Born on Monday, 2nd February – Famous Birthdays

02/02/2004

Eleonore Caburet, French rhythmic gymnast

Eleonore Caburet is a French rhythmic gymnast, member of the French national group.

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02/02/2001

Westcol, Colombian online streamer

Luis Fernando Villa Álvarez, better known by his online alias WestCOL is a Colombian online streamer and executive producer. He became the most followed streamer on Kick in 2024, having risen to fame through his gaming content. His career has been marred by controversies which have garnered media and legal attention.

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02/02/2000

Munetaka Murakami, Japanese baseball player

Munetaka Murakami is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. His nickname "Murakami-sama", was given by fans because his feats at the plate could only be done by a kami-sama, or “god.” His nickname was Japan's word of the year for 2022.

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02/02/1999

Jeff Okudah, American football player

Jeffrey Chidera Okudah is an American professional football cornerback. He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, earning unanimous All-American honors in 2019 before being selected by the Detroit Lions with the third overall pick in the 2020 NFL draft. Okudah has also played for the Atlanta Falcons, Houston Texans, and Minnesota Vikings in his career.

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02/02/1998

Shiho Katō, Japanese singer and model

Shiho Katō is a Japanese actress, model, and singer. She is an exclusive model for the fashion magazine CanCam and starred as Ayaka Usagida in Ayaka Is in Love with Hiroko! (2024−2025).

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02/02/1997

Ellie Bamber, English actress

Eleanor Elizabeth Bamber is an English actress. She won third prize at the Ian Charleson Awards for her 2017 performance in The Lady from the Sea at the Donmar Warehouse. On television, she is known for her roles in the BBC series Les Misérables (2018), The Trial of Christine Keeler (2019–2020), and The Serpent (2021), and the Disney+ series Willow (2022).

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02/02/1996

Christian Dvorak, American ice hockey player

Christian Dvorak is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the second round, 58th overall, by the Arizona Coyotes in the 2014 NHL entry draft. Dvorak has also previously played for the Montreal Canadiens.

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Paul Mescal, Irish actor

Paul Colm Michael Mescal is an Irish actor. His accolades include two BAFTA Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, two Actor Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.

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Harry Winks, English footballer

Harry Billy Winks is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL Championship club Leicester City.

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02/02/1995

Paul Digby, English footballer

Paul Andrew Digby is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Scottish Premiership club Dundee. He has previously played for Barnsley, Ipswich Town, Mansfield Town, Forest Green Rovers, Stevenage and Cambridge United.

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Aleksander Jagiełło, Polish footballer

Aleksander Jagiełło is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a winger.

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Arfa Karim, Pakistani student and computer prodigy (died 2012)

Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa (Urdu: ارفع عبد الکریم رندھاوا‎, Punjabi: ارفع عبد الکریم رندھاوا‎; 2 February 1995 – 14 January 2012) was a Pakistani student and computer prodigy who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in 2004. She was submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records for her achievement. Arfa kept the title until 2008 and went on to represent Pakistan on various international forums, including the TechEd Developers Conference. She received Pakistan's highest literary award, the Presidential Pride of Performance from General Pervez Musharraf in 2005. A science park in Lahore, the Arfa Software Technology Park, is named in her honour. At the age of 10, Arfa was invited by Bill Gates to visit Microsoft's headquarters in the United States. She died in 2012, aged 16, from a cardiac arrest.

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Curtis Lazar, Canadian ice hockey player

Curtis Lazar is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a forward for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Ottawa Senators in the first round of the 2013 NHL entry draft.

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Remilia, American professional gamer (died 2019)

Maria Creveling, better known as Remilia, was an American professional League of Legends player. She was the first woman and first transgender person to compete in the North American League of Legends Championship Series, debuting in the 2016 spring split as the support for Renegades. However, she took a sudden hiatus from professional play a few weeks into her debut season due to onstage pressure and online harassment. During her career she was particularly known for her mastery of the character Thresh, which earned her the nicknames "Thresh Queen" and "MadWife".

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02/02/1994

Caterina Bosetti, Italian volleyball player

Caterina Chiara Bosetti is an Italian professional volleyball player who plays for Savino del Bene Scandicci and the Italian national team. She is an Olympic gold medallist.

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02/02/1993

Bobby Decordova-Reid, English footballer

Bobby Armani De Cordova-Reid is a professional footballer who plays as a forward or left winger for EFL Championship club Leicester City. Born in England, he represents Jamaica at international level.

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Ravel Morrison, English footballer

Ravel Ryan Morrison is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for UAE Second Division League club Arabian Falcons.

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02/02/1992

Lammtarra, American race horse (died 2014)

Lammtarra was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. He ran only four times and retired undefeated. Lammtarra won three Group One races in 1995, in which year he was voted the Cartier Three-Year-Old European Champion Colt after winning the Derby in record time, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. He is one of only two horses to win all three races.

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Joonas Tamm, Estonian footballer

Joonas Tamm is an Estonian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga II club Sepsi OSK and the Estonia national team.

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02/02/1991

Nathan Delfouneso, English footballer

Nathan Abayomi Delfouneso is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker.

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Gregory Mertens, Belgian footballer (died 2015)

Gregory Mertens was a Belgian professional football player. His usual position was central defender. He began his senior career with Cercle Brugge and was under contract with Lokeren before he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest during a reserve game in 2015.

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Shohei Nanba, Japanese actor

Shohei Nanba is a Japanese actor who was represented by Box Corporation.

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02/02/1989

Harrison Smith, American football player

Harrison Smith is an American professional football safety. He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round of the 2012 NFL draft with the 29th overall pick.

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Southside, American record producer

Joshua Howard Luellen, known professionally as Southside, is an American record producer, rapper and songwriter. Based in Atlanta, he is recognized in the music industry for his aggressive, trap-infused production work for prominent hip hop artists. After meeting hometown rapper Waka Flocka Flame, Luellen signed with his record label Brick Squad Monopoly—an imprint of Gucci Mane's 1017 Records—as in-house talent in 2010. Luellen and labelmate, fellow producer Lex Luger established the production team 808 Mafia that same year; it was credited on several commercially successful releases throughout the remaining decade.

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02/02/1988

JuJu Chan, Hong Kong-American actress, martial artist, singer, and writer

JuJu Chan Szeto also known as JuJu Chan, is an American actress, martial artist, singer, and writer.

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Zosia Mamet, American actress

Zosia Mamet is an American actress. She is known for her breakout role as Shoshanna Shapiro in the HBO series Girls.

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Brad Peacock, American baseball player

Bradley Joseph Peacock is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals, Houston Astros, and Boston Red Sox. Listed at 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) and 207 pounds (94 kg), he throws and bats right-handed.

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02/02/1987

Anthony Fainga'a, Australian rugby player

Anthony Fainga'a is an Australian former professional rugby union footballer. His usual position is centre.

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Saia Fainga'a, Australian rugby player

Saia Fainga'a is a retired Australian professional rugby union footballer.

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Faydee, Australian singer

Fady Fatrouni, best known by his stage name Faydee, is an Australian singer. He is best known for his 2013 single "Can't Let Go", as well his international hit "Habibi " credited to Shaggy, Mohombi, Faydee and Costi.

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Athena Imperial, Filipino journalist, Miss Earth-Water 2011

Athena Mae Duarte Imperial-Rodriguez is a Filipino news field reporter, communication researcher and beauty pageant titleholder. She competed in the eleventh edition of the national Miss Philippines Earth beauty pageant where she emerged as the winner and was crowned Miss Philippines Earth 2011. She was crowned Miss Earth-Water 2011 during the coronation night of the Miss Earth 2011 pageant held in the Philippines.

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Mimi Page, American singer-songwriter and composer

Mimi Page is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and composer.

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Gerard Piqué, Spanish footballer

Gerard Piqué Bernabeu is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is considered to be one of the greatest defenders of his generation and is one of the most decorated players with 37 trophies. In 2022, he founded the Kings League sports league based in Spain and eventually across several countries and regions.

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Javon Ringer, American football player

Javon Eugene Ringer is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans, earning consensus All-American honors in 2008. He was selected in the fifth round of the 2009 NFL draft.

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Jill Scott, English footballer

Jill Louise Scott is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. The FIFA technical report into the 2011 Women's World Cup described Scott as one of England's four outstanding players; "[an] energetic, ball-winning midfielder who organises the team well, works hard at both ends of the pitch and can change her team's angle of attack."

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Martin Spanjers, American actor and producer

Martin Brian Spanjers is an American actor. He played Rory Hennessy on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules from 2002 to 2005, for which he won a Young Artist Award in 2004, and as Justin in Good Luck Charlie (2010–2014).

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02/02/1986

Gemma Arterton, English actress and singer

Gemma Christina Arterton is an English actress. After her stage debut in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe Theatre (2007), Arterton made her feature-film debut in the comedy St Trinian's (2007). She portrayed Bond Girl Strawberry Fields in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008), a performance which won her an Empire Award for Best Newcomer, and spy Pollyana "Polly" Wilkins / Agent Galahad in the action war film The King's Man (2021).

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Miwa Asao, Japanese volleyball player

Miwa Asao is a female Japanese beach volleyball player. Referred to in media reports as the "pixie of beach volleyball" or simply "pixie of the beach" for her good looks, Asao helped to popularize beach volleyball in Japan. She became a national celebrity from the many articles written on her in Japanese magazines and newspapers, and through her numerous appearances on television.

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02/02/1985

Morris Almond, American basketball player

Morris Almond is an American former professional basketball player. Almond is the founder of Almond Athletics. His last professional appearance would be for the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA Development League (D-League).

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Masoud Azizi, Afghan sprinter

Masoud Azizi is an Afghan athlete. His personal best time in the 100m sprint is 11.11 seconds, achieved in April 2005 in Mecca. In 2013 Azizi failed a doping test at the 2013 World Championships, and was suspended for two years.

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Renn Kiriyama, Japanese actor

Renn Kiriyama is a Japanese stage and television actor from Yokohama. His debut role was as Bunta Marui in The Prince of Tennis musical Absolute King Rikkai feat. Rokkaku ~ First Service. Kiriyama is also known for his role in Shotaro Hidari, the male lead and half of the eponymous hero of the television series Kamen Rider W.

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Kristo Saage, Estonian basketball player

Kristo Saage is an Estonian professional basketball player who plays for Tere Kadrina Karud of the Saku I Liiga. He is a 1.85-metre-tall point guard. He also represented the Estonian national basketball team internationally.

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Silvestre Varela, Portuguese footballer

Silvestre Manuel Gonçalves Varela is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a winger.

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02/02/1984

Brian Cage, American wrestler

Brian Christopher Joseph Button, better known by the ring name Brian Cage, is an American professional wrestler and bodybuilder. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of The Don Callis Family and a former one-time FTW Champion. He also performs in AEW's sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a former ROH World Television Champion and a former two-time ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champion. Button is currently out of action due to a torn quadriceps tendon.

