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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ernest Ansermet
Conductor
11-Nov-1883 20-Feb-1969 Founder, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
George Archainbaud
Film Director
7-May-1890 20-Feb-1959 Thirteen Women
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Journalist
27-Oct-1844 20-Feb-1916 Helped to cleave Norway and Sweden
Anthony Asquith
Film Director
9-Nov-1902 20-Feb-1968 Pygmalion
Oswald Avery
Biologist
21-Oct-1877 20-Feb-1955 Antibodies and DNA
Andrew N. Baur
Business
25-Apr-1944 20-Feb-2011 Southwest Bank of St. Louis
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
Military
28-May-1818 20-Feb-1893 Confederate General
Maurice Blanchot
Philosopher
22-Sep-1907 20-Feb-2003 L'Espace littéraire
Robert Bolt
Playwright
15-Aug-1924 20-Feb-1995 A Man for All Seasons
René Cassin
Government
5-Oct-1887 20-Feb-1976 Legal scholar, Nobel Prize recipient
F. Albert Cotton
Chemist
9-Apr-1930 20-Feb-2007 Metal-metal bonds
Rosemary DeCamp
Actor
14-Nov-1910 20-Feb-2001 Yankee Doodle Dandy
Sandra Dee
Actor
23-Apr-1942 20-Feb-2005 Gidget
Frederick Douglass
Activist
Feb-1817 20-Feb-1895 Anti-slavery activist and autobiographer
Renato Dulbecco
Scientist
22-Feb-1914 20-Feb-2012 Tumor viruses and host genetics
Orville L. Freeman
Politician
9-May-1918 20-Feb-2003 Governor of Minnesota, 1955-61
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Physicist
28-Jun-1906 20-Feb-1972 Shell nuclear model
Curt Gowdy
Sports Journalist
31-Jul-1919 20-Feb-2006 Voice of the Red Sox
Percy Grainger
Composer
8-Jul-1882 20-Feb-1961 Country Gardens
Dwight H. Green
Politician
9-Jan-1897 20-Feb-1958 Governor of Illinois, 1941-49
Alexander Haig
Government
2-Dec-1924 20-Feb-2010 US Secretary of State, 1981-82
Katie Hall
Politician
3-Apr-1938 20-Feb-2012 Congresswoman from Indiana, 1982-85
Thurston Hall
Actor
10-May-1882 20-Feb-1958 Mr. Schuyler on Topper
Halliwell Hobbes
Actor
16-Nov-1877 20-Feb-1962 British-American character actor
Andreas Hofer
Military
22-Nov-1767 20-Feb-1810 Tirolese patriot, insurgent
James I
Royalty
1394 20-Feb-1437 King of Scotland, 1406-37
Joseph II
Royalty
13-Mar-1741 20-Feb-1790 Holy Roman Emperor, 1765-90
Charles Knowlton
Doctor
10-May-1800 20-Feb-1850 Early advocate of birth control
Kathryn Kuhlman
Religion
9-May-1907 20-Feb-1976 Faith healer, I Believe In Miracles
Ferruccio Lamborghini
Business
28-Apr-1916 20-Feb-1993 Lamborghini tractors and sports cars
Robert P. Lamont
Politician
1-Dec-1867 20-Feb-1948 US Commerce Secretary, 1929-32
Ty Longley
Guitarist
4-Sep-1971 20-Feb-2003 Guitarist for Great White, killed in fire
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Socialite
12-Feb-1884 20-Feb-1980 The Other Washington Monument
Johann Tobias Mayer
Astronomer
17-Feb-1723 20-Feb-1762 Kosmographische Nachrichten
Lachlan McIntosh
Military
17-Mar-1725 20-Feb-1806 Killed Button Gwinnett in a duel
Victor H. Metcalf
Government
10-Oct-1853 20-Feb-1936 US Secretary of the Navy, 1906-08
Henri Moissan
Chemist
28-Sep-1852 20-Feb-1907 Isolated fluorine
Chester W. Nimitz
Military
24-Feb-1885 20-Feb-1966 WWII Commander of US Pacific Navy
Robert E. Peary
Explorer
6-May-1856 20-Feb-1920 First to reach the North Pole
Robert Quarry
Actor
3-Nov-1925 20-Feb-2009 Count Yorga, Vampire
John Raitt
Actor
29-Jan-1917 20-Feb-2005 Broadway actor
Joseph Banks Rhine
Paranormal
29-Sep-1885 20-Feb-1980 Father of modern parapsychology
Gene Siskel
Critic
26-Jan-1946 20-Feb-1999 Siskel and Ebert
Robert Strauss
Actor
8-Nov-1913 20-Feb-1975 Animal in Stalag 17
Toru Takemitsu
Composer
8-Oct-1930 20-Feb-1996 A Way A Lone
Tancred
Royalty
? 20-Feb-1194 King of Sicily
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist
18-Jul-1937 20-Feb-2005 Gonzo journalist and author
La Voisin
Paranormal
? 20-Feb-1680 French sorceress, affaire des poisons
Walter Winchell
Radio Personality
7-Apr-1897 20-Feb-1972 Gossip commentator
Carroll D. Wright
Sociologist
25-Jul-1840 20-Feb-1909 The Industrial Evolution of the United States
Dick York
Actor
4-Sep-1928 20-Feb-1992 Darrin #1 on Bewitched


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