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Notable Birthdays on February 7
Empress Matilda - 1102 Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire
Sir Thomas More - 1478 English statesman, humanist, and author
Thomas More - 1478 lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia)
Maria van Nassau - 1556 Dutch countess of Buren
Jacob de Witt - 1589 Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician
Thomas Killigrew - 1612 English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men)
Jean-Francois Regnard - 1655 French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria)
Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel - 1688 [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange
Anna Ivanova Romanova - 1693 empress of Russia (1730-40) [NS]
Philippe Buache - 1700 French geographer/cartographer (Contourlijnen)
Carl August Thielo - 1707 composer
William Boyce - 1710 English organist/composer of Cathedral music
Joseph Pouteau - 1739 composer
Adam-Philippe Custine - 1740 French earl/general/MP
Rhijnvis Feith - 1753 Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle/Thirsa)
Benedikt Emanuel Schack - 1758 composer
John Rylands - 1801 England, merchant/philanthropist
John Deere - 1804 pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements
Frederik Paludan-Muller - 1809 Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden)
Charles Dickens - 1812 England, novelist (Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities)
Leroy Pope Walker - 1817 US lawyer/Confederate minister of War (1861)
Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide - 1822 composer
Richard Genee - 1823 composer
William Higgins - 1824 discoverer (nature of spiral nebulae)
Crystobal Oudrid y Segura - 1825 composer
Ricardo Palma - 1833 Peru, writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas)
Dmitri I Mendelejev - 1834 Russian chemist (Periodic Table)
James Augustus Henry Murray - 1837 Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary
Nicolaas G Pierson - 1839 Dutch banker/Suriname premier (1897-1901)
Alexandre Ribit - 1842 premier (France)
Alexandre Ribot - 1842 French statesman
Ernst Franck - 1847 German composer/conductor
Bernard Maybeck - 1862 US architect (Palace of Fine Arts, SF)
Mieczyslaw Soltys - 1863 composer
Arthur Collins - 1864 singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet)
Ricardo Castro Herrera - 1864 composer
Raf[ael] Verhulst - 1866 [Koen Ravestein], Flemish writer (Jesus of Nazarus)
Laura Ingalls Wilder - 1867 Wisc, kid book author (Little House on Prarie)
Jindrich S Baar - 1869 Czech pastor/writer (Jan Cimbura)
Alfred Adler - 1870 Austria, psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex)
Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer - 1871 composer
Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis - 1872 Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister
Erkki Gustav Melartin - 1875 composer
Walter Courvoisier - 1875 composer
Feliks Nowowiejski - 1877 composer
Godfrey H Hardy - 1877 England, number theorist
Julius Curtius - 1877 German minister of Foreign affairs (1929-..)
Ossip Gabrilovich - 1878 composer
Eubie Blake - 1883 ragtime composer/pianist (Memories of You)
Paul de Backer - 1883 Belgian radiologist
Sinclair Lewis - 1885 novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel 1930)
Harry Nyquist - 1889 important contributor to information theory
Ann Little - 1891 American actress
Joachim Stutschewsky - 1891 composer
Harold Hoffman - 1896 South Amboy NJ, (Gov-NJ)
Jacob Paludan - 1896 Danish pharmacist/writer (Jorgen Stein)
Quincy Porter - 1897 New Haven Ct, composer
Dock Boggs - 1898 American musician
Arvid Pelshe - 1899 Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member
Bob den Doolaard - 1901 [Cornelis Spoelstra], Dutch writer (Grape Pickers)
Ethelda Blebtrey - 1902 Waterford NY, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1920)
Milton Krims - 1904 writer (Speed)
Olf S von Euler-Chelpin - 1905 Swedish physiologist
Paul Nizan - 1905 French journalist/writer (L'Humanité, La Conspiration)
Ulf Svante von Euler - 1905 Sweden, physiologist (Nobel 1970)
Henry P'u-i - 1906 last emperor of China, puppet emperor of Manchukuo
Oleg Antonov - 1906 Soviet aircraft designer
Arthur George Bottomley - 1907 politician
Yevgeniy Abalakov - 1907 Soviet mountaineer
Hélder Câmara - 1909 Roman catholic archbishop
