Famous Birthdays In January - 02

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

1647  Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va (1676) was born on January - 02.  

1699  On January - 02 birth of osman III, sultan (Turkey)  

1713  On this day in history birth of marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)  

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

1727  James Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec) was born on this day in history.  

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  Christian D Rauch, German sculptor was born on this day in history.  

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1803  On January - 02 birth of gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector  

1807  Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer was born on this day in history.  

1809  Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer was born on this day in history.  

1822  Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics) was born on this day in history.  

1827  On January - 02 birth of peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)  

1830  Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer was born on January - 02.  

1831  Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard) was born on this day in history.  

1833  On this day in history 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  On January - 02 birth of mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)  

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 January - 02 birth of sandor Erkel, composer  

1857  On this day in history birth of frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston)  

1857  Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College) was born on this day in history.  

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 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 this day in history birth of anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)  

1873  On January - 02 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  Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies on this day in history.  

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  On January - 02 domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37  

1740  On January - 02 johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63