Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Louisa Adams |
First Lady |
12-Feb-1775 |
15-May-1852 |
Wife of US President John Quincy Adams |
Maud Adams |
Actor |
12-Feb-1945 |
|
Octopussy |
Joseph Alioto |
Politician |
12-Feb-1916 |
29-Jan-1998 |
Mayor of San Franscisco, 1968-76 |
Claudio Amendola |
Actor |
12-Feb-1963 |
|
La Scorta |
Darren Aronofsky |
Film Director |
12-Feb-1969 |
|
Requiem for a Dream |
Joe Don Baker |
Actor |
12-Feb-1936 |
|
Walking Tall |
Ehud Barak |
Head of State |
12-Feb-1942 |
|
Prime Minister of Israel, 1999-2001 |
Tex Beneke |
Musician |
12-Feb-1914 |
30-May-2000 |
Saxophonist, The Glenn Miller Orchestra |
Frank A. Bennack, Jr. |
Business |
12-Feb-1933 |
|
CEO of Hearst, 1979-2002 |
Judy Blume |
Author |
12-Feb-1938 |
|
Author of children's books |
Omar Bradley |
Military |
12-Feb-1893 |
8-Apr-1981 |
US Army Chief of Staff |
Josh Brolin |
Actor |
12-Feb-1968 |
|
No Country for Old Men |
Hank Brown |
Politician |
12-Feb-1940 |
|
US Senator from Colorado, 1991-97 |
David K. E. Bruce |
Diplomat |
12-Feb-1898 |
5-Dec-1977 |
US Ambassador to England, France, Germany |
Edward L. Cahn |
Film Director |
12-Feb-1899 |
25-Aug-1963 |
It! The Terror from Beyond Space |
Thomas Campion |
Composer |
12-Feb-1567 |
1-Mar-1620 |
English musical poet, Bookes of Ayres |
Al Cervi |
Basketball |
12-Feb-1917 |
9-Nov-2009 |
NBA Hall of Famer |
Ernest Clark |
Actor |
12-Feb-1912 |
11-Nov-1994 |
Sir Geoffrey Loftus |
Costa-Gavras |
Film Director |
12-Feb-1933 |
|
Z |
James Dwight Dana |
Geologist |
12-Feb-1813 |
14-Apr-1895 |
Manual of Geology |
Charles Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1809 |
19-Apr-1882 |
Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection |
Cliff De Young |
Singer |
12-Feb-1946 |
|
Former lead singer, Clear Light |
Alan Dugan |
Poet |
12-Feb-1923 |
3-Sep-2003 |
Poems |
Christine Elise |
Actor |
12-Feb-1965 |
|
Ex-Fiancée of Jason Priestley |
Juan Carlos Ferrero |
Tennis |
12-Feb-1980 |
|
Winner, 2003 French Open |
Joan Finney |
Politician |
12-Feb-1925 |
28-Jul-2001 |
Governor of Kansas, 1991-95 |
Edward Forbes |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1815 |
18-Nov-1854 |
History of British Mollusca |
Wallace Ford |
Actor |
12-Feb-1898 |
11-Jun-1966 |
A Patch of Blue |
Joe Garagiola |
Baseball |
12-Feb-1926 |
|
St. Louis Cardinal turned sportscaster |
Max Geldray |
Jazz Musician |
12-Feb-1916 |
2-Oct-2004 |
Conks of The Goon Show |
Henry F. Grady |
Economist |
12-Feb-1882 |
14-Sep-1957 |
First US Ambassador to India, 1947-48 |
David Graeber |
Anthropologist |
12-Feb-1961 |
|
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology |
Lorne Greene |
Actor |
12-Feb-1915 |
11-Sep-1987 |
Ben Cartwright on Bonanza |
Steve Hackett |
Guitarist |
12-Feb-1950 |
|
Guitarist for Genesis, 1970-7 |
Arsenio Hall |
Talk Show Host |
12-Feb-1955 |
|
Former talk show host |
Mark G. Hambley |
Diplomat |
12-Feb-1948 |
|
US Ambassador to Lebanon, 1993-94 |
John D. Hancock |
Film Director |
12-Feb-1939 |
|
Bang the Drum Slowly |
Michael Daly Hawkins |
Judge |
12-Feb-1945 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
John Michael Higgins |
Actor |
12-Feb-1963 |
|
The Late Shift |
Michael Ironside |
Actor |
12-Feb-1950 |
|
Scanners, Top Gun, Starship Troopers |
Brett M. Kavanaugh |
Judge |
12-Feb-1965 |
|
US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit |
Joseph Kearns |
Actor |
12-Feb-1907 |
17-Feb-1962 |
Mr. Wilson on Dennis the Menace |
Joanna Kerns |
Actor |
12-Feb-1953 |
|
Maggie Seaver on Growing Pains |
Hans Koller |
Musician |
12-Feb-1921 |
21-Dec-2003 |
Austrian saxophone prodigy |
Ray Kurzweil |
Inventor |
12-Feb-1948 |
|
Age of Spiritual Machines |
Sarah Lancaster |
Actor |
12-Feb-1980 |
|
Saved by the Bell: The New Class |
Bill Laswell |
Musician |
12-Feb-1955 |
|
Avant-garde producer and musician |
John L. Lewis |
Labor Leader |
12-Feb-1880 |
11-Jun-1969 |
President, United Mine Workers, 1920-60 |
Abraham Lincoln |
Head of State |
