Birthdays on This Day in History

[JimGP20]

February 12

1211 - Henry VII, Roman catholic German king (1220-35)
1588 - John Winthrop, English attorney/puritan/1st gov of Mass
1663 - Cotton Mather, witchcraft authority
1706 - Josef Christian, German sculptor
1740 - Matej Sojka, composer
1758 - Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer
1760 - Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemia, pianist/composer
1768 - Francis II, Florence Italy, last Holy Roman emperor (1792-1806)
1775 - Louise Catherine Johnson Adams, 1st lady (1825-1829)
1778 - Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
1791 - Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union)
1792 - Ferdinand de Braekeleer, Belgian painter
1809 - Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky, (R) 16th pres (1861-65)
1809 - Charles Darwin, England, discovered evolution (Origin of species)
1818 - Otto Ludwig, German writer (Die Heiterethei)
1824 - Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati, Indian hindu leader
1828 - Robert Ransom Jr, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1828 - George Meredith, England, poet/novelist (Shaving of Shagpat)
1838 - Charles Carroll Walcott, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers)
1841 - Bert van Tienhoven, mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister
1841 - Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Dutch mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister
1853 - Bertram Luard-Selby, composer
1857 - Bobby Peel, cricketer (great English lefty 1884-96)
1861 - Lou [Andreas-]Salom‚, Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott)
1865 - Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland)
1867 - Joe Howard, NYC, vocalist (Gay Nineties Revue)
1867 - Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German author (Warbride) [or Febr 18]
1868 - Johan H A Schaper, Dutch MP/founder (SDAP)
1869 - Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education/Arts (VVD)
1873 - J¢n Trausti, [Gudmundur Magn£sson], Icelandic writer (Heidarbylid)
1880 - John Llewellyn Lewis, union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60)
1882 - Walter Vaes, Flemish painter/etcher
1883 - Ludwig Stossel, Austria, actor (Man With a Camera)
1884 - Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist
1885 - Julius Streicher, German district leader (St�rmer)
1885 - Licinio Refice, composer
1886 - Michel Brusselmans, composer
1886 - Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist, composer
1891 - Cecil Dixon, cricket off-spinner (1 Test for S Africa, 3-118, pair)
1891 - Maurice Yvain, composer
1891 - Max Terhune, actor (Arizona Stagecoach, Hit the Saddle, Range Justice)
1893 - Marcel G J Minnaert, Dutch astronomer
1893 - Omar Bradley, General of Army WW II (GI General)
1894 - Hans Guido von B�low, German conductor
1898 - Wallace Ford, [Samuel Jones Grundy], Batton England, actor (Deputy)
1898 - [Le]Roy Harris, Okla, composer (When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
1899 - Albert Huybrechts, composer
1900 - Ferenc K”rmendy, Hungarian/US author (Budapest Kaland)
1900 - Fred Emney, London England, actor (Let the People Sing, Lilac Domino)
1902 - William D Revelli, Spring Gulch Colorado, band leader
1904 - Ted Mack, Denver Colo, TV host (Original Amateur Hour)
1905 - Harry Bellaver, actor (Sgt Arcaro-Naked City)
1909 - Barry Wood, New Haven Ct, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
1910 - Lee Byung Chull, Korean industrialist/founder (Samsung Business)
1910 - Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer
1911 - Charles Mathiesen, Norway, 1500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1936)
1911 - Frank Hercules, writer
1911 - Sylvstre A Guzman Fernandez, president (Dominican Republic)
1912 - Eddie J Bush, golf professional
1912 - Ernest Clark, London England, actor (Doctor in the House)
1914 - Gordon Tex Beneke, saxophonist/bandleader/vocalist (Glenn Miller Orch)
1915 - Andrew J Goodpaster, US, general/supreme commander (NATO-Europe)
1915 - Lorne Greene, Ottawa Canada, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica)
1916 - Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, Austrian composer (Vom Tode)
1916 - Joseph L Alioto, (Mayor-SF)
1918 - Dominic DiMaggio, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1918 - Julian S Schwinger, US physicist
1919 - Forrest Tucker, Plainfield Ind, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail)
1923 - Mel Powell, composer
1923 - James Abdnor, (Sen-R-SD, 1981-87)
1923 - Franco Zeffirelli, Florence Italy, director (Romeo and Juliet)
1924 - Hans Berghuis, Dutch author/poet (3 Women, Adam)
1926 - Paul Hamlyn, English publisher/multi-millionaire (Octopus)
1926 - Joe Garagiola, St Louis Mo, sportscaster/host (Today Show)
1927 - Anne Gillis, Little Rock Ark, actress (Adv of Tom Sawyer, Little Men)
1929 - Agustin Gonzalez Acilu, composer
1930 - Arlen Specter, (Sen-R-PA, 1981- )
1931 - Constance A Morella, (Rep-R-Maryland)
1932 - Lincoln Kilpatrick, St Louis Mo, actor (BJ-Leslie Uggams Show)
1933 - Costa-Gavras, director
1933 - Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut
1934 - Bill Russell, Monroe La, NBAer (Boston Celtics, Oly-gold-56)
1934 - Annette Crosbie, British(?) actress
1935 - Gene McDaniels, US vocalist/bandleader/actor (Young Swingers)
1935 - Ken Still, golfer
1935 - Ray Manzarek, keyboardist (Doors-Light My Fire, Unknown Soldier)
1936 - Paul Shenar, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Carrington-Roots)
1936 - Joe Don Baker, Groesback Tx, actor (Eischied, Walking Tall, Fletch)
1936 - Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident
1936 - Arnost Parsch, composer
1937 - Charles Everett Dumas, Tulsa Ok, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1938 - Johnny Rutherford, auto racer
1938 - Judy Blume, author (Wifey)
1939 - John D Han****, actor/director (Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights)
1940 - Hank Brown, (Rep-R-CO, 1981-88)
1941 - Naomi Uemura, mountain climber (1st Japanese to scale Everest)
1942 - Rick Frank, rocker
1942 - Lionel Grigson, professor of jazz
1944 - Charles Pasarell, tennis pro
1944 - Desmond Nuttall, English educator
1944 - Jackie Torrence, story teller/artist
1944 - Moe Bandy, Meridian Ms, country vocalist (Just Good Ol' Boys)
1945 - Maud Adams, Lulea Sweden, actress (Octo*****, Rollerball, Tattoo)
1945 - Joe Schermie, Madison Wi, bassist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1945 - Cliff De Young, LA Calif, actor (F/X, Hunger, Shock Treatment)
1947 - Guus Willemse, Dutch bassist/singer (Solution)
1948 - Cindy Hill, LPGA golfer
1949 - Stanley Knight, country artist (Black Oak Arkansas-High on the Hog)
1949 - Len Randle, baseball player (NY Mets)
1950 - Michael Ironside, actor, (Starship Troopers)
1950 - Steve Hackett, rock guitarist (Genesis-Against All Odds/GTR)
1951 - Gil "The Bird" Moore, rocker (Triumph)
1952 - Salvador Pineda, Mexico City, doctor
1953 - Joanna Kerns, [de Varona], SF Calif, actress (Maggie-Growing Pains)
1953 - Simon MacCorkindale, Cambridge, actor (Falcon Crest, Manimal) [or 2/2]
1955 - Arsenio Hall, comedian (Alan Thicke, Arsenio, Coming to America)
1955 - Daniele Masala, Italy, pentathelete (Olympics-1976)
1958 - Ruth Guerri, St Louis Mo, playmate (July, 1983)
1958 - Ingrid Klich, Whittier Calif, rower (Olympics-96)
1958 - Andie MacDowell, [Rosali Anderson], SC, actress (Green Card) [or 4/21]
1959 - Sigrid Thornton, Australia, actress (Amelia Lawson-Guns of Paradise)
1959 - Per Gessle, rocker (Roxette-Joy Ride)
1959 - Omar Hakim, drummer (Dire Straits, Weather Report)
1959 - Nancy Remy, reporter (NYC's Shadow Traffic)
1963 - Brent Jones, NFL tight end (SF 49ers)
1964 - Raphael Sbarge, actor (Risky Business, My Science Project, Werewolf)
1964 - Milton Small, cricket pace bowler (WI v Australia 1984)
1964 - Michel Petit, St Malo, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1964 - Maurice Douglass, NFL safety (NY Giants)
1965 - Ruben Amaro, US baseball outfielder (Cleveland Indians)
1966 - Boty Goodwin, artist
1967 - Andrew Dunkley, Kent England, golfer (1991-93 Co-Captain U of W Fla)
1968 - Todd Fanning, Saskatoon Sask, golfer (Manitoba Amat-1984, 90, 91, 92)
1968 - Josh Brolin, actor (Johnny-Private Eye, Jimmy Hickok-Young Riders)
1968 - Chynna Phillips, LA Calif, vocalist (Wilson Philips-Hold On)
1969 - Colin Keely, Buffalo NY, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1969 - Shauna Lyn Searles, Miss California USA (1996)
1970 - Bryan Roy, Surinam/Dutch soccer star (Ajax)
1970 - Dell Demps, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1970 - Lamar Thomas, NFL wide receiver
1971 - Tracy Kennick, Miss Utah USA (1996)
1971 - Shante Carver, NFL defensive end (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 - Shane Tonkin, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Romeo Bandison, NFL defensive tackle (Cleve Browns)
1971 - Lincoln Kennedy, tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1972 - Andrew Cassesse, actor (Revenge of Nerds II, TV 101)
1973 - Brendon Mark Cameron, Pirongia NZ, 4k pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1974 - Ian Mcintyre, Montreal, NHL left wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1975 - Seth Payne, defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1975 - Scot Pollard, NBA center (Detroit Pistons)
1975 - Matt Finkes, linebacker (NY Jets)
1975 - Chris Szarka, CFL full back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1976 - Christopher Pettiet, LA Calif, actor (Young Riders)
1980 - Christina Ricci, actress (Wednesday-Addams Family, Mermaids, Casper)
1980 - Sarah Lancaster, KC KS, actress (Rachel-Saved By Bell: New Class)

[melinda]

hmmm. no body the year I was born........

[gwhughes]

I got one!! Christopher Pettiet whoever the hell that is.

[madasheck]

Ray Manzarek, keyboardist (The Doors) gave the group their distinctive sound. One of the best keyboardists in rock history.

[melinda]

I got one!! Christopher Pettiet whoever the hell that is.

damn you're young.....

[Army Wife]

February 12

1967 - Andrew Dunkley, Kent England, golfer (1991-93 Co-Captain U of W Fla)


ummmmm HELLO!!! Where am *I* on that list ?!?!?!?!

[JimGP20]

ummmmm HELLO!!! Where am *I* on that list ?!?!?!?!


Is today your birthday??

[Army Wife]

OH man you mean it I was left off the birthday list...:eek:


....I'll bet Rick had me erased from the birthday list :hand:

[JimGP20]

