| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Peter Benchley |
Novelist |
8-May-1940 |
11-Feb-2006 |
Jaws |
| Zina Bethune |
Actor |
17-Feb-1945 |
11-Feb-2012 |
Gail Lucas on The Nurses |
| Sorrell Booke |
Actor |
4-Jan-1930 |
11-Feb-1994 |
Boss Hogg on Dukes of Hazzard |
| John Buchan |
Author |
26-Aug-1875 |
11-Feb-1940 |
The Thirty-Nine Steps |
| Jack L. Chalker |
Author |
17-Dec-1944 |
11-Feb-2005 |
SF author, wrote Well World series |
| De Witt Clinton |
Politician |
2-Mar-1769 |
11-Feb-1828 |
Twice Governor of New York |
| Lee J. Cobb |
Actor |
8-Dec-1911 |
11-Feb-1976 |
The Left Hand of God |
| Thomas Cole |
Painter |
1-Feb-1801 |
11-Feb-1848 |
American landscape painter |
| James B. Conant |
Educator |
26-Mar-1893 |
11-Feb-1978 |
President of Harvard, 1933-53 |
| William Conrad |
Actor |
27-Sep-1920 |
11-Feb-1994 |
Jake and the Fatman |
| Kiki Cuyler |
Baseball |
30-Aug-1898 |
11-Feb-1950 |
MLB Hall of Famer |
| Ray Danton |
Actor |
19-Sep-1931 |
11-Feb-1992 |
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond |
| Honoré Daumier |
Artist |
20-Feb-1808 |
11-Feb-1879 |
Caricaturist and satirist |
| René Descartes |
Philosopher |
31-Mar-1596 |
11-Feb-1650 |
Discours de la Méthode |
| Al Dubin |
Songwriter |
10-Jun-1891 |
11-Feb-1945 |
Lullaby of Broadway |
| Sergei Eisenstein |
Film Director |
23-Jan-1898 |
11-Feb-1948 |
Alexander Nevsky |
| Paul K. Feyerabend |
Philosopher |
13-Jan-1924 |
11-Feb-1994 |
Against Method |
| Léon Foucault |
Physicist |
19-Sep-1819 |
11-Feb-1868 |
Measured the speed of light |
| Pope Gregory II |
Religion |
669 AD |
11-Feb-731 AD |
Roman Catholic Pope, 715-731 |
| Henry Hathaway |
Film Director |
13-Mar-1898 |
11-Feb-1985 |
The Sons of Katie Elder |
| Frank Herbert |
Author |
8-Oct-1920 |
11-Feb-1986 |
Dune |
| Kenneth C. Hogate |
Publisher |
27-Jul-1897 |
11-Feb-1947 |
President of Dow Jones, 1931-45 |
| Robert W. Holley |
Scientist |
28-Jan-1922 |
11-Feb-1993 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Whitney Houston |
Singer |
9-Aug-1963 |
11-Feb-2012 |
Diva and cautionary tale |
| J. Hans D. Jensen |
Physicist |
25-Jun-1907 |
11-Feb-1973 |
Shell nuclear model |
| Willem Johan Kolff |
Scientist |
14-Feb-1911 |
11-Feb-2009 |
Artificial kidney, artificial heart |
| Tom Lantos |
Politician |
1-Feb-1928 |
11-Feb-2008 |
Congressman from California, 1981-2008 |
| Jozef Lenart |
Head of State |
3-Apr-1923 |
11-Feb-2004 |
Czech Prime Minister, 1963-68 |
| Howard Lindsay |
Playwright |
29-Mar-1889 |
11-Feb-1968 |
The Sound of Music |
| Jacques Loeb |
Doctor |
7-Apr-1859 |
11-Feb-1924 |
Investigator of artificial parthenogenesis |
| Harry Martinson |
Poet |
6-May-1904 |
11-Feb-1978 |
Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space |
| Ona Munson |
Actor |
16-Jun-1903 |
11-Feb-1955 |
Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind |
| Pope Paschal I |
Religion |
? |
11-Feb-824 AD |
Roman Catholic Pope, 817-24 |
| Sylvia Plath |
Poet |
27-Oct-1932 |
11-Feb-1963 |
Daddy |
| Don Porter |
Actor |
24-Sep-1912 |
11-Feb-1997 |
Prof. Lawrence on Gidget |
| Eleanor Powell |
Dancer |
21-Nov-1912 |
11-Feb-1982 |
Lady Be Good |
| William Shenstone |
Poet |
18-Nov-1714 |
11-Feb-1763 |
The Schoolmistress |
| Takashi Shimura |
Actor |
12-Mar-1905 |
11-Feb-1982 |
The Seven Samurai |
| George Stephen |
Business |
c. 1921 |
11-Feb-1993 |
Weber kettle grill |
| Robert Surtees |
Historian |
1779 |
11-Feb-1834 |
History of Durham |
| Roger Vadim |
Film Director |
26-Jan-1928 |
11-Feb-2000 |
Barbarella |
