History Births on January 02

Gilbert Murray, Australian-English playwright and scholar (d. 1957)
#Gilbert_Murray

Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli historian and politician, 4th Israeli Minister of Education (d. 1973)
#Ben-Zion_Dinur

Osman III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1757)
#Osman_III
Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor
#Péter_Eötvös

Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
#Glen_Harmon

Robert Smithson, American sculptor and photographer (d. 1973)
#Robert_Smithson

Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
#Seiichiro_Kashio

Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (d. 1954)
#Dziga_Vertov

Dan Rostenkowski, American politician (d. 2010)
#Dan_Rostenkowski

Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
#Marie_Dumesnil

Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (d. 1914)
#Pyotr_Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky

Rudolf Clausius, Polish-German physicist and mathematician (d. 1888)
#Rudolf_Clausius

David Cone, American baseball player and sportscaster
#David_Cone

Rodney MacDonald, Canadian educator and politician, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia
#Rodney_MacDonald

Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (d. 1938)
#Ernst_Barlach

Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion
#Anky_van_Grunsven

Calvin Hill, American football player
#Calvin_Hill

Queen Emma of Hawaii (d. 1885)
#Queen_Emma_of_Hawaii

Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (d. 1990)
#Giovanni_Michelucci

Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese lawyer and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Japan
#Toshiki_Kaifu

Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
#Gabrielle_Carteris

David Bailey, English photographer and painter
#David_Bailey
Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby player
#Reuben_Thorne

Craig James, American football player and sportscaster
#Craig_James_(running_back)

Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1973)
#Bertram_Stevens_(politician)

Tex Rickard, American boxing promoter and businessman (d. 1929)
#Tex_Rickard

M. Carey Thomas, American educator and activist (d. 1935)
#M._Carey_Thomas

Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai, Indian activist, founded the Nair Service Society (d. 1970)
#Mannathu_Padmanabha_Pillai

Robert Wexler, American lawyer and politician
#Robert_Wexler

Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor and educator (d. 1857)
#Christian_Daniel_Rauch

Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (d. 1693)
#Mehmed_IV

Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player and sportscaster
#Brian_Boucher

Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
#Gordon_Flowerdew

Edgar Martínez, American baseball player
#Edgar_Martínez

Jim Bakker, American televangelist
#Jim_Bakker

Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (d. 1897)
#Thérèse_of_Lisieux
William Fox-Pitt, English horse rider and journalist
#William_Fox-Pitt

William Corless Mills, American historian and curator (d. 1928)
#William_Corless_Mills

Anna Lee, English-American actress (d. 2004)
#Anna_Lee

Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer (d. 2004)
#Janet_Akyüz_Mattei

Lynn Conway, American computer scientist and electrical engineer
#Lynn_Conway

Dennis Hastert, American educator and politician, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
#Dennis_Hastert

Gino Marchetti, American football player
#Gino_Marchetti

Mattias Norström, Swedish ice hockey player and manager
#Mattias_Norström

Tomáš ?epka, Czech footballer
#Tomáš_?epka

Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player
#Francois_Pienaar
Thomas Hammarberg, Swedish lawyer and diplomat
#Thomas_Hammarberg

Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (d. 1992)
#Roger_Miller
Christy Turlington, American model
#Christy_Turlington

Barry Goldwater, American politician, businessman, and author (d. 1998)
#Barry_Goldwater
William J. Crowe, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 2007)
#William_J._Crowe

Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1869)
#Guglielmo_Libri_Carucci_dalla_Sommaja

Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English explorer and author (d. 1959)
#Apsley_Cherry-Garrard

Tellervo Koivisto, Finnish politician, former First Lady of Finland
#Tellervo_Koivisto

Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (d. 1917)
#Mendele_Mocher_Sforim

Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (d. 2009)
#Riccardo_Cassin

Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1910)
#Mily_Balakirev

Korbin Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
#Korbin_Sims

Indulis Emsis, Latvian biologist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Latvia
#Indulis_Emsis

Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian economist and politician, Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2015)
#Saud_bin_Faisal_bin_Abdulaziz_Al_Saud

James Wolfe, English general (d. 1759)
#James_Wolfe

Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
#Luigi_Zampa

Kate Bosworth, American actress
#Kate_Bosworth

Tia Carrere, American actress
#Tia_Carrere

Henry Bonilla, American broadcaster and politician
#Henry_Bonilla

Bob Marshall, American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society (d. 1939)
#Bob_Marshall_(wilderness_activist)

Ludmila Formanová, Czech runner
#Ludmila_Formanová

Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and theorist (d. 1960)
#Antonie_Pannekoek

Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer (d. 2007)
#Dan_Keating

Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian field marshal and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia
#Norodom_Ranariddh

Eric Whitacre, American composer and conductor
#Eric_Whitacre

Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1522)
#Piero_di_Cosimo

Walter Heitler, German physicist and chemist (d. 1981)
#Walter_Heitler

Jack Hanna, American zoologist and author
#Jack_Hanna

Y?zei, Japanese emperor (d. 949)
#Emperor_Y?zei

Jón Gnarr, Icelandic actor and politician; 20th Mayor of Reykjavik City
#Jón_Gnarr

Dugald Campbell Patterson, Canadian engineer (d. 1931)
#Dugald_Campbell_Patterson

Évelyne Trouillot, Haitian playwright and author
#Évelyne_Trouillot

Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player
#Stefan_Koubek

Maxi Rodríguez, Argentinian footballer
#Maxi_Rodríguez

Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)
#Folke_Bernadotte

Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress
#Renée_Elise_Goldsberry