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# CalenTool V2.2 - nflag=1 range=1,2 - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE
# $Header: /home/cna/billr/src/xcalentool/dates/RCS/lives1,v 1.1 1991/03/07 16:18:52 billr Exp billr $
# (Jan-Feb)
# Famous people's births, deaths and marriages file for calentool
# extracted from ProLine's today file and Today in History provided
# by Robert Heckendorn at Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado.
# converted to calentool format by lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu.
#
# There may be duplicates where I don't have a definitive correct
# date.  billr@saab.cna.tek.com
#
** 01 01 99 99 00 Hank Williams, country singer, dies (1953)
** 01 01 99 99 00 J. Edgar Hoover, first director of the FBI, is born (1895)
** 01 01 99 99 00 J.D. Salinger is born (1919)
** 01 01 99 99 00 Lorenzo de Medici, Florentine ruler was born (1449)
** 01 02 99 99 00 Robert Marshall, for whom the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Alaska was named, is born (1901)
** 01 03 99 99 00 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii. (1840)
** 01 03 99 99 00 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings. (1892)
** 01 03 99 99 00 Mel Gibson, actor and hunk, is born (1951)
** 01 04 99 99 00 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person) (1838)
** 01 04 99 99 00 Dyan Cannon, the actress, is born in Tacoma, Washington (1937)
** 01 04 99 99 00 Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American born Catholic saint, dies in Emmitsburg, Maryland (1921)
** 01 04 99 99 00 Louis Braille, blind educator, inventor of Braille alphabet, is born in Coupvray, France (1809)
** 01 04 99 99 00 T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, the poet dies at 76 (1965)
** 01 04 99 99 00 Tiny Tim, the dwarf made famous by P. T. Barnum, is born (1838)
** 01 05 99 99 00 Calvin Coolidge dies (1933)
** 01 05 99 99 00 Grace Kelly announces engagement to Prince Ranier (1956)
** 01 05 99 99 00 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor (1855)
** 01 05 99 99 00 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero (1779)
** 01 05 99 99 00 Zebulon Pike, the explorer, is born (1779)
** 01 06 99 99 00 Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer, is born in Illinois (1878)
** 01 06 99 99 00 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator (1811)
** 01 06 99 99 00 Danny Thomas, actor and comedian, is born (1914)
** 01 06 99 99 00 Earl Scruggs, bluegrass musical performer, is born (1924)
** 01 06 99 99 00 George Washington and Martha Custis were married (1759)
** 01 06 99 99 00 Jedediah Strong Smith, American fur trader and explorer, is born (1799)
** 01 06 99 99 00 John DeLorean, automaker and entrepreneur, is born (1925)
** 01 06 99 99 00 Khalil Gibran, metaphysical author, is born in Lebanon (1883)
** 01 06 99 99 00 King Henry VIII marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. The marriage will last about six months. (1540)
** 01 06 99 99 00 Loretta Young, actress, is born (1913)
** 01 06 99 99 00 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957) (1882)
** 01 06 99 99 00 Sherlock Holmes is born (1854)
** 01 06 99 99 00 Syd Barrett, born Roger Keith Barrett (Cambridge, 1946)
** 01 06 99 99 00 Theodore Roosevelt died at his home in Oyster Bay, NY (1919)
** 01 06 99 99 00 Tradition says that Joan of Arc was born on this day (1412)
** 01 07 99 99 00 Emperor Hirohito of Japan dies of cancer. He is succeeded by his son Akihito, a fish biologist. (1989)
** 01 07 99 99 00 George Burns and Gracie Allen marry (1926)
** 01 07 99 99 00 Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850-1853) (1800)
** 01 08 99 99 00 Chou En-lai, Chinese premier, dies (1976)
** 01 08 99 99 00 David Bowie born David Robert Jones (London, 1947)
** 01 08 99 99 00 Elvis