February 24th
Holidays and Celebrations
Flag Day (Mexico) * CLICK HERE
Dragobete (Romania) * CLICK HERE
National Artist Day (Thailand)
Marbury Vs Madison Day (USA) * (See Below)
Territory Day (Arizona) * (See Below)
The Lantern Festival, End of the Chineese New Year Lunar Calender (2013) * CLICK HERE
The Academy Awards, Date Varies (2013) * CLICK HERE
Dream 2014 (Lake Buena Vista, Florida)
Traditional Start of St. Patrick's Day celebrations, (Syracuse, NY, USA) Last Sunday in February (2013) * CLICK HERE
Regifugium (Ancient Rome)
Aniversary of The "Battle of Los Angeles" * (See Below)
Wilhelm Grimm's Birthday * (See Below)
Anniversary of Hadassah
Gregorian Calendar Day
Winslow Homer Day, American artist (1836 - d. 1910)
George Moore Day, Irish writer (1852 - d. 1933)
Honus Wagner Day, American baseball player (1874 - d. 1955)
George Thorogood's Birthday, American Singer and Guitarist (b.1950)
Mitch Hedberg Day, American comedian (1968 - d. 2005)
Spay Day USA
National Tortilla Chip Day
National Personal Chef Day
Christian Feast Day of St. Matthias
Christian Feast Day of St. Modest (Bishop of Trier)
Christian Feast Day of St. Sergius of Cappadocia
* Ostara Fest - February 23-27, 2011 Fort Worth, TX (2 of 5)
* Noise Pop Music Festival 2010, San Francisco, California, USA February 23 – March 1 (2of7)(2010)
* Independence Day (Estonia) (In Celebration of Independence in1918, the Soviet period is considered illegal annexation)
* Marbury Vs Madison Day - In 1803 the Supreme Court of the United States, in Marbury v. Madison, establishes the principle of judicial review.
* Wilhelm Grimm's Birthday- A German philologist and folklorist (1786 - d. 1859)
* Territory Day (Arizona) In 1863 Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
* Aniversary of The "Battle of Los Angeles". In 1942 the "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, lasting until the next day.
Toast of The Day
"I used to know a clever toast,
But now I cannot think of it,
So fill your glass to anything,
And damn your souls, I’ll drink to it!"
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Snake Bite (Shot)
1 Part Yukon Jack
1 Part Lime Juice
Wine of The Day
Bonterra 2008 Viognier
Style - Organic Viognier
California
Certified Organic
$20
Beer of The Day
ALT
Brewer - Widmer Brothers Brewing Co. ; Portland, Oregon, USA
Style - German-Style Brown Ale
Joke of The Day
Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but not to their crotch when they ask where the toilet is?
Quotes of the Day
"Fish are always eating other fish. If fish could scream, the ocean would be loud as shit."
- Mitchell Lee "Mitch" Hedberg (February 24, 1968 – March 30, 2005), an American stand-up comedian.
"If you're watchin' a parade, make sure you stand in one spot, don't follow it, it never changes. And if the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction, you will fast-foward the parade."
- "Mitch" Hedberg
"I drink Orange Juice with Vodka. It's like Vitamin C that kicks your ass!"
- "Mitch" Hedberg
"An escalator can never break--it can only become stairs. You would never see an 'Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order' sign, just 'Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience'."
- "Mitch" Hedberg
"My belt holds up my pants and my pants have belt loops that hold up the belt. What the f*ck’s really goin on down there? Who is the real hero?"
- "Mitch" Hedberg
"I have a vest. If I had my arms cut off, it would be a jacket."
- "Mitch" Hedberg
"I went to a record store, they said they specialized in hard-to-find records. NOTHING WAS ALPHABETIZED!"
- "Mitch" Hedberg
"Here's a thought for sweat shop owners: Air Conditioning. Problem solved."
- "Mitch" Hedberg
"I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale."
- "Mitch" Hedberg
"I like rice. Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2,000 of something."
- "Mitch" Hedberg
"I saw a commercial on late night TV, it said,"Forget everything you know about slipcovers." So I did. And it was a load off my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell me slipcovers, and I didn't know what the hell they were."
- "Mitch" Hedberg
"I love my fed-ex guy cause he's a drug dealer and he doesn't even know it...and he's always on time."
