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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Sergei Averintsev
Author
10-Dec-1937 21-Feb-2004 Myth of the Peoples of the World
Frederick G. Banting
Scientist
14-Nov-1891 21-Feb-1941 Discovered insulin
A. L. Barker
Novelist
13-Apr-1918 21-Feb-2002 Innocents
George Bascom
Military
c. 1837 21-Feb-1862 Launched Cochise on the warpath
Jacques Becker
Film Director
15-Sep-1906 21-Feb-1960 Le Trou
Pope Benedict XIII
Religion
2-Feb-1649 21-Feb-1730 Roman Catholic Pope, 1724-30
Hieronymus Bock
Botanist
1498 21-Feb-1554 Arranged and ordered plants systematically
Ina Claire
Actor
15-Oct-1893 21-Feb-1985 Ninotchka
Oscar Collazo
Assassin
20-Feb-1914 21-Feb-1994 Attempted assassin of Truman
John S. Cooper
Politician
23-Aug-1901 21-Feb-1991 US Senator from Kentucky
George Henry Corliss
Inventor
2-Jun-1817 21-Feb-1888 Corliss valve and steam engines
Gertrude B. Elion
Scientist
23-Jan-1918 21-Feb-1999 Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS
Bernard Fall
Journalist
19-Nov-1926 21-Feb-1967 Scholar of the Vietnam conflict
Howard Florey
Scientist
24-Sep-1898 21-Feb-1968 Isolated penicillin
Margot Fonteyn
Dancer
18-May-1919 21-Feb-1991 Exceptional British ballerina
Nikolai Gogol
Author
19-Mar-1809 21-Feb-1852 Dead Souls, The Overcoat
George Ellery Hale
Astronomer
29-Jun-1868 21-Feb-1938 Palomar Observatory founder, astronomer
Louis Hayward
Actor
19-Mar-1909 21-Feb-1985 The Man in the Iron Mask
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
Sculptor
9-Oct-1830 21-Feb-1908 19th c. American sculptor in Rome
William K. Howard
Film Director
16-Jun-1899 21-Feb-1954 Fire Over England
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Novelist
22-Apr-1929 21-Feb-2005 Tres Tristes Tigres
Pope Julius II
Religion
5-Dec-1443 21-Feb-1513 Roman Catholic Pope, 1503-13
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Physicist
21-Sep-1853 21-Feb-1926 Liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity
Harvey Kurtzman
Cartoonist
3-Oct-1924 21-Feb-1993 Founding editor, Mad magazine
Mary Lasker
Activist
30-Nov-1900 21-Feb-1994 Health care advocate
Malcolm X
Activist
19-May-1925 21-Feb-1965 Nation of Islam
James H. McGraw
Publisher
17-Dec-1860 21-Feb-1948 Co-Founder of the McGraw-Hill Companies
Robin Moore
Author
31-Oct-1925 21-Feb-2008 The Green Berets
Daniel Pearl
Journalist
10-Oct-1963 21-Feb-2002 Murdered Wall Street Journal reporter
Russell W. Peterson
Politician
3-Oct-1916 21-Feb-2011 Governor of Delaware, 1969-73
Gershom Scholem
Historian
5-Dec-1897 21-Feb-1982 Revolutionized the study of Kabbalah
Dr. Gene Scott
Religion
14-Aug-1929 21-Feb-2005 Eccentric televangelist
Mikhail Sholokhov
Author
24-May-1905 21-Feb-1984 The Silent Don
Robert Southwell
Religion
c. 1561 21-Feb-1595 Catholic martyr, hanged at Tyburn
Baruch de Spinoza
Philosopher
24-Nov-1632 21-Feb-1677 Rationalist, lensmaker
John Thaw
Actor
3-Jan-1942 21-Feb-2002 Inspector Morse
Jethro Tull
Agriculturalist
1674 21-Feb-1741 The Horse-hoeing Husbandry
Ernest Vandiver
Politician
3-Jul-1918 21-Feb-2005 Governor of Georgia, 1959-63
Mary Edwards Walker
Doctor
26-Nov-1832 21-Feb-1919 First female US Army surgeon
James Wieghart
Journalist
16-Aug-1933 21-Feb-2010 Editor, NY Daily News, 1982-84
Bertram D. Wolfe
Historian
19-Jan-1896 21-Feb-1977 Three Who Made a Revolution


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