| 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 |
|
Pi, 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 |
| 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 |
| Al Cervi |
Basketball |
12-Feb-1917 |
|
NBA Hall of Famer |
| Costa-Gavras |
Film Director |
12-Feb-1933 |
|
Z |
| James Dwight Dana |
Scientist |
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 |
| 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 |
| Lorne Greene |
Actor |
12-Feb-1915 |
11-Sep-1987 |
Actor, wildlife host, promoter of dogfood |
| 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 |
| John Michael Higgins |
Actor |
12-Feb-1963 |
|
The Late Shift |
| Michael Ironside |
Actor |
12-Feb-1950 |
|
Top Gun, Starship Troopers |
| 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 |
| 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-1940 |
|
The Sword and the Sorcerer |
| Simon MacCorkindale |
Actor |
12-Feb-1952 |
|
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 |
| 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 |
| Christina Ricci |
Actor |
12-Feb-1980 |
|
The Addams Family |
| Bill Russell |
Basketball |
12-Feb-1934 |
|
Boston Celtics, five time MVP |
| Silvia Saint |
Pornstar |
12-Feb-1976 |
|
European Cuntinent, Loadman Cummith |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jesse Spencer |
Actor |
12-Feb-1979 |
|
House, MD |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| John Winthrop the Younger |
Politician |
12-Feb-1606 |
5-Apr-1676 |
Governor of Colonial Connecticut |
| Franco Zeffirelli |
Film Director |
12-Feb-1923 |
|
Many a Shakespeare movie |
| Phil Zimmermann |
Computer Programmer |
12-Feb-1954 |
|
Creator of PGP |