12-Feb-1809 |
15-Apr-1865 |
16th US President, 1861-65 |
Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
Socialite |
12-Feb-1884 |
20-Feb-1980 |
The Other Washington Monument |
Richard Lynch |
Actor |
12-Feb-1936 |
19-Jun-2012 |
The Sword and the Sorcerer |
Simon MacCorkindale |
Actor |
12-Feb-1952 |
14-Oct-2010 |
Harry Harper on Casualty |
Ted Mack |
TV Personality |
12-Feb-1904 |
12-Jul-1976 |
Original Amateur Hour |
Ray Manzarek |
Musician |
12-Feb-1939 |
|
Keyboardist for The Doors |
Cotton Mather |
Religion |
12-Feb-1663 |
13-Feb-1728 |
Pastor at Boston North Church |
Christopher McCandless |
Victim |
12-Feb-1968 |
18-Aug-1992 |
Subject of Into the Wild |
Michael McDonald |
Musician |
12-Feb-1952 |
|
White pop/soul vocalist |
George Meredith |
Novelist |
12-Feb-1828 |
18-May-1909 |
The Egoist |
Marcel Minnaert |
Astronomer |
12-Feb-1893 |
26-Oct-1970 |
Solar spectrophotometry |
Joan Mitchell |
Painter |
12-Feb-1925 |
30-Oct-1992 |
Abstract Expressionist |
Connie Morella |
Politician |
12-Feb-1931 |
|
Congresswoman from Maryland, 1987-2003 |
Lochlyn Munro |
Actor |
12-Feb-1966 |
|
Dead Man on Campus |
Ajay Naidu |
Actor |
12-Feb-1972 |
|
Samir in Office Space |
Walter Nash |
Head of State |
12-Feb-1882 |
4-Jun-1968 |
Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1957-60 |
Jean Eyeghe Ndong |
Head of State |
12-Feb-1946 |
|
Prime Minister of Gabon |
Susan Page |
Journalist |
12-Feb-1951 |
|
USA Today Washington bureau chief |
Robert P. Patterson |
Judge |
12-Feb-1891 |
22-Jan-1952 |
US Secretary of War, 1945-47 |
Anna Pavlova |
Dancer |
12-Feb-1881 |
22-Jan-1931 |
Early 20th century Russian ballerina |
Chynna Phillips |
Singer |
12-Feb-1968 |
|
Wilson Phillips |
Christina Ricci |
Actor |
12-Feb-1980 |
|
The Addams Family |
Sabato Rodia |
Artist |
12-Feb-1879 |
19-Jul-1965 |
Watts Towers |
Bill Russell |
Basketball |
12-Feb-1934 |
|
Boston Celtics, five time MVP |
Silvia Saint |
Pornstar |
12-Feb-1976 |
|
European Cuntinent, Loadman Cummith |
Raphael Sbarge |
Actor |
12-Feb-1964 |
|
Archie Hopper on Once Upon a Time |
Joe Schermie |
Bassist |
12-Feb-1946 |
26-Mar-2002 |
Bass player for Three Dog Night |
Peter Schoomaker |
Military |
12-Feb-1946 |
|
US Army Chief of Staff, 2003-07 |
Julian Schwinger |
Physicist |
12-Feb-1918 |
16-Jul-1994 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
David B. Sentelle |
Judge |
12-Feb-1943 |
|
US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit |
Paul Shenar |
Actor |
12-Feb-1936 |
11-Oct-1989 |
The Secret of NIMH |
Jane Skinner |
Journalist |
12-Feb-1967 |
|
Fox News anchor |
Arlen Specter |
Politician |
12-Feb-1930 |
|
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1981-2011 |
Jesse Spencer |
Actor |
12-Feb-1979 |
|
House, MD |
Jennifer Stone |
Actor |
12-Feb-1993 |
|
Wizards of Waverly Place |
William Wetmore Story |
Sculptor |
12-Feb-1819 |
7-Oct-1895 |
Cleopatra |
Julius Streicher |
Journalist |
12-Feb-1885 |
16-Oct-1946 |
Editor of Der Stuermer 1923-45 |
Tara Strong |
Actor |
12-Feb-1973 |
|
Voice of Bubbles on Powerpuff Girls |
Jan Swammerdam |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1637 |
15-Feb-1680 |
Biblia Naturae |
Robin Thomas |
Actor |
12-Feb-1949 |
|
Louis Perillo on The Division |
Sigrid Thornton |
Actor |
12-Feb-1959 |
|
The Man from Snowy River |
Roger J. Traynor |
Judge |
12-Feb-1900 |
14-May-1983 |
California Chief Justice, 1964-70 |
Forrest Tucker |
Actor |
12-Feb-1919 |
25-Oct-1986 |
Sgt. O'Rourke on F Troop |
Charles Van Doren |
TV Personality |
12-Feb-1926 |
|
Won the rigged game show Twenty-One |
Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia |
Royalty |
12-Feb-1937 |
|
Crown Prince of Italy |
John Winthrop the Younger |
Politician |
12-Feb-1606 |
5-Apr-1676 |
Governor of Colonial Connecticut |
Franco Zeffirelli |
Film Director |
12-Feb-1923 |
|
Romeo and Juliet |
Phil Zimmermann |
Computer Programmer |
12-Feb-1954 |
|
Creator of PGP |
Louis Zorich |
Actor |
12-Feb-1924 |
|
Burt Buchman on Mad About You |