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 Share On Facebook Share On Twitter 1584 History by Year 1586