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Chin-Lung Hu, Taiwanese baseball player

Chin-Lung Hu is a retired Taiwanese professional baseball shortstop. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets, and in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the EDA Rhinos/Fubon Guardians and the Uni-President Lions. He was the fifth player — and first infielder — from Taiwan to play in MLB. His last name is the shortest in MLB history.

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Mao Miyaji, Japanese actress

Mao Miyaji is a Japanese actress.

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Rudi Wulf, New Zealand rugby player

Rudi Wulf is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays for Lyon in the French Top 14. He previously played for Toulon and Castres Olympique.

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02/02/1983

Ronny Cedeño, Venezuelan baseball player

Ronny Alexander Salazar Cedeño, is a Venezuelan former professional baseball shortstop, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Seattle Mariners, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets, Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, and Philadelphia Phillies. Cedeño batted and threw right-handed.

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Carolina Klüft, Swedish heptathlete and jumper

Carolina Evelyn Klüft is a retired Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the heptathlon, pentathlon, long jump and triple jump. She was an Olympic Champion, having won the heptathlon title in 2004. She was also a three-time World heptathlon champion, World Indoor pentathlon champion, a two-time European heptathlon champion and a two-time European Indoor pentathlon champion. Klüft is the only athlete to win three consecutive world titles in the heptathlon. She was unbeaten in 22 heptathlon and pentathlon competitions from 2002 to 2007, her entire combined events career as a senior athlete, winning nine consecutive gold medals in major championships.

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Jordin Tootoo, Canadian ice hockey player

Jordin John Kudluk Tootoo is a Canadian former professional hockey player, who played for the Nashville Predators, Detroit Red Wings, New Jersey Devils and Chicago Blackhawks. Of Inuit, Ukrainian and English descent, he is the first Inuk player to play in the National Hockey League (NHL). Tootoo was widely regarded as one of the NHL's best agitators and was able to annoy, fight, and outplay other players to help his team win. At the end of the 2016–17 NHL season, Tootoo had accumulated 65 goals, 96 assists and 1010 PIMs in 723 career NHL games since entering the league in 2003.

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Jason Vargas, American baseball player

Jason Matthew Vargas is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Seattle Mariners, Los Angeles Angels, Kansas City Royals, New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies. The Marlins drafted Vargas in the second round of the 2004 MLB draft. He made his major league debut in 2005. In 2017, he was an All-Star and tied for the American League lead in wins.

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Vladimir Voskoboinikov, Estonian footballer

Vladimir Voskoboinikov is a retired Estonian professional footballer who played as a centre forward.

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Alex Westaway, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Alex Westaway is an English musician. He is the lead vocalist of Gunship and co-vocalist and guitarist of the rock band Fightstar alongside Charlie Simpson, Omar Abidi and Dan Haigh.

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02/02/1982

Sergio Castaño Ortega, Spanish footballer

Sergio Castaño Ortega is a Spanish former footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, currently assistant manager of CD Eldense.

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Kelly Mazzante, American basketball player

Kelly Anne Mazzante is an American retired professional women's basketball player who last played for the Atlanta Dream of the WNBA. After her collegiate career, she was the all-time leading scorer in Big Ten basketball history. The record stood until she was surpassed on the scoring list by Rachel Banham in 2016. The record was subsequently surpassed by Kelsey Mitchell in 2018 and Caitlin Clark in 2024.

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Kan Mi-youn, South Korean singer, model, and host

Kan Mi-youn is a South Korean singer, actress, radio host, model, fashion designer, and businesswoman. Kan joined the South Korean girl group Baby V.O.X. in October 1997, which went on to become one of the most popular girl groups of that time. Kan went on to become a solo artist after the group disbanded in February 2006.

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02/02/1981

Lance Allred, American basketball player and activist

Lance Collin Allred is an American former professional basketball player, who was the first deaf player to play an NBA game. Allred is legally deaf, with 75%–80% hearing loss due to Rh complications at birth. He is also an inspirational speaker and author, with his first book, Longshot: The Adventures of a Deaf Fundamentalist Mormon Kid and His Journey to the NBA, published by HarperCollins in 2009.

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Emre Aydın, Turkish singer-songwriter

Emre Aydın is a Turkish rock singer-songwriter. The singer won the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 in the "Europe's Favourite Act" category. He is also the former lead singer for the Turkish rock band 6. Cadde.

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Michelle Bass, English model and singer

Michelle Bass is an English reality television star, columnist, model and media personality. She is best known for her appearance on the fifth series of Big Brother UK.

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Salem al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 (died 2001)

Salem Muhammed al-Hazmi was a Saudi terrorist hijacker who was one of the five hijackers who assisted in the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 77 as part of the September 11 attacks. The aircraft was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., killing everyone aboard the flight, including al-Hazmi.

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02/02/1980

Teddy Hart, Canadian wrestler

Edward Ellsworth Annis is a Canadian-American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Teddy Hart. He currently wrestles on the independent circuit. He is one-half of the RCW Tag Team Champions with Steven Styles. He is best known for his time for Major League Wrestling (MLW) as the leader of The Hart Foundation, where he held the MLW World Middleweight and MLW Tag Team championships. He has also wrestled known as a tenures for his time AAA, the short-lived Wrestling Society X, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, and Dragon Gate USA. He operates a wrestling school in Edmonton. He is the son of Georgia Hart of the Hart wrestling family and wrestler B. J. Annis. He is also the nephew of former professional wrestlers Bret Hart and Owen Hart. Hart achieved an early degree of fame when he became the youngest wrestler to be signed to the World Wrestling Federation. His subsequent release, controversial actions while wrestling on the independent circuit and various legal problems have earned him a measure of infamy.

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Zhang Jingchu, Chinese actress

Zhang Jingchu is a Chinese actress. She first gained recognition for the film Peacock (2005), which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. Zhang is also known for her roles in the films Protégé (2007), Red River (2009), and Aftershock (2010).

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Oleguer Presas, Spanish footballer

Oleguer Presas Renom, known simply as Oleguer, is a Spanish former professional footballer. Primarily a centre-back, he could also play as a defensive right-back.

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02/02/1979

Urmo Aava, Estonian race car driver

Urmo Aava is a former Estonian rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship between 2002 and 2009. His regular co-driver was Kuldar Sikk, who later became Ott Tänak's co-driver.

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Fani Chalkia, Greek hurdler and sprinter

Fani Chalkia, also transliterated as Halkia or Khalkia, is a retired Greek hurdler. She won an Olympic gold medal in the women's 400 m hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

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Christine Lampard, Irish television host

Christine Louise Lampard is a Northern Irish television presenter. She has presented various television programmes with Adrian Chiles, such as The One Show (2007–2010) and Daybreak (2010–2011), while with Phillip Schofield she has presented Dancing on Ice (2012–2014) and This Morning. Lampard has also presented factual series for ITV including Off The Beaten Track (2013) and Wild Ireland (2015). Since 2016 she has been a presenter of the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women.

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Shamita Shetty, Indian actress

Shamita Shetty is an Indian actress and interior designer. The younger sister of actress Shilpa Shetty, she made her acting debut with the romantic drama Mohabbatein (2000), which earned her the IIFA Award for Star Debut of the Year – Female. She went on to do films including Bewafaa (2005), Zeher (2005), and Cash (2007).

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Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter

Iríni Terzóglou is a Greek shot putter. Her personal best put is 19.10 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Trikala. This is the current Greek record.

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02/02/1978

Adam Christopher, New Zealand writer

Adam Christopher McGechan, who writes under the name Adam Christopher, is a New York Times Bestselling novelist known for his genre fiction. Born in New Zealand, he moved to North West England in 2006, where he lives with his wife.

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Barry Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager

Barry Ferguson is a Scottish football coach, former player and pundit who was most recently manager of Scottish Premiership club Rangers.

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Dan Gadzuric, Dutch basketball player

Daniel Gadzuric is a Dutch-Serbian former professional basketball player. A center, Gadzuric attended preparatory school at The Governor's Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts, before playing college basketball for the Bruins at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2002 NBA draft.

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Lee Ji-ah, South Korean actress

Kim Ji-ah, better known by the stage name Lee Ji-ah, is a South Korean actress. She rose to fame with her role in the television drama The Legend (2007), and has since further participated in Beethoven Virus (2008), Athena: Goddess of War (2010), Me Too, Flower! (2011), Thrice Married Woman (2013), My Mister (2018), The Penthouse: War in Life (2020–2021), and Queen of Divorce (2024).

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Rich Sommer, American actor

Richard Sommer is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Harry Crane on the AMC drama series Mad Men (2007–2015) for which he earned two Screen Actors Guild Awards along with the ensemble cast. He is also known for his roles in the comedy-drama films The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), The Giant Mechanical Man (2012), Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015), and BlackBerry (2023) as well as voicing Henry in the 2016 video game Firewatch. He guest starred in a number of Elementary episodes. More recently, he portrayed Detective Dean Riley in The CW crime drama television series In the Dark (2019).

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Faye White, English footballer

Faye Deborah White, is an English former footballer who captained Arsenal Women in the FA Women's Super League and is the longest-serving female captain of England to date. Her Lionesses career spanned 15 years and five major tournament finals - a record four as captain. A UEFA Women's Champions League winner, she won both League titles and the FA Cup across three different decades with Arsenal. White was recognised for services to Sport in the Queen's New Year's Honours List 2007, being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire In recognition of her achievements she was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2015.

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02/02/1977

Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is a Colombian singer, songwriter, dancer, and record producer. Referred to as the "Queen of Latin Music", she has had a significant impact on the musical landscape of Latin America and has been credited with popularizing Hispanophone music globally, contributing to increased learning and use of the Spanish language worldwide. She is also credited with opening the doors of the international market for other Latin artists. Her accolades include 4 Grammy Awards and 15 Latin Grammy Awards.

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Libor Sionko, Czech footballer

Libor Sionko is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. At club level he started in his home town of Ostrava, playing for the youth teams of TJ Vítkovice and Baník Ostrava. Professionally, he played in his native country until 2004, featuring for clubs including Ostrava and Sparta Prague. He then went abroad, playing in Austria for Grazer AK and Austria Wien before heading to Scotland where he played for Rangers. He subsequently had a spell in Denmark with F.C. Copenhagen before returning to the Czech Republic to finish his career with Sparta, where he last played before retiring in 2012.

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02/02/1976

Ryan Farquhar, Northern Irish motorcycle racer

Ryan Alan Robert Farquhar is a former professional motorcycle racer who primarily competed in road racing. Farquhar won the Geoff Duke Trophy as Champion of the Dukes Road Racing Rankings a record seven times. He won five races at the Cookstown 100 in one day and holds the most Irish national wins by any one rider, at 201. He previously raced a Kawasaki ZX-10R, a Kawasaki ZX-6R and a Kawasaki ER6.