February 13

1440 - Hartmann Schedel, German physician/humanist/historian
1599 - Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Siena Italy, pope (1655-67)
1622 - Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized
1658 - Jan B Wellekens, Dutch poet/painter
1660 - Johann Sigismund Kusser, composer
1682 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Venice, painter (Fortune Teller)
1713 - Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, composer
1721 - John Reid, composer
1778 - Fernando Sor, composer
1787 - James P Carrell, composer
1820 - Bela Albrecht Pal Keler, composer
1822 - Lev A Mej, Russian nobleman/poet
1831 - John Aaron Rawlins, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1869
1833 - William Whedbee Kirkland, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1915
1837 - Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer
1840 - Georg Jacobi, composer
1849 - Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father
1852 - Johan L E Dreyer, Danish astronomer (New gen catalogue of nebulae)
1859 - William Strang, Scottish painter/engraver
1859 - Frank van de Goes, Dutch writer/marxist theorist
1861 - Uchimura Kanzo, Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian)
1862 - Karel Weis, composer
1870 - Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer
1875 - Kanouse, Watertown Wisc, 1st quintuplets in US, born to Edna Kanouse
1877 - Jazeps Medins, composer
1881 - Eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin)
1883 - Harold "Hal" Chase, baseball player/manager
1883 - Bainbridge Crist, composer
1885 - Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Truman, 1st lady (1945-52)
1887 - Alvin York, famed US soldier with 25 kills in WW I
1888 - Heintje Davids, [Hendrika], Dutch revue star
1888 - Georgios Papandreou, Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier
1892 - Grant Wood, US, painter (American Gothic)
1892 - Robert Houghwout Jackson, 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54)
1893 - Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister (1945-52)
1895 - Fred Essler, Austria, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown, Saratoga Trunk)
1898 - Neville Pearson, English publisher
1902 - Blair Moody, New Haven Ct, (Sen-Mich)
1902 - Karl Menger, Austria/US mathematician (theory of dimension)
1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgium, mystery writer (Snow Was Black)
1908 - Gerald Strang, Claresholm Canada, composer
1908 - Pauline Frederick, journalist/correspondent (UN, NBC TV)
1908 - Sulo Nurmela, Finland, 4 X 100K relay skier (Olympic-gold-1936)
1910 - William B Shockley, London, US physicist (Nobel 1956), racist
1911 - Jean Muir Fullarton, actress
1912 - Margaretta Scott, actress (Crescendo, Where's Charley, Counterblast)
1912 - Jose de Capriles, US, fencer (Olympic-1936, 48, 52)
1912 - French J Van den Brande, Flemish actor
1913 - Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant
1913 - Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest
1914 - Earl Cadogan, British large landowner (Military Cross)
1914 - George Kleinsinger, San Bernardino CA, composer (Tubby the Tuba)
1915 - Lyle Betther, Phila, actor (Harry-Grand Jury, Lone Ranger)
1916 - James Griffith, LA Calif, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)
1917 - Polly Rose, actress (Myrtle-Love That Jill)
1918 - Helen Stephens, Fulton Mo, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
1918 - Patty Berg, Minneapolis MN, LPGA golfer (1938 US Amateur)
1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, Bristol Tn, country vocalist/actor (pea picker)
1919 - Joan Edwards, NYC, vocalist (Joan Edwards Show)
1919 - Eddie Robinson, winningest college football coach (Grambling)
1920 - Bryant Boudleaux, Shellman Ga, rock writer (Bye Bye Love)
1920 - Eileen Farrell, Willimantic Conn, opera soprano (Interrupted Melody)
1921 - Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist
1921 - Zao-Wou-Ki, Chinese/French painter/graphic artist
1922 - Lord Pym of Sandy, British minister of foreign affairs
1923 - Chuck Yeagar, US test pilot (1st man to break sound barrier)
1924 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French economist/politician
1925 - Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author
1925 - Gene Ames, singer
1926 - Barney Childs, composer
1927 - Harry Wich, Dutch set designer
1929 - Omar Torrijos Herrera, president Panama
1930 - Dotty McGuire, Middletown Oh, vocalist (McGuire Sisters)
1931 - Marjorie Jackson, Austria, 100m/200m dash (Oly-gold-1952) [or Sep 13]
1933 - Caroline Blakiston, actress (At Bertram's Hotel)
1933 - Emanuel Ungaro, France, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1969)
1933 - Kim Novak, [Marilyn], Chicago Ill, actress (Vertigo, Of Human Bondage)
1933 - Paul Biya, president of Cameroon (1982- )
1934 - George Segal, actor/banjo player (Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick and Jane)
1935 - Tommy Jacobs, golfer
1936 - John Harris, British(?) cricket player
1936 - Leamon King, Tulare Calif, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1956)
1937 - Sigmund Jaehn, German DR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 31/29)
1937 - Susan Oliver, NYC, actress (Ann-Peyton Place, Star Trek-Cage)
1938 - Oliver Reed, London England, actor (Big Sleep)
1939 - Valery Illych Rozhdestvensky, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
1941 - Bo Svenson, Goteborg Sweden, actor (North Dallas 40, Walking Tall)
1942 - Donald E Williams, Lafayette Ind, Capt USN/astro (STS 51D, STS 34)
1942 - Carol Lynley, NYC, actress (Night Stalker, Fantasy Island, Immortal)
1943 - F C Delius, writer
1943 - Leo Frankowski, US, sci-fi author (High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord)
1944 - Stockard Channing, NYC, actress (Grease, Big Bus, Without a Trace)
1944 - Sal Bando, baseball player (Oakland A's)
1944 - Peter Tork, Wash DC, singer/actor (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
1944 - Jerry Springer, London England, talk show host (Jerry Springer Show)
1945 - Keith Nichols, jazz pianist
1945 - King Floyd, rocker
1945 - Roy Dyke, Liverpool, rock drummer (Ashton, Gardner and Dyke)
1946 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director/actor (Ehe der Maria Braun)
1947 - Mike Krzyzewski, basketball coach
1947 - Tony Butler, rock bassist (Big Country-It's a Big Country, Wonderland)
1950 - Leonard Pascoe, cricketer (dynamic Aussie quick 1977-82)
1950 - Peter Gabriel, Surrey England, rock vocalist (Genesis, In Your Eyes)
1951 - David Naughton, Hartford Ct, actor (My Sister Sam, Separate Vacations)
1952 - Ed Gagliardi, NYC, rock bassist (Foreigner-Cold As Ice)
1952 - David Puilum Choi, Hong Kong, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1953 - Sharon Wyatt, Lebanon Tenn, actress (Tiffany-General Hospital)
1953 - Suleiman Nyambui, Tanzanian runner (world record 5k indoor)
1955 - Scott Smith, rock bassist (Loverboy-Get Lucky)
1955 - Jan de Ligt, Dutch saxophonist (I've Got the Bullets)
1956 - Liam Brady, British soccer player
1956 - Peter Hook, English rock bassist (New Order-Round and Round, Run)
1956 - Richard Eden, actor (Brick-Santa Barbara, Solar Crisis, Robocop)
1957 - Thelston Payne, cricket wicket-keeper (WI 1986)
1957 - Doris King, Nashville Tenn, vocalist (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
1958 - Mark Fox, congas/percussionist (Haircut 100-Nobody's Fool)
1960 - Kelly McCormick, Anaheim Calif, diver (Olympic-silver-1984)
1960 - Matt Salinger, Windsor VT, actor (Capt America, Deadly Deception)
1960 - Michael Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Want to Hurt Me)
1961 - Les Warner, rocker (Cult-Fire Woman)
1961 - Kyi Hla Han, Yangon, Australasia golfer
1961 - Henry Rollins, US vocalist/poet (Big Ugly Mouth, Talking From the Box)
1962 - Jackie Silva, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, volleyballer (Pan Am-Bronze)
1963 - Penelope Ann Miller, actress (Awakenings, Chaplin, Freshman) [or 1/13]
1963 - Roberta Vasquez, LA Calif, playmate (November, 1984)
1964 - Evi Strasser, Bavaria German, equestrian (Olympics-96)
1965 - Kenny Harrison, Milwaukee Wisc, triple jumper
1965 - Stephen Manley, LA Calif, actor (Donny-Married the 1st Year)
1966 - Tally Chanel, Tel Aviv Israel, actress (Warrior Queen)
1966 - Freedom Williams, rock vocalist (CandC Music Factory-Everbody Dance Now)
1967 - Bas Roorda, soccer player (FC Groningen) [or Feb 21]
1967 - Eddie Pye, US baseball infielder (LA Dodgers)
1967 - Melanie Denise Bridges, Derry NH, Miss NH-America (1991)
1968 - Matt Mieske, US baseball outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 - Subroto Banerjee, cricketer (Indian quickie and Dennis Lillee prot‚g‚)
1970 - Kevin Stocker, US baseball infielder (Phila Phillies)
1970 - Ruben Brown, NFL guard (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Vernon Patao, 141 lbs (64 kg) US weightlifter (alt-Olympics-1996)
1971 - Todd Williams, US baseball pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1971 - Shelly Hammonds, NFL safety (Minn Vikings)
1971 - Mats Sundin, Bromma SWE, NHL center (Team Sweden, Toronto Maple Leafs)
1971 - Jim Reid, NFL tackle (Houston Oilers)
1972 - Charlie Garner, NFL running back (Phila Eagles)
1972 - Juha Ylonen, Helsinki FIN, NHL forward (Oly-Bronze-1998, Phoenix)
1973 - Willie Smith, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1974 - Anthony Mortas, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1975 - Mark Gerald Keddell, Christchurch NZ, 200m (Olympics-96)
1979 - Julie Nagle, Miss North Dakota Teen USA (1997)
1980 - Kristy Powell, Fla, gymnast (Olympics-96)

[DarthBush]

todays my birthday too

[JimGP20]

February 14


1572 - Hans Christoph Haiden, composer
1602 - Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer
1638 - Sybilla Schwarz, writer
1670 - Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer
1679 - Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer
1760 - Richard Allen, Phila, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church
1778 - Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer
1813 - Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer
1813 - John McNeil, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1817 - Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor
1819 - James Green Martin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
1829 - Alfred Iverson Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1838 - Margaret Knight, inventor, "the female Thomas Edison"
1845 - Cecil De Vere, 1st official British chess champion (1866)
1847 - Anna Howard Shaw, US, suffragette
1853 - Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist/mayor (Antwerp)
1856 - Frank Harris, England, journalist/writer (My Life and Loves)
1858 - Charles Beach Hawley, composer
1858 - Joseph Thomson, Scotland, geologist (Thomson's gazelle)
1859 - George Washington Gale Ferris, engineer/inventor (Ferris Wheel)
1864 - Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist (Children of Ghetto)
1880 - Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer
1881 - Otto Selz, German psychologist
1881 - William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet/scholar (Ynys yr Hud)
1882 - Ignaz Friedman, composer
1882 - George Jean Nathan, US, editor/author/critic (American Mercury)
1886 - Theodor Werner, German painter
1892 - Nikolaj A Orloff, Russian/British pianist (Chopin)
1894 - Jack Benny, , Waukegan Ill, "Oh! Rochester!"
[B]1895 - Nigel Bruce, Baja Mexico, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman)
1897 - Jorgen Bentzon, composer
1898 - Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer (super nova)
1899 - John Randall Jr, Michigan, historian/philosopher (Western Man)
1902 - Stu Erwin, Squaw Valley Calif, actor (Stu Erwin Show)
1902 - Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Milwaukee, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch)
1902 - Fred Scott, Fresno Calif, vocalist/actor (Vincent Lopez)
1904 - Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer
1904 - Hanning Phillips, Lord Lieutenant (Dyfed)
1904 - Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist
1905 - Thelma Ritter, Bkln NY, actress (Miracle on 34th Street)
1911 - Willem J Kolff, Dutch/US internist/inventor (Artificial Kidney)
1912 - Oliver Wendell Harrington, cartoonist
1913 - Mel Allen, Birmingham Alabama, sportscaster (voice of NY Yankees)
1913 - Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters leader who disappeared in 1975
1915 - Irving Gordon, songwriter
1916 - Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer
1916 - Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director (Joi-uchi)
1916 - Edward Platt, Staten Island NY, actor (Chief-Get Smart)
1917 - Herbert A Hauptman, NYC, x-ray crystallographer (Nobel 1985)
1921 - Skeezix, of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallets' doorstep
1921 - Hugh Downs, Akron Oh, TV journalist (20/20, Concentration)
1921 - Albert Sloman, Vice-Chancellor (Essex U)
1923 - Jay Herbert, golfer (1960 PGA winner)
1924 - Arghyris Kounadis, composer
1926 - John Clark, CEO (Plessey Company)
1927 - Lois Maxwell, Kitchener Ontario, actress (Miss Moneypenny)
1928 - Ben Garrido Blaz, (Rep-R-Guam, 1985- )
1928 - Juan Garc¡a Hortelano, Spanish author (Tormenta de verano)
1930 - Duncan Montgomery Stewart, principal (Lady Margaret Hall-Oxford)
1931 - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, NHL right wing (Canadiens, Rangers)
1931 - Lord Rossmore
1931 - Phyllis McGuire, Middletown Oh, vocalist (McGuire Sisters)
1931 - Vic Morrow, Bronx NY, actor (Combat, Roots, Twilight Zone the Movie)
1932 - Peter Ball, Bishop (Gloucester)
1932 - Michael Ball, Bishop (Truro)
1932 - Jocelyn Stevens, CEO (English Heritage)
1932 - Jack Hibbert, director (Central Statistical Office)
1932 - Alexander Kluge, writer
1933 - Evelyn Ebsworth, Vice-Chancellor (Durham U)
1933 - Bertram Jay Turetzky, composer
1933 - Andrey Mikhaylovich Volkonsky, composer
1934 - Florence Henderson, Dale Ind, actress/singer (Carol-Brady Bunch)
1934 - Marlene Matthews, Australia, sprinter (Oly-2 bronze-1956)
1935 - Peter Phillips, printer
1935 - Mickey Wright, San Diego CA, LPGA golfer (4 times LPGA champ)
1935 - Lord Wilson of Tillyorn
1935 - David Wilson, British governor (Hong Kong)
1935 - Christine CT "Christel" Adelaar, Dutch actress (Pipo the Clown)
1936 - Andrew Pine, Jennings Fla, actor (V, WEB, Wide Country)
1936 - Fanne Foxe, [Annabella Battistella], Argentina, (Wilbur Mills affair)
1937 - John MacGregor, British MP
1937 - Magic Sam, rocker (Chicago Bluesman)
1938 - Lee Chamberlin, NYC, actor (Once Upon a Family, Rupture Fatale)
1939 - Chris Pyne, trombonist
1940 - Porpoise, 1st born in captivity in US (Marineland, Fla)
1941 - John Butterfill, MP
1941 - Paul Tsongas, (Sen-D-Mass)
1942 - Margaret Wright, chief commissioner (Guide Assn)
1943 - Eric Anderson, Pittsburgh Pa, vocalist (Avalanche, Be True to You)
1943 - Ischa Meijer, journalist/critic/actor (Boezemvriend)
1943 - Maceo Parker, US tenor saxophonist (King's One, Mo' Roots)
1943 - Robert J Murphy Jr, Brooklyn NY, PGA golfer (1968 Phila Classic)
1944 - Carl Bernstein, Washington Post investigative reporter (Watergate)
1944 - Bruce Summerhays, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (Provo Open-1966, 91 93)
1944 - Alan Parker, English actor (Bugsy Malone, Evita)
1945 - Gregory Hines, NYC, actor/dancer (White Nights, Taps)
1945 - Hans Adam, prince of Liechtenstein
1945 - K M Jenkins, British director of personnel (Royal Mail)
1945 - Vic Briggs, England, rocker (Animals)
1945 - William Hill Boner, (Rep-D-TN, 1979- )
1946 - Tina Aumont, Hollywood Calif, actress (Master of Love, Casanova)
1946 - Tim Buckley, Wash DC, rocker (Blood, Sweat and Tears-When I Die)
1946 - David Green, English TV/video producer
1947 - Heidemarie Rosendahl, German FR, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
1947 - Judd Gregg, (Rep-R-NH, 1981- )
1947 - Pham Tuan, Vietnam, cosmonaut (Soyuz 37/36)
1947 - Salah-ud-Din, cricketer (played 5 Tests for Pakistan 1965-69)
1948 - Wally Tax, Dutch guitarist
1948 - Pat O'Brien, reporter (Entertainment Tonight)
1948 - ... Teller, Phila, magician (Penn and Teller)
1949 - Ewa Aulin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Candy, Fiorina LeVacca)
1949 - Jimmy Randell, rocker
1949 - Richard E Neal, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
1951 - Kevin Keegan, British soccer player/manager (Newcastle United)
1953 - Wayne Siegel, composer
1956 - Ken Wahl, Chicago IL, actor (Wanderers)
1956 - Howard Edward Davis Jr, Glen Cove NY, lw boxer (Olympic-silver-1976)
1956 - Dave Dravecky, pitcher (SF Giants), had arm amputated
1958 - Perry Stephens, Frankfurt Germany, actor (Loving, All My Children)
1960 - Jim Kelly, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
1960 - Meg Tilly, [Margaret], LA Calif, actress (Big Chill, Impulse)
1963 - Zach Galligan, NYC, actor (Gremlins)
1963 - John Marzano, Philadelphia PA, catcher (Seattle Mariners)
1963 - Jeff Dellenbach, NFL center (NE Patriots, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1963 - D'Wayne Wiggins, singer (Tony! Toni! Tone!)
1964 - Darrick Brilz, NFL center (Cin Bengals)
1965 - Jessie Tuggle, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 - Clark Sherwood Dennis, Houston TX, PGA golfer (1990 Hawaiian Open-3rd)
1966 - Petr Svoboda, Most Cze, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Oly-gold-1998)
1967 - Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis player (1984 US Mix)
1968 - Chris Lewis, cricketer (in Guyana England all-rounder)
1969 - Shana Zadrick, Grand Junction Colo, model (Guess Jeans)
1969 - Roy Barker, NFL defensive end (Minn Vikings, SF 49ers)
1969 - Jeff Graham, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears, NY Jets)
1969 - Harry Colon, NFL safety (Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions)
1970 - Sean Hill, Duluth, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1970 - Kelly Stinnett, US baseball catcher (NY Mets)
1970 - Guillaume Raoux, France, tennis star
1970 - Elaine Youngs, Orange Calif, volleyball outside hitter (Olympics-96)
1971 - Lonnie Johnson, NFL tight end (Buffalo Bills)
1971 - Kenny Shedd, WLAF receiver (Barcelona Dragons, Oakland Raiders)
1971 - Gheorghe Muresan, NBA center (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1971 - Derrick Witherspoon, NFL running back (Phila Eagles)
1972 - Rob Thomas, lead singer of pop band Matchbox Twenty
1972 - Erika Rachael Schwarz, Folsom La, Miss America (Louisiana-2nd-1997)
1972 - Drew Bledsoe, NFL quarterback (NE Patriots)
1972 - Bruno Heppell, CFL full back (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 - Tyus Edney, NBA guard (Boston Celtics, Sacramento Kings)
1973 - Steve McNair, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers)
1974 - Michael Lowery, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1974 - Rob Jahrling, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1975 - Jennifer Michelle Roberts, Greensboro NC, Miss America-NC (1997)
1977 - Nathan Osmond, Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)
1978 - Laurie Schwoy, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1985 - Jacob Parker, actor (Evening Shade)
1998 - Arpad Flynn Busson, NYC, son of model Elle MacPherson

