List of Important Days in February 2025

1946 Elisabeth Sladen – English actress

1931 Boris Yeltsin – Russian politician, 1st President of Russia

1901 Clark Gable – American actor

1894 John Ford – American director

1552 Edward Coke – English judge, politician

2002 Hildegard Knef – German actress

1981 Geirr Tveitt – Norwegian composer

1976 Werner Heisenberg – German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1966 Buster Keaton – American actor, director, producer

1851 Mary Shelley – English author

1977 Shakira – Colombian singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1963 Eva Cassidy – American singer, guitarist

1926 Valéry Giscard d’Estaing – French politician, 20th President of France

1905 Ayn Rand – Russian/American author, philosopher

1882 James Joyce – Irish author

1996 Gene Kelly – American dancer, actor

1979 Sid Vicious – English singer, bass player

1972 Natalie Clifford Barney – American poet, playwright

1970 Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell – English mathematician, historian, philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate

1945 Carl Friedrich Goerdeler – German politician

1935 Johnny “Guitar” Watson – American singer, guitarist

1927 Kenneth Anger – American actor, director, author

1874 Gertrude Stein – American poet, art collector

1830 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury – English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1809 Felix Mendelssohn – German pianist, composer, conductor

1985 Frank Oppenheimer – American physicist

1961 Anna May Wong – American actress

1924 Woodrow Wilson – American politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate

1820 Gia Long – Vietnamese Emperor

1468 Johannes Gutenberg – German publisher, invented the Printing press

1948 Alice Cooper – American singer-songwriter, actor

1913 Rosa Parks – American activist

1906 Dietrich Bonhoeffer – German pastor, theologian

1902 Charles Lindbergh – American pilot, activist

1746 Tadeusz Kościuszko – Polish/American general

2006 Betty Friedan – American author, activist

2001 Iannis Xenakis – Greek/French composer, engineer, theorist

1987 Liberace – American singer, pianist, actor

1987 Meena Keshwar Kamal – Afghan activist, founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanista

1894 Adolphe Sax – Belgian musician, invented the saxophone

1985 Cristiano Ronaldo – Portuguese footballer

1969 Michael Sheen – Welsh actor

1900 Adlai Stevenson – American politician, 31st Governor of Illinois

1878 André Citroën – French engineer, businessman, founded Citroën

1840 John Boyd Dunlop – Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber

2010 Harry Schwarz – German/South African lawyer, politician, diplomat, 13th South African Ambassador to the United States

2008 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi – Indian guru

1993 Joseph L. Mankiewicz – American director, screenwriter, producer

1938 Hans Litten – German jurist

1881 Thomas Carlyle – Scottish historian

1950 Natalie Cole – American singer-songwriter, actress

1945 Bob Marley – Jamaican/American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1911 Ronald Reagan – American actor, politician, 40th President of the United States

1895 Babe Ruth – American baseball player

1665 Anne, Queen of Great Britain

2011 Gary Moore – Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

2007 Frankie Laine – American singer-songwriter, actor

1999 Don Dunstan – Australian politician, 35th Premier of South Australia

1918 Gustav Klimt – Austrian painter, graphic artist

1804 Joseph Priestley – English chemist, minister, philosopher

1978 Ashton Kutcher – American model, actor, producer

1962 Eddie Izzard – Yemeni/English actor, comedian

1962 Garth Brooks – American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1906 Oleg Antonov – Soviet aircraft designer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company

1812 Charles Dickens – English author

2015 Dean Smith – American basketball player, coach

1994 Witold Lutosławski – Polish composer, conductor

1986 Cheikh Anta Diop – Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist

1959 Nap Lajoie – American baseball player

1938 Harvey Samuel Firestone – American businessman, founded the Firestone Tire, Rubber Company

1941 Nick Nolte – American actor

1932 John Williams – American pianist, composer, conductor

1931 James Dean – American actor

1925 Jack Lemmon – American actor, singer, director

1828 Jules Verne – French author

2007 Ian Stevenson – American biochemist

2007 Anna Nicole Smith – American model, actress

1998 Enoch Powell – British politician

1957 John von Neumann – Hungarian/American mathematician

1587 Mary, Queen of Scots

1987 Magdalena Neuner – German biathlete

1942 Carole King – American singer-songwriter, pianist

1932 Gerhard Richter – German painter

1846 Wilhelm Maybach – German businessman, founded Maybach

1737 Thomas Paine – English/American theorist, author

1981 Bill Haley – American singer-songwriter, musician

1957 Miklós Horthy – Hungarian Admiral, regent

1881 Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Russian author

1857 Dionysios Solomos – Greek poet

967 Sayf al-Dawla – Emir of Aleppo

1929 Jerry Goldsmith – American composer, conductor

1898 Bertolt Brecht – German author

1894 Harold Macmillan – English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1890 Boris Pasternak – Russian author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate

