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100 people born today: February 25
Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe was the last ruler of the small Principality of... more » | |
Mikel Erentxun is a Venezuelan-born Spanish rock musician. Formerly with the group Duncan Dhu,... more » | |
George Nikov Chaldakov born February 23, 1940, in Burgas, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian vascular... more » | |
Solomon Joachim Chayim Halberstam known from his acronym as ShaZHaH, was an Austrian scholar and... more » | |
Shoko Aida is a female J-Pop artist and actress. She was born in Higashimurayama, Tokyo, and... more » | |
Richard William Enraght SSC was an Irish-born Church of England priest of the late nineteenth... more » | |
Steve Holy is an American country music singer. Signed to Curb Records since 1999, he has... more » | |
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was the fifth shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty of Japan. He was the younger... more » | |
Guy Carleton Wiggins NA was an American artist who became famous for his paintings of New York... more » | |
Patriarch Alexy II was the 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian... more » | |
 | John Murray Forbes was an American railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist... more » |
Rusty Young is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter best known as one of the frontmen... more » | |
Louis Bertignac is a French guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. An ex Shakin' Street member and... more » | |
| Thomas "Tom" Hutchinson is an English footballer who plays for Kingstonian as a defender. He... more » |
Kazunori Iio is a Japanese football player. He is was born in Iwate, Japan. He currently plays... more » | |
David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late... more » | |
Sir Josiah Mason was an English industrialist, engaged in pen manufacture and other trades, and... more » | |
Ursula Hirst-Sheron was a British character actress. She was born in London, England. She died... more » | |
Amos Tappan Akerman served as United States Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant... more » | |
Peter Henry Fonda is an American actor. He is the son of Henry Fonda, brother of Jane Fonda, and... more » | |
Michael Ausiello is an American television industry journalist and actor. He was a Senior Writer... more » | |
Rosendo Mercado Ruiz is a Spanish rock singer and songwriter. He was a member of bands Ñu and... more » | |
| Sir William Chambers RA was a Scottish-Swedish architect, based in London. Among his best-known... more » |
Valerie D'Orazio is an American comic book writer and editor. She formerly worked as an... more » | |
| John Blow was an English Baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669... more » |
Goro Shimura is a Japanese mathematician, and currently a professor emeritus of mathematics at... more » | |
Sandra Currie Osborne is a Scottish Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for... more » | |
Bruce Porter was an American painter, sculptor, stained-glass designer, writer, muralist,... more » | |
Major General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell KCB, KCMG was a General from New Zealand, during the... more » | |
Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet of Applegirth, Dumfriesshire was a Scottish naturalist. more » | |
Emma Hart Willard was an American women's rights activist who dedicated her life to education... more » | |
Ola Nils Håkan Svensson, professionally known simply as Ola, is a Swedish artist and songwriter... more » | |
Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau, C.C., CD, Ph.D., F.C.A.S.I., MP is a Canadian politician,... more » | |
| Elston Gene Howard was an American professional baseball catcher, left fielder and coach. During... more » |
Bertrand Baguette is a Belgian racing driver from Thimister-Clermont. Since 2000, he has... more » | |
Victor Lonzo Fleming was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most... more » | |
Jean-François Hubert, bishop of Quebec, trained at the Sulpician seminary in Montreal. He was... more » | |
Stephen Atkins Swails was a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Although... more » | |
Carl Menger was the founder of the Austrian School of economics. Menger contributed to the... more » | |
| Captain Samuel Bellamy, better known as "Black Sam" Bellamy, was an English pirate who operated... more » |
Wilbert Bernard Roger Pennings is a Dutch high jumper. He is a thirteen-time Dutch champion and... more » | |
Alex Kawilarang is an Indonesian military officer, a freedom fighter and founder of the military... more » | |
Diane Marie Antonia Varsi was an American film actress best known for her performances in Peyton... more » | |
Marie Louise Kold is an artist who works with the patination and etching of metals. She is... more » | |
Lieutenant General Nguyễn Chánh Thi was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He is... more » | |
Jes Psaila is a Maltese guitarist born in Valletta, Malta, on 23 February 1964. Psaila began his... more » | |
| Kelly Macdonald is a Scottish actress, known for her role in the independent film Trainspotting... more » |
Benyoucef Benkhedda was an Algerian politician. He headed the third GPRA exile government of the... more » | |
| Sir Balthazar Gerbier, was an Anglo-Dutch courtier, diplomat, art advisor, miniaturist and... more » |
