Anniversaries 3 February
Birth
![Samuel Butler (poet) photo]()
poet and satirist
1612–1680
![Gideon Mantell photo]()
British scientist and obstetrician
1790–1852
![Felix Mendelssohn photo]()
German composer, pianist and conductor
1809–1847
![Horace Greeley photo]()
American politician and publisher
1811–1872
![Frederick William Robertson photo]()
British writer and theologian
1816–1853
![William Arthur (minister) photo]()
Wesleyan Methodist minister and author
1819–1901
![Elizabeth Blackwell photo]()
England-born American physician, abolitionist, women's righ…
1821–1910
![Walter Bagehot photo]()
British journalist, businessman, and essayist
1826–1877
![Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten photo]()
Anglo-Irish rower, barrister, politician and Lord of Appeal…
1830–1913
![Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury photo]()
British politician
1830–1903
![Ogden Rood photo]()
American physicist
1831–1902
![Sidney Lanier photo]()
American musician, poet
1842–1881
![Francis Joseph Sherman photo]()
Canadian writer
1871–1926
![Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard photo]()
Royal Flying Corps commander and first Royal Air Force Chie…
1873–1956
![Gertrude Stein photo]()
American art collector and experimental writer of novels, p…
1874–1946
![Alvar Aalto photo]()
Finnish architect and designer
1898–1976
![James A. Michener photo]()
American author
1907–1997
![Simone Weil photo]()
French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
1909–1943
![Michel Thomas photo]()
American linguist and language teacher
1914–2005
![Richard Yates photo]()
Novelist, short story writer
1926–1992
![Joan Lowery Nixon photo]()
American children's writer and journalist
1927–2003
![Howard Phillips (politician) photo]()
American politician
1941–2013
![Neil Bogart photo]()
American music executive
1943–1982
![Louis Kauffman photo]()
American mathematician
1945
![Lex Donaldson photo]()
British-Australian organizational sociologist
1947
![Paul Auster photo]()
novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter
1947
![Henning Mankell photo]()
Swedish crime writer, children's author, leftist activist a…
1948–2015
![Tomislav Sunić photo]()
Croatian-American writer, translator and professor
1953
![Jim Balsillie photo]()
Canadian businessman
1961
![Salil Shetty photo]()
human rights campaigner
1961
![Warwick Davis photo]()
English actor and television presenter
1970
![Sarah Kane photo]()
playwright from England
1971–1999
![Isa Chandra Moskowitz photo]()
American food writer
1973
Death
![George Crabbe photo]()
English poet, surgeon, and clergyman
1754–1832
![Jean-Baptiste Biot photo]()
French scientist
1774–1862
![Henry James Sumner Maine photo]()
British comparative jurist and historian
1822–1888
![Fukuzawa Yukichi photo]()
Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur …
1835–1901
![Oliver Heaviside photo]()
electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist
1850–1925
![Woodrow Wilson photo]()
American politician, 28th president of the United States (i…
1856–1924
![James Kenneth Stephen photo]()
English poet, tutor to Prince Albert Victor
1859–1892
![Harold L. Ickes photo]()
American politician
1874–1952
![Stringfellow Barr photo]()
American writer
1897–1982
![Choudhry Rahmat Ali photo]()
Pakistani politician
1897–1951
![Ernst Mayr photo]()
German-American Evolutionary Biologist
1904–2005
![Bohumil Hrabal photo]()
Czech bookwriter and writer
1914–1997
![Charlie Sifford photo]()
professional golfer
1922–2015
![Julie Adams photo]()
American actress
1926–2019
![George Steiner photo]()
American writer
1929–2020
![Buddy Holly photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1936–1959
![Muhammad Alauddin Siddiqui photo]()
Islamic Sufi Scholar
1936–2017
![John Hirst photo]()
Australian historian
1942–2016
