The 46th day of the year
Born on 15 February
Every 15 February birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AquariusAir, fixed, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- AmethystThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Violet, PrimroseUsually taken today to mean faithfulness and young love.
- Most common weekdays
- Sunday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Mid-February, and still not certain
The new year fell on 15 February in 1942, the Water Horse, 1961, the Metal Ox, 1972, the Water Rat, and 1991, the Metal Goat: two pairs, each nineteen years apart. The next time is 15 February 2037, the first day of the Fire Snake.
By the middle of February a birthday is nearly always in the new year already. From 1920 to 2026 that was true of 15 February in 90 years; in the other 17 the new year came later, as late as 20 February in 1920 and 1985, and the birthday takes the animal of the year before. 1985 is the clearest case: its new year fell on 20 February, so 15 February 1985 belongs to the Wood Rat of 1984. In 1972 the new year fell on this date, and 14 February 1972, the day before, belongs to the Metal Pig of 1971.
15 February was Aquarius in every year and every time zone over the whole period.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 15 February in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 15 February in 17 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 90 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1942, 1961, 1972 and 1991.
Shaded: 15 February came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 15 February. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 15 February falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 15 February falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Wednesday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Monday 15, Saturday 15.
Showing 15 February in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 15 February is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,788 babies were born on 15 February in each year of the twenty, making it the 241st most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
Office for National Statistics, How popular is your birthday? Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. What a ranking like this can and cannot say →
Born on 15 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Galileo Galilei | 1564–1642 | Italian polymath |
| Louis XV | 1710–1774 | King of France from 1715 to 1774 |
| Jeremy Bentham | 1748–1832 | British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer |
| Alfred North Whitehead | 1861–1947 | English mathematician and philosopher |
| Susan B. Anthony | 1820–1906 | American women's rights activist |
| Charles-Édouard Guillaume | 1861–1938 | Swiss physicist |
| Ernest Shackleton | 1874–1922 | Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer |
| Tomislav Nikolić | 1952– | President of Serbia from 2012 to 2017 |
| Matt Groening | 1954– | American cartoonist |
| Irena Sendler | 1910–2008 | Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer |
| Milo Đukanović | 1962– | Montenegrin politician, President of Montenegro from 1998 to 2002 and from 2018 to 2023 |
| Cesar Romero | 1907–1994 | American actor |
| Rui Patrício | 1988– | Portuguese association football player |
| Elihu Root | 1845–1937 | American politician |
| Hans von Euler-Chelpin | 1873–1964 | Swedish scientist |
| Niklaus Wirth | 1934–2024 | Swiss computer scientist |
| Jane Seymour | 1951– | British actress |
| Megan Thee Stallion | 1995– | American rapper, singer and songwriter |
Died on 15 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Feynman | 1918–1988 | American theoretical physicist |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 1729–1781 | German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic |
| Robert Duvall | 1931–2026 | American actor and director |
| Ghalib | 1797–1869 | Indian poet |
| Owen Richardson | 1879–1959 | British physicist |
| H. H. Asquith | 1852–1928 | British politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916 |
| Nat King Cole | 1919–1965 | American singer and jazz pianist |
| Mikhail Glinka | 1804–1857 | Russian composer |
| Pope Lucius II | died 1145 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1144 to 1145 |
| Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor | 1578–1637 | Holy Roman Emperor |
| Raquel Welch | 1940–2023 | American actress |
| Henry Way Kendall | 1926–1999 | American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics |
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