Famous Birthdays In January - 02

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

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

1699  On this day in history birth of osman III, sultan (Turkey)  

1713  Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) was born on this day in history.  

1719  Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797) was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history birth of philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village)  

1777  On this day in history birth of christian D Rauch, German sculptor  

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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  Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer was born on January - 02.  

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

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 this day in history.  

1833  On January - 02 birth of frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)  

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

1836  On this day in history birth of queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885)  

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  On January - 02 birth of sandor Erkel, composer  

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

1857  On January - 02 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  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  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 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 January - 02.  

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  On January - 02 death of harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)  

1694  On January - 02 death of henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)  

1726  Domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37 on January - 02.  

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