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February 19

0003 - Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Blind Person Owl)
1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, Poland, astronomer (heliocentrism)
1588 - Pieter de Carpentier, Flemish gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies
1611 - Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71)
1616 - Jacques de Saint-Luc, composer
1671 - Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer
1683 - Philip V, France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)
1687 - Johann Adam Birkenstock, composer
1717 - David Garrick, actor/producer/writer (Aboan-Oroonoko)
1743 - [Ridolfo] Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer, cellist (Minuet)
1751 - Cornelis de Gijselaar, Dutch politician/patriot
1754 - Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet/translator (Al Signor di Montgolfier)
1755 - Pieter G van Overstraten, governor-general of Neth-Indies
1762 - Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
1763 - Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer
1780 - Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist (Nibelungenlied)
1812 - Lauro Rossi, composer
1817 - Willem III, last male King of Netherlands (1849-90)
1819 - Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer
1821 - Francis Preston Blair Jr, Lexington Ky, (Rep-Missouri)
1824 - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator [NS=Mar 2]
1827 - Charles Robert Woods, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1855
1828 - Johannes von Miquel, German politician
1833 - �lie Ducommun, Switzerland, writer/pacifist (Nobel 1902)
1841 - Felipe Pedrell, composer
1843 - Adelina Patti, Madrid Spain, opera soprano (Lucio)
1859 - Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903)
1863 - Augusto Bernardino Legu¡a y Salcedo, president of Per£ (1908, 1919)
1863 - Emanuel Moor, composer
1864 - Aritius S Talma, Dutch minister of Agriculture (Work Law of 1911)
1865 - Adrian van Oordt, Dutch writer (neo-romantic)
1865 - Sven Hedin, Sweden, scientist/explorer (Tibet)
1877 - Else Berg, German/Dutch painter
1877 - Louis Fran‡ois-Marie Aubert, French composer (Habanera)
1880 - Arthur Shepherd, composer
1881 - Armin Knab, German composer (Eichendorff-cycle)
1881 - Evert Gorter, founder of Dutch medical child care
1881 - Paul Zech, writer
1886 - George Luther Foote, composer
1889 - Jos‚ Eustasio Rivera, Colombia, poet/novelist (Vortex)
1891 - J C "Farmer" White, cricketer (Somerset slow lefty 1909-37)
1893 - Cedric Hardwicke, Stourbridge England, actor (Peter Pan, Richard III)
1893 - Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Scrittori d'Oggi)
1894 - Herb Pennock, hall of fame pitcher (Yankees, 243 career wins)
1895 - Louis Calhern, NYC, actor (Julius Caesar, Blackboard Jungle)
1898 - Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, [Lou de Palingboer], Dutch sect leader
1900 - Giorgos Seferis, writer
1901 - Cor[nelis RJ] Kieboom, Dutch resistance fighter/chairman (Feyenoord)
1902 - Nydia Westman, NYC, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins)
1902 - John Bubbles, Louisville Ky, rhythm tap dancer (No Maps on My Taps)
1902 - Hugo Haas, Brno Czechoslovakia, actor/director (2 Smart People)
1903 - Kay Boyle, St Paul Minn, novelist (Plagued by Nightingales)
1904 - Havank, [HF vqan der Kallen], Dutch thriller writer (St Eustache)
1906 - Grace Mary Williams, composer
1906 - Hendrik W C Spruit, Dutch conductor
1909 - Charlie Walker, South Aust cricket wicket-keeper (toured but no Tests)
1911 - Merle Oberon, Calcutta India, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion)
1911 - Nikola Hercigonja, composer
1912 - Stan Kenton, [Newcomb], Wichita Ks, jazz musician (Music 55)
1912 - Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher
1912 - Adolf Rudnicki, Polish writer (Niekochana)
1913 - Alvin Derold Etler, composer
1915 - John Freeman, British politician (Labour)/ambassador/TV host
1916 - Eddie Arcaro, jockey (1958 Racing Hall of Fame, 2 triple crowns)
1917 - Carson McCullers, US, novelist (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
1920 - George Rose, Bicester England, actor (Beacon Hill, Holocaust)
1920 - Frances K Bairstow, educator/labor relations consultant
1921 - Andries Treurnicht, [Dr No], founder (S Afr Conservative Party)
1921 - Claude Rene Georges Pascal, composer
1922 - Josef Matej, composer
1922 - Beant Singh, politiician
1923 - Donald Lybbert, composer
1924 - Bruce Norris, NHL owner (Detroit Red Wings)
1924 - Lee Marvin, NYC, actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou)
1925 - Leslie Laing, Linstead Jamaica, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1925 - Jindrich Feld, composer
1926 - Gyorgy Kurtag, composer
1927 - Rene Firino-Martell, cognac manufacturer
1930 - John Frankenheimer, NYC, director (Birdman of Alcatraz)
1932 - Joseph P Kerwin, Oak Park Ill, Capt Med Corps USN/astro (Skylab 2)
1932 - Jean-Pierre Ponnele, Paris France, opera director (Carmina Burana)
1934 - David Hugh Jones, Poole Dorset England, director (Betrayal)
1934 - Julian Belfrage, theatre Agent
1936 - Bob Engemann, singer
1936 - Ione Mylonas Shear, archeologist
1937 - Norman O'Neill, cricketer (great Aussie bat of 60's Brilliant field)
1938 - Penny Zavichas, LPGA golfer
1939 - Gwen Taylor, British actress (Life of Brian, Sob Sisters, Screaming)
1940 - William "Smokey" Robinson, Det, vocalist (and Miracles-Being With You)
1940 - Carlin Glynn, US actress (Continental Divide)
1940 - Bobby Rogers, US vocalist (Miracles-You Really Got a Hold on Me)
1941 - Carlos Roque Alsina, composer
1941 - Stephen Dobyns, US author/poet (Cold Dog Soup)
1942 - Kenneth R Kramer, (Rep-R-CO, 1979- )
1943 - Lou Christie, [Lugee Sacco], Penn, vocalist (Lightning Striking Again)
1943 - "Mama" Cass Elliot, actress (Mamas and Papas-Monday Monday)
1944 - Jan Bart Klaster, mythologist (Slogan)
1945 - Jon Whiteley, actor (Moonfleet)
1945 - Michael Nader, actor (Dynasty, All My Children)
1945 - Thomas Brasch, writer
1946 - Pierre van der Linden, Dutch drummer (Brainbox)
1946 - Paul Dean, rock guitarist/vocalist (Loverboy)
1947 - Peter Bird, ocean rower
1948 - Byron K Lichtenburg, Stroudsburg Pa, astronaut (STS 9, STS 45)
1948 - Mark Andes, Philadelphia Pa, rock bassist (Spirit, Heart, Fireball)
1948 - Tony Iommi, rock guitarist (Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man)
1949 - Ewa Aulin, Stockholm, actress (Candy)
1949 - Edward Hardin, NYC, rock guitarist (Spencer Davis Group)
1949 - Eddie Hardin, keyboardist/singer
1950 - Andy Powell, rocker (Wishbone Ash)
1951 - Stephen Nichols, Cincinnati OH, actor (Witchboard, Days of our Lives)
1952 - Rudolfo Neri-Vida, Mexico, PHD/astronaut (STS 23)
1953 - Bill Kirchenbauer, actor/comedian (Coach-Just the 10 of Us)
1954 - Frances Bucholz, rocker (Scorpions-Wind of Change)
1954 - Jamie West-Oram, rock guitarist (Fixx)
1955 - Jeff Daniels, GA, actor (Something Wild, Dumb and Dumber, Speed)
1955 - Margaux Hemingway, Portland Or, actress (Lipstick, They Call Me Bruce)
1956 - Steve Randell, Tasmanian cricket Test umpire (international panel)
1956 - Peter Holsapple, rocker (Continental Drifters)
1956 - George David Low, Cleveland Ohio, astronaut (STS 32, STS 43)
1956 - Dave Wakeling, rock singer/guitarist
1957 - Paul Dean, guitarist
1957 - Johann Hoelzel Falco, musician
1957 - Falco, [John Hoelcel], rock vocalist (Rock Me Amadeus)
1960 - Vicki Lynn Lasseter Iola Kansas, playmate (Feb, 1981)
1960 - Prince Andrew, Albert Christian Edward, of Britain/Duke of York
1960 - Holly Johnson, England, rock vocalist (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)

1963 - Jessica Tuck, NYC, actress (Megan-1 Life to Live)
1963 - Seal, English vocalist/songwriter (Killer, Crazy, Kiss by a Rose)
1964 - Doug Aldrich, rocker

1966 - Justine Bateman, Rye NY, actress (Mallory-Family Ties, Satisfaction)

1966 - Prince Markie D, [Mark Morale], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)

1967 - Benicio Del Toro, Puerto Rico, actor (Licence to Kill, Usual Suspects)
1968 - Frank Watkins, US heavy metalist bass (Obituary, Cause of Death)

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February 20

1883 - Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)
1887 - David McKinley Williams, composer
1887 - Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel)
1888 - Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest)
1888 - Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher
1889 - Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer
1893 - Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)
1895 - Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping)
1896 - Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist
1897 - Ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)
1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari)
1899 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways)
1899 - Leon Woizikowski, Polish dancer/ballet master (Ballets Russes)
1900 - Jean Negulesco
1900 - Graham Spry, St Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer
1900 - Antonio Veretti, composer
1901 - Ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54)
1901 - Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher (Daily Mirror)
1901 - Henry Eyring, Mexican/US chemist
1901 - Louis I Kahn, Estonia, architect (Bryn Mawr dormitory) [or Dec 20]
1901 - Ren‚ Jules Dubos, France, US microbiologist/author (Health and Disease)
1902 - Ansel Adams, photographer (1966 ASMP Award)
1903 - Ella Maillart, explorer
1903 - Karel Janacek, composer
1903 - Pierre Charles, Belgian heavyweight boxer
1904 - Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80)
1904 - Armin Loos, composer
1904 - Bramwell Fletcher, Yorkshire England, actor (White Cargo, Mummy)
1905 - Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat)
1907 - Owain Jenkins, company director
1907 - Nadine Conner, Calif, soprano (Carmen, Pamina-Magic Flute)
1907 - Malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way)
1908 - Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1)
1908 - Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix
1910 - Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker
1910 - Millicent Fenwick, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82)
1911 - Robert Guyn McBride, Tucson Arizona, composer (Mexican Rhapsody)
1911 - Margot Grahame
1913 - Jozef Kresanek, composer
1913 - Mary Durack, poet
1913 - Nadine Conner, US, opera singer (Carmen, La Boh‚me)
1913 - Rex Tucker, TV writer/director
1914 - Willem J H Baart, Dutch vicar (Cuentanan di Nanzi)
1914 - Marion Kettlewell, British director (WRNS)
1914 - John Daly, S Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line)
1915 - Philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar)
1916 - Jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners)
1916 - Julius Juzeliunas, composer
1916 - Paul Tripp, NYC, TV host (Mr I Magination)
1917 - Frederick Page, CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group)
1920 - Liesbeth Tonckens, [Wilhelmina], actress/lecturer (Free People)
1920 - Armin Schibler, Dutch Swiss composer (Devil in the Winter Palace)
1921 - Amanda Blake, [Beverly], Buffalo NY, actress (Kitty Russell-Gunsmoke)
1921 - Joseph Albert Walker, Wash DC, test pilot (X-15)
1921 - Nurv Shiner, singer
1921 - Ruth Gipps, British(?) conductor/composer
1923 - Forbes Burnham, premier Guyana (1964-85)
1924 - Sidney Poitier, actor (Porgy and Bess, A Raisin in the Sun) or 1927
1924 - Gloria Vanderbilt, don't my jeans look great (poor little rich girl)
1925 - Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist (A Walk in the Night)
1925 - Pramudya Ananta Tur, Javanese author (Anak semua bangsa)
1925 - Robert Altman, Kansas City MO, director (Nashville, M*A*S*H)
1926 - Kenneth H Olsen, US, engineer/founder (Digital Equipment Corp)
1926 - Edgar Meuli, cricketer (opened NZ batting in Test v S Africa 1953)
1926 - Cameron Rusby, British Vice-Admiral
1927 - Roy Cohn, lawyer, "grand inquisitor" (for Sen Joseph McCarthy)
1928 - Donald Longmore, British cardiac surgeon
1928 - Elroy Face, baseball pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1929 - Toshiro Mayuzumi, Yokohama Japan, composer (Sphenogramme)
1930 - Bill Walker, British MP
1930 - Patricia Smith, New Haven Ct, actress (Bob Newhart Show)
1933 - Hannes Postma, Dutch graphic artist
1934 - Lady Wharton
1936 - Larry Hovis, Wapito Wash, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes)
1936 - Marj Dusay, [Mahoney], Russell Ks, actress (Kate-Bret Maverick)
1936 - Roy Beggs, British MP
1937 - Robert Huber, Munich Germany, biochemist (Nobel 1988)
1937 - Nancy Wilson, Chillicothe Ohio, jazz vocalist (Feel Like Making Love)
1937 - David Ackles, Illinois, vocalist/songwriter (American Gothic)
1938 - Mona Mitchell, Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Alexandra
1939 - Barbara Ellis, Olympia Wa, rocker (Fleetwoods)
1939 - Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher
1940 - V Payne, British headmistress (Malvern Girls' College)
1940 - RA Weiss, director (Institute of Cancer Research)
1940 - Christoph Eschenbach, Breslau, Germany, pianist/conductor
1940 - Barbara Laine Ellis, singer
1941 - Buffy Sainte-Marie, Maine, folksinger (Now That the Buffalo Are Gone)
1942 - Peter Strauss, Croton-on-Hudson NY, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
1942 - Mitch McConnell, (Sen-R-KY, 1985- )
1942 - David O'Dowd, Chief Constable (Northamptonshire)
1942 - Claude Miller, director (Garde a Vue, Little Thief, Wild Child)
1942 - Charlie Gillett, Lancashire, rock broadcaster (Sound of the City)
1943 - Aleksandr Pavlovich Alexandrov, Russian, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-9, TM-3)
1943 - Antonio Inoki, [Kanji Rikidozan], wrestler (NJPW/JWA)
1943 - Lord McNally
1943 - Mike Leigh, dramatist/director (High Hopes, Secrets and Lies)
1944 - Willem van Hanegem, Dutch soccer champ/coach (Feyenoord)
1944 - Roger Knapman, British MP
1944 - Lew Soloff, Bkln NY, rocker (Blood, Sweat and Tears)
1945 - Alan Hull, singer/composer
1945 - Andrew Bergman, director/screenwriter (Soapdish, Honeymoon in Vegas)
1946 - Sandy Duncan, Henderson Tx, actress (Hogan Family)
1946 - Mieke H A Boers-Wijnberg, Dutch MP (CDA)
1946 - J[erome] Geils, NYC, rock guitarist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1946 - Brenda Blethyn, actress (Secrets and Lies)
1947 - Andr‚ van Duin, [Kyvon], Dutch entertainer (Bloemkoole)
1947 - Jennifer O'Neill, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, actress (Summer of '42)
1948 - John Browne, group chief executive, British Petroleum Company
1948 - Billy Zoom, musician
1948 - Barry Wordsworth, conductor
1948 - A C Fabian, astronomer
1949 - Eddie Hemmings, cricket off-spinner (immense England)
1949 - Ivana Trump, Gottwaldov Cz, ex-wife of Donald Trump (1st Wives Club)
1950 - John Voldstad, Oslo Norway, actor (Darryl-Newhart)
1950 - Walter Becker, NYC, rock bassist (Steely Dan-Peg)
1951 - Randy California, [Wolfe], Cal, guitarist (Spirit-I Got a Line on You)
1951 - Phil Neal, English soccer player
1951 - Kathy Baillie, Morristown NJ, country vocalist (Baille Boys-Oh Heart)
1951 - Gordon Brown, British MP
1951 - Edward Albert, LA Ca, actor (Jeff-Falcon Crest, Butterflies are Free)
1951 - Bonnie Lauer, LPGA golfer
1952 - Catherine Cummins, Clintwood Va, 1st of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1953 - Carol Cummins, Clintwood Va, 2nd of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1953 - Riccardo Chailly, Milan Italy, conductor (West Berlin Symph Orch)
1954 - Vasili Vasilyevich Tsibliyev, Rus col/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17, TM-25)
1954 - Patty Hearst Shaw, SF, famous kidnap hostage (Tanya)
1954 - Jon Brant, rock bassist (Cheap Trick)
1954 - Anthony Stewart Head, actor (Buffy Vampire Slayer)
1955 - Kelsey Grammer, Virgin Islands, actor (Fraiser Crane-Cheers/Fraiser)
1956 - Charles Cummins, Clintwood Va, 3rd of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1958 - James Wilby, Burma, actor (Howards End, Maurice)
1958 - Carol Ficatier, Auscene France, playmate (December, 1985)
1959 - Joel Rifkind, NY serial killer
1959 - Scott Evans Brayton, racing car driver
1960 - Kee Marcello, rocker (Europe-Final Countdown)
1960 - Mark Reilly, [Matt Bianco], rocker (Indio-Big Harvest)
1961 - Imogen Stubbs, Rothbury England, actress (Summer Story)
1961 - Claudia Cummins, Clintwood Va, 4th of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1962 - Joel Ellis, rocker
1962 - Ria Coyne, Scranton Penn, comedienne (Betsy-Batman Forever)
1963 - William Baldwin, NY, actor (Backdraft, Sliver, Flatliners)
1963 - Ian Brown, English rock vocalist (Stone Roses-Made of Stone)
1964 - French Stewart, NM, actor (Harry Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun)
1964 - Terry Ilous, rock vocalist (XYZ, Cannibal Jacket) [or Jun 28]
1965 - Federica Moro, Carate Brianza Italy, Miss Italy (1982)
1966 - Cindy Crawford, Dekalb Ill, super model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)
1966 - Cecilia Cummins, Clintwood Va, 5th of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1967 - Lili Taylor, actress (Ransom, Short Cuts)
1967 - Kurt Cobain, rock vocalist (Nirvana)/husband of Courtney Love
1967 - Andrew Shue, actor (Melrose Place)
1970 - Cheyenne Brando, Papeete Tahiti, daughter of Marlon
1971 - Shalanda Burt, US murderess
1975 - Brian Littrell, singer (Backstreet Boys)
1977 - Veronica Ledesma, Miss Universe-Argentina (1996)
1979 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress (Sarah Reeves-Party of Five)

