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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Henry Addington
Head of State
30-May-1757 15-Feb-1844 UK Prime Minister, 1801-04
Robert Adler
Physicist
4-Dec-1913 15-Feb-2007 Invented wireless remote control
Herbert Henry Asquith
Head of State
12-Sep-1852 15-Feb-1928 UK Prime Minister, 1908-16
William Berke
Film Director
3-Oct-1903 15-Feb-1958 Dick Tracy
Mike Bloomfield
Guitarist
28-Jul-1943 15-Feb-1981 Guitarist, Paul Butterfield Blues Band
William C. Bullitt
Diplomat
25-Jan-1891 15-Feb-1967 US Ambassador to the USSR, 1933-36
Pierce Butler
Politician
11-Jul-1744 15-Feb-1822 Twice US Senator from South Carolina
Vernon Castle
Dancer
2-May-1887 15-Feb-1918 Vernon & Irene Castle
Ilka Chase
Actor
8-Apr-1900 15-Feb-1978 Now, Voyager
Jeffery Cohelan
Politician
24-Jun-1914 15-Feb-1999 Congressman from California, 1959-71
Nat King Cole
Singer
17-Mar-1917 15-Feb-1965 Unforgettable
Alan Cottrell
Scientist
17-Jul-1919 15-Feb-2012 Metallurgist at Cambridge
Wally Cox
Actor
6-Dec-1924 15-Feb-1973 Mr. Peepers
Giulio Douhet
Military
30-May-1869 15-Feb-1930 Father of strategic air power
Ray Evans
Songwriter
4-Feb-1915 15-Feb-2007 Que Sera Sera
Richard Feynman
Physicist
11-May-1918 15-Feb-1988 Surely he's joking
Walter N. Frank
Business
22-Apr-1908 15-Feb-2000 Chairman of the NYSE, 1965-67
Martha Gellhorn
Journalist
8-Nov-1908 15-Feb-1998 War correspondent
Marcus Alonzo Hanna
Politician
24-Sep-1837 15-Feb-1904 Senator from Ohio, kingmaker
Tim Holt
Actor
5-Feb-1918 15-Feb-1973 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Henry W. Kendall
Physicist
9-Dec-1926 15-Feb-1999 Verified existence of quarks
Burt Kennedy
Film Director
3-Sep-1922 15-Feb-2001 Support Your Local Sheriff
Big L
Rapper
30-May-1974 15-Feb-1999 Ebonics
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Playwright
22-Jan-1729 15-Feb-1781 Laokoon
John J. Louis, Jr.
Business
10-Jun-1925 15-Feb-1995 US Ambassador to the UK, 1981-83
Pope Lucius II
Religion
? 15-Feb-1145 Roman Catholic Pope, 1144-45
Ethel Merman
Singer
16-Jan-1908 15-Feb-1984 There's No Business Like Show Business
Jan Miner
Actor
15-Oct-1917 15-Feb-2004 Soaking in Palmolive dishwashing liquid
Antonio Moreno
Actor
26-Sep-1887 15-Feb-1967 Spanish-American character actor
Petroleum V. Nasby
Author
20-Sep-1833 15-Feb-1888 The Nasby Papers
John Philips
Poet
30-Dec-1676 15-Feb-1708 The Splendid Shilling
Tommy Rettig
Actor
10-Dec-1941 15-Feb-1996 Jeff Miller in Lassie
Owen Willans Richardson
Physicist
26-Apr-1879 15-Feb-1959 Electron emissions of metals
Pee Wee Russell
Jazz Musician
27-Mar-1906 15-Feb-1969 Jazz clarinet virtuoso
William Schuman
Composer
4-Aug-1910 15-Feb-1992 Symphony No. 6
Howard K. Smith
Journalist
12-May-1914 15-Feb-2002 Face the Nation
Vladimir Sokoloff
Actor
26-Dec-1889 15-Feb-1962 For Whom the Bell Tolls
Jan Swammerdam
Naturalist
12-Feb-1637 15-Feb-1680 Biblia Naturae
Lew Wallace
Novelist
10-Apr-1827 15-Feb-1905 Civil War General, wrote Ben-Hur




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