| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| John Adams |
Composer |
15-Feb-1947 |
|
Nixon in China |
| John Anderson |
Politician |
15-Feb-1922 |
|
Independent candidate for President, 1980 |
| Ken Anderson |
Football |
15-Feb-1949 |
|
Former Cincinnati Bengals QB |
| Susan B. Anthony |
Activist |
15-Feb-1820 |
13-Mar-1906 |
Women's rights advocate |
| Allan Arbus |
Actor |
15-Feb-1918 |
|
Dr. Sidney on M*A*S*H |
| Harold Arlen |
Songwriter |
15-Feb-1905 |
23-Apr-1986 |
Wrote score to Wizard of Oz |
| Georges Auric |
Composer |
15-Feb-1899 |
24-Jul-1983 |
Theme for Moulin Rouge |
| Pedro Menéndez de Avilés |
Military |
15-Feb-1519 |
17-Sep-1574 |
Founder of St. Augustine, Florida |
| Mick Avory |
Drummer |
15-Feb-1944 |
|
Former drummer, The Kinks |
| Frank Ballance |
Politician |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
Congressman from North Carolina, 2003-04 |
| Ian Ballantine |
Publisher |
15-Feb-1916 |
9-Mar-1995 |
Paperback magnate |
| Nathaniel Bar-Jonah |
Criminal |
15-Feb-1957 |
13-Apr-2008 |
Cannibal child killer, sentenced to 130 years |
| John Barrymore |
Actor |
15-Feb-1882 |
29-May-1942 |
Romeo and Juliet |
| Jeremy Bentham |
Philosopher |
15-Feb-1748 |
6-Jun-1832 |
Proponent of Utilitarianism |
| Marisa Berenson |
Actor |
15-Feb-1947 |
|
Barry Lyndon |
| Earl Blaik |
Football |
15-Feb-1897 |
6-May-1989 |
Head Coach at Army, 1941-58 |
| Richard Bloch |
Business |
15-Feb-1926 |
21-Jul-2004 |
H&R Block, cancer activist |
| Claire Bloom |
Actor |
15-Feb-1931 |
|
Crimes and Misdemeanors |
| Hale Boggs |
Politician |
15-Feb-1914 |
16-Oct-1972 |
Congressman from Louisiana, 1941-72 |
| Scott C. Bone |
Politician |
15-Feb-1860 |
27-Jan-1936 |
Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1921-25 |
| Yelena Bonner |
Activist |
15-Feb-1923 |
18-Jun-2011 |
Activist-wife of Andrei Sakharov |
| Alex Borstein |
Comic |
15-Feb-1971 |
|
Ms. Swan on MADtv |
| Brandon Boyd |
Musician |
15-Feb-1976 |
|
Incubus frontman |
| Susan Brownmiller |
Activist |
15-Feb-1935 |
|
Feminist, Against Our Will |
| Louis B. Butler, Jr. |
Judge |
15-Feb-1952 |
|
Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court |
| Ali Campbell |
Singer |
15-Feb-1959 |
|
Lead singer, UB40 |
| Russell H. Conwell |
Educator |
15-Feb-1843 |
6-Dec-1925 |
Founder, Temple University |
| George A. Cowan |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1920 |
20-Apr-2012 |
Founder, Santa Fe Institute |
| Mary Jane Croft |
Actor |
15-Feb-1916 |
24-Aug-1999 |
Mary Jane on The Lucy Show |
| Charles-François Daubigny |
Painter |
15-Feb-1817 |
19-Feb-1878 |
French painter of landscapes, ducks |
| Horace Dediu |
Pundit |
15-Feb-1968 |
|
Tech industry analyst |
| Janice Dickinson |
Model |
15-Feb-1955 |
|
1970s supermodel |
| Nelson Dingley, Jr. |
Politician |
15-Feb-1832 |
13-Jan-1899 |
Congressman from Maine, 1881-99 |
| Walter Donaldson |
Songwriter |
15-Feb-1893 |
15-Jul-1947 |
Yes, Sir, That's My Baby |
| Paul Ekman |
Psychologist |
15-Feb-1934 |
|
Facial Action Coding System |
| Michael B. Elefante |
Attorney |