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February 21

1417 - Louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)
1484 - Joachim I Nestor, elector (Brandenburg, Constitution)
1556 - Sethus Calvisius, composer
1674 - Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer
1684 - Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator)
1690 - Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer
1710 - Willem van Haren, Frisian nobleman/poet (Human Life)
1728 - Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian tsar (1762)/husband of Catherine
1730 - Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter
1744 - Eise J Eisinga, Frisia, built planetarium Franeker
1776 - Vincenzo Lavigna, composer
1779 - Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer
1785 - Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author (Die Sterner)
1794 - Antonio L¢pez de Santa Anna, president of M‚xico (1833-36)
1795 - Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer
1800 - John Henry Winder, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1801 - John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author (Dream of Gerontius)
1801 - Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, composer
1802 - George Douglas Ramsey, Bvt Major general (Union Army), died in 1882
1805 - David Tod, US diplomat/(Gov-R-Ohio, 1861-63)
1814 - Nicolo Gabrielli, composer
1815 - Ernest Meissonier, French painter/sculptor
1817 - Jos‚ Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist (El rey Loco)
1821 - Charles Scribner, US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog)
1829 - Johnson Hagood, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1831 - Eduard Rappoldi, composer
1836 - L‚o Delibes, Saint-Germain-du-Val France, ballet composer (Copp‚lia)
1836 - Emil Hartmann, composer
1836 - Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer
1837 - Rosal¡a de Castro, Spanish writer (Canteres Gallegos, Follas Novas)
1844 - Charles-Marie Widor, Lyons France, composer/prof (Paris Conservatory)
1852 - [James] Burner Matthews, US playwright/critic (NY Times)
1855 - Alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame)
1856 - Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam)
1857 - Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907)
1861 - Pierre Breville, composer
1867 - Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co
1875 - Jeanne Louise Calment, France, world's oldest woman (died at 122)
1876 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian/French sculptor (Princesse X)
1877 - Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist
1878 - Fritz Cortolezis, composer
1880 - Frank Orth, Phila Pa, actor (Boston Blackie, Brothers)
1881 - Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
1885 - Sacha Guitry, France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat)
1887 - Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
1888 - Florence Bates, TX, actress (Moon and Sixpence, Love Crazy, San Antonio)
1888 - Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Religious Build Up)
1889 - Felix Aylmer, actor (Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, St Joan)
1892 - Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/writer/feminist
1893 - Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter)
1893 - Andr‚s Segovia, Linares Spain, classical guitarist
1896 - Sylvain Poons, Dutch cabaret performer (Blue Jackets)
1897 - Celia Lovsky, Vienna Aus, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek)
1898 - Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet dancers/choreographer (Gayaneh)
1900 - Sydney Arnold, English comic/actor (Miss Jones and Son)
1900 - Madeleine Renaud, French actress/theater director (Plaisir)
1902 - Arthur D Nock, English/US historian (St Paul)
1902 - Bob [Hijman] Scholte, Dutch vocalist [or 1909]
1902 - John Smallenbroek, Dutch minister of Internal Affairs [or 1909]
1903 - Thomas Yawkey, baseball owner (Boston Red Sox)
1903 - Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French author (Un Enfant a Dit)
1903 - Madeleine Renaud, Paris France, actress (Helene, Longest Day)
1903 - Eric Fogg, composer
1903 - Ana‹s Nin, Paris, novelist (Winter of Artifice, House of Incense)
1904 - Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/poet
1907 - Wystan Hugh Auden, US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948)
1909 - Helen O Dickens, [Henderson], US physician/gynaecologist
1909 - Hans Erni, Switz, painter/sculptor
1909 - George G F van Renesse, Dutch pianist/music director
1910 - Douglas R S Bader, British pilot (WW II)
1912 - Arline Judge, actress (Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent)
1912 - Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist (Arkadia 598-Schubert)
1912 - Patrick Murphy, English multi-millionaire
1913 - Glenn M Anderson, (Rep-D-CA, 1969- )
1914 - Arnold S Denker, NY, US chess champion (1944-46)
1914 - Hermanus P "Piet" Mulder, Dutch journalist (Parool/VARA)
1915 - Ann Sheridan, Denton Texas, actress (Dodge City, Another World)
1917 - Victor G M Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65)
1922 - Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle)
1922 - Uros Krek, composer
1923 - Lola Flores, entertainer
1923 - Lucille Bremer, dancer/actress (Ruthless, Ziegfeld Follies)
1923 - Zvi Zeitlin, Dubrovnik Yugoslavia, violinist/prof (Eastman School)
1924 - Robert G Mugabe, premier/president of Zimbabwe
1925 - Al Fann, Cleve, actor (Alvin-He's the Mayor)
1925 - Sam Peckinpah, Fresno CA, film director (Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs)
1926 - Hans Andreus, [Johan W van der Zant], Dutch poet (Animal Language)
1927 - Erma Bombeck, Dayton Ohio, humorist (Grass is Always Greener...)
1927 - Hubert de Givenchy, Beauvais France, fashion designer (Audrey Hepburn)
1927 - Pierre Mercure, composer
1930 - Elizabeth Adams, madame
1931 - Larry Hagman, TV actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas)
1932 - Harald V, King of Norway (1991- )
1933 - Nina Simone, [Eunice Waymon], Tyron NC, vocalist/pianist (Porgy)
1934 - Rue McClanahan, Healdton Okla, actress (Maude, Golden Girls)
1935 - Mark McManus, actor (Taggart, Nightstick, 2000 Weeks, 12th Night)
1936 - Barbara Jordan, Houston, Tx, (Rep-D-Tx, 1972-78)
1937 - Gary Lockwood, Van Nuys Cal, actor (2001, Survival Zone, Lieutenant)
1938 - Beryl F Anthony Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1979- )
1939 - Richard Beymer, Avoca IA, actor (West Side Story, Diary of Anne Frank)
1939 - Ron Nagle, rock producer (Riding with the King)
1940 - John Lewis, (Rep-D-Georgia)
1940 - Peter McEnery, England, actor (Game is Over, Moonspinners)
1941 - Charlie Shelburne, English earl/large landowner
1942 - Margarethe Von Trotta, Berlin Germany, actress/director (Marianne)
1943 - Roberto Faenza, director (Cop Killers, Corrupt)
1943 - Duncan Swift, jazz pianist
1943 - David Geffin, Brooklyn NY, record producer (Geffin, Asylum)
1944 - Herman de Coninck, Flemish writer/poet (Impossible Work)
1944 - Kitty Winn, Wash DC, actress (Beacon Hill)
1945 - Paul Newton, rock bassist
1946 - Tyne Daly, Madison Wisc, actress (Cagney and Lacey, Angel Unchained)
1946 - Tricia Nixon Cox, Richard Milhaus' daughter (or 0202)
1946 - Alan Rickman, actor (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves)
1947 - Olympia J Snowe, (Rep-R-ME, 1979- )
1948 - Larry Ragland, Richmond Va, comedian (Keep on Truckin')
1949 - Jerry Harrison, Milwaukee, rock keyboardist (Talking Heads)
1951 - Michael Cotten, rock synthesizer (Tubes)
1951 - Vince Welnick, rock keyboardist (Tubes)
1952 - Jean-Jacques Brunel, rock bassist (Stranglers-Dreamtime)
1953 - William L Petersen, actor (Return to Lonesome Dove)
1953 - Christine Ebersole, Park Forest Ill, actress (SNL, Valerie, Tootsie)
1956 - Woody Brown, Dayton Ohio, actor (Cliff-Facts of Life)
1958 - Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Princeton NJ, country vocalist (This Shirt)
1958 - Jake Steinfeld, exercise expert (Body by Jake)
1958 - Jack Coleman, Easton Pa, actor (Steven Carrington-Dynasty)
1961 - Christopher Atkins, Rye NY, actor (Peter-Dallas, Blue Lagoon)
1961 - Ranking Roger, rock vocalist (English Beat-Drowning)
1964 - Alana Soares, Redondo Beach Ca, playmate (Mar, 1983)
1964 - Mark E Kelly, Orange NJ, Lt USN/astronaut
1964 - Scott J Kelly, Orange NJ, Lt USN/astronaut
1966 - Wendy James, London England, vocalist (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1966 - Tommy Hendricks, rocker
1966 - Bronwen Booth, London, actress (Andy-One Life to Live, Eternal Evil)
1971 - Jose Solano, actor (Baywatch)
1975 - Troy Slaten, actor (Jerry-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
1986 - Amedeo, Belgium, son of princess Astrid/arch duke Lorenz

