Monday, February 29, 2016

February 29 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Deaths


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1468 – Pope Paul III (d. 1549)
1692 – John Byrom, English poet and educator (d. 1763)
1724 – Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian-English dancer (d. 1822)
1736 – Ann Lee  (d. 1784)
      English-American religious leader, founded the Shakers
1792 – Gioachino Rossini, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1868)
1812 – James Milne Wilson
      Scottish-Australian soldier and politician  (d. 1880)
      8th Premier of Tasmania
1828 – Emmeline B. Wells  (d. 1921)
      American journalist, poet, and activist
1836 – Dickey Pearce  (d. 1908)
      American baseball player and manager
1852 – Frank Gavan Duffy  (d. 1936)
      Irish-Australian lawyer and judge
      4th Chief Justice of Australia
1852 – George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg  (d. 1912)
      Russian son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
1860 – Herman Hollerith  (d. 1929)
      American statistician and businessman
      co-founded the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
1884 – Richard S. Aldrich  (d. 1941)
      American lawyer and politician
1892 – Ed Appleton, American baseball player (d. 1932)
1892 – Augusta Savage, American sculptor (d. 1962)
1896 – Morarji Desai  (d. 1995)
      Indian politician, 4th Prime Minister of India
1896:  Louis Fischer, American journalist  (d. 15 Jan 1970)
1896 – Roy Parker, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1896 – William A. Wellman  (d. 1975)
      American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1904 – Rukmini Devi Arundale  (d. 1986)
      Indian dancer and choreographer
1904 – Jimmy Dorsey  (d. 1957)
      American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
      (The California Ramblers, The Dorsey Brothers,
            and The Charleston Chasers)
1904 – Pepper Martin  (d. 1965)
      American baseball player and manager
1908 – Mary Beck  (d. 2005)
      Detroit politician; first female city councilman in Detroit
      first Ukrainian-American in that capacity
1908 – Dee Brown, American historian and author (d. 2002)
1908 – Alf Gover, English cricketer and coach (d. 2001)
1908 – Balthasar Klossowski (bka Balthus)
      French-Swiss painter and illustrator (d. 2001)
1916 – Dinah Shore, American singer and actress (d. 1994)
1920 – Fyodor Abramov, Russian author and critic (d. 1983)
1920 – Arthur Franz, American actor (d. 2006)
1920 – James Mitchell, American actor and dancer (d. 2010)
1920 – Michèle Morgan, French-American actress and singer
1920 – Howard Nemerov, American poet and essayist (d. 1991)
1920 – Ivan Ivanovich Petrov, Russian opera singer (d. 2003)
1920 – Rolland W. Redlin, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011)
1924 – David Beattie  (d. 2001)
      New Zealand judge and politician
      14th Governor-General of New Zealand
1924 – Carlos Humberto Romero
      Salvadoran politician, President of El Salvador
1924 – Al Rosen, American baseball player and manager (d. 2015)
1928 – Joss Ackland, English actor and singer
1928 – Vance Haynes, American archaeologist, geologist, and author
1928 – Terry Lewis, Australian police officer
1928 – Seymour Papert
      South African mathematician and computer scientist
      co-created the Logo programming language
1928 – Tempest Storm, American actress, singer, and dancer
1932 – Jaguar, Brazilian cartoonist
1932 – Gene H. Golub  (d. 2007)
      American mathematician and academic
1932 – Masten Gregory, American race car driver (d. 1985)
1932 – Reri Grist, American soprano and actress
1932 – Gavin Stevens, Australian cricketer
1936 – Jack R. Lousma
      American astronaut, engineer, and politician
1936 – Henri Richard, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 – Alex Rocco, American actor (d. 2015)
1940 – Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
1940 – William H. Turner, Jr. American horse trainer
1944 – Ene Ergma, Estonian physicist and politician
1944 – Dennis Farina, American police officer and actor (d. 2013)