Joseph "Poeske" Scherens - 1909 Flem cyclist (champ sprinter 1932-37) [OS]
Buster Crabbe - 1910 400m US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)
Derek Farr - 1912 London, actor (8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large)
Jane Ross - 1912 Spokane Wash, actress (Audrey-Phyllis, Coed Fever)
Russell Drysdale - 1912 Australian Artist {d. 1981}
David Ignatow - 1914 US poet (Tread the Dark, Rescue the Dead)
Jacques Mornard - 1914 [Ramon Mercader], murderer (Trotsky)
Ralph Whitlock - 1914 writer
Eddie Bracken - 1915 American actor
Dick Emery - 1917 London England, actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love)
Markey Robinson - 1918 Northern Irish painter
Ilse Pausin - 1919 Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
Oscar Brand - 1920 Winnipeg Canada, folk vocalist (Draw Me a Laugh)
Athol Rowan - 1921 cricketer (brother of Eric, South African off-spinner)
Bryan Woods - 1921 soldier/clerk
Hattie Jacques - 1922 English actress
George H H Lascelles - 1923 English earl of Harewood/leader (Covent Garden)
Keefe Brasselle - 1923 Elyria Ohio, actor (Be Our Guest)
Martha Holmes - 1923 American photographer
Cathy Long - 1924 (Rep-D-LA, 1985-86)
Dora Bryan - 1924 [Broadhurst], Southport England, actress (Taste of Honey)
Johnny Jordaan - 1924 [Jan van Musscher], Amsterdam folk vocalist
H Eisenreich - 1925 writer
Marius Constant - 1925 Rumania, Dutch composer/conductor (Paradise Lost)
Romolo Valli - 1925 actor (Bobby Deerfield, Fistful of Dynamite, La Viaccia)
Konstantin Petrovich Feokistov - 1926 USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod I)
John Buller - 1927 composer
Vladimir Kuts - 1927 Russian runner
Al "Fuzzy" Smith - 1928 baseball player
Alfred M Worden - 1932 Jackson Michigan, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
Gay Talese - 1932 author (Honor Thy Father)
John Anderton - 1933 English footballer
Earl King - 1934 [Solomon Johnson], rocker
Eddie Fenech Adami - 1934 President of Malta
King Curtis - 1934 [Curtis Ousley], US vocalist (Memphis Soul Stew)
Piet Bukman - 1934 Dutch minister for Development Aid (CDA)
Herb Kohl - 1935 (Sen-D Wisconsin)
Juan Pizarro - 1938 baseball player
Robert Frank Baksa - 1938 composer
S. Ramachandran Pillai - 1938 Indian communist leader
Gary Bond - 1940 England, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days)
Peter Foxhall - 1941 Australian evangelist
Ton [ACHM] de Kok - 1942 Dutch MP (CDA)
Gareth Hunt - 1943 English actor
Berend baron van Voorst tot Voorst - 1944 Dutch foreign state sect (CDA)
Berry [AH] Esselink - 1944 Dutch MP (CDA)
Michael A Andrews - 1944 (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
Gerald Davies - 1945 British rugby player
Ian Jack - 1945 Scottish journalist
Pete Postlethwaite - 1945 actor (The Boxer)
Hector Babenco - 1946 director (Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
Lawrence Ascott - 1946 rocker (Isotope)
Sammy Johns - 1946 rocker (Politics, Religion " Her)
Joe Shea - 1947 American journalist
Jimmy Greenspoon - 1948 LA Cal, rock organist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
Alan Lancaster - 1949 bassist (Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level)
Paulo César Carpegiani - 1949 Brazilian footballer and coach
Sunil Wettimuny - 1949 cricket (Sri Lanka open batsman 1975-79 World Cups)
Burt Hooton - 1950 baseball player
Dan Quisenberry - 1950 baseball pitcher (KC Royals)
Marilyn Cochran - 1950 Burlington Vt, skier (Olympics-1972)
Benny Ayala - 1951 baseball player
Manfred Schumann - 1951 German FR, bobsled (Olympic-silver/bronze-1976)
Vasco Rossi - 1952 Italian singer
Robert Brazile - 1953 NFLer
Dieter Bohlen German composer - 1954
Miguel Ferrer - 1954 Santa Monica CA, actor (Robocop)
Charlie Puleo - 1955 baseball player
Mario Coutinho - 1955 Brazilian physician
Rolf Benirschke - 1955 Boston, NFL place kicker/TV host (Wheel of Fortune)
Emo Philips - 1956 American comedian
Mark St. John - 1956 American musician (Kiss)
Carney Lansford - 1957 baseball player
Damaso Garcia - 1957 baseball player
Richard Cook - 1957 British jazz writer
Manuel Mijares - 1958 Mexico, spanish vocalist (Maria Bonita)
Matt Ridley - 1958 British science writer
Michele Drake - 1958 La Jolla CA, playmate (May, 1979)
Brian Travers - 1959 rock saxophonist (UB40-Red Wine)
Sammy Lee - 1959 British soccer player
James Spader - 1960 NYC, actor (Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin)
