Feb 12 Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (d. 1799) Feb 13 John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and founder of pathological anatomy in England, born in Long Calderwood, Scotland (d. 1793) Feb 21 Peter III, German-born Russian Tsar (1762) and husband of Catherine the Great, born in Kiel, Duchy of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1762) Feb 29 Robert Bage, English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner), born in Darley Abbey, England (d. 1801) 1727 Famous Birthdays by Year 1729