Birthdays Date 1902 February | History by KabAstro

Feb 1 Carlo Borbolla, Cuban pianist, organist, and composer, born in Manzanillo, Cuba (d. 1990)

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Feb 1 American poet (Weary Blues), playwright (Mulatto), and librettist (Troubled Island), born in Joplin, Missouri

Feb 1 Therese Brandl, German Nazi concentration camp guard (Auschwitz), and convicted war criminal, born in Staudach-Egerndach, Bavaria, German Empire (d. 1947, by execution)
Feb 2 Newbold Morris, American politician (d. 1966)
Feb 2 Tyra Ryman, Swedish actress (Luffar-Petter, Peter the Tramp), born in Arboga, Sweden (d. 1990)

Feb 4 American aviator who was 1st to fly solo across the Atlantic, born in Detroit, Michigan

Feb 4 Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
Feb 4 Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Mexican pioneering artistic photographer, born in Mexico City (d. 2002) [1]
Feb 5 Bronislaw Kaper, Polish-American Academy Award-winning film composer (Green Dolphin Street; Lili; The Brothers Karamazov), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1983)
Feb 6 George Brunies, American musician, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1974)
Feb 6 Louis Nizer, Jewish-American lawyer (defended blacklisted stars in '50s, Catspaw), born in London, England (d. 1994)
Feb 8 Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966)
Feb 8 Lyle Talbot [Lysle Henderson], American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1996)
Feb 9 Blanche Calloway, American jazz vocalist, bandleader (Twelve Clouds of Joy), civil rights activist, and broadcaster, born in Rochester, New York (d. 1978)
Feb 9 Chester Lauck, American actor (Dreaming Out Loud, 2 Weeks to Live), born in Allene, Arkansas (d. 1980)
Feb 9 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader (d. 1999)
Feb 9 Léon M'ba, Gabonese politician and 1st president of Gabon (1961-67), born in Libreville, Gabon (d. 1967)
Feb 10 Armand Bernier, Belgian poet (Sorcier Triste) (d. 1969)
Feb 10 Jack Pettis, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader, born in Ehrmandale, Indiana (d. 1963)

Feb 10 American physicist and Nobel laureate for his work on transistors, born in Amoy, China

Feb 11 Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect (d. 1971)
Feb 12 William Collier [Charles F Gall Jr], American stage and film actor and producer, born in New York City (d. 1987)
Feb 12 William D. Revelli, American bandleader, born in Spring Gulch, Colorado (d. 1994)
Feb 13 Blair Moody, American journalist (US Senator (D)-Michigan, 1951-52), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1954)
Feb 13 Karl Menger, Austrian-American mathematician (dimension theory), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1985)
Feb 13 Valentin Ruiz Aznar, Spanish choirmaster, composer, and priest, born in Borja, Zaragoza, Spain (d. 1972)
Feb 14 Fred Scott, American actor and singing cowboy, known as "The Silvery-Voiced Buckaroo" (Melody of the Plains), born in Fresno, California (d. 1991)
Feb 14 Ray "Crash" Corrigan, American actor (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1976)
Feb 14 Thelma Ritter, American character actress (All About Eve; Rear Window; Pillow Talk), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1969)
Feb 19 Hugo Haas, Czechoslovakian actor and director (Bait, Pick Up, 2 Smart People), born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (d. 1968)
Feb 19 John Bubbles, American rhythm tap dancer (No Maps on My Taps), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1986)
Feb 19 Nydia Westman, American actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins), born in New York City (d. 1970)

Feb 20 American landscape photographer and environmentalist (Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980), born in San Francisco, California

Feb 21 Arthur Nock, English-American historian (St Paul, history of religion), born in Portsmouth, England (d. 1963)
Feb 21 Bob Scholte, Dutch vocalist, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1983)
Feb 25 Max Kommerell, German literary critic (Die Gefangenen), born in Münsingen, Germany (d. 1944)
Feb 25 Oscar Cullmann, French-Swiss Lutheran theologist (Das Petrusproblem), born in Strasbourg, Germany (d. 1999)
Feb 26 Rudolf Moralt, German conductor (Vienna State Opera, 1940-58), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1958)
Feb 26 Vercors [Jean Bruller], French writer (Le Silence de la mer), born in Paris (d. 1991)