| Birthday |
Name |
|
| 1805-02-01 |
Auguste Blanqui |
French revolutionary workers leader |
| 1859-02-01 |
Victor Herbert |
composer |
| 1882-02-01 |
Louis St. Laurent |
L 12th Canadian prime minister 1948-57 |
| 2/1/1901 |
Clark Gable |
didnt give a damn about Scarlet OHara |
| 2/1/1902 |
Langston Hughes |
poet & translator The Weary Blues |
| 2/1/1904 |
S.J. Perelman |
author & humorist |
| 2/1/1915 |
Sir Stanley Matthews |
1st British soccer player to be knighted |
| 2/1/1918 |
Muriel Spark |
Scottish novelist |
| 2/1/1935 |
Vladimir V. Aksyonov |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 22 & T-2 |
| 2/1/1968 |
Lisa Marie Presley |
Elvis daughter |
| 1754-02-02 |
Talleyrand |
French statesman & diplomat |
| 1859-02-02 |
Havelock Ellis |
American physician & sex researcher |
| 1875-02-02 |
Fritz Kreisler |
Austrian virtuoso violinist & composer |
| 1882-02-02 |
James Joyce |
Irish novelist & poet Dubliners & Ulysses |
| 1895-02-02 |
George S. Halas Papa Bear |
end & coach for Chicago Bears |
| 2/2/1901 |
Jascha Heifetz |
violin virtuoso |
| 2/2/1920 |
Dr. An Wang |
founder of Wang Laboratories |
| 2/2/1923 |
James Dickey |
writer |
| 2/2/1926 |
Valery Giscard dEstaing |
president of France 1974-81 |
| 2/2/1928 |
Elaine Stritch |
Actress |
| 2/2/1937 |
Martina Arroyo |
Opera singer |
| 2/2/1937 |
Tom Smothers |
comedian |
| 2/2/1946 |
Tricia Nixon Cox |
daughter of Richard Milhaus or 0221 |
| 2/2/1947 |
Farrah Fawcett-Major |
in Texas–Charlies Angels |
| 1809-02-03 |
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy |
composer |
| 1811-02-03 |
Horace Greeley |
editor told young men to go west |
| 1821-02-03 |
Elizabeth Blackwell |
1st woman to get MD from a US Medical school |
| 1830-02-03 |
Robert Cecil |
Marquess of Salisbury C & British P.M. 1885-1902 |
| 1842-02-03 |
Sidney Lanier |
poet |
| 1874-02-03 |
Gertrude Stein |
beloved by Hemmingway |
| 1894-02-03 |
Norman Rockwell |
artist Saturday Evening Post covers |
| 2/3/1907 |
James A. Mitchner |
U.S. writer South Pacific & Hawaii & Space |
| 2/3/1918 |
Joey Bishop |
comedian |
| 2/3/1926 |
Shelley Berman |
comedian |
| 2/3/1932 |
Peggy Ann Garner |
in Canton Ohio |
| 2/3/1940 |
Fran Tarkenton |
NFL quarterback Minnesota Vikings |
| 2/3/1943 |
Blythe Danner |
in Philadelphia |
| 2/3/1944 |
Bridget Handley |
in Budapest |
| 2/3/1947 |
Melanie Safka |
singer & songwriter |
| 2/3/1950 |
Morgan Fairchild |
in Dallas Texas |
| 1875-02-04 |
Ludwig Prandtl |
German physicist & father of aerodynamics |
| 2/4/1902 |
Charles A. Lindbergh |
Lucky Lindy 1st to fly solo across Atlantic |
| 2/4/1906 |
Clyde Tombaugh |
discoverer of Pluto |
| 2/4/1912 |
Erich Leinsdorf |
musical conductor or 0203 |
| 2/4/1918 |
Ida Lupino |
Actress |
| 2/4/1921 |
Betty Friedan |
feminist & writer The Feminine Mystique |
| 2/4/1923 |
Conrad Bain |
Actor |
| 2/4/1931 |
Isabel Peron |
Argentine president |
| 2/4/1935 |
Martti Talvela |
Finnish operatic basso |
| 2/4/1943 |
Cheryl Miller |
in Sherman Oaks |
| 2/4/1944 |
Florence LaRue |
in Gordon Pennsylvania & one of 5th Dimension |
| 2/4/1948 |
Alice Cooper |
singer |
| 2/4/1950 |
Pamela Franklin |
|
| 2/4/1952 |
Lisa Eichhorn |
|
| 2/4/1959 |
Lawrence Taylor |
NY Giants linebacker |
| 2/4/1960 |
Pamela Ferdin |
|
| 1723-02-05 |
John Witherspoon |
clergyman & signer of Declaration of Independence |
| 1744-02-05 |
John Jeffries |
colonial physician & meteorologist |
| 1778-02-05 |
Sir Robert Peel |
C British P.M. 1834-46 & founder of Tories |
| 1837-02-05 |
Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody |
| 1840-02-05 |
John Boyd Dunlop |
developed pneumatic rubber tire |
| 1848-02-05 |
Belle Starr |
of the wild west |
| 1878-02-05 |
Andre-Gustave Citron |
French auto maker |
| 2/5/1900 |
Adlai Stevenson |
D Ill gov & pres candidate |
| 2/5/1906 |
John Carradine |
Actor |
| 2/5/1907 |
Norton Simon |
business executive |
| 2/5/1914 |
William Burroughs |
U.S. novelist Naked Lunch |
| 2/5/1919 |
Red Buttons |
comedian/Actor |
| 2/5/1926 |
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger |
publisher NY Times |
| 2/5/1934 |
Hank Aaron |
baseball player record 755 HRs |
| 2/5/1939 |
Jane Bryant Quinn |
newscaster |
| 2/5/1946 |
Charlotte Rampling |
in England |
| 2/5/1948 |
Barbara Hershey |
in Atlanta Georgia |
| 2/5/1951 |
Elizabeth Swados |
American composer & playwright |
| 1637-02-06 |
Toyotomi Hideyoshi |
unifier of Japan |
| 1665-02-06 |
Queen Anne of England |
1702-14 |
| 1756-02-06 |
Aaron Burr |
D-R 3rd US VP 1801-05 & dueler |
| 1885-02-06 |
George Herman Babe Ruth |
baseball great |
| 2/6/1902 |
Louis Nizer |
lawyer & author |
| 2/6/1911 |
Ronald Reagan |
R Actor & 40th US pres 1981-89 |
| 2/6/1919 |
Zsa Zsa Gabor |
in Budapest |
| 2/6/1931 |
Rip Torn |
Actor |
| 2/6/1932 |
Francois Truffaut |
French director Jules & Jim & Fahrenheit 451 |
| 2/6/1933 |
Mamie Van Doren |
in Rowena SD |
| 2/6/1940 |
Tom Brokaw |
newscaster NBC |
| 2/6/1943 |
Fabian |
singer |
| 2/6/1945 |
Bob Marley |
reggae musician |
| 2/6/1948 |
Barbara Hancock |
in Atlanta |
| 2/6/1950 |
Natalie Cole |
in Los Angeles |
| 1478-02-07 |
Sir Thomas More |
lawyer & lord chancellor of England & saint |
| 1804-02-07 |
John Deere |
pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements |
| 1812-02-07 |
Charles Dickens |
novelist Oliver Twist & Tale of Two Cities |
| 1817-02-07 |
Frederick Douglas |
1st black to hold high rank in US government |
| 1824-02-07 |
William Higgins |
discoverer of nature of spiral “nebulae |
| 1870-02-07 |
Alfred Adler |
Austrian psychiatrist |
| 1877-02-07 |
Godfrey H. Hardy |
English number theorist |
| 1883-02-07 |
Eubie Blake |
composer Im Just Wild About Harry & Memories of You |
| 1885-02-07 |
Sinclair Lewis |
novelist & social critic Main Street Nobel 1930 |
| 2/7/1905 |
Ulf Svante von Euler |
Swedish physiologist Nobel 1970 |
| 2/7/1908 |
Buster Crabbe |
Olympic swimmer & Actor Flash Gordon & Buck Rogers |
| 2/7/1920 |
Eddie Bracken |
Actor |
| 2/7/1932 |
Alfred M. Worden |
U.S. astronaut Apollo 15 |
| 1612-02-08 |
Samuel Butler |
English poet & satirist Hudibras |
| 1819-02-08 |
John Ruskin |
writer & critic & artist & Gothic Revivalist |
| 1820-02-08 |
William Tecumseh Sherman |
Civil War general “War is hell” |
| 1828-02-08 |
Jules Verne |
in France–pioneered sci-fi From the Earth to the Moon |
| 1885-02-08 |
Dame Edith Evans |
|
| 2/8/1906 |
Chester F Carlson |
invented xerography xeroxing |
| 2/8/1914 |
Gypsy Rose Lee |
in Seattle Washington & the stripper |
| 2/8/1920 |
Lana Turner |
Actress in Wallace Idaho |
| 2/8/1925 |
Jack Lemmon |
Actor Days of Wine & Roses & Missing |
| 2/8/1931 |
James Dean |
stage & film Actor Giant & Rebel Without a Cause |
| 2/8/1940 |
Ted Koppel |
newscaster ABC |
| 2/8/1949 |
Brook Adams |
Actress |
| 2/8/1968 |
Gary Coleman |
Actor |
| 1773-02-09 |
William Henry Harrison |
9th President March 4-April 4 1841 |
| 1866-02-09 |
George Ade |
American journalist & playwright & humorist |
| 1874-02-09 |
Amy Lowell |
American critic & Imagist poet Patterns |
