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Famous Birthdays In January - 02
Thursday, 17 April 2014
1642 Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1647 On this day in history birth of nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676) Share it »
1699 On this day in history birth of osman III, sultan (Turkey) Share it »
1713 Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1719 Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1727 James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1728 On this day in history birth of louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium Share it »
1732 Franz Xaver Brixi, composer was born on this day in history. Share it »
1752 Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1777 Christian D Rauch, German sculptor was born on this day in history. Share it »
1803 Gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector was born on this day in history. Share it »
1807 On this day in history birth of tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer Share it »
1809 Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer was born on this day in history. Share it »
1822 On this day in history birth of rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics) Share it »
1827 Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1830 On this day in history birth of henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer Share it »
1831 On this day in history birth of justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard) Share it »
1833 On this day in history birth of frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893) Share it »
1835 Charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1836 On this day in history birth of queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885) Share it »
1836 On this day in history birth of mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917) Share it »
1837 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1842 On this day in history birth of amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist Share it »
1846 Sandor Erkel, composer was born on this day in history. Share it »
1857 On this day in history birth of frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) Share it »
1857 Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1860 William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1861 On this day in history birth of helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12) Share it »
1863 Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1866 On this day in history birth of prof Gilbert Murray, Australian classical scholar (d. 1957) Share it »
1870 On this day in history birth of ernst Barlach, writer Share it »
1873 On this day in history birth of anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics) Share it »
1873 Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1877 On this day in history birth of slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906) Share it »
