Page 2: Famous Personalities Born In February - 17

1837  On February - 17 birth of sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws)   

1844  A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order business (Montgomery Ward) was born on February - 17.   

1848  On this day in history birth of louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920)   

1849  On this day in history birth of selwyn Image, Bodiam Sussex, painter   

1850  On February - 17 birth of anton Urspruch, composer   

1850  Ludwig Bonvin, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1855  On this day in history birth of otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I)   

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

1858  Ernest Ford, composer was born on February - 17.   

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 February - 17 birth of mori ÅŒgai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922)   

1863  On February - 17 birth of fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927)   

1864  On February - 17 birth of andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, NSW Australia, poet (Waltzing Matilda)   

1864  Jozef MurgaÅ¡, Slovak inventor (d. 1929) was born on this day in history.   

1867  On February - 17 birth of william Cadbury, England, chocolate manufacturer (Cadbury)   

1870  On February - 17 birth of louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder (Flemish People's Party)   

1874  Thomas J Watson, US, representative/founder (IBM) was born on February - 17.   

1877  On February - 17 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  Dorothy Canfield Fisher, US, novelist (Book-of-Month-Club) was born on this day in history.   

1880  On February - 17 birth of alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico (1920-24)   

1882  Kurt Schindler, composer was born on this day in history.   

1882  On February - 17 birth of noah Beery, Smithville AR, actor (Story of Esther, Mark of Zorro)   

1884  Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940) was born on February - 17.   

1885  Steve Evans, American baseball player (d. 1943) was born on this day in history.   

1887  On February - 17 birth of leevi Antti Madetoja, composer   

1888  Henrietta P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Bouwmeester Award) was born on this day in history.   

1888  On February - 17 birth of otto Stern, German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943)   

1888  Ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder) was born on this day in history.   

1889  On February - 17 birth of h[aroldson] L Hunt, Texas oil multi-millionaire   

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

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

0440  On February - 17 death of mesrop Mashtots   

0956  On this day in history hugo the Great, earl of Paris/duke of Francia, dies at about 55   

1339  On this day in history death of otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)   

1371  On this day in history death of ivan Alexander of Bulgaria   

1596  Death of Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536) on February - 17.   

1600  Death of Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake on this day in history.   

1609  On February - 17 death of ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)