| 2/9/1909 |
Dean Rusk |
former Sec of State |
| 2/9/1914 |
Bill Veeck |
baseball club owner |
| 2/9/1914 |
Carmen Miranda |
singer |
| 2/9/1914 |
Ernest Tubb |
singer Im Walking the Floor over You |
| 2/9/1923 |
Brendan Behan |
Irish author The Hostage |
| 2/9/1923 |
Kathryn Grayson |
|
| 2/9/1928 |
Roger Mudd |
newscaster |
| 2/9/1942 |
Carole King |
in Brooklyn NY singing about her tapestry |
| 2/9/1945 |
Mia Farrow |
Actress Rosemarys Baby LA |
| 2/9/1950 |
Andrew N. Meltzoff |
developmental psychologist |
| 2/9/1950 |
Judith Light |
in Trenton NJ – Whos the Boss |
| 1775-02-10 |
Charles Lamb |
English critic & poet & essayist |
| 1868-02-10 |
William Allen White |
editor |
| 1890-02-10 |
Boris Pasternak |
Russian novelist & poet Dr. Zhivago Nobel 1958 |
| 1893-02-10 |
Jimmy Durante |
comedian |
| 1893-02-10 |
William Bill Tilden |
tennis player |
| 1894-02-10 |
Harold Macmillan |
C British Prime Minister 1957-63 |
| 1898-02-10 |
Bertolt Brecht |
German playwright Mother Courage |
| 1898-02-10 |
Dame Judith Anderson |
Actress |
| 2/10/1910 |
Dominique Pire |
Belgian educator & aided WW II refugees Nobel 1958 |
| 2/10/1914 |
Larry Adler |
Actor |
| 2/10/1922 |
Harold Hughes |
ex-Governor of New Jersey |
| 2/10/1922 |
Neva Patterson |
|
| 2/10/1923 |
Cesare Siepi |
Italian basso |
| 2/10/1927 |
Leontyne Price |
operatic soprano |
| 2/10/1930 |
Robert Wagner |
Actor Hart to Hart |
| 2/10/1939 |
Singer Roberta Flack |
in North Carolina |
| 2/10/1944 |
Peter Allen |
singer |
| 2/10/1950 |
Mark Spitz |
U.S. Olympic swimmer |
| 1833-02-11 |
Melville Weston Fuller |
8th chief justice & U.S. Supreme Court |
| 1839-02-11 |
J. Willard Gibbs |
theoretical physicist & chemist |
| 1847-02-11 |
Thomas Alva Edison |
NJ lit up your life held 1200 patents |
| 1898-02-11 |
Leo Szilard |
Hungarian physicist & A-bomb worker & peace activist |
| 2/11/1904 |
Sir Keith Holyoake |
New Zealand prime minister 1960-72 |
| 2/11/1909 |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
film writer & director |
| 2/11/1909 |
Max Baer |
boxer |
| 2/11/1921 |
Eva Gabor |
Budapest & Actress Green Acres |
| 2/11/1921 |
Lloyd Bentsen |
D U.S. senator from Texas |
| 2/11/1925 |
Dr Virginia E. Johnson |
sexologist of Masters & Johnson |
| 2/11/1925 |
Kim Stanley |
Actress in New Mexico |
| 2/11/1934 |
Mary Quant |
in England |
| 2/11/1934 |
Tina Louise |
NYC & Actress Gilligans Island |
| 2/11/1936 |
Burt Reynolds |
Actor Deliverance & The End & Smokey & the Bandit |
| 2/11/1941 |
Sergio Mendes |
jazz musician Brazil 66 & 77 & 88 |
| 1746-02-12 |
Thaddeus Kosciusko |
Polish patriot |
| 1775-02-12 |
Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams |
wife of John Quincy Adams |
| 1809-02-12 |
Abraham Lincoln |
R |
| 1809-02-12 |
Charles Darwin |
Evolutionist–Shrewsbury |
| 1880-02-12 |
John L. Lewis |
leader of United Mine Workers of America |
| 1893-02-12 |
General of Army Omar Bradley |
GI General |
| 2/12/1915 |
Lorne Greene |
Actor Ben Cartwright on Bonanza in Canada |
| 2/12/1919 |
Forrest Tucker |
Actor |
| 2/12/1923 |
Franco Zefferelli |
motion picture director |
| 2/12/1926 |
Joe Garagiola |
baseball player & announcer |
| 2/12/1934 |
Bill Russell |
basketball player & coach |
| 2/12/1936 |
Joe Don Baker |
Actor |
| 2/12/1938 |
Judy Blume |
author |
| 2/12/1945 |
Maud Adams |
Actress in Sweden |
| 1542-02-13 |
Catherine Howard |
5th wife of Henry VIII |
| 1682-02-13 |
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta |
Venetian painter |
| 1764-02-13 |