Presley, early rock performer and truck driver, is born (1935)
** 01 08 99 99 00 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co. (1862)
** 01 08 99 99 00 Lord Baden-Powell, philanthopist and founder of the Boy Scouts, dies (1941)
** 01 08 99 99 00 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank. (1786)
** 01 08 99 99 00 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity (1868)
** 01 08 99 99 00 Tod Brannan (1946)
** 01 08 99 99 00 the passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico (1880)
** 01 09 99 99 00 Astronomer Caroline Herschel, publisher of "Herschel's Catalog of Stars" and sister of William, dies at 97 (1848)
** 01 09 99 99 00 Bob Denver, actor played Gilligan on "Gilligan's Island", is born (1935)
** 01 09 99 99 00 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip. (1901)
** 01 09 99 99 00 Gypsy Rose Lee, entertainer and author, is born (1914)
** 01 09 99 99 00 James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) born (Middlesex, England, 1945)
** 01 09 99 99 00 Joan Baez, folk singer, is born on Staten Island, New York (1941)
** 01 09 99 99 00 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge. (1870)
** 01 09 99 99 00 Karel Capek, Czech author and originator of the term robot, is born (1890)
** 01 09 99 99 00 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1968-1974) (1913)
** 01 09 99 99 00 Simone de Beauvoir, feminist, born (1908)
** 01 10 99 99 00 Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies (Chicago, 1976)
** 01 10 99 99 00 Buffalo Bill Cody dies in Denver, Colorado (1917)
** 01 10 99 99 00 Coco Chanel, the fashion designer, dies (1971)
** 01 10 99 99 00 Dashiell Hammett, the author, dies (1961)
** 01 10 99 99 00 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys) (1738)
** 01 10 99 99 00 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic precipitator, used for polution control and air ionizers. (1877)
** 01 10 99 99 00 Jim Croce born (Phildelphia, 1943)
** 01 10 99 99 00 Pat Benatar born (Long Island, 1952)
** 01 10 99 99 00 Ray Bolger, the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz, is born (1904)
** 01 10 99 99 00 Rod Stewart born (Glasgow, Scotland, 1945)
** 01 11 99 99 00 Aldo Leopold, ecological writer, is born (1897)
** 01 11 99 99 00 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University. (1807)
** 01 11 99 99 00 Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russian author, is born (1821)
** 01 11 99 99 00 Francis Scott Key, the author of "Star Spangled Banner", dies (1843)
** 01 11 99 99 00 Thomas Hardy, the English author, dies (1928)
** 01 12 99 99 00 "Long" John Baldry born (London, 1941)
** 01 12 99 99 00 Agatha Christie, mystery writer, dies (1976)
** 01 12 99 99 00 Herman Goering, Nazi field marshal, is born (1893)
** 01 12 99 99 00 Isaac Pitman, the inventor of shorthand, dies (1897)
** 01 12 99 99 00 Jack London, author and adventurer, born (1876)
** 01 12 99 99 00 John Hancock (1737)
** 01 12 99 99 00 John Winthrop, 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. (1588)
** 01 12 99 99 00 Tex Ritter, western folk singer, is born (1907)
** 01 13 99 99 00 Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832)
** 01 13 99 99 00 James Joyce dies (1941)
** 01 14 99 99 00 Benedict Arnold, fink (1741)
** 01 14 99 99 00 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, dies (1898)
** 01 14 99 99 00 Donna Reed, actress, dies of cancer (1986)
** 01 14 99 99 00 Edmond Halley dies (1742)
** 01 14 99 99 00 Hal Roach, early film director and producer. (1892)
** 01 14 99 99 00 Humphrey Bogart dies (1957)
** 01 14 99 99 00 Ray Kroc, founder of the McDonald's empire, dies (1984)
** 01 15 99 99 00 Charo, entertainer, is born (1951)
** 01 15 99 99 00 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb. (1908)
** 01 15 99 99 00 Fanny Farmer, cook and writer, dies (1915)
** 01 15 99 99 00 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer (1929)
** 01 15 99 99 00 Ray Bolger, the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, dies (1987)
** 01 16 99 99 00 Carole Lombard, actress, her mother and about 20 others are killed in a plane crash near Las Vegas, during a tour to promote War Bonds (1942)
** 01 16 99 99 00 Edmund Spenser, the poet, dies (1599)
** 01 16 99 99 00 Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in automobile crash (1962)
** 01 16 99 99 00 Ethel Merman, actress and singer, is born (1908)
** 01 16 99 99 00 Robert Service, Canadian author, is born (1874)
** 01 17 99 99 00 Al Capone, mobster, is born (1899)
** 01 17 99 99 00 Anton Chekhov, the writer, is born (1860)
** 01 17 99 99 00 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel. (1771)
** 01 17 99 99 00 Juliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, dies (1927)
** 01 17 99 99 00 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops (1880)
** 01 17 99 99 00 Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee. (1942)
** 01 18 99 99 00 A. A. Milne, author of "Winnie the Pooh", is born (1882)
** 01 18 99 99 00 Cary Grant, actor, is born (1904)
** 01 18 99 99 00 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician. (1782)
** 01 18 99 99 00 Henry Morgan, the pirate, captured Panama on behalf of England and was knighted regardless of his ruthless techniques (1671)
** 01 18 99 99 00 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st commercially useable barbed wire (1813)
** 01 18 99 99 00 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. (1892)
** 01 18 99 99 00 Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, pocket chessboard (1779)
** 01 18 99 99 00 Rudyard Kipling, author, dies (1936)
** 01 18 99 99 00 Sir Thomas Octave Sopwith, aviator, airplane builder, Sopwith Pup, Sopwith Camel, Hurricane, and the Harrier VTOL, born (1888)
** 01 18 99 99 00 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell. (1854)
** 01 19 99 99 00 Dolly Parton, buxom singer, composer, is born in Sevierville, Tenn. (1946)
** 01 19 99 99 00 James Watt, inventor of the practical steam engine, is born (1736)
** 01 19 99 99 00 Paul Cezanne, the artist, was born (1839)
** 01 19 99 99 00 Phil Everly (of the Everly Brothers) is born (1939)
** 01 20 99 99 00 Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist and mathematician, is born in Lyon (1775)
** 01 20 99 99 00 Barbara Stanwyck, actress, dies (1990)
** 01 20 99 99 00 DeForest Kelley, Dr. McCoy in Star Trek, is born in Atlanta, Georgia (1920)
** 01 20 99 99 00 Dmitri Mendeleyev, chemist, formulated the periodic table of the elements, dies in St. Petersburg, Russia (1907)
** 01 20 99 99 00 Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, American astronaut, is born in New Jersey (1930)
** 01 20 99 99 00 Federico Fellini, film director, is born in Italy (1920)
** 01 20 99 99 00 George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum), comedian, born in New York, NY (1896)
** 01 20 99 99 00 John Ruskin, philosopher, dies (1900)
** 01 20 99 99 00 Johnny Weismuller, Tarzan, actor and swimmer, dies at 79 in Acapulco (1984)
** 01 21 99 99 00 Benny Hill, comedian, is born (1925)
** 01 21 99 99 00 Cecil B. De Mille, film producer, dies (1959)
** 01 21 99 99 00 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) dies in London (1950)
** 01 21 99 99 00 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia. (1815)
** 01 21 99 99 00 John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US (1813)
** 01 21 99 99 00 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton. (1743)
** 01 21 99 99 00 Joseph Scaliger, the chronologist and inventor of the Julian date, dies (1609)
** 01 21 99 99 00 Louis XVI is beheaded by the guillotine of the French revolution (1793)
** 01 21 99 99 00 Telly