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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
John Quincy Adams
Head of State
11-Jul-1767 23-Feb-1848 6th US President, 1825-29
Carl Anderson
Singer
27-Feb-1945 23-Feb-2004 Jesus Christ, Superstar
Leo Baekeland
Scientist
14-Nov-1863 23-Feb-1944 Father of plastics
Joanna Baillie
Playwright
11-Sep-1762 23-Feb-1851 Family Legend
Joseph W. Barr
Government
17-Jan-1918 23-Feb-1996 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1968-69
Pedro Bloch
Playwright
17-Apr-1914 23-Feb-2004 The Hands of Eurydice
Adrian Boult
Conductor
8-Apr-1889 23-Feb-1983 Conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra, 1930-50
Anson Burlingame
Diplomat
14-Nov-1820 23-Feb-1870 US Ambassador to China, 1861-70
Frederick Busch
Novelist
1-Aug-1941 23-Feb-2006 Don't Tell Anyone
Paul Claudel
Poet
6-Aug-1868 23-Feb-1955 French poet and diplomat
Robert L. Cochran
Politician
28-Jan-1886 23-Feb-1963 Governor of Nebraska, 1935-41
Don Cornell
Singer
21-Apr-1919 23-Feb-2004 Big band singer, It Isn't Fair
Ernest Dowson
Poet
2-Aug-1867 23-Feb-1900 English Decadent poet
José Napoleón Duarte
Head of State
23-Nov-1925 23-Feb-1990 President of El Salvador, 1984-89
Edward Elgar
Composer
2-Jun-1857 23-Feb-1934 Pomp and Circumstance
Melvin Franklin
Singer
12-Oct-1942 23-Feb-1995 Bass vocals for The Temptations
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematician
30-Apr-1777 23-Feb-1855 Perhaps the greatest German mathematician
James Herriot
Novelist
3-Oct-1916 23-Feb-1995 All Creatures Great and Small
John Keats
Poet
31-Oct-1795 23-Feb-1821 English romantic poet
Esmond Knight
Actor
4-May-1906 23-Feb-1987 The River
Fuzzy Knight
Actor
9-May-1901 23-Feb-1976 American character actor
William F. Knowland
Politician
26-Jun-1908 23-Feb-1974 US Senator, committed suicide
Frank Launder
Film Director
28-Jan-1906 23-Feb-1997 The Belles of St. Trinian's
Stan Laurel
Actor
16-Jun-1890 23-Feb-1965 Laurel and Hardy
Étienne Louis Malus
Physicist
23-Jun-1775 23-Feb-1812 Polarization of light by reflection
Nellie Melba
Singer
19-May-1861 23-Feb-1931 Operatic soprano
Robert K. Merton
Sociologist
4-Jul-1910 23-Feb-2003 On the Shoulders of Giants
Luis Palés Matos
Poet
20-Mar-1898 23-Feb-1959 Tuntún de pasa y griferia
G. Frederick Reinhardt
Diplomat
21-Oct-1911 23-Feb-1971 US Ambassador to Italy, 1961-68
Joshua Reynolds
Painter
16-Jul-1723 23-Feb-1792 English portraitist
Florence Rice
Actor
14-Feb-1911 23-Feb-1974 At the Circus
Dickinson W. Richards
Scientist
30-Oct-1895 23-Feb-1973 Cardiac catheterization
Harry Ruby
Songwriter
27-Jan-1895 23-Feb-1974 Who's Sorry Now?
Robert Smalls
Politician
5-Apr-1839 23-Feb-1915 Slave elected to Congress from South Carolina
Horst Wessel
Activist
9-Oct-1907 23-Feb-1930 Nazi martyr
Jessamyn West
Author
18-Jul-1902 23-Feb-1984 The Friendly Persuasion
Archibald Yell
Politician
9-Aug-1797 23-Feb-1847 Congressman and Governor of Arkansas


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