What happened on February 14 ?

1317 - Marguerite of France, queen of Edward I of England (b. 1282)

1400 - King Richard II of England (murdered) (b. 1367)

1405 - Timur, Mongol conqueror (b. 1336)

1523 - Pope Adrian VI

1676 - Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist

1737 - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685)

1744 - John Hadley, inventor (b. 1682)

1779 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (b. 1728)

1780 - William Blackstone, English jurist (b. 1723)

1808 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)

1831 - Vicente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero (b. 1782)

1831 - Henry Maudslay, English inventor (b. 1771)

1885 - Jules Vallès, French writer (b. 1832)

1891 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General (b. 1820)

1894 - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (b. 1814)

1929 - Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)

1943 - Dora Gerson, German actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (b. 1899)

1943 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (b. 1862)

1949 - Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi communist leader

1958 - Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899)

1959 - Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (b. 1898)

1969 - Vito Genovese, American gangster (b. 1897)

1970 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880).

1974 - Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903)

1975 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)

1975 - P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)

1979 - Adolph Dubs, American diplomat (b. 1920)

1983 - Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)

1987 - Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904)

1988 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (b. 1901)

1989 - James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)

1994 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936)

1994 - Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (b. 1923)

1995 - U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)

1999 - John Ehrlichman, American presidential advisor (b. 1925)

2002 - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)

2003 - Dolly the sheep, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)

2003 - Johnny Longden, English jockey (b. 1907)

2004 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)

2005 - Najai Turpin, American boxer

2005 - Rafik Hariri, Lebanese politician and billionaire businessman (b. 1944)

2006 - Shoshana Damari, the "Queen of Israeli song" (b. 1923)

2006 - Lynden David Hall, British singer (b.1974)

2006 - Jackie Pallo, Famous British wrestler

2006 - Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)