Famous Birthdays for February 28Mary Lyon 1797 - Educator, founder of Mount Holyoke Seminary (later Mt. Holyoke College) Sir John Tenniel 1820 - Cartoonist, illustrator Charles Blondin (Jean Francois Gravelet) 1824 - Acrobat, aerialist, first to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Ben Hecht 1894 - Novelist, scriptwriter, playwright Linus Pauling 1901 - Nobel prize for chemistry in 1954, Nobel peace prize winner in 1962 Vincente Minnelli (Lester Anthony Minnelli) 1903 - Director, Liza Minelli's father Earl Scheib 1908 - Founded the Earl Scheib company that specialized repaiting and colission repair Milton Caniff 1907 - Cartoonist Billie Bird 1908 - Actress, comedian (Movie: Sixteen Candles, Home Alone) Zero (Samuel) Mostel (Samuel Joel Mostel) 1915 - Actor Lee Castle 1915 - Musician, bandleader (Jimmy Dorsey's band) Alf Kjellin 1920 - Actor, director Charles Durning 1923 - Actor ("Spy Hard", "Dick Tracy", "The Hindenburg") Chris Kraft 1924 - NASA flight director and voice of Mission Control for all Mercury and many Gemini missions Svetlana Allilueva 1926 - Author, daughter of Russian leader Joseph Stalin Stanley Baker 1927 - Actor ("The Guns of Navarone") Frank Malzone 1930 - Baseball player Gavin MacLeod 1931 - Actor ("Love Boat", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show") Don Francks 1932 - Actor Tommy Tune 1939 - Dancer, actor, choreographer Mario Andretti 1940 - Auto racer, twin of Aldo Andretti Aldo Andretti 1940 - Twin of Mario Andretti Joe South 1940 - Songwriter, singer Frank Bonner 1942 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati") Brian Jones (Lewis Hopkin-Jones) 1942 - Musician (The Rolling Stones) Poul Popiel 1943 - Hockey player, coach Donnie Iris 1943 - Musician (Jaggerz, Wild Cherry) Barbara Acklin 1944 - Singer, songwriter Kelly Bishop 1944 - Actress ("Gilmore Girls") Bubba Smith 1945 - Football player Stephanie Beacham 1947 - Actress Marty Perez 1947 - Baseball player Mercedes Ruehl 1948 - Actress ("Last Action Hero", "Married to the Mob") Bernadette Peters (Lazzara) 1948 - Actress ("The Jerk", "Pennies From Heaven"), singer Tom Riker 1950 - Basketball player Roland Harper 1953 - Football player Adrian Dantley 1955 - Basketball player John Turturro 1957 - Actor ("Girl 6", "The Color of Money", "Desperately Seeking Susan") Cindy Wilson 1957 Musician (B-52's) Phil Gould 1957 - Musician (Level 42) Rae Dawn Chong 1961 - Actress Robert Sean Leonard 1969 - Actor ("Manhattan Project", "House") Pat Monahan 1969 - Musician (Train) Maxine Bahns 1971 - Actress Eric Lindros 1973 - Hockey player FeFe Dobson 1985 - Singer Bobb'e J. Thompson 1996 - Actor, dancer, rapper, comedian |
