Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 8

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[edit] Births

• 1819 - John Ruskin, English author (d. 1900)
• 1828 - Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905) (pictured)
• 1834 - Dmitri Mendeleyev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
• 1851 - Kate Chopin, American author (d. 1904)
• 1920 - Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995)
• 1925 - Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001)
• 1931 - James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
• 1955 - John Grisham, American writer

[edit] Deaths

• 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542)
• 1725 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (b. 1672)
• 1957 - Walther Bothe, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1957 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
• 1990 - Del Shannon, American entertainer (suicide) (b. 1934)
• 1999 - Iris Murdoch, Irish author (b. 1919)