- "Mitch" Hedberg
"My manager saw me drinking backstage and he said "Mitch, don't use liquor as a crutch." I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk. Liquor severely fucks up the way I walk. It ain't like a crutch, it's like a step I didn't see."
- "Mitch" Hedberg
"I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, 'Dude, you have to wait.'"
- "Mitch" Hedberg
February Observances
AMD/Low Vision Awareness MonthAdopt A Rescued Rabbit Month
Aggressive Driving Month
American Heart Month
National Heart Healthy Month
American History Month
An Affair to Remember Month
Avocado and Banana Month
Bake for Family Fun Month
Beans (Dried and Fresh) Month
Berry Fresh Month
Black History Month
Burn Awareness Month
Canned Food Month
Celebration of Chocolate Month
Creative Romance Month
Dog Training Education Month
Exotic Vegetables and Star Fruit Month
Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month
From Africa to Virginia Month
National Get To Know An Independent Real Estate Broker Month
Grapefruit Month
Great American Pie Month a.k.a American Pie Month
International Boost Self-Esteem Month
International Expect Success Month
International Friendship Month
International Hoof-care Month
Jobs in Golf Month
Library Lovers' Month
Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month
Marijuana Awareness Month
National African American History Month
National Bird Feeding Month
National Black History Month
National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
National Cherry Month
National Children's Dental Health Month
National Condom Month
National Embroidery Month
National Fiber Focus Month
National Grapefruit Month
National Hot Breakfast Month
National Laugh-Friendly Month
National Mend A Broken Heart Month
National Parent Leadership Month
National Pet Dental Health Month
National Snack Food Month
National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
National Therapeutic Recreation Month
National Time Management Month
National Weddings Month
National Wild Bird Feeding Month
Parent Leadership Month, Natl
Plant The Seeds Of Greatness Month
Potato Lover’s Month
Pull Your Sofa Off The Wall Month
Relationship Wellness Month
Responsible Pet Owner's Month
Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month
Senior Independence Month
Spay/Neuter Awareness Month
Spiritual Teachers Month
Spunky Old Broads Month
Sweet Potato Month
Truck Month (GM)
Wise Health Care Consumer Month
Worldwide Renaissance of the Heart Month
Youth Leadership Month
Observances this Week
National Pancake Week, Fourth Week of February
Read Me Week, Fourth Week of February
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week, Fourth Full Week in February
Telecommuter Appreciation Week, Fourth Full Week in February
Peace Corps Week, Fourth Full Week in February starting with Monday
International Friendship Week, Last Full Week of February
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Last Full Week in February
Historical Events on February 24th
303 Diocletian, Roman Emperor, publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Empire.
1208 St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy
1296 Pope Boniface VIII degree Clericis Iaicos
1387 King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1389 Battle at Falköping: Danes defeat King Albert of Sweden
1496 England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders
1510 Pope Julius II excommunicates the republic of Venice
1525 Battle at Pavia: Emperor Karel V's troops beat French king
1525 Francois I caught taken/8700 killed
1525 Imperial forces defeat French in battle of Pavia
1527 Ferdinand of Austria crowned as king of Bohemia
1528 Hungarian anti-king Janos Zapolyai & Sultan Suleiman signs treaty
1530 1st imperial coronation by a Pope, Charles V crowned by Clement V
1538 King Ferdinand of Austria & King Janos Zapolyai of Hungary sign Treaty of Nagyvarad, Peace of Grosswardein
1541 Santiago, Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia (or 2/12)
1552 Privileges of Hanseatic League in England are abrogated
1582 Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
1597 Flemish painter Frederick of Valckenborch becomes porter of Frankfurt-on-Main
1607 "L'Orfeo" by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
1613 English princess Elizabeth marries earl Frederik of Palts
1708 Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen
1711 The London première of "Rinaldo" by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.
1739 Battle of Karnal, The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1779 George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British
1786 Charles Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India
1793 French troops conquer Breda
1803 In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review, 1st rules a law unconstitutional.
1804 London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
1807 17 die & 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty & Elizabeth Godfrey in England
1809 London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
1821 Mexico gains independence from Spain
1822 The 1st Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
1826 The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.
1831 The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
1835 Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian lang monthly mag
1836 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at Alamo, lasts 13 days
1839 Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia
1848 King Louis-Philippe abdicates the throne, 2nd French republic declared
1855 US Court of Claims forms for cases against government
1857 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to government
1857 LA Vineyard Society organized
1863 Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
1863 Forrest's raid on Brentwood, Tennessee
1864 Battle of Tunnel Hill, GA (Buzzard's Roost)
1868 House of Reps vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson. He becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
1868 The first parade to have floats is staged at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1875 The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high profile civil servants and dignitaries.
