Famous birthdays for Feb. 8: Cecily Strong, Mary Steenburgen

Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius.

They include:

-- Civil War-era U.S. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in 1820

-- Pioneer science fiction writer Jules Verne in 1828

-- Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, who devised the periodic table, in 1834

-- Author Kate Chopin in 1850

-- Actor Edith Evans in 1888

-- Chester Carlson, inventor of the Xerox copying process, in 1906

-- Actor Lana Turner in 1921

-- Actor Audrey Meadows in 1922

-- Actor Jack Lemmon in 1925

-- Actor James Dean in 1931

-- Oscar-winning composer/conductor John Williams in 1932 (age 86)

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-- Television journalist Ted Koppel in 1940 (age 79)

-- Actor Nick Nolte in 1941 (age 78)

-- Folk singer Tom Rush in 1941 (age 78)

-- Comedian Robert Klein in 1942 (age 77)

-- Singer Ron Tyson (The Temptations) in 1948 (age 71)

-- Actor Brooke Adams in 1949 (age 70)

-- Actor Mary Steenburgen in 1953 (age 66)

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-- Author John Grisham in 1955 (age 64)

-- Philippine President Benigno Aquino III in 1960 (age 59)

-- Rock vocalist Vince Neil (Motley Crue) in 1961 (age 58)

-- Actor Gary Coleman in 1968

-- Actor Seth Green in 1974 (age 45)

-- Actor Marion "Pooch" Hall in 1977 (age 42)

-- Comedian Cecily Strong in 1984 (age 35)

-- Surfer Bethany Hamilton in 1990 (age 29)

-- Actor Kathryn Newton in 1997 (age 22)

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