Birthdates which
occurred on 7th February :
1478 Sir Thomas
More lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia)
1556 Maria van Nassau Dutch countess of Buren
1589 Jacob de Witt Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician
1612 Thomas Killigrew English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men)
1655 Jean-François Regnard French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria)
1688 Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange
1693 Anna Ivanova Romanova empress of Russia (1730-40)
1700 Philippe Buache French geographer/cartographer (Contourlijnen)
1707 Carl August Thielo composer
1710 William Boyce English organist/composer of Cathedral music
1739 Joseph Pouteau composer
1740 Adam-Philippe Custine French earl/General/MP
1753 Rhijnvis Feith Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle/Thirsa)
1758 Benedikt Emanuel Schack composer
1764 Ann Radcliffe London, Gothic novelist (Mysteries of Udolpho)
1801 John Rylands England, merchant/philanthropist
1803 Edgar Quinet French writer/historian (Ahasvérus)
1804 John Deere pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements
1809 Frederik Paludan-Müller Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden)
1812 Charles Dickens England, novelist (Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities)
1817 Frederick Douglass Maryland, 1st high ranking black in US government
1817 Leroy Pope Walker US lawyer/Confederate minister of War (1861)
1822 Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide composer
1823 Richard Genee composer
1824 William Higgins discovered nature of spiral "nebulae"
1825 Crystobal Oudrid y Segura composer
1833 Ricardo Palma Peru, writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas)
1834 Dmitri I Mendelejev Russian chemist (devised Periodic Table)
1837 Sir James Augustus Henry Murray Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary
1839 Nicolaas G Pierson Dutch banker/Suriname premier (1897-1901)
1842 Alexandre Ribit premier (France)
1847 Ernst Franck German composer/conductor
1862 Bernard Maybeck US architect (Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco)
1863 Mieczyslaw Soltys composer
1864 Arthur Collins singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet)
1864 Ricardo Castro Herrera composer
1866 Raf[ael] Verhulst [Koen Ravestein], Flemish writer (Jesus of
Nazarus)
1867 Laura Ingalls Wilder Wisconsin, children's book author (Little
House on Prairie)
1869 Jindrich S Baar Czechoslovakia pastor/writer (Jan Cimbura)
1870 Alfred Adler Austria, psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex)
1871 Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer composer
1872 Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign
minister
1875 Erkki Gustav Melartin composer
1875 Walter Courvoisier composer
1877 Godfrey H Hardy England, number theorist
1877 Feliks Nowowiejski composer
1877 Julius Curtius German minister of Foreign affairs (1929- )
1878 Ossip Gabrilovich composer
1883 Eubie Blake ragtime composer/pianist (I'm Just Wild About Harry,
Memories of You)
1883 Paul de Backer Belgian radiologist
1885 Sinclair Lewis novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel 1930)
1891 Joachim Stutschewsky composer
1896 Harold Hoffman South Amboy NJ, (Governor-New Jersey)
1896 Jacob Paludan Danish pharmacist/writer (Jørgen Stein)
1897 Quincy Porter New Haven CT, composer
1899 Arvid Pelshe Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member
1901 Bob den Doolaard [Cornelis Spoelstra], Dutch writer (Grape Pickers)
1902 Ethelda Blebtrey Waterford NY, 100 meter swimmer (Olympics-gold-1920)
1904 Milton Krims writer (Speed)
1905 Ulf Svante von Euler Sweden, physiologist (Nobel 1970)
1905 Olf S von Euler-Chelpin Swedish physiologist
1905 Paul Nizan French journalist/writer (L'Humanité, La Conspiration)
1906 Henry P'u-i last emperor of China, puppet emperor of Manchukuo
1907 Arthur George Bottomley politician
1908 Clarence Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe Oakland CA,
swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)/actor (Tarzan the Fearless, Flash Gordon)
1909 Joseph "Poeske" Scherens Flemish cyclist (champion
sprinter 1932-37)
1912 Derek Farr London, actor (8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large)
1912 Jane Ross Spokane WA, actress (Audrey-Phyllis, Coed Fever)
1914 David Ignatow US poet (Tread the Dark, Rescue the Dead)
1914 Jacques Mornard [Ramón Mercader], murderer (Trotsky)
1914 Ralph Whitlock writer
1917 Dick Emery London England, actor/comedian (Yellow Submarine,
Loot, Baby Love)
1919 Ilse Pausin Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
1919 Jock Mahoney actor (Range Rider, Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury)
1919 Dom Hélder Câmara Brazilian bishop
1920 Eddie Bracken Astoria New York NY, actor (Summer Stock, Young
& Willing)
1920 Oscar Brand Winnipeg Canada, folk singer (Draw Me a Laugh)
1921 Athol Rowan cricketer (brother of Eric, South African off-spinner)
1921 Bryan Woods soldier/clerk
1923 Keefe Brasselle Elyria OH, actor (Be Our Guest)
1923 George H H Lascelles English earl of Harewood/leader (Covent
Garden)
1924 Cathy Long (Representative-D-LA, 1985-86)
1924 Dora Bryan [Broadhurst], Southport England, actress (Taste of
Honey)
1924 Hattie Jacques Kent England, actress (Carry on Doctor)
1924 Johnny Jordaan [Jan van Musscher], Amsterdam folk vocalist
1925 Arthur Berry artist
1925 H Eisenreich writer
1925 Marius Constant Rumania, Dutch composer/conductor (Paradise Lost)
1925 Romolo Valli actor (Bobby Deerfield, Fistful of Dynamite, La
Viaccia)
1926 Konstantin Petrovich Feokistov USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod I)
1927 John Buller composer
1928 Al "Fuzzy" Smith baseball player
1932 Alfred M Worden Jackson MI, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
1932 Gay Talese author (Honor Thy Father)
1934 Earl King [Solomon Johnson], rocker
1934 King Curtis [Curtis Ousley], Forth Worth TX, US saxophonist (Memphis
Soul Stew)
1934 Piet Bukman Dutch minister for Development Aid (CDA)
1935 Herb Kohl (Senator-D Wisconsin)
1938 Juan Pizarro baseball player
1938 Robert Frank Baksa composer
1940 Gary Bond England, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days)
1942 Ton [ACHM] de Kok Dutch MP (CDA)
1944 Berend baron van Voorst tot Voorst Dutch foreign state secretary
(CDA)
1944 Berry [AH] Esselink Dutch MP (CDA)
1944 Michael A Andrews (Representative-D-TX, 1983- )
1945 Gerald Davies British rugby player
1945 Pete Postlethwaite actor (The Boxer)
1946 Hector Babenco director (Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1946 Lawrence Ascott rocker (Isotope)
1946 Sammy Johns rocker (Politics, Religion & Her)
1948 Jimmy Greenspoon Los Angeles CA, rock organist (3 Dog Night-Joy
to the World)
1949 Alan Lancaster bassist (Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level)
1949 Sunil Wettimuny cricket (Sri Lanka open batsman 1975-79 World
Cups)
1950 Marilyn Cochran Burlington VT, skier (Olympics-1972)
1950 Burt Hooton baseball player
1950 Dan Quisenberry baseball pitcher (Kansas City Royals)
1951 Manfred Schumann German Federal Republic, bobsled (Olympics-silver/bronze-1976)
1951 Benny Ayala baseball player
1953 Robert Brazile NFLer
1954 Miguel Ferrer Santa Monica CA, actor (Robocop)
1955 Rolf Benirschke Boston MA, NFL place kicker/Wheel of Fortune
host
1955 Charlie Puleo baseball player
1957 Carney Lansford baseball player
1957 Damaso Garcia baseball player
1958 Manuel Mijares Mexico, Spanish vocalist (Maria Bonita)
1958 Michele Drake La Jolla CA, playmate (May, 1979)
1959 Brian Travers rock saxophonist (UB40-Red Wine)
1959 Sammy Lee British soccer player
1960 James Spader New York NY, actor (Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin)
1960 Steve Bronski rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
1962 David Bryan rock keyboardist (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name)
1962 Garth Brooks Tulsa OK, country singer (No Fences, Ropin' the
