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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
A. R. Ammons
Poet
18-Feb-1926 25-Feb-2001 Sphere
Edward Arnold
Actor
18-Feb-1890 26-Apr-1956 You Can't Take It With You
Hans Asperger
Doctor
18-Feb-1906 21-Oct-1980 Asperger's Syndrome
Jayne Atkinson
Actor
18-Feb-1959   Erin Strauss on Criminal Minds
Jean M. Auel
Novelist
18-Feb-1936   The Clan of the Cave Bear
Artur Axmann
Government
18-Feb-1913 24-Oct-1996 Hitler Youth leader
Roberto Baggio
Soccer
18-Feb-1967   The Divine Ponytail
Ike Barinholtz
Actor
18-Feb-1977   MADtv
André Breton
Author
18-Feb-1896 28-Sep-1966 Manifeste du Surréalisme
Helen Gurley Brown
Author
18-Feb-1922 13-Aug-2012 Editor of Cosmopolitan, 1965-97
Arthur Bryant
Historian
18-Feb-1899 2-Jan-1985 Biographer of Samuel Pepys
Phyllis Calvert
Actor
18-Feb-1915 8-Oct-2002 Madonna of the Seven Moons
Isaac Casaubon
Scholar
18-Feb-1559 1-Jul-1614 Leading classical scholar
Lord Clarendon
Government
18-Feb-1609 9-Dec-1674 The Clarendon Code
Bill Cullen
Game Show Host
18-Feb-1920 7-Jul-1990 Host of The Price is Right
Sinéad Cusack
Actor
18-Feb-1948   Stealing Beauty
Billy De Wolfe
Actor
18-Feb-1907 5-Mar-1974 The Doris Day Show
Len Deighton
Novelist
18-Feb-1929   The Ipcress File
Dennis DeYoung
Singer/Songwriter
18-Feb-1947   Former lead singer, Styx
Matt Dillon
Actor
18-Feb-1964   Drugstore Cowboy
Dr. Dre
Music Producer
18-Feb-1965   Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Actor
18-Feb-1946   Delicatessen
Tracey Edmonds
Business
18-Feb-1967   CEO of Edmonds Entertainment Group
Eliot Engel
Politician
18-Feb-1947   Congressman, New York 17th
Guy Ferland
Film Director
18-Feb-1966   Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Enzo Ferrari
Business
18-Feb-1898 14-Aug-1988 Legendary automobile maker
Milos Forman
Film Director
18-Feb-1932   One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Hayden Fry
Football
18-Feb-1929   University of Iowa coach
Jerry Fujikawa
Actor
18-Feb-1912 30-Apr-1983 Salt water bad for glass
Michel Gauthier
Politician
18-Feb-1950   Canadian MP, Roberval/Lac-Saint-Jean
George Gipp
Football
18-Feb-1895 14-Dec-1920 Win one for the Gipper
George Givot
Actor
18-Feb-1903 7-Jun-1984 Greek Ambassador of Good Will
Herbert Gladstone
Politician
18-Feb-1854 6-Mar-1930 UK Home Secretary, 1905-10
Brett Guthrie
Politician
18-Feb-1964   Congressman, Kentucky 2nd
Hugo Haas
Actor
18-Feb-1901 1-Dec-1968 King Solomon's Mines
Ian Hacking
Philosopher
18-Feb-1936   The Taming of Chance
Marshall Hall
Doctor
18-Feb-1790 11-Aug-1857 Theory of reflex action
Johnny Hart
Cartoonist
18-Feb-1931 7-Apr-2007 The Wizard of Id, B.C.