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February 22

1403 - Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), drove out English
1440 - Ladislaus V Posthumus, King of Hungary/Bohemia
1514 - Tahmasp I, shah of Persia (1524-76)/author (Tazkire-i Shah)
1533 - P‚ter Bornemisza, Hungarian vicar/author/publisher (Tragoedia)
1542 - Santino Garsi, composer
1573 - Gemignano Capilupi, composer
1599 - Anthony Van Dyck, Antwerp Belgium, painter
1634 - Petrus "Pieter" van Schooten, fortress architect
1684 - William Pulteney, London, statesman (Earl of Bath)
1705 - Peter Arctedius, [Artedi], Swedish biologist
1732 - George Washington, Virginia, 1st pres (1789-97)
1745 - Joao de Sousa Carvalho, composer
1749 - Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist/1st biographer of Bach
1761 - Jacob Kimball, composer
1761 - Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer
1764 - Alexander Campbell, composer
1770 - Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer
1772 - Joseph Lipavsky, composer
1772 - Karl Jacob Wagner, composer
1773 - Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish (court)painter
1778 - Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter (Court of Death)
1779 - Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer
1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist)
1796 - Adolphe Quetelet, Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician
1797 - William I, Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88)
1798 - Charles Mynn Thruston, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
1810 - Holger Simon Paulli, composer
1810 - Fr‚d‚ric F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer [OS]
1814 - Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer
1817 - Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist/composer/conductor
1819 - Bernardo Calvo Puig, composer
1819 - James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
1821 - Giovanni Bottesini, composer
1827 - James Barnet Fry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
1828 - Robert Alexander Cameron, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1833 - Josef Foerster, composer
1834 - Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer
1836 - Eduard Wachmann, composer
1838 - Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun
1840 - F August Bebel, German social-democrat
1842 - L‚on Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor (Ukkel)
1842 - Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company)
1843 - Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia)
1844 - Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer
1850 - Isaac L Rice, Germany, (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium)
1852 - Pieter K Pel, internist (Pel-Ebstein fever)
1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides)
1857 - Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast and receive radio waves
1862 - Karen Hulda Garborg[-Bergersen], Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli)
1864 - Jules Renard, France, writer (Poil de Carotte)
1865 - Otto Modersohn, German painter
1877 - Yme C Schuitmaker, Dutch potato salesman/dramatist
1879 - Johannes Brínsted, Danish physical chemist (acid-base reactions)
1882 - Eric Gill, England, sculptor/engraver/typographer (Perpetua)
1883 - Alfred Wikenhauser, German RC exegetist (John-Apokalyps)
1883 - Jaroslav Kocian, composer
1883 - Marguerite Clark, voice (Snow White)
1886 - Hugo Ball, German playwright/co-founder Flametti
1887 - Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award)
1889 - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain)
1891 - "Chico" Marx, NYC, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers)
1891 - Jan Wils, Holland, architect/designer (Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium)
1891 - Lucien Cailliet, composer
1892 - David Dubinsky, labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom)
1892 - Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
1894 - Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer
1895 - V¡ctor Ra£l Haya de la Torre, founder (Peruvian Aprista Party)
1896 - Enid Markey, Dillon Colo, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy)
1896 - Nacio Herb Brown, US composer
1896 - Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City)
1899 - Dwight Frye, Salina KS, actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein)
1900 - Evald Aav, composer
1900 - Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963)
1900 - Luis Bru¤el, Calanda Spain, director (Tristana, Phantom of Liberty)
1900 - Sean O'Faolain, [John Whelan], Ire, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk)
1901 - Stefan Lorant, writer
1901 - Mildred Davis, PA, actress (Grandma's Boy)
1901 - Charles E Whittaker, Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62)
1902 - Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author (Das Klavichord)
1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy)
1904 - Peter Hurd, Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of Jos‚ Herrera)
1905 - Luis Sandi, composer
1906 - Gale Gordon, LA Calif, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
1906 - Edmund von Borck, composer
1907 - Robert Young, Chic Ill, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD)
1907 - Sheldon Leonard, NYC, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie)
1908 - John Mills, England, actor (Big Sleep, King Rat, War and Peace)
1908 - R¢mulo Betancourt, pres of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)
1909 - Roderick Barclay, diplomat
1910 - Nicholas Monsarrat, Liverpool England, novelist
1910 - Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker
1910 - Al Sears, jazz performer
1915 - Dan Seymour, Chicago Ill, actor (We the People, Sing It Again)
1917 - Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter (WW II)
1917 - Jane Bowles, writer
1918 - Robert Wadlow, Alton Ill, tallest known human (2.72 m, 8' 11.1")
1918 - Don Pardo, Westfield Mass, TV announcer (Jeopardy, SNL)
1919 - Jiri Pauer, composer
1920 - Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer
1920 - Del Wood, singer
1920 - Giulietta Masina, Italy, actress (La Strada, Swindle, White Sheik)
1921 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator
1922 - Andre Asriel, composer
1922 - Felix Werder, composer
1925 - Edward Gorey, Chicago, author/artist (Curious Sofa)
1925 - Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician
1925 - Guy Mitchell, Detroit MI, actor (Red Garters, 3 Redheads from Seattle)
1925 - Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect
1926 - Bud Yorkin, producer (All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy)
1927 - Donald May, Chicago Ill, actor (Adam-Edge of Night, Colt .45)
1927 - David Ahlstrom, composer
1928 - Bruce Forsyth, London England, comedian/TV host (Generation Game)
1928 - Paul Dooley, Parkensburg WV, actor (16 Candles, Strange Brew, Wedding)
1929 - Marni Nixon, singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood and Deborah Kerr)
1930 - JPS van Neerven, Dutch economist/editor (Limbourg Daily)
1930 - Allison Hayes, Washington, actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman)
1932 - Edward M "Ted" Kennedy, (Sen-D-Mass, 1962- )
1933 - Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley, England, Duchess of Kent
1934 - Thomas Paul, Chicago Illinois, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70)
1935 - Ineke [R M] Haas-Berger, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1936 - Ernie K-Doe, [Ernest Kador Jr], New Orleans La, rocker
1937 - Dubravko Detoni, composer
1937 - Joanna Russ, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx)
1937 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/multi-millionaire
1938 - Ishmael Reed, US, author (Last Days of Louisiana Red)
1938 - Bobby Hendricks, US soul vocalist (Itchy Twitchy Feeling)
1940 - Johnson P Mlambo, South African leader (Pan-African Congress)
1940 - Julian Chagrin, London, mime/actor (Golddiggers)
1943 - Louise Lopez, singer
1943 - David E Skaggs, (Rep-D-Colorado)
1944 - E J Peaker, Tulsa Okla, actress (That's Life)
1944 - Jonathan Demme, Baldwin NY, actor/director (Caged Heat, Swing Shift)
1945 - Oliver, rock vocalist (Good Morning Starshine, Jean)
1947 - John Bryant, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1949 - Leslie Charleson, KC Missouri, actress (Monica-General Hospital)
1950 - Sylvette Miou-Miou, Paris France, actress (Bottom Line, Menage)
1950 - Miou-Miou, Paris France, actress (Dog Day, My Other Husband)
1950 - Julie Walters, England, actress (Educating Rita)
1950 - Ellen Greene, Bkln NY, vocalist/actress (Little Shoppe of Horrors)
1951 - Harley O Staggers Jr, (Rep-D-WV, 1983- )
1952 - James Philip Bagian, Philadelphia, MDPE/astronaut (STS 29, STS 40)
1958 - Kyle MacLachlan, Yakima WA, actor (Blue Velvet, Dune, Hidden)
1959 - Susan Benjamin, actress (Tracy-Accidental Family)
1961 - Debbie Linden, Glasgow Scotland, actress (Kenny Everett Show)
1961 - Don Van Spall, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1962 - Michael Wilton, singer
1964 - Jim Wicek, NYC, actor (Ben-Ryan's Hope)
1966 - Resga Riggins, Trussville Alabama, Miss Alabama-America (1991)
1966 - Suave, singer
1966 - Thorsten Kaye, soap actor (Patrick-One Life to Live, Silencers)
1968 - Jeri Ryan, actress (7 of 9-Star Trek Voyager)
1971 - Lea Salonga, Philippines, singer/actress (Miss Siagon)
1972 - Christin Didier, Miss USA-Montana (1997)
1973 - Kimberly Davies, Melbourne Aust, actress (Baywatch)
1975 - Charles O'Bannon, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
1975 - Drew Barrymore, LA Calif, actress (ET, Firestarter, Poison Ivy)
1979 - David Lopez, Queens NY, actor (and God Created Women, Ghostwriter)

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February 23

1417 - Paul II, [Pietro Barbo], Italy, Pope (1464-71)
1614 - Jacob Colijn(s), Dutch coat of arms painter
1615 - Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, baptised
1633 - Samuel Pepys, London England, navy expert/composer (Diary, Memoirs)
1649 - John Blow, composer of 1st English opera (Venus and Adonis) (baptized)
1685 - George Friedrich H„ndel, Halle Germany, organist/composer (Messiah)
1700 - Wilhelmus Schortinghuis, Dutch theologist (Profound Christianity)
1730 - Christian Joseph Lidarti, composer
1734 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Frankfurt, founder (House of Rothschild)
1776 - John Walter II, London, chief proprietor (The Times, 1812-47)
1787 - Emma Willard, US, opens school for young ladies (Hall of Fame)
1792 - Istvan Ferenczi, Hungarian sculptor
1811 - George Washington Hewitt, composer
1817 - George Watts, London, painter
1818 - Jeremy F Gilmer, Maj Gen/Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept
1824 - Herman N van der Tuuk, Dutch philologist (Tobasch' Grammar)
1824 - Lewis Cass Hunt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1831 - Hendrik W Mesdag, Dutch painter (Panorama Mesdag)
1834 - Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis
1838 - Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1840 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist
1848 - Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer
1859 - Theodor Batthy nyi, Hungarian statesman/contra revolutionary
1863 - Franz von Stuck, German painter (Der Krieg)
1868 - William E B Du Bois, Mass, civil rights writer (Souls of Black Folk)
1869 - Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary (Soc-Dem)
1873 - Dmitri Arakishvili, composer
1874 - Konstantin P„ts, Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40)
1875 - Jozef E Stokvis, journalist/Dutch MP (SDAP)
1876 - Agnes M Royden, writer
1876 - Wadi' Sabra, composer
1879 - Agnes Arber, English biologist/philosopher (Mind and the Eye)
1879 - Norman Lindsay, Creswick Victoria, artist/novelist
1880 - Edgar Istel, composer
1881 - Titus [Anno S] Brandsma, Dutch philosopher
1882 - Ladislav Vycpalek, composer
1883 - Karl Jaspers, Oldenburg Germany, existentialist philosopher
1883 - Victor Fleming, Pasadena Cal, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind)
1884 - Frank Cellier, Surbiton England, actor (Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade)
1884 - Herman Courtens, Belgian painter
1886 - Ventura Garc¡a Calder¢n, Peruvian diplomat/author
1886 - Albert Edward Sammons, composer
1887 - Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer
1889 - Cyril Delevanti, England, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis, Black Eye)
1889 - Frederik M baron of Asbeck, Dutch lawyer (League of Nations)
1892 - Kathleen Harrison, actress (Fast Lady, Big Money, West 11)
1895 - Richard Goolden, London England, actor (School for Husbands)
1898 - Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist
1899 - E Langg„sser, writer
1899 - Erich K„stner, Dresden German author (Emil and the Detective)
1900 - Elinor Remick Warren, composer
1901 - Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author (Mieke-serial)
1903 - Grigori V Aleksandrov, Russian director (Veselye Rebjata)
1904 - William L Shirer, historian (Rise and Fall of 3rd Reich)
1904 - Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded (CP Palestina)
1905 - Leonidas Zoras, composer
1907 - Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman
1908 - William McMahon, PM of Australia (Liberal) (1971-72)
1911 - Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic
1911 - G Mennen Williams, Detroit, Sup Court Justice/(Gov-D-Mich, 1949-60)
1913 - Earl of Lincoln
1914 - Margaret Farrer, CEO (Central Midwives Board)
1915 - Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth)
1916 - William Walsh, academic
1916 - Martindale Sidwell, organist/conductor
1917 - Kenneth Tobey, actor (Chuck-Whirlybirds) [or Mar 23]
1918 - Dom Aelred Watkin, headmaster (Downside School)
1919 - Lord Ezra
1920 - David Wright, poet
1920 - Hall Overton, Bangor Michigan, composer (Enchanted Pear Tree)
1920 - Lord St Levan
1923 - Gery Florizoone, Flemish poet
1924 - Lejaren Hiller, composer
1925 - Louis Stokes, (Rep-D-OH, 1969- )
1926 - Regine Crespin, French vocalist (Sheherazade, Les Nuits D'ete)
1927 - Ivan Hrusovsky, composer
1928 - Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A)
1928 - Duke of Beaufort
1929 - Eduard W "Ed" Bauer, [Eddy Evers], Dutch actor (Bluejackets)
1929 - Richard Moryl, composer
1929 - R‚gine Crespin, Marseilles France, operatic soprano
1930 - Johnny Seven, NYC, actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss)
1930 - Jef Geeraerts, Flemish writer (Black Venus)
1930 - Imre Gyongyossy, film Maker
1930 - Gerry Davis, writer
1931 - Tom Wesselman, US sculptor (Great American Nudes)
1933 - Donna J Stone, poet
1934 - Lady Digby
1937 - David Ward, president (Law Society)
1937 - Lord Tugendhat
1938 - Sylvia Chase, St Paul Minn, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20)
1938 - Diane Varsi, San Mateo Calif, actress (Peyton Place)
1939 - Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher
1939 - Majel Barrett, Columbus Ohio, actress (Christine Chapel-Star Trek)
1940 - Peter Fonda, actor (Easy Rider, Lilith, Wild Angels, Trip)
1940 - Jermyn P Brooks, CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe)
1941 - Frank Gerstenberg, Edinburgh, principal (George Watson's College)
1941 - William Hj”rtsberg, NYC, writer (Gray Matters, Fallen Angel)
1942 - John Lewis, Head Master (Eton College)
1942 - Colin Sanders, founder (Solid State Logic)
1942 - Beau Boulter, (Rep-R-TX, 1985- )
1943 - Jada Rowland, NYC, actress (Penny-Hamptons, Amy-Secret Storm)
1944 - Mike Maxfield, rocker (Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas)
1944 - Johnny Winter, [John Dawson], Leland Miss, guitarist (Silver Train)
1944 - James Cousins, British MP
1945 - Frank Murray, police Officer
1946 - Rusty Young, Calif, rock steel guitarist (Poco-Heat of the Night)
1947 - Shakira Caine, Guyana, actress (Man Who be King)/Miss Guyana (1967)
1947 - Colin Sanders, British computer engineer (Solid State Logic)
1947 - Anton Mosimann, chef
1948 - Bill Alexander, theatre director
1949 - Terry Comer, rocker
1949 - Terry "Tex" Comer, bassist/guitarist
1949 - Maureen Hicks, British MP
1949 - Marc Garneau, Quebec City Canada, PhD/astronaut (STS 13, 77)
1949 - Larry Demps, US RandB vocalist (Dramatics-Me and Mrs Jones)
1950 - Neil Jordan, Sligo Ireland, novelist (Dream of a Beast, Past)
1950 - Steve Priest, London, rock bassist (Sweet Hayes)
1951 - Patricia Richardson, Bethesada Md, actress (Double Trouble, Home Imp)
1951 - Nicholas Kenyon, controller (BBC Radio 3)
1952 - Brad Whitford, Mass, rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Jamie Got a Gun)
1953 - Sallie L Baliunas, astrophysicist
1955 - Howard Jones, rock pianist/vocalist (Things Can Only Get Better)
1958 - Ria Brieffies, Dutch vocalist (Dolly Dots)
1958 - Lorraine Michaels, Canterbury England, playmate (April, 1981)
1958 - David Sylvian, vocal/guitar (Sylvian Sylvian, Japan-Adolescent Sex)
1960 - Naruhito, crown prince of Japan
1960 - Maria Gloria von Sch”nberg-Glauchau, wife of prince Thurn un Taxis
1960 - Gloria von Thurm un Taxis, Munich German FR, Princess
1962 - Melinda Mays, Augusta Ga, playmate (Feb, 1983)
1962 - Michael Wilton, rock guitarist (Queensrijche-Warning)
1963 - Robert Collins, keyboard player
1963 - Reza Abdoh, theatre director
1963 - Debbie Kruck, Danbury CT, Ms Fitness USA (1994)
1964 - Dana Katherine Scully, fictional character (X-Files)
1964 - John Norum, rocker
1965 - Sylvie Guillem, France, ballerina (Royal Ballet)
1965 - Kristin Davis, actress (Melrose Place)
1966 - Marc Price, actor/comedian (Skippy-Family Ties)
1967 - Pam Blundell, fashion designer
1968 - Stephanie Seymour, SD Calif, actress/model (Sunny Side Up)
1971 - Jason Keller, Scarsdale NY, actor (Jason-Out of the Blue)
1971 - Shane Keller, Scarsdale NY, actor (Shane-Out of the Blue)
1975 - Michael Tricario, actor (Randy-Wonder Years)

