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February 16 Birthdays in History - February 16 Deaths - February 16 Events
February 16, 1998 Mr Jefferson, Virginia, 1st cloned calf
February 16, 1979 Emma Louise DeSilets, Miss Washington Teen USA 1997
February 16, 1978 Caroline Hunt, born in Chicago, Illinois, rhythmic gymnast, US team-96
February 16, 1977 Alexei Morozov, NHL forward, Team Russia Oly-Silver-1998, Pittsburgh
February 16, 1977 Trina Jackson, 4X200m freestyle swimmer, 1996 Olympics gold
February 16, 1975 Casey Barrett, born in Montreal, Quebec, 200m Butterfly 1996 Olympics
February 16, 1975 Marty Murray, Deloraine, NHL center for the Calgary Flames
February 16, 1974 Jevon Langford, defensive end for the Cincinnati Bengals
February 16, 1974 Kathy McCormack, ice hockey forward, Canada, Oly-Silver-98
February 16, 1974 Kimberly Dawn Whipany, Oklahoma, rocker, PC Quest-Can You See
February 16, 1973 Cathy Freeman, Mackay Aust, 100m/200m/400m, Olympics-silver-92, 96
February 16, 1973 James Young, Australian water polo player 1996 Olympics
February 16, 1972 Jerome Bettis, running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers
February 16, 1972 Bo Bennett, American Businessman
February 16, 1971 Anthony Abrams, NFL defensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs
February 16, 1971 Chi Kredell, born in Long Beach, California, water polo driver 1996 Olympics
February 16, 1971 Larry Jones, NFL running back for the Washington Redskins
February 16, 1971 Marco Sas, Dutch soccer player, NAC
February 16, 1971 Mike Hubbard, Lynchburg, Virginia, catcher for the Chicago Cubs
February 16, 1971 Shivanthini Dharmasiri, Miss Universe-Sri Lanka 1996
February 16, 1971 Van Tuinei, defensive end for the San Diego Chargers
February 16, 1971 Amanda Holden, British Actress
February 16, 1970 Saskia Linssen, Venlo Holland, playmate, Jun, 1991
February 16, 1969 Claude Lambert, born in Montreal, Quebec, boxer 1996 Olympics
February 16, 1969 Fermin Cacho, Barcelona Spain, 1500m, Olympics-2 gold-92, 96
February 16, 1969 Tim Costo, U.S. baseball infielder, Cincinnati Reds
February 16, 1968 Cecil Gray, NFL tackle for the Arizona Cardinals
February 16, 1968 Erik Regtop, Dutch soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen
February 16, 1968 Warren Ellis, British Author
February 16, 1967 Robert Massey, NFL cornerback, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions
February 16, 1966 Eric Uptagrafft, Spokane, Washington prone rifle 1996 Olympics
February 16, 1964 Mark Price, NBA guard, Cleveland Caveliers
February 16, 1964 Christopher Eccleston, English Actor
February 16, 1962 Alexa Kenin, New York City, actress, Mousie-Coed Fever
February 16, 1962 Tony Kiley, rocker, Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways
February 16, 1961 Andy Taylor, England, rock guitarist, Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf
February 16, 1959 Kelly Tripuka, Glenn Ridge, New Jersey, NBA forward, Det Pistons, Utah Jazz
February 16, 1959 John McEnroe, tennis player, U.S. Open 1979-81, 84 Wimb 1981, 83, 84
February 16, 1958 Herb Williams, NBA center, Toronto Raptors, New York Knicks
February 16, 1958 Ice-T, rap singer and actor, New Jack City, Tank Girl, Crazy Six
February 16, 1958 John Paul Morse, Marshall, Michigan, PGA golfer, 1995 United Airlines
February 16, 1958 Lisa Loring, actress, As the World Turns, Wednesday-Addams Family
February 16, 1958 Ice T, American Musician
February 16, 1957 LeVar Burton, Landstuhl Germany, Roots, Star Trek Next Generation
February 16, 1956 James Ingram, vocalist, On the Wings of Love
February 16, 1955 Guy Gallo, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, writer, Under the Volcano
February 16, 1955 Jeff Clayton, U.S. jazz saxophonist/composer, Groove Shop
February 16, 1954 David Lombardo, rocker
February 16, 1954 Iain [Menzies] Banks, UK, sci-fi author, Wasp Factory
February 16, 1954 Michael Holding, cricket fast bowler, Whispering Death-Awesome for WI
February 16, 1954 Iain Banks, Scottish Writer
February 16, 1953 Andre St. Lauren, NHLer
February 16, 1953 Mike Ford, New York City, Canadian Tour golfer, 1976 Port Jefferson Open
February 16, 1953 Roberta Williams, American Designer
February 16, 1950 Peter Hain, British MP
February 16, 1950 William Katt, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Greatest American Hero, 1st Love
February 16, 1949 Dorus Vrede, Surinam poet, Otobanda; the Other Bank
February 16, 1946 Aleksandr Shaparenko, U.S.S.R., 1K kayak, Olympics gold 1972
February 16, 1946 Ian Lavender, British actor, Stupid Boy in Dad's Army
February 16, 1946 J R Farndon, British consultant surgeon
