Page 2: Famous Personalities Born In February - 17

1837  Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws) was born on February - 17.   

1844  On this day in history birth of a Montgomery Ward, found mail-order business (Montgomery Ward)   

1848  On February - 17 birth of louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920)   

1849  Selwyn Image, Bodiam Sussex, painter was born on February - 17.   

1850  On February - 17 birth of anton Urspruch, composer   

1850  Ludwig Bonvin, composer was born on February - 17.   

1854  On February - 17 birth of friedrich A Krupp, German arms manufacturer   

1855  Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I) was born on February - 17.   

1857  On this day in history birth of samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher   

1858  On this day in history birth of ernest Ford, composer   

1861  Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany (d. 1922) was born on this day in history.   

1862  On this day in history birth of edward German (Jones), Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer   

1862  On this day in history birth of mori ÅŒgai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922)   

1863  Fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927) was born on February - 17.   

1864  Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, NSW Australia, poet (Waltzing Matilda) was born on February - 17.   

1864  On this day in history birth of jozef MurgaÅ¡, Slovak inventor (d. 1929)   

1867  William Cadbury, England, chocolate manufacturer (Cadbury) was born on February - 17.   

1870  Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder (Flemish People's Party) was born on February - 17.   

1874  On this day in history birth of thomas J Watson, US, representative/founder (IBM)   

1877  On this day in history birth of henri Vandeputte, Belgian author/poet (L'homme Jeune)   

1877  On this day in history birth of isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (d. 1904)   

1877  On this day in history birth of andré Maginot, French politician (d. 1932)   

1879  On February - 17 birth of dorothy Canfield Fisher, US, novelist (Book-of-Month-Club)   

1880  Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico (1920-24) was born on February - 17.   

1882  On this day in history birth of kurt Schindler, composer   

1882  Noah Beery, Smithville AR, actor (Story of Esther, Mark of Zorro) was born on February - 17.   

1884  Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940) was born on this day in history.   

1885  On February - 17 birth of steve Evans, American baseball player (d. 1943)   

1887  On this day in history birth of leevi Antti Madetoja, composer   

1888  On this day in history birth of henrietta P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Bouwmeester Award)   

1888  Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943) was born on February - 17.   

1888  On February - 17 birth of ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder)   

1889  H[aroldson] L Hunt, Texas oil multi-millionaire was born on this day in history.   

1891  Georg Britting, writer was born on February - 17.   

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0364  On this day in history flavius Jovianus, Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about 32   

0440  On this day in history death of mesrop Mashtots   

0956  Hugo the Great, earl of Paris/duke of Francia, dies at about 55 on this day in history.   

1339  Death of Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301) on this day in history.   

1371  Death of Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria on February - 17.   

1596  On this day in history death of friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536)   

1600  On February - 17 death of giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake   

1609  Death of Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549) on February - 17.