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James Hickman, English swimmer

James Hickman is a male English former competitive swimmer.

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Ana Roces, Filipino actress

Ana Roces is a Filipino actress. Roces was formerly a teen idol in the 1990s and a cast member of That's Entertainment.

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02/02/1975

Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian ice hockey player

Todd Bertuzzi is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. Known as a power forward, he has played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Islanders, Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers, Anaheim Ducks, Calgary Flames and Detroit Red Wings. He is widely known for his role in the Todd Bertuzzi–Steve Moore incident, for which he was suspended by the NHL and IIHF, and criminally charged.

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Donald Driver, American football player

Donald Jerome Driver is an American former professional football wide receiver who played for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for Alcorn State University, Driver was picked by Green Bay in the seventh round of the 1999 NFL draft. He spent his entire 14-season NFL career with the Packers and holds the franchise's all-time records for most career receptions and receiving yards. Driver was a member of the Packers team that won Super Bowl XLV. Every year in Cleveland, Driver holds the Donald Driver Football Camp for local kids which is held at the Cleveland High School Football field. Upon retirement, he won season 14 of Dancing with the Stars.

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Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer

Ieroklis Stoltidis is a Greek retired international professional association football player, who played as midfielder, and is the current assistant coach of Super League Greece 2 club Iraklis.

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02/02/1973

Andrei Luzgin, Estonian tennis player and coach

Andrei Luzgin is a tennis coach and former Estonian tennis player. He achieved his career high ATP singles ranking in 1996 at No. 1212. The same year he also achieved his career high doubles ranking at No. 844.

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Aleksander Tammert, Estonian discus thrower

Aleksander Tammert is an Estonian discus thrower.

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Marissa Jaret Winokur, American actress and singer

Marissa Jaret Winokur, sometimes credited as Marissa Winokur, is an American actress and singer known for her Tony-winning performance as Tracy Turnblad in the Broadway musical Hairspray, an adaptation of John Waters's film, as well as her work on the Pamela Anderson sitcom Stacked. Some of her other TV credits include Curb Your Enthusiasm, Moesha, The Steve Harvey Show, Just Shoot Me!, Felicity and Dharma & Greg.

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02/02/1972

Hisashi, Japanese musician

Hisashi Tonomura , better known by his stage name HISASHI, is a Japanese musician best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Glay. He is particularly associated with the brand Tokai, designing a series of personal signature guitars, based on their Talbo model.

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Melvin Mora, Venezuelan baseball player

Melvin Mora Diaz is a Venezuelan-American former professional baseball infielder. He played for the New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Aleksey Naumov, Russian footballer

Aleksey Sergeyevich Naumov is a Russian former professional footballer, who played as defender. He played in Soviet First League, Russian Top Division and in Estonian Meistriliiga.

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02/02/1971

Michelle Gayle, English singer-songwriter and actress

Michelle Patricia Gayle is a British singer, songwriter, actress and writer. Gayle had success as a soul and R&B singer in the 1990s, having achieved seven top 40 singles in the UK Singles Chart. These include "Sweetness" and "Do You Know". She released two top 40 albums through RCA Records but they parted company in 1997, and although Gayle has recorded other albums, they have not been released.

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Arly Jover, Spanish actress

Araceli "Arly" Jover is a Spanish actress. She is best known for her role as the villainous vampire Mercury in the 1998 superhero film Blade.

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Isaac Kungwane, South African footballer and sportscaster (died 2014)

Isaac Ramaitsane "Shakes" Kungwane was a South African football midfielder who played for Kaizer Chiefs, Jomo Cosmos, Pretoria City and Manning Rangers. During his spell at Kaizer Chiefs he wore the number 11 jersey after Nelson Dladla.

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Rockwilder, American rapper and producer

Dana Stinson, more commonly known as Rockwilder, is an American hip hop producer and songwriter best known for his work with Redman, Jay-Z, LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, Xzibit, and Janet Jackson. He has appeared on every Redman studio album since 1994.

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Hwang Seok-jeong, South Korean actress

Hwang Seok-jeong is a South Korean actress. She has mostly played supporting roles in films and television series, notably Secret Love (2013), Misaeng: Incomplete Life (2014) and She Was Pretty (2015).

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Jason Taylor, Australian rugby league player and coach

Jason Taylor is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and a former professional rugby league footballer who played as a halfback in the 1990s and 2000s.

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02/02/1970

Roar Strand, Norwegian footballer

Roar Strand is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder, mostly for Rosenborg. Strand was capped 42 times for the Norway national team. He is the player with the fourth-highest number of appearances in the Norwegian top division. He has won 16 league titles, more than any other player in history and the Norwegian Football Cup five times, and he has scored goals in 21 consecutive top flight seasons.

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Erik ten Hag, Dutch footballer and manager

Erik ten Hag is a Dutch professional football manager and former player. He is set to work as technical director of Eredivisie club Twente at the start of the 2026–27 Eredivisie season.

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Jennifer Westfeldt, American actress and singer

Jennifer Westfeldt is an American actress, director, screenwriter, and producer. She is best known for co-writing, co-producing, and starring in the 2002 indie film Kissing Jessica Stein, for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay. She is also known for writing, producing, starring in, and making her directorial debut in the indie film Friends with Kids (2012).

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02/02/1969

Dana International, Israeli singer-songwriter

Sharon Cohen, professionally known as Dana International, is an Israeli pop singer. She has released eight albums and three additional compilation albums. She was the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 in Birmingham with the song "Diva".

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Valeri Karpin, Estonian-Russian footballer and manager

Valery Georgiyevich Karpin is a Russian football manager and former player who manages the Russian national team. As a player, he was a midfielder and spent most of his career at Spartak Moscow, Real Sociedad and Celta Vigo. He holds citizenships of Russia, Spain and Estonia.

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02/02/1968

Kenny Albert, American sportscaster

Kenneth Gary Albert is an American sportscaster, the son of NBA sportscaster Marv Albert and nephew of sportscasters Al Albert and Steve Albert. He is the only sportscaster who currently does play-by-play for all four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

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Sean Elliott, American basketball player and sportscaster

Sean Michael Elliott is an American former professional basketball player who starred as a small forward in both the college and professional ranks. He attended the University of Arizona, where he had a standout career as a two-time All-American, winner of the 1989 John R. Wooden Award, the 1989 Adolph Rupp Trophy, the 1989 NABC Player of the Year, 1989 AP Player of the Year, and two-time Pac-12 Player of the Year.

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Scott Erickson, American baseball player and coach

Scott Gavin Erickson is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Minnesota Twins, Baltimore Orioles, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and New York Yankees over 15 seasons. He was a member of the 1991 World Series champion Twins.

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02/02/1967

Artūrs Irbe, Latvian ice hockey player and coach

Artūrs Irbe is a Latvian professional ice hockey coach and former goaltender. Born during the Soviet era, Irbe played for various Soviet league teams and the Soviet Union national team before moving to North America in 1991. Irbe played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the San Jose Sharks, Dallas Stars, Vancouver Canucks, and Carolina Hurricanes. In 2004 Irbe returned to Europe to play until he retired in 2007. He has served as a goaltending coach with Dinamo Riga, the Washington Capitals, and the Buffalo Sabres, as well as internationally with the Latvia men's national ice hockey team. He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2010. Irbe was rated number 93 on The Hockey News list of the Top 100 Goalies of All-Time in 2018.

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Laurent Nkunda, Congolese general

Laurent Nkunda Mihigo is a Congolese former military officer and warlord who operated in the North Kivu Province during the Kivu conflict.

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02/02/1966

Andrei Chesnokov, Russian tennis player and coach

Andrei Eduardovich Chesnokov is a former professional tennis player from Russia.

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Robert DeLeo, American bass player, songwriter, and producer

Robert Emile DeLeo is an American musician, best known as the bassist for rock band Stone Temple Pilots. He is part of Delta Deep and he has also played in Talk Show and Army of Anyone. He is the younger brother of Stone Temple Pilots guitarist Dean DeLeo. He is also the former bass player for the supergroup Hollywood Vampires.

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Adam Ferrara, American actor and comedian

Adam Ferrara is an American actor and comedian known for playing the role of Chief "Needles" Nelson on the FX series Rescue Me. He was a co-host on the U.S. version of Top Gear and played NYPD Sgt. Frank Verelli opposite Edie Falco on Showtime series Nurse Jackie. He also played Detective Tommy Manetti on the television series The Job.

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Michael Misick, Caicos Islander politician, Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands

Michael Eugene Misick is a Turks and Caicos Islander politician who was the 7th Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 15 August 2003 to 9 August 2006 and was the 1st Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 9 August 2006 to 23 March 2009. Misick is a member of the Progressive National Party (PNP) and became chief minister when his party, after eight years as the opposition party, gained two parliamentary seats in by-elections. In addition to being premier, he was also the minister for Civil Aviation, Commerce and Development, Planning, District Administration, Broadcasting Commission, Tourist Board, Turks and Caicos Investment Agency, and Tourism. Several other members of Misick's family have been politicians in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and important leaders in the PNP. Washington Misick, his brother, is the current Premier, former Chief Minister and former Minister of Finance.

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02/02/1965

Carl Airey, English footballer

Carl Airey is an English former professional footballer who made more than 200 appearances in the Football League playing as a centre forward during the 1980s.

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Naoki Sano, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist

Naoki Sano is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist most notable for being the generational rival of legendary Japanese pro wrestler Jushin Liger. During the last years of his career he went by the name Takuma Sano .

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02/02/1963

Ilya Byakin, Russian ice hockey player

Ilya Vladimirovich Byakin is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League and National Hockey League. He played for HC Spartak Moscow, Avangard Omsk, Edmonton Oilers, and San Jose Sharks. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988.

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Eva Cassidy, American singer and guitarist (died 1996)

Eva Marie Cassidy was an American singer and musician known for her interpretations of jazz, folk, and blues music, sung with a powerful, emotive soprano voice. In 1992 she released her first album, The Other Side, a set of duets with go-go musician Chuck Brown, followed by a 1996 live solo album titled Live at Blues Alley. Although she had been honored by the Washington Area Music Association, she was virtually unknown outside her native Washington, D.C. area at the time of her death from melanoma at the age of 33 in 1996.

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Kjell Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player

Kjell Håkan Dahlin is a Swedish former professional ice hockey forward. He played for the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL in the mid-1980s.

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Andrej Kiska, Slovak entrepreneur and philanthropist, President of Slovakia

Andrej Kiska is a Slovak politician, entrepreneur, writer and philanthropist who served as the fourth president of Slovakia from 2014 to 2019. He ran as an independent candidate in the 2014 presidential election in which he was elected to the presidency in the second round of voting over Prime Minister Robert Fico. Kiska declined to run for a second term in 2019. He has written two books about happiness, success, and his life.

