John Graves Simcoe

John Graves Simcoe was a British Army general and the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York, which is now known as Toronto, and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as courts of law, trial by jury, English common law, freehold land tenure, and also in the abolition of slavery in Upper Canada.

25 February 1752

Born on the same birth day (25 February): Anthony Burgess • Cesário Verde • Giovanni Battista Morgagni • Millicent Fenwick • Oumou Sangaré • Paul O'Neill (baseball) • Phoebus Levene • Samaki Walker • Thon Maker • Tony Brooks (racing driver)

Born in the same month (February 1752): Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger