Anniversaries 1 February
Birth
![Edward Coke photo]()
English lawyer and judge
1552–1634
![Friedrich von Schrötter photo]()
Prussian politician
1743–1815
![John Philip Kemble photo]()
British actor-manager
1757–1823
![Charles Miner photo]()
American politician
1780–1865
![Hannah Cohoon photo]()
American artist
1781–1864
![Richard Whately photo]()
English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian
1787–1863
![Thomas Cole photo]()
American artist
1801–1848
![G. Stanley Hall photo]()
American psychologist
1846–1924
![Francesco Balilla Pratella photo]()
Italian composer
1880–1955
![Friedrich Kellner photo]()
German Justice inspector
1885–1970
![John Ford photo]()
American film director
1894–1973
![Mark R. Sullivan photo]()
company director and president
1896
![Frank Buckles photo]()
United States Army soldier and centenarian
1901–2011
![Langston Hughes photo]()
American writer and social activist
1902–1967
![S.J. Perelman photo]()
American humorist, author, and screenwriter
1904–1979
![Muriel Spark photo]()
Scottish writer
1918–2006
![Eric Wolf photo]()
American anthropologist
1923–1999
![A. Wayne Wymore photo]()
American mathematician
1927–2011
![Tom Lantos photo]()
American politician
1928–2008
![Boris Yeltsin photo]()
1st President of Russia and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet …
1931–2007
![Reynolds Price photo]()
American writer
1933–2011
![Jerry Spinelli photo]()
American children's writer
1941
![Terry Jones photo]()
Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director and auth…
1942–2020
![George Friedman photo]()
American businessman and political scientist
1949
![Brandon Lee photo]()
American actor and martial artist
1965–1993
![Gabriel Batistuta photo]()
Argentine association football player
1969
![Andrew Breitbart photo]()
American writer and publisher
1969–2012
![Leymah Gbowee photo]()
Liberian peace activist
1972
![Katrín Jakobsdóttir photo]()
28th Prime Minister of Iceland
1976
![Sara Malakul Lane photo]()
Thai-American actress and model
1983
![Ronda Rousey photo]()
American judoka, mixed martial artist, professional wrestle…
1987
![Harry Styles photo]()
English singer, songwriter, and actor
1994
Death
![Anders Chydenius photo]()
Swedish politician
1729–1803
![Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley photo]()
English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, …
1797–1851
![George Gabriel Stokes photo]()
British mathematician and physicist
1819–1903
![James Grant Wilson photo]()
Union Army general
1832–1914
![Johan Huizinga photo]()
Dutch historian
1872–1945
![Piet Mondrian photo]()
Peintre Néerlandais
1872–1944
![Nikolay Muralov photo]()
Soviet revolutionary
1877–1937
![Edwin Howard Armstrong photo]()
American electrical engineer and inventor
1890–1954
![Buster Keaton photo]()
American actor and filmmaker
1895–1966
![Werner Heisenberg photo]()
German theoretical physicist
1901–1976
![Herb Caen photo]()
American newspaper columnist
1916–1997
![Elaine de Kooning photo]()
American painter
1918–1989
![Amet-khan Sultan photo]()
WWII fighter pilot and twice Hero of the Soviet Union who w…
1920–1971
![Ed Koch photo]()
former mayor of New York City
1924–2013
![Ernst Badian photo]()
Austrian classical scholar
1925–2011
![Whitney Balliett photo]()
American jazz critic
1926–2007
![Peter Levi photo]()
writer, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest
1931–2000
![Jeremy Hardy photo]()
British comedian
1961–2019
![Kalpana Chawla photo]()
American astronaut
1962–2003
