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February 1:
- 1981 - Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., an American businessman, founder of the Douglas Aircraft Company, died on this day.
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February 2:
- 1897 - Howard Deering Johnson, an American businessman, the founder of an American chain of restaurants and motels under one company of the same name, Howard Johnson's, was born on this day.
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February 3:
- 1958 - Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
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February 4:
- 1936 - Claude Nobs, a Swiss businessman, founder the Montreux Jazz Festival, was born on this day.
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February 5:
- 1943 - Nolan Bushnell, an American businessman, founder of Atari, Inc., was born on this day.
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February 6:
- 2012 - Nuri Otay, a Turkish businessman and General Manager of automotive company Otosan, died on this day.
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February 7:
- 1804 - John Deere, an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, was born on this day.
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February 8:
- 2013 - Ralph Braun, an American businessman, the founder and CEO of the Braun Corporation, died on this day.
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February 9:
- 1930 - Richard With, a Norwegian captain and businessman, founded Hurtigruten, died on this day.
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February 10:
- 1973 - Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, English businesswoman and politician, co-founder of Lastminute.com, was born on this day.
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February 11:
- 1847 - Thomas Edison, an American businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph, was born on this day.
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February 12:
- 1971 - James Cash Penney, an American businessman, founder of the J. C. Penney stores, died on this day.
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February 13:
- 1935 - Don Panoz, an American entrepreneur who made his name in pharmaceuticals and has since become well known as a successful owner of various motorsport ventures, was born on this day.
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February 14:
- 1940 - James Maynard, an American businessman, co-founder of Golden Corral, was born on this day.
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February 15:
- 1884 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, an American pole vaulter and businessman, founder of the A. C. Gilbert Company, was born on this day.
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February 16:
- 1909 - Richard McDonald, an American businessman, co-founder of McDonald's, was born on this day.
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February 17:
- 1963 - Jen-Hsun Huang, an Taiwanese-American businessman, co-founder of Nvidia, was born on this day.
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February 18:
- 1898 - Enzo Ferrari, an Italian race car driver and businessman, founder of Ferrari, was born on this day.
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February 19:
- 1944 - Les Hinton, a British-American journalist and business executive whose career with Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation spanned more than fifty years, was born on this day.
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February 20:
- 1920 - Karl Hans Albrecht, a German entrepreneur who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo, was born on this day.
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February 21:
- 1977 - Kevin Rose, an American businessman and television host, founder of Digg, was born on this day.
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February 22:
- 2013 - Enver Ören, a Turkish businessman, founder of İhlas Holding, died on this day.
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February 23:
- 1965 - Michael Dell, an American businessman, founder of Dell, was born on this day.
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February 24:
- 1938 - Phil Knight, an American businessman, co-founder of Nike, Inc., was born on this day.
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February 25:
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February 26:
- 1866 - Herbert Henry Dow, a Canadian-American businessman, founder of the Dow Chemical Company, was born on this day.
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February 27:
- 1891 - David Sarnoff, Belarusian-American businessman and journalist, founder of RCA, was born on this day.
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February 28:
- 1919 - Alfred Marshall, an American businessman, founder of Marshalls, was born on this day.
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February 29:
- 1912 - Taiichi Ohno, a Japanese businessman, considered to be the father of the Toyota Production System, was born on this day.