Famous birthdays for Feb. 8: Seth Green, Brooke Adams

Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius.

-- 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

-- Actor Edith Evans in 1888

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

-- Actor Lana Turner in 1921

-- Actor Jack Lemmon in 1925

-- Actor James Dean in 1931

-- Oscar-winning composer/conductor John Williams in 1932 (age 92)

-- Actor Nick Nolte in 1941 (age 83)

-- Folk singer Tom Rush in 1941 (age 83)

-- Comedian Robert Klein in 1942 (age 82)

-- Actor Creed Bratton in 1943 (age 81)

-- Singer Ron Tyson in 1948 (age 76)

-- Actor Mary Steenburgen in 1953 (age 71)

-- Author John Grisham in 1955 (age 69)

-- Former Philippine President Benigno Aquino III in 1960

-- Rock vocalist Vince Neil in 1961 (age 63)

-- Actor Gary Coleman in 1968

-- Actor Seth Green in 1974 (age 50)

-- Actor Marion "Pooch" Hall in 1977 (age 47)

-- Comedian Cecily Strong in 1984 (age 40)

-- Surfer Bethany Hamilton in 1990 (age 34)

-- Actor Kathryn Newton in 1997 (age 27)