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1 Feb 1901 - Clark Gable, Actor (Gone With The Wind)
3 Feb 1894 - Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers)
4 Feb 1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh, (Lucky Lindy) 1st to fly solo across Atlantic
5 Feb 1723 - John Witherspoon, clergyman, & signer of Declaration of Independence
5 Feb 1900 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) Illinois Govenor & Presidential candidate
6 Feb 1665 - Queen Anne of England, (1702-14)
6 Feb 1756 - Aaron Burr, (D-R) 3rd US VP (1801-05) & dueler
6 Feb 1911 - Ronald Reagan, (R) Actor & 40th US President (1981-89)
7 Feb 1812 - Charles Dickens, novelist (Oliver Twist, & Tale of Two Cities)
7 Feb 1817 - Frederick Douglas, 1st black to hold high rank in US government
8 Feb 1820 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general ("War is hell")
9 Feb 1773 - William Henry Harrison, 9th US President (March 4-April 4 1841)
11 Feb 1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, born in NJ lit up your life (held 1200 patents)
11 Feb 1936 - Burt Reynolds, Actor (Famous Movies - Deliverance, The End, & Smokey & the Bandit)
12 Feb 1775 - Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams
12 Feb 1809 - Abraham Lincoln,(R), 16th U.S. President (1861-65)
12 Feb 1809 - Charles Darwin, Evolutionist- born in Shrewsbury, England
13 Feb 1542 - Catherine Howard, 5th wife of King Henry VIII
15 Feb 1564 - Galileo Galilei, Astronomer born in Pisa - Italy
15 Feb 1726 - Abraham Clark, farmer, lawyer, & signer of Declaration of Independence
15 Feb 1797 - Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
15 Feb 1820 - Susan B Anthony, Woman's suffragette
15 Feb 1845 - Elihu Root ,(R), U.S. secretary of state (Nobel Peace Prize 1912)
16 Feb 1812 - Henry Wilson, (R), 18th VP (1873-75)
17 Feb 1874 - Thomas J. Watson Sr., founder of IBM (International Business Machines)
18 Feb 1516 - Queen Mary I, aka “Bloody Mary” (1553-58) - 1st reigning queen of Great Britain
18 Feb 1848 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, Glassmaker
18 Feb 1954 - John Travolta, Actor (Famous movie - Saturday Night Fever)
20 Feb 1902 - Ansel Adams, Photographer
22 Feb 1403 - Charles VII, king of France (1422-61) - drove out English
22 Feb 1732 - George Washington, 1st US President (1789-1796) & Father figure
22 Feb 1778 - Rembrandt Peale, U.S. portrait & historical painter
22 Feb 1810 - Frederic Chopin, composer
22 Feb 1819 - James Russell Lowell, poet, critic, diplomat, & abolitionist
22 Feb 1857 - Heinrich Hertz, physicist & 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
23 Feb 1685 - George Friderick Handel, Baroque composer born in Germany
24 Feb 1955 - Steven Jobs, Apple Computer co-founder
25 Feb 1841 - Pierre Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter
26 Feb 1802 - Victor Hugo, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame) born in France
26 Feb 1846 - William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, born near Davenport Iowa - Frontiersman
26 Feb 1932 - Johnny Cash, Country singer known as “The Man in Black”
27 Feb 0289 - Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (312-37) - adopted Christianity
27 Feb 1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet born in Portland Maine
27 Feb 1902 - John Steinbeck, U.S. author (The Grapes of Wrath) (Nobel 1962)
27 Feb 1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, Actress (Cleopatra) born in London - Famous for her violet colored eyes
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