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Philip Laats, Belgian martial artist

Philip Laats is a Belgian judoka who competed at the international and world level.

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Stephen McGann, English actor

Stephen Vincent McGann is an English actor, best known for portraying Dr Patrick Turner in the BBC One medical period drama series Call the Midwife. He is one of a family of acting brothers, the others being Joe, Paul, and Mark.

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Vigleik Storaas, Norwegian pianist

Vigleik Storaas is a Norwegian jazz pianist and composer, and the younger brother of composer and bassist Gaute Storaas. He is known from a series of album releases and collaborations with jazz musicians such as Norma Winstone, Karin Krog, Terje Rypdal, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Chet Baker, Jack DeJohnette and Warne Marsh.

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02/02/1962

Philippe Claudel, French author, director, and screenwriter

Philippe Claudel is a French writer and film director.

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Andy Fordham, English darts player (died 2021)

Andrew Fordham was an English professional darts player who competed in British Darts Organisation (BDO) tournaments. Nicknamed the Viking, he won the 2004 BDO World Darts Championship and the 1999 World Masters.

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Luke Johnson, English businessman

Luke Oliver Johnson is a British entrepreneur. He is a former chairman of the PizzaExpress chain, the Royal Society of Arts and Channel 4.

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Paul Kilgus, American baseball player

Paul Nelson Kilgus is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles, and St. Louis Cardinals.

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Kate Raison, Australian actress

Katherine Raison is an Australian actress, best known for her roles on television and film, predominantly her numerous roles in soap operas.

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Michael T. Weiss, American actor

Michael Terry Weiss is an American actor known for his role as Jarod in the television series The Pretender and for his role in Days of Our Lives.

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02/02/1961

Abraham Iyambo, Namibian politician (died 2013)

Abraham Iyambo was a Namibian politician. Iyambo was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia since 1995, serving as Minister of Fisheries from 1997 to 2010 and Minister of Education from 2010 until his death. Iyambo was a member of both the central committee and political bureau of the SWAPO Party and the chairperson of its think tank.

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Lauren Lane, American actress and academic

Lauren Lane is an American film, television, stage actress, and professor. She is best known for her role as C.C. Babcock on The Nanny (1993-1999).

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02/02/1959

Dexter Manley, American football player

Dexter Keith Manley is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Washington Redskins. He also played for the Phoenix Cardinals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, as well as in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Ottawa Rough Riders. Manley played college football for the Oklahoma State Cowboys and was selected by the Redskins in the fifth round of the 1981 NFL draft.

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02/02/1958

Michel Marc Bouchard, Canadian playwright

Michel Marc Bouchard, is a Canadian playwright. He has received the Prix Journal de Montreal, Prix du Cercle des critiques de l'Outaouais, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, and nine Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards for the Vancouver productions of Lilies and The Orphan Muses.

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02/02/1957

Phil Barney, Algerian-French singer-songwriter

Phil Barney is a French singer-songwriter. He was particularly successful with his 1987 song "Un Enfant de toi".

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02/02/1956

Adnan Oktar, Turkish cult leader

Adnan Oktar, also known as Adnan Hoca or Harun Yahya, is a Turkish Muslim Quranist televangelist, Islamic creationist, author, and religious leader. His organization is commonly referred to as a cult, and he has been described as a cult leader.

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02/02/1955

Leszek Engelking, Polish poet and author (died 2022)

Leszek Maria Engelking was a Polish poet, short story writer, novelist, translator, literary critic, essayist, Polish philologist, and literary academic, scholar, and lecturer.

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Bob Schreck, American author

Robert "Bob" Schreck is an American comic book writer and editor. Schreck is best known for his influential role as editor and marketing director at Dark Horse Comics in the 1990s, co-founding Oni Press, and for his subsequent stint as editor for DC Comics. He is currently the Deputy Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

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Michael Talbott, American actor

Michael Talbott is an American actor. He portrayed Detective Stanley Switek in the crime drama television series Miami Vice (1984–1989).

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Kim Zimmer, American actress

Kimberly Jo Zimmer is an American actress, best known for her role as Reva Shayne on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light. For this portrayal, she has won four Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

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Jean-Michel Dupuis, French actor (died 2024)

Jean-Michel Dupuis was a French theatre, television, and film actor. Born on 2 February 1955, he died on 14 September 2024, at the age of 69.

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02/02/1954

Christie Brinkley, American actress, model, and businesswoman

Christie Lee Brinkley is an American model. Brinkley appeared on an unprecedented three consecutive covers of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues in 1979, 1980, and 1981. She spent 25 years as the face of CoverGirl; has appeared on over 500 magazine covers; and has signed contracts with major brands, both fashion and non-fashion.

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Hansi Hinterseer, Austrian skier and actor

Johann Ernst "Hansi" Hinterseer is an Austrian schlager singer, actor, entertainer and former alpine skier.

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Nelson Ne'e, Solomon Islander politician (died 2013)

Nelson Ne'e was a Solomon Islands politician.

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John Tudor, American baseball player

John Thomas Tudor is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, and Los Angeles Dodgers.

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02/02/1953

Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter[citation needed]

Duane Chapman, also known as Dog the Bounty Hunter, is an American television personality, bounty hunter, and former bail bondsman.

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Jerry Sisk, Jr., American gemologist, co-founded Jewelry Television (died 2013)

Gerald D. "Jerry" Sisk Jr. was an American gemologist who co-founded Jewelry Television (JTV) in 1993. Sisk also served as the executive vice president of Jewelry Television until his death in 2013.

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02/02/1952

Dave Casper, American football player

David John Casper nicknamed "the Ghost", is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Oakland Raiders. Casper has been inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame (2012) and the Pro Football Hall of Fame (2002).

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John Cornyn, American lawyer and politician, 49th Attorney General of Texas

John Cornyn III is an American politician and former judge who is the senior United States senator from Texas, a seat he has held since 2002. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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Park Geun-hye, South Korean politician, 11th President of South Korea

Park Geun-hye is a South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea from 2013 until her removal from office in 2017. A member of then Saenuri Party and the eldest daughter of the third president, Park Chung Hee, she was the first woman in the country and the first in East Asia to be elected as head of state. Park previously served as the first lady of South Korea under her father's presidency from 1974 until her father's assassination in 1979.

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Ralph Merkle, American computer scientist and academic

Ralph C. Merkle is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is one of the inventors of public-key cryptography, the inventor of cryptographic hashing, and more recently a researcher and speaker on cryonics.

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Carol Ann Susi, American actress (died 2014)

Carol Ann Susi was an American actress whose career spanned 40 years. She debuted as the recurring character of semi-competent but likable intern Monique Marmelstein on Kolchak: The Night Stalker. More than three decades and countless supporting roles later, her level of celebrity was elevated for having provided the voice of recurring off-screen character Mrs. Wolowitz, mother of Howard Wolowitz, on the television series The Big Bang Theory.

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02/02/1951

Vangelis Alexandris, Greek basketball player and coach

Evangelos "Vangelis" Alexandris is a Greek former international basketball player and coach. With a height of 1.82 meters, he played as a point guard and was nicknamed "The Tiger " due to his dynamic playing style. He is a notable figure of Greek basketball, who has won domestic and European honours at club level. His long-term presence and contribution to the sport exceeds 50 years. During his head coaching career, Alexandris won two European-wide club competitions, the FIBA Saporta Cup in the 2000–01 season and the FIBA Europe Champions Cup in the 2002–03 season.

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Ken Bruce, Scottish radio host

Kenneth Robertson Bruce is a Scottish radio and television presenter. He hosted a weekday mid-morning show on BBC Radio 2 between 1986 and 1990, then again from 1992 to 2023. Since April 2023, he has presented the same slot on Greatest Hits Radio. In the 2023 Birthday Honours, Bruce was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to radio, to autism awareness and to charity.

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02/02/1950

Osamu Kido, Japanese wrestler (died 2023)

Osamu Kido was a Japanese professional wrestler who wrestled for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He participated in the foundation of New Japan of 1972 and the foundation of Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF) in 1984. In 2005, after four years in retirement, Kido returned to the ring.

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Libby Purves, British journalist and author

Elizabeth Mary Purves, is a British radio presenter, journalist and author.

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Bárbara Rey, Spanish singer and actress

Bárbara Rey is a Spanish film and television actress. She is the daughter of Andrés García Valenzuela and Salvadora García Molina.

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Barbara Sukowa, German actress

Barbara Sukowa is a German actress of screen and stage and singer. She has received three German Film Awards for Best Actress, three Bavarian Film Awards, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, Venice Film Festival Award, as well as nominations for European Film Awards, César Awards, and Grammy Awards.

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Genichiro Tenryu, Japanese wrestler

Genichiro Shimada , better known as Genichiro Tenryu is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and professional wrestling promoter. At age 13, he entered sumo wrestling and stayed there for 13 years, after which he turned to Western-style professional wrestling. "Tenryu" was his shikona. He had two stints with All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he spent the majority of his career while also promoting Super World of Sports (SWS), Wrestle Association R (WAR) and Tenryu Project. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. At the time of his retirement, professional wrestling journalist and historian Dave Meltzer wrote that "one could make a strong case [that Tenryu was] between the fourth and sixth biggest native star" in the history of Japanese professional wrestling.

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02/02/1949

Duncan Bannatyne, Scottish businessman and philanthropist

Duncan Walker Bannatyne, is a Scottish entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author. His business interests include hotels, health clubs, spas, media, TV, and property. He is most famous for his appearance as a business angel on the BBC programme Dragons' Den. He was appointed an OBE for his contribution to charity. He has written seven books.

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Jack McGee, American actor

Jack McGee is an American television and film character actor. He has appeared in more than 100 films and television series.

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Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (died 1996)

Yasuko Namba was the second Japanese woman to climb the Seven Summits. Namba worked as a businesswoman for FedEx in Japan, but her hobby of mountaineering took her all over the world. She first summited Kilimanjaro on New Year's Day in 1982, and summited Aconcagua exactly two years later. She reached the summit of Denali on July 1, 1985, and the summit of Mount Elbrus on August 1, 1992. After summiting Vinson Massif on December 29, 1993, and Carstensz Pyramid on November 12, 1994, Namba's final summit to reach was Mount Everest. She signed on with Rob Hall's guiding company, Adventure Consultants, and reached the summit in May 1996, but died during her descent in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.

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Brent Spiner, American actor and singer

Brent Jay Spiner is an American actor best known for his role as the android Data on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), four subsequent films (1994–2002), and Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023). In 1997, he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Data in Star Trek: First Contact, and was nominated in the same category for portraying Dr. Brackish Okun in Independence Day, a role he reprised in Independence Day: Resurgence. Spiner has also enjoyed a career in the theater and as a musician. He is also known for voicing the Joker in the animated series Young Justice (2011–2022).

