Famous Personalities Born In January - 02
Monday, 05 January 2026
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 On this day in history birth of osman III, sultan (Turkey) 

1713 Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) was born on January - 02. 

1719 On January - 02 birth of jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797) 

1727 On this day in history birth of james Wolfe, commanded British Army (captured Quebec) 

1728 Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium was born on January - 02. 

1732 Franz Xaver Brixi, composer was born on January - 02. 

1752 Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution (The American Village) was born on January - 02. 

1777 On January - 02 birth of christian D Rauch, German sculptor 

1803 Gugliemo Libri, [della Somaia], Ital/Fren mathematician/book collector was born on this day in history. 

1807 On this day in history birth of tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer 

1809 On January - 02 birth of friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer 

1822 On this day in history 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 On January - 02 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 this day in history birth of charles Russell Lowell Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers) 

1836 Queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885) was born on this day in history. 

1836 Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917) was born on this day in history. 

1837 On January - 02 birth of mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) 

1842 Amy G C A Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist was born on this day in history. 

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

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

1870 Ernst Barlach, writer was born on this day in history. 

1873 On this day in history 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 January - 02 birth of slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d.1906) 

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