February 14th, 1956

Born on February 14th, 1956

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 24,000 days old!

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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.

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

Born on February 14th, 1956

68

Michal Pavlíček

Czech composer, jazz musician and guitarist

*February 14th, 1956, Prague

68

Valerie McClain-Ward

American coxswain

*February 14th, 1956, Berkeley

68

Geoff Goodman

American musician and music educator

*February 14th, 1956, New York City

68

Dave Dravecky

American baseball player

*February 14th, 1956, Youngstown

68

Martin Crimp

British playwright and translator

*February 14th, 1956, Dartford

59

Howard Davis

Boxer (1956-2015)

*February 14th, 1956, Glen Cove †December 30th, 2015, Plantation

68

Harry Schulting

Dutch Olympic athlete

*February 14th, 1956, Haarlem

68

Pat Glass

British politician

*February 14th, 1956, Esh Winning

68

Rainer Guldener

Swiss actor

*February 14th, 1956, Schaffhausen

68

John Anderson

American linebacker in the National Football League (Green Bay Packers 1978-1989)

*February 14th, 1956, Waukesha

68

Krzysztof Adamczyk

Polish football player

*February 14th, 1956, Gdańsk

68

Katharina Fritsch

German sculptor

*February 14th, 1956, Essen

68

B. J. Leiderman

American composer

*February 14th, 1956, Norfolk

68

Tom Burlinson

Australian actor and singer

*February 14th, 1956, Toronto

68

Tom Curran

British pathologist

*February 14th, 1956, Scotland

68

Reinhold Hintermaier

Austrian footballer

*February 14th, 1956, Altheim

68

Jerry Marquis

NASCAR driver

*February 14th, 1956, Broad Brook

68

Rosa Castillo

Women's basketball player

*February 14th, 1956, Barcelona

68

Harold Phillipoff

Canadian ice hockey player

*February 14th, 1956, Kamsack

68

Harish Bhimani

Narrator, Anchor, Writer.

*February 14th, 1956, Mumbai

68

Neelkamal Puri

Indian author

*February 14th, 1956, Ludhiana

68

Joachim Weimann

German economist

*February 14th, 1956, Düsseldorf

66

Dzintars Jaundžeikars

Latvian politician

*February 14th, 1956, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic †March 16th, 2022

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73

Daniel Miller

British music producer and founder of Mute Records

*February 14th, 1951, London

33

Karol G

Colombian singer-songwriter and businesswoman (1991–)

*February 14th, 1991, Medellín

44

Henriett Koósz

Paralympic tennis and badminton player

*February 14th, 1980, Kőszeg

90

Herwig Wolfram

Austrian historian

*February 14th, 1934, Vienna

32

Elley Duhé

American singer

*February 14th, 1992, Mobile

39

Ville Lång

Finnish badminton player

*February 14th, 1985, Lahti

40

Salakjit Ponsana

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Karin Schnaase

German badminton player

*February 14th, 1985, Lüdinghausen

30

Kristian Blummenfelt

Norwegian triathlete

*February 14th, 1994, Bergen

68

Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

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

71

Hans Krankl

Austrian footballer

*February 14th, 1953, Vienna

72

Anton Lesser

English actor

*February 14th, 1952, England

66

Ingo Voge

East German bobsledder

*February 14th, 1958, Falkensee

78

Tan Aik Huang

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1946, Singapore

54

Simon Pegg

English actor (born 1970)

*February 14th, 1970, Brockworth

55

Tang Jiuhong

Chinese badminton player

*February 14th, 1969, Anhua County

57

Mark Rutte

Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 2010

*February 14th, 1967, The Hague

51

Qin Yiyuan

Chinese badminton player

*February 14th, 1973, Guangxi

76

Alan Parker

English film producer and director (1944-2020)

*February 14th, 1944, Islington †July 31st, 2020, London

46

Danai Gurira

American actress

*February 14th, 1978, Grinnell

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Born in 1956

68

Peter Hook

English musician

*February 13th, 1956, Salford

67

Charles M. Huber

German actor and politician

*December 3rd, 1956, Munich

68

Sheila McCarthy

Canadian actress

*January 1st, 1956, Toronto

67

Stephan Barratt-Due

Norwegian musician

*June 1st, 1956, Oslo

67

Tom Hanks

American actor and film producer (born 1956)

*July 9th, 1956, Concord

67

Theresa May

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019

*October 1st, 1956, Eastbourne

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

60

Carrie Fisher

American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)

*October 21st, 1956, Burbank †December 27th, 2016, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

23

Ian Curtis

British musician (1956–1980)

*July 15th, 1956, Stretford †May 18th, 1980, Macclesfield

67

Valgerd Svarstad Haugland

Norwegian politician

*August 23rd, 1956, Kvam Municipality

67

Ulrike Meyfarth

German former high jumper

*May 4th, 1956, Frankfurt

67

Martyn Ware

English musician

*May 19th, 1956, Sheffield

68

Gunnar Brands

German classical archaeologist

*March 30th, 1956, Duisburg

67

Justus Carrière

German actor

*May 16th, 1956, Schwerin

68

Michel Houellebecq

French writer

*February 26th, 1956, Saint-Pierre

68

Bryan Cranston

American actor, director, and producer

*March 7th, 1956, Hollywood

62

Minken Fosheim

Norwegian actress (1956-2018)

*March 20th, 1956, Oslo †June 7th, 2018, Oslo

68

Imelda Staunton

English actress (born 1956)

*January 9th, 1956, London

67

Andreas Bornschein

German association football player

*November 29th, 1956, Leipzig

67

Han Jian

Chinese badminton player

*July 6th, 1956, Liaoning

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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.

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Leap year

Yes: 1956 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).

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