Today's Famous Birthdays

[IceWizard]

This is a really incomplete list...
I only am putting in the ones I know/have heard of











John Deere
(February 7, 1804 – May 17, 1886)

was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company,
one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction-equipment manufacturers
in the world. Born in Rutland, Vermont, Deere moved to Illinois and invented the first
commercially successful steel plow in 1837.









Charles John Huffam Dickens
(7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)

was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known
fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century,
critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories
are widely read today









Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder
(February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957)

was an American writer, mostly known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's
books, published between 1932 and 1943, which were based on her childhood in a settler
and pioneer family.
The television series Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983) was loosely based on the books,
and starred Melissa Gilbert as Laura and Michael Landon as her father, Charles Ingalls








Clarence Linden Crabbe II
(February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983),

known professionally as Buster Crabbe, was an American two-time Olympic swimmer
and film and television actor. He won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400-meter
freestyle swimming event, which launched his career on the silver screen and later
television. He starred in a variety of popular feature films and movie serials released
between 1933 and the 1950s, portraying the top three syndicated comic-strip
heroes of the 1930s: Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers.








Robert Lorenzo Brazile Jr.
(born February 7, 1953)

is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the
National Football League (NFL). Nicknamed "Dr. Doom", Brazile played from
1975 to 1984 for the Houston Oilers and was elected to the
Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018.









James Todd Spader
(born February 7, 1960)

is an American actor. He has portrayed eccentric characters in films such as the drama
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for
Best Actor, the action science fiction film Stargate (1994), the controversial psychological
thriller Crash (1996), the erotic romance Secretary (2002) and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012).
He also voiced and performed motion-capture of the titular character of Ultron in Avengers:
Age of Ultron (2015).

His television roles include those of attorney Alan Shore in the last season of The Practice
(2003–2004) and its spin-off Boston Legal (2004–2008) (for which he won three Emmy Awards),
and Robert California in the comedy-mockumentary The Office (2011–2012). He currently
stars as high-profile criminal-turned-FBI-informant Raymond "Red" Reddington in the NBC
crime drama The Blacklist (2013–present) for which he has earned two
Golden Globe Awards nominations.









Troyal Garth Brooks
(born February 7, 1962)

is an American country music singer and songwriter. His integration of pop and rock elements
into the country genre has earned him popularity, particularly in the United States with success
on the country music single and album charts, multi-platinum recordings and record-breaking
live performances, while also crossing over into the mainstream pop arena.








Christopher Julius Rock
(born February 7, 1965)

is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and filmmaker. Known for his work in comic film, television
and stage, he has received multiple accolades, including three Grammy Awards for best comedy album
and four Primetime Emmy Awards as well as a Golden Globe Award nomination. He was ranked No. 5
on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. He also ranked No. 5 on
Rolling Stone 's list of the 50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time.








Christopher Ashton Kutcher
(February 7, 1978)


He began his acting career portraying Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006).
He made his film debut in the romantic comedy Coming Soon (1999), followed by the comedy film
Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), which was a box office hit. In 2003, Kutcher moved into romantic
comedies, appearing in that year's Just Married and My Boss's Daughter. In 2003, he created and
produced the television series Punk'd, also serving as host for the first eight of its ten seasons.
In 2004, Kutcher starred in the lead role of the psychological film The Butterfly Effect.