Every month I post the birthdays of our students, faculty and staff in the window between the library and the school hallway. I also try to include the birthdays of authors, illustrators and famous people the kiddos may be familiar with or should be.
Here are some famous birthdays for February 2020:
February Birthdays are taken from http://holidayinsights.com/bday/february.htm and a calendar from Perma Bound. Since some of these “famous” people may be lesser known to your students, the display could be tied to a trivia contest.
1 Meg Cabot – author
1 Langston Hughes – poet
1 Jerry Spinelli – author
2 Judith Viorst – author
3 Walt Morey – author
3 Norman Rockwell – artist
4 Russel Hoban – author
4 Charles Lindbergh – aviator
4 Clyde Tombaugh – astronomer
5 David Wiesner – author
5 Hank Aaron – baseball player
6 Babe Ruth – baseball player
6 Ronald Reagan – president
6 Berta Hader – author
7 Charles Dickens – author
7 Fred Gipson – author
7 Laura Ingalls Wilder – author
8 Anne Rockwell – author
8 Jules Verne – author
9 Matt de la Pena – author
9 William Henry Harrison – president
10 E.L Konigsburg – author
10 Mark Teague – author
11 Mo Willems – author
11 Jane Yolen – author
11 Thomas Alva Edison – inventor
12 Jacqueline Woodson – author
12 Abraham Lincoln – president
13 Janet Taylor Lisle – author
14 Paul O. Zelinsky – author
14 George Ferris, Jr. – inventor
15 Norman Bridwell – author
15 Galileo Gelilei – inventor
15 Susan B. Anthony – women’s suffrage
17 Jim Brown – football player
17 Michael Jordan – basketball player
18 Alessandro Volta – physicist and inventor
19 Copernicus – scientist
21 Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve – author
22 George Washington – president
23 George Frederic Handel – composer
25 Cynthia Voigt – author
25 Renoir – painter
26 Victor Hugo – author
26 Levi Strauss – inventor
27 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – poet
27 Uri Shulevitz – author
27 John Steinbeck – author
28 Lemony Snicket – author