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February 24

1304 - Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia and Africa)
1463 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist
1500 - Carlos V, King of Spain (1516-56)/Holy Roman Emperor
1501 - Sixt(us) Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Suzanna)
1536 - Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Fano Italy, Pope (1592-1605)
1547 - Jan of Austria, Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherland
1557 - Matthias, Vienna, Holy Roman emperor (1612-19)
1595 - Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet
1619 - Charles Le Brun, Paris, painter, designer (Chancellor S‚guier)
1679 - Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer
1684 - Catherine I, Empress of Russia 1725-27, Dorpat, Estonia
1697 - Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist
1704 - Hubert Renotte, composer
1717 - Bernhard Hupfeld, composer
1750 - Mikl¢s R‚vai, Hungarian linguistic/poet
1766 - Samuel Wesley, Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo)
1771 - Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher
1786 - Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
1797 - Samuel Lover, composer
1809 - Albert Sch„ffle, German sociologist (Abriss der Soziologie)
1809 - Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian)
1811 - Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
1811 - Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
1824 - John Crawford Vaughn, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1827 - Charles Davis Jameson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1831 - Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor/premier of Prussia
1833 - Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austrian premier (1868..93)
1836 - Winslow Homer, US, painter (Gulfstream)
1838 - Thomas Benton Smith, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1923
1842 - Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer
1843 - [Joaquim] The¢filo F Braga, Portuguese poet/author/politician
1846 - Luigi Denza, composer
1848 - Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris)
1848 - C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)
1852 - George A Moore, Ireland, painter/novelist (Esther Waters)
1854 - Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Golden Rain)
1858 - Arnold Dolmetsch, Le Mans, musician
1860 - Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types)
1866 - Arthur Pearson, Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor
1876 - Jean Poveigh, composer
1876 - Victor Moore, Hammonton NJ, comedian (Ziegfeld Follies, 7 Year Itch)
1877 - Rudolf Ganz, composer
1879 - Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Sun)
1885 - Bert Lytell, NYC, actor (Henry-One Man's Family)
1885 - Chester Nimitz, US admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WW II)
1885 - Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
1885 - Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings)
1887 - Mary Ellen Chase, US linguistic/author (White Gate)
1890 - Marjorie Main, [Tomlinson], Action Ind, actress (Another Thin Man)
1890 - Antonio Massana, composer
1898 - Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer
1899 - Jacob Presser, Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall)
1905 - E Boyland, biochemist
1905 - Guillaume Landre, composer
1906 - Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
1909 - August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries)
1909 - Jean Yves Morvan Marin, broadcaster
1909 - Max Black, Dutch/British/US philosopher (analytical philosophy)
1909 - Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist
1910 - Lord Hazlerigg
1911 - Konrad Lechner, composer
1912 - Julius Kowalski, composer
1913 - Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist
1914 - David Langdon, cartoonist/illustrator
1914 - Zachary Scott, Austin Tx, actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce)
1915 - Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist
1916 - Gene Mitchell, museum director
1917 - William Fairbank, Minneapolis, physicist (superconductivity)
1919 - Alan Hugh Iliffe, psychologist
1919 - Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
1920 - Frank Rogers, CEO (NPA Telegraph)
1921 - Ludvig Aschkenazy, writer
1921 - Ingvar Lidholm, composer
1921 - Douglass Watson, Jackson GA, actor (Satan Murders, Another World)
1921 - Abe Vigoda, NYC, actor (Barney Miller, Fish)
1922 - Steven Hill, Seattle WA, actor (Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl, Law and Order)
1922 - Richard Hamilton, painter
1924 - Lionel Dakers, director (Royal School of Church Music)
1924 - William Pillar, British admiral
1927 - David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician
1928 - Michael Harrington, St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century)
1928 - Al Lettieri, NYC, actor (Deadly Kiss, Pulp, Mr Majestyk, Getaway)
1929 - David Houston, Major-General/Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland
1929 - Richard B Shull, Evanston Ill, actor (Diana, Holmes and Yoyo)
1930 - Barbara Lawrence, Carnegie OK, actress (Joe Dakota)
1931 - Lev Vasilyevich Vorobyov, Russia, cosmonaut
1931 - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism
1931 - Marta Marzotto, Italy, countess
1932 - Michel Legrand, composer (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind)
1932 - John Vernon, Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry)
1932 - Everard Goodman, English real estate developer (TOPS Estates)
1932 - Andrew Jacobs Jr, (Rep-D-IN, 1965-73, 75- )
1934 - Shuko Mizuno, composer
1934 - Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, soprano (Violetta-La Traviata)
1934 - Linda Cristal, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Victoria-High Chapparal)
1934 - Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st socialist premier (1983-87)
1935 - Renata Scotto, singer
1937 - Jerry Wiggin, British MP
1938 - James Farentino, Bkln NY, actor (Dead and Buried, Final Countdown)
1938 - Kathleen Richardson, president (Methodist Conference)
1939 - George Bain, principal (London Business School)
1940 - Theo Bosch, Dutch humanist/architect (Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam)
1942 - David K Williamson, Australian screenplay/playwright (Removalists)
1942 - Joe Lieberman, (Sen-D Connecticut)
1942 - Paul Jones, England, rocker (Manfried Mann-Mighty Quinn)
1942 - Stuart Henry, British disc jockey
1944 - Sheila Larkin, Bkln NY, actress (Deborah-Storefront Lawyer)
1944 - Nicky Hopkins, rock pianist (Stones-Ruby Tuesday, Quicksilver)
1944 - Barry Bostwick, San Mateo Ca, actor (Rocky Horror Show, Megaforce)
1946 - Anthony Mayer, chief executive (Housing Corporation)
1946 - Michael Radford, director (1984, White Mischief)
1947 - Rubert Holmes, Tenafly NJ, vocalist (Pina Colada song)
1947 - Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
1947 - Edward James Olmos, Cal, actor (Miami Vice, Stand and Deliver, Triumph)
1948 - Dennis "Minder" Waterman, London England, actor (Fair Exchange)
1948 - Lord Melchett
1950 - G J M Gazdar, computational linguist
1951 - Helen Shaver, Ontario Canada, actress (WIOU, Praise of Older Women)
1952 - Simon Weinstock, businessman/racehorse owner
1954 - Marquess of Normanby
1955 - Bob Abrams, Ohio, rocker (Buckinghams)
1955 - Steven Jobs, co-founder (Apple Computer)
1956 - Paula Zahn, Napperville Ill, news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning)
1957 - Lan Burden, rocker
1958 - Sammy Kershaw, Kaplan LA, country vocalist (Cadillac Style)
1958 - Susan Scannell, Lexington Mass, actress (Nicole-Dynasty)
1959 - Beth Broderick, Falmouth KY, actress (Aunt Zelda-Sabrina)
1961 - Persijn "Dakota" Joling, Dutch rock guitarist/singer (Pilgrims-Red)
1962 - Michelle Shocked, singer/musician
1966 - Billy Zane, actor (Orlando, Memphis Belle, Millions, Titanic)
1970 - Jonathan Ward, Balt Md, actor (Doug-Charles in Charge, Beans Baxter)

1972 - Patricia Regan Leines, Medford Or, Miss America (Oregon-3rd-1997)
1972 - Manon Rheaume, Lac Beauport Quebec, 1st female NHLer (Tampa Bay)
1973 - James Michael Kennedy, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
1977 - Alexis Jose Grullon, NYC, vocalist (Menudo-Cannonball)
1978 - Louise Woodward, ELton England, nanny who killed Matthew Eappen

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February 25

1635 - Walraad, the Elder, Dutch fieldmarshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen
1643 - Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95)
1680 - Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer
1707 - Carlo Goldoni, Italy, lawyer/playwright (Belisario, Love of 3 Oranges)
1725 - Armand-Louis Couperin, Paris France, organist/composer (Notre Dame)
1725 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (Geistliche Kantaten)
1727 - Armand-Louis Couperin, composer
1731 - Simon Stijl, Frisian physician/writer
1732 - Robert Hudson, composer
1735 - Ernst William Wolf, composer
1778 - Jos‚ Francisco de San Mart¡n, liberated Argentina, Chile and Per£
1788 - Mateo Ferrer, composer
1794 - Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam
1807 - George Alfred Trenholm, Secy Treas (Confederacy), died in 1876
1808 - James Bowen, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1809 - George Washington Cullom, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
1811 - Carl Schuberth, composer
1814 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter (3/9 NS) [OS]
1815 - Robert Hall Chilton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1832 - Theodorus J I Arnold, bibliographer (Bibliotheca Belgian)
1833 - Clement Anselm Evans, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1833 - Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress
1840 - Alexis Hollander, composer
1840 - Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Climax of Theories)
1841 - Pierre Auguste Renoir, Limoges France, Impressionist painter/sculptor
1842 - Karl May, German writer (Old ****terhand/Winnetou)
1847 - John Watson, Canada, philosopher (Objective Idealism)
1855 - George Bonnor, cricketer (big-hitting Aussie batter 1880-1888)
1856 - Charles Lang Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1876]
1860 - Menso Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/water colors painter
1860 - William James Ashley, English economic-historian
1866 - Benedetto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher
1868 - Anthony J Block, Dutch lawyer (strafproces)
1873 - Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust)
1876 - Charles Freer, art collector; endowed Freer Gallery [or 1856]
1879 - Otakar Ostrcil, composer
1881 - William Foster, Mass, Communist Pres candidate (1924,28,32)
1882 - Ludvig Nordstr”m, Sweden, writer (Story of Peter Svensk)
1882 - Jozef Goossenaerts, Flemish philologist (Language boundary)
1882 - Bruno? Traven, German? writer (Sierra Madre)
1887 - Leonard Carey, England, actor (Laughter)
1888 - John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59)
1890 - Myra Hess, London England, concert pianist
1894 - Howard Wendell, Poland, actor (4 Skulls of Jonathan Drake)
1894 - Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist (War Against War!)
1895 - Henri Martelli, composer
1896 - John J McClellan, (Sen-D-Ark)
1897 - Lili K”rber, writer
1898 - William Thomas Astbury, English physicist/chemist (textiles)
1899 - Leo J Weisgerber, German linguist
1900 - Jed Harris, producer/director (Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball)
1901 - Federico Ghisi, composer
1901 - [Herbert] Zeppo Marx, NYC, comedian/actor (Marx Brothers)
1902 - Max Kommerell, German literary/author (Die Gefangenen)
1902 - Oscar Cullmann, Swiss theologist (Das Petrusproblem)
1904 - Adelle Davis, author (Lets Stay Healthy)/nutritionist (died of cancer)
1906 - Boris Papandopulo, composer
1906 - Domingo Ortega, Spanish bullfighter
1906 - Howard Zahniser, Father of Wilderness Act
1906 - Warren Hymer, NYC, actor (Girl From Havana, Meet the Mob)
1907 - Shimen Rushkin, Poland, actor (Beau Brummel, Having a Wonderful Time)
1907 - Mary Coyle Chase, playwright (Harvey-Pulitzer Prize)
1908 - Frank G Slaughter, author (Sangaree)
1909 - Edgar Pangborn, US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy)
1909 - John Evan "Jasper" Weston Mather, writer
1910 - Millicent Fenwick, NYC, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82) (Doonesbury)
1912 - Richard Wattis, England, actor (Hobson's Choice, Prince and Showgirl)
1913 - Jim Backus, Cleve, actor (Mr Magoo, Thurston Howell III-Gilligan Is)
1913 - Gert Froebe, Saxony Germany, actor (Goldfinger)
1916 - Ian Wallace, British CEO
1917 - Asta E R Elstak, Suriname/Dutch social worker
1917 - Anthony Burgess, essayist/novelist (Clockwork Orange)
1917 - Alex Gordon, architect
1919 - F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian
1920 - Antony Duff, diplomat
1920 - Hayes Gordon, Boston MA, actor (Sky Pirates, Dark Room)
1922 - Matti Rautio, composer
1923 - Roger Parker, Lord Justice of Appeal
1924 - Peg Ridge, peace campaigner
1925 - Bert Remsen, Glen Cove NY, actor (Mario-It's a Living)
1926 - Harvey McGregor, QC/warden (New College-Oxford)
1927 - Ralph Stanley, country singer
1927 - Jane Nigh, Hollywood Calif, actress (Lorelei-Big Town)
1927 - Jacques Monod, composer
1927 - Dick Jones, Snyder Tx, actor (Buffalo Bill Jr)
1928 - Keith Williamson, British RAF marshal
1928 - Larry Gelbart, writer/producer/actor (Oh God!, M*A*S*H)
1928 - Richard Stern, US writer
1929 - Tommy Newsom, Va, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)
1929 - Peter Hinchcliff, historian
1929 - Peter Bingham Hinchcliff, Brit church historian (1 Sided Reciprocity)
1929 - Christopher George, Royal Oak Minn, actor (Rat Patrol, Immortal)
1930 - Erica Pedretti, writer
1931 - J R Stephenson, Lt-col/secretary (MCC)
1931 - Edward Kellett-Bowman, British MEP
1932 - Faron Young, country singer/actor (Hidden Guns, Daniel Boone)
1932 - Laurence New, Major-General
1932 - Martin William Karlins, composer
1934 - Robert Neame, brewer
1934 - Michael Wheeler-Booth, Clerk of the Parliaments
1934 - Lord Crickhowell
1936 - Jonnie Nicely, playmate (Aug, 1956)
1936 - Norman Orville Scribner, composer
1937 - Basia Johnson, maid (inherited Johnson and Johnson fortune)
1937 - Bob Schieffer, Austin Tx, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1937 - Tom Courtenay, England, actor (Dresser, Dr Zhivago, To Catch a Spy)
1938 - Diane Baker, Hollywood Calif, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Marnie)
1939 - A C F Verity, master (Dulwich College)
1939 - Marisa Mell, Graz Austria, actress (Masquerade, Casanova '70)
1940 - Jud Taylor, actor (Dr Gerson-Dr Kildare)
1940 - Jes£s Lopez-Cobos, Toro Spain, conductor (Intl Conductor Competition)
1940 - Hector MacKenzie, trade unionist
1940 - George Paul, CEO (Norwich Union Insurance Group)
1940 - Billy Packer, Wellsville NY, basketball sportscaster (CBS)
1941 - Susan Browning, Baldwin NY, actress (Pat-Mary Hartman)
1941 - Stewart Sutherland, Principal/Vice-Chancellor (Edinburgh University)
1941 - Ramon Pagayon Santos, composer
1941 - David Puttnam, London, film producer/CEO (Columbia Pictures)
1943 - George Harrison, rocker (Beatle/Travelling Willberries-My Sweet Lord)
1943 - Maryann Amacher, composer
1943 - Sally Jessy Raphael, TV talk show host (Sally) [or May 25]
1944 - Kristina Holland, Fayetteville NC, (Tina-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1944 - Karen Grassle, Berkeley Ca, actress (Caroline-Little House on Prairie)
1945 - Elkie Brooks, Manchester England, rocker (Pearl's a Singer)
1945 - Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, essayist (Fireflies)
1946 - F Xaver Kroetz, writer
1947 - Lewis Moonie, British MP
1948 - G B Warren, British biochemist
1949 - Lord Sempill
1950 - Rick Flair, [Richard Fliehr], wrestling champ (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
1950 - Neil Jordan, director (Crying Game)
1950 - Emitt Rhodes, musician (Merry-go-Round)
1950 - Anthony Lloyd, British MP
1952 - James A Barcia, (Rep-D-Michigan)
1953 - Garrett Glaser, entertainment correspondent (Entertainment Tonight)
1955 - Leann Hunley, actress (Dane Carrington-Dynasty, Dawson's Creek)
1957 - Stuart "Woody" Wood, Scot, guitarist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
1957 - Jane Ackroyd, British sculptor
1959 - Mike Peters, rocker (Alarm-In the Summertime)
1962 - Foster Emerson Sylvers, rocker
1963 - Alison Roberts, fashion designer
1965 - Carrot Top, [Scott Thompson], Fla, comedian (Amer Comedy Award-1994)
1965 - Veronica Webb, supermodel/actress (Jungle Fever, Malcolm X)
1966 - Tea Leoni, NYC, actress (Flying Blind, Naked Truth)
1966 - Stacey Cortez, actress (Sheila Cantillan-General Hospital)
1967 - Nick Leeson, British banker (Baring bank)
1971 - Sean Astin, LA Calif, actor (Goonies, Toy Soldiers)
1976 - Chris Pitman, rocker (Zaum, Tool)

