Birthdays February 19-25

February 19
Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer, 1473
Prince Andrew, Duke of York, 1960
February 20
Ansel Adams, photographer, 1902
Sidney Poitier, actor, 1927
Charles Barkley, basketball player, 1963
February 21
W.H. Auden, poet, 1907
Erma Bombeck, journalist, 1927
February 22
George Washington, president, 1732
Rembrandt Peale, artist, 1778
Frederic Chopin, Polish composer and pianist, 1810
James Lowell, essayist and poet, 1819
Lord Baden-Powell, founder of Boy Scouts, 1857
Heinrich Hertz, German scientist, 1857
Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet, 1892
February 23
Samuel Pepys, English author, 1633
George Handel, German composer, 1685
William E. B. DuBois, founder of NAACP, 1868
February 24
Wilhelm Grimm, German storyteller, 1786
Winslow Homer, artist, 1836
Honus Wagner, baseball player, 1874
Chester William Nimitz, commander in WWII, 1885
Steven Jobs, businessman and co-founder of Apple Company, 1955
February 25
Pierre Renoir, French painter, 1841
Enrico Carous, opera singer, 1873
Herbert Marx, (Zeppo) one of Marx brothers, 1901
Jim Bachus, actor, 1913
George Harrison, member of Beatles, 1943