February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 316 days remaining until the end of the year (317 in leap years).
Events
1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
1268 – The Livonian Order is defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere.
1332 – Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.
1637 – Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
1745 – The city of Surakarta, Central Java is founded on the banks of Bengawan Solo River, and becomes the capital of the Sunanate of Surakarta Hadiningrat.
1766 – A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.
1781 – Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
1791 – Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March 1791, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1861 – With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
1865 – American Civil War: Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.
1873 – Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
1878 – John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
1885 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
1900 – Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
1906 – Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
1911 – The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
1913 – Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
1930 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1930 – Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
1932 – The Empire of Japan declares a puppet state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Aisin=Gioro Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee" and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
1943 – World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
1943 – World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
1946 – Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
1947 – First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
1954 – The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
1957 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
1957 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
1965 – The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1969 – Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board.
1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
1972 – The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
1978 – The first Ironman Triathlon competition takes place on the island of Oahu and is won by Gordon Haller.
1979 – Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.
1983 – Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
1991 – The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
2001 – Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500.
2001 – Sampit conflict: Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, that will ultimately result in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes. Many Madurese victims found decapitated by the Dayaks, showing the return of old Dayaks "Ngayau" culture, which were prohibited by the Dutch East Indies colonial governments in early 20th century.
2003 – Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
2004 – Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Nishapur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
2007 – Terrorist bombs explode on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people.
2013 – Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
2014 – At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kiev, Ukraine.
Births
1372 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (d. 1448)
1404 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (d. 1472)
1486 – Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Indian monk and saint (d. 1534)
1516 – Mary I of England (d. 1558)
1530 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese daimyo (d. 1578)
1543 – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608)
1559 – Isaac Casaubon, Swiss philologist and scholar (d. 1614)
1602 – Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland (d. 1680)
1609 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1674)
1632 – Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1692)
1635 – Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish politician (d. 1680)
1642 – Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)
1658 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French philosopher and author (d. 1743)
1677 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer and academic (d. 1756)
1732 – Johann Christian Kittel, German organist and composer (d. 1809)
1745 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (d. 1827)
1814 – Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (d. 1900)
1817 – Lewis Armistead, American general (d. 1863)
1818 – Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet and activist (d. 1870)
1836 – Ramakrishna, Indian mystic and guru (d. 1886)
1838 – Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)
1846 – Wilson Barrett, English actor, playwright, and manager (d. 1904)
1848 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (d. 1933)
1849 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician (d. 1906)
1850 – George Henschel, German-English singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (d. 1934)
1855 – Jean Jules Jusserand, French historian, author, and diplomat (d. 1932)
1858 – Wilhelm Schmidt, German engineer (d. 1924)
1862 – Charles M. Schwab, American businessman, co-founded Bethlehem Steel (d. 1939)
1870 – William Laurel Harris, American painter and author (d. 1924)
1871 – Harry Brearley, English metallurgist (d. 1948)
1877 – Arthur Corbett, Australian public servant (d. 1970)
1883 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek philosopher and author (d. 1957)
1885 – Henri Laurens, French sculptor and illustrator (d. 1954)
1890 – Edward Arnold, American actor and singer (d. 1956)
