Famous Personalities Born In January - 02
Wednesday, 03 September 2025
1642 Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey) was born on this day in history.
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 On January - 02 birth of james Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec)
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 January - 02.
1752 Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village) was born on this day in history.
1777 On January - 02 birth of christian D Rauch, German sculptor
1803 Gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector was born on January - 02.
1807 On this day in history birth of tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer
1809 On this day in history birth of friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer
1822 On January - 02 birth of rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)
1827 On January - 02 birth of peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
1830 On this day in history birth of henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer
1831 Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard) was born on January - 02.
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 January - 02.
1836 On January - 02 birth of queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885)
1836 Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917) was born on this day in history.
1837 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) was born on this day in history.
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 On January - 02 birth of frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)
1857 Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College) was born on January - 02.
1860 William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds) was born on January - 02.
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 this day in history.
1866 Prof Gilbert Murray, Australian classical scholar (d. 1957) was born on this day in history.
1870 Ernst Barlach, writer was born on this day in history.
1873 Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics) was born on this day in history.
1873 Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897) was born on January - 02.
1877 On January - 02 birth of slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906)