Talleyrand |
in France–statesman |
| 1805-02-13 |
D Field |
lawyer whose advocacy of law codification had intl effects |
| 1805-02-13 |
David Dudley Field |
lawyer & law codifier |
| 1805-02-13 |
Peter Dirichlet |
German number theorist & analysist |
| 1849-02-13 |
Randolph Churchill |
English politician & father of William |
| 1885-02-13 |
Bess Truman |
married to President Harry Truman |
| 1886-02-13 |
Ricardo Guiraldes |
Argentine novelist & poet Don Segundo Sombra |
| 1892-02-13 |
Grant Wood |
painted American Gothic |
| 2/13/1903 |
Georges Simenon |
Belgian mystery writer The Snow Was Black |
| 2/13/1919 |
Tennessee Ernie Ford |
singer |
| 2/13/1920 |
Eileen Farrell |
in Willimantic Conn |
| 2/13/1931 |
Dorothy McGuirre |
of McGuirre sisters |
| 2/13/1933 |
Emanuel Ungaro |
fashion designer |
| 2/13/1936 |
George Segal |
Actor & banjo player |
| 2/13/1937 |
Sigmund JΓÇ₧hn |
1st German space traveler on board Soyuz 31 |
| 2/13/1939 |
Valeri I. Rozhdestvensky |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 23 |
| 2/13/1942 |
Carol Lynley |
Actress born in NYC |
| 2/13/1944 |
Stockard Channing |
in New York |
| 1766-02-14 |
Thomas Malthus |
population expert |
| 1856-02-14 |
Frank Harris |
English journalist & writer My Life & Loves |
| 1859-02-14 |
George Washington Ferris |
engineer invented Ferris Wheel |
| 1894-02-14 |
Benny Kubelski |
aka Jack Benny |
| 2/14/1912 |
Edmund George Love |
American teacher & historian & author |
| 2/14/1913 |
James Pike |
bishop |
| 2/14/1913 |
Jimmy Hoffa |
Teamsters leader who disappeared |
| 2/14/1913 |
Mel Allen |
voice of the Yankees |
| 2/14/1931 |
Phyllis McGuirre |
of McGuirre sisters |
| 2/14/1934 |
Florence Henderson |
in Indiana — keeps Brady Bunch in line |
| 2/14/1944 |
Carl Bernstein |
investigative reporter Watergate |
| 2/14/1947 |
Pham Tuan |
1st Vietnamese space traveler on board Soyuz 37 |
| 2/14/1949 |
Ewa Aulin |
|
| 1483-02-15 |
Babur |
founder of Mughal dynasty in India 1526-30 |
| 1497-02-15 |
Philipp Melanchthon |
German Protestant reformer |
| 1519-02-15 |
Pedro Menendez de Aviles |
explored Florida & founded St. Augustine |
| 1564-02-15 |
Galileo Galilei |
astronomer in Pisa — Italy |
| 1710-02-15 |
Louis XV |
king of France 1710-74 |
| 1726-02-15 |
Abraham Clark |
farmer/lawyer & signer of Declaration of Independence |
| 1748-02-15 |
Jeremy Bentham |
Utilitarian philosopher & economist |
| 1797-02-15 |
Henry Engelhard Steinway |
piano maker |
| 1803-02-15 |
John Augustus Sutter |
of gold rush fame |
| 1809-02-15 |
Cyrus Hall McCormick |
inventor |
| 1820-02-15 |
Susan B Anthony |
Womans suffragette |
| 1845-02-15 |
Elihu Root |
R |
| 1861-02-15 |
Alfred North Whitehead |
mathematician & philosopher |
| 1882-02-15 |
John Barrymore |
Actor or 0215 |
| 2/15/1901 |
Christmas Humphreys |
British lawyer & writer & Buddhist |
| 2/15/1907 |
Cesar Romero |
Actor Oceans 11 |
| 2/15/1911 |
Leonard Woodcock |
labor leader |
| 2/15/1914 |
Kevin McCarthy |
Actor Invasion of the Body Snatchers & Howling |
| 2/15/1927 |
Harvey Korman |
Actor Carol Burnett Show & Blazing Saddles |
| 2/15/1929 |
James Schlesinger |
former U.S. secretary of defense |
| 2/15/1931 |
Claire Bloom |
Actress Charly Look Back in Anger in London England |
| 2/15/1933 |
Susan Brownmiller |
|
| 2/15/1934 |
Niklaus Wirth |
Swiss computer programmer & inventor of PASCAL |
| 2/15/1943 |
Florinda Bolkan |
|
| 2/15/1944 |
Alexander A. Serebrov |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz T-7 & T-8 |
| 2/15/1947 |
