Claro M. Recto

Claro Mayo Recto Jr. was a Filipino politician, statesman, lawyer, jurist, author, writer, columnist, and poet. Perhaps best known as the president of the 1934 Constitutional Convention and the Father of the 1935 Philippine Constitution, he is remembered as a fierce opponent of U.S. "neocolonialism" in Asia and for his staunch nationalist leadership throughout his career.

8 February 1890

Born on the same birth day (8 February): Afonso IV of Portugal • Barney Danson • Benigno Aquino III • Bethany Hamilton • Dmitri Mendeleev • Jim Parrack • Kathryn Newton • Michelle Brogan • William Tecumseh Sherman • Zakir Husain

Born in the same month (February 1890): Abdul Ghaffar Khan • Adolphe Menjou • Boris Pasternak • Charles Correll • Dick Richards (footballer) • Fanny Kaplan • Jim McGirr • Mabel Keaton Staupers • Marjorie Main • Myra Hess • Nikolai Reek • Nina Hamnett • Robert Ley • Ronald Fisher