15-Feb-1944 |
|
Partner, Hemenway & Barnes |
| Hans von Euler-Chelpin |
Chemist |
15-Feb-1873 |
7-Nov-1964 |
Enzymes of sugar fermentation |
| Terry Everett |
Politician |
15-Feb-1937 |
|
Congressman, Alabama 2nd |
| Thomas E. Everhart |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1932 |
|
President of CalTech, 1987-97 |
| Shepard Fairey |
Artist |
15-Feb-1970 |
|
Andre the Giant Has A Posse |
| Chris Farley |
Comic |
15-Feb-1964 |
17-Dec-1997 |
Saturday Night Live |
| James V. Forrestal |
Government |
15-Feb-1892 |
22-May-1949 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1947-49 |
| Galileo Galilei |
Astronomer |
15-Feb-1564 |
8-Jan-1642 |
Copernican observational astronomer |
| Joseph R. Gannascoli |
Actor |
15-Feb-1959 |
|
Vito on The Sopranos |
| Miep Gies |
Activist |
15-Feb-1909 |
11-Jan-2010 |
Sheltered the family of Anne Frank |
| Sidney Gilliat |
Film Director |
15-Feb-1908 |
31-May-1994 |
Green for Danger |
| Bruce S. Gordon |
Business |
15-Feb-1946 |
|
President of the NAACP, 2005-07 |
| Darrell Green |
Football |
15-Feb-1960 |
|
Washington Redskins, Hall of Famer |
| Matt Groening |
Cartoonist |
15-Feb-1954 |
|
Creator of The Simpsons |
| Charles Édouard Guillaume |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1861 |
13-Jun-1938 |
Invented alloys Invar and Elinvar |
| Rusty Hamer |
Actor |
15-Feb-1947 |
18-Jan-1990 |
Make Room for Daddy |
| Rudolph Hargrave |
Judge |
15-Feb-1925 |
|
Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court |
| Joseph Hergesheimer |
Novelist |
15-Feb-1880 |
25-Apr-1954 |
Tol'Able David |
| Douglas Hofstadter |
Author |
15-Feb-1945 |
|
Godel, Escher, Bach |
| Sherry Jackson |
Actor |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
Make Room for Daddy |
| Jaromir Jagr |
Hockey |
15-Feb-1972 |
|
Dallas Stars |
| Matthew Josephson |
Historian |
15-Feb-1899 |
13-Mar-1978 |
The Robber Barons |
| Herman Kahn |
Scholar |
15-Feb-1922 |
7-Jul-1983 |
Hudson Institute founder |
| Roland Kibbee |
Screenwriter |
15-Feb-1914 |
5-Aug-1984 |
A Night in Casablanca |
| Foy D. Kohler |
Diplomat |
15-Feb-1908 |
23-Dec-1990 |
US Ambassador to USSR, 1962-66 |
| Harvey Korman |
Comic |
15-Feb-1927 |
29-May-2008 |
The Carol Burnett Show |
| Emil Kraepelin |
Psychiatrist |
15-Feb-1856 |
7-Oct-1926 |
Manic depression and schizophrenia |
| Stephen Krasner |
Educator |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07 |
| Jean Langlais |
Composer |
15-Feb-1907 |
8-May-1991 |
Organist and composer |
| Robert Ley |
Military |
15-Feb-1890 |
25-Oct-1945 |
Nazi union buster, slave master |
| Louis XV |
Royalty |
15-Feb-1710 |
10-May-1774 |
King of France, 1715-74 |
| Melissa Manchester |
Singer/Songwriter |
15-Feb-1951 |
|
Adult contemporary songwriter |
| Joshua Micah Marshall |
Pundit |
15-Feb-1969 |
|
Talking Points Memo |
| Kevin McCarthy |
Actor |
15-Feb-1914 |
11-Sep-2010 |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| Cyrus McCormick |
Inventor |
15-Feb-1809 |
13-May-1884 |
Invented grain harvester |
| Christopher McDonald |
Actor |
15-Feb-1955 |