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February 26

1361 - Wenceslas of Bohemia, Holy Roman Catholic German emperor (1378-1400)
1588 - Nicolaus Erich, composer
1675 - Guillaume Delisle, Paris France, geographer (Atlas G‚ographique)
1675 - Johann Philipp Treiber, composer
1677 - Nicola Fago, composer
1686 - Godefroi L Count d'Estrades, French diplomat
1717 - John Randall, composer
1770 - Antoine Reicha, composer
1772 - Caspar Furstenau, composer
1802 - Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables)
1808 - Honor‚ Daumier, France, painter/lithographer/caricaturist
1824 - Carlos Calvo, Arg diplomat/people rights scholar (Calvo Clause)
1825 - Hans Balatka, composer
1831 - Filippo Marchetti, composer
1832 - John George Nicolay, US, author (Abe Lincoln's biographer)
1834 - Aleksander Zarzycki, composer
1835 - Richard Andree, German geography/etnologist (Andree's Handatlas)
1837 - Charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice
1838 - Wendelin Weissheimer, composer
1841 - Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general (Egypt)
1842 - Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher and popularizer of astronomy
1845 - Aleksander Rozycki, composer
1845 - Alexander III, St Petersburg, Russian tsar (1881-94) (3/10 NS)
1846 - William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Davenport Iowa, killed 4000 buffaloes
1852 - John Harvey Kellogg, surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry
1857 - Emile Cou‚, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion)
1861 - Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18)
1866 - Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical)
1867 - Siegfried Passarge, German geographer (Cameroon/So Afr/America)
1868 - Leonard Borwick, British(?) pianist
1869 - Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin
1873 - Ewoud van Everdingen, Dutch meteorologist
1874 - Carl Vogler, composer
1875 - Emma Dunn, actress (Dr Monica, Dr Kildare's Strange Case, Hideaway)
1875 - Richard Wetz, composer
1876 - Agustin P Justo y Rolon, pres Argentina (1931-38)
1876 - Pauline Musters, smallest man (1'11.2" (58.9 cm))
1877 - Carel S Adama van Scheltema, Dutch poet/writer (socialism)
1877 - Russell Alexander, composer
1879 - Frank Bridge, English violinist/composer/conductor/tutor of B Britten
1882 - Walter Lucht, German artillery general (WW I/WW II)
1883 - Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetism)
1884 - Christina A A [Dina] Koudijs-van Appeldoorn, pianist/composer
1884 - Dina Appeldoorn, composer
1884 - Hildo Krop, Dutch modernistic sculptor
1885 - Lili Green, [Alice Sally Mary], Neth/Eng dancer
1887 - Benegal Narsing Rau, India, pres of UN Security Council (1950)
1891 - Alan Bridge, PA, actor (North of Arizona, Badmen of the Hills)
1893 - Ivor A "I A" Richards, English poet/critic (Meaning of Meaning) [NS]
1893 - William Frawley, Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons)
1896 - Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer
1896 - Andrei A Zjdanov, Russian politician (against kosmopolitism)
1898 - Julien de Valckenaere, Flemish writer
1900 - Jean Negulesco, Craiova Romania, director (Johnny Belinda, Jessica)
1902 - Rudolf Moralt, German conductor (Vienna Philharmonic)
1902 - Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Le Silence de la Mer)
1906 - Nikos Ghika, artist
1906 - Madeleine Carroll, England, actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent)
1908 - Tex Avery, cartoon director (What's up, Doc?)
1909 - Phyllis Fanny Primrose-Pechey Cradock, TV Chef
1911 - Josef Smrkovsky, Czechoslovakia MP chairman
1913 - Jon Hall, Fresno Calif, actor (Ramor of the Jungle)
1913 - Hermann Lenz, writer
1913 - George G Barker, English poet (Calamiterror, Anno Domini)
1914 - Robert Alda, NYC, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand)
1914 - Witold Rowicki, composer
1915 - Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poetess (That Woman and Other Verses)
1915 - Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher
1916 - Mordecai Seter, composer
1917 - Robert Taft Jr, (Sen-R-Oh)
1918 - Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar)
1918 - Otis R Bowen, US Sec of Health and Human Services (1985-89)
1919 - Beppie Nooij, actress/director (Bluejackets-Rooie Sien)
1919 - Luc-Andre Marcel, composer
1919 - Mason Adams, NYC, actor (Charlie Hume-Lou Grant, Deadliest Season)
1920 - Antony Kearey, TV producer
1920 - Tony Randall, [Leonard Rosenberg], Tulsa Ok, actor (Felix-Odd Couple)
1921 - Betty Hutton, Battle Creek Mich, actress (Greatest Show on Earth)
1922 - Margaret Leighton, Birmingham England, actress (Astonished Heart)
1922 - Bill Johnston, cricket pace bowler (mighty Australian lefty post-war)
1924 - Mark Bucci, NYC, composer (1959 Arts and Letters Award)
1924 - Noboru Take****a, Japanese PM (1987-89)
1925 - James Moody, US, jazz saxophonist/orchestra leader
1925 - Frank Henry Copplestone, TV executive
1926 - Arsene Souffriau, composer
1926 - Cynthia Stone, Peoria Ill, actress (That Wonderful Guy, Ad Libbers)
1926 - Konstantin P Feoktistov, Voronezh, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
1927 - Tom Kennedy, Louisville KY, quiz host (You Don't Say, Name That Tune)
1927 - Donald Gramm, Milwaukee Wisconsin, bass-baritone
1928 - Aldonis Kalnins, composer
1928 - Anatoli Vassilyevich Filipchenko, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 16)
1928 - Antione "Fats" Domino, NO LA, rhythm and blues pianist (Blueberry Hill)
1930 - Lazar Berman, Leningrad Russia, pianist (Budapest 3rd place-1956)
1931 - Francisco Kroepfl, composer
1931 - Robert D Novak, Joliet Ill, news reporter (CNN-Evans and Novak)
1932 - Johnny Cash, Kingsland Ark, country singer (I Hear the Train Coming)
1933 - James Goldsmith, Paris France, corporate raider (Referendum Party)
1933 - Godfrey Cambridge, NYC, actor (Cotton comes to Harlem)
1936 - Eduard Ivanovich Buinovski, cosmonaut
1936 - Manmohan Desai, filmmaker
1938 - Jack Knight, Somerville Miss, actor (Mr Shamley-James at 15)
1942 - Adriaan van Dis, author/TV-host (Nathan Sid, In Africa)
1942 - Joop van den Ende, director (Alsmeer Studio)
1943 - Paul Cotton, LA Calif, rocker (Poco)
1943 - Bob van Reeth, Flemish architect
1943 - Bob "Bear" Hite, Calif, vocalist (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country)
1943 - Bill Duke, actor (Bird on a Wire, Predator)
1944 - Marilyn Michaels, comedienne (ABC Comedy Hour)
1945 - Mitch Ryder, rocker (and Detroit Wheels-Devil With the Blue Dress)
1946 - Phyllis Eisenstein, US, sci-fi author (Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile)
1947 - Sandi Shaw, [Sandra Goodrich], Essex, rocker (Girl Don't Come)
1948 - Priscilla Lopez, Bronx NY, actress (In the Beginning, Kay O'Brien)
1949 - Emma Kirkby, British soprano
1950 - Jonathan Cain, Chicago, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Journey, Babys)
1953 - Michael Bolton, rock vocalist (That's What Love Is All About)
1953 - Bree Walker, news anchor (WNBC TV, KNBC TV)
1954 - John Bolger, actor (Capt Gabe McNamara-Another World)
1958 - Susan J Helms, Charlotte NC, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 54, 64, 78)
1958 - Joe Fithian, actor (Tracey Nash-Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1961 - Sophie Winter, actress (She's a Good Fighter)
1965 - Alison Armitage, London England, actress (Acapulco HEAT)
1966 - Jennifer Grant, actress (Celeste-Beverly Hills 90210)
1970 - Meeno Peluce, Amsterdam Netherlands, actor (Bad News Bears)
1970 - Katie O'Neill, LA Calif, actress (Together We Stand)
1971 - Erykah Badu, singer

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February 27

0274 - Constantine I, Great Roman emperor (306-337), adopted Christianity
1539 - Franciscus Raphelengius, Dutch book publisher
1622 - Rembrandt Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter
1649 - Johann Philipp Krieger, composer
1702 - Johann Valentin Gorner, composer
1745 - Silverius Muller, composer
1746 - Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer
1759 - Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer
1784 - Elias Annes Borger, Dutch theologist/poet (To the Rhine)
1784 - Job Plimpton, composer
1792 - Don Joaquin B F Espartero, Spanish adventurer/fieldmarshal
1802 - William George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck, Lord George Bentinck
1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland Maine, poet (Hiawatha)
1811 - [Catherine] Mildred Lee, daughter of US general Robert E Lee
1822 - Eugene Gautier, composer
1823 - Ferdinand Van Derveer, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1823 - William Buel Franklin, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1827 - Richard W Johnson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
1832 - Alfred Pollard Edward, Civil War journalist, died in 1872
1835 - Charles Cartuyvels, Belgian pulprit orator
1835 - Richard Garnett, English author (Ananda the Miracle Worker)
1841 - [Eleanor] Agnes Lee, daughter of US general Robert E Lee
1846 - Joaquin Valverde, composer
1847 - Ellen Alice Terry, Coventry Engl, actress/director (Imperial Theatre)
1848 - Charles Hubert H Parry, England, musicologist/composer (Jerusalem)
1850 - Henry Edwards Huntington, US, railroad exec
1861 - Rudolph Steiner, Kraljevic Aust, founder (doctrine of anthroposophy
1867 - Irving Fisher, US economist (compensating dollar)
1867 - Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, composer
1869 - Alice Hamilton, physician/writer (workmen's compensation laws)
1870 - Louis Coerne, composer
1874 - Max Ettinger, composer
1879 - Jose Sancho Marraco, composer
1881 - Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician
1881 - Sveinn Bj”rnsson, 1st president of Iceland (1944-52)/poet (Figur ild)
1886 - Hugo L Black, Ala, (Sen-D-Ala)/78th Supreme Court justice (1937-71)
1887 - James D Innes, English painter
1888 - Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano (Fidello)
1891 - David Sarnoff, US, radio/TV pioneer/CEO (RCA)
1891 - Georges E Migot, French composer
1892 - William Demarest, St Paul Minn, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons)
1893 - Ralph Linton, US cultural anthropologist (Tree of Culture)
1893 - Joseph Messner, composer
1894 - Robert-Lucien Siohan, composer
1895 - Edward Brophy, actor (Champ, Dumbo, Great Guy, Cameraman, Doughboys)
1897 - Bernard F Lyot, French astronomer (Lyot filter)
1897 - G Paul H Schuitema, graphic designer/photographer (System-O-Color)
1898 - Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer
1898 - Allison Danzig, sports writer (Tennis Pictorial History)
1899 - Charles H Best, Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer (Insulin)
1899 - Ian Keith, Boston MA, actor (Rochefort-3 Musketeers)
1899 - Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer
1901 - Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter
1902 - John Steinbeck, Salinas Calif, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962)
1903 - Reginald Gardiner, Wimbledon England, actor (Great Dictator)
1904 - James Thomas Farrell, US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy)
1904 - Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor/director (Innocent Heart)
1905 - Franchot Tone, Niagara Falls NY, actor (Dr Freeland-Ben Casey)
1905 - Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye)
1906 - H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold, English diplomat (S Africa/Tibet)
1907 - Gerhard Alexander, [Veldheer], Dutch actor (Prince Willem of Orange)
1909 - Elisabeth Welch, singer (Song of Freedom, Over the Moon)
1910 - Peter De Vries, Chicago, author (Reuben Reuben, ***** of Noon)
1910 - Joan Bennett, Palasades NJ, actress (Little Women, Disraeli)
1912 - Hugues Panassi‚, French jazz saxophonist/author (Hot Club of France)
1912 - Lawrence Durrell, Darjeeling India, writer (Alexandria Quartet)
1913 - Frank Allaun, British MP (L)
1913 - Irwin Shaw, US, novelist (Rich Man Poor Man)
1915 - Arthur Gilson, Belgian attorney/minister of Defense (1958-..)
1917 - John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), shot in Kennedy motorcade
1919 - Lawrence Durrell, writer
1919 - Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, composer
1920 - David Vere Bendall, former diplomat
1920 - Jose Melis, Havana Cuba, orch leader (Jack Paar Program)
1921 - Michael Fox, US, actor (Quincy, Dallas, Bold and the Beautiful)
1921 - Andras Szollosy, composer
1922 - Mervyn Jones, author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers)
1923 - Dexter Gordon, US, tenor saxophonist/actor (Connection)
1923 - Viktor Kalabis, composer
1924 - M M Shearer, former Lord Lieutenant of Shetland
1925 - Hugh Leggatt, art dealer
1925 - Michael Kaye, director (City of London Festival)
1925 - Richard AFM Auwerda, Dutch journalist/writer
1926 - Peter Emery, British MP
1927 - Michael Butler, Pro-Provost/chairman (Royal College of Art)
1927 - Lord Belhaven and Stenton
1927 - Guy Mitchell, [Al Cernick], Detroit Mich, rocker/actor (Red Garters)
1930 - Joanne Woodward, Thomasville Ga, actress (3 Faces of Eve, Rachel)
1930 - Lieux Dressler, actress (Alice Grant-General Hospital)
1931 - Andrew Sloan, Chief Constable (Strathcourt)
1932 - Lord Young of Graffham, CEO (Cables and Wireless)
1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, London, actress (Cleopatra) violet eyes
1932 - Dolf Zwerver, Dutch painter
1933 - 6th marquess of Bute, Scottish large landowner/bibliophile
1933 - Edward Lucie-Smith, poetry critic
1933 - Geoffrey Maitland Smith, CEO (Sears)
1933 - Malcolm Wallop, (Sen-R-WY, 1977- )
1934 - Van Williams, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon)
1934 - Ralph Nader, Winsted Conn, consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed)
1935 - Alberto Remedios, opera/concert singer
1935 - Mirella Freni, Modena Italy, lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly)
1936 - Virginia Maskell, actress (Suspect, Doctor in Love, Man Upstairs)
1936 - Timothy Spall, actor (1871, Life is Sweet, Crusoe, Remembrance)
1936 - Roger M Mahoney, Hollywood Ca, archbishop of Los Angeles (1985- )
1936 - Chuck Glaser, Spalding Neb, singer (Glaser Bros-Getting to Me Again)
1937 - Barbara Bab****, Pasadena CA, actr (Dr Quinn, Dallas, Hill St Blues)
1937 - Donald MacKay, CEO (Scottish Enterprise)
1937 - Viscount Head
1938 - Pascale Petit, PAris, actor (Code Name: Jaguar, End of Desire)
1939 - Kenzo Takada, Japanese director (Dream After Dream)
1939 - Antoinette Sibley, ballerina (Turning Point)
1940 - Barbara Kelly, CEO (Scottish Consumer Council)
1940 - Howard Hesseman, Salem Or, actor (Dr Johnny Fever-WKRP, Head of Class)
1941 - Paddy Ashton, New Delhi India, British MP (Soc/Lib Democrat)
1941 - Ian McGarry, general secretary (British Actors' Equity Association)
1942 - Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West SC, news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer)
1943 - Mary Frann, St Louis Mo, actress (Joanna-Newhart, Days of Our Live)
1944 - Alan Fudge, Wichita Ks, actor (Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls)
1944 - Roger Scruton, philosopher
1945 - Daniel Olbrychski, Poland, actor (La Truite)
1947 - Gidon Kremer, Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970)
1947 - Marian G Klaren, Dutch mime/actress (Red Cabbage)
1948 - Eddie Gray, rock guitarist (Tommy James and Shondells-Crystal Blue)
1948 - Stephen Curtis, CEO (DVLA)
1950 - Julia Neuberger, British Rabbi
1950 - Franco Moschino, fashion Designer
1951 - Lee Atwater, Republican National Committee Chairman (1989-91)
1951 - Steve Harley, rocker (Come Up and See Me)
1952 - Henk Westbroek, Dutch singer (Good Cause)
1952 - Kevin Raleigh, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Michael Stanley Band)
1954 - Neal Schon, rock guitarist (Journey-Open Arms, Bad English)
1955 - Garry Christian, rocker
1955 - Sally Spencer, actress (M J McKinnon-Another World)
1957 - Adrian Smith, heavy metal guitarist (Iron Maiden-Aces High)
1960 - Stoney Jackson, Richmond Va, actor (White Shadow, Insiders)
1960 - Paul Humphreys, rock synthesizer (OMD-Crush, Pacific Age)
1960 - Bolik Dahan, Suriname singer/radio host (Radio KBC)
1961 - Grant Shaud, actor (Miles Silverburg-Murphy Brown)
1962 - Grant Show, Detroit Mich, actor (Jack Hanson-Melrose Place)
1962 - Adam Baldwin, actor (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard)
1964 - Ewen Vernal, British pop bassist (Deacon Blue-Your Town)
1966 - Gregg Rainwater, actor (Buck Cross-Young Riders)
1973 - "Pooh" Clark, rocker (High-5)
1975 - Christina Nigra, actress (Out of This World)
1980 - Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Clinton (1993-2001)

