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Page 2: Famous Personalities Born In February - 17

Tuesday, 19 August 2025

1837  Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1844  On this day in history birth of a Montgomery Ward, found mail-order business (Montgomery Ward)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1848  On this day in history birth of louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1849  Selwyn Image, Bodiam Sussex, painter was born on February - 17.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1850  On February - 17 birth of anton Urspruch, composer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1850  On February - 17 birth of ludwig Bonvin, composer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1854  On this day in history birth of friedrich A Krupp, German arms manufacturer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1855  On this day in history birth of otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1857  On February - 17 birth of samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1858  Ernest Ford, composer was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1861  Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany (d. 1922) was born on February - 17.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1862  On this day in history birth of edward German (Jones), Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1862  Mori ÅŒgai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922) was born on February - 17.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1863  Fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927) was born on February - 17.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1864  On February - 17 birth of andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, NSW Australia, poet (Waltzing Matilda)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1864  Jozef MurgaÅ¡, Slovak inventor (d. 1929) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1867  William Cadbury, England, chocolate manufacturer (Cadbury) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1870  Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder (Flemish People's Party) was born on February - 17.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1874  On this day in history birth of thomas J Watson, US, representative/founder (IBM)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1877  On February - 17 birth of henri Vandeputte, Belgian author/poet (L'homme Jeune)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1877  On this day in history birth of isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (d. 1904)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1877  André Maginot, French politician (d. 1932) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1879  On February - 17 birth of dorothy Canfield Fisher, US, novelist (Book-of-Month-Club)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1880  On this day in history birth of alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico (1920-24)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1882  Kurt Schindler, composer was born on February - 17.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1882  Noah Beery, Smithville AR, actor (Story of Esther, Mark of Zorro) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1884  On February - 17 birth of arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1885  Steve Evans, American baseball player (d. 1943) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1887  Leevi Antti Madetoja, composer was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1888  On February - 17 birth of henrietta P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Bouwmeester Award)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1888  Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1888  On this day in history birth of ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1889  H[aroldson] L Hunt, Texas oil multi-millionaire was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1891  Georg Britting, writer was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Deaths In February - 17

Famous People Died On This Day In History

0364  On February - 17 flavius Jovianus, Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about 32  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

0440  Death of Mesrop Mashtots on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

0956  On February - 17 hugo the Great, earl of Paris/duke of Francia, dies at about 55  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1339  On February - 17 death of otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1371  On this day in history death of ivan Alexander of Bulgaria  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1596  On February - 17 death of friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1600  Death of Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake on February - 17.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1609  On this day in history death of ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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