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Famous Birthdays In January - 02

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

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

1647 On this day in history birth of nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676)

1699 Osman III, sultan (Turkey) was born on this day in history.

1713 On this day in history birth of marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)

1719 On this day in history birth of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)

1727 James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec) was born on this day in history.

1728 On this day in history birth of louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium

1732 Franz Xaver Brixi, composer was born on this day in history.

1752 Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village) was born on this day in history.

1777 On this day in history 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 this day in history.

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

1822 Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics) was born on this day in history.

1827 On this day in history birth of peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)

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

1831 Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard) was born on this day in history.

1833 Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893) was born on this day in history.

1835 Charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers) was born on this day in history.

1836 On this day in history 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 On this day in history birth of mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)

1842 Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist was born on this day in history.

1846 On this day in history birth of sandor Erkel, composer

1857 Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) was born on this day in history.

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

1860 William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds) was born on this day in history.

1861 Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12) was born on this day in history.

1863 Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17) was born on this day in history.

1866 On this day in history birth of prof Gilbert Murray, Australian classical scholar (d. 1957)

1870 On this day in history birth of ernst Barlach, writer

1873 Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics) was born on this day in history.

1873 On this day in history birth of thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897)

1877 Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906) was born on this day in history.

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Famous Deaths In January - 02

Famous People Died On This Day In History

1512 On this day in history death of svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)

1514 Death of William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460) on this day in history.

1557 On this day in history death of pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)

1685 On this day in history death of harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)

1694 Death of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651) on this day in history.

17 On this day in history publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies

1726 On this day in history domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37

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