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Samuel Pepys (1633 - 1703)
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Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, (23 February 1633 - 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1665 and served as its President from 1 Decembe...
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Clayton Conrad Anderson
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Clayton Conrad Anderson (born February 23, 1959 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. Launched on STS-117, he replaced Sunita Williams on June 10, 2007 as a member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew. Read more
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Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev (1928 - 1990)
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Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev (February 23, 1928 - December 31, 1990) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 12 spaceflight as well as the abortive Soyuz 18a launch. Read more
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Scott Joseph Kelly
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Scott Joseph Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American astronaut. Kelly was commander of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 26. Read more
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Mark Edward Kelly
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Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is a retired American astronaut, U.S. Navy captain and naval aviator who flew combat missions during the Gulf War. He was selected to become a NASA space shuttle pilot in 1996 and flew his first mission in 2001 as pilot of STS-108. Read more
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Ludwig Boltzmann (1844 - 1906)
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Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 - September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. Read more
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David Jonathan Gross
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David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941) is an American particle physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. Read more
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Ernst Mach (1838 - 1916)
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Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 - February 19, 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, noted for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number and the study of shock waves. Read more
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Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201 - 1274)
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Khawaja Muammad ibn Muammad ibn asan s (born 18 February 1201 in s, Khorasan - died on 26 June 1274 in al-Kaimiyyah district of metropolitan Baghdad), better known as Nar al-Dn al-s, was a Persian polymath and prolific writer: an astronomer, biologist, chemist, mathematician, philosopher, physi...
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Tobias Mayer (1723 - 1762)
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Tobias Mayer (17 February 1723 - 20 February 1762) was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon. Read more
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Otto Stern (1888 - 1969)
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Otto Stern (17 February 1888 - 17 August 1969) was a German physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Read more
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Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514 - 1574)
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Georg Joachim de Porris, also known as Rheticus (16 February 1514 - 4 December 1574), was a mathematician, cartographer, navigational-instrument maker, medical practitioner, and teacher. He is perhaps best known for his trigonometric tables and as Nicolaus Copernicus's sole pupil. Read more...
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William Henry Pickering (1858 - 1938)
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William Henry Pickering (February 15, 1858, Boston - January 17, 1938, Mandeville, Jamaica) was an American astronomer, brother of Edward Charles Pickering. He discovered Saturn's ninth moon Phoebe in 1899 from plates taken in 1898. He also believed he had discovered a tenth moon in 1905 from pla...
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Herman Kahn (1922 - 1983)
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Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 - July 7, 1983) was one of the preeminent futurists of the latter third of the twentieth century. He was known for analysing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability. Read more
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Roger Bruce Chaffee (1935 - 1967)
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Roger Bruce Chaffee (February 15, 1935 - January 27, 1967), Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy, was a Naval Aviator, aeronautical engineer and a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program. Read more
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