Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Peter Arno |
Cartoonist |
8-Jan-1904 |
22-Feb-1968 |
The New Yorker |
Angela Baddeley |
Actor |
4-Jul-1904 |
22-Feb-1976 |
Upstairs, Downstairs |
Florence Ballard |
Singer |
30-Jun-1943 |
22-Feb-1976 |
The Supremes |
Zdzislaw Beksinski |
Painter |
24-Feb-1929 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Fantastic-Realist Painter |
Curtis Bernhardt |
Film Director |
15-Apr-1899 |
22-Feb-1981 |
A Stolen Life |
Elizabeth Bowen |
Author |
7-Jun-1899 |
22-Feb-1973 |
The Heat of the Day |
David F. Bradford |
Economist |
8-Jan-1939 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
Charles Brockden Brown |
Novelist |
17-Jan-1771 |
22-Feb-1810 |
First American novelist, Wieland |
Samuel Byck |
Assassin |
30-Jan-1930 |
22-Feb-1974 |
Unsuccessful Nixon assassin |
Frank Carson |
Comic |
11-Jun-1926 |
22-Feb-2012 |
Irish comedian |
Camille Corot |
Painter |
16-Jul-1796 |
22-Feb-1875 |
French landscape painter |
Pietro Damiani |
Religion |
1007 |
22-Feb-1072 |
11th c. Doctor of the Chuch |
David II |
Royalty |
5-Mar-1324 |
22-Feb-1371 |
King of Scotland, 1329-71 |
John Fahey |
Guitarist |
28-Feb-1939 |
22-Feb-2001 |
The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death |
Sir Raymond Firth |
Anthropologist |
25-Mar-1901 |
22-Feb-2002 |
Economic Anthropology |
Ed Flanders |
Actor |
29-Dec-1934 |
22-Feb-1995 |
Dr. Westphall on St. Elsewhere |
Felix Frankfurter |
Judge |
15-Nov-1882 |
22-Feb-1965 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-62 |
Frances E. W. Harper |
Poet |
24-Sep-1825 |
22-Feb-1911 |
Abolitionist, temperance activist |
Michael D. Harter |
Politician |
6-Apr-1846 |
22-Feb-1896 |
Congressman, committed suicide |
Sandy Hume |
Journalist |
c. 1969 |
22-Feb-1998 |
The Hill Correspondent, 1996-98 |
Dennis Johnson |
Basketball |
18-Sep-1954 |
22-Feb-2007 |
Boston Celtics |
Thomas Johnson |
Judge |
4-Nov-1732 |
22-Feb-1819 |
Governor of Maryland, 1777-79 |
Chuck Jones |
Cartoonist |
21-Sep-1912 |
22-Feb-2002 |
Directed Bugs Bunny cartoons |
Oskar Kokoschka |
Painter |
1-Mar-1886 |
22-Feb-1980 |
Austrian expressionist painter |
Charles Lyell |
Geologist |
14-Nov-1797 |
22-Feb-1875 |
Principles of Geology |
Antonio Machado |
Poet |
26-Jul-1875 |
22-Feb-1939 |
Generation of '98 |
Francisco Madero |
Head of State |
30-Oct-1873 |
22-Feb-1913 |
El loquito President of Mexico, 1911-13 |
Frederic Manning |
Poet |
1887 |
22-Feb-1935 |
The Middle Parts of Fortune |
John W. Martin |
Politician |
21-Jun-1884 |
22-Feb-1958 |
Governor of Florida, 1925-29 |
Phyllis McGinley |
Poet |
21-Mar-1905 |
22-Feb-1978 |
A Pocketful of Wry |
Evan Mecham |
Politician |
12-May-1924 |
22-Feb-2008 |
Governor of Arizona, 1987-88 |
Maurine Brown Neuberger |
Politician |
9-Jan-1907 |
22-Feb-2000 |
US Senator from Oregon, 1960-67 |
Mabel Normand |
Actor |
16-Nov-1892 |
22-Feb-1930 |
Tillie's Punctured Romance |
Bill Nye |
Columnist |
25-Aug-1850 |
22-Feb-1896 |
Bill Nye and Boomerang |
Michel Oksenberg |
Scholar |
12-Oct-1938 |
22-Feb-2001 |
Leading sinologist |
Katina Paxinou |
Actor |
17-Dec-1900 |
22-Feb-1973 |
For Whom the Bell Tolls |
Charles Willson Peale |
Painter |
15-Feb-1741 |
22-Feb-1827 |
Early American portrait painter |
Abraham Ribicoff |
Politician |
9-Apr-1910 |
22-Feb-1998 |
Senator and Governor from Connecticut |
Winthrop Rockefeller |
Business |
1-May-1912 |
22-Feb-1973 |
Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71 |
Donald S. Russell |
Politician |
22-Feb-1906 |
22-Feb-1998 |
Governor of South Carolina, 1967-71 |
Jonas Savimbi |
Military |
3-Aug-1934 |
22-Feb-2002 |
Angolan UNITA rebel |
Alexander Scourby |
Actor |
13-Nov-1913 |
22-Feb-1985 |
Stage, radio, and film actor |
Albert Shanker |
Labor Leader |
14-Sep-1928 |
22-Feb-1997 |
American Federation of Teachers |
Harry Simeone |
Musician |
9-May-1911 |
22-Feb-2005 |
The Harry Simeone Chorale |
Simone Simon |
Actor |
23-Apr-1910 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Cat People |
Sydney Smith |
Religion |
3-Jun-1771 |
22-Feb-1845 |
Instigated the Edinburgh Review |
Charles Stenvig |
Politician |
16-Jan-1928 |
22-Feb-2010 |
Twice Mayor of Minneapolis |
Sir Leslie Stephen |
Encyclopaedist |
28-Nov-1832 |
22-Feb-1904 |
Dictionary of National Biography |
Stigand |
Religion |
? |
22-Feb-1072 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1052-70 |
David Susskind |
Talk Show Host |
19-Dec-1920 |
22-Feb-1987 |
The David Susskind Show |
Lionel Tertis |
Violist |
29-Dec-1876 |
22-Feb-1975 |
First prominent violist |
Amerigo Vespucci |
Explorer |
9-Mar-1454 |
22-Feb-1512 |
American eponym |
David Vetter |
Victim |
21-Sep-1971 |
22-Feb-1984 |
The Boy in the Bubble |
Ian Wallace |
Drummer |
29-Sep-1946 |
22-Feb-2007 |
Ex-Crimson and active session drummer |
Andy Warhol |
Artist |
6-Aug-1928 |
22-Feb-1987 |
Pop Art movement |
Glenway Wescott |
Novelist |
11-Apr-1901 |
22-Feb-1987 |
The Pilgrim Hawk |
Hugo Wolf |
Composer |
13-Mar-1860 |
22-Feb-1903 |
19th century German songwriter |
Howard Zieff |
Film Director |
21-Oct-1927 |
22-Feb-2009 |
Private Benjamin |
Efrem Zimbalist |
Violinist |
9-Apr-1889 |
22-Feb-1985 |
Russian-American violinist |