Famous Personalities Born In January - 02
Friday, 18 July 2025
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 January - 02.
1713 Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) was born on January - 02.
1719 Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797) was born on January - 02.
1727 James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec) was born on this day in history.
1728 Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium was born on January - 02.
1732 On this day in history 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 January - 02 birth of gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector
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 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 On this day in history birth of justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard)
1833 Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893) was born on January - 02.
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 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 this day in history birth of frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)
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 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 January - 02.
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 Thérèse de Lisieux, French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897) was born on this day in history.
1877 On this day in history birth of slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906)