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Today's Anniversary – Tuesday, February 17


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Births

* 1991 Bonnie Wright English actress and model, perhaps best known for her role in the Harry Potter films as Ginny Weasley.
* 1981 Joseph Gordon-Levitt American actor.
* 1981 Joseph Gordon Levitt American actor.
* 1981 Paris Hilton Heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, as well as her father's real estate fortune.
* 1972 Billie Joe Armstrong Lead singer and guitarist of Green Day.
* 1971 Denise Richards American film actress.
* 1963 Michael Jordan Retired professional basketball player who played 11 season for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association and 2 seasons for the Washington Wizards.
* 1963 Larry the Cable Guy Better known by the stage name Larry the Cable Guy, is an American stand-up comedian and actor.
* 1962 Sarah Wollaston British politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Totnes for the Conservative party since 2010.
* 1957 Loreena McKennitt Canadian composer, songwriter, singer, harpist and pianist.
* 1954 Rene Russo American film actress, musician and former model.
* 1954 Bill Sali Former United States Representative from Idaho's 1st congressional district.
* 1950 Abd al-Bari Atwan Editor-in chief of the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
* 1949 Dennis Green Former American football head coach.
* 1948 Jose Jose Mexican singer.
* 1942 Huey P. Newton Co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, an African-American radical organization that began in October 1966 in Oakland, California.
* 1936 Jim Brown Retired American professional football player who has also made his mark as an actor and social activist.
* 1929 Alejandro Jodorowsky Actor, playwright, director, producer, composer, mime, comic book writer and psychotherapist.
* 1929 Chaim Potok American author and rabbi.
* 1904 Hans Morgenthau One of the leading twentieth-century figures in the study of international politics.
* 1904 Luis A. Ferre Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and a patron of the arts.
* 1903 Sadegh Hedayat Iran's foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories.
* 1890 Ronald Fisher Evolutionary biologist, geneticist and statistician.
* 1888 Ronald Knox English theologian, priest and crime writer.
* 1888 Otto Stern German physicist and Nobel laureate in physics.
* 1882 J. Allen Boone Author of several books about nonverbal communication with animals in the 1940s and '50s.
* 1876 Frank Rutter British art art critic, curator and activist.
* 1874 Thomas J. Watson President of International Business Machines, who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from the 1920s to the 1950s.
* 1864 Andrew Paterson Famous Australian bush poet and author.
* 1862 Edward German English musician and composer, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of English comic opera.
* 1797 Henry E. Steinway Born Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, was a German-American piano manufacturer and the founder of the highly regarded piano company Steinway & Sons.

Deaths

† 2010 Kathryn Grayson American actress and operatic soprano singer.
† 2001 Richard Wurmbrand Romanian evangelical Christian minister, author, and educator who spent a total of fourteen years imprisoned in Romania, as well as the founder of Voice of the Martyrs.
† 2001 Khalid Abdul Muhammad Born Harold Moore Jr, was a leading figure in the Black Nationalist movement throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.
† 1998 Marie-Louise Von Franz Daughter of an Austrian baron, was a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar who was born in Munich, Germany.
† 1986 Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, public speaker, and writer, on psychological, sociological, and spiritual subjects.
† 1984 Jesse Stuart American writer known for his poems, short stories, and novels about rural Southern Appalachia.
† 1982 Thelonious Monk Jazz pianist and composer.
† 1980 Graham Sutherland English artist, who focused on the inherent strangeness of natural forms, and abstracting them, sometimes giving his work a surrealist appearance.
† 1966 Hans Hofmann One of the older abstract expressionist painters working in New York.
† 1955 L. P. Jacks Usually cited as L P Jacks, was an English educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister who rose to prominence in the period from World War I to World War II.
† 1934 Siegbert Tarrasch Leading chess player.
† 1913 Joaquin Miller Pen name of the American poet, essayist and fabulist Cincinnatus Heine Miller.
† 1909 Geronimo Chiricahua Apache leader; usually known as Geronimo.
† 1884 Charles Stuart Calverley English poet.
† 1876 Horace Bushnell American Congregational clergyman and theologian.
† 1856 Heinrich Heine Journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets.
† 1827 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Swiss educational reformer.
† 1796 James Macpherson Scottish poet and literary hoaxer.
† 1673 Moliere French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire.
† 1600 Giordano Bruno Italian philosopher, astronomer, satirist, occultist, mystic, and martyr, who was burned at the stake as a heretic; born Filippo Bruno, in Nola, Italy, he often called himself Il Nolano.
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