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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Hank Aaron
Baseball
5-Feb-1934   Hit 755 home runs over his career
Roberto Alomar
Baseball
5-Feb-1968   Hall of Fame second baseman
Abhishek Bachchan
Actor
5-Feb-1976   Guru and Dhoom 2
Simeon E. Baldwin
Politician
5-Feb-1840 30-Jan-1927 Governor of Connecticut, 1911-15
Robert H. Barrow
Military
5-Feb-1922 30-Oct-2008 27th USMC Commandant, 1979-83
John Beilein
Basketball
5-Feb-1953   Head Coach, University of Michigan
Bobby Brown
Singer
5-Feb-1969   My Prerogative
William S. Burroughs
Author
5-Feb-1914 2-Aug-1997 Naked Lunch
Nolan Bushnell
Business
5-Feb-1943   Co-founder of Atari, started Chuck E. Cheese
Red Buttons
Actor
5-Feb-1919 13-Jul-2006 They Shoot Horses Don't They?
John Carradine
Actor
5-Feb-1906 27-Nov-1988 In over 200 B movies
Adam Carson
Drummer
5-Feb-1975   Drummer for AFI
Don Cherry
Hockey
5-Feb-1934   Hockey player, head coach, broadcaster
André Citroën
Engineer
5-Feb-1878 3-Jul-1935 Europe's Henry Ford
Darren Criss
Actor
5-Feb-1987   Blaine Anderson on Glee
John C. Cutler
Politician
5-Feb-1846 30-Jul-1928 Utah Governor, committed suicide
Stuart Damon
Actor
5-Feb-1937   Alan Quartermaine on General Hospital
Calvin Darden
Business
5-Feb-1950   VP at UPS, 1998-2005
Mary Elizabeth Donaldson
Royalty
5-Feb-1972   Future Queen of Denmark
Sara Evans
Country Musician
5-Feb-1971   No Place That Far
Ruth Fertel
Business
5-Feb-1927 16-Apr-2002 Founder, Ruth's Chris Steak House
T. R. Fraser
Scientist
5-Feb-1841 4-Jan-1920 Made poison and venom into medicine
Mark Fuhrman
Government
5-Feb-1952   Former LAPD detective, O. J. Simpson case
H. R. Giger
Artist
5-Feb-1940   Alien designer
Jennifer Granholm
Politician
5-Feb-1959   Governor of Michigan, 2003-11
John Guare
Playwright
5-Feb-1938   Six Degrees of Separation
Christopher Guest
Actor
5-Feb-1948   This Is Spinal Tap
Jorge Guinle
Socialite
5-Feb-1916 5-Mar-2004 Brazilian playboy
John Hale
Novelist
5-Feb-1926   The Whistle Blower
Barbara Hershey
Actor
5-Feb-1948   Boxcar Bertha and Mary Magdalene
Alan L. Hodgkin
Scientist
5-Feb-1914 20-Dec-1998 Electrical impulses in nerves
Robert Hofstadter
Physicist
5-Feb-1915 17-Nov-1990 Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons
Tim Holt
Actor
5-Feb-1918 15-Feb-1973 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Author
5-Feb-1848 12-May-1907 Decadent author, À Rebours
Tony Jaa
Actor
5-Feb-1976   Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
Benoît Jacquot
Film Director
5-Feb-1947   The School of Flesh
Al Kooper
Musician
5-Feb-1944   Blood, Sweat and Tears
David Ladd
Actor
5-Feb-1947   A Dog of Flanders
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Actor
5-Feb-1962   Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Laura Linney
Actor
5-Feb-1964   Meryl in The Truman Show
Frederick Lonsdale
Playwright
5-Feb-1881 4-Apr-1954 The King of Cadonia
Michael Mann
Film Director
5-Feb-1943   Manhunter
Trayvon Martin
Victim