1890 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor and singer (d. 1963)
1892 – Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 1944)
1897 – Charles Kuentz, German-French soldier (d. 2005)
1898 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (d. 1988)
1898 – Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet and politician, 1st Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (d. 1980)
1899 – Arthur Bryant, English historian and journalist (d. 1985)
1901 – Reginald Sheffield, English-American actor (d. 1957)
1902 – Walter Herbert, German-American conductor (d. 1975)
1903 – Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and politician (d. 1983)
1905 – Queenie Leonard, English-American actress and singer (d. 2002)
1906 – Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician and academic (d. 1980)
1907 – Oscar Brodney, American lawyer and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1909 – Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African-English cricketer and rugby player (d. 1990)
1909 – Wallace Stegner, American historian and author (d. 1993)
1911 – Jānis Vītols, Latvian cyclist (d. 1993)
1914 – Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2000)
1915 – Phyllis Calvert, English actress (d. 2002)
1916 – Jean Drapeau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1999)
1917 – José Curbelo, Cuban-American pianist and manager (d. 2012)
1917 – Dona Massin, Canadian actress and choreographer (d. 2001)
1919 – Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)
1921 – Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian pianist and composer (d. 2013)
1922 – Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 1997)
1922 – Helen Gurley Brown, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
1922 – Allan Melvin, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1922 – Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (d. 1971)
1924 – Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist and academic (d. 1999)
1924 – Nicola Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian mob boss (d. 2010)
1924 – Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1993)
1925 – George Kennedy, American actor
1925 – Halit Kıvanç, Turkish television and radio presenter, humorist, sports journalist and writer
1926 – Nalini Jaywant, Indian actress (d. 2010)
1927 – Luis Arroyo, Puerto Rican baseball player, manager, and scout (d. 2016)
1927 – John Warner, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 61st United States Secretary of the Navy
1928 – Tom Johnson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007)
1928 – Rex Mossop, Australian rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2011)
1929 – Len Deighton, English historian and author
1929 – André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1968)
1929 – Ertem Eğilmez, Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1931 – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist, co-created The Wizard of Id (d. 2007)
1931 – Toni Morrison, American author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 – Miloš Forman, Czech-American director and screenwriter
1933 – Yoko Ono, Japanese-American singer-songwriter (Plastic Ono Band)
1933 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (d. 2009)
1934 – Skip Battin, American singer-songwriter & bass player (The Byrds), (New Riders of the Purple Sage), (The Flying Burrito Brothers) (d. 2003)
1934 – Audre Lorde, American poet and activist (d. 1992)
1934 – Paco Rabanne, Spanish-French fashion designer
1936 – Jean M. Auel, American author
1936 – Dick Duff, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1936 – Kathryn Ish, American actress (d. 2007)
1936 – Ab McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player
1937 – Ulvi Voog, Estonian freestyle swimmer
1938 – Barry Knight, English cricketer and coach
1938 – Manny Mota, Dominican baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
1938 – Sadanoyama Shinmatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 50th Yokozuna
1938 – István Szabó, Hungarian director and screenwriter
1939 – Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist and academic (d. 1996)
1939 – Marek Janowski, Polish-German conductor
1939 – Dal Maxvill, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1940 – Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
1941 – Mati Nuude, Estonian weightlifter and singer (d. 2001)
1941 – Herman Santiago, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (The Teenagers)
1941 – Irma Thomas, American singer-songwriter
1943 – Graeme Garden, Scottish comedian, actor, and author
1944 – Pat Bowlen, American businessman
1945 – Judy Rankin, American golfer and sportscaster
1946 – Michael Buerk, English journalist
1946 – Jean-Claude Dreyfus, French actor
1947 – José María Cañizares, Spanish golfer
1947 – Dennis DeYoung, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Styx)
1947 – Eliot Engel, American educator and politician
1947 – Princess Christina of the Netherlands
1947 – Carlos Lopes, Portuguese runner
1948 – Sinéad Cusack, Irish-English actress
1949 – Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
1950 – Cristina Ferrare, American model, actress, author, and host
1950 – Michel Gauthier, Canadian journalist and politician
1950 – John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1950 – Cybill Shepherd, American actress and singer
1951 – Queen Komal of Nepal
1951 – Isabel Preysler, Filipino-Spanish journalist
1952 – Randy Crawford, American singer
1952 – Maurice Lucas, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
1952 – Juice Newton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 – Martin J. Taylor, English mathematician and academic
1952 – Bernard Valcourt, Canadian lawyer and politician
1952 – Māra Zālīte, Latvian poet and writer
1953 – Robbie Bachman, Canadian drummer (Brave Belt and Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
