Famous Birthdays In January - 02

1642  On this day in history birth of mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey)  

1647  Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676) was born on this day in history.  

1699  Osman III, sultan (Turkey) was born on January - 02.  

1713  Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) was born on January - 02.  

1719  On January - 02 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 January - 02 birth of louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium  

1732  Franz Xaver Brixi, composer was born on January - 02.  

1752  Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village) was born on January - 02.  

1777  Christian D Rauch, German sculptor was born on this day in history.  

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1803  Gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector was born on January - 02.  

1807  Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer was born on this day in history.  

1809  On this day in history birth of friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer  

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

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 January - 02.  

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

1833  On this day in history birth of frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)  

1835  On January - 02 birth of charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers)  

1836  Queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885) was born on January - 02.  

1836  Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917) was born on January - 02.  

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

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

1846  Sandor Erkel, composer was born on this day in history.  

1857  On this day in history birth of frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)  

1857  Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College) was born on this day in history.  

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 January - 02.  

1863  On January - 02 birth of lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)  

1866  On January - 02 birth of prof Gilbert Murray, Australian classical scholar (d. 1957)  

1870  On January - 02 birth of ernst Barlach, writer  

1873  Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics) was born on January - 02.  

1873  On January - 02 birth of thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897)  

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

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0017  On this day in history publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies  

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

1514  On this day in history death of william Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)  

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

1685  Death of Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603) on January - 02.  

1694  Death of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651) on January - 02.  

1726  Domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37 on this day in history.  

1740  Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63 on January - 02.