John Hughes
Film Director
18-Feb-1950 6-Aug-2009 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Russell Hunter
Actor
18-Feb-1925 25-Feb-2004 Scottish actor
Mervyn Johns
Actor
18-Feb-1899 6-Sep-1992 Dead of Night
Tom Johnson
Hockey
18-Feb-1928 21-Nov-2007 NHL Hall of Famer, coach
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Tennis
18-Feb-1974   Winner of 6 Grand Slam titles
Nikos Kazantzakis
Novelist
18-Feb-1883 26-Oct-1957 Zorba the Greek
George Kennedy
Actor
18-Feb-1925   Airport, Naked Gun
Keith Knudsen
Drummer
18-Feb-1948 8-Feb-2005 Drummer for the Doobie Brothers
Maurice Lévy
Business
18-Feb-1942   CEO of Publicis
Audre Lorde
Author
18-Feb-1934 17-Nov-1992 A Burst of Light
Ernst Mach
Physicist
18-Feb-1838 19-Feb-1916 Optical and sensory perceptualist
Lee Malvo
Criminal
18-Feb-1985   One of the two Washington Snipers
Queen Mary I
Royalty
18-Feb-1516 17-Nov-1558 Queen of England, 1553-58
Maggie McNamara
Actor
18-Feb-1928 18-Feb-1978 Three Coins in the Fountain
Allan Melvin
Actor
18-Feb-1923 17-Jan-2008 Archie Bunker's Place
Adolphe Menjou
Actor
18-Feb-1890 29-Oct-1963 A Farewell to Arms
Toni Morrison
Author
18-Feb-1931   Beloved
Juice Newton
Singer
18-Feb-1952   "Queen of Hearts"
Yoko Ono
Artist
18-Feb-1933   Impenetrable musician, wife of John Lennon
Jack Palance
Actor
18-Feb-1919 10-Nov-2006 Performed one-handed push-ups
George Papandreou
Head of State
18-Feb-1888 1-Nov-1968 Former Prime Minister of Greece
George Peabody
Business
18-Feb-1795 4-Nov-1869 American businessman, philanthropist
Samuel F. Phillips
Attorney
18-Feb-1824 18-Nov-1903 US Solicitor General, 1872-85
Nikolai Podgorny
Head of State
18-Feb-1903 11-Jan-1983 President of the USSR, 1965-77
Kristoffer Polaha
Actor
18-Feb-1977   Jason Matthews on North Shore
Mark Richt
Football
18-Feb-1960   Head Coach, UGA Bulldogs
Gary Leon Ridgway
Criminal
18-Feb-1949   The Green River killer
Molly Ringwald
Actor
18-Feb-1968   The Breakfast Club
Philip R. Roberts
Business
18-Feb-1942   Roberts Ventures, LLC
Bobby Robson
Soccer
18-Feb-1933 31-Jul-2009 English soccer manager
Alfonso Rodriguez
Criminal
18-Feb-1953   Multiple rapist, alleged murderer
Jean-Marie Roland
Government
18-Feb-1734 15-Nov-1793 French Interior Minister, 1792-93
Douglas Rushkoff
Author
18-Feb-1961   Cyberculture analyst
Juelz Santana
Rapper
18-Feb-1982   The Diplomats
Greta Scacchi
Actor
18-Feb-1960   The Player
Charles M. Schwab
Business
18-Feb-1862 19-Sep-1939 Founder of Bethlehem Steel
Willard W. Scott, Jr.
Military
18-Feb-1926 1-Jan-2009 Superintendent of West Point, 1981-86
Ed Sheeran
Singer/Songwriter
18-Feb-1991   The A Team
Cybill Shepherd
Actor
18-Feb-1950   Moonlighting
Chen Shui-bian
Head of State
18-Feb-1950   President of Taiwan, 2000-08
Eddie Slovik
Military
18-Feb-1920 31-Jan-1945 US soldier executed for desertion
Charles Emory Smith
Journalist
18-Feb-1842 19-Jan-1908 US Postmaster General, 1898-1902
Richard A. Snelling
Politician
18-Feb-1927 14-Aug-1991 Twice Governor of Vermont
Regina Spektor
Singer/Songwriter
18-Feb-1980   Anti-folk singer
Wallace Stegner
Author
18-Feb-1909 13-Apr-1993 The Angle of Repose
Julie Strain
Actor
18-Feb-1962   Queen of All Media
John Sullivan
Military
18-Feb-1740 23-Jan-1795 Revolutionary War general
István Szabó
Film Director
18-Feb-1938   Being Julia
Peter Terpeluk, Jr.
Diplomat
18-Feb-1948 23-Aug-2011 US Ambassador to Luxembourg, 2002-05
Irma Thomas
Singer
18-Feb-1941   The Soul Queen of New Orleans
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Artist
18-Feb-1848 17-Jan-1933 Stained glassmaker, jewelry designer
John Travolta
Actor
18-Feb-1954   Saturday Night Fever
Mary Ure
Actor
18-Feb-1933 3-Apr-1975 Sons and Lovers
Alessandro Volta
Physicist
18-Feb-1745 5-Mar-1827 Invented electric battery
Maiara Walsh
Actor
18-Feb-1988   Meena on Cory in the House
Jess Walton
Actor
18-Feb-1949   The Young and the Restless
John Warner
Politician
18-Feb-1927   US Senator from Virginia, 1979-2009
Jeremy Allen White
Actor
18-Feb-1991   Lip Gallagher on Shameless
Vanna White
Game Show Host
18-Feb-1957   Letter turner, Wheel of Fortune
Wendell Willkie
Politician
18-Feb-1892 8-Oct-1944 Defeated by Roosevelt in 1940
Mike Wilson
Film Director
18-Feb-1976   Michael Moore Hates America
Steve Womack
Politician
18-Feb-1957   Congressman, Arkansas 3rd




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