1953 – Derek Pellicci, Australian drummer (Little River Band and Mississippi)
1954 – Charlie Fowler, American mountaineer, author, and photographer (d. 2006)
1954 – John Travolta, American actor, singer, and producer
1955 – Peter Luff, English politician
1955 – Raymond Rougeau, Canadian wrestler and sportscaster
1955 – Miles Tredinnick, English singer-songwriter and playwright (London)
1956 – Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
1956 – Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgian businessman and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Georgia
1956 – Paul Reed Smith, American businessman, founded PRS Guitars
1957 – Marita Koch, German sprinter
1957 – George Pelecanos, American author, screenwriter, and producer
1957 – Vanna White, American model and game show host and television personality
1959 – Jayne Atkinson, English actress
1959 – Bryan Brandenburg, French-American game designer and author
1959 – Ken Freedman, American radio host
1959 – Hallgrímur Helgason, Icelandic painter and author
1959 – Christian Koeberl, Austrian geologist and academic
1959 – James Metzger, American businessman and philanthropist
1960 – Tony Anselmo, American animator and voice actor
1960 – Gazebo, Italian musician
1960 – Andy Moog, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 – Greta Scacchi, Italian-Australian actress
1961 – Hironobu Kageyama, Japanese singer (Lazy and JAM Project)
1961 – Douglas Rushkoff, American theorist and author
1963 – Rob Andrew, English rugby player and cricketer
1964 – Matt Dillon, American actor and director
1965 – Dr. Dre, American rapper, producer, and actor (World Class Wreckin' Cru and N.W.A)
1965 – Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (d. 2005)
1966 – Phillip DeFreitas, Dominican-English cricketer
1966 – Guy Ferland, American director and producer
1966 – Tetsushi Tanaka, Japanese actor
1967 – Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer
1967 – Colin Jackson, Welsh sprinter and hurdler
1967 – Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – John Valentin, American baseball player and coach
1968 – Molly Ringwald, American actress
1969 – Tomaž Humar, Slovenian mountaineer (d. 2009)
1969 – Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player
1970 – Susan Egan, American actress, singer, dancer, voice artist and comedian
1972 – Fabian Picardo, Gibraltarian politician and barrister, 7th Chief Minister of Gibraltar
1973 – Shawn Estes, American baseball player and sportscaster
1973 – Claude Makélélé, French footballer and manager
1974 – Radek Černý, Czech footballer
1974 – Ruby Dhalla, Canadian chiropractor and politician
1974 – Julia Butterfly Hill, American environmentalist and author
1974 – Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player
1974 – Jillian Michaels, American fitness trainer and author
1976 – Bernadette Sembrano, Filipino journalist
1977 – Ike Barinholtz, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Chrissie Wellington, English triathlete
1978 – Lena Burke, Cuban singer-songwriter
1978 – Oliver Pocher, German comedian and actor
1978 – Josip Šimunić, Croatian footballer
1980 – Aivar Anniste, Estonian footballer
1980 – Nik Antropov, Kazakhstani-Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Regina Spektor, Russian-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1981 – Kim Jaewon, South Korean actor
1981 – Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player
1981 – Alex Ríos, American baseball player
1982 – Courtney Act, Australian drag queen, singer and entertainer
1982 – Kaspars Cipruss, Latvian basketball player
1982 – Juelz Santana, American rapper and actor (Skull Gang and The Diplomats)
1982 – Christian Tiffert, German footballer
1983 – Joel Huiqui, Mexican footballer
1983 – Jermaine Jenas, English footballer
1983 – Jason Maxiell, American basketball player
1984 – Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
1984 – Idriss Carlos Kameni, Cameroonian footballer
1984 – Ricardo Salampessy, Indonesian footballer
1985 – Anton Ferdinand, English footballer
1985 – Chelsea Hobbs, Canadian actress
1985 – Todd Lasance, Australian actor
1985 – Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican-American murderer
1985 – Jos van Emden, Dutch cyclist
1986 – Sakura Ando, Japanese actress
1986 – Robert DeLong, American musician
1986 – Vika Jigulina, Moldavian-Romanian DJ, singer, and producer
1986 – T.J. Mack, American wrestler
1986 – Marc Torrejón, Spanish footballer
1987 – Crystallia, Greek singer
1987 – Vicente Guaita, Spanish footballer
1988 – Changmin, South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (TVXQ and SM the Ballad)
1988 – Maiara Walsh, American actress
1989 – Bruno Leonardo Vicente, Brazilian footballer
1990 – Didi Gregorius, Dutch baseball player
1990 – Cody Hodgson, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 – Park Shin-hye, South Korean actress and singer
1990 – Kang So-ra, South Korean actress and singer
1991 – Malese Jow, American actress and singer
1991 – Sebastian Neumann, German footballer
1991 – Henry Surtees, English race car driver (d. 2009)
1992 – Logan Miller, American actor
Deaths
814 – Angilbert, Frankish monk and diplomat (b. 760)
901 – Thābit ibn Qurra, Iraqi physician, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 826)
999 – Pope Gregory V (b. 972)
1139 – Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082)
1218 – Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen (b. 1160)
1294 – Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1215)
1379 – Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1318)
1405 – Timur, Mongol ruler (b. 1336)
1455 – Fra Angelico, Italian priest and painter (b. 1395)
1478 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (b. 1449)
1535 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German magician, astrologer, and theologian (b. 1486)
