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Born in February

22,879 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

Oskar Pfister
psychoanalyst, parson
1873–1956 · aged 83
February 23 · 1873
Source: hls-dhs-dss.ch
Charles Pélissier
sport cyclist
1903–1959 · aged 56
February 20 · 1903
Source: GeneaStar
Anders Walter
film producer, screenwriter
48 years old
February 5 · 1978
Source: BD Gest'
Yun Chi-Young
politician, writer
1898–1996 · aged 97
February 10 · 1898
Source: pantheon.world
Mihai Mocanu
association football player, association football coach
1942–2009 · aged 67
February 24 · 1942
Source: Transfermarkt
Raafat Attia
association football coach, association football player
1934–1978 · aged 44
February 6 · 1934
Source: Transfermarkt
Wladimir Vogel
pianist, musicologist
1896–1984 · aged 88
February 29 · 1896
Source: Integrated Authority File
Vladimir Kesarev
association football player, association football coach
1930–2015 · aged 84
February 26 · 1930
Source: FBref
Carl Keenan Seyfert
astronomer, university teacher
1911–1960 · aged 49
February 11 · 1911
No external source identified
Albert Schwegler
writer, theologian
1819–1857 · aged 37
February 10 · 1819
Source: BnF authorities
Frederic L. Paxson
historian, philosopher
1877–1948 · aged 71
February 23 · 1877
Source: SNAC
Pablo Aguilar
basketball player
37 years old
February 9 · 1989
Source: pantheon.world
Esther Lofgren
rower
41 years old
February 28 · 1985
Source: Sports-Reference.com
Johann Elias Ridinger*
painter, publisher
Date disputed
February 15 · 1698
Source: Discogs
David Fox
swimmer
55 years old
February 25 · 1971
No external source identified
Samson Samsonov
screenwriter, theatre director
1921–2002 · aged 81
February 23 · 1921
Source: Integrated Authority File
Pêr-Jakez Helias
teacher, writer
1914–1995 · aged 81
February 17 · 1914
Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror
Antoine Baumé
pharmacist, chemist
1728–1804 · aged 76
February 26 · 1728
Source: Base biographique
Charles Warren Eaton
painter
1857–1937
February 22 · 1857
Source: RKDartists
Muhammed Sanneh
association football player
26 years old
February 19 · 2000
No external source identified
Julio Hernán Rossi
association football player
49 years old
February 22 · 1977
Source: Transfermarkt
Amelia Adamo
journalist, editor-in-chief
79 years old
February 24 · 1947
Source: Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze
Maria Elise Turner Lauder
travel writer, writer
1833–1922 · aged 89
February 20 · 1833
Source: digital.lib.sfu.ca
Walter Garstang
marine biologist, zoologist
1868–1949 · aged 81
February 9 · 1868
Source: SNAC
Luigi De Magistris
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
1926–2022 · aged 95
February 23 · 1926
No external source identified
Carl von Marr
illustrator, painter
1858–1936 · aged 78
February 14 · 1858
Source: SNAC
Willem Maris
etcher, landscape painter
1844–1910 · aged 66
February 18 · 1844
Source: The Fine Art Archive Db
Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac
military personnel, military officer
1734–1792 · aged 58
February 14 · 1734
Source: RKDartists
John Lambert
politician
1746–1823 · aged 76
February 24 · 1746
Source: Find a Grave
Karim Sadiq
cricketer
42 years old
February 28 · 1984
No external source identified
Jaroslav Pospíšil
tennis player
45 years old
February 9 · 1981
Source: Association of Tennis Professionals website
Jacques Dupré
politician, governor
1773–1846 · aged 73
February 12 · 1773
Source: Find a Grave
Magnus Kihlstedt
association football player
54 years old
February 29 · 1972
Source: Transfermarkt
Rufus W. Cobb
lawyer, governor
1829–1913 · aged 84
February 25 · 1829
Source: Find a Grave
Teofil Kwiatkowski
