Anniversaries 17 February
Birth
![Ellen Sturgis Hooper photo]()
American writer
1812–1848
![Edward German photo]()
English musician and composer
1862–1936
![Tom Watson photo]()
American businessman
1874–1956
![Frank Rutter photo]()
British art critic
1876–1937
![Isabelle Eberhardt photo]()
Swiss explorer and author
1877–1904
![Dorothy Canfield Fisher photo]()
American author and social activist
1879–1958
![J. Allen Boone photo]()
American writer
1882–1965
![Otto Stern photo]()
German physicist
1888–1969
![Hans Blüher photo]()
German journalist and writer
1888–1955
![Ronald Knox photo]()
English priest and theologian
1888–1957
![Ronald Fisher photo]()
English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, a…
1890–1962
![Jibanananda Das photo]()
Bengali poet, writer, novelist and essayist
1899–1954
![Hans Morgenthau photo]()
American political scientist
1904–1980
![Luis A. Ferré photo]()
American politician
1904–2003
![Andre Norton photo]()
American writer of science fiction and fantasy
1912–2005
![Alastair Borthwick photo]()
British journalist
1913–2003
![Julia de Burgos photo]()
Puerto Rican politician
1914–1953
![Albert L. Lehninger photo]()
American biochemist
1917–1986
![Duane Gish photo]()
American biochemist
1921–2013
![Robert Newton Peck photo]()
American children's writer
1928
![Alejandro Jodorowsky photo]()
Filmmaker and comics writer
1929
![Barry Humphries photo]()
Australian comedian and actor
1934
![Jim Brown photo]()
American former professional football player and current sp…
1936
![Huey P. Newton photo]()
Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
1942–1989
![Bruce Fogle photo]()
veterinarian and author
1944
![Richard Shweder photo]()
American anthropologist
1945
![Dennis Green photo]()
American football coach
1949–2016
![Abd al-Bari Atwan photo]()
Palestinian journalist
1950
![Mark Bittman photo]()
American journalist, food writer
1950
![Patricia de Lille photo]()
Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure
1951
![Louis Frederick Kihneman photo]()
American prelate of the Catholic Church (born 1952)
1952
![Don Coscarelli photo]()
American film director, producer and screenwriter
1954
![Loreena McKennitt photo]()
Canadian musician and composer
1957
![Lou Diamond Phillips photo]()
American film, television, and stage actor
1962
![Michael Jordan photo]()
American retired professional basketball player and busines…
1963
![Larry the Cable Guy photo]()
American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, vo…
1963
![Hiroaki Samura photo]()
Japanese graphic novelist
1970
![Denise Richards photo]()
American actress and model
1971
![Billie Joe Armstrong photo]()
American singer and guitarist
1972
![Брайан Уайт photo]()
American country music artist
1974
![Joseph Gordon-Levitt photo]()
American actor, director, producer, and writer
1981
![Tosin Ajibade photo]()
Nigerian writer and blogger
1987
![Bonnie Wright photo]()
English actress, model, screenwriter, director and producer
1991
![Ed Sheeran photo]()
English singer-songwriter and producer
1991
![Meaghan Martin photo]()
American musician and actor
1992
Death
![Al-Tabari photo]()
influential Persian scholar, historian and exegete of the Q…
839–923
![Giordano Bruno photo]()
Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
1548–1600
![Molière photo]()
French playwright and actor
1622–1673
![Dharma Raja photo]()
Maharaja of Travancore
1724–1798
![James Macpherson photo]()
Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician
1736–1796
![Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi photo]()
Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer
1746–1827
![Adolphe Quetelet photo]()
Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociolo…
1796–1874
![Heinrich Heine photo]()
German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
1797–1856
![Horace Bushnell photo]()
American theologian
1802–1876
![Geronimo photo]()
leader of the Bedonkohe Apache
1829–1909
![Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten photo]()
Anglo-Irish rower, barrister, politician and Lord of Appeal…
1830–1913
![Henry Steel Olcott photo]()
Union United States Army officer
1832–1907
![William Paine Lord photo]()
American politician
1838–1911
![Frances Willard photo]()
American suffragist
1839–1898
![Wilfrid Laurier photo]()
7th prime minister of Canada
1841–1919
![L. P. Jacks photo]()
British educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister
1860–1955
![Siegbert Tarrasch photo]()
German chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician
1862–1934
![Alfred P. Sloan photo]()
American businessman
1875–1966
![Albert I of Belgium photo]()
third King of the Belgians
1875–1934
![Hans Hofmann photo]()
American artist
1880–1966
![Shmuel Yosef Agnon photo]()
Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature
1888–1970
![Jiddu Krishnamurti photo]()
Indian spiritual philosopher
1895–1986
![Adolf A. Berle photo]()
American diplomat
1895–1971
![Ernst Käsemann photo]()
German theologian
1906–1998
![Jesse Stuart photo]()
American writer
1907–1984
![Richard Wurmbrand photo]()
Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent
1909–2001
![Marie-Louise von Franz photo]()
Swiss psychologist and scholar
1915–1998
![Thelonious Monk photo]()
American jazz pianist and composer
1917–1982
![Maurice Bucaille photo]()
French physician and author
1920–1998
![Kathryn Grayson photo]()
actress from the United States
1922–2010
![Ulric Neisser photo]()
American psychologist
1928–2012
![Nicolas Bouvier photo]()
Swiss writer, artist and traveller
1929–1998
![Michael Novak photo]()
American theologian, philosopher, journalist, novelist, and…
1933–2017
![Tom Regan photo]()
American philosopher
1938–2017
![Randy Shilts photo]()
American journalist
1951–1994
![Perry Moore photo]()
Executive producer of the Narnia films and author of award-…
1971–2011
