Born on February 15

BORN ON THIS DAY

Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei

Born 1564 · Science & Invention

Father of modern observational astronomy

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony

Born 1820 · Activism & Social Change

Women's suffrage pioneer

Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton

Born 1874 · Exploration

Heroic Antarctic explorer, Endurance expedition

DIED ON THIS DAY

Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

Died 1988 · Science & Invention

Quantum electrodynamics, bongo-playing physicist

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