Wind)
1962 Alan Sippy cricketer (dashing Bombay lefty batsman of 1980's)
1963 Heidemarie M Stefanyshyn-Piper St Paul MN, Lieutenant Commander
USN/astronaut
1963 Jason Adams Los Angeles CA, actor (Ryan's Hope, Nightmare on
Elm Street)
1963 Roland Lefebvre cricket pace bowler (Glamorgan & Holland)
1964 Dona L Speir Norwalk CA, playmate (March, 1984)
1964 Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead Riverside CA, swimmer (Olympics-silver-84)
1964 Gretchen Magers Pittsburgh PA/San Antonio TX, tennis star
1965 Jason Gedrick Chicago IL, actor (Heavenly Kid, Class of '96)
1965 Kristal Parker-Gregory Columbus OH, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-20th)
1965 Reginald Thal soccer player (MVV)
1966 Chris Rock comedian (Saturday Night Live, CB4, Boomerang)
1967 Joseph Tilford Leigh Greene Dayton OH, long jumper (Olympics-bronze-92,
96)
1968 Ashely Allen San Antonio TX, playmate (August 1992)
1968 Martin Sinner Koblenz Germany, tennis star (1990 Pretoria)
1968 Michael Stich German Federal Republic, tennis star
1968 Peter Bondra Lutsk Ukraine, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals)
1969 Bucky Richardson US football quarterback (Houston Oilers)
1969 Fiona Robinson Collie Western Australia, basketball player (Olympics-bronze-96)
1970 Chris Gardocki NFL punter (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 Denis Chasse Montréal, NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1970 Stanley Roberts NBA center (Los Angeles Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves)
1971 Andrew Currey Australian javelin thrower (Olympics-96)
1971 Marvin Graves CFL quarterback (Montréal Alouettes)
1972 Aftab Habib cricketer (Leicestershire right-handed batsman 1996)
1972 John Slaney St John's, NHL defenseman (Los Angeles Kings)
1973 Billy Baumhoff St Louis MO, soccer midfielder/forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 Juwan Howard NBA forward/center (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1973 Kristin Godridge Traralgon Australia, tennis star (1993 Futures-Singapore)
1973 Leanne Schuster Mesa AZ, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1995)
1973 Sonia Paquette St-Janvier Québec Canada, hurdler (Olympics-96)
1973 Tim Bowens NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1974 Ryan Phillips linebacker (New York Giants)
1974 Steve Nash NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
1975 Alexandre Daigle Montréal, NHL center (Ottawa Senators)
1975 Marika Lehtimaki ice hockey center (Finland, Olympics-98)
1976 Hrafnhildur Hafsteinsdottir Miss Iceland-Universe (1996)
1976 Terry Battle running back (Detroit Lions)
1977 Christine Scheels New Berlin WI, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1977 Hillary Wolf Chicago IL, extra lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1979 Cerina Vincent Miss Nevada Teen-USA (1996)
1985 [Alber]Tina Marie Majorino actress, (Waterworld, When a Man Loves
a Woman)
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Deaths which occurred
on February 7th:
0590 Pelagius II Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague
1593 Jacques Amyot French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79
1609 Ferdinand I cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies
1743 Lodovico Giustini composer, dies at 57
1749 Andre Cardinal Destouches composer, dies at 76
1779 William Boyce composer, dies at 67
1820 Samuel Adams Holyoke composer, dies at 57
1823 Ann Radcliffe (Ward) English poet/author of horror novels, dies
at 58
1827 Franz Anton Dimmler composer, dies at 73
1830 Marcus Antonio da Fonseca Portugal Portuguese composer, dies
at 67
1857 Félix PBOG Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies
at 65
1862 Frantisek Jan Skroup composer, dies at 61
1865 John Henry Winder US Confederate Brigadier-General/provost marshal,
dies at 64
1878 Pius IX "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78),
dies at 85
1881 Fredrik Cygnaeus Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73