1744 William Cornwallis – English Admiral

2005 Arthur Miller – American playwright

1932 Edgar Wallace – English journalist, author, playwright

1923 Wilhelm Röntgen – German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1837 Alexander Pushkin – Russian author, poet

1755 Montesquieu – French philosopher

1969 Jennifer Aniston – American actress, director, producer

1964 Sarah Palin – American politician, 9th Governor of Alaska

1934 Manuel Noriega – Panamanian general, politician, Military Leader of Panama

1926 Leslie Nielsen – Canadian/American actor

1847 Thomas Edison – American businessman, invented the light bulb, phonograph

2012 Whitney Houston – American singer, actress, producer, model

2010 Alexander McQueen – English fashion designer, founded

1978 James Bryant Conant – American chemist, academic, diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to West Germany

1963 Sylvia Plath – American poet

1650 René Descartes – French philosopher, mathematician

1877 Louis Renault – French businessman, co-founded Renault

1876 13th Dalai Lama

1870 Marie Lloyd – English actress, singer

1809 Abraham Lincoln – American lawyer, politician, 16th President of the United States

1809 Charles Darwin – English scientist, theorist

2000 Charles M. Schulz – American cartoonist

2000 Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – American singer-songwriter, producer, actor

1979 Jean Renoir – French director

1804 Immanuel Kant – Russian/German philosopher

1789 Ethan Allen – American military leader

1974 Robbie Williams – English singer-songwriter, producer, actor

1950 Peter Gabriel – English singer-songwriter, producer

1946 Richard Blumenthal – American politician

1849 Lord Randolph Churchill – English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer

1835 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad – Indian religious leader, founded the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

2002 Waylon Jennings – American singer-songwriter, musician

1883 Richard Wagner – German composer, director

1787 Ruđer Bošković – Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician

1728 Cotton Mather – American minister

1662 Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

1951 Kevin Keegan – English footballer

1943 Maceo Parker – American saxophonist

1942 Michael Bloomberg – American businessman, politician, 108th Mayor of New York City

1894 Jack Benny – American actor, comedian

1818 Frederick Douglass – American author, activist

1975 P. G. Wodehouse – English author

1975 Julian Huxley – English biologist

1779 James Cook – English navy officer, explorer, cartographer

1229 Ragnvald Godredsson – Manx king

269 Saint Valentine – Roman bishop, martyr

1954 Matt Groening – American animator, screenwriter, producer

1934 Graham Kennedy – Australian actor

1874 Ernest Shackleton – Irish explorer

1710 Louis XV of France

1564 Galileo Galilei – Italian astronomer, physicist

2005 Samuel T. Francis – American journalist

1988 Richard Feynman – American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1965 Nat King Cole – American singer, pianist, television host

1928 H. H. Asquith – English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1781 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – German author, philosopher

1979 Valentino Rossi – Italian motorcycle racer

1954 Iain Banks – Scottish author

1941 Kim Jong-il – North Korean politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of North Korea

1898 Katharine Cornell – American actress, producer

1831 Nikolai Leskov – Russian author, playwright, journalist

2013 Tony Sheridan – English singer-songwriter, guitarist

2002 Walter Winterbottom – England football manager

1984 M. A. G. Osmany – Bangladeshi general

1957 Josef Hofmann – Polish/American pianist, composer

1932 Edgar Speyer – American/English financier, philanthropist

1981 Paris Hilton – American model, actress, singer

1963 Michael Jordan – American basketball player, actor

1949 Fred Frith – English guitarist, composer

1904 Hans Morgenthau – German philosopher

624 Wu Zetian – Chinese empress

1998 Ernst Jünger – German author

1986 Jiddu Krishnamurti – Indian/American philosopher, author

1982 Thelonious Monk – American pianist, composer

1856 Heinrich Heine – German poet

1673 Molière – French playwright, actor

1974 Yevgeny Kafelnikov – Russian tennis player

1967 Roberto Baggio – Italian footballer

1954 John Travolta – American actor, singer, producer

1933 Yoko Ono – Japanese/American singer-songwriter

1838 Ernst Mach – Austrian physicist

1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer – American physicist

1906 John Batterson Stetson – American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company

1564 Michelangelo – Italian painter, sculptor

1546 Martin Luther – German monk, priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation

1294 Kublai Khan – Mongolian Emperor

1963 Seal – English singer-songwriter

1957 Falco – Austrian singer-songwriter

1953 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner – Argentinian politician, 55th President of Argentina