1876 Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," premieres in Oslo
1881 China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1881 De Lesseps' Co begins work on Panama Canal
1888 Louisville, Ky becomes 1st government in US to adopt Australian ballot
1890 Chicago is selected to host the Columbian Exposition
1891 French troops under capt Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan
1893 The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America.
1894 Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)
1895 Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898.
1896 Victoria all out for 43 vs South Australia, Jones 6-15 Jarvis 4-27
1899 Western Washington University is established.
1902 Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British
1903 US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba
1905 Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
1909 The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.
1914 Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks," premieres in NYC
1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1917 Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleve for $15,000
1917 Russian revolution breaks out (3/8 NS)
1917 The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States, World War I.
1918 Estonian Declaration of Independence from Russia
1920 NSDAP begins at Hofbrauhaus Munich
1920 Peace treaty gives Estonia independence
1920 The Nazi Party is founded.
1921 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hrs flying time arrives Florida
1923 Flying Scotsman goes into service
1923 Mass arrests in US of mafia
1924 Greek parliament proclaims republic
1924 Johnny Weissmuller, swims 100m record (57 2/5 secs)
1924 Mahatma Gandhi released from jail
1925 Thermite explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY
1927 John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St NYC
1932 Malcolm Campbell drives record speed (253.96 mph) at Daytona
1933 Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin
1933 League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
1937 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Wash, DC
1938 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
1939 Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston
1940 Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"
1941 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague
1941 Anti nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
1942 Battle of Los Angeles: a UFO flying over wartime Los Angeles causes a blackout order at 2:25 a.m. and attracts a barrage of anti-aircraft fire, ultimately killing 3 civilians.
1942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
1943 General major Bradley flies to Algiers
1943 Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II
1944 Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war
1944 The Marauders (Merrill's Marauders) begin their 1,000 mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma.
1945 Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-Germany
1945 Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1945 Manila freed from Japanese
1945 Nazi occupiers begin state of siege
1946 Juan Peron elected President of Argentina
1948 Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
1949 Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement
1949 V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km
1950 Labour wins British parliamentary election
1951 "Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 perfs
1951 Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of GER
1951 Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of GRB
1951 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button USA
1952 Betty MacKinnon & Sam Snead wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
1955 "Silk Stockings" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 461 performances
1955 Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed
1960 Italian government of Segni falls
1960 US beats Germany in Olympic hockey finals round, 9-1
1961 Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 "New Faces of '62" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 28 performances
1962 "Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 167 performances
1962 General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas
1965 East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt
1966 Coup ousts Pres Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 "Darling of the Day" closes at George Abbott NYC after 31 perfs
1968 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
1968 Discovery of 1st pulsar announced
1968 Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games
1968 Jocelyn Bell discovers 1st pulsar
1968 The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué, Vietnam War.
1969 Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby
1970 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
1970 Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records
1970 KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 National Public Radio is founded in the United States.
1971 Algeria nationalizes French oil companies
1971 The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
1974 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champ all-round skater
1974 Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
1976 Cuba national Constitution is proclaimed.
1976 Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock," premieres in NYC
1976 Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU
1977 President Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
1978 Kevin Porter, NJ, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas
1979 War between North & South Yemen begins
1980 "Canterbury Tales" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 16 performances
1980 Joanne Carner Ladies wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1980 Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders
1980 The United States Olympic Hockey team completes their Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal.
1981 An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.
1981 Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak
1981 Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.
1981 Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower
1982 24th Grammy Awards, Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy wins
1982 Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92
1983 A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
1983 Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for 1st time
1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1984 Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
1985 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson
1985 Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
1985 Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
1985 Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
1986 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million
1986 Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby
1987 29th Grammy Awards, Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins
1987 LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
1987 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
1988 Matti Nykanen becomes winter olympics 1st triple gold medalist
1988 South African apartheid regime bans the UDF
1988 Supreme Ct votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody
1989 150 million year old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
1989 Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of The "Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie.
