List of Famous people born in February

Maus Gatsonides

First Name Maus

Last Name Gatsonides

Born on February 14, 1911

Died on November 29, 1998 (aged 87)

Maurice "Maus" Gatsonides was a Dutch rally driver and inventor. Gatsonides was born in Central Java in the former Dutch East Indies. He founded the company "Gatsometer BV" in the Netherlands in 1958.

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Victor Hensen

First Name Victor

Last Name Hensen

Born on February 10, 1835

Died on April 5, 1924 (aged 89)

Born in Germany, Schleswig-Holstein

Christian Andreas Victor Hensen was a German zoologist (planktology). He coined the term plankton and laid the foundation for biological oceanography.

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Anita Wachter

First Name Anita

Last Name Wachter

Born on February 12, 1967 (age 59)

Born in Austria, Vorarlberg

Height 164 cm | 5'5

Anita Wachter is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Austria. She focused on the technical events and specialized in giant slalom.

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Erwin Strahl

First Name Erwin

Last Name Strahl

Born on February 12, 1929

Died on April 20, 2011 (aged 82)

Born in Austria

Actor

Erwin Strahl was an Austrian actor. From 1966 until his death, he was married to Austrian actress Waltraut Haas.

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Gabino Cué Monteagudo

First Name Gabino

Born on February 23, 1966 (age 60)

Born in Mexico, Oaxaca

Gabino Cué Monteagudo is a Mexican politician. He was previously governor of the state of Oaxaca, and the first non-PRI winning candidate in the state in 80 years. He previously ran for governor in 2004, losing to Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, the PRI-candidate and current outgoing state governor.

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Mathilde Gremaud

First Name Mathilde

Born on February 8, 2000 (age 26)

Born in Switzerland, canton of Fribourg

Mathilde Gremaud is a Swiss freestyle skier who competes internationally.

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Elia Levita

First Name Elia

Last Name Levita

Born on February 13, 1469

Died on January 28, 1549 (aged 79)

Born in Germany, Bavaria

Elia Levita, also known as Elijah Levita, Elias Levita, Élie Lévita, Elia Levita Ashkenazi, Eliahu Levita, Eliyahu haBahur, Elye Bokher, was a Renaissance Hebrew grammarian, scholar and poet. He was the author of the Bovo-Bukh, the most popular chivalric romance written in Yiddish. Living for a decade in the house of Cardinal Egidio da Viterbo, he was also one of the foremost tutors of Christian notables in Hebrew and Jewish mysticism during the Renaissance.

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Hsieh Chi-ta

First Name Hsieh

Last Name Chi-ta

Born on February 10, 1949 (age 77)

Born in People's Republic of China, Jiangxi

Hsieh Chi-ta is a retired Taiwanese politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 1993 to 2002.

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William McCrum

First Name William

Last Name McCrum

Born on February 7, 1865

Died on December 21, 1932 (aged 67)

William McCrum was a wealthy Irish linen manufacturer and sportsman, most famous for being the inventor in 1890 of the penalty kick in football.

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Massimo Troisi

First Name Massimo

Last Name Troisi

Born on February 19, 1953

Died on June 4, 1994 (aged 41)

Born in Italy, Campania

Actor

Massimo Troisi was an Italian actor, cabaret performer, screenwriter, and film director. He is best known for his works in the films I'm Starting from Three (1981) and Il Postino: The Postman (1994), for which he was posthumously nominated for two Oscars. Nicknamed "the comedian of feelings," he is considered one of the most important actors of Italian theater and cinema.

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