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Today's Anniversary – Sunday, February 22


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Births

* 1974 James Blunt British musician.
* 1962 Steve Irwin Most commonly known as Steve Irwin, was the owner and manager of the Australia Zoo at Beerwah, Queensland, Australia.
* 1952 Bill Frist Former Republican U S Senator from Tennessee and a cardiac surgeon.
* 1950 Genesis P-Orridge English performer, musician, writer and artist.
* 1943 Terry Eagleton British literary theorist, critic and philosopher, who is regarded as one of the United Kingdom's most influential living literary critics.
* 1937 Joanna Russ American writer, academic and feminist.
* 1932 Edward (Ted) Kennedy Senior Democratic U S senator from Massachusetts.
* 1928 Bruce Forsyth British entertainer and showman who achieved celebrity on the show Sunday Night at the London Palladium, and has since presented game shows such as Play Your Cards Right, The Generation Game, and Strictly Come Dancing.
* 1927 Ahmad Jannati Chair of the Guardian Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
* 1926 Kenneth Williams English comic actor and comedian.
* 1900 Luis Bunuel Spanish film director.
* 1897 Leonid Govorov Soviet military commander, was appointed as instructor in tactics at the Dzerzhinskiy Artillery Academy in 1938.
* 1892 Edna St. Vincent Millay American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
* 1886 Hugo Ball German poet, playwright and critic.
* 1882 Eric Gill British sculptor, typographer, printmaker and engraver.
* 1879 Norman Lindsay Australian artist, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist and scale modeler, as well as being a highly talented boxer.
* 1857 Sir Robert (B-P) Baden-Powell Soldier, writer and founder of the world Scouting movement.
* 1857 Heinrich Hertz German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell.
* 1839 Francis Pharcellus Church American publisher and editor, most famous for his editorial reply to 8 year old Virginia O'Hanlon, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
* 1820 Christian Nestell Bovee Epigrammatic New York writer.
* 1819 James Russell Lowell American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat, and abolitionist.
* 1810 Frederic Chopin Polish pianist and composer of classical music who lived in Paris from age 21.
* 1805 Sarah Adams English poet and hymn writer.
* 1801 William Barnes English writer, poet, minister, and philologist.
* 1788 Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher, most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation (1819).
* 1732 George Washington Successful Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783, and later became the first President of the United States, an office to which he was elected, unanimously, twice and remained in from 1789 to 1797.
* 1592 Nicholas Ferrar English scholar, courtier, businessman and man of religion.

Deaths

† 2012 Marie Colvin Award-winning American journalist.
† 2006 Sinnathamby Rajaratnam Former Foreign Minister (1965-1980) and Second Deputy Prime Minister (1980-1985) of Singapore.
† 2002 Chuck Jones American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros.
† 1992 Saul Gorn Pioneer in computer and information science who was a member of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 30 years.
† 1987 Andy Warhol American painter, filmmaker, publisher, actor and major figure in the Pop Art movement.
† 1980 Oskar Kokoschka Austrian artist and poet of Czech origin, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.
† 1978 Hal Borland American author.
† 1976 Michael Polanyi Born Polányi Mihály, was a Hungarian–British polymath whose thought and work extended across physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy.
† 1975 Lionel Tertis English violist and one of the first viola players to find international fame.
† 1973 Elizabeth Bowen Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer.
† 1965 Felix Frankfurter Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
† 1943 Sophie Scholl Member of the White Rose non-violent resistance movement during the Nazi regime in Germany.
† 1942 Stefan Zweig Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer.
† 1939 Antonio Machado Known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the literary movement known as the Generation of '98.
† 1845 Sydney Smith English clergyman, critic, philosopher and wit.
† 1810 Charles Brockden Brown American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period, generally regarded by scholars as the most ambitious and accomplished US novelist before James Fenimore Cooper.
† 1556 Humayun Second Mughal Emperor who ruled present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from 1530–1540 and again from 1555–1556.
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