Anniversaries 4 February
Birth
![Josiah Quincy III photo]()
American politician
1772–1864
![Thomas Kibble Hervey photo]()
British poet and critic
1799–1859
![Mark Hopkins (educator) photo]()
American educationalist and theologian
1802–1887
![A. V. Dicey photo]()
British jurist and constitutional theorist
1835–1922
![Georg Brandes photo]()
Danish literature critic and scholar
1842–1927
![Bill Haywood photo]()
Labor organizer
1869–1928
![Gotse Delchev photo]()
revolutionary from the Balkans
1872–1903
![Ma Fuxiang photo]()
Chinese politician
1876–1932
![Zabel Yesayan photo]()
Armenian writer
1878–1943
![Ludwig Erhard photo]()
German politician
1897–1977
![Jacques Prevért photo]()
French poet, screenwriter
1900–1977
![Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross photo]()
British politician
1902–2003
![Charles Lindbergh photo]()
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social ac…
1902–1974
![Graham Sutton photo]()
Welsh scientist
1903–1977
![Dietrich Bonhoeffer photo]()
German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
1906–1945
![Rosa Parks photo]()
African-American civil rights activist
1913–2005
![Norman Wisdom photo]()
English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter
1915–2010
![Lotfi A. Zadeh photo]()
Electrical engineer and computer scientist
1921–2017
![Betty Friedan photo]()
American activist
1921–2006
![Bhimsen Joshi photo]()
Indian vocalist
1922–2011
![Joan Vollmer photo]()
Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs
1923–1951
![Russell Hoban photo]()
American British novelist, children's writer and illustrator
1925–2011
![Jimmy Magee photo]()
Gaelic games commentatot
1935–2017
![George A. Romero photo]()
American-Canadian film director, film producer, screenwrite…
1940–2017
![Laisenia Qarase photo]()
Prime Minister of Fiji
1941
![Ken Thompson photo]()
American computer scientist, creator of the Unix operating …
1943
![Dan Quayle photo]()
American politician, lawyer
1947
![Alice Cooper photo]()
American rock singer, songwriter and musician
1948
![Keigo Higashino photo]()
Japanese mystery writer
1958
![Lawrence Taylor photo]()
All-American college football player, professional football…
1959
![Jonathan Larson photo]()
American composer and playwright
1960–1996
![Siobhan Dowd photo]()
British writer and activist
1960–2007
![Roderick Long photo]()
American philosopher
1964
![Hunter Biden photo]()
American lawyer, investment advisor, and second son of form…
1970
![Dara Ó Briain photo]()
Irish comedian and television presenter
1972
![Natalie Imbruglia photo]()
British-Australian singer and actor
1975
![Michael Vassar photo]()
President of the Singularity Institute
1979
![Kentaro Yabuki photo]()
Japanese manga artist
1980
![Nkosi Johnson photo]()
South African child AIDS activist
1989–2001
Death
![Septimius Severus photo]()
Emperor of Ancient Rome
145–211
![Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury photo]()
English politician and Earl
1671–1713
![John Ferriar photo]()
British writer and physician
1761–1815
![Valentine Blacker photo]()
British colonial administrator
1778–1826
![Hendrik Lorentz photo]()
Dutch physicist
1853–1928
![Chapman Cohen photo]()
British atheist and secularist writer and lecturer
1868–1954
![Edward Sapir photo]()
American linguist and anthropologist
1884–1939
![Luigi Russolo photo]()
Electronic music pioneer and Futurist painter
1885–1947
![William Darling (politician) photo]()
Scottish politician
1885–1962
![Hans Blüher photo]()
German journalist and writer
1888–1955
![Brock Chisholm photo]()
Doctor and soldier
1896–1971
![Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill photo]()
British politician
1901–1980
![Carl R. Rogers photo]()
American psychologist
1902–1987
![Bergen Evans photo]()
American lexicographer
1904–1978
![Ivo Kozarčanin photo]()
Croatian writer
1911–1941
![Henry Kuttner photo]()
American author
1915–1958
![Ossie Davis photo]()
American actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and soc…
1917–2005
![Betty Friedan photo]()
American activist
1921–2006
![Patricia Highsmith photo]()
American novelist and short story writer
1921–1995
![Neal Cassady photo]()
American cultural figure of 1950s and 1960s
1926–1968
![Matti Nykänen photo]()
Finnish ski jumper
1963–2019