1944 – Nicholas Frayling, English priest and academic
1944 – Phyllis Frelich, American actress (d. 2014)
1944 – Leiki Loone, Estonian mathematician
1944 – Steve Mingori, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1944 – Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Italian author and illustrator
1944:  Mary Ellen Snodgrass, American author
1948 – Jirō Akagawa, Japanese author
1948 – Gérard Darmon, French-Moroccan actor and singer
1948 – Hermione Lee, English author, critic, and academic
1948 – Patricia A. McKillip, American author
1952 – Al Autry, American baseball player
1952 – Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush
      American journalist and producer
1952 – Tim Powers, American author and educator
1952 – Raisa Smetanina, Soviet-Russian cross-country skier
1952 – Bart Stupak, American police officer and politician
1956 – Jonathan Coleman
      English-Australian radio and television host
1956 – Jerry Fry, American baseball player
1956 – Bob Speller
      Canadian businessman and politician
      30th Canadian Minister of Agriculture
1956 – J. Randy Taraborrelli, American journalist and author
1956 – Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (d. 2002)
1960 – Khaled, Algerian singer-songwriter
1960 – Lucian Grainge, English businessman
1960 – Bill Long, American baseball player
1960 – Richard Ramirez, American serial killer (d. 2013)
1960 – Tony Robbins, American motivational speaker and author
1964 – Dave Brailsford, English cyclist and coach
1964 – Lyndon Byers, Canadian ice hockey player and radio host
1964 – Mervyn Warren
      American tenor, composer, and producer (Take 6)
1968 – Suanne Braun, South African-English actress
1968 – Chucky Brown, American basketball player and coach
1968 – Pete Fenson, American curler and sportscaster
1968 – Naoko Iijima, Japanese actress and model
1968 – Bryce Paup, American football player and coach
1968 – Howard Tayler, American author and illustrator
1968 – Eugene Volokh
      Ukrainian-American lawyer, legal scholar, and educator
1968 – Frank Woodley
      Australian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1972 – Iván García, Cuban sprinter
1972 – Mike Pollitt, English footballer and coach
1972 – Antonio Sabàto, Jr., Italian-American model and actor
1972 – Dave Williams  (d. 2002)
      American singer-songwriter (Drowning Pool)
1972 – Saul Williams
      American singer-songwriter and actor (Wax Poetic)
1972 – Pedro Zamora  (d. 1994)
      Cuban-American television personality
      cast member on The Real World: San Francisco
1976 – Jeffrey Atkins (bka Ja Rule), American rapper and actor
1976 – Zoë Baker, English-New Zealand swimmer and coach
1976 – Katalin Kovács, Hungarian canoe racer
1976 – Terrence Long, American baseball player
1980 – Chris Conley
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (Saves the Day and Two Tongues)
1980 – Patrick Côté, Canadian mixed martial artist
1980 – Simon Gagné, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Michail Mouroutsos, Greek martial artist
1980 – Rubén Plaza, Spanish cyclist
1980 – Clinton Toopi, New Zealand rugby league player
1980 – Taylor Twellman
      American soccer player and sportscaster
1984 – Darren Ambrose, English footballer
1984 – Rica Imai, Japanese model, entertainer, and actress
1984 – Cullen Jones, American swimmer
1984 – Nuria Martínez, Spanish basketball player
1984 – Adam Sinclair, Indian field hockey player
1984 – Rakhee Thakrar, English actress
1984 – Dennis Walger, German rugby player
1984 – Cam Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Lena Gercke, German model and television host
1988 – Scott Golbourne, English footballer
1988 – Benedikt Höwedes, German footballer
1988 – Bobby Sanguinetti, American ice hockey player
1992 – Sean Abbott, Australian cricketer
1992 – Perry Kitchen, American soccer player
1992 – Caitlin EJ Meyer, American actress
1992 – Majesty Rose, American singer
1992 – Saphir Taïder, French-Algerian footballer
1996 – Claudia Williams, New Zealand tennis player


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992 – Oswald of Worcester, French archbishop and saint (b. 925)
