Ferdinand de Saussure

Swiss linguist (1857-1913)

*November 26th, 1857, Geneva †February 22nd, 1913, Vufflens-le-Château

Friedrich August Emil Heuer

*December 27th, 1857, Rammenau †March 29th, 1934, Dresden

Heinrich Hertz

German physicist (1857–1894)

*February 22nd, 1857, Hamburg †January 1st, 1894, Bonn

Joseph Conrad

Polish-British writer (1857–1924)

*December 3rd, 1857, Terekhove †August 3rd, 1924, Bishopsbourne

Pius XI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939

*May 31st, 1857, Desio †February 10th, 1939, Vatican City

Henrik Pontoppidan

Writer, Nobel Laureate

*July 24th, 1857, Fredericia †August 21st, 1943, Copenhagen

Otto Sidow

German politician (SPD)

*May 1st, 1857, Friesack †September 6th, 1927, Brandenburg an der Havel

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

Lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement (1857-1941)

*February 22nd, 1857, Paddington †January 8th, 1941, Nyeri

Eugène Regnault

French diplomat (1857-1941)

*December 28th, 1857, Boulogne-sur-Mer †September 25th, 1941, Gorre

Mario Méndez Bejarano

Spanish author

*December 5th, 1857, Seville †January 16th, 1931, Madrid

Julien Tiersot

French musicologist, composer and pioneer in ethnomusicology (1857-1936)

*July 5th, 1857, Bourg-en-Bresse †August 10th, 1936, 13th arrondissement of Paris

Margaret Deland

American writer and poet (1857–1945)

*February 23rd, 1857, Allegheny †January 13th, 1945, Boston

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Italian composer

*April 23rd, 1857, Naples †August 9th, 1919, Montecatini Terme

Edward Elgar

English composer (1857-1934)

*June 2nd, 1857, Lower Broadheath †February 23rd, 1934, Worcester

Alfred Binet

French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test

*July 8th, 1857, Nice †October 18th, 1911, Paris

Charles Scott Sherrington

English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)

*November 27th, 1857, Islington †March 4th, 1952, Eastbourne

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist

*March 7th, 1857, Wels †September 27th, 1940, Vienna

Theo Van Gogh

Dutch art dealer (1857–1891)

*May 1st, 1857, Zundert †January 25th, 1891, Utrecht

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.MDCCCLVII

14.2.1857

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

IV = 4

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1857 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
February 1857

February 1857

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

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February 14th, 1857

Born on February 14th, 1857

Weekday

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Age

Zodiac

♒

Aquarius (The Water-Bearer)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 61,000 days old!

61,069 Days

8,724 Weeks

2,006 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on February 14th?

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

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

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

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).

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

Same year Born in 1857

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on February 14th

Cyril and Methodius, patron saints of Europe (Roman Catholic Church)

Manchan

Valentine (see also Valentine's Day)

February 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Statehood Day (Arizona, United States)

Statehood Day (Oregon, United States)

Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (Armenian Apostolic Church)

Parents' Worship Day (parts of India)

Valentine's Day!

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

14.2.1857

Legend

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February 1857