Library Lady

February Birthdays

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

How many of these people do you know?