Famous birthdays
Famous birthdays in February
Short answer
Pick a day of February to see well-known people born on it. Each date page lists names, what each person is known for and their birth year, built from Wikidata.
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The most widely known name for each day
- February 1: Boris Yeltsin 1931 Soviet and Russian politician, 1st President of Russia
- February 2: James Joyce 1882 Irish novelist and poet
- February 3: Felix Mendelssohn 1809 German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent
- February 4: Rosa Parks 1913 Civil rights activist
- February 5: Neymar 1992 Brazilian footballer
- February 6: Ronald Reagan 1911 40th President of the United States
- February 7: Charles Dickens 1812 English novelist and social critic
- February 8: Jules Verne 1828 French writer
- February 9: William Henry Harrison 1773 President of the United States in 1841
- February 10: Bertolt Brecht 1898 German poet, playwright, and theatre director
- February 11: Thomas Edison 1847 American inventor and businessman
- February 12: Abraham Lincoln 1809 President of the United States from 1861 to 1865
- February 13: William Shockley 1910 American physicist and inventor
- February 14: Mark Rutte 1967 Secretary General of NATO since 2024 and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- February 15: Louis XV of France 1710 King of France and Navarre 1715 to 1774
- February 16: Octave Mirbeau 1848 French writer, art critic and journalist
- February 17: Michael Jordan 1963 American basketball player and businessman
- February 18: Toni Morrison 1931 African American novelist, essayist, and academic
- February 19: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner 1953 President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015
- February 20: Kurt Cobain 1967 American rock musician
- February 21: Corbin Bleu 1989 American actor
- February 22: George Washington 1732 Founding Father and first U.S. president
- February 23: Naruhito 1960 Emperor of Japan
- February 24: Steve Jobs 1955 American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc.
- February 25: George Harrison 1943 English musician and member of the Beatles
- February 26: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 1954 President of Turkey since 2014
- February 27: John Steinbeck 1902 American writer
- February 28: Linus Pauling 1901 American scientist
- February 29: Gioachino Rossini 1792 Italian opera composer