Steve Bronski - 1960 rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
Alan Sippy - 1962 cricketer (dashing Bombay lefty batsman of 1980's)
David Bryan - 1962 rock keyboardist (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name)
Eddie Izzard - 1962 British actor and comedian
Garth Brooks - 1962 Tulsa Okla, country vocalist (No Fences, Double Live)
Heidemarie M Stefanyshyn-Piper - 1963 St Paul Minn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
Roland Lefebvre - 1963 cricket pace bowler (Glamorgan " Holland)
Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead - 1964 Riverside Calif, swimmer (Olympic-silver-84)
Dona L Speir - 1964 Norwalk Calif, playmate (March, 1984)
Gretchen Magers - 1964 Pittsburgh PA/San Antonio TX, tennis star
Jason Gedrick - 1965 Chicago IL, actor (Heavenly Kid, Class of '96)
Kristal Parker-Gregory - 1965 Columbus OH, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-20th)
Reginald Thal - 1965 soccer player (MVV)
Chris Rock - 1966 comedian (SNL, CB4, Boomerang)
Cheung Man - 1967 Hong Kong actress
Joseph Tilford Leigh Greene - 1967 Dayton Ohio, long jumper (Oly-br-92, 96)
Richie Burnett - 1967 Welsh darts player
Ashely Allen - 1968 San Antonio TX, playmate (Aug, 1992)
Martin Sinner - 1968 Koblenz Germany, tennis star (1990 Pretoria)
Michael Stich - 1968 Germany, tennis star
Peter Bondra - 1968 Lutsk Ukr, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals)
Sully Erna - 1968 American singer (Godsmack)
Bucky Richardson - 1969 US football quarterback (Houston Oilers)
Fiona Robinson - 1969 Collie Western Aust, basketball player (Oly-bronze-96)
Chris Gardocki - 1970 NFL punter (Indianapolis Colts)
Denis Chasse - 1970 Montreal, NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets)
Stanley Roberts - 1970 NBA center (LA Clippers, Minn Timberwolves)
Andrew Currey - 1971 Australian javelin thrower (Olympics-96)
Marvin Graves - 1971 CFL quarterback (Montreal Alouettes)
Aftab Habib - 1972 cricketer (Leicestershire righty batsman 1996)
Alex Bassi - 1972 American race car driver
Essence Atkins - 1972 American actress
John Slaney - 1972 St John's, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
Robyn Lively - 1972 American actress
Billy Baumhoff - 1973 St Louis MO, soccer midfielder/forward (Oly-gold-96)
Juwan Howard - 1973 NBA forward/center (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
Kristin Godridge - 1973 Traralgon Aust, tennis star (1993 Futures-Singapore)
Leanne Schuster - 1973 Mesa Az, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1995)
Sonia Paquette - 1973 St-Janvier Quebec, hurdler (Olympics-96)
Tim Bowens - 1973 NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
Emma McLaughlin - 1974 American novelist
Ryan Phillips - 1974 linebacker (NY Giants)
Steve Nash - 1974 NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
Alexandre Daigle - 1975 Montreal, NHL center (Ottawa Senators)
Marika Lehtimaki - 1975 ice hockey center (Finland, Oly-98)
Wes Borland - 1975 American guitarist (Limp Bizkit)
Hrafnhildur Hafsteinsdottir - 1976 Miss Universe-Iceland (1996)
Sreto Ristić - 1976 German footballer
Terry Battle - 1976 running back (Detroit Lions)
Christine Scheels - 1977 New Berlin Wis, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
Hillary Wolf - 1977 Chicago, extra lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
Mariusz Pudzianowski - 1977 Polish strongman competitor
Ashton Kutcher - 1978 American actor
Daniel Van Buyten - 1978 Belgian footballer
David Aebischer - 1978 National Hockey League goaltender
Endy Chávez - 1978 baseball player
Cerina Vincent - 1979 Miss Nevada Teen USA (1996)
Jon Leicester - 1979 American baseball player
Christian Klien - 1983 Austrian racing driver
Georgios Gougoulias - 1983 Greek footballer
Teshome Getu - 1983 Ethiopian footballer
Clara Bryant - 1985 American actress
Tina Majorino - 1985 actress, (Waterworld, When a Man Loves a Woman)
Deanna Casaluce - 1986 Canadian actress
Michael Orozco - 1986 American footballer
Ai Kago - 1988 Japanese singer
Matthew Stafford - 1988 American college football player
Louisa Lytton - British actress - 1989
Steven Stamkos - 1990 Canadian ice hockey player
Rachel Sibner - 1991 American actress
Maimi Yajima - 1992 Japanese singer
Miguel Andres Matienzo Guerra - 1992 Mexican athlete
David Dorfman - 1993 American actor
Philip Wiegratz - 1993 German actor
Mai Hagiwara - 1996 Japanese singer
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