Savalas, actor, is born (1924)
** 01 21 99 99 00 Vladimir Lenin, the revolutionary, dies of a stroke (1924)
** 01 21 99 99 00 Wolfman Jack, radio personality, is born (1949)
** 01 22 99 99 00 Lord Byron, poet, lover, revolutionary, is born (1788)
** 01 22 99 99 00 Molly Pitcher, distinguished herself in the battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary War, dies (1832)
** 01 22 99 99 00 Queen Victoria, long time queen of England, dies at her winter home on the Isle of Wight (1901)
** 01 22 99 99 00 Sam Cooke born (Chicago, 1935)
** 01 23 99 99 00 Ernie Kovacs, American comedian, is born (1919)
** 01 23 99 99 00 Ernst Abbe, formulated diffraction theory, is born (1840)
** 01 23 99 99 00 John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence and first governor of Massachusetts, is born (1737)
** 01 23 99 99 00 Joseph Hewes, American revolutionary leader, born (1730)
** 01 23 99 99 00 Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter and founder of the movement, dies (1989)
** 01 23 99 99 00 Samuel Barber, the American composer, dies (1981)
** 01 23 99 99 00 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy (1756)
** 01 24 99 99 00 Edith Wharton, American author, is born (1862)
** 01 24 99 99 00 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft. (1888)
** 01 24 99 99 00 John Belushi born (Chicago, 1949)
** 01 24 99 99 00 Lord Randolph Churchill, English statesman, dies (1895)
** 01 24 99 99 00 Ted Bundy, confessed serial murderer of over 21 (possibly as many as 100) women during a period of 15 years, is executed (1989)
** 01 25 99 99 00 Ava Gardner, actress, dies (1990)
** 01 25 99 99 00 J. L. Lagrange born (1736)
** 01 25 99 99 00 Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochran Seaman), American journalist, went around the world in 72 days (1890)
** 01 25 99 99 00 Robert Burns, poet, born (1759)
** 01 25 99 99 00 Somerset Maugham, poet (1874)
** 01 25 99 99 00 Virginia Woolf, novelist and critic, born (1882)
** 01 25 99 99 00 W. Somerset Maugham, author, born (1874)
** 01 26 99 99 00 Angela Davis, is born (1944)
** 01 26 99 99 00 Douglas MacArthur, he did return (1880)
** 01 26 99 99 00 Jules Feiffer, satiric cartoonist, is born (1929)
** 01 26 99 99 00 Paul Newman, actor, is born in Cleveland, Ohio (1925)
** 01 27 99 99 00 Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) born (TN, 1930)
** 01 27 99 99 00 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll) (1832)
** 01 27 99 99 00 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, writer and mathematician, is born in Cheshire (1832)
** 01 27 99 99 00 Dmitri Mendeleyev, chemist, formulated the periodic table of elements, is born in Tobolsk, Russia (1834)
** 01 27 99 99 00 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of "La Traviata and Rigoletto", dies in Milan (1901)
** 01 27 99 99 00 John James Audubon, naturalist and painter, dies (1851)
** 01 27 99 99 00 Samuel Gompers, 1st president of the American Federation of Labor (1850)
** 01 27 99 99 00 Sir Thomas Octave Sopwith, aviator, airplane builder, Sopwith Pup , Sopwith Camel, Hurricane, and the Harrier VTOL, dies (1988)
** 01 27 99 99 00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born (Salzburg, 1756)
** 01 28 99 99 00 Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine), French novelist, is born (1873)
** 01 28 99 99 00 Johannes Hevelius dies (1687)
** 01 28 99 99 00 Seth Thomas, American clock maker, dies (1859)
** 01 28 99 99 00 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine. (1855)
** 01 29 99 99 00 Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st commercially practical cathode ray tube (1901)
** 01 29 99 99 00 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard) (1860)
** 01 29 99 99 00 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields) (1880)
** 01 29 99 99 00 John Davison