Famous Birthdays for February 28
Today's:
Mary Lyon 1797 - Educator, founder of Mount Holyoke Seminary (later Mt. Holyoke College)
Sir John Tenniel 1820 - Cartoonist, illustrator
Charles Blondin (Jean Francois Gravelet) 1824 - Acrobat, aerialist, first to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
Ben Hecht 1894 - Novelist, scriptwriter, playwright
Linus Pauling 1901 - Nobel prize for chemistry in 1954, Nobel peace prize winner in 1962
Vincente Minnelli (Lester Anthony Minnelli) 1903 - Director, Liza Minelli's father
Earl Scheib 1908 - Founded the Earl Scheib company that specialized repaiting and colission repair
Milton Caniff 1907 - Cartoonist
Billie Bird 1908 - Actress, comedian (Movie: Sixteen Candles, Home Alone)
Zero (Samuel) Mostel (Samuel Joel Mostel) 1915 - Actor
Lee Castle 1915 - Musician, bandleader (Jimmy Dorsey's band)
Alf Kjellin 1920 - Actor, director
Charles Durning 1923 - Actor ("Spy Hard", "Dick Tracy", "The Hindenburg")
Chris Kraft 1924 - NASA flight director and voice of Mission Control for all Mercury and many Gemini missions
Svetlana Allilueva 1926 - Author, daughter of Russian leader Joseph Stalin
Stanley Baker 1927 - Actor ("The Guns of Navarone")
Frank Malzone 1930 - Baseball player
Gavin MacLeod 1931 - Actor ("Love Boat", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show")
Don Francks 1932 - Actor
Tommy Tune 1939 - Dancer, actor, choreographer
Mario Andretti 1940 - Auto racer, twin of Aldo Andretti
Aldo Andretti 1940 - Twin of Mario Andretti
Joe South 1940 - Songwriter, singer
Frank Bonner 1942 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
Brian Jones (Lewis Hopkin-Jones) 1942 - Musician (The Rolling Stones)
Poul Popiel 1943 - Hockey player, coach
Donnie Iris 1943 - Musician (Jaggerz, Wild Cherry)
Barbara Acklin 1944 - Singer, songwriter
Kelly Bishop 1944 - Actress ("Gilmore Girls")
Bubba Smith 1945 - Football player
Stephanie Beacham 1947 - Actress
Marty Perez 1947 - Baseball player
Mercedes Ruehl 1948 - Actress ("Last Action Hero", "Married to the Mob")
Bernadette Peters (Lazzara) 1948 - Actress ("The Jerk", "Pennies From Heaven"), singer
Tom Riker 1950 - Basketball player
Roland Harper 1953 - Football player
Adrian Dantley 1955 - Basketball player
John Turturro 1957 - Actor ("Girl 6", "The Color of Money", "Desperately Seeking Susan")
Cindy Wilson 1957 Musician (B-52's)
Phil Gould 1957 - Musician (Level 42)
Rae Dawn Chong 1961 - Actress
Robert Sean Leonard 1969 - Actor ("Manhattan Project", "House")
Pat Monahan 1969 - Musician (Train)
Maxine Bahns 1971 - Actress
Eric Lindros 1973 - Hockey player
FeFe Dobson 1985 - Singer
Bobb'e J. Thompson 1996 - Actor, dancer, rapper, comedian
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