Famous Personalities Born In January - 02
Saturday, 29 November 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 January - 02. 

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 January - 02 birth of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797) 

1727 On this day in history 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 On January - 02 birth of franz Xaver Brixi, composer 

1752 On January - 02 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 On this day in history birth of tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer 

1809 On January - 02 birth of friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer 

1822 Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics) was born on January - 02. 

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

1830 On this day in history birth of henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer 

1831 On January - 02 birth of justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard) 

1833 Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893) was born on January - 02. 

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 this day in history. 

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

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 On January - 02 birth of martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College) 

1860 On this day in history birth of william C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds) 

1861 On January - 02 birth of helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12) 

1863 On this day in history birth of lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17) 

1866 Prof Gilbert Murray, Australian classical scholar (d. 1957) was born on this day in history. 

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

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

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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