February 16, 1944 Richard Ford, U.S. author, Sportswriter
February 16, 1943 Anthony Dowell, London, ballet dancer, Royal Ballet
February 16, 1943 J D Moore, headmaster, St. Dunstan's College
February 16, 1943 James Beaton, British GC
February 16, 1942 Gabriel Brncic, composer
February 16, 1942 Kim Chong-Il, [Yura], president of North-Korea, 1994-
February 16, 1942 Kim Jong Il, North Korean Statesman
February 16, 1941 Vitali Kuznetsov, U.S.S.R., judo 1972 Olympics silver
February 16, 1940 Karoli Ruth Needles, painter
February 16, 1939 David Griffiths, portrait painter
February 16, 1939 Harold Kalin, singer
February 16, 1938 Barry Primus, New York City, actor, Sgt McKenna-Cagney and Lacey, Boxcar Bertha
February 16, 1938 John Corigliano, born in New York City, composer, Fern Hill, Ghosts of Versailles
February 16, 1937 Paul Bailey, novelist
February 16, 1937 Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut
February 16, 1935 Brian Bedford, England, actor, Anthony-Coronet Blue
February 16, 1935 Robin Clark, chemist, FRS
February 16, 1935 Sonny Bono, born in Detroit, vocalist, Sonny and Cher, /, Rep-R-Ca, 1995-98
February 16, 1934 Austin "Ted" Taylor, U.S. gospel/R&B-singer, Be Ever Wonderful
February 16, 1934 Marlene Bauer Hagge, Eureka, South Dakota, LPGA golfer, 1950 Woman Athlete
February 16, 1932 A Appelfeld, writer
February 16, 1932 Gretchen Wyler, Bartlesville Oklahoma, actress, Silk Stockings
February 16, 1932 Nand Baert, Belgian radio/TV-host
February 16, 1932 Otis Blackwell, composer/singer
February 16, 1932 Aharon Appelfeld, Israeli Novelist
February 16, 1931 A Kolleritsch, writer
February 16, 1931 Gamini Goonesena, cricket leg-spinner, all-rounder for Ceylon, Notts
February 16, 1931 George E Sangmeister, Rep-D-Illinois
February 16, 1931 Ken Takakura, [Goichi Oda], Kita Japan, actor, Story of Antarctic
February 16, 1930 F G R Cuming, painter
February 16, 1930 Peggy King, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, vocalist/actress, George Gobel Show
February 16, 1930 Ricou Browning, Florida, director/actor, Thunderball
February 16, 1929 Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author and poet, Chair of Babel
February 16, 1926 Jack Levy, mechanical engineer
February 16, 1926 John Schlesinger, born in London, England, director, Midnight Cowboy, Darling
February 16, 1926 Vera-Ellen, [Westmeyr Rohe], Cincinnati, actress/dancer, Wonder Man
February 16, 1925 David Emms, director, London Goodenough Trust for Overseas Graduates
February 16, 1925 PER Bailey, director, Gatwick and Stansted Airports
February 16, 1924 James Swaffield, director-general, Swaffield and Clerk to the GLC
February 16, 1924 Peter Webster, British High Court Judge
February 16, 1922 Geraint Evans, British opera vocalist, Knaben Wunderhorn
February 16, 1922 Paul van 't Veer, Dutch journalist and writer, Het Vrije Volk
February 16, 1921 Jean Behra, auto racer
February 16, 1920 Hubert van Herreweghen, Flemish writer/journalist
February 16, 1920 Lee Russell, born in Cleveland, Ohio, vocalist, Vincent Lopez
February 16, 1920 Patty Andrews, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, vocalist, Andrews Sisters
February 16, 1918 Karoly earl Khuen-Hedervary, Hungarian governor/premier, 1910-12
February 16, 1916 William Ballard Doggett, jazz musician
February 16, 1914 J Tobin, British anaesthetist
February 16, 1914 Jimmy Wakely, Mineola, Arkansas, country vocalist, 5 Star Jubilee
February 16, 1912 Arthur Crook, British editor, Times Literary Supplement
February 16, 1912 Bob Tadema Sporry, Dutch, female, author
February 16, 1912 Del Sharbutt, Cleburne, Texas, TV announcer, Your Hit Parade
February 16, 1912 Machito "Frank Grillo", Florida, bandleader, created salsa music
February 16, 1912 Maitland Mackie, Lord Lt, Aberdeenshire
February 16, 1911 Hal Porter, Australia, writer, Tilted Cross, Paper Chase
February 16, 1910 Michael Milne-Watson, CEO, BUPA
February 16, 1910 Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer
February 16, 1909 Hugh Beaumont, Lawrence, Kansas, actor, Ward Cleaver-Leave it to Beaver
February 16, 1909 Jeffrey Lynn, Auburn Massachusetts, actor, My Son Jeep, Roaring Twenties
February 16, 1907 Anghelos Terzakis, Greece, writer, Without God
February 16, 1907 Fernando Previtali, composer
February 16, 1907 Henri van Albada, Belgian sculptor, Charles V
February 16, 1906 Jeffrey Lynn, actor, Tony Rome, Butterfield 8, Up Front
February 16, 1906 Vera Menchik, Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champ, 1927
February 16, 1905 Jose Munoz Molleda, composer
February 16, 1905 Lord Franks, British ambassador, to U.S.
