Anniversaries 2 January

Birth

John Dowland7

English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer 1563–1626

Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet2

English politician 1602–1683

Christian Scriver10

German hymnwriter 1629–1693

James Wolfe4

British Army officer 1727–1759

Philip Freneau2

American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and new… 1752–1832

Eliakim Littell1

United States editor 1797–1870

Rudolf Clausius6

German mathematical physicist 1822–1888

William Lyon Phelps3

American author, critic and scholar 1865–1943

Gilbert Murray7

Anglo-Australian scholar 1866–1957

Ernst Barlach1

German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer 1870–1938

Antonie Pannekoek17

Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist 1873–1960

Thérèse of Lisieux10

French Discalced Carmelite nun 1873–1897

Apsley Cherry-Garrard3

British explorer 1886–1959

Folke Bernadotte1

Swedish diplomat 1895–1948

Barry Goldwater32

American politician 1909–1998

David H. C. Read1

British chaplain 1910–2001

John Hope Franklin1

American historian 1915–2009

William J. Crowe1

United States admiral 1925–2007

Nobuo Okishio1

Japanese economist 1927–2003

Daisaku Ikeda25

Japanese writer 1928

John G. Azzopardi1

1929–2013

Jean Little1

Canadian children's writer 1932

Peter Redgrove1

English writer 1932–2003

On Kawara1

artist 1933–2014

Ian Brady8

British serial killer, perpetrator of the Moors murders 1938–2017

Robert Smithson5

American artist 1938–1973

David Fleming25

British activist 1940–2010

Susan Wittig Albert1

writer 1940

Norodom Ranariddh20

Cambodian politician 1944

Robert H. Frank1

economist 1945

Jack Hanna3

American zoologist 1947

Tony Judt37

British historian 1948–2010

Iris Marion Young2

American philosopher 1949–2006

André Aciman5

writer, professor 1951

Lynda Barry8

Cartoonist 1956

Patrick Nielsen Hayden5

American science fiction editor, fanzine publisher, essayis… 1959

Glen Johnson3

jamaican boxer 1969

Richard Miles (historian)7

British historian and archaeologist 1969

Alan Gura1

American lawyer 1971

Shiraz Minwalla3

Indian physicist 1972

Chris Cheney5

Australian rock musician 1975

Patricia de Leon (actress)2

Actress, model, television host 1976

Vittorio Leonardi1

South African stand-up comedian and actor 1977

Mac Danzig1

American martial artist 1980

Syesha Mercado2

American actor, model and musician 1987

Death

Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet2

English politician 1602–1683

Johann Kaspar Lavater24

Swiss poet 1741–1801

Seraphim of Sarov1

Russian saint 1754–1833

Andrew Ure14

Scottish doctor and chemist 1778–1857

George Biddell Airy13

English mathematician and astronomer 1801–1892

James Longstreet5

Confederate Army general 1821–1904

George Henry Boker2

American poet, playwright, and diplomat 1823–1890

Sabine Baring-Gould2

English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic sc… 1834–1924

George E. Woodberry1

American poet and literary critic 1855–1930

Ahad Ha'am16

Hebrew essayist and thinker 1856–1927

Roman Dmowski5

Polish politician 1864–1939

Lillian Gilbreth4

American psychologist and industrial engineer 1878–1972

Bertram Ramsay1

Royal Navy admiral 1883–1945

Fritz Heider6

German psychologist 1896–1988

John DeFrancis8

American linguist 1911–2009

Dixy Lee Ray2

Seventh governor of Washington 1914–1994

Patrick O'Brian14

English novelist 1914–2000

Dick Winters3

American military personnel 1918–2011

Siad Barre9

Head of State of Somalia 1919–1995

Gerda Lerner3

Austrian-American women's history scholar 1920–2013

Elizabeth Jane Howard5

writer 1923–2014

John Ziman5

New Zealand physicist 1925–2005

George MacDonald Fraser39

English-born author of Scottish descent 1925–2008

John Berger28

British painter, writer and art critic 1926–2017

Thomas S. Monson10

president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1927–2018

Szeto Wah2

Hong Kong politician and teacher 1931–2011