Famous Birthdays
- Feb 16 Rheticus [Georg Joachim de Porris], Italian-Austrian mathematician (trigonometric tables), astronomer, physician, and cartographer, born in Feldkirch, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1574, or 1576)
- Feb 22 Tahmasp I, shah of Iran (1524-76) and author (Tazkire-i Shah), born in Shāhābād, Safavid Iran (d. 1576)
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