Anniversaries 2 January
Birth
![John Dowland photo]()
English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer
1563–1626
![Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet photo]()
English politician
1602–1683
![Christian Scriver photo]()
German hymnwriter
1629–1693
![James Wolfe photo]()
British Army officer
1727–1759
![Philip Freneau photo]()
American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and new…
1752–1832
![Eliakim Littell photo]()
United States editor
1797–1870
![Rudolf Clausius photo]()
German mathematical physicist
1822–1888
![William Lyon Phelps photo]()
American author, critic and scholar
1865–1943
![Gilbert Murray photo]()
Anglo-Australian scholar
1866–1957
![Ernst Barlach photo]()
German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer
1870–1938
![Antonie Pannekoek photo]()
Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist
1873–1960
![Thérèse of Lisieux photo]()
French Discalced Carmelite nun
1873–1897
![Apsley Cherry-Garrard photo]()
British explorer
1886–1959
![Folke Bernadotte photo]()
Swedish diplomat
1895–1948
![Barry Goldwater photo]()
American politician
1909–1998
![David H. C. Read photo]()
British chaplain
1910–2001
![John Hope Franklin photo]()
American historian
1915–2009
![William J. Crowe photo]()
United States admiral
1925–2007
![Nobuo Okishio photo]()
Japanese economist
1927–2003
![Jean Little photo]()
Canadian children's writer
1932
![Ian Brady photo]()
British serial killer, perpetrator of the Moors murders
1938–2017
![Robert Smithson photo]()
American artist
1938–1973
![David Fleming photo]()
British activist
1940–2010
![Norodom Ranariddh photo]()
Cambodian politician
1944
![Tony Judt photo]()
British historian
1948–2010
![Iris Marion Young photo]()
American philosopher
1949–2006
![Patrick Nielsen Hayden photo]()
American science fiction editor, fanzine publisher, essayis…
1959
![Richard Miles (historian) photo]()
British historian and archaeologist
1969
![Chris Cheney photo]()
Australian rock musician
1975
![Patricia de Leon (actress) photo]()
Actress, model, television host
1976
![Vittorio Leonardi photo]()
South African stand-up comedian and actor
1977
![Mac Danzig photo]()
American martial artist
1980
![Syesha Mercado photo]()
American actor, model and musician
1987
Death
![Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet photo]()
English politician
1602–1683
![Andrew Ure photo]()
Scottish doctor and chemist
1778–1857
![George Biddell Airy photo]()
English mathematician and astronomer
1801–1892
![James Longstreet photo]()
Confederate Army general
1821–1904
![George Henry Boker photo]()
American poet, playwright, and diplomat
1823–1890
![Sabine Baring-Gould photo]()
English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic sc…
1834–1924
![George E. Woodberry photo]()
American poet and literary critic
1855–1930
![Ahad Ha'am photo]()
Hebrew essayist and thinker
1856–1927
![Roman Dmowski photo]()
Polish politician
1864–1939
![Lillian Gilbreth photo]()
American psychologist and industrial engineer
1878–1972
![Bertram Ramsay photo]()
Royal Navy admiral
1883–1945
![Fritz Heider photo]()
German psychologist
1896–1988
![John DeFrancis photo]()
American linguist
1911–2009
![Dixy Lee Ray photo]()
Seventh governor of Washington
1914–1994
![Patrick O'Brian photo]()
English novelist
1914–2000
![Dick Winters photo]()
American military personnel
1918–2011
![Siad Barre photo]()
Head of State of Somalia
1919–1995
![Gerda Lerner photo]()
Austrian-American women's history scholar
1920–2013
![John Ziman photo]()
New Zealand physicist
1925–2005
![George MacDonald Fraser photo]()
English-born author of Scottish descent
1925–2008
![John Berger photo]()
British painter, writer and art critic
1926–2017
![Thomas S. Monson photo]()
president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
1927–2018
![Szeto Wah photo]()
Hong Kong politician and teacher
1931–2011
