Famous Birthdays In January - 02

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 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 January - 02.  

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  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  On January - 02 birth of tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer  

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

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 January - 02.  

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  Charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers) was born on this day in history.  

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 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 this day in history birth of sandor Erkel, composer  

1857  Frederick Opper, cartoonist (Maud, Alphonse & Gaston) was born on January - 02.  

1857  Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president (Bryn Mawr College) was born on January - 02.  

1860  William C Mills, museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds) was born on this day in history.  

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  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  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  Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies on this day in history.  

1512  On January - 02 death of svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)  

1514  On January - 02 death of william Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)  

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  Death of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651) on this day in history.  

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

1740  Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.