Anniversaries 1 February

Birth

Edward Coke18

English lawyer and judge 1552–1634

Friedrich von Schrötter1

Prussian politician 1743–1815

John Philip Kemble2

British actor-manager 1757–1823

Charles Miner1

American politician 1780–1865

Hannah Cohoon1

American artist 1781–1864

Richard Whately10

English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian 1787–1863

Ричард Уэйтли1

1787–1863

Thomas Cole1

American artist 1801–1848

G. Stanley Hall2

American psychologist 1846–1924

Paul Fort1

French Poet 1872–1960

Francesco Balilla Pratella3

Italian composer 1880–1955

Friedrich Kellner21

German Justice inspector 1885–1970

John Ford1

American film director 1894–1973

Mark R. Sullivan1

company director and president 1896

Stephen Potter7

British writer 1900–1969

Frank Buckles15

United States Army soldier and centenarian 1901–2011

Clark Gable2

American actor 1901–1960

Хью Лэнгтон1

1902–1967

Langston Hughes79

American writer and social activist 1902–1967

S.J. Perelman15

American humorist, author, and screenwriter 1904–1979

Muriel Spark19

Scottish writer 1918–2006

Eric Wolf24

American anthropologist 1923–1999

A. Wayne Wymore13

American mathematician 1927–2011

Galway Kinnell10

Poet 1927–2014

Tom Lantos1

American politician 1928–2008

Boris Yeltsin28

1st President of Russia and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet … 1931–2007

Reynolds Price1

American writer 1933–2011

Fritjof Capra43

American physicist 1939

Paul Youssef Matar1

1941

Jerry Spinelli67

American children's writer 1941

Terry Jones7

Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director and auth… 1942–2020

Robert Higgs2

economist 1944

George Friedman25

American businessman and political scientist 1949

Zhang Zhijun9

Chinese politician 1953

Kerrelyn Sparks28

American writer 1955

Sherilyn Fenn14

American actress 1965

Brandon Lee1

American actor and martial artist 1965–1993

Meg Cabot159

Novelist 1967

Gabriel Batistuta2

Argentine association football player 1969

Andrew Breitbart4

American writer and publisher 1969–2012

Leymah Gbowee5

Liberian peace activist 1972

Katrín Jakobsdóttir1

28th Prime Minister of Iceland 1976

Reginald Betts2

American writer 1980

Sara Malakul Lane2

Thai-American actress and model 1983

Ronda Rousey5

American judoka, mixed martial artist, professional wrestle… 1987

Harry Styles13

English singer, songwriter, and actor 1994

Death

Anders Chydenius5

Swedish politician 1729–1803

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley94

English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, … 1797–1851

George Gabriel Stokes1

British mathematician and physicist 1819–1903

James Grant Wilson2

Union Army general 1832–1914

Johan Huizinga5

Dutch historian 1872–1945

Piet Mondrian95

Peintre Néerlandais 1872–1944

Nikolay Muralov1

Soviet revolutionary 1877–1937

Clinton Davisson1

physicist 1881–1958

Friedrich Paulus8

German general 1890–1957

Edwin Howard Armstrong3

American electrical engineer and inventor 1890–1954

Buster Keaton8

American actor and filmmaker 1895–1966

Werner Heisenberg42

German theoretical physicist 1901–1976

Салли Стенфорд1

1903–1982

Herb Caen10

American newspaper columnist 1916–1997

Elaine de Kooning18

American painter 1918–1989

Amet-khan Sultan2

WWII fighter pilot and twice Hero of the Soviet Union who w… 1920–1971

Wisława Szymborska92

Polish writer 1923–2012

Ed Koch2

former mayor of New York City 1924–2013

Ernst Badian3

Austrian classical scholar 1925–2011

Whitney Balliett1

American jazz critic 1926–2007

Peter Levi3

writer, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest 1931–2000

Jeremy Hardy18

British comedian 1961–2019

Kalpana Chawla3

American astronaut 1962–2003