List of Famous people born in February
Manuel Torres Félix
Manuel Fidel Torres Félix, also known as El M1 and/or El Ondeado, was a suspected Mexican drug lord and high-ranking leader of a cell within the Sinaloa Cartel.
Yury Konoplev
Yury Konoplev is a Belarusian professional football coach and former player. He spent the majority of his playing and coaching career in Vitebsk.
Jonas Mačiulis
Jonas Mačiulis is a Lithuanian professional basketball player who last played for AEK Athens of the Greek Basket League and the Basketball Champions League. Standing at 1.98 m, he mainly plays at the small forward position. As a member of the senior Lithuanian national team, he earned an All-EuroBasket Team selection in 2015, as Lithuania won the silver medal.
Georgette Elgey
Georgette Elgey was a French journalist and historian. She was the author of Histoire de la IVe République, published in 6 volumes from 1965 to 2012.
Annika Zeyen
Annika Zeyen is a former 1.5-point wheelchair basketball player, who has played for ASV Bonn, RSV Lahn-Dill and BG Baskets Hamburg in the German wheelchair basketball league, and for the University of Alabama in the United States. She has represented her country a total of 382 times in which she won six European titles, was the runner-up at 2010 and 2014 World Championships, won silver medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games in Beijing and 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, and won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, for which President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany's highest sporting honour, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt . Following the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, Zeyen retired from wheelchair basketball to pursue alternative sporting challenges as an individual athlete.
Jun Nishikawa
Jun Nishikawa is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Cerezo Osaka.
Salif Diao
Salif Alassane Diao is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Catherine Samie
Catherine Samie is a French actress and member of the Comédie-Française from 1962. On July 14, 2011, she became Grand Officier of the Legion of Honor. She is a Catholic.
Louise Reiss
Louise Marie Zibold Reiss was an American physician who coordinated what became known as the Baby Tooth Survey, in which deciduous teeth from children living in the St. Louis, Missouri area who were born in the 1950s and 1960s were collected and analyzed over a period of 12 years. The results of the survey showed that children born in 1963 had levels of strontium-90 in their teeth that were 50 times higher than those found in children born in 1950, before the advent of widespread nuclear weapons testing. The findings helped convince U.S. President John F. Kennedy to sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the United Kingdom and Soviet Union, which ended the above-ground testing of nuclear weapons that placed the greatest amounts of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere.
Charles Durning
Charles Edward Durning was an American actor who appeared in over 200 movies, television shows and plays. Durning's best-known films include The Sting (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), True Confessions (1981), Tootsie (1982), Dick Tracy (1990), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for both The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) and To Be or Not to Be (1983). Prior to his acting career, Durning served in World War II and was decorated for valor in combat.