painter
1809–1891 · aged 82
February 21 · 1809
Source: The Fine Art Archive Db
Henry XI of Legnica
feudatory
1539–1588 · aged 49
February 23 · 1539
Source: Integrated Authority File
Dally Randriantefy
tennis player
49 years old
February 23 · 1977
Source: WTA website
Eñaut Zubikarai
association football player, association football coach
42 years old
February 26 · 1984
Source: As
Clivio Piccione
racing automobile driver
42 years old
February 24 · 1984
No external source identified
Jodok Fink
farmer, politician
1853–1929 · aged 76
February 19 · 1853
Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Sakuji Yoshimura
archaeologist, Egyptologist
83 years old
February 1 · 1943
No external source identified
David A. Kyle
illustrator, writer
1919–2016 · aged 97
February 14 · 1919
Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Stanislav Seman*
association football player, association football coach
Date disputed
February 18 · 1952
No external source identified
Nina Afanasyeva
voice actor, author
87 years old
February 1 · 1939
Source: Argumenty i Fakty
László Sárosi
association football coach, association football player
1932–2016 · aged 84
February 27 · 1932
Source: FBref
Alessandro Mattei
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
1744–1820 · aged 76
February 20 · 1744
Source: SNAC
Maja Lidia Kossakowska
journalist, writer
1972–2022 · aged 50
February 27 · 1972
No external source identified
René Schneider
association football player
53 years old
February 1 · 1973
Source: Transfermarkt
Tryggvi Þórhallsson
politician
1889–1935 · aged 46
February 9 · 1889
No external source identified
Vera Sesina
rhythmic gymnast
40 years old
February 23 · 1986
No external source identified
Sergei Bykov
basketball player, basketball coach
43 years old
February 26 · 1983
Source: FIBA database
François Jauffret
tennis player
84 years old
February 9 · 1942
Source: Association of Tennis Professionals website
Larissa Oliveira
swimmer
33 years old
February 16 · 1993
No external source identified
Demond Mallet
basketball player
48 years old
February 22 · 1978
Source: TBLStat.net
Bram Peper
university teacher, politician
1940–2022 · aged 82
February 13 · 1940
Source: Parlement.com
Kassandra Missipo
association football player
28 years old
February 3 · 1998
Source: FBref
Sahak Ter-Gabrielyan
professional revolutionary, party activist
1886–1937 · aged 51
February 27 · 1886
Source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11
Eva Ingeborg Scholz
voice actor, film actor
1928–2022 · aged 94
February 16 · 1928
Source: filmportal.de
Giovanni Battista de' Rossi*
presbyter
Date disputed
February 22 · 1698
Source: GCatholic.org
Luismi Quezada
association football player
30 years old
February 11 · 1996
Source: Transfermarkt
Judy Oakes
athletics competitor, shot putter
68 years old
February 14 · 1958
Source: World Athletics database
Ryszard Kalisz
jurist, lawyer
69 years old
February 26 · 1957
No external source identified
Philipp Förster
association football player
31 years old
February 4 · 1995
Source: Transfermarkt
Bela Palfi
association football coach, association football player
1923–1995 · aged 72
February 16 · 1923
Source: Transfermarkt
Marc Pedraza
association football player
39 years old
February 6 · 1987
Source: As
Luigi Meneghello
university teacher, partisan
1922–2007
February 16 · 1922
Source: BnF authorities
Dauda Mohammed
association football player
28 years old
February 20 · 1998
Source: Transfermarkt
Giovanni Muzio
university teacher, architect
1893–1982 · aged 89
February 12 · 1893
Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
Unai Bustinza*
association football player
Date disputed
February 2 · 1992
Source: Transfermarkt
Jiří Zídek Sr.
