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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Peter Arno
Cartoonist
8-Jan-1904 22-Feb-1968 The New Yorker
Angela Baddeley
Actor
4-Jul-1904 22-Feb-1976 Upstairs, Downstairs
Florence Ballard
Singer
30-Jun-1943 22-Feb-1976 The Supremes
Zdzislaw Beksinski
Painter
24-Feb-1929 22-Feb-2005 Fantastic-Realist Painter
Curtis Bernhardt
Film Director
15-Apr-1899 22-Feb-1981 A Stolen Life
Elizabeth Bowen
Author
7-Jun-1899 22-Feb-1973 The Heat of the Day
David F. Bradford
Economist
8-Jan-1939 22-Feb-2005 Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93
Charles Brockden Brown
Novelist
17-Jan-1771 22-Feb-1810 First American novelist, Wieland
Samuel Byck
Assassin
30-Jan-1930 22-Feb-1974 Unsuccessful Nixon assassin
Frank Carson
Comic
11-Jun-1926 22-Feb-2012 Irish comedian
Camille Corot
Painter
16-Jul-1796 22-Feb-1875 French landscape painter
Pietro Damiani
Religion
1007 22-Feb-1072 11th c. Doctor of the Chuch
David II
Royalty
5-Mar-1324 22-Feb-1371 King of Scotland, 1329-71
John Fahey
Guitarist
28-Feb-1939 22-Feb-2001 The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
Sir Raymond Firth
Anthropologist
25-Mar-1901 22-Feb-2002 Economic Anthropology
Ed Flanders
Actor
29-Dec-1934 22-Feb-1995 Dr. Westphall on St. Elsewhere
Felix Frankfurter
Judge
15-Nov-1882 22-Feb-1965 US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-62
Frances E. W. Harper
Poet
24-Sep-1825 22-Feb-1911 Abolitionist, temperance activist
Michael D. Harter
Politician
6-Apr-1846 22-Feb-1896 Congressman, committed suicide
Sandy Hume
Journalist
c. 1969 22-Feb-1998 The Hill Correspondent, 1996-98
Dennis Johnson
Basketball
18-Sep-1954 22-Feb-2007 Boston Celtics
Thomas Johnson
Judge
4-Nov-1732 22-Feb-1819 Governor of Maryland, 1777-79
Chuck Jones
Cartoonist
21-Sep-1912 22-Feb-2002 Directed Bugs Bunny cartoons
Oskar Kokoschka
Painter
1-Mar-1886 22-Feb-1980 Austrian expressionist painter
Charles Lyell
Geologist
14-Nov-1797 22-Feb-1875 Principles of Geology
Antonio Machado
Poet
26-Jul-1875 22-Feb-1939 Generation of '98
Francisco Madero
Head of State
30-Oct-1873 22-Feb-1913 El loquito President of Mexico, 1911-13
Frederic Manning
Poet
1887 22-Feb-1935 The Middle Parts of Fortune
John W. Martin
Politician
21-Jun-1884 22-Feb-1958 Governor of Florida, 1925-29
Phyllis McGinley
Poet
21-Mar-1905 22-Feb-1978 A Pocketful of Wry
Evan Mecham
Politician
12-May-1924 22-Feb-2008 Governor of Arizona, 1987-88
Maurine Brown Neuberger
Politician
9-Jan-1907 22-Feb-2000 US Senator from Oregon, 1960-67
Mabel Normand
Actor
16-Nov-1892 22-Feb-1930 Tillie's Punctured Romance
Bill Nye
Columnist
25-Aug-1850 22-Feb-1896 Bill Nye and Boomerang
Michel Oksenberg
Scholar
12-Oct-1938 22-Feb-2001 Leading sinologist
Katina Paxinou
Actor
17-Dec-1900 22-Feb-1973 For Whom the Bell Tolls
Charles Willson Peale
Painter
15-Feb-1741 22-Feb-1827 Early American portrait painter
Abraham Ribicoff
Politician
9-Apr-1910 22-Feb-1998 Senator and Governor from Connecticut
Winthrop Rockefeller
Business
1-May-1912 22-Feb-1973 Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71
Donald S. Russell
Politician
22-Feb-1906 22-Feb-1998 Governor of South Carolina, 1967-71
Jonas Savimbi
Military
3-Aug-1934 22-Feb-2002 Angolan UNITA rebel
Alexander Scourby
Actor
13-Nov-1913 22-Feb-1985 Stage, radio, and film actor
Albert Shanker
Labor Leader
14-Sep-1928 22-Feb-1997 American Federation of Teachers
Harry Simeone
Musician
9-May-1911 22-Feb-2005 The Harry Simeone Chorale
Simone Simon
Actor
23-Apr-1910 22-Feb-2005 Cat People
Sydney Smith
Religion
3-Jun-1771 22-Feb-1845 Instigated the Edinburgh Review
Charles Stenvig
Politician
16-Jan-1928 22-Feb-2010 Twice Mayor of Minneapolis
Sir Leslie Stephen
Encyclopaedist
28-Nov-1832 22-Feb-1904 Dictionary of National Biography
Stigand
Religion
? 22-Feb-1072 Archbishop of Canterbury, 1052-70
David Susskind
Talk Show Host
19-Dec-1920 22-Feb-1987 The David Susskind Show
Lionel Tertis
Violist
29-Dec-1876 22-Feb-1975 First prominent violist
Amerigo Vespucci
Explorer
9-Mar-1454 22-Feb-1512 American eponym
David Vetter
Victim
21-Sep-1971 22-Feb-1984 The Boy in the Bubble
Ian Wallace
Drummer
29-Sep-1946 22-Feb-2007 Ex-Crimson and active session drummer
Andy Warhol
Artist
6-Aug-1928 22-Feb-1987 Pop Art movement
Glenway Wescott
Novelist
11-Apr-1901 22-Feb-1987 The Pilgrim Hawk
Hugo Wolf
Composer
13-Mar-1860 22-Feb-1903 19th century German songwriter
Howard Zieff
Film Director
21-Oct-1927 22-Feb-2009 Private Benjamin
Efrem Zimbalist
Violinist
9-Apr-1889 22-Feb-1985 Russian-American violinist




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