1865 Sven Hedin – Swedish geographer, explorer

1473 Nicolaus Copernicus – Polish mathematician, astronomer

2001 Stanley Kramer – American director

2000 Friedensreich Hundertwasser – Austrian/New Zealand painter, architect, designed the Kuchlbauer Tower, Waldspirale

1997 Deng Xiaoping – Chinese politician, diplomat

1952 Knut Hamsun – Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate

1916 Ernst Mach – Austrian physicist

1988 Rihanna – Barbadian/American singer-songwriter, actress

1967 Kurt Cobain – American singer-songwriter, guitarist

1951 Gordon Brown – Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1927 Sidney Poitier – American actor, director

1819 Alfred Escher – Swiss businessman, politician

2005 Hunter S. Thompson – American journalist, author

1996 Toru Takemitsu – Japanese composer

1993 Ferruccio Lamborghini – Italian businessman, created Lamborghini

1961 Percy Grainger – Australian composer

1895 Frederick Douglass – American author, activist

1946 Alan Rickman – English actor

1933 Nina Simone – American singer-songwriter, pianist

1924 Robert Mugabe – Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe

1907 W. H. Auden – English/American poet

1791 Carl Czerny – Austrian pianist, composer

1965 Malcolm X – American minister, activist

1949 Tan Malaka – Indonesian educator, activist

1941 Frederick Banting – Canadian physician, Nobel Prize laureate

1934 Augusto César Sandino – Nicaraguan rebel leader

1677 Baruch Spinoza – Dutch philosopher

1975 Drew Barrymore – American actress, director, producer, screenwriter

1932 Ted Kennedy – American politician

1900 Luis Buñuel – Spanish director, producer

1857 Heinrich Hertz – German physicist

1732 George Washington – American general, politician, 1st President of the United States

1987 Andy Warhol – American artist

1983 Adrian Boult – English conductor

1958 Abul Kalam Azad – Indian activist, scholar, politician

1943 Sophie Scholl – German student, activist

1875 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – French painter

1983 Mido – Egyptian footballer

1929 Alexy II of Moscow – Estonian/Russian patriarch

1899 Erich Kästner – German author, poet

1868 W. E. B. Du Bois – American sociologist, historian, activist

1685 George Frideric Handel – German/English composer

1965 Stan Laurel – English actor, comedian

1934 Edward Elgar – English composer

1855 Carl Friedrich Gauss – German mathematician

1848 John Quincy Adams – American politician, 6th President of the United States

1821 John Keats – English poet

1981 Lleyton Hewitt – Australian tennis player

1956 Judith Butler – American philosopher

1955 Steve Jobs – American businessman, co-founded Apple Inc., Pixar

1955 Alain Prost – French race car driver

1304 Ibn Battuta – Moroccan explorer

1993 Bobby Moore – English footballer, manager

1990 Malcolm Forbes – American publisher

1986 Tommy Douglas – Scottish/Canadian minister, politician, 7th Premier of Saskatchewan

1929 André Messager – French composer

1799 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg – German physicist

1943 George Harrison – English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1917 Anthony Burgess – English author

1873 Enrico Caruso – Italian tenor

1861 Rudolf Steiner – Austrian philosopher, educator

1778 José de San Martín – Argentinian general, politician, 1st President of Peru

2001 Donald Bradman – Australian cricketer

1975 Elijah Muhammad – American religious leader

1970 Mark Rothko – Latvian/American painter

1723 Christopher Wren – English architect, designed St Paul’s Cathedral

805 Emperor Dezong of Tang

1954 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – Turkish politician, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey

1932 Johnny Cash – American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor

1928 Ariel Sharon – Israeli general, politician, 11th Prime Minister of Israel

1852 John Harvey Kellogg – American surgeon, co-created Corn flakes

1802 Victor Hugo – French author, poet, playwright

1994 Bill Hicks – American comedian

1989 Roy Eldridge – American trumpet player

1981 Robert Aickman – English author

1966 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar – Indian politician

1821 Joseph de Maistre – French diplomat

1994 Hou Yifan – Chinese chess player

1934 Ralph Nader – American lawyer, author, activist

1932 Elizabeth Taylor – English/American actress

1902 John Steinbeck – American author, Nobel Prize laureate

1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – American poet

2011 Frank Buckles – American soldier

2008 William F. Buckley, Jr. – American publisher, author, founded the National Review

2002 Spike Milligan – Indian/Irish actor, singer, screenwriter, author

1989 Konrad Lorenz – Austrian zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate

1936 Ivan Pavlov – Russian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate

1953 Paul Krugman – American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

1948 Bernadette Peters – American actress, singer, author

1929 Frank Gehry – Canadian/American architect, designed 8 Spruce Street, Walt Disney Concert Hall

1901 Linus Pauling – American chemist, activist, Nobel Prize laureate

1894 Ben Hecht – American screenwriter, director, producer

2009 Paul Harvey – American radio host

2007 Billy Thorpe – English/Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1977 Eddie Anderson – American actor

1925 Friedrich Ebert – German politician, 1st President of Germany

1916 Henry James – American/English author