1989 Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley
1989 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 United Airlines Flight 811 (Boeing 747), bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii, rips open during flight, sucking 9 passengers out of the business-class section.
1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Orix Hawaiia Ladies Golf Open
1991 "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 perfs
1991 End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
1991 US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
1993 35th Grammy Awards, Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton wins
1994 Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleve Indians' park (Jacobs Field)
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74
1995 The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1996 Cuba downs 2 US planes
1996 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1996 The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.
1997 Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th)
1997 South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp
1998 Elton John knighted
1998 NHL resumes season since Feb 8th to accomodate the Olympics
1999 A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People's Republic of China, killing 61.
1999 The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
2002 Canada defeats the United States 5-2 to win the men's ice hockey Olympic Gold Medal
2002 XIX Winter Olympics closes in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
2006 Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
2007 Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
2008 Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
2010 Sachin Tendulkar scored the the first double century in One Day International cricket
2011 Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103)
2013 10 Chadian soldiers and 28 Muslim insurgents are killed in conflict in Adrar des Ifoghas, Mali
2013 "Argo", Daniel Day-Lewis & Jennifer Lawrence win at the 85th Academy Awards
2013 Jimmie Johnson wins (159.25 MPH) at the 55th Daytona 500
2013 Nicos Anastasiades wins the Cypriot presidential election
2013 Raúl Castro is elected to a second term as the President of Cuba
2014 7 people are killed & 37 are injured after a bridge collapses in Vietnam
2014 A 4.4 billion-year-old Crystal is discovered to be the oldest known fragment from the earth's crust
2014 Pope Francis creates a second Secretariat with the power to audit any Vatican agency at any time
2016 Oldest Muslim graves in Europe, from the 8th century, identified at a buriel site in Nimes, France
Born on February 24th
1103 Emperor Toba of Japan (d. 1156)
1304 Ibn Battuta, Arabian explorer (d. 1368)
1304 Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa)
1463 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (d. 1494)
1500 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Spain (1516-56) (d. 1558)
1501 Sixt(us) Birck (Xystus Betulius), German writer (Suzanna)
1536 Clement VIII (Ippolito Aldofireini), Fano Italy, Pope (1592-1605)
1545 Don John of Austria, Spanish military leader (d. 1578)
1547 Jan of Austria, Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherland
1557 Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1612-19) (d. 1619)
1595 Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish author and Latin Poet (d. 1640)
1597 Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648)
1619 Charles Le Brun, French artist (d. 1690)
1622 Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665)
1679 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer
1684 Catherine I, Empress of Russia 1725-27, Dorpat, Estonia
1684 Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (d. 1738)
1693 James Quin, English actor (d. 1766)
1697 Bernard S Albinus (Weiss), German surgeon/anatomist
1704 Hubert Renotte, composer
1709 Jacques de Vaucanson, French inventor (d. 1782)
1717 Bernhard Hupfeld, composer
1723 John Burgoyne, British general (d. 1792)
1766 Samuel Wesley, Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo)
1771 Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher
1774 Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)
1786 Martin W. Bates. U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1869)
1786 Wilhelm Karl Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (Grimm's Fairy Tales) (d. 1859)
1797 Samuel Lover, composer
1809 Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian)
1811 Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
1811 Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
1824 John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1827 Charles Davis Jameson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1831 Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany, Premier of Prussia (d. 1899)
1833 Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austrian premier (1868..93)
1836 Winslow Homer, American artist (Gulfstream) (d. 1910)
1838 Thomas Benton Smith, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1923
1842 Arrigio Enrico Boito, Italian composer (d. 1918)
1846 Luigi Denza, Italian composer (d. 1922)
