Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Tsar Alexis |
Royalty |
19-Mar-1629 |
8-Feb-1676 |
Tsar of Russia, 1645-76 |
William Bateson |
Biologist |
8-Aug-1861 |
8-Feb-1926 |
Founder of genetics |
Walther Bothe |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1891 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Coincidence method |
Phil Bruns |
Actor |
2-May-1931 |
8-Feb-2012 |
George Shumway on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman |
Samuel P. Bush |
Relative |
4-Oct-1863 |
8-Feb-1948 |
Father of Senator Prescott Bush |
Cetshwayo |
Royalty |
c. 1826 |
8-Feb-1884 |
Zulu king |
Oscar L. Chapman |
Government |
22-Oct-1896 |
8-Feb-1978 |
US Secretary of the Interior, 1949-53 |
Silvio O. Conte |
Politician |
9-Nov-1921 |
8-Feb-1991 |
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1959-91 |
Charles Curtis |
Politician |
25-Jan-1860 |
8-Feb-1936 |
US Vice President, 1929-33 |
William T. Dillard |
Business |
2-Sep-1914 |
8-Feb-2002 |
Founder of Dillard's |
Wild Bill Donovan |
Government |
1-Jan-1883 |
8-Feb-1959 |
Founded the OSS |
Edward R. Dudley |
Diplomat |
11-Mar-1911 |
8-Feb-2005 |
First Black US Ambassador |
William Duncan |
Actor |
16-Dec-1879 |
8-Feb-1961 |
Silent film actor |
Meredith Edwards |
Actor |
10-Jun-1917 |
8-Feb-1999 |
Dunkirk |
Dennis Gabor |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1900 |
8-Feb-1979 |
Inventor of holography |
John White Geary |
Politician |
30-Dec-1819 |
8-Feb-1873 |
Governor of Kansas and Pennsylvania |
Victor Gollancz |
Publisher |
9-Apr-1893 |
8-Feb-1967 |
Founder of Victor Gollancz, Ltd. |
Aaron Hill |
Playwright |
10-Feb-1685 |
8-Feb-1750 |
The Progress of Wit |
Felix Hoffmann |
Chemist |
21-Jan-1868 |
8-Feb-1946 |
Aspirin and heroin |
Francis Horner |
Economist |
12-Aug-1778 |
8-Feb-1817 |
Bullion Report |
Robert Jastrow |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1925 |
8-Feb-2008 |
Red Giants and White Dwarfs |
Keith Knudsen |
Drummer |
18-Feb-1948 |
8-Feb-2005 |
Drummer for the Doobie Brothers |
Peter Kropotkin |
Anarchist |
21-Dec-1842 |
8-Feb-1921 |
Libertarian anarchist revolutionary |
Halldór Laxness |
Author |
23-Apr-1902 |
8-Feb-1998 |
Iceland's Bell |
Morris E. Leeds |
Business |
6-Mar-1869 |
8-Feb-1952 |
Leeds & Northrup Co. |
Harriet MacGibbon |
Actor |
5-Oct-1905 |
8-Feb-1987 |
Mrs. Drysdale on Beverly Hillbillies |
Connie Mack |
Baseball |
22-Dec-1862 |
8-Feb-1956 |
Manager of the Philadelphia Athletics |
Mary I of Scotland |
Royalty |
8-Dec-1542 |
8-Feb-1587 |
Mary, Queen of Scots |
Wesley L. McDonald |
Military |
6-Jul-1924 |
8-Feb-2008 |
Led 1983 invasion of Grenada |
Marvin Miller |
Actor |
18-Jul-1913 |
8-Feb-1985 |
Michael Anthony on The Millionaire |
May Miller |
Playwright |
26-Jan-1899 |
8-Feb-1995 |
The Bog Guide |
Henry S. Morgan |
Business |
24-Oct-1900 |
8-Feb-1982 |
Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley |
Iris Murdoch |
Novelist |
15-Jul-1919 |
8-Feb-1999 |
The Sea, the Sea |
Jack Murtha |
Politician |
17-Jun-1932 |
8-Feb-2010 |
Pennsylvania Congressman, 1974-2010 |
Peter the Great |
Royalty |
9-Jun-1672 |
8-Feb-1725 |
Tsar of Russia, 1689-1725 |
Enoch Powell |
Politician |
16-Jun-1912 |
8-Feb-1998 |
British demagogue |
Louis Renault |
Government |
21-May-1843 |
8-Feb-1918 |
International arbitrator, Nobel recipient |
Sir Robert Robinson |
Chemist |
13-Sep-1886 |
8-Feb-1975 |
Researcher of alkaloids |
Vesta Roy |
Politician |
26-Mar-1925 |
8-Feb-2002 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1982-83 |
Eldon Dean Rudd |
Politician |
15-Jul-1920 |
8-Feb-2002 |
Congressman from Arizona, 1977-87 |
R. J. Rushdoony |
Religion |
25-Apr-1916 |
8-Feb-2001 |
Institutes of Biblical Law |
Julius Schwartz |
Cartoonist |
19-Jun-1915 |
8-Feb-2004 |
Silver Age comics pioneer |
Raymond Scott |
Musician |
10-Sep-1908 |
8-Feb-1994 |
Powerhouse, invented the sequencer |
Del Shannon |
Singer/Songwriter |
30-Dec-1934 |
8-Feb-1990 |
1960s songwriter, Runaway |
Anna Nicole Smith |
Model |
28-Nov-1967 |
8-Feb-2007 |
Addled golddigger |
Jimmy Smith |
Jazz Musician |
8-Dec-1925 |
8-Feb-2005 |
Master of the Hammond B3 organ |
David Friedrich Strauss |
Religion |
27-Jan-1808 |
8-Feb-1874 |
Leben Jesu |
Derrick Thomas |
Football |
1-Jan-1967 |
8-Feb-2000 |
Hall of Fame Linebacker, Kansas City Chiefs |
Fritz Todt |
Government |
4-Sep-1891 |
8-Feb-1942 |
Nazi engineer, finished the Autobahn |
Willis Van Devanter |
Judge |
17-Apr-1859 |
8-Feb-1941 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1911-37 |
John von Neumann |
Mathematician |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
Alfred Wallenstein |
Cellist |
7-Oct-1898 |
8-Feb-1983 |
Music Director, LA Philharmonic, 1943-56 |
John Hay Whitney |
Business |
17-Aug-1904 |
8-Feb-1982 |
New York Herald Tribune |
Fritz Zwicky |
Astronomer |
14-Feb-1898 |
8-Feb-1974 |
Astrophysicist at CalTech |