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Ross Valory, American bass player and songwriter

Ross Lamont Valory is an American musician who is best known as a founding member of the rock band Journey. He was the bassist for the band from 1973 to 1985 and again from 1995 to 2020. Valory was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio as a member of Journey in 2017.

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02/02/1948

Ina Garten, American chef and author

Ina Rosenberg Garten is an American television cook and author. She is host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa and was a former staff member of the Office of Management and Budget. Among her dishes are Perfect Roast Chicken, Weeknight Bolognese, French Apple Tart, and a simplified version of beef bourguignon. Her culinary career began with her gourmet food store, Barefoot Contessa; Garten then expanded her activities to many best-selling cookbooks, magazine columns, and a popular Food Network television show.

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Al McKay, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Albert Phillip McKay is an American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He is a former member of The Watts 103rd Rhythm Street Band and Earth, Wind & Fire. As a member of EW&F, during 2000, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has also worked with artists such as Gene Harris, Patrice Rushen, The Temptations and Ramsey Lewis. McKay also leads his own band called the Al McKay All Stars.

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Roger Williamson, English race car driver (died 1973)

Roger Williamson was a British racing driver and a two time British Formula 3 champion, who died during his second Formula One race, the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort Circuit in the Netherlands.

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02/02/1947

Greg Antonacci, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2017)

Greg Antonacci was an American actor. He portrayed Johnny Torrio in Boardwalk Empire in every season, from 2010 to 2014, and Phil Leotardo's right-hand man Butch DeConcini in The Sopranos from 2006 to the series finale in 2007.

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Farrah Fawcett, American actress and producer (died 2009)

Farrah Fawcett was an American actress. A four-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she played a starring role in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels.

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02/02/1946

John Armitt, English engineer and businessman

Sir John Alexander Armitt is an English civil engineer, and the final chairman of the UK's National Infrastructure Commission.

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Blake Clark, American comedian and actor

Blake Clark is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is best known as Chet Hunter on Boy Meets World, Harry Turner on Home Improvement, as well as his frequent collaborations with Adam Sandler. Clark has voiced Slinky Dog in the Toy Story franchise starting with 2008's Toy Story: The Musical, having inherited the role from his friend Jim Varney, who died of lung cancer in 2000.

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Alpha Oumar Konaré, Malian academic and politician, 3rd President of Mali

Alpha Oumar Konaré is a Malian politician, professor, historian and archaeologist, who served as President of Mali for two five-year terms from 1992 to 2002 and was Chairperson of the African Union Commission from 2003 to 2008.

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Constantine Papadakis, Greek-American businessman and academic (died 2009)

Constantine Papadakis was a Greek-American businessman and the president of Drexel University.

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02/02/1945

John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell, English economist and academic

John Leonard Eatwell, Baron Eatwell, is a British economist who was President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1996 to 2020. A former senior advisor to the Labour Party, Lord Eatwell sat in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated peer from 2014 to 2020, before returning to the Labour bench.

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02/02/1944

Andrew Davis, English organist and conductor (died 2024)

Sir Andrew Frank Davis was an English conductor. He was the long-time chief conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He was music director at the Glyndebourne Festival from 1988 to 2000, and especially known for conducting the traditional Last Night of The Proms, including Last Night speeches. He was music director and principal conductor of the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 2000 to the 2020/21 season.

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Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (died 2012)

Geoffrey William Hughes DL was an English actor. Hughes provided the voice of Paul McCartney in the animated film Yellow Submarine (1968), and rose to fame for portraying bin man Eddie Yeats in the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street from 1974 to 1983, making a return to the show in 1987. He is well known for playing loveable slob Onslow in the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995) and "Twiggy" in the sitcom The Royle Family, playing the part from 1998 to 2008.

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Ursula Oppens, American pianist and educator

Ursula Oppens is an American classical concert pianist and educator. She has received five Grammy Award nominations.

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02/02/1942

Graham Nash, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Graham William Nash is a British and American musician, singer and songwriter. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash.

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02/02/1941

Terry Biddlecombe, English jockey (died 2014)

Terry Biddlecombe was an English National Hunt racing jockey in the 1960s and 1970s. He was Champion Jockey in 1965, 1966 and 1969.

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Lee Redmond, American woman with the longest fingernails (died 2023)

LeeAnn Redmond was an American woman who held the record in the Guinness World Records for longest fingernails on both hands.

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Cory Wells, American pop-rock singer (died 2015)

Cory Wells was an American singer, best known as one of the three lead vocalists in the band Three Dog Night.

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02/02/1940

Alan Caddy, English guitarist and producer (died 2000)

Alan Caddy was an English rock guitarist, arranger, record producer and session musician. He was an original member of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates and the Tornados.

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Thomas M. Disch, American author and poet (died 2008)

Thomas Michael Disch was an American science fiction writer and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book—previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book"—in 1999. He had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, a Rhysling Award, and two Seiun Awards, among others.

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Wayne Fontes, American football player and coach

Wayne Howard Joseph Fontes is an American former professional football player and coach. He was the head coach of the National Football League (NFL)'s Detroit Lions from 1988 to 1996. He is the longest tenured head coach in team history. His 67 wins and 71 losses are each the most for a head coach in team history. Fontes played as a defensive back for the New York Titans of the American Football League (AFL).

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David Jason, English actor, director, and producer

Sir David John White OBE, known professionally as David Jason, is an English actor. He has played Derek "Del Boy" Trotter in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses, Detective Inspector Jack Frost in the drama series A Touch of Frost, Granville in the sitcoms Open All Hours and Still Open All Hours, and Pop Larkin in the comedy drama series The Darling Buds of May, as well as voicing several cartoon characters, including Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows, the BFG in the 1989 film of the same name, and the title characters of Danger Mouse and Count Duckula.

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02/02/1939

Jackie Burroughs, English-born Canadian actress (died 2010)

Jacqueline Burroughs was a Canadian actress. Burroughs starred in over 100 films and television shows over her career, including Heavy Metal, The Care Bears Movie, The Grey Fox, and Anne of Green Gables, and was best known for her role as Hetty King in the TV series Road to Avonlea.

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Mary-Dell Chilton, American chemist and inventor and one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology

Mary-Dell Chilton is one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology.

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Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)

Dale Thomas Mortensen was an American economist, a professor at Northwestern University, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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02/02/1938

Norman Fowler, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport

Peter Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler, is a British politician who served as a member of both Margaret Thatcher and John Major's ministries during the 1980s and 1990s. He held the office of Lord Speaker from 1 September 2016 to 30 April 2021.

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Bo Hopkins, American actor (died 2022)

William Mauldin "Bo" Hopkins was an American actor. He was known for playing supporting roles in several major studio films from 1969 to 1979, especially for his breakout role in the ensemble cast of George Lucas's American Graffiti. His credits span several films and TV appearances.

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Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 1995)

Gene MacLellan was a Canadian singer-songwriter from Prince Edward Island. Among his compositions were "Snowbird", made famous by Anne Murray, "Put Your Hand in the Hand", "The Call", "Pages of Time", and "Thorn in My Shoe". Elvis Presley, Lynn Anderson, Loretta Lynn, Joan Baez, and Bing Crosby were among the many artists who recorded MacLellan's songs.

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02/02/1937

Don Buford, American baseball player and coach

Donald Alvin Buford is an American former professional baseball player scout, coach and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder from 1963 through 1972, most notably as the leadoff hitter for the Baltimore Orioles dynasty that won three consecutive American League pennants from 1969 to 1971 and won the 1970 World Series over the Cincinnati Reds. He also played for the Chicago White Sox and played in the Nippon Professional Baseball league from 1973 to 1976. Buford also played as an infielder and was a switch hitter who threw right-handed. In 1993, Buford was inducted into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame.

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Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian lawyer and politician, President of Panama (died 2015)

Eric Arturo Delvalle Cohen-Henríquez was a Panamanian politician. He served as Vice President under Nicolás Ardito Barletta. Following the disputed 1984 election, and after Barletta's forced resignation, Delvalle served as President of Panama from 28 September 1985 until 26 February 1988.

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Anthony Haden-Guest, British journalist, poet, and critic

Anthony Haden-Guest is an English-American writer, reporter, cartoonist, art critic, poet, and socialite who lives in New York City and London. He is a frequent contributor to major magazines and has had several books published.

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Remak Ramsay, American actor

Gustavus Remak Ramsay is an American stage, film and television actor. Ramsay was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Caroline V. and John Breckinridge Ramsay.

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Tom Smothers, American comedian, actor, and activist (died 2023)

Thomas Bolyn Smothers III was an American comedian, actor, composer, and musician, widely known as half of the musical comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick. In the 1960s they were known for their network comedy and variety shows, The Smothers Brothers Show and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

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Alexandra Strelchenko, Ukrainian actress and singer (died 2019)

Alexandra Ilinichna Strelchenko was a Soviet and Russian actress and singer. She was a performer of Russian folk songs, Russian romances and pop songs. She was awarded the People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1984.

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02/02/1936

Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer and manager (died 1991)

Metin Oktay nicknamed the Crownless King by Galatasaray fans, was a Turkish footballer and one of the most successful goal scorers in Turkey.

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02/02/1935

Pete Brown, American golfer (died 2015)

Pete Brown was an American professional golfer who was the first African American to win a PGA Tour event with his win at the Waco Turner Open. He was from Mississippi.

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Evgeny Velikhov, Russian physicist and academic (died 2024)

Evgeny Pavlovich Velikhov was a Russian physicist and scientific leader. His scientific interests included plasma physics, lasers, controlled nuclear fusion, power engineering, and magnetohydrodynamics. He was the author of over 1500 scientific publications and a number of inventions and discoveries.

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02/02/1934

Khalil Ullah Khan, Bangladeshi actor (died 2014)

Khalil Ullah Khan was a Bangladeshi film and television actor. He earned Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Gunda in 1976.

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02/02/1933

M'el Dowd, American actress and singer (died 2012)

Mary Ellen Dowd was an American stage, musical theatre and film actress, and singer, whose career spanned half a century. Beginning in Shakespeare roles and films in the 1950s, Dowd continued to perform on stage, film and television into the 21st century. A frequent performer on Broadway in the 1960s, Dowd originated the role of Morgan le Fay in the musical Camelot.

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Tony Jay, English-American actor (died 2006)

Tony Jay was a British actor. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was known for his voice work in radio, animation, film, and video games. Jay was particularly noted for his distinctive raspy baritone voice, which often led to him being cast in villainous or authoritative roles. His voice acting roles included Claude Frollo in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Megabyte in ReBoot (1994–2001), Shere Khan in The Jungle Book 2, as well as the TV series TaleSpin, the Elder God in the Legacy of Kain series of video games and Dr. Lipschitz in Rugrats.

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Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Cuban bassist and composer (died 2009)

Candelario Orlando López Vergara, better known as Cachaíto, was a Cuban bassist and composer, who gained international fame after his involvement in the Buena Vista Social Club recordings. He was nicknamed Cachaíto after his uncle, the famous bassist and innovator of mambo music Israel "Cachao" López. His father and Cachao's older brother was Orestes López, also a famous bassist/multi-instrumentalist and composer.

