List of Famous people born in February
Margrit Rainer
Margrit Rainer born as Margrit Rosa Sandmeier was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actress starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions.
Hung Yan-yan
Hung Yan-yan is a Hong Kong martial artist, actor, stuntman and action director originally from Liuzhou, Guangxi, China. He was the stunt double for martial arts superstar Jet Li.
Aleksandr Volodin
Aleksandr Moiseyevich Volodin, born Lifschitz, was a Soviet and Russian playwright, screenwriter and poet. His first play was The Factory Girl (1956). His most famous plays were Five Evenings, My Elder Sister and some others. In addition, he created the script for the film Autumn Marathon (1979) by director Georgy Daneliya.
Bruno Baum
Bruno Baum was a German official for the Communist Party of Germany and Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He also served as a resistance fighter during World War II.
Sadao Watanabe
Sadao Watanabe is a Japanese jazz musician who plays alto saxophone, sopranino saxophone, and flute. He is known for his bossa nova recordings, although his work encompasses many styles, with collaborations from musicians all over the world.
Hamazasp Babadzhanian
Hamazasp Khachaturi Babadzhanian was a Soviet Armenian Chief marshal of the armored troops. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944.
Thomas Westphal
Thomas Westphal is an economist, politician (SPD) and managing director of City of Dortmund Economic Development Agency. Previously, he was managing director of business development metropoleruhr, whose advisory board he still belongs to today. From 1993 to 1995 he was Federal Chairman of the Jusos. From 1 November 2020, Westphal will be the lord mayor of Dortmund.
Sidiki Diabaté
Sidiki Diabaté is a Malian kora player, musician and music producer born in 1992 in Bamako, Mali. He is the son of renowned kora player Toumani Diabaté and grandson of Sidiki Diabaté. Diabaté belongs to the 77th generation of musicians in a long family tradition of griots, his family being primarily kora players. His grandfather Sidiki Diabaté recorded the first ever kora album in 1970. His father's cousin Sona Jobarteh is the first female kora player to come from a Griot family. His uncle Mamadou Sidiki Diabaté is also a prominent kora player.
Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy
Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy is the middle daughter of Italy's last king, Umberto II, and Marie José of Belgium, the "May Queen", and a sister of a pretender to their father's throne, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples. She is an historical writer.
Annette Kolb
Annette Kolb was the working name of German author and pacifist Anna Mathilde Kolb. She became active in pacifist causes during World War I and this caused her political difficulties from then on. She left Germany in the 1920s and her works were banned during the Third Reich. She wrote novels on high society and in later life wrote nonfiction about musicians. In 1955 she won the Goethe Prize.