Marisa Berenson |
in New York |
| 2/15/1951 |
Jane Seymour |
in Middlesex England — Actress East of Eden & Lassiter |
| 2/15/1951 |
Melissa Manchester |
singer in Bronx NY |
| 1812-02-16 |
Henry Wilson |
R |
| 1838-02-16 |
Henry Adams |
historian |
| 1876-02-16 |
G.M. Trevelyan |
historian |
| 1884-02-16 |
Robert Flaherty |
father of documentary film Nanook of the North |
| 1886-02-16 |
Writer Van Wyck Brooks |
|
| 1893-02-16 |
Ivor Armstrong Richards |
English literary critic |
| 2/16/1901 |
Wayne King |
saxophonist & band leader the Waltz King |
| 2/16/1903 |
Edgar Bergen |
talks to wood |
| 2/16/1909 |
Jeffrey Lynn |
Actor |
| 2/16/1911 |
Hal Porter |
Australian writer The Tilted Cross & The Paper Chase |
| 2/16/1920 |
Patty Andrews |
singer — Andrews Sisters in Minneapolis |
| 2/16/1940 |
Sonny Bono |
singer |
| 2/16/1959 |
John McEnroe |
tennis player |
| 1723-02-17 |
Tobias Mayer |
”method of lunars” for longitude determination |
| 1774-02-17 |
Raphael Peale |
American painter |
| 1781-02-17 |
Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Laennec |
invented stethoscope |
| 1844-02-17 |
A Montgomery Ward |
found mail-order a nice business |
| 1857-02-17 |
Samuel Sidney McClure |
Irish-American newspaper editor & publisher |
| 1874-02-17 |
Thomas J. Watson Sr. |
founder of IBM |
| 1888-02-17 |
Otto Stern |
physicist Nobel 1943 |
| 2/17/1902 |
Marian Anderson |
operatic contralto |
| 2/17/1908 |
Red Walter L Barber |
sports announcer |
| 2/17/1924 |
Margaret Truman |
daughter of Harry S |
| 2/17/1925 |
Hal Holbrook |
Actor |
| 2/17/1929 |
Chaim Potok |
novelist |
| 2/17/1934 |
Alan Bates |
Actor Zorba the Greek |
| 2/17/1936 |
Jim Brown |
NFL fullback Cleveland Browns |
| 2/17/1942 |
Huey Newton |
Black Panther leader |
| 2/17/1945 |
Pat Morrow |
in Los Angeles – Peyton Place |
| 2/17/1947 |
Dodie Stevens |
|
| 1516-02-18 |
Queen Mary I |
Bloody Mary 1553-58 — 1st reigning queen of GB |
| 1745-02-18 |
Alessandro G. A. Anastasio Volta |
Count–invented battery |
| 1795-02-18 |
George Peabody |
American merchant & philanthropist |
| 1848-02-18 |
Louis Comfort Tiffany |
glassmaker |
| 1859-02-18 |
Sholem Aleichem Solomon Rabinowitz |
author Jewish Mark Twain |
| 1892-02-18 |
Wendell Wilke |
presidential candidate |
| 1894-02-18 |
Andres Segovia |
guitarist |
| 2/18/1909 |
Wallace Stegner |
novelist & critic |
| 2/18/1920 |
Bill Cullen |
TV gameshow host |
| 2/18/1920 |
Jack Palance |
Actor Ripleys Believe It or Not |
| 2/18/1922 |
Helen Gurley Brown |
author & publisher Cosmopolitan in Portland Me |
| 2/18/1926 |
Len Ford |
NFL end Cleveland Browns & Green Bay Packers |
| 2/18/1933 |
Kim Novak |
in Chicago Illinois |
| 2/18/1933 |
Mary Ure |
|
| 2/18/1933 |
Yoko Ono |
aka Mrs John Lennon in Tokyo Japan |
| 2/18/1950 |
Cybill Shepherd |
in Memphis Tenn Moonlighting |
| 2/18/1954 |
John Travolta |
Actor Saturday Night Fever |
| 2/18/1957 |
Vanna White |
in SC–Wheel of Fortunes hostess |
| 2/18/1968 |
Molly Ringwald |
in Los Angeles California — Pretty in Pink |
| 1473-02-19 |
Nicolaus Copernicus |
astronomer in Torun – Poland |
| 1717-02-19 |
David Garrick |
Actor & producer & writer |
| 1833-02-19 |
Elie Ducommun |
Swiss writer & pacifist Nobel 1902 |
| 1843-02-19 |
Adelina Patti |
Spanish operatic coloratura |
| 1859-02-19 |
Svante August Arhenius |
founder of physical chemistry Nobel 1903 |
| 1865-02-19 |
Sven Hedin |
Swedish explorer of Tibet & scientist |
| 1889-02-19 |
Jose Eustasio Rivera |
Colombian poet & novelist The Vortex |
| 2/19/1911 |
