| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Sergei Averintsev |
Author |
10-Dec-1937 |
21-Feb-2004 |
Myth of the Peoples of the World |
| Frederick G. Banting |
Scientist |
14-Nov-1891 |
21-Feb-1941 |
Discovered insulin |
| A. L. Barker |
Novelist |
13-Apr-1918 |
21-Feb-2002 |
Innocents |
| George Bascom |
Military |
c. 1837 |
21-Feb-1862 |
Launched Cochise on the warpath |
| Jacques Becker |
Film Director |
15-Sep-1906 |
21-Feb-1960 |
Le Trou |
| Pope Benedict XIII |
Religion |
2-Feb-1649 |
21-Feb-1730 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1724-30 |
| Hieronymus Bock |
Botanist |
1498 |
21-Feb-1554 |
Arranged and ordered plants systematically |
| Ina Claire |
Actor |
15-Oct-1893 |
21-Feb-1985 |
Ninotchka |
| Oscar Collazo |
Assassin |
20-Feb-1914 |
21-Feb-1994 |
Attempted assassin of Truman |
| John S. Cooper |
Politician |
23-Aug-1901 |
21-Feb-1991 |
US Senator from Kentucky |
| George Henry Corliss |
Inventor |
2-Jun-1817 |
21-Feb-1888 |
Corliss valve and steam engines |
| Gertrude B. Elion |
Scientist |
23-Jan-1918 |
21-Feb-1999 |
Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS |
| Bernard Fall |
Journalist |
19-Nov-1926 |
21-Feb-1967 |
Scholar of the Vietnam conflict |
| Howard Florey |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1898 |
21-Feb-1968 |
Isolated penicillin |
| Margot Fonteyn |
Dancer |
18-May-1919 |
21-Feb-1991 |
Exceptional British ballerina |
| Nikolai Gogol |
Author |
19-Mar-1809 |
21-Feb-1852 |
Dead Souls, The Overcoat |
| George Ellery Hale |
Astronomer |
29-Jun-1868 |
21-Feb-1938 |
Palomar Observatory founder, astronomer |
| Louis Hayward |
Actor |
19-Mar-1909 |
21-Feb-1985 |
The Man in the Iron Mask |
| Harriet Goodhue Hosmer |
Sculptor |
9-Oct-1830 |
21-Feb-1908 |
19th c. American sculptor in Rome |
| William K. Howard |
Film Director |
16-Jun-1899 |
21-Feb-1954 |
Fire Over England |
| Guillermo Cabrera Infante |
Novelist |
22-Apr-1929 |
21-Feb-2005 |
Tres Tristes Tigres |
| Pope Julius II |
Religion |
5-Dec-1443 |
21-Feb-1513 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1503-13 |
| Heike Kamerlingh Onnes |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1853 |
21-Feb-1926 |
Liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity |
| Harvey Kurtzman |
Cartoonist |
3-Oct-1924 |
21-Feb-1993 |
Founding editor, Mad magazine |
| Mary Lasker |
Activist |
30-Nov-1900 |
21-Feb-1994 |
Health care advocate |
| Malcolm X |
Activist |
19-May-1925 |
21-Feb-1965 |
Nation of Islam |
| James H. McGraw |
Publisher |
17-Dec-1860 |
21-Feb-1948 |
Co-Founder of the McGraw-Hill Companies |
| Robin Moore |
Author |
31-Oct-1925 |
21-Feb-2008 |
The Green Berets |
| Daniel Pearl |
Journalist |
10-Oct-1963 |
21-Feb-2002 |
Murdered Wall Street Journal reporter |
| Russell W. Peterson |
Politician |
3-Oct-1916 |
21-Feb-2011 |
Governor of Delaware, 1969-73 |
| Gershom Scholem |
Historian |
5-Dec-1897 |
21-Feb-1982 |
Revolutionized the study of Kabbalah |
| Dr. Gene Scott |
Religion |
14-Aug-1929 |
21-Feb-2005 |
Eccentric televangelist |
| Mikhail Sholokhov |
Author |
24-May-1905 |
21-Feb-1984 |
The Silent Don |
| Robert Southwell |
Religion |
c. 1561 |
21-Feb-1595 |
Catholic martyr, hanged at Tyburn |
| Baruch de Spinoza |
Philosopher |
24-Nov-1632 |
21-Feb-1677 |
Rationalist, lensmaker |
| John Thaw |
Actor |
3-Jan-1942 |
21-Feb-2002 |
Inspector Morse |
| Jethro Tull |
Agriculturalist |
1674 |
21-Feb-1741 |
The Horse-hoeing Husbandry |
| Ernest Vandiver |
Politician |
3-Jul-1918 |
21-Feb-2005 |
Governor of Georgia, 1959-63 |
| Mary Edwards Walker |
Doctor |
26-Nov-1832 |
21-Feb-1919 |
First female US Army surgeon |
| James Wieghart |
Journalist |
16-Aug-1933 |
21-Feb-2010 |
Editor, NY Daily News, 1982-84 |
| Bertram D. Wolfe |
Historian |
19-Jan-1896 |
21-Feb-1977 |
Three Who Made a Revolution |