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Than Shwe, Burmese general and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Burma

Than Shwe is a retired Burmese military officer who ruled Myanmar as the second chairman of the State Peace, and Development Council as well as the commander-in-chief of Defence Services from 1992 until his resignation in 2011, and concurrently served as the eighth prime minister of Myanmar from 1992 to 2003. He previously served as the deputy commander-in-chief of Defence Services from 1985, and the vice chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, and deputy prime minister of Myanmar from 1988 until 1992.

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02/02/1932

Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (died 2002)

Arthur Hunt Lyman was a Hawaiian jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His group popularized a style of faux-Polynesian music during the 1950s and 1960s which later became known as exotica. His albums became favorite stereo-effect demonstration discs during the early days of the stereophonic LP album for their elaborate and colorful percussion, deep bass and 3-dimensional recording soundstage. Lyman was known as "the King of Lounge music."

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Robert Mandan, American actor (died 2018)

Robert Mandan was an American actor, best known for his roles as Sam Reynolds on Search for Tomorrow (1965–1970), Chester Tate, the philandering businessman husband of Jessica Tate on the satirical sitcom Soap (1977–1981) and James Bradford on the short lived Three's Company spin off Three's A Crowd (1984–1985) that lasted for one season.

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02/02/1931

Les Dawson, English comedian and author (died 1993)

Leslie Dawson was an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and pianist. He was known for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona, musical routines, and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife.

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Glynn Edwards, Malaysian-English actor (died 2018)

John Glynn Edwards was a British actor who worked in television and films. He came to national prominence for his portrayal of the barman Dave Harris in the television comedy drama series Minder (1979—1994).

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John Paul Harney, Canadian educator and politician (died 2021)

John Paul Ludger Harney, also known as Jean-Paul Harney, was a Canadian professor and politician.

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Dries van Agt, Dutch politician, diplomat and jurist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2024)

Andreas Antonius Maria "Dries" van Agt was a Dutch politician, jurist and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 19 December 1977 until 4 November 1982. He was a prominent leader of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and later its successor party, the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

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Judith Viorst, American journalist and author

Judith Viorst is an American writer, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She is known for her humorous observational poetry and for her children's literature. This includes The Tenth Good Thing About Barney and the Alexander series of short picture books, which includes Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (1972), which has sold over two million copies.

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02/02/1929

Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (died 2013)

Sheila Mathews Allen was an American actress and producer.

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George Band, English engineer and mountaineer (died 2011)

George Christopher Band was an English mountaineer. He was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to ascend the mountain. In 1955, he and Joe Brown were the first climbers to ascend Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world.

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Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (died 2014)

Věra Chytilová was an Czech avant-garde filmmaker. Banned by the Czechoslovak government in the 1960s, she is best known for her 1966 Czech New Wave film Daisies. Among her subsequent films are Wolf's Hole (1987), A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989) and The Inheritance or Fuckoffguysgoodday (1992). For her work, she received the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the Czech Medal of Merit and the Czech Lion award.

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John Henry Holland, American computer scientist and academic (died 2015)

John Henry Holland was an American scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. He was a pioneer in what became known as genetic algorithms.

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Waldemar Kmentt, Austrian operatic tenor (died 2015)

Waldemar Kmentt was an Austrian operatic tenor, who was particularly associated with the German repertory, both opera and operetta.

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02/02/1928

Ciriaco De Mita, 47th Prime minister of Italy (died 2022)

Luigi Ciriaco De Mita was an Italian politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Italy from April 1988 to July 1989. A member of Christian Democracy (DC), De Mita served as its secretary and leader from May 1982 until February 1989, becoming one of the most influential politicians in the country, as well as one of the most prominent members of DC's left-wing.

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Gamal Hamdan, Egyptian scholar and geographer (died 1993)

Gamal Hamdan was an Egyptian geographer and scholar known for his work on Egypt's geography, history, and culture.

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Jay Handlan, American basketball player and engineer (died 2013)

John Bernard "Jay" Handlan was an American college basketball star at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia from 1948 to 1952. He was born in Wheeling, West Virginia. A 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) forward, Handlan is best known for being a prolific scorer and for setting the still–standing National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) record for field goal attempts in a game with 71.

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Tommy Harmer, English footballer and youth team coach (died 2007)

Tommy Harmer was an English footballer who played as a inside forward. He spent most of his career with Tottenham Hotspur before playing for Watford and Chelsea.

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02/02/1927

Stan Getz, American saxophonist (died 1991)

Stan Getz was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, with his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol, Lester Young. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Herman's big band, Getz is described by critic Scott Yanow as "one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists". Getz performed in bebop and cool jazz groups. Influenced by João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim, he also helped popularize bossa nova in the United States with the hit 1964 single "The Girl from Ipanema".

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Doris Sams, American baseball player (died 2012)

Doris Jane Sams, nicknamed "Sammye", was an American outfielder and pitcher who played from 1946 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Listed at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m), 145 lbs., she batted and threw right-handed.

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02/02/1926

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French academic and politician, 20th President of France (died 2020)

Valéry René Marie Georges Giscard d'Estaing, also known as simply Giscard or VGE, was President of France from 1974 to 1981.

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02/02/1925

Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (died 2014)

Elaine Stritch was an American actress, singer, and comedian, known for her work on Broadway and later, television. She made her professional stage debut in 1944 and appeared in numerous stage plays, musicals, feature films and television series. Stritch was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995.

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02/02/1924

Sonny Stitt, American saxophonist and composer (died 1982)

Sonny Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. Known for his warm tone, he was one of the best-documented saxophonists of his era, recording over 100 albums. He was nicknamed the "Lone Wolf" by jazz critic Dan Morgenstern because of his tendency to rarely work with the same musicians for long despite his relentless touring and devotion to the craft. Stitt was sometimes regarded as a Charlie Parker mimic early in his career, but gradually developed his own sound and style, particularly when performing on the tenor saxophone and even occasionally baritone saxophone.

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Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American singer, pianist, producer (died 2007)

Elfriede "Elfi" von Dassanowsky was an Austrian-born American singer, pianist, and film producer.

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02/02/1923

Jean Babilée, French dancer and choreographer (died 2014)

Jean Gutmann was a prominent French dancer and choreographer of the latter half of the 20th century. He is considered to have been one of modern ballet's greatest performers, and the first French dancer to gain international acclaim. Babilée has been called the "enfant terrible of dance."

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James Dickey, American poet and novelist (died 1997)

James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet, novelist, critic, and lecturer. He was appointed the 18th United States Poet Laureate in 1966. His other accolades included the National Book Award for Poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster (died 2012)

Svetozar Gligorić was a Serbian chess grandmaster and musician. He won the championship of Yugoslavia a record 11 times, and is considered the best player ever from Serbia and Yugoslavia. In 1958, he received the Golden Badge award for the best athlete of Yugoslavia.

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Bonita Granville, American actress and producer (died 1988)

Bonita Gloria Granville Wrather was an American character actress and producer. The daughter of vaudevillians, Granville began her career on the stage at age three. She began as a child actress, making her film debut in Westward Passage (1932). She rose to prominence for her role in These Three (1936), which earned her an Academy Award nomination at age 14. Her prominence continued with the Nancy Drew film series and roles in Now, Voyager (1942) and Hitler's Children (1943).

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Red Schoendienst, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2018)

Albert Fred "Red" Schoendienst was an American professional baseball second baseman, coach, and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB), and is largely known for his coaching, managing, and playing years with the St. Louis Cardinals. He played for 19 years with the Cardinals, New York Giants (1956–1957) and Milwaukee Braves (1957–1960), and was named to 10 All Star teams. He then managed the Cardinals from 1965 through 1976 – the second-longest managerial tenure in the team's history. Under his direction, St. Louis won the 1967 and 1968 National League pennants and the 1967 World Series, and he was named National League Manager of the Year in 1967 and 1968. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989. At the time of his death, he had worn a Major League uniform for 74 consecutive years as a player, coach, or manager, and had served 67 of his 76 years in baseball with the Cardinals.

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Liz Smith, American journalist and author (died 2017)

Mary Elizabeth Smith was an American gossip columnist. She was known as "The Grand Dame of Dish". Beginning her career in radio in the 1950s, for a time she also anonymously wrote the "Cholly Knickerbocker" gossip column for the Hearst newspapers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, she was the entertainment editor for the magazines Cosmopolitan and Sports Illustrated. Between 1976 and 2009, she wrote a self-titled gossip column for newspapers including New York Newsday, the New York Daily News and the New York Post that was syndicated in 60 to 70 other newspapers. On television, she appeared on Fox, E!, and WNBC.

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Clem Windsor, Australian rugby player and surgeon (died 2007)

Dr. John Clement "Clem" Windsor was a rugby union player who represented Australia and a surgeon.

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02/02/1922

Kunwar Digvijay Singh, Indian field hockey player (died 1978)

Kunwar Digvijay Singh, popularly known as "Babu", was an Indian field hockey player. He was born in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh. He is widely known for his passing ability and is considered by many to be the greatest dribbler of the game comparable only to Dhyan Chand.

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Robert Chef d'Hôtel, French athlete (died 2019)

Robert Claude Henri Chef d'Hôtel was a track and field athlete from France, who competed mainly in the men's 400 metres during his career. He was born in Nouméa, Sud, New Caledonia in February 1922.

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Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress (died 2019)

Stoyanka Mutafova was a Bulgarian actress. During her career, she starred in over 53 theatrical plays and 25 films

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James L. Usry, American politician, first African-American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey (died 2002)

James Leroy Usry was the first African-American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was also a professional basketball player.

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02/02/1920

George Hardwick, English footballer and coach (died 2004)

George Francis Moutry Hardwick was an English footballer, manager and coach. During his time as an active player, he was a left-sided defender for Middlesbrough and Oldham Athletic. He was also a member of the England national football team, playing in 13 international matches and serving as the team's first post-World War II captain in all 13 of those matches, and is the only England player to be captain in every one of his appearances.

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John Russell, American Olympic equestrian (died 2020)

Colonel John William Russell was an American equestrian who won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he began competing in international equestrian tournaments and was eventually selected to join the United States team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. After his success at the 1952 edition, he continued to participate in events around the world, but military duties and a broken bone in his horse caused him to miss the 1956 Summer Olympics. He retired from active competition that year and became the head of United States Modern Pentathlon Training Center, where he coached six United States Olympic modern pentathlon delegations, twenty-two World Championship teams, and helped organize two World Modern Pentathlon Championships. He retired and opened the Russell Equestrian Center and was inducted into the United States Show Jumping Hall of Fame in 2001.

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Arthur Willis, English football player-manager (died 1987)

Arthur Willis was a professional footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur, Swansea City, Haverfordwest and England.