Merle Oberon |
in Tasmania |
| 2/19/1912 |
Stan Kenton |
band leader |
| 2/19/1916 |
Eddie Arcaro |
jockey |
| 2/19/1924 |
Lee Marvin |
Actor |
| 2/19/1932 |
Joseph P. Kerwin |
U.S. astronaut Skylab 2 |
| 2/19/1940 |
Smokey Robinson |
singer |
| 2/19/1955 |
Margaux Hemingway |
in Portland Oregon |
| 2/19/1960 |
Prince Andrew |
of Britain |
| 2/19/1966 |
Justine Bateman |
in Rye NY – Family Ties |
| 1844-02-20 |
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann |
Austrian physicist statistical mechanics |
| 1886-02-20 |
Bela Kun |
head of Hungarian Soviet Republic 1919 |
| 1898-02-20 |
Enzo Ferrari |
Car manufacturer |
| 1899-02-20 |
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney |
US sportsman |
| 2/20/1902 |
Ansel Adams |
knows how to handle a camera |
| 2/20/1921 |
Joseph A. Walker |
X-15 pilot |
| 2/20/1924 |
Gloria Vanderbilt |
Dont my jeans look great |
| 2/20/1925 |
Director Robert Altman |
M*A*S*H |
| 2/20/1927 |
Sidney Poitier |
Actor Porgy & Bess & A Raisin in the Sun |
| 2/20/1931 |
Amanda Blake |
Actress Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke |
| 2/20/1934 |
Bobby Unser |
auto racer |
| 2/20/1937 |
Nancy Wilson |
jazz singer in Chillicothe Ohio |
| 2/20/1941 |
Buffy Sainte-Marie |
folk singer in Maine |
| 2/20/1942 |
Phil Esposito |
NHL player |
| 2/20/1946 |
Sandy Duncan |
in Texas |
| 2/20/1949 |
Jennifer ONeill |
Actress Summer of42 in Rio de Janeiro Brazil |
| 2/20/1954 |
Patty Hearst |
in San Francisco — famous kidnap hostage |
| 1794-02-21 |
Antonio L¢pez de Santa Anna |
president of Mexico 1833-36 |
| 1893-02-21 |
Andres Segovia |
Spanish classical guitarist |
| 1893-02-21 |
Pudovkin V. Illarionovich |
Russian film director Mother & Deserter |
| 2/21/1907 |
W.H. Auden |
American poet |
| 2/21/1915 |
Ann Sheridan |
|
| 2/21/1925 |
Sam Peckinpah |
film director The Wild Bunch & Straw Dogs |
| 2/21/1927 |
Erma Bombeck |
in Ohio — humorist |
| 2/21/1931 |
Larry Hagman |
TV Actor I Dream of Jeannie & Dallas |
| 2/21/1933 |
Nina Simone |
singer & pianist in Tyron NC |
| 2/21/1936 |
Barbara Jordan |
D former rep. Houston Texas |
| 2/21/1947 |
Tyne Daily |
in Madison Wisconsin |
| 1403-02-22 |
Charles VII |
king of France 1422-61 – drove out English |
| 1732-02-22 |
George Washington |
Father figure & President 1789-1796 |
| 1749-02-22 |
Johann Nikolaus Forkel |
musicologist & 1st biographer of Bach |
| 1778-02-22 |
Rembrandt Peale |
U.S. portrait & historical painter |
| 1788-02-22 |
Arthur Schopenhauer |
the Great Pessimist German philosopher |
| 1810-02-22 |
Frederic Chopin |
composer |
| 1819-02-22 |
James Russell Lowell |
poet & critic & diplomat & abolitionist |
| 1857-02-22 |
Heinrich Hertz |
physicist & 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves |
| 1857-02-22 |
Lord Robert Baden-Powell |
founder of Boy Scouts & Girl Guides |
| 1864-02-22 |
Jules Renard |
French writer |
| 1876-02-22 |
Pauline Musters |
became shortest adult known 58.9 cm 1 11.2″ |
| 1892-02-22 |
David Dubinsky |
labor leader |
| 1892-02-22 |
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
poet & dramatist |
| 2/22/1900 |
Giorgios Seferis |
Greek poet Nobel 1963 |
| 2/22/1900 |
Luis Bu¤uel |
Spanish film director Exterminating Angel & Viridiana |
| 2/22/1907 |
Robert Young |
Actor Father Knows Best & Marcus Welby |
| 2/22/1907 |
Sheldon Leonard |
Actor & producer |
| 2/22/1908 |
John Mills |
English Actor |
| 2/22/1908 |
R¢mulo Betancourt |
president of Venezuela 1945-48 & 1958-64 |
| 2/22/1918 |
Charles O. Finley |
