| February 8th 1811 | | Edwin Denison Morgan, Sect of War (Confederacy), died in 1883
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| February 8th 1813 | | Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist
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| February 8th 1817 | | Richard Stoddert Ewell, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1872
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| February 8th 1818 | | Austin Blair, Gov/MC (Union), died in 1894
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| February 8th 1819 | | John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist (Prerafaelite)
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| February 8th 1820 | | William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
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| February 8th 1822 | | Maxime Du Camp, France, writer/traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres)
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| February 8th 1824 | | Barnard Elliot Bee, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
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| February 8th 1828 | | Antonio Cagnoni, composer
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| February 8th 1828 | | Antonio C novas del Castillo, premier of Spain
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| February 8th 1828 | | Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon)
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| February 8th 1851 | | Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, novelist
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| February 8th 1852 | | Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russ author (Tjoma Kartashov) [NS=2/20]
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| February 8th 1859 | | John H Been, town's archivist of Brielle (Baasje & Witkop)
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| February 8th 1876 | | Paula Modersohn-Becker, German "entartet" painter
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