basketball player
1944–2022 · aged 78
February 8 · 1944
Source: Olympedia
Johannes Meursius
antiquarian seller, historian
1579–1639 · aged 60
February 19 · 1579
Source: BnF authorities
Moshe Czerniak
chess player, journalist
1910–1984 · aged 74
February 3 · 1910
No external source identified
George S. Myers
ichthyologist, biologist
1905–1985 · aged 80
February 2 · 1905
No external source identified
Ariel Mosór
association football player
23 years old
February 19 · 2003
No external source identified
Sébastien Philippe
racing automobile driver
51 years old
February 8 · 1975
No external source identified
Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger
optician, mineralogist
1795–1871 · aged 76
February 5 · 1795
Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Boris Mayorov
association football player, ice hockey player
88 years old
February 11 · 1938
Source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
Erik Shuranov
association football player
24 years old
February 22 · 2002
Source: fbref.com
Sasha Victorine
association football player
48 years old
February 3 · 1978
Source: Transfermarkt
Chiara Frugoni
university teacher, historian
1940–2022 · aged 82
February 4 · 1940
Source: BnF authorities
Sergey Tolchinsky
ice hockey player
31 years old
February 3 · 1995
No external source identified
Idriz Hošić
association football player
82 years old
February 17 · 1944
Source: Transfermarkt
Urmo Aava
rally driver, racing automobile driver
47 years old
February 2 · 1979
Source: Biographical lexicon of Estonian sport
Shameka Christon
basketball player
44 years old
February 15 · 1982
Source: FIBA database
Dani Morer
association football player
28 years old
February 5 · 1998
Source: Transfermarkt
Jules de Trooz
politician
1857–1907 · aged 50
February 21 · 1857
Source: ODIS
Indrek Saar
sportsperson, politician
53 years old
February 20 · 1973
Source: pace.coe.int
Antoine Boësset
composer, choreographer
1587–1643 · aged 56
February 24 · 1587
Source: International Music Score Library Project
Azdren Llullaku
association football player
38 years old
February 15 · 1988
Source: Transfermarkt
Étienne Desmarteau
athletics competitor
1873–1905 · aged 32
February 4 · 1873
Source: Roglo
Kibonge Mafu
association football player
81 years old
February 12 · 1945
Source: Transfermarkt
Mark Koevermans
tennis player
58 years old
February 3 · 1968
Source: Association of Tennis Professionals website
Alexandra Eremia
artistic gymnast
39 years old
February 19 · 1987
No external source identified
Amer Deeb
association football player
46 years old
February 4 · 1980
Source: Transfermarkt
Philippe Burty
writer, art collector
1830–1890 · aged 60
February 6 · 1830
Source: La France savante
Otto Seeck
classical scholar, historian of classical antiquity
1850–1921 · aged 71
February 2 · 1850
Source: BnF authorities
Ellen Sturgis Hooper
poet, writer
1812–1848 · aged 36
February 17 · 1812
No external source identified
Katherine Cameron
painter, artist
1874–1965 · aged 91
February 26 · 1874
Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Rebecca Ward
fencer
36 years old
February 7 · 1990
No external source identified
Işıl Alben
basketball player
40 years old
February 22 · 1986
Source: FIBA database
Simone Christensen
physician, BMX rider
32 years old
February 10 · 1994
Source: olympedia.org
Saša Gajser
association football coach, association football player
52 years old
February 11 · 1974
Source: Transfermarkt
Kousuke Yamashita
music arranger, composer
52 years old
February 17 · 1974
No external source identified
Edmond Frémy*
chemist, university teacher
Date disputed
February 22 · 1814
Source: BnF authorities
Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
composer, playwright
1856–1931 · aged 75
February 12 · 1856
No external source identified
Kiyoko Ono
politician, artistic gymnast
1936–2021 · aged 85
February 4 · 1936
No external source identified
Otto V or III, Duke of Bavaria
monarch, politician
1261–1312
February 18 · 1261
Source: Integrated Authority File
Nhlanhla Khuzwayo
association football player
36 years old
February 9 · 1990
Source: Transfermarkt
Milan Srškić
politician
1880–1937 · aged 57
February 3 · 1880
No external source identified
