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Today in History February 14
Step back in time and explore significant historical events, notable births, and memorable deaths that occurred on this day throughout history.
- 2020 At least 22 people are killed in an attack on a village in Northwest Region, Cameroon.
- 2019 Pulwama attack takes place in Lethpora in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel and a suici...
- 2018 Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
- 2018 A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 17 injuries.
- 2011 As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
- 2000 Gabriel Moreno, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1999 Tyler Adams, American soccer player
- 1997 Jaehyun, South Korean singer and actor
- 1997 Breel Embolo, Swiss footballer
- 1996 Nikolaj Ehlers, Danish ice hockey player
- 2021 Carlos Menem, Argentine former president, lawyer, and statesman (born 1930)
- 2021 William Meninger, American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (born 1932)
- 2019 Andrea Levy, English author (born 1956)
- 2018 Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician and diplomat, Prime Minister and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (born 1939)
- 2018 Morgan Tsvangirai, 2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (born 1952)
All 1,061 Celebrities (A-Z)
Browse our complete directory of notable personalities organized alphabetically. From A-list celebrities to historical icons, find detailed profiles of the world's most influential individuals.
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Abani, ChrisAbbey, EdwardAbe, KoboAboulela, LeilaAbramović, MarinaAbécassis, ÉlietteAchebe, ChinuaAdams, JohnAdams, John QuincyAdams, ScottAdebayo, Ayọ̀bámiAdichie, Chimamanda NgoziAdiga, AravindAdkins, AdeleAdrianov, NikolaiAguon, JulianAho, JuhaniAiken, JoanAkhmatova, AnnaAl Aswany, AlaaAl Bisri, Sharifaal-Haytham, IbnAl-KhwarizmiAl-Kurdi, DuaaAlcott, KathleenAlcott, Louisa MayAlexandria, NanaAlexievich, SvetlanaAlexis, AndréAlhakim, TawfiqAlharthi, JokhaAli, MonicaAljechin, AlexanderAllende, IsabelAlmodóvar, PedroAltan, AhmetAlwan, HannaAmado, JorgeAmedee Barbey, JulesAnand, Mulk RajAnand, ViswanathanAndersen, Hans ChristianAnderton, JimAndrić, IvoAngelou, MayaAnguissola, SofonisbaAnne Porter, KatherineAnning, MaryAparicio, YalitzaArchimedesAristotleArjun, SaraArmani, GiorgioAronian, LevonArp, JeanArthur, Chester A.Arudpragasam, AnukAsturias, Miguel ÁngelAtwood, MargaretAuden, W. H.Audubon, John JamesAusten, Janede Avellaneda, Gertrudis Gómez