5-Feb-1995 26-Feb-2012 Shot and killed by George Zimmerman
Cliff Martinez
Composer
5-Feb-1954   Composer for Steven Soderbergh films
Drummond Matthews
Geologist
5-Feb-1931 20-Jul-1997 Plate tectonics
Sir Hiram Maxim
Inventor
5-Feb-1840 24-Nov-1916 Maxim machine gun
Duff McKagan
Bassist
5-Feb-1964   Ex-Bassist for Guns N' Roses
Tim Meadows
Comic
5-Feb-1961   Saturday Night Live
Dwight L. Moody
Religion
5-Feb-1837 22-Dec-1899 Revivalist, founder Northfield Mt. Hermon
Errol Morris
Film Director
5-Feb-1948   Documentary filmmaker
José María Olazábal
Golf
5-Feb-1966   Winner, 1994 and 1999 Masters
Manuel Orantes
Tennis
5-Feb-1949   Winner, 1975 US Open
James Otis
Government
5-Feb-1725 23-May-1783 Massachusetts patriot and pamphleteer
Andreas Papandreou
Head of State
5-Feb-1919 23-Jun-1996 Twice Prime Minister of Greece
James W. Pardew
Diplomat
5-Feb-1944   US Ambassador to Bulgaria, 2002-05
Chris Parnell
Actor
5-Feb-1967   Saturday Night Live
Robert Peel
Head of State
5-Feb-1788 2-Jul-1850 U.K. Prime Minister
Samuel Phillips, Jr.
Educator
5-Feb-1752 10-Feb-1802 Founder of Phillips Academy
Mahlon Pitney
Judge
5-Feb-1858 9-Dec-1924 US Supreme Court Justice, 1912-22
Frank Podmore
Author
5-Feb-1856 14-Aug-1910 Fabian Society
Jane Bryant Quinn
Journalist
5-Feb-1939   Personal finance columnist
Howell Raines
Journalist
5-Feb-1943   Executive editor, NYT, resigned
Charlotte Rampling
Actor
5-Feb-1945   The Verdict
Cristiano Ronaldo
Soccer
5-Feb-1985   Real Madrid
David Selby
Actor
5-Feb-1941   Richard Channing on Falcon Crest
Madame de Sévigné
Author
5-Feb-1626 17-Apr-1696 Eminent French letter writer
Michael Sheen
Actor
5-Feb-1969   Welsh stage actor
Norton Simon
Business
5-Feb-1907 2-Jun-1993 Founder, Norton Simon Museum
Paul L. Smith
Actor
5-Feb-1939   Midnight Express
Belle Starr
Criminal
5-Feb-1848 3-Feb-1889 Bandit Queen of the Old West
Roger Staubach
Football
5-Feb-1942   Five-time NFC leading passer
W. Richard Stevens
Author
5-Feb-1951 1-Sep-1999 UNIX Network Programming
Adlai Stevenson
Politician
5-Feb-1900 14-Jul-1965 Governor of Illinois, 1949-53
Dirk Stikker
Diplomat
5-Feb-1897 23-Dec-1979 NATO Secretary General, 1961-64
Theodore H. Strauss
Business
5-Feb-1925   Sr. Managing Director, Bear Stearns
Barrett Strong
Musician
5-Feb-1941   Influential Motown singer and composer
Punch Sulzberger
Publisher
5-Feb-1926   New York Times Publisher, 1963-91
Jeremy Sumpter
Actor
5-Feb-1989   Star of remade Peter Pan
Carlos Tévez
Soccer
5-Feb-1984   Manchester United
Stephen G. Thieke
Business
5-Feb-1947   Former Risk Manager, JP Morgan
Charles Turnbull
Politician
5-Feb-1935   Governor of Virgin Islands
Vast Aire
Rapper
5-Feb-1978   Cannibal Ox
Loudon Wainwright III
Singer/Songwriter
5-Feb-1947   Rufus was a Tit-Man
Cory Wells
Singer
5-Feb-1942   Three Dog Night
Armstrong Williams
Columnist
5-Feb-1959   Black conservative pundit on the take
Vivian Wu
Actor
5-Feb-1966   The Pillowbook
Isuzu Yamada
Actor
5-Feb-1917 9-Jul-2012 Yojimbo




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