Famous Birthdays for January 2nd

Pre-1600[edit]

• 869 – Yōzei, Japanese emperor (d. 949)^[34]
• 1462 – Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1522)^[35]
• 1509 – Henry of Stolberg, German nobleman (d. 1572)^[36]

1601–1900[edit]

• 1642 – Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (d. 1693)^[37]
• 1647 – Nathaniel Bacon, English-American rebel leader (d. 1676)^[38]
• 1699 – Osman III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1757)^[39]
• 1713 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)^[40]
• 1727 – James Wolfe, English general (d. 1759)^[41]
• 1732 – František Brixi, Czech organist and composer (d. 1771)^[42]
• 1777 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor and educator (d. 1857)^[43]
• 1803 – Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1869)^[44]
• 1822 – Rudolf Clausius, Polish-German physicist and mathematician (d. 1888)^[45]
• 1827 – Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (d. 1914)^[46]
• 1833 – Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (d. 1893)^[47]
• 1836 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (d. 1917)^[48]
• 1836 – Queen Emma of Hawaii (d. 1885)^[49]
• 1837 – Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1910)^[50]
• 1857 – M. Carey Thomas, American educator and activist (d. 1935)^[51]
• 1860 – Dugald Campbell Patterson, Canadian engineer (d. 1931)^[52]
• 1860 – William Corless Mills, American historian and curator (d. 1928)^[53]
• 1866 – Gilbert Murray, Australian-English playwright and scholar (d. 1957)^[54]
• 1870 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (d. 1938)^[55]
• 1870 – Tex Rickard, American boxing promoter and businessman (d. 1929)^[56]
• 1873 – Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and theorist (d. 1960)^[57]
• 1873 – Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (d. 1897)^[58]
• 1878 – Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai, Indian activist, founded the Nair Service Society (d. 1970)^[59]
• 1884 – Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli historian and politician, 4th Israeli Minister of Education (d. 1973)^[60]
• 1885 – Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)^[61]
• 1886 – Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English explorer and author (d. 1959)^[62]
• 1889 – Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1973)^[63]
• 1891 – Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (d. 1990)^[64]
• 1892 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)^[65]
• 1895 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)^[66]
• 1896 – Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (d. 1954)^[67]
• 1896 – Lawrence Wackett, Australian commander and engineer (d. 1982)^[68]
• 1897 – Theodore Plucknett, English legal historian (d. 1965)^[69]
• 1900 – Una Ledingham, British physician, known for research on diabetes in pregnancy (d. 1965)^[70]

1901–present[edit]

• 1901 – Bob Marshall, American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society (d. 1939)^[71]
• 1902 – Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer (d. 2007)^[72]
• 1903 – Kane Tanaka, Japanese Supercentenarian, Oldest Japanese person ever, Second oldest verified person in world history (d. 2022)^[73][74]
• 1904 – Walter Heitler, German physicist and chemist (d. 1981)^[75]
• 1905 – Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1991)^[76]
• 1905 – Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (d. 1998)^[77]
• 1909 – Barry Goldwater, American politician, businessman, and author (d. 1998)^[78]
• 1909 – Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (d. 2009)^[79]
• 1913 – Anna Lee, English-American actress (d. 2004)^[80]
• 1913 – Juanita Jackson Mitchell, American lawyer and activist (d. 1992)^[81]
• 1917 – Vera Zorina, German-Norwegian actress and dancer (d. 2003)^[82]
• 1918 – Willi Graf, German physician and activist (d. 1943)^[83]
• 1919 – Ernest Bender, American Indologist (d. 1996)^[84]
• 1919 – Beatrice Hicks, American engineer (d. 1979)^[85]
• 1920(probable) – Isaac Asimov, American writer and professor of biochemistry (d. 1992)^[86]
• 1921 – Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)^[87]
• 1926 – Gino Marchetti, American football player (d. 2019)^[88]
• 1928 – Dan Rostenkowski, American politician (d. 2010)^[89]
• 1929 – Tellervo Koivisto, Finnish politician, former First Lady of Finland^[90]
• 1931 – Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese lawyer and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2022)^[91]
• 1934 – John Hollowbread, English footballer, goalkeeper (d. 2007)^[92]
• 1936 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (d. 1992)^[93]
• 1938 – David Bailey, English photographer and painter^[94]
• 1938 – Lynn Conway, American computer scientist and electrical engineer^[95]
• 1938 – Robert Smithson, American sculptor and photographer (d. 1973)^[96]
• 1940 – Jim Bakker, American televangelist^[97]
• 1940 – Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian economist and politician, Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2015)^[98]
• 1942 – Dennis Hastert, American educator and politician, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• 1942 – Thomas Hammarberg, Swedish lawyer and diplomat^[99]
• 1943 – Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer (d. 2004)^[100]

• 1944 – Charlie Davis, Trinidadian cricketer^[101]
• 1944 – Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian field marshal and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (d. 2021)^[102]
• 1944 – Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor^[103]
• 1947 – Calvin Hill, American football player^[104]
• 1947 – David Shapiro, American poet, historian, and critic^[105]
• 1947 – Jack Hanna, American zoologist and author^[106]
• 1949 – Christopher Durang, American playwright and screenwriter^[107]
• 1949 – Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and academic (d. 2006)^[108]
• 1952 – Indulis Emsis, Latvian biologist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Latvia^[109]
• 1954 – Henry Bonilla, American broadcaster and politician^[110]
• 1954 – Évelyne Trouillot, Haitian playwright and author^[111]
• 1961 – Craig James, American football player and sportscaster^[112]
• 1961 – Gabrielle Carteris, American actress^[113]
• 1961 – Paula Hamilton, English model ^[114]
• 1961 – Robert Wexler, American lawyer and politician^[115]
• 1963 – David Cone, American baseball player and sportscaster^[116]
• 1963 – Edgar Martínez, American baseball player^[117]
• 1964 – Pernell Whitaker, American boxer (d. 2019)^[118]
• 1965 – Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player^[119]
• 1967 – Jón Gnarr, Icelandic actor and politician; 20th Mayor of Reykjavík^[120]
• 1967 – Tia Carrere, American actress^[121]
• 1968 – Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion^[122]
• 1968 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor and producer^[123]
• 1969 – Christy Turlington, American model^[124]
• 1969 – István Bagyula, Hungarian pole vaulter^[125]
• 1969 – William Fox-Pitt, English horse rider and journalist^[126]
• 1970 – Eric Whitacre, American composer and conductor^[127]
• 1971 – Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress^[128]
• 1971 – Taye Diggs, American actor and singer^[129]
• 1972 – Mattias Norström, Swedish ice hockey player and manager^[130]
• 1972 – Rodney MacDonald, Canadian educator and politician, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia^[131]
• 1972 – Shiraz Minwalla, Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist^[132]
• 1974 – Ludmila Formanová, Czech runner^[133]
• 1974 – Tomáš Řepka, Czech footballer^[134]
• 1975 – Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby player^[135]
• 1975 – Dax Shepard, American actor^[136]
• 1977 – Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player and sportscaster^[137]
• 1977 – Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player^[138]
• 1979 – Jonathan Greening, English footballer^[139]
• 1981 – Maxi Rodríguez, Argentinian footballer^[140]
• 1983 – Kate Bosworth, American actress^[141]
• 1987 – Robert Milsom, English footballer^[139]
• 1988 – Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player^[142]
• 1992 – Paulo Gazzaniga, Argentinian footballer^[92]
• 1992 – Korbin Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player^[143]
• 1998 – Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer^[139]
• 1999 – Fernando Tatís Jr., American baseball player^[144]