| 15271 | February 8 | Event | 2014 – A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 also injured. |
| 15272 | February 8 | Birth | 120 – Vettius Valens, Greek astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer (d. 175) |
| 15273 | February 8 | Birth | 412 – Proclus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (d. 485) |
| 15274 | February 8 | Birth | 882 – Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid, Egyptian commander and politician, Abbasid Governor of Egypt (d. 946) |
| 15275 | February 8 | Birth | 1191 – Yaroslav II of Vladimir (d. 1246) |
| 15276 | February 8 | Birth | 1291 – Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357) |
| 15277 | February 8 | Birth | 1405 – Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1453) |
| 15278 | February 8 | Birth | 1487 – Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550) |
| 15279 | February 8 | Birth | 1552 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630) |
| 15280 | February 8 | Birth | 1577 – Robert Burton, English priest, physician, and scholar (d. 1640) |
| 15281 | February 8 | Birth | 1685 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian and author (d. 1770) |
| 15282 | February 8 | Birth | 1700 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1782) |
| 15283 | February 8 | Birth | 1708 – Václav Jan Kopřiva, Bohemian organist and composer (d. 1789) |
| 15284 | February 8 | Birth | 1720 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750) |
| 15285 | February 8 | Birth | 1741 – André Grétry, Belgian-French organist and composer (d. 1813) |
| 15286 | February 8 | Birth | 1762 – Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1820) |
| 15287 | February 8 | Birth | 1764 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1846) |
| 15288 | February 8 | Birth | 1792 – Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1873) |
| 15289 | February 8 | Birth | 1798 – Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (d. 1849) |
| 15290 | February 8 | Birth | 1804 – Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer (d. 1834) |
| 15291 | February 8 | Birth | 1807 – Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and zoologist (d. 1889) |
| 15292 | February 8 | Birth | 1819 – John Ruskin, English author, critic, and academic (d. 1900) |
| 15293 | February 8 | Birth | 1820 – William Tecumseh Sherman, American general (d. 1891) |
| 15294 | February 8 | Birth | 1822 – Maxime Du Camp, French photographer and journalist (d. 1894) |
| 15295 | February 8 | Birth | 1825 – Henry Walter Bates, English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1892) |
| 15296 | February 8 | Birth | 1828 – Jules Verne, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1905) |
| 15297 | February 8 | Birth | 1829 – Vital-Justin Grandin, French-Canadian bishop and missionary (d. 1902) |
| 15298 | February 8 | Birth | 1834 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1907) |
| 15299 | February 8 | Birth | 1850 – Kate Chopin, American author (d. 1904) |
| 15300 | February 8 | Birth | 1866 – Moses Gomberg, Ukrainian-American chemist and academic (d. 1947) |