February

Hattie Wyatt

Caraway (1878) first woman elected to the U.S. Senate

Langston Hughes

(1902) American poet

Who shares my birthday?

Is your birthday in February? The names of some of the famous people
born in February are shown on the calendar on this page and the next.
What do you know about the person who shares your birthday?

Daniel Boone

(1734) American pioneer and explorer

William Rose

Benet (1886)

American poet, author of “The Ballad of Jesse James”

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821) first woman doctor in the U.S.

Norman Rockwell

(1894) American artist

Charles Lindbergh (1902) American aviator who was first to fly
across the Atlantic alone

Rosa Lee Parks (1913) American civil rights leader

Nancy Hanks Lincoln (1784) mother of Abraham Lincoln

Henry Aaron (1934) baseball player; broke Babe Ruth’s home run
record

Ronald Reagan (1911) 40th President of the United States

Babe Ruth (1895)

American baseball player and first great home run hitter

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867) American author best known for her
“Little House” books

Amy Lowell (1874) American poet

William Sherman (1820) Union general in the Civil War

Jules Verne (1828) French author who wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea

William Henry Harrison (1773) 9th President of the United States

Dame Judith

Anderson (1898) Australian actress

Mark Spitz (1950) American Olympic swimmer, winner of seven gold
Olympic medals

Thomas A. Edison (1847) American inventor

Sir Vivian Fuchs

(1908) British scientist and Antarctic explorer

Thaddeus Kosciusko

(1746) Polish patriot who fought in the American Revolution

Abraham Lincoln

(1809) 16th President of the United States

Grant Wood (1892) American painter

Patty Berg (1918) American who became the top tournament winner in
women’s golf

Christopher Sholes (1819) American newspaperman who helped develop
the typewriter

Jack Benny (1894) American entertainer

Galileo Galilei

(1564) Italian astronomer

Susan B. Anthony

(1820) American women’s rights leader

Henry Adams

(1838) American historian and writer

Edgar Bergen

(1903) American ventriloquist

Montgomery Ward

(1844) American mail-order merchant

Marian Anderson

(1902) American singer

Mary I (1516) first queen to rule England on her own

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848) American artist and stained-glass maker

Nicolaus

Copernicus (1473)

Polish astronomer

Carson McCullers

(1917) American author of Member of the Wedding

Angelina Grimke

(1805) American advocate of women’s rights

Sidney Poitier

(1927) first black actor to win an Academy Award

Barbara Jordan (1936) first black woman to serve in the Texas
legislature

Alice Palmer (1855)

American educator

George Washington

(1732) 1st President of the United States

Robert Baden-

Powell (1857)

British soldier who founded the Boy Scouts

Emma Willard

(1787) American educator

W. E. B. Du Bois

(1866) American reformer and black historian

Winslow Homer (1836) American painter

Wilhelm Grimm

(1786) German collector of fairy tales

Pierre Auguste

Renoir (1841)

French impressionist painter

Enrico Caruso

(1873) Italian opera singer

Victor Hugo (1802)

French author who wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame

William Cody (1846)

American frontiersman known as Buffalo Bill

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807) American poet

Ralph Nader

(1934) American consumer-rights advocate

Linus Pauling

(1901) American chemist who won two Nobel Prizes

Mario Andretti

(1940) Italian-born auto racer

Marquis de Montcalm (1712) French general; died defending Quebec

Ann Lee (1736) English religious leader of Shakers