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02/02/1919

Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano and actress (died 2012)

Lisa Della Casa was a Swiss soprano most admired for her interpretations of major heroines in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss, and of German lieder. She was also described as “the most beautiful woman on the operatic stage”.

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Georg Gawliczek, German footballer and manager (died 1999)

Georg Gawliczek was a German football manager and former player.

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02/02/1918

Hella Haasse, Indonesian-Dutch author (died 2011)

Hélène "Hella" Serafia Haasse was a Dutch writer, often referred to as the "Grande Dame" of Dutch literature, and whose novel Oeroeg (1948) was a staple for generations of Dutch schoolchildren. Her internationally acclaimed magnum opus is Heren van de Thee, translated to The Tea Lords. In 1988 Haasse was chosen to interview the Dutch Queen for her 50th birthday after which celebrated Dutch author Adriaan van Dis called Haasse "the Queen among authors".

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02/02/1917

Mary Ellis, British World War II ferry pilot (died 2018)

Mary Ellis was a British ferry pilot, and one of the last surviving British female pilots from the Second World War.

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Đỗ Mười, Vietnamese politician, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (died 2018)

Đỗ Mười was a Vietnamese communist politician. He rose in the party hierarchy in the late 1940s, became Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1988 and was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) at the 7th Congress in 1991. He continued his predecessor's policy of ruling through a collective leadership and Nguyễn Văn Linh's policy of economic reform. He was elected for two terms as General Secretary, but left office in 1997 at the 3rd plenum of the 8th Central Committee during his second term.

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02/02/1916

Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author (died 1985)

Ngô Xuân Diệu was a Vietnamese poet, journalist, short-story writer, and literary critic, best known as one of the prominent figures of the twentieth-century Thơ mới Movement. Heralded by critics as "the newest of the New Poets", Xuân Diệu rose to popularity with the collection Thơ thơ (1938), which demonstrates a distinct voice influenced by Western literature, notably French symbolism. Between 1936 and 1944, his poetry was characterized by a desperation for love, juxtaposed with a desire to live and to experience the beauty of the world. After joining the Vietnamese Communist Party in 1945, the themes of his works shifted towards the Party and their resistance against the French and the Americans. When he died in 1985, he left behind about 450 poems, as well as several short stories, essays, and literary criticisms.

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02/02/1915

Abba Eban, South African-Israeli politician and diplomat, 1st Israel Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2002)

Abba Solomon Meir Eban was a South African-born Israeli diplomat and politician, and a scholar of the Arabic and Hebrew languages.

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Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (died 2005)

Stan Leonard was a Canadian professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s. Leonard won three PGA Tour events, eight Canadian PGA Championships, and 16 other significant events in Canada. He is a member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.

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Khushwant Singh, Indian journalist and author (died 2014)

Khushwant Singh FKC was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write Train to Pakistan in 1956, which became his most well-known novel.

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02/02/1914

Eric Kierans, Canadian economist and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Communications (died 2004)

Eric William Kierans was a Canadian economist and politician.

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02/02/1913

Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor and singer (died 1985)

Poul David Reichhardt was a Danish actor, well known for his roles in Danish 1940s/1950s comedies. Later on, he also played more serious and varied roles; he has also starred in Huset på Christianshavn, Matador and as various minor characters in the Olsen-banden films.

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02/02/1912

Millvina Dean, English civil servant and cartographer (died 2009)

Eliza Gladys Dean, known as Millvina Dean, was a British civil servant, cartographer, and the last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 until her death in 2009. At two months old, she was also the youngest passenger aboard.

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Burton Lane, American songwriter and composer (died 1997)

Burton Lane was an American composer primarily known for his theatre and film scores. His most popular and successful works include the musicals Finian's Rainbow (1947) and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965).

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02/02/1911

Jack Pizzey, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Queensland (died 1968)

Jack Charles Allan Pizzey was a Queensland Country Party politician. He was Premier of Queensland, in a coalition with the Liberal Party, from 17 January 1968 until his death on 31 July that year. To date, he is the most recent premier of an Australian state to die in office.

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02/02/1909

Frank Albertson, American actor (died 1964)

Francis Healey Albertson was an American actor who had supporting roles in films such as It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Psycho (1960).

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02/02/1908

Wes Ferrell, American baseball player and manager (died 1976)

Wesley Cheek Ferrell was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball from 1927 through 1941. Primarily a starting pitcher, Ferrell played for the Cleveland Indians (1927–33), Boston Red Sox (1934–37), Washington Senators (1937–38), New York Yankees (1938–39), Brooklyn Dodgers (1940) and Boston Braves (1941). He batted and threw right-handed.

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02/02/1905

Ayn Rand, Russian-born American novelist and philosopher (died 1982)

Alice O'Connor, better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system which she named Objectivism.

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02/02/1904

Bozorg Alavi, Iranian author and activist (died 1997)

Bozorg Alavi was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual. He was a founding member of the communist Tudeh Party of Iran in the 1940s and – following the 1953 coup against Premier Mohammad Mossadegh – spent the rest of his life in exile in East Germany, first during the Pahlavi regime, then returning to Germany once more following the 1979 revolution. Cheshm'hā'yash, which was published in Iran in 1952 and was subsequently banned, is considered his finest novel. Alavi was also a very close friend of Iran's famous writer Sadegh Hedayat; these two created a literary group when they were residing in Paris called "sab'e group". Although Her Eyes is considered his masterpiece, Alavi also wrote many other books, such as the novel "Chamedan" (suitcase) which was written under the influence of Freudian psychology. His other novels "Mirza", "Fifty Three Persons" and "Gilemard" are mentioned in Iranian high-school textbooks. He did return to Tehran after the revolution but did not stay too long and decided to head back to Germany. Bozorg Alavi's contribution to Iranian Literature is profound due to the modernization movement in which he was a key member.

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02/02/1902

Newbold Morris, American lawyer and politician (died 1966)

Augustus Newbold Morris was an American politician, lawyer, president of the New York City Council, and two-time candidate for mayor of New York City.

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John Tonkin, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Western Australia (died 1995)

John Trezise Tonkin was an Australian politician who was the premier of Western Australia from 3 March 1971 to 8 April 1974. A member of the Labor Party, Tonkin was a minister in the Willcock, Wise and Hawke state governments. He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1933 to 1977, making him the longest-serving member of the Parliament of Western Australia as of 2021.

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02/02/1901

Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-American violinist and educator (died 1987)

Jascha Heifetz was a Russian-American violinist, widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time. Born in Vilna, he was soon recognized as a child prodigy and was trained in the Russian violin school in St. Petersburg. Accompanying his parents to escape the violence of the Russian Revolution, he moved to the United States as a teenager, where his Carnegie Hall debut was rapturously received. Fritz Kreisler, another leading violinist of the twentieth century, said after hearing Heifetz's debut, "We might as well take our fiddles and break them across our knees."

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02/02/1900

Willie Kamm, American baseball player and manager (died 1988)

William Edward Kamm was an American professional baseball player. He played as a third baseman in Major League Baseball from 1923 to 1935. Kamm played most of his career for the Chicago White Sox before finishing his playing days with the Cleveland Indians. He was the dominant defensive third baseman in the American League for most of his career.

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02/02/1897

Howard Deering Johnson, American businessman, founded Howard Johnson's (died 1972)

Howard Deering Johnson was an American entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder of an American chain of restaurants and motels under one company of the same name, Howard Johnson's.

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Gertrude Blanch, Russian-American mathematician (died 1996)

Gertrude Blanch was an American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation. She was a leader of the Mathematical Tables Project in New York from its beginning. She worked later as the assistant director and leader of the Numerical Analysis at UCLA computing division and was head of mathematical research for the Aerospace Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.

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02/02/1896

Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (died 1980)

Kazimierz Kuratowski was a Polish mathematician and logician. He was one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. He worked as a professor at the University of Warsaw and at the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Between 1946 and 1953, he served as President of the Polish Mathematical Society.

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02/02/1895

George Halas, American football player and coach (died 1983)

George Stanley Halas Sr., nicknamed "Papa Bear", was an American professional football end, coach, and executive. He was the founder and owner of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL), and served as his own head coach on four occasions. He was also lesser-known as a player for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the namesake for the NFC Championship trophy.

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Robert Philipp, American painter (died 1981)

Robert Philipp was an American painter influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits of attractive women and Hollywood stars. Noted art critic Henry McBride called Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation. He was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League of New York for 33 years, the American artist Itshak Holtz was a student of Philipp. Philipp was Secretary of the National Academy of Design, and National Academician, Benjamin Franklin Fellow, Royal Society of Arts in London. He was married to model and fellow artist Rochelle ("Shelly") Post, who frequently posed for him until her death in 1971. His compositions and painting style have been compared to the art of Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Philipp won prizes in most of the important exhibitions of his time, and his paintings are in numerous museums and important private collections.

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George Sutcliffe, Australian public servant (died 1964)

George Gribbon Sutcliffe was a senior Australian public servant, best known for his time as a Commissioner of the Commonwealth Public Service Board.

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02/02/1893

Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (died 1974)

Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos was a Hungarian, American, and later Irish mathematician and physicist. According to György Marx he was one of the Martians, a group of Hungarian scientific luminaries who immigrated to the United States to escape national socialism. He was remembered by his colleagues as an innovative scholar and an excellent educator.

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Raoul Riganti, Argentinian race car driver (died 1970)

Raúl Riganti was an Argentine racing driver. He competed in the Indianapolis 500 three times, qualifying every year he was entered. Riganti was briefly an adviser of driver Juan Manuel Fangio.

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Damdin Sükhbaatar, Mongolian soldier and politician (died 1924)

Damdin Sükhbaatar was a Mongolian revolutionary, founder of the Mongolian People's Party, and leader of the Mongolian partisan army that took Khüree during the Mongolian Revolution of 1921. For his part in the Mongolian revolution of 1921, he was enshrined as the "Father of Mongolia's Revolution".

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02/02/1892

Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (died 1959)

Tochigiyama Moriya was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 27th yokozuna from 1918 until 1925. Generally he is considered one of the pioneers of modern sumo. He remains the lightest yokozuna in the history of the sport with a weight of 104 kg.

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02/02/1890

Charles Correll, American actor and screenwriter (died 1972)

Charles James Correll was an American radio comedian, actor and writer who was best known for his work in the radio Amos 'n' Andy radio series with Freeman Gosden. Correll voiced the main character, Andy Brown, along with various lesser characters.

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02/02/1889

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general (died 1952)

Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny was a French général d'armée during World War II and the First Indochina War. He was posthumously elevated to the dignity of Marshal of France in 1952.

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02/02/1887

Ernst Hanfstaengl, German businessman (died 1975)

Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl was a German American businessman and close friend of Adolf Hitler. He eventually fell out of favour with Hitler and defected from Nazi Germany to the United States. He later worked for Franklin D. Roosevelt and was once engaged to the author Djuna Barnes.