Rockefeller, industrialist and philanthropist, is born (1838)
** 01 29 99 99 00 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite (1850)
** 01 29 99 99 00 Thomas Paine, American author and Revolutionary leader, is born (1737)
** 01 29 99 99 00 Tom Selleck who plays Magnum PI was born in Detroit (1945)
** 01 29 99 99 00 W.C. Fields, American entertainer, is born (1880)
** 01 29 99 99 00 William McKinley, 25th President (1897-1901) (1843)
** 01 30 99 99 00 Carol Channing, actress, born (1923)
** 01 30 99 99 00 Chief Osceola, Seminole leader, dies in prison. (1835)
** 01 30 99 99 00 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945) (Hyde Park, NY 1882)
** 01 30 99 99 00 Lightnin' Hopkins, most-recorded blues artist, dies (1982)
** 01 30 99 99 00 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated by Hindu fanatic (New Delhi, 1948)
** 01 30 99 99 00 Vanessa Redgrave, actress and activist, is born (1937)
** 01 31 99 99 00 Anna Pavlova, the Russian ballerina, is born (1885)
** 01 31 99 99 00 Eddie Slovik is executed (1945)
** 01 31 99 99 00 Franz Schubert, composer, born in Vienna (1797)
** 01 31 99 99 00 Irving Langmuir invented the tungsten filament lamp (1881)
** 01 31 99 99 00 Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player (1919)
** 01 31 99 99 00 James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight'. (1830)
** 01 31 99 99 00 James Watt, highly criticized Secretary of Interior and professional tool of big industry, is born (1938)
** 01 31 99 99 00 Tallulah Bankhead, actress, is born in Huntsville, Alabama (1903)
** 01 31 99 99 00 Zane Gray, American West novelist (1872)
** 02 01 99 99 00 Clark Gable, the actor, is born (1901)
** 02 01 99 99 00 Don Everly, of the Everly Brothers, is born (1937)
** 02 01 99 99 00 John Ford, the film maker, is born (1895)
** 02 01 99 99 00 Sidney Joseph Perelman, American author, is born (1904)
** 02 02 99 99 00 Buddy Holly, the singer, dies (1959)
** 02 02 99 99 00 Fred Flintstone's birthday 
** 02 02 99 99 00 Graham Nash born (Lancashire, England, 1942)
** 02 02 99 99 00 James Joyce, novelist, is born in Dublin (1882)
** 02 02 99 99 00 Nell Gwynn, actress and mistress of King Charles II, is born (1650)
** 02 02 99 99 00 Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat. (1754)
** 02 03 99 99 00 Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper die in plane crash (1959)
** 02 03 99 99 00 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD from a US Medical school. (1821)
** 02 03 99 99 00 Gertrude Stein, poet, novelist, is born (1874)
** 02 03 99 99 00 Horace Greeley, journalist, born in Amherst New Hampshire (1811)
** 02 03 99 99 00 Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Felix Mendelssohn), the composer, is born in Hamburg (1809)
** 02 04 99 99 00 Charles Lindbergh, aviator, is born in Detroit (1902)
** 02 04 99 99 00 Clyde Tombaugh born (1906)
** 02 04 99 99 00 Francois Rabelais, French author and humanist, is born (1494)
** 02 04 99 99 00 Liberace (Wladzio Valentino), pianist and entertainer, dies of AIDS related disease (1987)
** 02 04 99 99 00 William Dudley ("Big Bill") Haywood, American labor leader who founded I.W.W., is born (1869)
** 02 05 99 99 00 Alex Harvey (SAHB) born (Glasgow, Scotland, 1935)
** 02 05 99 99 00 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker (1878)
** 02 05 99 99 00 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire. (1840)
** 02 05 99 99 00 Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister, founder of London Police force, is born (1788)
** 02 05 99 99 00 William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the adding machine, is born (1914)
** 02 06 99 99 00 Aaron Burr (1756)
** 02 06 99 99 00 Barbara Tuchman, historian and author "A Distant Mirror", dies (1989)
** 02 06 99 99 00 Bob Marley, reggae singer, is born (1945)
** 02 06 99 99 00 