Famous birthdays for Feb. 28: Mario Andretti, Bernadette Peters

Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces.

They include:

-- French essayist Michel de Montaigne in 1533

-- Chemist/physicist Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize (peace and chemistry), in 1901

-- Movie director Vincente Minnelli in 1903

-- Actor Billie Bird in 1908

-- Actor Charles Durning in 1923

-- Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, in 1926

-- Architect Frank Gehry in 1929 (age 91)

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-- Actor Gavin MacLeod in 1931 (age 89)

-- Dancer Tommy Tune in 1939 (age 81)

-- Former race car driver Mario Andretti in 1940 (age 80)

-- Musician Brian Jones in 1942

-- Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in 1948 (age 72)

-- Actor Bernadette Peters in 1948 (age 72)

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-- Actor Mercedes Ruehl in 1948 (age 72)

-- Newspaper columnist/Nobel laureate Paul Krugman in 1953 (age 67)

-- Comedian Gilbert Gottfried in 1955 (age 65)

-- Actor John Turturro in 1957 (age 63)

-- Actor Rae Dawn Chong in 1961 (age 59)

-- Singer Patrick Monahan in 1969 (age 51)

-- Actor Robert Sean Leonard in 1969 (age 51)

-- Actor Tasha Smith in 1971 (age 49)

-- Hockey Hall of Fame member Eric Lindros in 1973 (age 47)

-- Actor Ali Larter in 1976 (age 44)

-- Country singer Jason Aldean in 1977 (age 43)

-- Actor Sarah Bolger in 1991 (age 29)

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