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Babbage, CharlesBach, Johann SebastianBacon, FrancisBad BunnyBajani, Andreade Balzac, HonoréBamonte, PerryBarbey d’Aurevilly, JulesBardem, JavierBardot, BrigitteBaring-Gould, SabineBarnes, DjunaBarnes, JulianBasquiat, Jean-MichelBaudelaire, CharlesBaulieu, Étienne-ÉmileBeatty, Paulde Beauvoir, SimoneBeckett, SamuelBeecher Stowe, Harrietvan Beethoven, LudwigBekele, KenenisaBeliavsky, AlexanderBell, GertrudeBellow, SaulBellucci, MonicaBelmondo, Jean-PaulBelmondo, StefaniaBenigni, RobertoBergman, IngridBerners-Lee, TimBernini, Gian LorenzoBerry, HalleBetancourt, ÍngridBetasamosake Simpson, LeanneBeukes, LaurenBezos, JeffBhutto, FatimaBiden, JoeBieber, JustinBiffle, GregBikila, AbebeBiles, SimoneBinoche, JulietteBisciotti, SteveBjörnson, BjørnstjerneBjørgen, MaritBjørndalen, Ole EinarBlanchett, CateBlankers-Koen, FannyBlasim, HassanBloomberg, GeorginaBlum, HilaBlunt, EmilyBocelli, AndreaBohr, NielsBolt, UsainBonaparte, NapoleonBorges, Jorge LuisBoseman, ChadwickBosworth, KateBotticelli, SandroBotvinnik, MikhailBouin, JeanBouraoui, NinaBourgeois, LouiseBouvard, PhilippeBowie, DavidBrahms, JohannesBraque, GeorgesBrecht, BertoltBremer, FredrikaBronstein, DavidBronte, AnneBronte, CharlotteBronte, EmilyBrown, Millie BobbyBrowning, Elizabeth BarrettBrowning, Robertde Bruijn, IngeLe Brun, Élisabeth VigéeBruni, CarlaBruni Tedeschi Jr., ValeriaBruyère, RobinBrynner, YulBrâncuși, ConstantinBuchanan, JamesBuckley, JessieBulawayo, NoVioletBulgakov, MikhailVan Buren, MartinBurroughs, JordanBusfield, TimothyBush, George H. W.Bush, George W.Bush, KateByatt, A.S.Byrne, RoseByron, Lord
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Caesar, JuliusCampbell, Mattdel Campo, EstanislaoCamus, AlbertCapablanca, Jose RaulCaravaggioCarey, MariahCarlsen, MagnusCarlyle, ThomasCarpentier, AlejoCarroll, LewisCarson, RachelCarter, JimmyCartland, BarbaraCaruana, FabianoCash, JohnnyCashman, NellieCassatt, MaryCather, WillaChagall, MarcChalamet, TimothéeChampollion, Jean-FrançoisChan, GemmaChan, JackieChaplin, OonaCharles, RayCharrier, JacquesChatterjee, Bankim ChandraChaudhuri, AmitCheadle, DonChekhov, AntonCheney, DickCheung, MaggieChiang, TedCho, Nam-jooChopin, FrédéricChopin, KateChung, ClarissaChurchill, WinstonCiccone, MadonnaCixin, LiuCixous, HélèneClark, LygiaClaudel, CamilleCleopatraClerk Maxwell, JamesCleveland, GroverClinton, BillClooney, GeorgeCoben, HarlanCocker, JoeCocteau, JeanCoetzee, J. M.Cole, TejuColeridge, Samuel TaylorColumbus, ChristopherCombs, SeanComăneci, NadiaConfuciusConrad, JosephCoolidge, CalvinCortázar, JulioCotillard, MarionCourbet, GustaveCramling, PiaCrick, FrancisCrosby, BingCruz, AngieCruz, PenélopeCurie, MarieCusk, RachelCézanne, Paul
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d'Alpuget, BlancheDafoe, WillemDalí, SalvadorDangarembga, TsitsiDanticat, EdwidgeDarwin, CharlesDarwish, MahmoudDarío, RubénDasgupta, RanaDaudet, AlphonseDavid Friedrich, CasparDavies, RickDay-Lewis, DanielDean, JamesDee, GerryDegas, EdgarDelpy, JulieDeneuve, CatherineDennis, DukeDevi, MahaswetaDiCaprio, LeonardoDickens, CharlesDicker, JoëlDickinson, EmilyDion, CelineDiop, DavidDjebar, Assiado Amaral, TarsilaDomínguez, LeinierDostoevsky, FyodorDoucet, JulieDrakeDressel, CaelebDrummond de Andrade, Carlosdu Châtelet, ÉmilieDucournau, KatiaDumas, AlexandreDumas fils, AlexandreDunaway, FayeDuVernay, AvaDylan, BobDürer, Albrecht