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February 28

1533 - Michel de Montaigne, France, essayist/philosopher
1552 - Jobst B�rgi, [Justus Byrgius], Swiss/German mathematician
1573 - Elias Hill, German architect/city builder (Augsburg)
1616 - Kaspar Forster, composer
1632 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Florence Italy, composer
1663 - Thomas Newcomen, English co-inventor (steam engine)
1683 - Ren‚-Antoine de R‚aumur, France, biologist/engineer
1690 - Aleksei P Romanov, Russia, son of Peter the Great
1712 - Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-V‚ran, France, general
1747 - Justin Morgan, composer
1750 - Ignacy Potocki, Polish foreign minister
1764 - Robert Haldane, Scottish theologist/philanthropist
1771 - French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter
1786 - D Fran‡ois J Arago, French astronomer/physicist/politician
1792 - Henriette ALF countess d'Oultremont de W‚gimont, wife of King Willem I
1792 - Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist
1797 - W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral (10 day campaign)
1797 - Mary Lyon, US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame)
1799 - Johann von D”llinger, German Old Catholic theologian/historian
1810 - Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian
1812 - Berthold Auerbach, German author (Schwarzw„lder Dorfgeschichten)
1817 - James Craig, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1820 - John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland)
1822 - Matthew Duncan Ector, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1823 - Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion
1824 - Charles Blondin, France, acrobat/aerialist
1824 - John Creed Moore, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1825 - Quincy Adams Gillmore, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1833 - Alfred von Schlieffen, Count/Prussian general-fieldmarshal
1850 - Hermann Schell, German theologist/philosopher (Gott und Geist)
1854 - Juliusz Zarebski, composer
1857 - Gustave Adolph Kerker, composer
1858 - Jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist (founder NV Royal Salt Industries)
1865 - Arthur Symons, Welsh poet/critic/co-founder (Savoy)
1865 - Wilfred Grenfell, England, medical missionary
1866 - Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [OS=2/16]
1874 - Soledad Jiminez, Santander Spain, actor (Phantom ofthe Range)
1875 - Viliam Figus, composer
1876 - John Alden Carpenter, Chicago Illinois, composer (Sea Drift)
1877 - Sergei Bortkiewicz, composer
1882 - Richard Heinrich Stein, composer
1882 - Jos‚ Vasconcelos, Oaxaca M‚xico, politician/essayist/philosopher
1882 - Geraldine Farrar, US soprano/actress (Story of American Singer)
1886 - Jos‚ Guti‚rrez Solana, Spanish painter/author (Madrid Escenas)
1886 - Max Vasmer, German slavic (La Tertulia de Pombo)
1887 - William Zorach, Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance)
1889 - Victor Sutherland, Paducah KY, actor (Captive City)
1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer (3/12 NS)
1893 - Ben Hecht, NYC, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page)
1895 - Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit)
1895 - Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire)
1896 - Philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician (cortisone-Nobel)
1898 - Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk and Honey)
1899 - Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist
1900 - Laura Z Hobson, writer
1901 - Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker (Nobel 1954, 1962)
1901 - Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen)
1905 - Glyn Jones, writer
1906 - Bugsy Siegel, gangster created casinos in Las Vegas
1907 - Milton Caniff, Hillsboro Ohio, Dutch cartoonist (Terry and Pirates)
1909 - Olan Soule, La Harpe Ill, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie)
1909 - Stephen Harold Spender, Engld, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness)
1910 - Roman Maciejewski, composer
1910 - Vincente Minnelli, Chicago IL, director (American in Paris, Gigi)
1911 - Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Njanji Sunji)
1912 - Helmut Coing, German lawyer/director (Max-Planck-institute)
1914 - Jim Boles, Lubbock Tx, actor (Joe-One Man's Family)
1915 - Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist (Nobel 1953)
1915 - Zero "Samuel" Mostel, Brooklyn, actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
1917 - Hans Deutgen, Sweden, world champion archer
1918 - Alfred Burke, London England, actor (Backfire)
1920 - Edward Kassner, music publisher
1920 - Jim Olin, (Rep-D-VA, 1983- )
1920 - Marjorie M Sweeting, English geomorphologist
1921 - Vladimir Sommer, composer
1921 - John Bouber, , actor/author (Fool of Heideloo)
[B]1923 - Charles Durning, Highland Falls NY, actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie)
1924 - Robert A Roe, (Rep-D-NJ, 1969- )
1925 - Harry H Corbett, Rangoon Burma, actor (Steptoe and Son, Jabberwacky)
1926 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin/author (My Life)
1926 - Stanley Glasser, composer
1926 - Seymour Shifrin, composer
1927 - Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer
1927 - John Swire, British aircraft magnate (Cathay Pacific)
1928 - Tom Aldredge, Dayton OH, actor (What About Bob, Nurse, Mind Snatchers)
1928 - Smokey The Bear
1928 - Bettye Ackerman, Cottageville SC, actress (Maggie Graham-Ben Casey)
1929 - Frank O Gehry, architect (Galleria-Okla City)
1930 - Leon Cooper, US physicist (Nobel 1972)
1931 - Jack Thieuloy, writer
1931 - Gavin MacLeod, Mt Kisco NY, actor (Murray-Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat)
1932 - Don Francks, Vancouver, actor (Terminal Choice, Finian's Rainbow)
1934 - Willie Bobo, NYC, jazz drummer (Cos)
1938 - Martin Olav Sabo, (Rep-D-MN, 1979- )
1939 - Tommy Tune, Wichita Falls Tx, dancer/choreographer (Boyfriend)
1939 - John Fahey, singer (Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death)
1940 - Joe South, Atlanta, guitarist/songwriter/singer (Games People Play)
1941 - Marty Sanders, rock vocalist
1941 - Alice May Brock, author
1942 - Brian Jones, rock guitarist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
1942 - Frank Bonner, Little Rock AR, actor (WKRP, Hoax, You Can't Hurry Love)
1943 - Hans F Dijkstal, Dutch minister of the Interior (VVD, 1994-)
1943 - Donny Iris, singer
1943 - Barbara Acklin, [Allen], Chicago, RandB singer (Love Makes a Woman)
1944 - Colin Nutley, director/writer (Such is Life, Black Jack)
1944 - Kelly Bishop, CO, actress (Unmarried Woman, Advice to Lovelorn)
1945 - Mimsy Farmer, Chicago Ill, actress (Devil's Angel, Road to Salina)
1945 - Ronnie Rosman, rocker (Tommy James Shondells-Crystal Blue Persuasion)
1947 - Stephanie Beacham, England, (Devil's Widow, Schizo, Dallas, Colbys)
1948 - Bernadette Peters, [Lazzara], Queens NY, actress (Jerk)
1948 - Mercedes Ruehl, Queens NY, actress (Lost in Yonkers, Crazy People)
1950 - Stephen Chatman, composer
1950 - Ilene Graff, Bkln NY, actress (Marsha-Mr Belvedere)
1952 - Jennie Lynn, San Diego Calif, actress (Love and Marriage)
1952 - Eddie Manion, saxophonist
1952 - Cristina Raines, [Tina Herazo], Manila Phil, actress (Sentinel)
1953 - Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, [Richard Blood], wrestler (NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA)
1955 - Gilbert Gottfried, comedian (Beverly Hills Cop)
1955 - Randy Jackson, New Orleans, guitarist (Zebra-Tell Me What You Want)
1957 - Phil Gould, rock percussionist (Level 42-Hot Water)
1957 - John Turturro, Bkln, actor (Brain Donor, Color of Money, Jungle Fever)
1957 - Ian Stanley, keyboardist
1957 - Cindy Wilson, Athens Georgia, rock vocalist (B-52's-Love Shack)
1959 - Sydney P Mufamadi, South African leader (SACP)
1962 - Rae Dawn Chong, Edmonton Alberta, actress (Quest for Fire)
1967 - Marcus Lillington, rock guitarist (Breathe-All I Need)
1969 - Robert Sean Leonard, NJ, actor (Dead Poets Society, Mr and Mrs Bridge)
1969 - Elisa Fiorillo, singer (Forgive Me For Dreaming)
1971 - John Buchanan, actor (Sidekicks, Black Stallion, Family Man)
1974 - Michael Manasseri, actor (License to Drive)

[super cool ski instructor]

Woo-Hoo!! I share a birthday with teh Captain from the Love Boat!!!!!

[Gaby77]

Woo-Hoo!! I share a birthday with teh Captain from the Love Boat!!!!!

And a Dutch Historian. There's hope for you yet. :))

[JimGP20]

Woo-Hoo!! I share a birthday with teh Captain from the Love Boat!!!!!


... and Gilbert Gottfried... :))

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February 29

1468 - Paul III, last Renaissance pope (1534-49)
1692 - Edward Cave, England, printer (Gentlemen's Magazine)
1696 - Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer
1728 - Robert Bage, English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner)
1736 - Anna Lee, Manchester England, founder (Shaker movement in America)
1784 - Franz KL von Klenze, German architect (Hermitage, St-Petersburg)
1792 - Gioacchino Rossini, Pesaro Italy, composer (Barber of Seville)
1792 - Karl Ernst von Baler, Russia, naturalist (discovered human ovum)
1796 - [Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet, Belgian astronomer/meteorology
1799 - Augustus Callcott, landscape painter, Kensington
1812 - Hermann Hirschboch, German composer
1820 - Adolf Schimon, composer
1828 - Antonio Guzman Blanco, president Venezuela
1840 - John Philip Holland, Liscannor Ireland, pioneer in submarine building
1852 - Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer
1860 - Herman Hollerith, inventor (1st electric tabulating machine)
1869 - W E B DuBois, famous African
1884 - Alfred Sendrey, composer
1890 - John Philip Holland, father of modern submarine
1896 - Omer C F L Tulippe, Belgian geographer
1896 - Ranchhodji Morarji Desai, premier of India (1977-79)
1896 - Stanley Swash, CEO (Woolworths)
1896 - William W Wellman, Brookline Mass, director (Star is Born)
1896 - Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer
1900 - Y¢rgos Sef‚ris, [Seferi dis], Greek diplomat/poet (Strofi)
1900 - Edna Swithenbank Manley, Jamaican sculptor, wife of PM
1904 - Alan Richardson, composer
1904 - Jimmy Dorsey, Shenandoah Pa, orch leader (Stage Show)
1908 - Balthus, painter (Valerie)
1920 - James Mitchell, Sacramento Calif, actor (Palmer-All My Children)
1920 - Arthur Franz, Perth Amboy NJ, actor (Invaders From Mars, Young Lions)
1924 - David Beattie, British governor-general of NZ
1924 - Otto Hutter, physiologist
1928 - Alan Loveday, British violinist
1928 - Joss Ackland, London England, actor (Queenie, To Kill a Priest)
1928 - McHenry Boatwright, signer
1936 - Jack R Lousma, Grand Rapids Mich, Col USMC/astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-3)
1936 - Alex Rocco, actor (Blue Knight, Stanley, Stunt Man)
1940 - Gretchen Christopher, British pop singer
1944 - David Briggs, record producer
1944 - Dennis Farina, Chicago Ill, actor (Mike Torello-Crime Story)
1944 - Phyllis Frelich, Devil's Lake ND, actor (Love is Never Silent)
1948 - Patricia [Anne] McKillip, US, sci-fi author (Fool's Run)
1952 - Bart Stupak, (Rep-D-Michigan)
1952 - Timothy Powers, US, sci-fi author (Epitaph in Rust, Night Moves)
1955 - Randy Jackson, rocker (Zebra-I Don't Know, I Don't Care)
1964 - James RB Ogilvy, son of English princess Alexandra
1972 - Antonio Sabato Jr, actor (Jagger Cates-General Hospital)

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March 1

0772 - Po Tjiu-i, Chinese poet/governor of Hang-tsjow
1456 - Wladyslaw Jagiello, king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516)
1494 - Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter
1528 - Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, [the Generous], duke of Bavaria
1607 - Giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer
1610 - Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian
1630 - Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter, baptized
1690 - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer
1703 - Dieudonne Raick, composer
1709 - Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer
1711 - Peregrinus Pogl, composer
1734 - Pieter Valck[x], South Netherland sculptor
1771 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer
1779 - Jacob Gottfried Weber, composer
1780 - L‚onard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-general of Neth Indies (1826-30)
1788 - Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician
1799 - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer
1810 - Fr‚d‚ric Chopin, Poland, composer/pianist (Concert in F Minor) [NS]
1811 - Robert Christie Buchanan, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1878
1820 - Richard Redhead, composer
1820 - George Davis, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1896
1822 - Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1822 - Charles Champion Gilbert, Brig General (Union volunteers)
1826 - John Thomas, composer
1828 - Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugell