Editing February 16 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[1222]] &ndash; [[Nichiren]], founder of Nichiren Buddhism (d. 1282)<ref>{{cite book|author=Diane Morgan|title=The Buddhist Experience in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqwzJt9XGpoC&pg=PA119|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32491-8|pages=119–|access-date=2018-10-11|archive-date=2020-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801120715/https://books.google.com/books?id=SqwzJt9XGpoC&pg=PA119|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1304]] &ndash; [[Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür]], Chinese emperor (d. 1332)
*[[1331]] &ndash; [[Coluccio Salutati]], Italian political leader (d. 1406)<ref>{{cite book|author=George Sarton|title=Introduction to the History of Science ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a7SJBmN5p5kC|year=1947|publisher=Carnegie Institution of Washington|access-date=2018-10-11|archive-date=2020-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801123447/https://books.google.com/books?id=a7SJBmN5p5kC|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1419]] &ndash; [[John I, Duke of Cleves]] (d. 1481)
*[[1470]] &ndash; [[Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] (d. 1540)<ref name="Anderson1857">{{cite book|author=J. Anderson|title=Ladies of the Reformation|publisher=Blackie and Son|url=https://archive.org/details/ladiesofreformat01andeiala|year=1857|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ladiesofreformat01andeiala/page/117 117]}}</ref>
*[[1471]] &ndash; [[Krishnadevaraya]], emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire (d. 1529)
*[[1497]] &ndash; [[Philip Melanchthon]], German astronomer, theologian, and academic (d. 1560)<ref>{{cite book|author=H. Ashley Hall|title=Philip Melanchthon and the Cappadocians: A Reception of Greek Patristic Sources in the Sixteenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qz4TAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA75|date=12 March 2014|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|isbn=978-3-525-55067-0|pages=75–|access-date=11 October 2018|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801115926/https://books.google.com/books?id=qz4TAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA75|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1514]] &ndash; [[Georg Joachim Rheticus]], Austrian cartographer and instrument maker (d. 1574)<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicolaus Copernicus|title=Three Treatises on Copernican Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2dxqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA4|date=17 October 2018|publisher=Courier Dover Publications|isbn=978-0-486-82775-9|pages=4–|access-date=11 October 2018|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801123551/https://books.google.com/books?id=2dxqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA4|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1519]] &ndash; [[Gaspard II de Coligny]], French admiral (d. 1572)
*[[1543]] &ndash; [[Kanō Eitoku]], Japanese painter and educator (d. 1590)