| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Tsar Alexis |
Royalty |
19-Mar-1629 |
8-Feb-1676 |
Tsar of Russia, 1645-76 |
| William Bateson |
Biologist |
8-Aug-1861 |
8-Feb-1926 |
Founder of genetics |
| Walther Bothe |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1891 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Pioneer of nuclear spectroscopy |
| Samuel P. Bush |
Relative |
4-Oct-1863 |
8-Feb-1948 |
Father of Senator Prescott Bush |
| Cetshwayo |
Royalty |
c. 1826 |
8-Feb-1884 |
Zulu king |
| Oscar L. Chapman |
Government |
22-Oct-1896 |
8-Feb-1978 |
US Secretary of the Interior, 1949-53 |
| Silvio O. Conte |
Politician |
9-Nov-1921 |
8-Feb-1991 |
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1959-91 |
| Charles Curtis |
Politician |
25-Jan-1860 |
8-Feb-1936 |
US Vice President, 1929-33 |
| Wild Bill Donovan |
Government |
1-Jan-1883 |
8-Feb-1959 |
Founded the OSS |
| Edward R. Dudley |
Diplomat |
11-Mar-1911 |
8-Feb-2005 |
First Black US Ambassador |
| Dennis Gabor |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1900 |
8-Feb-1979 |
Inventor of holography |
| John White Geary |
Politician |
30-Dec-1819 |
8-Feb-1873 |
Governor of Kansas and Pennsylvania |
| Victor Gollancz |
Publisher |
9-Apr-1893 |
8-Feb-1967 |
Founder of Victor Gollancz, Ltd. |
| Aaron Hill |
Playwright |
10-Feb-1685 |
8-Feb-1750 |
The Progress of Wit |
| Felix Hoffmann |
Chemist |
21-Jan-1868 |
8-Feb-1946 |
Aspirin and heroin |
| Francis Horner |
Economist |
12-Aug-1778 |
8-Feb-1817 |
Bullion Report |
| Robert Jastrow |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1925 |
8-Feb-2008 |
Red Giants and White Dwarfs |
| Keith Knudsen |
Drummer |
18-Feb-1948 |
8-Feb-2005 |
Drummer for the Doobie Brothers |
| Peter Kropotkin |
Anarchist |
21-Dec-1842 |
8-Feb-1921 |
Libertarian anarchist revolutionary |
| Halldór Laxness |
Author |
23-Apr-1902 |
8-Feb-1998 |
Iceland's Bell |
| Morris E. Leeds |
Business |
6-Mar-1869 |
8-Feb-1952 |
Leeds & Northrup Co. |
| Harriet MacGibbon |
Actor |
5-Oct-1905 |
8-Feb-1987 |
Mrs. Drysdale on Beverly Hillbillies |
| Connie Mack |
Baseball |
22-Dec-1862 |
8-Feb-1956 |
Manager of the Philadelphia Athletics |
| Mary I of Scotland |
Royalty |
8-Dec-1542 |
8-Feb-1587 |
Mary, Queen of Scots |
| May Miller |
Playwright |
26-Jan-1899 |
8-Feb-1995 |
The Bog Guide |
| Iris Murdoch |
Novelist |
15-Jul-1919 |
8-Feb-1999 |
The Sea, the Sea |
| Peter the Great |
Royalty |
9-Jun-1672 |
8-Feb-1725 |
Tsar of Russia, 1689-1725 |
| Enoch Powell |
Politician |
16-Jun-1912 |
8-Feb-1998 |
British demagogue |
| Louis Renault |
Government |
21-May-1843 |
8-Feb-1918 |
International arbitrator, Nobel recipient |
| Sir Robert Robinson |
Chemist |
13-Sep-1886 |
8-Feb-1975 |
Researcher of alkaloids |
| Vesta Roy |
Politician |
26-Mar-1925 |
8-Feb-2002 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1982-83 |
| Eldon Dean Rudd |
Politician |
15-Jul-1920 |
8-Feb-2002 |
Congressman from Airzona, 1977-87 |
| R. J. Rushdoony |
Religion |
25-Apr-1916 |
8-Feb-2001 |
Institutes of Biblical Law |
| Julius Schwartz |
Cartoonist |
19-Jun-1915 |
8-Feb-2004 |
Silver Age comics pioneer |
| Raymond Scott |
Musician |
10-Sep-1908 |
8-Feb-1994 |
Inventor of the sequencer |
| Del Shannon |
Musician |
30-Dec-1934 |
8-Feb-1990 |
1960s songwriter, Runaway |
| Anna Nicole Smith |
Model |
28-Nov-1967 |
8-Feb-2007 |
Addled golddigger |
| Jimmy Smith |
Jazz Musician |
8-Dec-1925 |
8-Feb-2005 |
Master of the Hammond B3 organ |
| David Friedrich Strauss |
Religion |
27-Jan-1808 |
8-Feb-1874 |
Leben Jesu |
| Fritz Todt |
Government |
4-Sep-1891 |
8-Feb-1942 |
Nazi engineer, finished the Autobahn |
| John von Neumann |
Scientist |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| John Hay Whitney |
Business |
17-Aug-1904 |
8-Feb-1982 |
New York Herald Tribune |