February 16, 1905 Oliver Franks, English Public Servant
February 16, 1904 Ellis Achong, cricketer, West Indian SLA, 8 wickets in 6 Tests
February 16, 1904 George F. Kennan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. ambassador, to Moscow
February 16, 1903 Edgar Bergen, Chicago, ventriloquist, Charlie McCarthy
February 16, 1901 Chester Morris, New York City, actor, Diagnosis: Unknown
February 16, 1901 Wayne King, Savannah, Illinois, saxophonist/bandleader, Waltz King
February 16, 1900 Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter
February 16, 1898 Katharine Cornell, actress, Barretts of Wimpole St
February 16, 1896 Alexander Brailowsky, Russia, pianist, Chopin
February 16, 1896 Charles A. L. Panzera, French baritone, L'horizon Chimerique
February 16, 1893 Ivor Armstrong Richards, England, literary critic
February 16, 1890 Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov, composer
February 16, 1886 Andrew Ducat, cricketer, Test for Eng 1921, 3 and 2, Soccer intl
February 16, 1886 Van Wyck Brooks, New Jersey, literary historian and writer, Ordeal of Mark Twain
February 16, 1884 Robert Flaherty, Michigan, father of documentary film, Nanook of North
February 16, 1884 Robert J. Flaherty, Director
February 16, 1881 Maurits H. E. Uyldert, Dutch poet and writer, Youth of a Poet
February 16, 1878 Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/ composer and conductor, Peter Schlemihl
February 16, 1876 George Macauley Trevelyan, England, historian, Giuseppi Garibaldi
February 16, 1871 Arthur Ponsonby, British Politician
February 16, 1868 Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist/linguist, Anthropos
February 16, 1866 Johann Strauss, Austria, composer, Waltz King
February 16, 1866 Vyacheslav I Ivanov, Russian philosopher/classical/poet
February 16, 1866 William "Sliding Billy" Hamilton, New Jersey, hall of fame baseball player
February 16, 1858 Laurence "Lon" Myers, U.S., track star, top U.S. miler
February 16, 1856 Willem Kes, Dutch violinist, composer and conductor, Parkorkest Amsterdam
February 16, 1854 Oscar Fetras, composer
February 16, 1852 Charles Taze Russell, religion founder, Jehovah's Witnesses
February 16, 1852 William Scarborough, Macon, Georgia, linguist/author, Birds of Aristophanes
February 16, 1848 Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist, How species emerge
February 16, 1848 Octave Mirbeau, France, writer, Journal of a Lady's Maid
February 16, 1847 Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer, Album polonaise
February 16, 1838 Arnoldus Pannevis, South African ship's doctor/linguist
February 16, 1838 Henry B. Adams, born in Boston, Massachusetts, historian, writer, Education of Henry Adams
February 16, 1836 Benjamin Edward Woolf, Dutch composer
February 16, 1834 Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Potsdam Germ, biologist, Causes of Evolution
February 16, 1832 Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac, Mjr General Confederate Army
February 16, 1831 Nikolai Leskow, writer
February 16, 1826 Franz von Holstein, composer
February 16, 1826 Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer, Gaudeamus
February 16, 1823 John Daniel Imboden, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1895
February 16, 1822 Francis Galton, Birmingham England, anthropologist and geneticist
February 16, 1822 James Patton Anderson, Major General Confederate Army, died in 1872
February 16, 1821 Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer, Central Africa
February 16, 1813 Joseph Reid Anderson, Brig General Confederate Army died in 1892
February 16, 1813 Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer
February 16, 1812 Henry Wilson, R, 18th VP, 1873-75
February 16, 1807 Lysander Cutler, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1866
February 16, 1790 Chretien Urhan, composer
February 16, 1788 Juan van Halen, Dutch/Spanish officer/adventurer
February 16, 1787 Andreas Schelfhout, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer
February 16, 1774 Pierre Rode, composer
February 16, 1746 Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic
February 16, 1740 Giambattista Bodoni, Saluzzo Italy, printer/typeface designer, Bodoni
February 16, 1709 Charles Avison, composer
February 16, 1698 Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, heliometer
February 16, 1684 Bohuslav M Czernohorsky, Czech monk/composer
February 16, 1684 Bohuslav Matej Czernohorsky, Czech monk/composer
February 16, 1669 Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter
February 16, 1620 Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia
February 16, 1519 Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral
February 16, 1514 Rhaticus, [Rheticus], Austrian astronomer/mathematician
February 16, 1497 Philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer, Augsburgse Confessie
February 16, 1497 Philip Melanchthon, German Theologian
February 16, 1075 Ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet



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