baseball team owner Oakland As |
| 2/22/1918 |
Robert Wadlow |
became tallest known human 2.72 m 8 11.1″ |
| 2/22/1932 |
Edward M. Kennedy |
D senator from Mass |
| 2/22/1934 |
Sparky Anderson |
Cincinnati Reds manager |
| 2/22/1950 |
Julius Dr. J Erving |
NBA player |
| 1633-02-23 |
Samuel Pepys |
diarist |
| 1685-02-23 |
George Friderick Handel |
Baroque composer in Germany |
| 1744-02-23 |
Mayer Amschel Rothschild |
founder of House of Rothschild |
| 1868-02-23 |
W.E.B. DuBois |
civil rights leader & writer |
| 2/23/1904 |
William L. Shirer |
historian Rise & Fall of the Third Reich |
| 2/23/1928 |
Vasili G. Lazarev |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 12 & 18-1 |
| 2/23/1929 |
Elston Howard |
Yankee catcher |
| 2/23/1940 |
Peter Fonda |
Actor |
| 2/23/1943 |
Fred Biletnikoff |
NFL wide receiver Oakland Raiders |
| 2/23/1944 |
Johnny Winter |
guitarist |
| 1304-02-24 |
Muhammad ibn Battutah |
Arab traveler & travel writer |
| 1463-02-24 |
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola |
Italian scholar & Platonist |
| 1500-02-24 |
Emperor Charles V |
king of Spain 1516-56 |
| 1786-02-24 |
Wilhelm Karl Grimm |
story teller |
| 1836-02-24 |
Winslow Homer |
painter |
| 1874-02-24 |
Honus Wagner |
HOF shortstop for Pittsburgh Pirates 1900-17 |
| 1885-02-24 |
Admiral Chester Nimitz |
in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII |
| 1890-02-24 |
Marjorie Main |
|
| 2/24/1921 |
Abe Vigoda |
Actor Fish on Barney Miller |
| 2/24/1930 |
Barbara Lawrence |
|
| 2/24/1934 |
Bettino Craxi |
Italys 1st Socialist premier |
| 2/24/1938 |
James Farentino |
Actor |
| 2/24/1944 |
Sheila Larkin |
in NYC |
| 2/24/1955 |
Steven Jobs |
Apple co-founder |
| 2/24/1957 |
Phil McConkey |
NY Giant wide receiver |
| 1707-02-25 |
Carlo Goldoni |
Italian dramatist The Love of the Three Oranges |
| 1778-02-25 |
Jose de San Martin |
liberator of Argentina & Chile & Peru |
| 1841-02-25 |
Pierre Auguste Renoir |
French Impressionist painter |
| 1873-02-25 |
Enrico Caruso |
operatic tenor in Italy |
| 1876-02-25 |
Charles Lang Freer |
art collector who endowed Freer Gallery |
| 1888-02-25 |
John Foster Dulles |
Secretary of State for President Eisenhower |
| 1895-02-25 |
Bert Bell |
commissioner of NFL & team owner |
| 1896-02-25 |
John J. McClellan |
former U.S. senator from Arkansas |
| 2/25/1904 |
Adelle Davis |
nutritionist & author Lets Eat Right to Keep Fit |
| 2/25/1908 |
Frank Slaughter |
author |
| 2/25/1910 |
Millicebt Fenwick |
ex-congresswoman |
| 2/25/1913 |
Jim Backus |
Actor voice of Mr. Magoo |
| 2/25/1917 |
Anthony Burgess |
essayist & short story writer A Clockwork Orange |
| 2/25/1936 |
Linda Cristal |
in Buenos Aires Argentina |
| 2/25/1938 |
Diane Baker |
in Hollywood Calif |
| 2/25/1943 |
George Harrison |
Beatle |
| 2/25/1945 |
Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul |
Trinidad novelist & essayist |
| 1564-02-26 |
Christopher Marlowe |
dramatist Dr. Faustus baptized |
| 1802-02-26 |
Victor Hugo |
author Hunchback of Notre Dame in France |
| 1808-02-26 |
Honore Daumier |
French painter & lithographer & caricaturist |
| 1842-02-26 |
Camille Flammarion |
Mars researcher & popularizer of astronomy |
| 1846-02-26 |
William “Buffalo Bill” Cody |
near Davenport Iowa — frontiersman |
| 1852-02-26 |
John Harvey Kellogg |
physician — inspired flaked cereal industry |
| 1866-02-26 |
Herbert Henry Dow |
pioneer in US chemical industry |
| 1887-02-26 |
Grover Cleveland Alexander |
HOF baseball pitcher Phillies & Cubs |