1848 Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (d. 1907)
1848 C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)
1848 Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris)
1852 George A Moore, Irish writer (Esther Waters) (d. 1933)
1854 Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Golden Rain)
1858 Arnold Dolmetsch, Le Mans, musician
1860 Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types)
1866 Arthur Pearson, Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor
1866 Hubert Van Innis, Belgian archer (d. 1961)
1866 Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist (d. 1912)
1872 John Jarvis, England, swimmer (won 108 titles)
1874 Honus Wagner, American baseball player, shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17) (d. 1955)
1876 Jean Poveigh, composer
1876 Victor Moore, Hammonton NJ, comedian (Ziegfeld Follies, 7 Year Itch)
1877 Ettie Rout, New Zealand activist (d. 1936)
1877 Rudolf Ganz, composer
1879 Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Sun)
1885 Bert Lytell, NYC, actor (Henry-One Man's Family)
1885 Chester Nimitz, U.S. admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WW II) (d. 1966)
1885 Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
1885 Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings)
1885 Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1939)
1887 Mary Ellen Chase, US linguistic/author (White Gate)
1890 Antonio Massana, composer
1890 Marjorie Main (Tomlinson), American actress (Another Thin Man) (d. 1975)
1898 Kurt Tank, German aeronautical engineer and test pilot (d. 1983)
1899 Jacob Presser, Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall)
1905 E Boyland, biochemist
1905 Guillaume Landre, composer
1906 Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
1909 August Derleth, American writer (Judge Peck Mysteries) (d. 1971)
1909 Jean Yves Morvan Marin, broadcaster
1909 Max Black, Dutch/British/US philosopher (analytical philosophy)
1909 Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist
1910 Lord Hazlerigg
1911 Konrad Lechner, composer
1912 Julius Kowalski, composer
1913 Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist
1914 David Langdon, cartoonist/illustrator
1914 Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (d. 2005)
1914 Weldon Kees, American poet, musician, painter (d. 1955)
1914 Zachary Scott, American actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce) (d. 1965)
1915 Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist
1916 Gene Mitchell, museum director
1917 William Fairbank, Minneapolis, physicist (superconductivity)
1919 Alan Hugh Iliffe, psychologist
1919 Betty Marsden, English comedy actress (d. 1998)
1919 Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
1919 Árpád Bogsch, Hungarian turned American international civil servant (d. 2004)
1920 Ernst Reiss, Swiss mountaineer
1920 Frank Rogers, CEO (NPA Telegraph)
1921 Abe Vigoda, American actor (Barney Miller, Fish)
1921 Douglass Watson, American actor (Satan Murders, Another World) (d. 1989)
1921 Gaston Reiff, Belgian athlete (b. 1992)
1921 Ingvar Lidholm, composer
1921 Ludvig Aschkenazy, writer
1922 Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG in Test for India 1948)
1922 Richard Hamilton, English painter
1922 Steven Hill, American actor (Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl, Law & Order)
1923 David Soyer, American cellist
1924 Lionel Dakers, director (Royal School of Church Music)
1924 William Pillar, British admiral
1926 Jean Alexander, English actress
1926 John Gunther Dean, American diplomat
1926 Reginald Freeson, British MP
1927 David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician
1927 Emmanuelle Riva, French actress
1928 Al Lettieri, NYC, actor (Deadly Kiss, Pulp, Mr Majestyk, Getaway)
1928 Barbara Lawrence, American actress
1928 Michael Harrington, St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century)
1929 David Houston, Major-General/Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland
1929 Richard B Shull, Evanston Ill, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yoyo)
1930 Barbara Lawrence, Carnegie OK, actress (Joe Dakota)
1931 Brian Close, cricketer (played for England between 1949 & 1976)
1931 Dominic Chianese, American actor
1931 Inge Bernstein, British judge
1931 Lev Vasilyevich Vorobyov, Russia, cosmonaut
1931 Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism
1931 Marta Marzotto, Italy, countess
1932 Andrew Jacobs Jr, (Rep-D-IN, 1965-73, 75)
1932 Everard Goodman, English real estate developer (TOPS Estates)
1932 John Vernon, Canadian actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry) (d. 2005)
1932 Michel Legrand, French composer (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind)
1933 Judah Folkman, American cancer researcher (d. 2008)
1934 Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (1983-87) (d. 2000)
1934 Bingu wa Mutharika, Thyolo, Nyasaland (Malawi), Malawi President (2004-2012), (d. 2012)
1934 Flemming Nielsen, Denmark, soccer player (Olympic-silver-1960)
1934 Frank Chapot, US, equestrian (Olympic-silver-1960, 1972)
1934 Linda Cristal, Argentina-born actress (Victoria-High Chapparal)
