Hisdates•ComPage 2: Famous Personalities Born In February - 16
Friday, 29 August 2025
1831 Nikolai Leskow, writer was born on February - 16. 
1832 On February - 16 birth of camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac, Mjr General (Confederate Army)
1834 Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Potsdam Germ, biologist (Causes of Evolution) was born on this day in history.
1836 On this day in history birth of benjamin Edward Woolf, Dutch composer
1838 On February - 16 birth of arnoldus Pannevis, South African ship's doctor/linguist
1838 Henry Adams, Boston Mass, historian, writer (Education of Henry Adams) was born on this day in history.
1847 Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (Album polonaise) was born on February - 16.
1848 Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist (How species emerge) was born on February - 16.
1850 On February - 16 birth of octave Mirbeau, France, writer (Journal of a Lady's Maid)
1852 Charles Taze Russell, religion founder (Jehovah's Witnesses) was born on this day in history.
1852 On this day in history birth of william Scarborough, Macon Ga, linguist/author (Birds of Aristophanes)
1854 On February - 16 birth of oscar Fetras, composer
1856 On February - 16 birth of willem Kes, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor (Parkorkest Amsterdam)
1856 On this day in history birth of rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (d. 1944)
1858 On February - 16 birth of laurence "Lon" Myers, US, track star (top US miler)
1866 Johann Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King) was born on this day in history.
1866 Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet [NS=Feb 28] was born on February - 16.
1866 On February - 16 birth of william "Sliding Billy" Hamilton, NJ, hall of fame baseball player
1868 Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist/linguist (Anthropos) was born on this day in history.
1874 On this day in history birth of marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (d. 1935)
1876 On February - 16 birth of george Macauley Trevelyan, England, historian (Giuseppi Garibaldi)
1878 Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/composer/conductor (Peter Schlemihl) was born on this day in history.
1880 On February - 16 birth of frank Burke, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1881 Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet/writer (Youth of a Poet) was born on February - 16.
1883 Elizabeth Craig, British writer (d. 1980) was born on this day in history.
1884 Robert Flaherty, Mich, father of documentary film (Nanook of North) was born on this day in history.
1886 On this day in history birth of andrew Ducat, cricketer (Test for Eng 1921 (3 & 2) Soccer intl)
1886 On this day in history birth of van Wyck Brooks, NJ, literary historian/writer (Ordeal of Mark Twain)
1887 On February - 16 birth of kathleen Clifford, American actress (d. 1962)
1890 On this day in history birth of semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov, composer
1891 On February - 16 birth of hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (d. 1967)
1893 Ivor Armstrong Richards, England, literary critic [OS] was born on this day in history.
1896 On this day in history birth of alexander Brailowsky, Russia, pianist (Chopin)
1898 On this day in history birth of katharine Cornell, actress (Barretts of Wimpole St)
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