List of Famous people born in February
Halit Kıvanç
Halit Kıvanç is a Turkish television and radio presenter, humorist, sports journalist and writer. He is best known as a sports commentator.
Tsuda Sanzō
Tsuda Sanzo was a Japanese policeman who in 1891 attempted to assassinate Nicholas II of Russia, in what became known as the Ōtsu incident. He was convicted for attempted murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Wolfgang Solz
Wolfgang Solz was a German professional football winger.
Christian Didier
Christian Didier came to public attention after 8 June 1993 as the assassin of René Bousquet, a friend of French President François Mitterrand who had served as a senior police official under Vichy France, which administered the southern half of France during the German occupation. Directly after the killing, Didier telephoned a succession of newspaper editors in order to organise an ad hoc press conference. This meant that the police had no difficulty in locating him.
Hebert Conceição
Hebert Wilian Carvalho da Conceição Souza is a Brazilian boxer.
Alfred Escher
Johann Heinrich Alfred Escher vom Glas, known as Alfred Escher was a Swiss politician, business leader and railways pioneer. Thanks to his numerous political posts and his significant role in the foundation and management of the Swiss Northeastern Railway, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Credit Suisse, Swiss Life and the Gotthard Railway, Escher had an unmatched influence on Switzerland's political and economic development in the 19th century.
Matome Ugaki
Matome Ugaki was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, remembered for his extensive and revealing war diary, role at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and kamikaze suicide hours after the announced surrender of Japan at the end of the war.
Josef Duchač
Josef Duchač is a German politician (CDU).
Lung Ying-tai
Lung Ying-tai is a Taiwanese essayist and cultural critic. She occasionally writes under the pen name 'Hu Meili'. Lung's poignant and critical essays contributed to the democratization of Taiwan and as the only Taiwanese writer with a column in major mainland Chinese newspapers, she is an influential writer in Mainland China. She has written 17 books.
Monique Leyrac
Monique Leyrac, was a Canadian singer and actress who popularized many songs by French-Canadian composers.