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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Henry Adams
Historian
16-Feb-1838 28-Mar-1918 The Education of Henry Adams
Kevin Allison
Actor
16-Feb-1970   The State
Patty Andrews
Singer
16-Feb-1918   The Andrews Sisters
Natalie Angier
Journalist
16-Feb-1958   Science reporter
Aharon Appelfeld
Author
16-Feb-1932   In the Wilderness
Paul Bailey
Novelist
16-Feb-1937   At The Jerusalem
John Balance
Electronic Musician
16-Feb-1962 13-Nov-2004 Coil
Iain Banks
Author
16-Feb-1954   Consider Phlebas
Hugh Beaumont
Actor
16-Feb-1909 14-May-1982 Ward Cleaver on Leave It To Beaver
Brian Bedford
Actor
16-Feb-1935   The School for Wives
Edgar Bergen
Actor
16-Feb-1903 30-Sep-1978 Radio's greatest ventriloquist
Jerome Bettis
Football
16-Feb-1972   The Bus
Otis Blackwell
Songwriter
16-Feb-1932 6-May-2002 Prolific R&B songwriter
Giambattista Bodoni
Publisher
16-Feb-1740 29-Nov-1813 Italian printer
Sonny Bono
Singer
16-Feb-1935 5-Jan-1998 Moustached half of Sonny and Cher
Pierre Bouguer
Mathematician
16-Feb-1698 15-Aug-1758 French photometrist
Christopher Boyce
Spy
16-Feb-1953   The Falcon
Van Wyck Brooks
Critic
16-Feb-1886 2-May-1963 Finders & Makers
Jeremy Bulloch
Actor
16-Feb-1945   Boba Fett in the Star Wars series
LeVar Burton
Actor
16-Feb-1957   La Forge on Star Trek: TNG
Sarah Clarke
Actor
16-Feb-1972   Nina Myers on 24
Katharine Cornell
Actor
16-Feb-1898 9-Jun-1974 The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Vernon Dent
Actor
16-Feb-1895 5-Nov-1963 Frequent foil to The Three Stooges
Christopher Eccleston
Actor
16-Feb-1964   Shallow Grave
Warren Ellis
Author
16-Feb-1968   Transmetropolitan
John V. Faraci
Business
16-Feb-1950   CEO of International Paper
Lupe Fiasco
Rapper
16-Feb-1982   Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
Robert J. Flaherty
Film Director
16-Feb-1884 23-Jul-1951 Nanook of the North
Richard Ford
Novelist
16-Feb-1944   Independence Day
Cathy Freeman
Track and Field
16-Feb-1973   Olympic 400m gold medalist
Julio M. Fuentes
Judge
16-Feb-1946   3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
Francis Galton
Anthropologist
16-Feb-1822 17-Jan-1911 Word Association Test
Harry Goz
Actor
16-Feb-1932 6-Sep-2003 Captain Murphy on Sealab 2021
Hua Guofeng
Head of State
16-Feb-1921 20-Aug-2008 Premier of China, 1976-80
Ernst Haeckel
Zoologist
16-Feb-1834 9-Aug-1919 Proponent of evolution
Peter Hain
Politician
16-Feb-1950   British MP, Neath
Joe Frank Harris
Politician
16-Feb-1936   Governor of Georgia, 1983-91
Margaux Hemingway
Actor
16-Feb-1955 2-Jul-1996 Troubled actress OD'd on klonopin
Amanda Holden
Actor
16-Feb-1971   Mia Bevan on Cutting It
Carl Icahn
Business
16-Feb-1936   Billionaire, took over TWA
Ice-T
Rapper
16-Feb-1958   Pimp, Cop Killer
Kim Jong Il
Head of State
16-Feb-1941 17-Dec-2011 Dictator of North Korea, 1994-2011
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
Head of State
16-Feb-1932   President of Sierra Leone, 1998-2007
William Katt
Actor
16-Feb-1951   Greatest American Hero
George F. Kennan
Diplomat
16-Feb-1904 17-Mar-2005 Architect of US policy of Soviet containment
Steve Kmetko
TV Personality
16-Feb-1953   Boyfriend of Greg Louganis
Dave Lombardo
Drummer
16-Feb-1965   Slayer drummer
Lisa Loring
Actor
16-Feb-1958   Wednesday on The Addams Family
Jeffrey Lynn
Actor
16-Feb-1909 24-Nov-1995 Home Town Story
Dick McDonald
Business
16-Feb-1909 14-Jul-1998 Co-Founder of McDonald's
John McEnroe
Tennis
16-Feb-1959   Winner of 17 Grand Slam titles
Octave Mirbeau
Novelist
16-Feb-1850 16-Feb-1917 Le Jardin des supplices
Stephen Moore
Activist
16-Feb-1960   Club for Growth
Chester Morris
Actor
16-Feb-1901 11-Sep-1970 Boston Blackie
Elizabeth Olsen
Actor
16-Feb-1989   Martha Marcy May Marlene
Bradford W. Parkinson
Engineer
16-Feb-1935   Global Positioning System
Herbert C. Pell
Diplomat
16-Feb-1884 17-Jul-1961 US Ambassador to Portugal, 1937-41
Randall Brooks Phillips
Journalist
16-Feb-1967   Spectrum Media
Hal Porter
Author
16-Feb-1911 29-Sep-1984 A Handful of Pennies
Pete Postlethwaite
Actor
16-Feb-1946 2-Jan-2011 In the Name of the Father
Barry Primus
Actor
16-Feb-1938   Gold Coast
Phineas P. Quimby
Hoaxer
16-Feb-1802 16-Jan-1866 Father of New Thought movement
Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.
Government
16-Feb-1916 8-Jun-2000 1953 Iran coup
Jack Rose
Guitarist
16-Feb-1971 5-Dec-2009 Pelt
Valentino Rossi
Auto Racing
16-Feb-1979   Italian MotoGP Champion
George E. Sangmeister
Politician
16-Feb-1931 7-Oct-2007 Congressman from Illinois, 1989-95
John Schlesinger
Film Director
16-Feb-1926 25-Jul-2003 Marathon Man
Louis Michael Seidman
Scholar
16-Feb-1947   Our Unsettled Constitution
Tabitha Stevens
Pornstar
16-Feb-1970   San Fernando Jones & the Temple of Poon
Roger W. Stone
Business
16-Feb-1935   CEO of Stone Container, 1979-99
John Tartaglia
Actor
16-Feb-1978   Johnny and the Sprites
Andy Taylor
Guitarist
16-Feb-1961   Guitarist for Duran Duran
Eckhart Tolle
Religion
16-Feb-1948   The Power of Now
G. M. Trevelyan
Historian
16-Feb-1876 21-Jul-1962 England under Queen Anne
Vera-Ellen
Dancer
16-Feb-1921 30-Aug-1981 On the Town
Edward T. Wailes
Diplomat
16-Feb-1903 25-Jun-1969 US Ambassador to Iran, 1958-61
Henry Watterson
Journalist
16-Feb-1840 22-Dec-1921 Founder of Louisville Courier-Journal
Frank Welker
Actor
16-Feb-1945   Voice actor, Transformers
Roberta Williams
Artist
16-Feb-1953   Queen of the Graphic Adventure
Henry Wilson
Politician
16-Feb-1812 22-Nov-1875 Vice President under Grant




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