George Herman Ruth ('Babe Ruth'), baseball legend, (1885)
** 02 06 99 99 00 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II (1952)
** 02 06 99 99 00 Patrick Macnee, actor, is born (1922)
** 02 06 99 99 00 Ronald Reagan, 40th President (1981-1988) (1911)
** 02 06 99 99 00 Tom Brokaw, television newsman, is born (1940)
** 02 07 99 99 00 Charles Dickens, author, "David Copperfield", is born (1812)
** 02 07 99 99 00 Eubie Blake, composer (1883)
** 02 07 99 99 00 Frederick Douglas, 1st black to hold high rank in US government (1817)
** 02 07 99 99 00 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements. (1804)
** 02 07 99 99 00 Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of "Little House on the Prairie" series, is born (1867)
** 02 07 99 99 00 Philippe Buache, geographer, devised contour lines for maps (1700)
** 02 07 99 99 00 Sinclair Lewis, novelist, author of "Babbitt", is born (1885)
** 02 07 99 99 00 Sir Thomas More, humanist, philosopher, statesman, is born in London (1478)
** 02 08 99 99 00 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing) (1906)
** 02 08 99 99 00 Friedleib F. Runge, father of paper chromatography (1795)
** 02 08 99 99 00 Jack Lemmon, actor, (1925)
** 02 08 99 99 00 James Dean, American actor, is born (1931)
** 02 08 99 99 00 Jules Verne, author, born (Nantes, France, 1828)
** 02 08 99 99 00 Lana Turner the actress is born (1920)
** 02 08 99 99 00 Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded (1587)
** 02 08 99 99 00 The Viceroy of India is murdered (1872)
** 02 08 99 99 00 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general. (1820)
** 02 09 99 99 00 Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII of France, dies (1450)
** 02 09 99 99 00 Carole King, American singer, is born (Brooklyn, 1941)
** 02 09 99 99 00 Ernest Tubb, American country music star, is born (1914)
** 02 09 99 99 00 George Hartmann born, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. (1489)
** 02 09 99 99 00 Gypsy Rose Lee, stripper and author, was born naked (1914)
** 02 09 99 99 00 Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered (1567)
** 02 09 99 99 00 William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841) (1773)
** 02 10 99 99 00 Bertolt Brecht, German poet and playwright, is born (1898)
** 02 10 99 99 00 Boris Pasternak, author of "Dr. Zhivago", is born (1890)
** 02 10 99 99 00 Charles Lamb, English critic and essayist, born (1775)
** 02 10 99 99 00 Leontyne Price, opera singer, is born (1927)
** 02 10 99 99 00 Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert (Francis-Albert-Augustus-Charles-Emmanuel, Duke of Saxe, Prince of Saxe-Colburg and Gotha) (1840)
** 02 10 99 99 00 Robert Wagner, actor, is born (1930)
** 02 10 99 99 00 Roberta Flack, singer, is born (1940)
** 02 10 99 99 00 Tom Thumb and Mercy Lavinia Warren, famous midget couple, wed (1863)
** 02 10 99 99 00 William Allen White born (1868)
** 02 11 99 99 00 Rene Descartes the French philosopher dies (1650)
** 02 11 99 99 00 Thomas Edison, the inventor and holder of over 1000 patents, is born (1847)
** 02 11 99 99 00 William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, is born (1489)
** 02 12 99 99 00 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President (1861-1865) (1809)
** 02 12 99 99 00 Catherine Howard the fifth wife of Henry VIII is beheaded (1542)
** 02 12 99 99 00 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England (1809)
** 02 12 99 99 00 General of the Army Omar Bradley, 'The GI General' (1893)
** 02 12 99 99 00 Lady Jane Grey was Queen of England for nine days. She and her husband were executed on this day. (1554)
** 02 13 99 99 00 Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman (1885)
** 02 13 99 99 00 David Dudley Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification (1805)had international effects.
