page_title: 1966
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 1966 / Births / February
caption_attribution_description: Sarah Montague as Conference chairperson at the 2011 NHS Confederation annual conference and exhibition, Manchester, England.
context_page_description: 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1966th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 966th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1960s decade.
  In February, Luna 9 made the first controlled landing of a spacecraft on the Moon. The Cultural Revolution began in China in May.
context_section_description: February 1 – Michelle Akers, American footballer
  February 3 – Jimmy Thunder, Samoan boxer
  February 4
  Piret Kalda, Estonian actress
  Kyōko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer
  February 5 – José María Olazábal, Spanish golfer
  February 6 – Rick Astley, British pop musician
  February 7 – Kristin Otto, German swimmer
  February 8
  Sarah Montague, English journalist and radio host
  Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer
  February 9
  Christoph Maria Herbst, German actor
  Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
  February 10 – Daryl Johnston, American football player
  February 11 – Cristina Elena Grigoraș, Romanian artistic gymnast
  February 13 – Neal McDonough, American actor
  February 16 – Martin Perscheid, German cartoonist
  February 17
  Luc Robitaille, Canadian hockey player
  Quorthon, Swedish singer, songwriter, musician and record producer (d. 2004)
  February 18 – Richard A. Collins, British scientist and author
  February 20 – Cindy Crawford, American model and actress
  February 22
  Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian bombmaker (d. 1996)
  Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedian
  Brian Greig, Australian politician
  February 23
  Michael Arata, American actor
  Alexandre Borges, Brazilian actor
  Didier Queloz, Swiss-born astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
  February 24 – Billy Zane, American actor
  February 25
  Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete
  Téa Leoni, American actress
  February 26
  Jennifer Grant, American actress
  Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer
  February 27 – Alison Gertz, American AIDS activist (d. 1992)
  February 28
  Paulo Futre, Portuguese footballer
  Ickey Woods, American football player
caption: Sarah Montague
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