Anniversaries 29 February
Birth
![John Byrom photo]()
Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
1692–1763
![Ann Lee photo]()
English Shaker leader
1736–1784
![Gioachino Rossini photo]()
Italian composer
1792–1868
![Augusta Savage photo]()
American sculptor
1892–1962
![Morarji Desai photo]()
Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former pr…
1896–1995
![Rukmini Devi Arundale photo]()
Indian Bharatnatyam dancer
1904–1986
![Taiichi Ohno photo]()
Japanese businessman and engineer
1912–1990
![Dinah Shore photo]()
American singer and actress
1916–1994
![Seymour Papert photo]()
MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator
1928–2016
![Patricia A. McKillip photo]()
American fantasy writer
1948
![Anthony Robbins photo]()
Author, actor, professional speaker
1960
![Richard Ramirez photo]()
American serial killer
1960–2013
![Antonio Sabàto Jr. photo]()
American actor and model
1972
![Saul Williams photo]()
American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor
1972
Death
![John Theophilus Desaguliers photo]()
French-born British natural philosopher and clergyman
1683–1744
![Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish photo]()
German religious movement founder
1844–1936
![Violet Trefusis photo]()
English writer and socialite
1894–1972
![Edward S. Mason photo]()
American economist
1899–1992
![Jerome Lawrence photo]()
American playwright
1915–2004
![Janet Kagan photo]()
Science fiction author
1946–2008