Huang Chun-ming*
writer
Date disputed
February 13 · 1935
No external source identified
Wenceslao Fernández Flórez
essayist, writer
1885–1964 · aged 79
February 11 · 1885
Source: Integrated Authority File
Božidar Jović
handball player
54 years old
February 13 · 1972
No external source identified
Silvano Piovanelli
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
1924–2016 · aged 92
February 21 · 1924
No external source identified
Andrzej Niedzielan
association football player
47 years old
February 27 · 1979
Source: Transfermarkt
Aliagha Vahid
poet, writer
1894–1965 · aged 71
February 17 · 1894
No external source identified
Aldo Moser
sport cyclist
1934–2020 · aged 86
February 7 · 1934
No external source identified
Slavoljub Đorđević
association football player, association football coach
45 years old
February 15 · 1981
Source: Transfermarkt
Michèle Rivasi
anti-vaccine activist, biologist
1953–2023 · aged 70
February 9 · 1953
Source: Sycomore
René de Birague
politician, Catholic bishop
1506–1583 · aged 77
February 12 · 1506
No external source identified
Liu Xiaotong
volleyball player
36 years old
February 16 · 1990
No external source identified
Arjan Bellaj
association football player, association football coach
55 years old
February 1 · 1971
Source: Transfermarkt
Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin
astronomer
1865–1939 · aged 74
February 6 · 1865
Source: Dictionary of Irish Biography
Luis Paret y Alcázar
printmaker, draftsperson
1746–1799 · aged 53
February 11 · 1746
Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists
Pernilla Winberg
ice hockey player
37 years old
February 24 · 1989
No external source identified
Zhang Changhong
sport shooter
26 years old
February 14 · 2000
Source: olympedia.org
Igor Leshchuk
association football player
30 years old
February 20 · 1996
Source: Transfermarkt
Frank Chapot
show jumper
1932–2016 · aged 84
February 24 · 1932
Source: historygreatest.com
Irén Ágay
actor
1913–1950 · aged 37
February 23 · 1913
No external source identified
Madeleine Berthod
alpine skier
95 years old
February 1 · 1931
Source: Oldest Living Olympians
Gustav-Adolf Schur
sport cyclist, athlete
95 years old
February 23 · 1931
Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Marek Špilár
association football player
1975–2013 · aged 38
February 11 · 1975
Source: FBref
Tony Shelly
engineer, racing driver
1937–1998 · aged 61
February 2 · 1937
No external source identified
Sherry Ayittey
politician, minister
1948–2023 · aged 75
February 8 · 1948
No external source identified
Marion Clignet
sport cyclist
62 years old
February 21 · 1964
Source: Roglo
Nicolaes van Verendael
painter
1640–1691 · aged 51
February 19 · 1640
Source: The Fine Art Archive
Henry P. Baldwin
politician
1814–1892 · aged 78
February 22 · 1814
Source: SNAC
Märt Avandi
film actor, stage actor
45 years old
February 26 · 1981
Source: filmportal.de
Vittoria Tesi
opera singer
1701–1775 · aged 74
February 13 · 1701
Source: musiklexikon.ac.at
Tokihiko Okada
film actor, actor
1903–1934 · aged 30
February 18 · 1903
Source: KINENOTE movie database
Gladden James
actor, film actor
1888–1948 · aged 60
February 26 · 1888
No external source identified
Jean-Pierre Vidal
alpine skier
49 years old
February 24 · 1977
Source: GeneaStar
Akaki Shanidze
philologist, dialectologist
1887–1987 · aged 100
February 26 · 1887
No external source identified
Brad Knighton
association football player
41 years old
February 6 · 1985
Source: As
Marie Eline*
film actor, actor
Date disputed
February 27 · 1902
Source: BnF authorities
Elkhan Mammadov
judoka
44 years old
February 26 · 1982
No external source identified
Hassan Habibi
association football coach, association football player
87 years old
February 7 · 1939
Source: Transfermarkt
Grazyna Blecka-Kolska
actor, film actor
64 years old
February 16 · 1962
No external source identified
Sushila Chanu
field hockey player
34 years old
February 25 · 1992
No external source identified
Evgeni Klimov
ski jumper, Nordic combined skier
32 years old
February 3 · 1994
No external source identified
Christine Böhm
actor
1954–1979 · aged 25
February 19 · 1954
Source: BnF authorities

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