Celebrate the Day!

Celebrate holidays, birthdays of famous people, anniversaries, and other important historical events for calendar year 2007 and beyond. Use our perpetual calendar to find Federal Holidays, religious observances, or any other celebration for any year in the future.

What are Holidays?

Holidays, a contraction of holy and day, originally represented special religious days. Over the years, this word has evolved in general usage to mean any special day of rest (as opposed to regular days of rest such as the weekend). In all of the English-speaking world, a holiday can be a day set aside by a nation or culture (in some cases, multiple nations and cultures) typically for celebration but sometimes for some other kind of special culture-wide (or national) observance or activity. A holiday can also be a special day on which school and/or offices are closed, such as Labor Day. When translated from/to other languages, the meanings of the word "holiday" may be conflated with these of "observance" and "celebration".

Celebrate Monday, February 8, 2010

Monthly Holidays & Celebrations:

This Week's Holidays & Celebrations:

Today's Holidays:

Historical Events:

Famous Birthdays:

1577 - Robert Burton - Author

1741 - André Grétry - Composer

1765 - Joseph Eybler - Composer

1819 - John Ruskin - Critic

1820 - William T. Sherman - Military

1828 - Jules Verne - Author

1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev - Chemist

1850 - Kate Chopin - Novelist

1878 - Martin Buber - Philosopher

1883 - Joseph Schumpeter - Economist

1884 - John Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon - Aviator

1888 - Edith Evans - Actor

1894 - King Vidor - Film Director

1911 - Elizabeth Bishop - Poet

1921 - Lana Turner - Actor

1925 - Jack Lemmon - Actor

1927 - Stanley Baker - Actor

1929 - Floyd Dixon - Pianist

1931 - James Dean - Actor

1932 - John Williams - Composer

1940 - Ted Koppel - Journalist

1941 - Nick Nolte - Actor

1969 - Mary McCormack - Actor

1974 - Seth Green - Actor

Deaths of Famous People:

1587 - Mary I of Scotland - Royalty

1709 - Giuseppe Torelli - Violinist

1725 - Peter the Great - Royalty

1750 - Aaron Hill - Playwright

1882 - Berthold Auerbach - Poet

1909 - Mieczysław Karłowicz - Composer

1920 - Richard Dehmel - Poet

1921 - Peter Kropotkin - Anarchist

1942 - James F Hanley - Songwriter

1956 - Connie Mack - Baseball

1957 - John von Neumann - Scientist

1977 - Eivind Groven - Composer

1982 - John Hay Whitney - Business

1987 - Harriet MacGibbon - Actor

1990 - Del Shannon - Musician

1991 - Silvio Conte - Politician

1994 - Raymond Scott - Musician

1999 - Iris Murdoch - Novelist

2005 - Jimmy Smith - Jazz Musician

2007 - Anna Nicole Smith - Model

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