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Eco, UmbertoEddo-Lodge, ReniEdison, ThomasEduardo Agualusa, JoséEdugyan, EsiEgan, JenniferEilish, BillieEinstein, AlbertEisenhower, Dwight D.El Akkad, OmarEl Guerrouj, HichamEl Hachmi, NajatEl Saadawi, NawalElba, IdrisEliot, GeorgeEliot, T. S.Ellington, Edward Kennedy "Duke"Elytis, OdysseasEmerson, Ralph WaldoEmin, TraceyEndo, ShusakuEnríquez, MarianaErnst, MaxErpenbeck, JennyEsaki, LeoEscobar, PabloEuclidEvaristo, BernardineEvert, ChrisEvora, CesáriaEça de Queirós, José Maria
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Fabian, LaraFaithfull, MarianneFaraday, MichaelFarah, MoFarrokhzad, ForoughFaulkner, WilliamFedoseev, VladimirFelix, AllysonFenty, RihannaFerdinand Meyer, ConradFermi, EnricoFerrante, ElenaFerrat, JeanFetisov, VyacheslavFeynman, RichardFielding, HelenFiennes, RalphFillmore, MillardFine, AnneFirouzja, AlirezaFischer, BirgitFischer, BobbyFitzgerald, EllaFitzgerald, F. ScottFlaubert, GustaveFolorunso, TopeFonda, JaneFonsi, LuisFontane, TheodorFord, Gerald R.Ford, HarrisonFord, HarrisonForna, AminattaFrank, AnneFrankenthaler, HelenFranklin, ArethaFranklin, BenjaminFranklin, RosalindFraser-Pryce, Shelly-AnnFreeman, MorganFreud, LucianFreud, SigmundFrey, JacobFuentes, CarlosFältskog, Agnetha
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Galchen, RivkaGalilei, GalileoGalloway, JaniceGandhi, MahatmaGanguly, Surya ShekharGarbo, GretaGarcía Bernal, GaelGarcía Márquez, GabrielGardner, AvaGarfield, James A.Gary, RomainGates, BillGauguin, PaulGautier, ThéophileGehry, FrankGeisenberger, NatalieGeller, EfimGenet, JeanGentileschi, ArtemisiaGerwig, GretaGhalib, MirzaGhosh, AmitavGiacometti, AlbertoGibaGilbert, MelissaGiri, AnishGlaser, NikkiGleeson, SineadGodard, Jean-Lucvon Goethe, Johann Wolfgangvan Gogh, VincentGogol, NikolaiGoncharov, IvanGoodall, JaneGordimer, NadineGordon-Levitt, JosephGosling, RyanGotthelf, JeremiasDe Goya, FranciscoGrace, PatriciaGrande, ArianaGrant, Ulysses S.Grass, GünterGreen, EvaGreenberg, IsabelGreene, PeterGreenwell, GarthGrint, RupertGrischuk, AlexanderGrisham, JohnGroff, LaurenGuelfenbein, CarlaGuitry, SachaGujrathi, ViditGuo, XiaoluGutenberg, JohannesGyasi, Yaa
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Hamasaki, AyumiHamid, MohsinHamilton, ScottHamsun, KnutHanks, TomHanyu, YuzuruHao, WangHarding, Warren G.Hardy, ThomasHarikrishna, PentalaHarris, JoanneHarris, KamalaHarrison, BenjaminHarrison, William HenryHashmi, ZarinaHawke, MayaHawking, StephenHawthorne, NathanielHayek, SalmaHayes, Rutherford B.Hayworth, RitaHead, BessieHeaney, SeamusHedayat, SadeghHeiden, EricHeine, HeinrichHeisenberg, WernerHemingway, ErnestHeng, ZhangHepburn, AudreyHepworth, BarbaraHernández, JoséHertz, HeinrichHerzog, WernerHesse, HermannHiggins