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 this day in history.   

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  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 this day in history.   

1728  On January - 02 birth of louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium   

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.   

1803  Gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector was born on January - 02.   

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

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

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  Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893) was born on this day in history.   

1835  Charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers) was born on January - 02.   

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 January - 02.   

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  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  Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17) was born on this day in history.   

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  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 January - 02.   

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  Death of Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494) on this day in history.   

1685  On this day in history 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  On this day in history johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63