
George Washington
(02/22/1732 – 12/14/1799)
US President (1) (see other US Presidents; was married to Martha Washington)

Arthur Schopenhauer
(02/22/1788 – 09/21/1860)
German philosopher
"You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you."
Charles A. Allen
(11/17/1771 – 02/22/1810)
US businessman
Charles A. Allen
(11/17/1771 – 02/22/1810)
US businessman
"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."
James Russell Lowell
(02/22/1819 – 08/12/1891)
US writer
James Russell Lowell
(02/22/1819 – 08/12/1891)
US writer
"The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit."
Christian Nestell Bovee
(02/22/1820 – 01/18/1904)
US writer
Christian Nestell Bovee
(02/22/1820 – 01/18/1904)
US writer

Sydney Smith
(06/03/1771 – 02/22/1845)
English clergyman

Robert Baden-Powell
(02/22/1857 – 01/08/1941)
English military, Boy Scouts founder

Jules Renard
(02/22/1864 – 05/22/1910)
French writer
"There are four things that hold back human progress; ignorance, stupidity, committees, and accountants."
Charles J. C. Lyall
(11/14/1797 – 02/22/1875)
US accountant
Charles J. C. Lyall
(11/14/1797 – 02/22/1875)
US accountant

Eric Gill
(02/22/1882 – 11/17/1940)
English artist

Edna St. Vincent Millay
(02/22/1892 – 10/19/1950)
US writer

Bill Nye
(08/25/1850 – 02/22/1896)
US humorist (also see Bill Nye the science guy)
"And the sooner the tea's out of the way, the sooner we can get out the gin, eh?"
Henry Reed
(02/22/1914 – 12/08/1986)
English writer
Henry Reed
(02/22/1914 – 12/08/1986)
English writer

Edward Gorey
([circa] 02/22/1925 – 04/15/2000)
US artist
"And the sooner the tea's out of the way, the sooner we can get out the gin, eh?"
Henry Reed
(02/22/1914 – 12/08/1986)
English writer
Henry Reed
(02/22/1914 – 12/08/1986)
English writer

Edward Gorey
([circa] 02/22/1925 – 04/15/2000)
US artist


Edward M. Kennedy
(02/22/1932 – 08/25/2009)
US Senator (MA) (son of Rose and Joseph P., brother of John and Robert) , on George W. Bush

Sparky Anderson
(02/22/1934 – 11/04/2010)
US baseball manager

Ishmael Reed
(02/22/1938 – )
US writer

Steve Irwin
(02/22/1962 – 09/04/2006)
Australian "Croc Hunter"
"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."
Felix Frankfurter
(11/15/1882 – 02/22/1965)
US Supreme Court (see other Supreme Court justices)
Felix Frankfurter
(11/15/1882 – 02/22/1965)
US Supreme Court (see other Supreme Court justices)

Peter Arno
(01/08/1904 – 02/22/1968)
US cartoonist

Elizabeth Bowen
(06/07/1899 – 02/22/1973)
English writer

Drew Barrymore
(02/22/1975 – )
US actor (grand-niece of Ethel and Lionel, granddaughter of John, daughter of John Drew)

give advice and buy a foe."
Phyllis McGinley
(03/21/1905 – 02/22/1978)
US writer
"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet."
Hal Borland
(05/14/1900 – 02/22/1978)
US journalist
Hal Borland
(05/14/1900 – 02/22/1978)
US journalist
"The two of us with a very strong, peaceful expression, hand in hand, on the edge within a semicircle sea, lit by Bengal fire, water-tower, mountains, lightning and moon."
Oskar Kokoschka
(03/01/1886 – 02/22/1980)
Austrian artist (one of Alma's conquests)
Oskar Kokoschka
(03/01/1886 – 02/22/1980)
Austrian artist (one of Alma's conquests)

Chuck Jones
(09/21/1912 – 02/22/2002)
US animator
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