Clark, MaryHighsmith, PatriciaHikmet, NazimHippocratesHiroshige, UtagawaHokusai, KatsushikaHolan, VladimirHolzer, Jennyvan den Hoogenband, PieterHoover, HerbertHopkins, AnthonyHopper, EdwardHopper, GraceHosseini, ShahabHourani, HassanHouston, WhitneyHoward, Elizabeth JaneHoy, ChrisHugo, VictorHumpy, KoneruHuppert, IsabelleHusain, M. F.Hutchinson, IshionHypatia
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Jackson, AndrewJackson, MichaelJacobsen, Jens PeterJames, EttaJames, HenryJames, KiraniJames, MarlonJefferson, ThomasJelloun, Tahar BenJensen, CarstenJiles, PauletteJingjing, GuoJobs, SteveJohnson, AndrewJohnson, Lyndon B.Johnson, MichaelJohnson, ShawnJoly, EvaJoyce, JamesJoyner, FlorenceJoyner-Kersee, JackieJr., Martin Luther King
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Kaas, PatriciaKabakov, IlyaKabbani, RanaKadaré, IsmailKafka, FranzKahlo, FridaKandinsky, WassilyKang, HanKang-ho, SongKanno, YokoKapoor, AnilKapoor, AnishKapuscinski, RyszardKarjakin, SergeyKarpov, AnatolyKarunatilaka, ShehanKasparov, GarryKaur, RupiKavenna, JoannaKawabata, YasunariKawakami, HiromiKawakami, MiekoKeating, RonanKeats, JohnKeller, GottfriedKennedy, John F.Kenny, JasonKepler, JohannesKeres, PaulKertész, ImreKhan, AamirKidman, NicoleKiefer, AnselmKikuchi, RinkoKim, ChloeKinsella, SophieKipchoge, EliudKitajima, KosukeKlee, PaulKlimt, GustavKnausgård, Karl OveKnowles, BeyoncéKo, LisaKollwitz, Käthede Kooning, WillemKorchnoi, ViktorKorneliussen, NiviaqKosteniuk, AlexandraKramnik, VladimirKrasko, IvanKundera, MilanKurniawan, EkaKurosawa, AkiraKusama, YayoiKuti, Fela
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Labisse, FélixLagerkvist, PärLagerlöf, SelmaLahiri, JhumpaLalami, LailaLamarr, HedyLarson, BrieLasker, EmanuelLatynina, LarisaLau, AndyLauper, CindyLaurent, MélanieLavoisier, AntoineLeavitt, KarolineLedecky, KatieLedger, HeathLee, BruceLee, Min JinLeko, Peterde Lempicka, TamaraLennon, JohnLennox, CharlotteLermontov, MikhailLessing, DorisLevy, DeborahLewis, CarlLi, GongLi, YiyunLimón, AdaLincoln, AbrahamLinnaeus, CarlLipinski, TaraLiren, DingLispector, ClariceLiu, LucyLiukin, NastiaLobo Antunes, AntónioLochte, RyanLope de VegaLoren, SofiaLovelace, AdaLuciano, PavarottiLuiselli, ValeriaLutikov, Anatoly
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Ma, LingMachado de Assis, Joaquim MariaMachiavelli, NiccolòMadison, JamesMaduro, NicolásMagritte, ReneMahfouz, NaguibMakeba, MiriamMalagatti, AravindMalek, RamiMallarmé, StéphaneMamdani, ZohranMamedyarov, ShakhriyarMandela, NelsonManet, ÉdouardManiscalco, SebastianMann, ThomasMansfield, KatherineManto, Saadat HasanManuel, SimoneManzoni, AlessandroMaraini, DaciaMarengwa, DambudzoMaria, CallasMarley, BobMarra, AdaMars, BrunoMartinez, OlivierMatesis, PavlosMathieu, NicolasMathis, JohnnyMatisse, HenriMatsuda, AokoMatsumoto, SeichoMaxwell, James