Famous people born on february 29
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Dave Brailsford
Sir David John Dave Brailsford, CBE is a British cycling coach. He was formerly performance director of British Cycling and is currently general manager of Team Sky.....
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Gareth Farr
Gareth Vincent Farr, ONZM is a New Zealand composer and percussionist. He has released a number of classical CDs and composed a number of works performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Royal New Zealand Ballet. He has also performed in drag under the name Lilith LaCroix in a show called Drumdrag and has also released a CD under that name.....
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Niclas Huschenbeth
Niclas Huschenbeth is a German chess grandmaster and German champion in 2010. He played in the Chess Olympiads of 2008 and 2010.....
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Eugene Volokh
Eugene Volokh is an American law professor, the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He publishes the blog The Volokh Conspiracy. He is an academic affiliate of the law firm Mayer Brown.....
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Chris Conley
Christopher Lane Chris Conley is an American musician, songwriter, and composer. He is also the leadsingerrhythm guitarist in Saves the Day. He is the only remaining original member as well as major artistic contributor.....
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Jane Corwin
Jane Lewis Corwin is an American politician and businesswoman who has served as a Republican Party member of the New York State Assembly since 2009. She represents the 144th Assembly District which covers parts of Erie and Niagara counties. Corwin was also the Republican Party nominee in the special election held on May 24, 2011 to fill Western New Yorks 26th district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives previously held by Republican Chris Lee. She faced three other candidates in the elect....
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George E Allen
George Edward Allen was an American political operative who was involved in a famous football game while in college.....
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Henri Richard
Joseph Henri Richard is a former professional ice hockey player who played centre with the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League from 1955 to 1975. He is the brother of Canadiens legend and fellow Hockey Hall of Famer Maurice The Rocket Richard. Fifteen years younger and three inches shorter, he was given the nickname The PocketRocket. In 1998, he was ranked number 29 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players.....
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Emmeline B Wells
Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells was an American journalist, editor, poet, womens rights advocate and diarist. She served as the fifth Relief Society General President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints from 1910 until her death.....
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Balthus
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola , known as Balthus, was a PolishFrench modern artist.....
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Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith was an American inventor who developed an electromechanical punched card tabulator to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting. He was the founder of The Tabulating Machine Company that was consolidated in 1911 with three other companies to form the ComputingTabulatingRecording Company, later renamed IBM. Hollerith is regarded as one of the seminal figures in the development of data processing. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine marks the begin....
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Jack R Lousma
Jack Robert Lousma , , is an American aeronautical engineer, retired United States Marine Corps officer, former naval aviator, NASA astronaut, and politician. He was a member of the second manned crew on the Skylab space station in 1973. In 1982, he commanded STS3, the third Space Shuttle mission.....
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Albert V Duke of Bavaria
Albert V was Duke of Bavaria from 1550 until his death. He was born in Munich to William IV and Maria Jacoba of Baden.....
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Eva Marie Veigel
Eva Marie Veigel was a dancer and the wife of actor David Garrick.....
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Frank Shifreen
Frank Shifreen is an American artist, curator, and teacher. Shifreen played a significant part in the art movement of New York City in the early 1980s, organizing massive artistrun shows that brought thousands of people to Gowanus, Brooklyn. Since then, he has organized socially conscious art exhibitions across the United States and abroad, including From the Ashes, a massive exhibition organized in the aftermath of 911. A neoexpressionist and social sculptor, he is a graduate of the Pratt Inst....
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