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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Philip Ahn
Actor
29-Mar-1905 28-Feb-1978 Early Korean-American actor
Alfonso XIII
Royalty
17-May-1886 28-Feb-1941 King of Spain, 1902-31
Walter Allen
Novelist
23-Feb-1911 28-Feb-1995 All in a Lifetime
Gene Allison
Singer
29-Apr-1934 28-Feb-2004 You Can Make It If You Try
Eddie Anderson
Actor
18-Sep-1905 28-Feb-1977 Rochester on The Jack Benny Show
Maxwell Anderson
Playwright
15-Dec-1888 28-Feb-1959 What Price Glory?
Richard Armour
Author
15-Jul-1906 28-Feb-1989 It All Started with Columbus
Daniel Boorstin
Historian
1-Oct-1914 28-Feb-2004 The Creators
Martin Bucer
Religion
11-Nov-1491 28-Feb-1551 German Protestant reformer
Owen Chamberlain
Physicist
10-Jul-1920 28-Feb-2006 Co-Discoverer of the antiproton
Cuauhtemoc
Head of State
1495 28-Feb-1525 Last Aztec Emperor
Zara Cully
Actor
26-Jan-1892 28-Feb-1978 Mother Jefferson on The Jeffersons
Friedrich Ebert
Head of State
4-Feb-1871 28-Feb-1925 German Chancellor, 1918-19
William M. Evarts
Politician
6-Feb-1818 28-Feb-1901 US Secretary of State, 1877-81
Annie Girardot
Actor
25-Oct-1931 28-Feb-2011 Rocco and His Brothers
Mack Gordon
Composer
21-Jun-1904 28-Feb-1959 Chattanooga Choo Choo
Jonathan Hale
Actor
21-Mar-1891 28-Feb-1966 J. C. Dithers
Paul Harvey
Radio Personality
4-Sep-1918 28-Feb-2009 The Paul Harvey Show
Chushiro Hayashi
Astronomer
25-Jul-1920 28-Feb-2010 Big Bang astrophysicist
George Hearst
Business
3-Sep-1820 28-Feb-1891 Patriarch of Hearst family fortune
Laura Z. Hobson
Novelist
19-Jun-1900 28-Feb-1986 Gentleman's Agreement
Ishirô Honda
Film Director
7-May-1911 28-Feb-1993 Godzilla
Virginia Huston
Actor
24-Apr-1925 28-Feb-1981 Tarzan's Peril
John N. Irwin II
Diplomat
31-Dec-1913 28-Feb-2000 US Deputy Secretary of State, 1970-73
Henry James
Author
15-Apr-1843 28-Feb-1916 Portrait of a Lady
Joseph M. Juran
Scientist
24-Dec-1904 28-Feb-2008 The Pareto Principle
Ruby Keeler
Actor
25-Aug-1909 28-Feb-1993 42nd Street
Cecil Kellaway
Actor
22-Aug-1893 28-Feb-1973 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Alphonse de Lamartine
Poet
21-Oct-1790 28-Feb-1869 Bland French poet, failed politician
Henry R. Luce
Business
3-Apr-1898 28-Feb-1967 Founded Time Magazine
Frankie Lymon
Singer/Songwriter
30-Sep-1942 28-Feb-1968 Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
George T. Mickelson
Politician
23-Jul-1903 28-Feb-1965 Governor of South Dakota, 1947-51
Dermot Morgan
Actor
31-Mar-1952 28-Feb-1998 Father Ted
Theodore Newton
Actor
4-Aug-1904 28-Feb-1963 The Working Man
Charles Nicolle
Scientist
21-Sep-1866 28-Feb-1936 Found that lice transmit typhus
Gustav Otto
Business
12-Jan-1883 28-Feb-1926 Founder of BMW and Flottweg AG
Olof Palme
Head of State
30-Jan-1927 28-Feb-1986 Swedish Prime Minister, assassinated
Max Rudolf
Conductor
15-Jun-1902 28-Feb-1995 Director, Cincinnati Symphony, 1958-71
Jane Russell
Actor
21-Jun-1921 28-Feb-2011 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Historian
15-Oct-1917 28-Feb-2007 The Age of Roosevelt
Alessandro Stradella
Composer
1642 28-Feb-1682 S. Giovanni Battista
Billy Thorpe
Musician
29-Mar-1946 28-Feb-2007 Children of the Sun
Abel P. Upshur
Attorney
17-Jun-1790 28-Feb-1844 US Secretary of the Navy, 1841-43




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