ClerkMay-Treanor, MistyMayakovsky, VladimirMbappé, KylianMbougar Sarr, MohamedMbue, ImboloMcCartney, PaulMcClintock, BarbaraMcFadden, FreidaMcKinley, WilliamMebarak, ShakiraMehretu, JulieMeitner, LiseMelchor, FernandaMelo, PatríciaMelville, HermanMenchik, VeraMendel, GregorMendeleev, DmitriMendoza, FernandoMercury, FreddieMeredith, GeorgeMerlant, NoémieMeyer, ClemensMichelangeloMickiewicz, AdamMifune, ToshiroMiller, ArthurMin-sik, ChoiMinxia, WuMirren, HelenMiró, JoanMishima, YukioMistral, GabrielaMitchell, DavidMitchell, JoanMiura, ShionMiyazaki, HayaoMiłosz, CzesławModigliani, AmedeoMoir, ScottMondrian, PietMonet, ClaudeMonroe, JamesMontale, EugenioMoore, HenryMoore, JulianneMoore, SherroneMorante, ElsaMoravia, AlbertoMorisot, BertheMorphy, PaulMorrison, ToniMortensen, ViggoMoshfegh, OttessaMozart, Wolfgang AmadeusMuchá, AlphonseMunaweera, NayomiMunch, EdvardMunro, AliceMurakami, HarukiMurata, SayakaMurray, AndyMurray, LesMusah, YunusMusk, Elonde Musset, AlfredMutu, WangechiMuzichuk, MariyaMuzychuk, AnnaMwanza Mujila, FistonMüller, Herta
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Nabokov, VladimirNaguib, MahfouzNaidu, SarojiniNaipaul, V. S.Nakamura, HikaruNarayan, R.K.Navara, DavidNayeri, DinaNDiaye, MarieNelson, PrinceNenaNepomniachtchi, IanNeruda, PabloNeuman, AndrésNewton, Isaacvan Niekerk, WaydeNietzsche, FriedrichNightingale, FlorenceNin, AnaïsNixon, RichardNobel, AlfredNoem, KristiNoemí, DaríoNoguchi, IsamuNolan, ChristopherNorris, LandoNunn, JohnNurmi, PaavoNyong'o, Lupita
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Pampini, GabinoPamuk, OrhanParadis, VanessaPasternak, BorisPasteur, LouisPatel, DevPaz, OctavioPeixoto, José LuísPellegrini, FedericaPeltz, NicolaPerse, Saint‑JohnPetrosian, TigranPetőfi, SándorPhelps, MichaelPicasso, PabloPierce, FranklinPincent, MatthewPissarro, CamillePitts, JohnyPlanck, MaxPlatoPoe, Edgar AllanPolgar, JudithPolk, JamesPollock, JacksonPolo, MarcoPoniatowska, ElenaPonomariov, RuslanPorter, ColePorter, MaxPortman, NataliePresley, ElvisProulx, AnniePudzianowski, MariuszPushkin, AlexanderPutuma, KolekaPythagorasPérez Galdós, Benito
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Radcliffe, DanielRadjabov, TeimourRahim, TaharRai, AishwaryaRankine, ClaudiaRaphaelRapport, RichardRea, ChrisReade, CharlesReagan, RonaldRedgrave, SteveReeves, KeanuReiche, AriannaReiner, RobRembrandtRenoir, Pierre-AugusteRenó, JeanReonaReyes, DoloresRichard, LittleRichards-Ross, SanyaRichter, Gerhardvan Rijn, RembrandtRiley, BridgetRilke, Rainer MariaRimbaud, ArthurRiner, TeddyRist, José Antonio KastRivera, DiegoRivera, MarianRivers, PhilipRobinson, BettyRockwell, NormanRodin, AugusteRoffey, MoniqueRolland, RomainRooney, SallyRoosevelt, Franklin D.Roosevelt, TheodoreRoss, DianaRoss, LeoneRostand, EdmondRoy, ArundhatiRubinstein, AkibaRudisha, DavidRudolph, WilmaRugero, RolandRukh Khan, ShahRuolin, ChenRushdie, SalmanRyder, WinonaRóżewicz, Tadeusz
