Anniversaries 2 February
Birth
![Hannah More photo]()
English religious writer and philanthropist
1745–1833
![Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord photo]()
French diplomat
1754–1838
![William Elford Leach photo]()
English zoologist and marine biologist
1790–1836
![Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin photo]()
French politician
1807–1874
![Swami Shraddhanand photo]()
Indian monk and philosopher
1856–1926
![H. Havelock Ellis photo]()
British physician, writer, and social reformer
1859–1939
![Генри Хэвлок Эллис photo]()
British physician, writer, and social reformer
1859–1939
![Margot Asquith photo]()
Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit
1864–1945
![James Joyce photo]()
Irish novelist and poet
1882–1941
![Aldo Palazzeschi photo]()
Italian novelist, poet and essayist
1885–1974
![Ernst Hanfstaengl photo]()
German businessman
1887–1975
![Jascha Heifetz photo]()
Lithuanian violinist
1901–1987
![Ayn Rand photo]()
Russian-American novelist and philosopher
1905–1982
![Harold Rosenberg photo]()
American writer and art critic
1906–1978
![Masanobu Fukuoka photo]()
Japanese farmer and philosopher
1913–2007
![Abba Eban photo]()
Israeli diplomat and politician
1915–2002
![Khushwant Singh photo]()
Indian novelist and journalist
1915–2014
![Xuân Diệu photo]()
Vietnamese poet
1916–1985
![James Dickey photo]()
American writer
1923–1997
![Valéry Giscard d'Estaing photo]()
President of France
1926–2020
![John H. Holland photo]()
US university professor
1929–2015
![Desmond Ford photo]()
Australian theologian
1929–2019
![Rigby Graham photo]()
British author and illustrator
1931–2015
![Thomas M. Disch photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, poet
1940–2008
![Barry Diller photo]()
American businessman
1942
![Isaias Afwerki photo]()
President of Eritrea
1946
![Smaragde Mbonyintege photo]()
Rwandan Catholic bishop (born 1947)
1947
![Ina Garten photo]()
American author and television presenter
1948
![Duncan Bannatyne photo]()
Scottish entrepreneur, philanthropist and author
1949
![Park Geun-hye photo]()
eleventh President of South Korea
1952
![John Cornyn photo]()
United States Senator from Texas
1952
![Ralph Merkle photo]()
American cryptographer
1952
![Kent Thiry photo]()
Business; CEO of DaVita
1956
![Fiona Wood photo]()
British–Australian physician and plastic surgeon
1958
![Gilbert Garcera photo]()
Roman Catholic archbishop
1959
![Rob Sheffield photo]()
American music journalist
1966
![Javon Ringer photo]()
All-American college football player, professional football…
1987
Death
![Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani photo]()
Egyptian scholar
1372–1449
![Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin photo]()
French lawyer, politician and writer
1755–1826
![Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster photo]()
British astronomer
1789–1860
![David Hunter photo]()
Union Army general
1802–1886
![Wendell Phillips photo]()
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orato…
1811–1884
![Adelaide Anne Procter photo]()
English poet and songwriter
1825–1864
![Marko Miljanov photo]()
author from Montenegro
1833–1901
![Theo Marzials photo]()
Anglo-French poet and eccentric
1850–1920
![Owen Seaman photo]()
Editor of Punch
1861–1936
![Bertrand Russell photo]()
logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and politi…
1872–1970
![Natalie Clifford Barney photo]()
writer and salonist
1876–1972
![Donald Wills Douglas Sr. photo]()
American businessman
1892–1981
![R. P. Blackmur photo]()
American literary critic
1904–1965
![Raymond Cattell photo]()
British-American psychologist
1905–1998
![Earl Butz photo]()
American government official
1909–2008
![Fred Perry photo]()
English tennis player
1909–1995
![Gene Kelly photo]()
American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer and chor…
1912–1996
![Imre Lakatos photo]()
Hungarian mathematician, philosopher
1921–1974
![Alistair MacLean photo]()
Scottish novelist
1922–1987
![Theodoros Stamos photo]()
American artist
1922–1997
![Joseph Polchinski photo]()
physicist working on string theory
1954–2018
![Sid Vicious photo]()
English bassist and vocalist
1957–1979
