Famous Birthdays In February - 17
Saturday, 03 June 2023
1837 On this day in history 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 Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920) was born on this day in history.
1849 On February - 17 birth of selwyn Image, Bodiam Sussex, painter
1850 On February - 17 birth of anton Urspruch, composer
1850 On February - 17 birth of ludwig Bonvin, composer
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 Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher was born on February - 17.
1858 On this day in history birth of ernest Ford, composer
1861 On February - 17 birth of princess Helena, Duchess of Albany (d. 1922)
1862 On February - 17 birth of edward German (Jones), Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer
1862 Mori Ōgai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922) was born on February - 17.
1863 On February - 17 birth of fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927)
1864 Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, NSW Australia, poet (Waltzing Matilda) was born on February - 17.
1864 On February - 17 birth of jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (d. 1929)
1867 On February - 17 birth of william Cadbury, England, chocolate manufacturer (Cadbury)
1870 Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder (Flemish People's Party) was born on February - 17.
1874 Thomas J Watson, US, representative/founder (IBM) was born on February - 17.
1877 Henri Vandeputte, Belgian author/poet (L'homme Jeune) was born on this day in history.
1877 On February - 17 birth of isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (d. 1904)
1877 André Maginot, French politician (d. 1932) was born on this day in history.
1879 Dorothy Canfield Fisher, US, novelist (Book-of-Month-Club) was born on February - 17.
1880 Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico (1920-24) was born on February - 17.
1882 On February - 17 birth of kurt Schindler, composer
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 this day in history.
1885 Steve Evans, American baseball player (d. 1943) was born on this day in history.
1887 Leevi Antti Madetoja, composer was born on February - 17.
1888 On February - 17 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 Ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder) was born on February - 17.
1889 H[aroldson] L Hunt, Texas oil multi-millionaire was born on February - 17.
1891 On this day in history birth of georg Britting, writer
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