** 02 13 99 99 00 Randolph Churchill, English politician and father of Winston Churchill, was born (1849)
** 02 13 99 99 00 Richard Wagner, composer, dies (1883)
** 02 14 99 99 00 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny.  Oh, Rochester (1894)
** 02 14 99 99 00 Florence Henderson, actress and singer, is born (1934)
** 02 14 99 99 00 Gregory Hines, actor and dancer, is born (1946)
** 02 14 99 99 00 Hugh Downs, TV personality, is born (1921)
** 02 14 99 99 00 St. Valentine beheaded (278)
** 02 14 99 99 00 Thomas Malthus, English economist, is born. (1766)
** 02 15 99 99 00 Galileo Galilei born (Pisa, Italy, 1564)
** 02 15 99 99 00 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (1797)
** 02 15 99 99 00 John Augustus Sutter (1803)
** 02 15 99 99 00 Richard Feynman, winner of Nobel prize in physics, educator, philosopher, bongo player, dies (1988)
** 02 15 99 99 00 Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage advocate, born (1820)
** 02 16 99 99 00 Giordano Bruno burned at stake (1600)
** 02 16 99 99 00 Henry Walter Bates, naturalist and explorer of South America, is born (1892)
** 02 16 99 99 00 John Schlesinger, movie director, is born (1926)
** 02 16 99 99 00 LeVar Burton, actor, Lt. LeForge on "Star Trek, the Next Generation", is born (1957)
** 02 16 99 99 00 Pierre Bouguer, founder of photometry, is born (1698)
** 02 16 99 99 00 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film. (1884)
** 02 17 99 99 00 "Red" Barber, pioneering sportscaster born (1908)
** 02 17 99 99 00 A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business. (1844)
** 02 17 99 99 00 Frederick Eugene Ives, inventor, pioneer of halftone photoengraving process and color photography, is born (1856)
** 02 17 99 99 00 Hal Holbrook, actor, is born (1925)
** 02 17 99 99 00 Jazz great Thelonius Monk dies (Englewood, NJ, 1982)
** 02 17 99 99 00 Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, playwright, author, actor, died on stage while playing the part of a sick man in his "Le Malade Imaginaire" (1673)
** 02 17 99 99 00 Marion Anderson, American contralto, is born (1902)
** 02 17 99 99 00 Thomas J. Watson, Sr. born (1874), founder of IBM
** 02 18 99 99 00 Andre Breton, French author and critic, is born (1896)
** 02 18 99 99 00 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented the electric battery, (1745)
** 02 18 99 99 00 Cybill Shepherd, actress, is born (1950)
** 02 18 99 99 00 Ernst Mach, philosopher and optics pioneer, is born (1838)
** 02 18 99 99 00 Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmo editor, is born (1922)
** 02 18 99 99 00 Jack Palance, actor, is born (1919)
** 02 18 99 99 00 John Travolta, actor and dancer, is born (1954)
** 02 18 99 99 00 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker (1848)
** 02 18 99 99 00 Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, dies (1546)
** 02 18 99 99 00 Matt Dillon, actor, is born (1964)
** 02 18 99 99 00 Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, architect and painter, born in Caprese, Italy (1564)
** 02 18 99 99 00 Molly Ringwald, actress, is born (1968)
** 02 18 99 99 00 Queen Mary (Bloody Mary) is born (1516)
** 02 18 99 99 00 Vanna White, game show hostess, is born (1957)
** 02 18 99 99 00 Wallace Stegner, ecological author, is born (1909)
** 02 18 99 99 00 Yoko Ono, John Lennon's wife, is born (Tokyo, 1933)
** 02 19 99 99 00 Ernst Mach, physicist, philosopher, dies (1916)
** 02 19 99 99 00 HRH Prince Andrew, second son of Elizabeth II is born (1960)
** 02 19 99 99 00 Karen Silkwood, plutonium plant worker, is born (1946)
** 02 19 99 99 00 Nicolas Copernicus born (Thorn, Poland, 1473)
** 02 19 99 99 00 Nicolaus Copernicus (1473)
** 02 19 99 99 00 William "Smokey" Robinson born (Detroit, 1940)
** 02 20 99 99 00 Ansel Adams, photographer, was born (1902)
** 02 20 99 99 00 Buffy Sainte-Marie, singer, songwriter, is born (1941)
** 02 20 99 99 00 Gloria Vanderbilt, fashion designer, is born (1924)
** 02 20 99 99 00 J. Geils (J. Geils Band) born (1946)
** 02 20 99 99 00 Ludwig Boltzmann, atomic physics pioneer, is born (1838)
** 02 20 99 99 00 Robert Altman, movie