Famous Birthdays In January - 02

1642  Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey) was born on this day in history.   

1647  On January - 02 birth of nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676)   

1699  On this day in history birth of osman III, sultan (Turkey)   

1713  Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) was born on this day in history.   

1719  Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797) was born on this day in history.   

1727  James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec) was born on January - 02.   

1728  On January - 02 birth of louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium   

1732  On January - 02 birth of franz Xaver Brixi, composer   

1752  On this day in history birth of philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village)   

1777  On January - 02 birth of christian D Rauch, German sculptor   

1803  On this day in history birth of gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector   

1807  Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer was born on January - 02.   

1809  Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer was born on this day in history.   

1822  On January - 02 birth of rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)   

1827  Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914) was born on this day in history.   

1830  Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer was born on this day in history.   

1831  On this day in history birth of justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard)   

1833  On January - 02 birth of frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)   

1835  On this day in history birth of charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers)   

1836  On January - 02 birth of queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885)   

1836  On this day in history birth of mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)   

1837  Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) was born on January - 02.   

1842  On this day in history birth of amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist   

1846  Sandor Erkel, composer was born on January - 02.   

1857  Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) was born on January - 02.   

1857  On this day in history birth of martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College)   

1860  On January - 02 birth of william C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)   

1861  On this day in history birth of helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12)   

1863  Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17) was born on January - 02.   

1866  Prof Gilbert Murray, Australian classical scholar (d. 1957) was born on January - 02.   

1870  Ernst Barlach, writer was born on January - 02.   

1873  On January - 02 birth of anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)   

1873  Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897) was born on January - 02.   

1877  On this day in history birth of slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906)   

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0017  On January - 02 publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies   

1512  Death of Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460) on this day in history.   

1514  On January - 02 death of william Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)   

1557  Death of Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494) on this day in history.   

1685  On January - 02 death of harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)   

1694  On January - 02 death of henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)   

1726  On January - 02 domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37   

1740  Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.