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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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   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
Tex Beneke
Musician
12-Feb-1914 30-May-2000 Saxophonist, The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Frank A. Bennack, Jr.
Business
12-Feb-1933   CEO of Hearst, 1979-2002
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
Edward L. Cahn
Film Director
12-Feb-1899 25-Aug-1963 It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Thomas Campion
Composer
12-Feb-1567 1-Mar-1620 English musical poet, Bookes of Ayres
Al Cervi
Basketball
12-Feb-1917 9-Nov-2009 NBA Hall of Famer
Ernest Clark
Actor
12-Feb-1912 11-Nov-1994 Sir Geoffrey Loftus
Costa-Gavras
Film Director
12-Feb-1933   Z
James Dwight Dana
Geologist
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
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Tennis
12-Feb-1980   Winner, 2003 French Open
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
David Graeber
Anthropologist
12-Feb-1961   Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Lorne Greene
Actor
12-Feb-1915 11-Sep-1987 Ben Cartwright on Bonanza
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
Michael Daly Hawkins
Judge
12-Feb-1945   9th Circuit Court of Appeals
John Michael Higgins
Actor
12-Feb-1963   The Late Shift
Michael Ironside
Actor
12-Feb-1950   Scanners, Top Gun, Starship Troopers
Brett M. Kavanaugh
Judge
12-Feb-1965   US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit
Joseph Kearns
Actor
12-Feb-1907 17-Feb-1962 Mr. Wilson on Dennis the Menace
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
John L. Lewis
Labor Leader
12-Feb-1880 11-Jun-1969 President, United Mine Workers, 1920-60
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-1936 19-Jun-2012 The Sword and the Sorcerer
Simon MacCorkindale
Actor
12-Feb-1952 14-Oct-2010 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
Joan Mitchell
Painter
12-Feb-1925 30-Oct-1992 Abstract Expressionist
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
Anna Pavlova
Dancer
12-Feb-1881 22-Jan-1931 Early 20th century Russian ballerina
Chynna Phillips
Singer
12-Feb-1968   Wilson Phillips
Christina Ricci
Actor
12-Feb-1980   The Addams Family
Sabato Rodia
Artist
12-Feb-1879 19-Jul-1965 Watts Towers
Bill Russell
Basketball
12-Feb-1934   Boston Celtics, five time MVP
Silvia Saint
Pornstar
12-Feb-1976   European Cuntinent, Loadman Cummith
Raphael Sbarge
Actor
12-Feb-1964   Archie Hopper on Once Upon a Time
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
David B. Sentelle
Judge
12-Feb-1943   US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit
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, 1981-2011
Jesse Spencer
Actor
12-Feb-1979   House, MD
Jennifer Stone
Actor
12-Feb-1993   Wizards of Waverly Place
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
Robin Thomas
Actor
12-Feb-1949   Louis Perillo on The Division
Sigrid Thornton
Actor
12-Feb-1959   The Man from Snowy River
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
Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia
Royalty
12-Feb-1937   Crown Prince of Italy
John Winthrop the Younger
Politician
12-Feb-1606 5-Apr-1676 Governor of Colonial Connecticut
Franco Zeffirelli
Film Director
12-Feb-1923   Romeo and Juliet
Phil Zimmermann
Computer Programmer
12-Feb-1954   Creator of PGP
Louis Zorich
Actor
12-Feb-1924   Burt Buchman on Mad About You


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