Famous Birthdays In January - 02

1642  Mehmed IV, sultan (Turkey) was born on this day in history.  

1647  On January - 02 birth of nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676)  

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

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  James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec) was born on January - 02.  

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  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 January - 02 birth of gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector  

1807  Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer was born on January - 02.  

1809  Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer was born on January - 02.  

1822  On January - 02 birth of rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)  

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 this day in history.  

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

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

1861  Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12) was born on this day in history.  

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

1866  On this day in history birth of prof Gilbert Murray, Australian classical scholar (d. 1957)  

1870  On this day in history birth of ernst Barlach, writer  

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  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  On this day in history death of svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)  

1514  Death of William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460) on January - 02.  

1557  On January - 02 death of pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)  

1685  Death of Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603) on this day in history.  

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

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

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