director, is born (1925)
** 02 20 99 99 00 Sandy Duncan, actress, is born (1946)
** 02 20 99 99 00 Sidney Poitier, actor, is born (1924)
** 02 20 99 99 00 Voltaire, the French philosopher is born (1694)
** 02 21 99 99 00 Alexis De Rochon, developed spyglass, born (1838)
** 02 21 99 99 00 Anais Nin, French-born American author and diarist, is born (1903)
** 02 21 99 99 00 George Ellery Hale dies (1938)
** 02 21 99 99 00 Malcolm X shot to death as he was about to speak to a rally of followers in Harlem (1965)
** 02 21 99 99 00 W.H. Auden, English-born American author, is born (1907)
** 02 22 99 99 00 Andy Warhol, creator of the Pop art movement, dies (1987)
** 02 22 99 99 00 David Susskind, talk show producer and host, dies (1987)
** 02 22 99 99 00 Edna St. Vincent Millay, the American poet, is born in Rockland Maine (1892)
** 02 22 99 99 00 Edward Gorey, slightly morbid cartoonist, is born (1925)
** 02 22 99 99 00 Frederic Chopin, the Polish composer, is born near Warsaw (1810)
** 02 22 99 99 00 George Washington, Father figure for US, President (1789-1796) (1732)
** 02 22 99 99 00 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & 1st biographer of Bach (1749)
** 02 22 99 99 00 John Jacob Astor, the millionaire, dies (1890)
** 02 22 99 99 00 Luis Bunuel, film director, born in Spain (1900)
** 02 22 99 99 00 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, who found hydrogen in the sun, is born (1838)
** 02 22 99 99 00 Russell Porter dies (1949)
** 02 23 99 99 00 George Frederick Handel, German born English composer, is born (1685)
** 02 23 99 99 00 Johnny Winter born (Leland, MS, 1944)
** 02 23 99 99 00 Samuel Pepys, English author and diarist, is born (1633)
** 02 23 99 99 00 W. E. B. DuBois, the Black educator, is born (1868)
** 02 24 99 99 00 Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII. (1885)
** 02 24 99 99 00 Bluebeard executed for burning ten of his wives (1822)
** 02 24 99 99 00 Charles Le Brun, painter, is born in Paris (1619)
** 02 24 99 99 00 Henery Cavendish, physicist, dies (1810)
** 02 24 99 99 00 Steven Jobs, Apple co-founder. (1955)
** 02 24 99 99 00 Thomas Bowdler, censor and prude, dies (1825)
** 02 24 99 99 00 Winslow Homer, artist, is born in Boston (1836)
** 02 25 99 99 00 August Renoir, the French impressionist painter, is born (1841)
** 02 25 99 99 00 Enrico Caruso, singer (1873)
** 02 25 99 99 00 George Harrison of the Beatles is born in Liverpool, England (1943)
** 02 25 99 99 00 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for President Eisenhower (1888)
** 02 25 99 99 00 Zeppo Marx, actor, is born (1901)
** 02 26 99 99 00 Buffalo Bill Cody, frontiersman and impresario, is born (1846)
** 02 26 99 99 00 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, first observer of "Poisson's spot". cf. June 21 (1786)
** 02 26 99 99 00 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry (1866)
** 02 26 99 99 00 John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired the flaked cereal industry. (1852)
** 02 26 99 99 00 Victor Hugo, French author, is born. (1802)
** 02 26 99 99 00 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody. (1846)
** 02 27 99 99 00 Elizabeth Taylor, the actress, is born (1929)
** 02 27 99 99 00 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the Poet, is born in Portland, Maine (1807)
** 02 27 99 99 00 Ivan Pavlov, the physiologist and psychologist, dies in Leningrad (1936)
** 02 27 99 99 00 John Steinbeck, the author, is born. (1902)
** 02 27 99 99 00 Lawrence Durrell, English author, is born (1912)
** 02 27 99 99 00 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan (1934)
** 02 28 99 99 00 Bernadette Peters, actress, is born (1948)
** 02 28 99 99 00 Linus Pauling, Nobel prize winning chemist, is born (1901)
** 02 28 99 99 00 Michel de Montaigne, French essayist, is born (1533)
** 02 28 99 99 00 Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme, 59 was shot to death while walking from a movie theater in central Stockholm (1986)
** 02 29 99 99 00 Herman Hollerith, invented 1st electric tabulating machine. (1860)
** 02 29 99 99 00 Jimmy Dorsey, musician, born (1904)