Karl Theodor Jaspers was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on... more » | |
| Colonel Michael Joseph "Mike" Kelly AM is a former Australian Army legal officer and... more » |
Digby Loder Armroid Jephson was a cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Surrey... more » | |
Leevi Lehto, is a Finnish poet, translator, and programmer. Since he made his poetic debut in... more » | |
Mary Pat Gleason is an American film and television actress. From 1983–85 she appeared on The... more » | |
Bradford Ernest "Brad" Whitford is one of the lead guitarists for the hard rock band Aerosmith. more » | |
Marie-Josée Croze is a Canadian actress. She also holds French citizenship, which she obtained... more » | |
Antonio Fontanesi was an Italian painter who lived in Meiji period Japan between 1876 and 1878... more » | |
John Converse Starkweather was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. more » | |
Malik Samory Hairston is an American basketball player for Galatasaray Liv Hospital of the... more » | |
| Arabella Churchill was the mistress of King James II, and the mother of four of his children. more » |
Joseph O'Neill is an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer. O'Neill's novel Netherland was... more » | |
John Heyl Vincent was an American Methodist Episcopal bishop. He was born at Tuscaloosa, Ala.,... more » | |
William Herbert John "Bill" Walker OAM is a former Australian rules footballer who represented... more » | |
Richard Price was a Welsh moral philosopher and nonconformist preacher. He was also a political... more » | |
Alan Peter Griffin, an Australian politician, is an Australian Labor Party member of the... more » | |
Román Baldorioty de Castro is noted as one of Puerto Rico's foremost abolitionists and spokesman... more » | |
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann was a German philosopher. more » | |
George Montgomerie, 15th Earl of Eglinton George Arnulph Montgomerie, 15th Earl of Eglinton, 3rd Earl of Winton was the third and youngest... more » | |
Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was an Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist, and physician. more » | |
Ralph Logan Houser was an officer in the United States Marine Corps. He was born in Iowa in 1914... more » | |
Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford PC, styled The Honourable between 1642 and 1651, was an... more » | |
| Wayne Escoffery is a jazz saxophonist based in New York City. more » |
| William Eaton was a United States Army officer and the Consul to Tunis. He played an important... more » |
John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III is an American blues guitarist, singer, and producer. Best known... more » | |
| Jim Bray was a competitive artistic roller skater. He went to Chaffey High school and graduated... more » |
Ma Lik, GBS, JP, was a Legislative Councillor, and was the Chairman of the Democratic Alliance... more » | |
Matthias Corvinus, also Matthias I, was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458, King of Bohemia... more » | |
Darius James Pearce is a former Jersey politician. Pearce was born in the City of London. He was... more » | |
Thomas William "Tom" Osborne is an American football coach and politician from Nebraska. He was... more » | |
Cillian Sheridan is an Irish professional footballer who plays for APOEL in the Cypriot First... more » | |
Henry Dearborn was an American physician, a statesman and a veteran of both the American... more » | |
Jakob Stämpfli was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council. He was elected to... more » | |
Russell Dunham was an American World War II veteran and recipient of the Medal of Honor. On... more » | |
Virginia "Ginni" Lamp Thomas is an American attorney who is the founder of Liberty Consulting... more » | |
Howard Jones is an English musician, singer and songwriter. He appeared at Live Aid in 1985. more » | |
Pia Merete Kjærsgaard is a Danish politician. She is a co-founder and former leader of the... more » | |
| Margaret Young was a popular singer and comedienne in the United States in the 1920s. more » |
Mapuata Cédric Makiadi is a Congolese international footballer who plays professionally for... more » | |
Viktoras Biržiška was a Lithuanian mathematician, engineer, journalist, and encyclopedist of... more » | |
John Wilson Campbell was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, and a United States federal... more » | |
Senjūrō Hayashi was an Imperial Japanese Army commander of the Chosen Army of Japan in Korea... more » | |
Albert Edward Dyment was a Canadian politician and businessman. Born at Lynden, County of... more » | |
Emil Erich Kästner was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his... more » | |
Jiří Menzel is a Czech film director, theatre director, actor, and screenwriter. His films often... more » | |
David Hunter was part of a lineage of Yorkshire County Cricket Club wicket-keepers, stretching... more » | |
Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan is the eldest son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, which... more » | |
Julius Fučík was a Czechoslovak journalist, an active member of Communist Party of... more » | |
Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force, best known as... more » | |
Agnes Robertson Arber FRS was a British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany... more » | |
Evan Bates is an American ice dancer. With partner Madison Chock, he is the 2013 Four Continents... more » |