1934 Renata Scotto, Italian soprano (Violetta-La Traviata)
1934 Shuko Mizuno, composer
1936 Renata Scotto, Italian operatic soprano
1937 Jerry Wiggin, British MP
1938 James Farentino, American actor (Dead & Buried, Final Countdown)
1938 Kathleen Margaret Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow, British Baroness and Methodist reverend
1938 Phil Knight, American sportswear manufacturer
1939 George Bain, principal (London Business School)
1940 Denis Law, Scottish footballer
1940 Jimmy Ellis, WBA heavyweight boxing champ (1968-70)
1940 Pete Duel, American actor (d. 1971)
1940 Theo Bosch, Dutch humanist/architect (Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam)
1941 Joanie Sommers, American singer and actress
1942 Colin Bond, Australian racing driver
1942 David K Williamson, Australian screenplay/playwright (Removalists)
1942 Joe Lieberman, American politician (Sen-D Connecticut)
1942 Paul Jones, English singer (Manfred Mann)
1942 Stuart Henry, British disc jockey
1943 George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles) (d. 2001)
1943 Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (d. 1984)
1943 Pablo Milanés, Cuban musician
1943 Terry Semel, American business executive
1944 Barry Bostwick, San Mateo Ca, actor (Rocky Horror Show, Megaforce)
1944 Nicky Hopkins, British musician (Rolling Stones) (d. 1994)
1944 Sheila Larkin, Bkln NY, actress (Deborah-Storefront Lawyer)
1945 Barry Bostwick, American actor
1946 Anthony Mayer, chief executive (Housing Corporation)
1946 Grigory Margulis, Russian mathematician
1946 John Stapleton, English television presenter
1946 Michael Radford, director (1984, White Mischief)
1947 Edward James Olmos, American actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph)
1947 Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
1947 Mike Fratello, American basketball head coach
1947 Rupert Holmes, English musician
1948 Dennis "Minder" Waterman, British actor (Fair Exchange)
1948 J. Jayalalithaa, Indian politician
1948 Lord Melchett
1948 Lorri Menconi, playmate (Feb, 1969)
1948 Tim Staffell, English singer
1948 Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
1949 John Lever, cricketer (England lefty quick in 21 Tests 1976-81)
1950 Cathy Mant, LPGA golfer
1950 G J M Gazdar, computational linguist
1950 George Thorogood, American singer and guitarist (The Delaware Destroyers-Bad to the Bone)
1951 Debra Jo Rupp, American actress
1951 Derek Randall, cricketer (England batsman & animated cover fieldsman)
1951 Helen Shaver, Canadian actress (WIOU, Praise of Older Women)
1951 Tony Holiday, German singer (d. 1990)
1952 Simon Weinstock, businessman/racehorse owner
1952 Tom Burleson, USA, basketball (Oly-silv-1972) tallest Olympian-7'4"
1954 Ann Bell, American Teacher, Entrepreneur and Children's Book Author
1954 Marquess of Normanby
1955 Alain Prost, French Formula One racing driver (Championships: 85, 86, 89, 93)
1955 Bob Abrams, Ohio, rocker (Buckinghams)
1955 Steve Jobs, American computer entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple (d. 2011)
1956 Eddie Murray, American baseball player, 1st baseman (Orioles, Dodgers, Cleve Indians)
1956 Judith Butler, American philosopher
1956 Paula Zahn, American journalist, news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning)
1957 Lan Burden, rocker
1957 Phil McConkey, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1958 Mark Moses, American actor
1958 Plastic Bertrand, Belgian singer
1958 Sammy Kershaw, American musician, country vocalist (Cadillac Style)
1958 Susan Scannell, Lexington Mass, actress (Nicole-Dynasty)
1959 Beth Broderick, American actress (Aunt Zelda-Sabrina)
1959 Michael Roy Whitney, cricket (great NSW & Aussie lefty quick 1981-92)
1959 Owen Gleiberman, American film critic
1961 Janice Gibson, Tulsa OK, LPGA golfer (1994 Youngstown-Warren-15th)
1961 Persijn "Dakota" Joling, Dutch rock guitarist/singer (Pilgrims-Red)
1961 Ruud Really, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1962 Michelle Shocked, American musician
1962 Outi Mäenpää, Finnish actress
1962 Teri Weigel, American pornographic actress
1963 Fuad Reveiz, NFL kicker (Minnesota Vikings)
1963 Matias Carrillo, Mexican/US baseball outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1963 Mike Vernon, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 Andy Crane, British children's television presenter
1964 Bill Bailey, British comedian
1964 Russell Ingall, Australian racing driver
1964 Todd Field, American actor and film director
1965 Jane Swift, American politician, acting Governor of Massachusetts
1965 Lloyd McGrath, former English footballer
1965 Paul Gruber, NFL tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1966 Ben Miller, English comedian, director and actor
1966 Billy Zane, American actor (Orlando, Memphis Belle, Millions, Titanic)
1966 René Arocha, Cuban baseball player (St Louis Cardinals)
1968 John Velddman, soccer player (Sparta)
1968 Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (d. 2005)
1968 Vaughn Booker, NFL defensive end (KC Chiefs)
1970 Jeff Garcia, American football player, CFL quarterback (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 Jonathan Ward, American television and movie actor (Doug-Charles in Charge, Beans Baxter)