1212 – Hōnen, Japanese monk, founded Jōdo-shū (b. 1133)
1528 – Patrick Hamilton, Scottish martyr and reformer (b. 1504)
1592 – Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer and diplomat (b. 1540)
1600 – Caspar Hennenberger, German pastor, historian, and cartographer (b. 1529)
1604 – John Whitgift, English archbishop (b. 1530)
1740 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667)
1744 – John Theophilus Desaguliers  (b. 1683)
      French-English physicist and philosopher
1792 – Johann Andreas Stein, German piano builder (b. 1728)
1820 – Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German historian and critic (b. 1743)
1848 – Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, French general and painter (b. 1775)
1852 – Matsudaira Katataka, Japanese daimyo (b. 1806)
1868 – Ludwig I of Bavaria (b. 1786)
1880 – James Milne Wilson  (b. 1812)
      Scottish-Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Tasmania
1908 – Pat Garrett, American sheriff (b. 1850)
1908 – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow  (b. 1860)
      Scottish-Australian politician, 1st Governor-General of Australia
1920 – Ernie Courtney, American baseball player (b. 1875)
1928 – Adolphe Appia, Swiss architect and theorist (b. 1862)
1928 – Ina Coolbrith, American poet and librarian (b. 1841)
1940 – E. F. Benson, English archaeologist and author (b. 1867)
1944 – Pehr Evind Svinhufvud  (b. 1861)
      Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd President of Finland
1948 – Robert Barrington-Ward, English barrister and journalist (b. 1891)
1948 – Rebel Oakes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)
1952 – Quo Tai-chi  (b. 1888)
      Chinese diplomat, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations
1956 – Elpidio Quirino  (b. 1890)
      Filipino lawyer and politician, 6th President of the Philippines
1960 – Melvin Purvis, American police officer and FBI agent (b. 1903)
1960 – Walter Yust, American journalist and author (b. 1894)
1964 – Frank Albertson, American actor and singer (b. 1909)
1968 – Lena Blackburne, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1886)
1968 – Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet and educator (b. 1886)
1972 – Tom Davies, American football player and coach (b. 1896)
1976 – Florence P. Dwyer, American politician (b. 1902)
1980 – Yigal Allon, Israeli general and politician, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1918)
1980 – Gil Elvgren, American painter and illustrator (b. 1914)
1984 – Ludwik Starski, Polish screenwriter and songwriter (b. 1903)
1988 – Sidney Harmon, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1907)
1992 – La Lupe, Cuban-American singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
1992 – Ruth Pitter, English poet and author (b. 1897)
1996 – Wes Farrell, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1939)
1996 – Shams Pahlavi, Iranian daughter of Tadj ol-Molouk of Iran (b. 1917)
1996 – Ralph Rowe, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1924)
2000 – Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)
2000 – Kayla Rolland, American murder victim (b. 1993)
2004 – Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna (b. 1923)
2004 – Jerome Lawrence, American playwright and author (b. 1915)
2004 – Toni Onley, Manx-Canadian painter (b. 1928)
2004 – Harold Bernard St. John  (b. 1931)
      Barbadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados
2004 – Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer (b. 1943)
2008 – Janet Kagan, American author (b. 1946)
2008 – Erik Ortvad, Danish painter and illustrator (b. 1917)
2008 – Akira Yamada, Japanese scholar and philosopher (b. 1922)
2012 – Roland Bautista, American guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire) (b. 1951)
2012 – Davy Jones, English singer, guitarist, and actor (The Monkees) (b. 1945)
2012 – Sheldon Moldoff, American illustrator (b. 1920)
2012 – P. K. Narayana Panicker, Indian social leader (Nair Service Society) (b. 1930)


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