Page 2: Famous Personalities Born In February - 17

1837  Sam[uel] van houten: Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws)   

1844  A montgomery ward: Found mail-order business (montgomery ward)   

1848  Louisa lawson: Australian suffragist and writer   

1849  Selwyn image: Bodiam sussex, painter   

1850  Anton urspruch: Composer   

1854  Friedrich a krupp: German arms manufacturer   

1855  Otto liman von sanders: German general in turkey (ww i)   

1857  Samuel sidney mcclure: Irish-american newspaper editor/publisher   

1858  Ernest ford: Composer   

1861  Princess helena: Duchess of albany   

1862  Edward german (jones): Whitchurch shropshire, british composer   

1862  Mori ÅŒgai: Japanese novelist and poet   

1863  Fyodor sologub: Russian symbolist novelist and poet   

1864  Andrew barton "banjo" paterson: Nsw australia, poet (waltzing matilda)   

1864  Jozef murgaÅ¡: Slovak inventor   

1867  William cadbury: England, chocolate manufacturer (cadbury)   

1870  Louis de raet: Belgian economist/founder (flemish people's party)   

1874  Thomas j watson: Us, representative/founder (ibm)   

1877  Henri vandeputte: Belgian author/poet (l'homme jeune)   

1877  Isabelle eberhardt: Swiss explorer and writer   

1877  André maginot: French politician   

1879  Dorothy canfield fisher: Us, novelist (book-of-month-club)   

1880  Alvaro obregon: General/president mexico (1920-24)   

1882  Kurt schindler: Composer   

1882  Noah beery: Smithville ar, actor (story of esther, mark of zorro)   

1884  Arthur vanderpoorten: Flemish minister of internal affairs (1940)   

1885  Steve evans: American baseball player   

1887  Leevi antti madetoja: Composer   

1888  Henrietta p "hetty" beck: Actress (bouwmeester award)   

1888  Otto stern: German/us physicist (stern-gerlach-experiment, nobel 1943)   

1888  Ronald aburthnott knox: English priest/writer (viaduct murder)   

1889  H[aroldson] l hunt: Texas oil multi-millionaire   

1891  Georg britting: Writer   

1892  Theodor plievier: German writer (des kaisers kulis, stalingrad)   

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0364  Flavius jovianus: Christian emperor of rome (363-64),   

0440  Mesrop mashtots: Mesrop mashtots   

0956  Hugo the great: Earl of paris/duke of francia,   

1339  Otto: Duke of austria (b. 1301)   

1371  Ivan alexander of bulgaria: Ivan alexander of bulgaria   

1596  Friedrich sylburg: German classical scholar (b. 1536)   

1600  Giordano bruno: Advocate of copernican theory, burned at stake   

1609  Ferdinando i de' medici: Grand duke of tuscany (b. 1549)