On This Day

What Happened in February 1585

Famous Birthdays

  • Feb 12 Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Danish physician, theologian, writer on anatomy, born in Malmö, Denmark (modern Sweden) (d. 1629)

Famous Deaths

  • Feb 6 Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
  • Feb 13 Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar, dies at 69

Famous People by their Chinese Zodiac Animal

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