The European Patent Office (EPO) grants European patents. Despite what the name suggests, these are not European Community patents or even Europe-wide patents. The European Patent Convention, according to which the EPO was founded, provides a single patent grant procedure, but not yet a single patent. After grant, the European patent becomes a number ("bundle") of national patents.
... Kosygin[?], Premier of the Soviet Union[?] (+ 1980)
February 25 - Adelle Davis[?], nutritionist, writer (+ 1974)
February 29 - Jimmy Dorsey, bandleader (+ 1957)
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