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Mortuus homo est natalis – On this day, February 28, 1535 Cornelius Gemma, Dutch astronomer and astrologer, was born. The oldest son of cartographer and instrument-maker Gemma Frisius. He was a professor of medicine at Catholic University of Leuven, and shared in his father’s efforts to restore ancient Ptolemaic practice to astrology.
Mortuus homo est natalis – On this day, February 27, 1910 Kelly Johnson, American engineer, was born. Co-founded Skunk Works.
Mortuus homo est natalis – On this day, February 26, 1880 Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer, was born. Edgeworth is best known for proposing the existence of a disc of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune in the 1930s. Observations later confirmed the existence of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt in 1992. Today those distant solar system bodies including Pluto, Eris, and Makemake, are grouped into the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, or Kuiper belt.
Mortuus homo est natalis – On this day, February 25, 1304 Ibn Battuta, Moroccan scholar, and explorer, was born. He widely travelled the medieval world, over a period of thirty years. Ibn Battuta visited most of the Islamic world and many non-Muslim lands, including Central Asia, Southeast Asia, India and China. Near the end of his life, he dictated an account of his journeys, titled A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Traveling. He travelled more than any other explorer in distance, totaling around 117,000 km, surpassing both Zheng He and Marco Polo.
Mortuus homo est natalis – On this day, February 24, 1921 Abe Vigoda, American actor, was born. Best known for his portrayals of Salvatore Tessio in The Godfather, and Phil Fish in Barney Miller) and Fish.
Mortuus homo est natalis – On this day, February 21, 1934 Rue McClanahan, American actress, was born. Best known for her role as Blanche on The Golden Girls.
Mortuus homo est natalis – On this day, February 20, 1967 Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, was born.
Mortuus homo est natalis – On this day, February 19, 1924 Lee Marvin, American actor, was born. Known for his distinctive voice and premature white hair, Marvin initially appeared in supporting roles, mostly villains, soldiers, and other hardboiled characters. Best known as Major John Reisman in The Dirty Dozen, Walker in Point Blank and the Sergeant in The Big Red One. One of Marvin’s most notable film projects was Cat Ballou a comedy Western in which he played dual roles. For portraying both gunfighter Kid Shelleen and criminal Tim Strawn.
Mortuus homo est natalis – On this day, February 18, 1922 Allan Melvin, American character actor, voice actor and impressionist, was born. Cast in hundreds of television episodes from the 1950s to the early 1990s, often appearing in recurring roles on various series. Some of those roles and series include portraying various characters on The Andy Griffith Show, as real estate salesman Pete Dudley in My Favorite Martian, as Corporal Henshaw on The Phil Silvers Show, Sergeant Hacker on Gomer Pyle, USMC, Alice’s boyfriend Sam the Butcher on The Brady Bunch, and as Archie Bunker’s friend Barney Hefner on both All in the Family. Also did a lot of voice work for both the Walt Disney Co. and Hanna Barbara Cartoons, his best known character being Magilla Gorilla.
Mortuus homo est natalis – On this day, February 17, 1920 Curt Swan, American soldier and illustrator, was born. Best known for her portrayal of Miss Moneypenny in all the first fourteen Eon-produced James Bond films. The artist most associated with Superman during the period fans call the Silver Age of Comic Books, Swan produced hundreds of covers and stories from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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