Anniversaries 29 February

Birth

John Byrom31

Poet, inventor of a shorthand system 1692–1763

Ann Lee13

English Shaker leader 1736–1784

Gioachino Rossini9

Italian composer 1792–1868

Augusta Savage2

American sculptor 1892–1962

Morarji Desai50

Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former pr… 1896–1995

Rukmini Devi Arundale13

Indian Bharatnatyam dancer 1904–1986

Taiichi Ohno12

Japanese businessman and engineer 1912–1990

Dinah Shore1

American singer and actress 1916–1994

Howard Nemerov3

Poet 1920–1991

Seymour Papert13

MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator 1928–2016

Patricia A. McKillip30

American fantasy writer 1948

Roman Frydman3

American economist 1948

Tim Powers63

American writer 1952

Anthony Robbins62

Author, actor, professional speaker 1960

Mark Donnelly2

Canadian singer 1960

Richard Ramirez3

American serial killer 1960–2013

Emer Martin1

Irish writer 1968

Antonio Sabàto Jr.3

American actor and model 1972

Saul Williams14

American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor 1972

Death

John Theophilus Desaguliers4

French-born British natural philosopher and clergyman 1683–1744

Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish4

German religious movement founder 1844–1936

E. F. Benson3

novelist 1867–1940

Violet Trefusis6

English writer and socialite 1894–1972

Edward S. Mason3

American economist 1899–1992

Jerome Lawrence2

American playwright 1915–2004

Janet Kagan1

Science fiction author 1946–2008

Louise Rennison52

British writer 1951–2016