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Saeki, SayakaSagan, CarlSaldana, ZoeSalih, TayebSanada, HiroyukiSartre, Jean-PaulSavón, FelixScherbo, VitalySchiele, EgonSchiller, FriedrichSchlossberg, TatianaSchrödinger, ErwinSchweblin, SamantaSeahorn, RheaSebald, W. G.Sebbar, LeïlaSeberg, JeanSeferis, GiorgosSeghers, AnnaSeles, MonicaSelvadurai, ShyamSepetys, RutaSerpell, NamwaliSeurat, GeorgesShafak, ElifShakespeare, WilliamShamsie, KamilaShankland, SamuelSharif, OmarSheeran, EdShelley, Percy ByssheShevchenko, TarasShibli, AdaniaShields, ClaressaShiffrin, MikaelaShikibu, MurasakiShire, WarsanShogdzhiev, RomanShort, NigelShree, GeetanjaliShtotland, KarinaSienkiewicz, HenrykSignac, PaulSigurdsson, SjonSimone, NinaSinatra, FrankSinger Sargent, JohnSitwell, EdithSkarsgard, BirgitSklenar, BrandonSlimani, LeilaSmart, ElizabethSmith, AliSmith, PattiSmith, SamSmyslov, VassilySnow, C. P.So, WesleySocratesSolzhenitsyn, AleksandrSong, Kang-hoSoyinka, WoleSpark, MurielSpassky, BorisSpears, BritneySpitz, MarkStatovci, PajtimStefanova, AntoanetaSteinfeld, HaileeSteinitz, WilhelmStendhalStevenson, Robert LouisStevenson, TeófiloStifter, AdalbertStoker, BramStone, SharonStorm, TheodorStorrie, ConnorStreep, MerylStreisand, BarbraStrindberg, AugustStrug, KerriSwift, TaylorSwinton, TildaSyjuco, MiguelSzymborska, WisławaSzécsi, NoémiSábato, ErnestoSüleymanoğlu, NaimSłowacki, JuliuszSōseki, Natsume
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Taft, William HowardTagawa, Cary-HiroyukiTagore, RabindranathTaimanov, MarkTaro Greenfeld, KarlTauber-Arp, SophieTaylor, BrandonTaylor, ZacharyTegnér, EsaiasTell, DianeTerrin, PeterTesla, NikolaTevetoğlu, TarkanTheron, CharlizeThomas, DylanThompson, DaleyThoreau, Henry DavidThorpe, IanTitianTokarczuk, OlgaTolstoy, LeoTomba, AlbertoTomlin, MikeTopalov, Veselindel Toro, BenicioTorvill, JayneTouqan, FadwaTretiak, VladislavTrouillot, ÉvelyneTrudeau, JustinTruman, Harry S.Trump, DonaldTurgenev, IvanTuring, AlanTurner, WilliamTutu, DesmondTwain, MarkTyler, John
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wa Thiong'o, Ngũgĩwa Thiong'o Jr., NgugiWadsworth Longfellow, HenryWaititi, TaikaWaits, TomWalcott, DerekWaldheim, KurtWalker, AliceWalker, KaraWalls, JeannetteWalsh Jennings, KerriWarton, EdithWashington, DenzelWashington, GeorgeWatanabe, KenWatson, JamesWatson, MaryWatts, NaomiWeisz, RachelWeiwei, AiWells, H.G.Werth, IsabellWestinghouse, GeorgeWhitaker, ForestWhite, PatrickWhite, ShaunWhite, T. H.Whitehead, ColsonWhitman, WaltWhittingham, KyleWilde, OscarWilliams, GrantWilliams, HudsonWilliams, MichelleWilliams, SerenaWilliams, VenusWilson, EdmundWilson, WoodrowWinehouse, AmyWinslet, KateWinterson, JeanetteWitt, KatarinaWonder, StevieWood, GrantWoods, TigerWoolf, VirginiaWordsworth, WilliamWou-Ki, ZaoWu, Chien-ShiungWurtzel, ElizabethWłodarczyk, Anita