|
Happy Gilmore |
| Philipp Melanchthon |
Religion |
15-Feb-1497 |
19-Apr-1560 |
Confession of Augsburg |
| Cathy E. Minehan |
Business |
15-Feb-1947 |
|
President of the Boston Fed, 1994-2007 |
| S. Weir Mitchell |
Novelist |
15-Feb-1829 |
4-Jan-1914 |
The Case of George Dedlow |
| Sara Jane Moore |
Assassin |
15-Feb-1930 |
|
Tried to kill President Ford |
| John W. Nordstrom |
Business |
15-Feb-1871 |
1-Oct-1963 |
Founder of Nordstrom |
| Renée O'Connor |
Actor |
15-Feb-1971 |
|
Gabrielle on Xena: Warrior Princess |
| Conor Oberst |
Singer/Songwriter |
15-Feb-1980 |
|
Emo cloud responsible for Bright Eyes |
| Endicott Peabody |
Politician |
15-Feb-1920 |
1-Dec-1997 |
Governor of Massachusetts, 1963-65 |
| Charles Willson Peale |
Painter |
15-Feb-1741 |
22-Feb-1827 |
Early American portrait painter |
| Francis A. Pratt |
Business |
15-Feb-1827 |
10-Feb-1902 |
Co-Founder of Pratt & Whitney |
| Louis Renault |
Engineer |
15-Feb-1877 |
24-Oct-1944 |
Founder of Renault |
| Robert K. Ressler |
Author |
15-Feb-1937 |
|
Whoever Fights Monsters |
| Cesar Romero |
Actor |
15-Feb-1907 |
1-Jan-1994 |
The Joker on Batman |
| Elihu Root |
Government |
15-Feb-1845 |
7-Feb-1937 |
Senator, Secretary of War, State |
| Robert E. Rossiter |
Business |
15-Feb-1946 |
|
CEO of Lear |
| Adolfo Sardina |
Fashion Designer |
15-Feb-1933 |
|
Designer favored by Nancy Reagan |
| Wallace Sargent |
Astronomer |
15-Feb-1935 |
|
Astrophysicist at CalTech |
| James R. Schlesinger |
Government |
15-Feb-1929 |
|
Served Nixon, Ford, Carter |
| Jane Seymour |
Actor |
15-Feb-1951 |
|
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman |
| Ernest Shackleton |
Explorer |
15-Feb-1874 |
5-Jan-1922 |
Antarctic explorer |
| Sigismund |
Royalty |
15-Feb-1368 |
9-Dec-1437 |
Holy Roman Emperor, 1433-37 |
| Brendon Small |
Comic |
15-Feb-1975 |
|
Home Movies, Metalocalypse |
| Gale Sondergaard |
Actor |
15-Feb-1899 |
14-Aug-1985 |
Anthony Adverse |
| Art Spiegelman |
Cartoonist |
15-Feb-1948 |
|
Maus |
| John Augustus Sutter |
Explorer |
15-Feb-1803 |
18-Jun-1880 |
California gold rush |
| Henry Threadgill |
Jazz Musician |
15-Feb-1944 |
|
Jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist |
| Charles Lewis Tiffany |
Business |
15-Feb-1812 |
18-Feb-1902 |
Founder of Tiffany & Co. |
| Totò |
Actor |
15-Feb-1898 |
15-Apr-1967 |
The Hawks and the Sparrows |
| Gloria Trevi |
Musician |
15-Feb-1968 |
|
Mexican Madonna |
| Amy Van Dyken |
Swimmer |
15-Feb-1973 |
|
Winner of 6 Olympic gold medals |
| Jerome R. Waldie |
Politician |
15-Feb-1925 |
3-Apr-2009 |
Congressman from California, 1966-75 |
| Alfred North Whitehead |
Mathematician |
15-Feb-1861 |
30-Dec-1947 |
Metaphysical mathematician |
| Niklaus Wirth |
Computer Programmer |
15-Feb-1934 |
|
Inventor of Pascal, Modula-2 |
| Leonard Woodcock |
Labor Leader |
15-Feb-1911 |
16-Jan-2001 |
5th UAW President, 1970-77 |
| Meg Wyllie |
Actor |
15-Feb-1917 |
1-Jan-2002 |
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters |
| Sarah Wynter |
Actor |
15-Feb-1973 |
|
Kate Warner on 24 |