1546 – Martin Luther, German priest and theologian, leader of the Protestant Reformation (b. 1483)
1564 – Michelangelo, Italian sculptor and painter (b. 1475)
1654 – Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French author (b. 1594)
1683 – Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
1712 – Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1682)
1718 – Peter Anthony Motteux, French-English author and playwright (b. 1663)
1743 – Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, French wife of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1667)
1748 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
1772 – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician (b. 1712)
1778 – Joseph Marie Terray, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1715)
1780 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (b. 1714)
1788 – John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (b. 1713)
1803 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet and educator (b. 1719)
1836 – Cornplanter, American tribal chief (b. 1732)
1842 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English businessman, founded Hazlehurst & Sons (b. 1779)
1851 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (b. 1804)
1873 – Vasil Levski, Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization (b. 1837)
1889 – Jerónimo Espejo, Argentinian general (b. 1801)
1893 – Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (b. 1814)
1895 – Carl Abs, German wrestler (b. 1851)
1895 – Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (b. 1817)
1902 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, American businessman, founded Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
1906 – John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (b. 1830)
1910 – Lucy Stanton, American activist (b. 1831)
1911 – Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
1923 – Alois Rašín, Czech economist and politician (b. 1867)
1931 – Milan Šufflay, Croatian historian, author, and politician (b. 1879)
1931 – Louis Wolheim, American actor (b. 1880)
1933 – James J. Corbett, American boxer and actor (b. 1866)
1945 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (b. 1906)
1956 – Gustave Charpentier, French composer (b. 1860)
1957 – Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
1957 – Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and academic (b. 1877)
1964 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (b. 1907)
1966 – Robert Rossen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1967 – Dragiša Cvetković, Serbian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)
1967 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1904)
1973 – Frank Costello, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1891)
1977 – Andy Devine, American actor and singer (b. 1905)
1978 – Maggie McNamara, American actress (b. 1928)
1981 – Jack Northrop, American engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation (b. 1895)
1982 – Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (b. 1895)
1986 – Tezer Özlü, Turkish writer (b. 1943)
1990 – Richard de Zoysa, Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1958)
1993 – Jacqueline Hill, English actress (b. 1929)
1993 – Kerry Von Erich, American wrestler (b. 1960)
1995 – Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler and booker (b. 1961)
1995 – Robert Neil "Bob" Stinson, founding member and lead guitarist of the American rock band The Replacements (b. 1959)
1998 – Harry Caray, American sportscaster (b. 1914)
2001 – Balthus, Polish-Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1908)
2001 – Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1951)
2001 – Clare Kelly, English actress (b. 1922)
2001 – Eddie Mathews, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1931)
2003 – Isser Harel, Belarusian-Israeli intelligence officer (b. 1912)
2006 – Richard Bright, American actor (b. 1937)
2008 – Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress (b. 1955)
2008 – Alain Robbe-Grillet, French author and director (b. 1922)
2009 – Tayeb Salih, Sudanese journalist and author (b. 1929)
2009 – Miika Tenkula, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sentenced) (b. 1974)
2010 – John Babcock, Canadian soldier (b. 1900)
2012 – Roald Aas, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (b. 1928)
2012 – George Brizan, Grenadian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1942)
2012 – Elizabeth Connell, South African-English soprano (b. 1946)
2013 – Jerry Buss, American chemist and businessman (b. 1933)
2014 – Viscera, American wrestler and actor (b. 1971)
2014 – Mavis Gallant, Canadian-French author and playwright (b. 1922)
2014 – Kristof Goddaert, Belgian cyclist (b. 1986)
2014 – Nikhil Baran Sengupta, Indian art director and production designer (b. 1943)
2014 – Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (b. 1914)
2015 – Claude Criquielion, Belgian cyclist (b. 1957)
2015 – Jerome Kersey, American basketball player and coach (b. 1962)
2015 – D. Ramanaidu, Indian actor, director, and producer, founded Suresh Productions (b. 1936)
Holidays and observances
Christian feast day:
Bernadette Soubirous (France)
Colmán of Lindisfarne
Flavian of Constantinople
Geltrude Comensoli
Simeon of Jerusalem (Western Christianity)
February 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which Wife's Day (Konudagur) can fall, while February 24 is the latest; celebrated on Sunday between 18 and 24 February (Iceland)
Dialect Day (Amami Islands, Japan)
Independence Day (Gambia), celebrates the independence of the Gambia from the United Kingdom in 1965.
Kurdish Students Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
National Democracy Day, celebrates the 1951 overthrow of the Rana dynasty (Nepal)
Sepandārmazgān or "Women's Day" (Zoroastrian Iran)
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