1970 Kienast quintuplets, American quintuplets
1970 Wilson Alvarez, Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1971 Aki Rahunen, Finland, tennis star
1971 Brian Savage, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1971 Josh Bernstein, American explorer and television host
1971 Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver
1972 Larry Amar, Camarillo California, field hockey midfielder/captain (Oly-96)
1972 Manon Rhéaume, Canadian female ice hockey player 1st female NHLer (Tampa Bay)
1972 Patricia Regan Leines, Medford Or, Miss America (Oregon-3rd-1997)
1972 Ron Davis, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 Alexei Kovalev, Russian ice hockey player, NHL right wing (NY Rangers, Montreal Canadiens)
1973 Chris Fehn, American percussionist (Slipknot)
1973 Christína Papadáki, Greek tennis player
1973 Harold Morrow, full back (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 James Michael Kennedy, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
1973 Jordan Jovtchev, Bulgarian gymnast
1973 Kavis Reed, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1973 Richard Clapp, Canadian baseball player
1974 Bonnie Somerville, American actress and singer
1974 Chad Hugo, American musician (NERD) and producer (The Neptunes)
1974 Jeremy Laster, Fullerton California, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1974 Karim Bagheri, Iranian footballer
1974 Mike Lowell, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 Simeon Rice, defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1975 Ashley MacIsaac, Canadian fiddler
1975 Maurizio Giuliano, writer and traveller
1976 Bradley McGee, Australian cyclist
1976 Crista Flanagan, American television comedian
1976 Eric Griffin, American rock guitarist
1976 Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1995)
1976 Matt Skiba, American musician (Alkaline Trio,Heavens)
1976 Zach Johnson, American professional golfer
1977 Alexis Jose Grullon, NYC, vocalist (Menudo-Cannonball)
1977 Bronson Arroyo, American baseball player
1977 Floyd Mayweather Jr, American boxer, featherweight (Oly-br-96)
1977 Jason Akermanis, Australian rules footballer
1978 John Nolan, American musician (Straylight Run)
1978 Louise Woodward, ELton England, nanny who killed Matthew Eappen
1978 Shinya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1979 Claire Cooper, British actress
1979 Jesse Billauer, American quadriplegic surfer
1980 Anton Gustafsson, Swedish rock music fan (d. 2003)
1980 Roman Sloudnov, Russian swimmer
1980 Shinsuke Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler
1981 Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player
1981 Mohammad Sami, Pakistani cricketer
1982 Emanuel Villa, Argentine footballer
1982 Klára Zakopalová, Czech tennis player
1982 Nick Blackburn, American baseball player
1984 Clivio Piccione, Monegasque racing driver
1984 Sterling James Keenan, American professional wrestler
1986 Wojtek Wolski, Polish Ice hockey player
1987 Chieko Kawabe, Japanese singer, model and actress
1987 Daniel Reilly, British entrepreneur
1987 Mayuko Iwasa, Japanese entertainer and model
1989 Kosta Koufos, American-Greek basketball player
1989 Trace Cyrus, American musician
1991 Madison Hubbell, American ice dancer
Died on February 24th
616 King Ethelbert of Kent
1525 Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
1563 Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (b. 1519)
1588 Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist
1642 Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer
1666 Nicholas Lanier, English composer (b. 1588)
1674 Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
1685 Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)
1686 Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca
1692 Antimo Liberati, composer
1704 Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music) (b. 1643)
1714 Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637)
1721 John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
1732 Colonel Francis Charteris, known as "The Rape-Master General". (b. 1675)
1735 Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer
1777 King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
1779 Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (b. 1704)
1781 Edward Capell, English critic (b. 1713)
1784 Anton Laube, composer
1785 Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney
1799 Broerius Brorius, theologist (Pensive Christian)
1799 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (b. 1742)
1806 John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use)
1810 Henry Cavendish, English scientist (b. 1756)
1812 Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
1812 Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister
1815 Robert Fulton, American inventor (steamboat) (b. 1765)
1825 Thomas Bowdler, English physician and editor, self-appointed Shakespearean censor (b. 1754)
1829 Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder
1856 Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1792)
1862 Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske)