1897 Galileo Ferraris Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49
1901 Benjamin Edward Woolf composer, dies at 64
1911 Harry Graham cricketer (6 Test for Australia 1893-96, 301 runs),
dies
1915 Wladyslaw Gorski composer, dies at 68
1918 Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev composer, dies at 68
1920 Alexander Koltsjak Admiral/leader Russian counter-revolutionary,
executed
1931 Ion Vidu composer, dies at 67
1933 Albert György Earl Apponyi Hung minister of Education, dies
at 86
1937 Elihu Root US Minister of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies
at 91
1940 Francis Ford cricketer (5 Tests for England vs Australia 1894-95),
dies
1942 Dorando di Desiderio Pietri marathoner (Olympics-gold-1908),
dies at 56
1948 "Red" McKenzie blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper),
dies
1954 Jan Adam Maklakiewicz composer, dies at 54
1957 Rudolph Reti composer, dies at 71
1958 Walter Kingsford actor (My Favorite Blonde, Fly by Night), dies
at 76
1959 Napoleon Lajoie baseball player, dies at 83
1959 Daniel F Malan premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84
1959 Slim [Eddie Jones] Guitar rocker, dies at 32
1960 Igor V Kurtshatov Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57
1961 Louis-Ferdinand Céline French physician/author/anti-Semite,
dies at 67
1962 Arthur Carr cricketer (11 Tests for England 22-29), dies shovelling
snow
1964 Hermann A J Kees German Egyptologist, dies at 77
1964 Lillian Copeland US discus thrower (Olympics-gold-32), dies at
59
1965 Nance O'Neil actor (Cimarron, Royal Bed, Rogue Song), dies at
90
1967 Henry Morgenthau US minister of Finance (devaluated dollar),
dies at 74
1968 Stuart Foster singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49
1968 Nick [Aloysius Adamschock] Adams actor (Interns, Pillow Talk,
FBI Story, Johnny Yuma-The Rebel), ODs at 36
1969 Bainbridge Crist composer, dies at 85
1974 Arline Judge actress (Age of Consent), dies at 61
1975 Brendan Fay actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing), dies at 54
1977 Herman Dooyeweerd Dutch philosopher/lawyer, dies at 82
1979 Josef Mengele concentration camp doctor, drowns
1980 Ernst Kunz composer, dies at 88
1980 Katherine Emery actress (Maze, Isle of the Dead), dies at 73
1984 Brooks West actor (Richard-My Friend Irma), dies at 67
1985 Albert Dondeyne Belgian philosopher/theologist, dies at 83
1985 Uday Merchant cricket (brother of Vijay, prolific scorer), dies
1986 Armand Preud'homme Flemish organist/lyricist, dies at 81
1987 David Savoy Jr rock manager (Hüsker Du), commits suicide
at 24
1988 Lin[wood V] Carter US, sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time), dies
at 57
1990 Jimmy Van Heusen composer (Call Me Irresponsible), dies at 77
1990 Nathan Wartels publisher (Crown), dies88 from pneumonia at
1990 Dom Heider Camara nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies
1991 Dick Winslow actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at
75
1991 Gladys LaVerne dies of heart problems at 87
1992 Jeanne Gerson dies of cancer & pneumonia at 87
1993 Arthur Ashe tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), dies of AIDS at 49
1993 W Sybout A Colenbrander Dutch historian/journalist, dies at 82
1994 Maarten Vrolijk Dutch Social-Democrat minister (CRM 1965-66),
dies at 74
1994 Richard Bissell US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at
84
1995 Helen Wallis cartographer/Librarian, dies at 70
1995 Massimo Pallottino Italian archaeologist (Etruscologia), dies
at 86
1996 George Lowthian Trevelyan designer/visionary, dies at 89
1996 Isian Kehinde I K Dairo musician/academic, dies at 65
1996 Lillian Rambach teacher violinist, dies at 84
1996 Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya writer, dies at 88
1996 Tiny Winters musician, dies at 87
1997 Danil Shafran cellist, dies at 74
1998 Carl Dean Wilson musician, dies at 51
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