Abraham Benjamin de Villiers is a former professional cricketer from South Africa. During his 15-year international career, De Villiers was named the ICC One-Day International Player of the Year three times and was selected one of the five Wisden cricketers of the decade at the end of 2019.

Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is a film director and producer from the United States. He is well known for his large-budget, high-concept action films, which include quick editing, distinctive photography and imagery, and considerable use of special effects, including repeated representations of explosions. His films, including Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), and the Transformers film trilogy (2007–present), have grossed over US$7.8 billion globally, making him one of the most commercially successful directors in history.

The Battle of Sobraon took place on February 10, 1846, between the armies of the East India Company and the Sikh Khalsa Army, the army of the Punjab Sikh Empire. The Sikhs were decisively beaten, and this engagement was the turning point in the First Anglo-Sikh War.

Edward Christopher Sheeran MBE (born 17 February 1991) is a singer-songwriter from England. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk, where he began writing songs at the age of eleven. Sheeran self-released his extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project, in early 2011. The next year, he signed with Asylum Records.

Randhir Raj Kapoor (born 15 February 1947) is an Indian film producer, director, and actor who works in Hindi cinema. He was a well-known actor in the 1970s, and he was nominated for two Filmfare Awards. However, his career collapsed in the early 1980s, and he only starred in a few films after that.

Elizabeth Chase Olsen (born February 16, 1989) is an actress from the United States. Olsen, who was born in Sherman Oaks, California, began acting at the age of four. She made her cinematic debut in the thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene in 2011, for which she received critical praise and was nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award, among other honours, and was then cast in the horror picture Silent House. Olsen was nominated for a BAFTA Rising Star Award and graduated from New York University two years later.

Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born February 16, 1990) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer better known as the Weeknd. Tesfaye's work explores escapism, romanticism, and melancholia, and is typically influenced by personal experiences. He is known for his musical variety and gloomy poetry. He has won three Grammys, nineteen Billboard Music Awards, fifteen Juno Awards, six American Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and an Academy Award nomination.

On February 16, 2011, he married Miss Universe 2000 Lara Dutta in a civil ceremony in Bandra, Mumbai. On the 20th of February 2011, a Christian ceremony was held at Sunset Point in Goa. They form a great couple. One was elected Miss Universe in the year 2000, while the other is the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament. Both are outstanding in their own careers, so it's no surprise that their jodi is as well.

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt, born February 17, 1981, is a film and television actor from the United States. He has won several honours, including Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his major roles in 500 Days of Summer (2009) and 50/50. (2011). He founded the online media platform HitRecord, and his initiatives such as HitRecord on TV (2014–15) and Create Together (2020) earned him two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Interactive Program.

Denise Richards, born February 17, 1971, is an actress, television personality, and former fashion model from the United States. Carmen Ibanez in Starship Troopers (1997), Kelly Van Ryan in Wild Things (1998), and Bond girl Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough are among her most well-known performances (1999). She has also acted in movies such as Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), Valentine (2001), Undercover Brother (2002), Scary Movie 3 (2003), Love Actually (2003), and Madea's Witness Protection (2003). (2012).

Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), usually known by his initials MJ, is a former professional basketball player and businessman from the United States. He is largely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was instrumental in popularising the National Basketball Association (NBA) around the world, becoming a global cultural icon in the process. Jordan played in the NBA for 15 years, earning six championships with the Chicago Bulls. He is the major owner and chairman of the NBA's Charlotte Hornets as well as NASCAR Cup Series team 23XI Racing.

On February 17, 2021, the Indian government informed the Supreme Court that women can enrol in military institutions and be considered for permanent commissions. The ruling comes less than a month after India's Supreme Court authorised women to take entrance exams for the National Defence Academy. The Supreme Court of India decided in favour of equal rights in the armed services, directing the government to offer women officers permanent commissions and command posts on par with males.

On February 17, 1936, a daily newspaper strip debuted, followed by a colour Sunday strip on May 28, 1939; both are still running as of 2022. According to King Features, The Phantom was published in 583 newspapers worldwide in 1966. The Phantom debuted as a daily comic with "The Singh Brotherhood," which was written by Falk and drawn by him for two weeks before being taken over by Ray Moore. The Phantom was serialised in the Australian Woman's Mirror that year.

On February 17, 1972, the 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line, shattering a global automobile production record set by the Ford Motor Company's classic Model T, which was in production between 1908 and 1927. Henry Ford is ultimately defeated. Volkswagen Beetle No. 15,007,034 is the most manufactured automobile in history, surpassing Ford's legendary Model T. The next year, overall output had surpassed 16 million. More than 21.5 million of the little automobiles would be produced in all.

YouTube is a video-sharing website. Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce corporation PayPal, registered it on February 14, 2005.

Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei ( 15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an astronomer, physicist, and engineer from Pisa, in modern-day Italy. Galileo has been dubbed the "Father" of modern physics, observational astronomy, the scientific method, and contemporary science.

Vijay, a criminal, is determined to destroy Kancha, the man who brutally murdered his father years ago. He is willing to go to any extent to restore his family's honor and revenge for the death of his father.

Cage married for the fifth time on February 16, 2021, to his Japanese fiancée Riko Shibata, with whom he is expecting his third kid. Nicolas Cage and his new wife, Riko Shibata, have announced that they are expecting their first child. Nicolas met Riko "via common friends" in her home Japan in 2020, while he was filming Prisoners of the Ghostland. They later married on February 16, 2021, in a modest and personal ceremony at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.