1874 Anselmo Clave, composer
1876 Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet
1876 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
1895 Ignaz Lachner, composer
1907 Otto Goldschmidt, composer
1908 Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer
1914 Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg (b. 1828)
1919 Josephine McGill, composer
1922 Dmitri B Shostakovitch, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S
1924 Edmond Picard, Fren/Belg writer (Ambidextre journalist)
1925 Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
1926 Eddie Plank, pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years)
1929 Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, French composer and conductor (b. 1853)
1930 Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus)
1933 Spottiswoode Aitken, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home)
1941 Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926)
1944 Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakeliet)
1945 Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
1953 Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)
1953 Karl R G von Rundstedt, Germ gen-field marshal (Ardennes)
1958 Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet
1960 Jean Binet, composer
1964 Alexander Archipenko, Ukr sculptor/water colors painter
1964 Frank Conroy, actor (Midnight Mary, Threat)
1967 Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races)
1969 Kenneth Green, actor (Penrod)
1970 Conrad Nagel, American actor (Celebrity Time) (b. 1897)
1973 Art Smith, actor (Quicksand)
1975 Nikolai A Bulganin, Premier of Soviet Union (1955-58) (b. 1895)
1976 Charles Wilfred Orr, composer
1976 H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective)
1976 Julian Rivero, actor (Via Pony Express)
1982 Virginia Bruce, America actress and singer (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield) (b. 1910)
1983 Herbert Norman Howells, composer
1984 Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (b. 1912)
1984 Uwe Johnson, writer
1986 Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
1987 Jim Connors, American radio personality (b. 1940)
1988 Irwan Chanin, US theater builder
1989 Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
1990 Johnnie Ray, American singer (Cry) (b. 1927)
1990 Malcolm Forbes, American publisher, CEO (Forbes Publishing) (b. 1917)
1990 Sandro Pertini, Italian politician, president of Italy (1978, 85) (b. 1896)
1990 Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (Red Sox) (b. 1945)
1991 George Gobel, American comedian (George Gobel Show) (b. 1919)
1991 Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo)
1991 John Daly, South African game show host (b. 1914)
1991 Marcella Markham
1991 Webb Pierce, American music singer (Bye Bye Love) (b. 1921)
1992 Kay Loring, dies after long illness
1993 Bobby Moore, English footballer (World champs 1966) (b. 1941)
1993 Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (b. 1917)
1994 Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (Chevrolet) (b. 1916)
1994 Donald Phillips, pianist/composer
1994 Jean Sablon, French singer (b. 1906)
1994 Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative
1994 Lores Bonney, aviator
1995 Richard Nicholson, musician
1996 Anna Larina, revolutionary
1996 Gene Mitchell, museum director
1996 James Runcieman Sutherland, academic
1996 Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist
1997 Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress/singer (Outland, Comics)
1998 Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)
1998 Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (Take my wife please) (b. 1906)
1999 Andre Dubus, American writer (b. 1936)
1999 David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, British politician and peer (b. 1904)
1999 Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916)
2001 Claude E. Shannon, American information theorist (b. 1916)
2002 Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)
2002 Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (b. 1912)
2003 Bernard Loiseau, French chef (b. 1951)
2003 John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (b. 1912)
2004 John Randolph, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
2006 Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
2006 Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
2006 John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)
2006 Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
2007 Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
2007 Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)
2007 Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932)
2008 Larry Norman, American musician, singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
2011 Anant Pai, Indian educationalist and creator of comics (b. 1929)
2012 Benedict Freedman,American novelist and mathematician
2012 Istvan Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer
2012 Jan Berenstain, American author
2012 Kenneth Price, American ceramic artist and print maker
2014 Harold Ramis, American actor & director
2016 Nabil Maleh, Syrian film director and writer