| 2/26/1914 |
Robert Alda |
Actor Bittersweet Love & House of Excorcism |
| 2/26/1916 |
Jackie Gleason |
Actor Honeymooners & Smokey & the Bandit |
| 2/26/1917 |
Robert Taft Jr. |
R |
| 2/26/1919 |
Mason Adams |
Actor |
| 2/26/1920 |
Tony Randall |
Actor The Odd Couple |
| 2/26/1921 |
Betty Hutton |
|
| 2/26/1924 |
Noboru Takeshita |
Japanese prime minister 1987- |
| 2/26/1926 |
Konstantin Feoktistov |
Soviet cosmonaut Voskhod 1 |
| 2/26/1928 |
Anatoli V. Filipchenko |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 7 & 16 |
| 2/26/1928 |
Fats Domino |
singer |
| 2/26/1931 |
Robert Novak |
|
| 2/26/1932 |
Johnny Cash |
Country singer the Man in Black |
| 2/26/1948 |
Priscilla Lopez |
in NY |
| 0289-02-27 |
Constantine the Great |
Roman emperor 312-37 — adopted Christianity |
| 1583-02-27 |
Constantine |
|
| 1807-02-27 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
American poet in Portland Maine |
| 1881-02-27 |
Sveinn Bjornsson |
1st president of Republic of Iceland 1944-52 |
| 1892-02-27 |
William Demarest |
Actor Uncle Charlie on My Three Sons |
| 2/27/1902 |
John Steinbeck |
U.S. author The Grapes of Wrath Nobel 1962 |
| 2/27/1904 |
James T. Farrell |
American author Studs Lonigan trilogy |
| 2/27/1910 |
Joan Bennett |
Actress – NJ |
| 2/27/1910 |
Peter De Vries |
author |
| 2/27/1913 |
Irwin Shaw |
U.S. novelist Rich Man – Poor Man |
| 2/27/1917 |
John Connally |
Texas Governor |
| 2/27/1927 |
Guy Mitchell |
Actor |
| 2/27/1930 |
Joanne Woodward |
Actress Long Hot Summer in Thomasville Ga |
| 2/27/1932 |
Elizabeth Taylor |
Actress Cleopatra in London – violet eyes |
| 2/27/1933 |
Raymond Berry |
NFL end Baltimore Colts |
| 2/27/1933 |
Sen Malcolm |
Wallop R-Wyo |
| 2/27/1934 |
Ralph Nader |
ex-Corvair fan & Consumer advocate |
| 2/27/1937 |
Jay Silvester |
discus thrower |
| 2/27/1939 |
Barbara Babcock |
|
| 2/27/1940 |
Howard Hesseman |
WKRPs Johnny Fever |
| 2/27/1943 |
Mary Frann |
|
| 1533-02-28 |
Michel de Montaigne |
French essayist & philosopher |
| 1683-02-28 |
Rene-Antoine de Reaumur |
French biologist & engineer. |
| 1820-02-28 |
John Tenniel |
English cartoonist & illustrator Alice in Wonderland |
| 1824-02-28 |
Charles Blondin |
French acrobat & aerialist. |
| 1866-02-28 |
Vyacheslav Ivanov |
Russian Symbolist poet Pilot Stars |
| 1894-02-28 |
Ben Hecht |
novelist & playwright & screenwriter The Front Page |
| 2/28/1901 |
Linus Pauling |
chemist & peace worker Nobel 1954 & 1962 |
| 2/28/1909 |
Stephen Spender |
English poet |
| 2/28/1913 |
Vincente Minnelli |
film director |
| 2/28/1915 |
Sir Peter Medawar |
British zoologist & immunologist Nobel 1953 |
| 2/28/1915 |
Zero Mostel |
Actor if I were a rich man |
| 2/28/1917 |
John B. Connally |
D former governor of Texas |
| 2/28/1926 |
Svetlana Stalina |
daughter of Josef Stalin or 1906 |
| 2/28/1928 |
Betty Ackermann |
Ben Caseys friend |
| 2/28/1930 |
Gavin MacLeod |
love boat captain |
| 2/28/1939 |
Tommy Tune |
U.S. dancer & choreographer |
| 2/28/1945 |
Charles Bubba Smith |
NFL player |
| 2/28/1945 |
Mimsy Farmer |
in Chicago Ill |
| 2/28/1947 |
Stephane Beacham |
|
| 2/28/1948 |
Bernadette Peters |
in Queens NY – TONY winner |
| 2/28/1952 |
Olympian Melissa Babish |
in SC – Olympian |
| 1468-02-29 |
Paul III |
last of Renaissance popes 1534-49 |
| 1792-02-29 |
Gioacchino Rossini |
Italian composer Barber of Seville |
| 1860-02-29 |
Herman Hollerith |
invented 1st electric tabulating machine |
| 2/29/1936 |
Jack R. Lousma |
astronaut Skylab 3 & ST & 3 |