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02/02/1886

William Rose Benét, American poet and author (died 1950)

William Rose Benét was an American poet, writer, and editor. He was the older brother of Stephen Vincent Benét.

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02/02/1885

Mikhail Frunze, Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist (died 1925)

Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was a Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist.

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02/02/1883

Johnston McCulley, American author and screenwriter, created Zorro (died 1958)

John William Johnston McCulley was an American writer of hundreds of stories, fifty novels and numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro.

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Julia Nava de Ruisánchez, Mexican activist and writer (died 1964)

Julia Nava de Ruisánchez, also Ruiz Sánchez, was a Mexican writer and an activist during the Mexican Revolution. She is also remembered for establishing the first Mexican institution for training social workers in 1936.

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02/02/1882

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (died 1944)

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark was the seventh child and fourth son of King George I and Queen Olga of Greece. He was a grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark and the father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was a prince of Greece and Denmark, both by virtue of his patrilineal descent.

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James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (died 1941)

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include two books of poetry, a play, correspondence, and occasional journalism.

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02/02/1881

Orval Overall, American baseball player and manager (died 1947)

Orval Overall was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was a member of the Chicago Cubs dynasty of the early 1900s, making eight appearances for the Cubs in the World Series, including five as the starting pitcher.

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02/02/1880

Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (died 1969)

Frederick Claude Vivian Lane was an Australian swimmer who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

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02/02/1878

Joe Lydon, American boxer (died 1937)

Joseph Patrick Lydon was an American welterweight boxer who competed in the early twentieth century. He was born in Swinford, County Mayo, Ireland. He competed at the 1904 Summer Olympics, tying for a bronze medal in the welterweight division with fellow American boxer Jack Egan.

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02/02/1877

Frank L. Packard, Canadian author (died 1942)

Frank Lucius Packard was a Canadian novelist.

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02/02/1875

Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer (died 1962)

Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born American violinist and composer. One of the most noted violin masters of his day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing, with marked portamento and rubato. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately recognizable as his own. Although it derived in many respects from the Franco-Belgian school, his style is nonetheless reminiscent of the gemütlich (cozy) lifestyle of pre-war Vienna.

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02/02/1873

Leo Fall, Austrian composer (died 1925)

Leopold Fall was an Austrian Kapellmeister and composer of operettas.

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Konstantin von Neurath, German politician and diplomat, 13th German Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1956)

Konstantin Hermann Karl Freiherr von Neurath was a German politician, diplomat and convicted Nazi war criminal who served as Foreign Minister of Germany between 1932 and 1938.

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02/02/1872

Abul Kasem, Bengali politician (died 1936)

Abul Kasem was a Bengali politician.

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02/02/1869

Alexander Atabekian, Armenian physician and anarchist publisher (died 1933)

Alexander Movsesi Atabekian was an Armenian physician, publisher and anarchist communist.

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02/02/1866

Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and academic (died 1927)

Enrique Simonet Lombardo was a Spanish painter.

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02/02/1862

Émile Coste, French fencer (died 1927)

Émile Louis François Désiré Coste was a French fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He participated in Fencing at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won the gold medal in the foil, defeating fellow French fencer Henri Masson in the final.

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Cornelius McKane, American physician, educator, and hospital founder (died 1912)

Dr. Cornelius McKane was a Guyanese-American physician and educator. With his wife Alice Woodby McKane, he founded medical schools and hospitals in Savannah, Georgia and Monrovia, Liberia. The descendant of an African king, he was urged by his grandmother to return to his African roots to help his people. Upon his family's return to the United States, the Doctors McKane founded a hospital for African-Americans.

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02/02/1861

Solomon R. Guggenheim, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (died 1949)

Solomon Robert Guggenheim was an American businessman in needlework, gold, silver, copper, and lead and an art collector. He is best known for establishing the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

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02/02/1860

Curtis Guild, Jr., American journalist and politician, 43rd Governor of Massachusetts (died 1915)

Curtis Guild Jr. was an American journalist, soldier, diplomat and politician from Massachusetts. He was the 43rd governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1906 to 1909. Prior to his election as governor, Guild served in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, seeing active duty in Cuba during the Spanish–American War. He was publisher of the Boston Commercial Bulletin, a trade publication started by his father.

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02/02/1857

Jan Drozdowski, Polish pianist and music teacher (died 1918)

Jan Drozdowski (1857–1918) was a Polish pianist and music teacher.

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02/02/1856

Frederick William Vanderbilt, American railway magnate (died 1938)

Frederick William Vanderbilt was a member of the American Vanderbilt family. He was a director of the New York Central Railroad for 61 years, and also a director of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad and of the Chicago and North Western Railroad.

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Makar Yekmalyan, Armenian composer (died 1905)

Makar Grigori Yekmalyan was an Armenian composer.

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02/02/1851

José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican illustrator and engraver (died 1913)

José Guadalupe Posada Aguilar was a Mexican political printmaker who used relief printing to produce popular illustrations. His work has influenced numerous Latin American artists and cartoonists because of its satirical acuteness and social engagement. He used skulls, calaveras, and bones to show political and cultural critiques. Among his most enduring works is La Calavera Catrina.

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02/02/1849

Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet and playwright (died 1921)

Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator, and for a short time, member of the Czechoslovak parliament. Originally, he wrote in a traditional style, but later became influenced by parnassism and modernism.

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02/02/1842

Julian Sochocki, Polish-Russian mathematician and academic (died 1927)

Julian Karol Sochocki was a Polish-Russian mathematician. His name is sometimes transliterated from Russian in several different ways.

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02/02/1841

François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and hydrologist (died 1912)

François-Alphonse Forel was a Swiss physician and scientist who pioneered the study of lakes, and is thus considered the founder. He was also professor at the University of Lausanne and the Father of limnology. Limnology is the study of bodies of fresh water and their biological, chemical, and physical features.

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02/02/1829

Alfred Brehm, German zoologist and illustrator (died 1884)

Alfred Edmund Brehm was a German zoologist and writer. His multi-volume book Brehms Tierleben, which he co-authored with Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, Wilhelm Haacke, and Richard Schmidtlein, became a household word for popular zoological literature. He was the first director of the Zoological Garden of Hamburg.

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William Stanley, English engineer and philanthropist (died 1909)

William Ford Robinson Stanley was an English inventor with 78 patents filed in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America. He was an engineer who designed and made precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes, manufactured by his company "William Ford Stanley and Co. Ltd."

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02/02/1803

Albert Sidney Johnston, American general (died 1862)

General Albert Sidney Johnston was an American military officer who served as a general officer in three different armies: the Texian Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army. He saw extensive combat during his 34-year military career, fighting actions in the Black Hawk War, the Texas-Indian Wars, the Mexican–American War, the Utah War, and the American Civil War, where he died on the battlefield.

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02/02/1802

Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic (died 1887)

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné Boussingault was a French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy.

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02/02/1786

Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (died 1856)

Jacques Philippe Marie Binet was a French mathematician, physicist and astronomer born in Rennes; he died in Paris, France, in 1856. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra which would later lead to important contributions by Cayley and others. In his memoir on the theory of the conjugate axis and of the moment of inertia of bodies he enumerated the principle now known as Binet's theorem. He is also recognized as the first to describe the rule for multiplying matrices in 1812, and Binet's formula expressing Fibonacci numbers in closed form is named in his honour, although the same result was known to Abraham de Moivre a century earlier.

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02/02/1782

Henri de Rigny, French admiral and politician, French Minister of War (died 1835)

Marie Henri Daniel Gauthier, comte de Rigny was the commander of the French squadron at the Battle of Navarino in the Greek War of Independence.

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02/02/1754

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1838)

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French secularized clergyman, statesman, and leading diplomat. After studying theology, he became Agent-General of the Clergy in 1780. In 1789, just before the French Revolution, he became Bishop of Autun. He worked at the highest levels of successive French governments, most commonly as foreign minister or in some other diplomatic capacity. He served as the French representative to the Congress of Vienna. His career spanned the regimes of Louis XVI, the years of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Louis Philippe I. Those Talleyrand served often distrusted him but found him extremely useful. The name "Talleyrand" has become a byword for crafty and cynical diplomacy.

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02/02/1717

Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (died 1790)

Ernst Gideon von Laudon, since 1759 Freiherr von Laudon, was an Austrian military officer of Baltic German descent and one of the most successful opponents of the Prussian king Frederick the Great.

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02/02/1714

Gottfried August Homilius, German organist and composer (died 1785)

Gottfried August Homilius was a German composer, cantor and organist. He is considered one of the most important church composers of the generation following Bach's, and was the main representative of the empfindsamer style.

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02/02/1711

Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (died 1794)

Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg was an Austrian and Czech diplomat and statesman in the Habsburg monarchy. A proponent of enlightened absolutism, he held the office of State Chancellor for about four decades and was responsible for the foreign policies during the reigns of Maria Theresa, Joseph II, and Leopold II. In 1764, he was elevated to the noble rank of a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichfürst).

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02/02/1700

Johann Christoph Gottsched, German author and critic (died 1766)

Johann Christoph Gottsched was a German philosopher, author, critic and grammarian of the Enlightenment.

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02/02/1695

William Borlase, English geologist and archaeologist (died 1772)

William Borlase, Cornish antiquary, geologist and naturalist. From 1722, he was Rector of Ludgvan, Cornwall, where he died. He is remembered for his works The Antiquities of Cornwall and The Natural History of Cornwall (1758), although his plans for a parish-by-parish county history were abandoned.

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François de Chevert, French general (died 1769)

François de Chevert was a French general.

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02/02/1677

Jean-Baptiste Morin, French composer (died 1745)

Jean-Baptiste Morin was a French composer and the Ordinaire de la Musique to Philippe, Duke of Orléans before and perhaps during his regency. From 1719 to 1731 Morin was Maître de musique of Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, daughter of the Duke, at the royal abbey of Chelles, near Paris.

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02/02/1669

Louis Marchand, French organist and composer (died 1732)

Louis Marchand was a French organist, harpsichordist and composer. Born into an organist's family, Marchand was a child prodigy and quickly established himself as one of the best known French virtuosos of his time. He worked as organist of numerous churches and, for a few years, as one of the four organistes du roy. Marchand had a violent temperament and an arrogant personality, and his life was filled with scandals, publicized and widely discussed both during his lifetime and after his death. Despite his fame, few of his works survive to this day, and those that do almost all date from his early years. Nevertheless, a few pieces of his, such as the organ pieces Grand dialogue and Fond d'orgue have been lauded as classic works of the French organ school.

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02/02/1651

William Phips, Royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (died 1695)

Major-General Sir William Phips was a treasure hunter, military officer, and colonial administrator from the New England Colonies. He was the first royally appointed governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and the first native-born New Englander to be knighted. Phips was famous in his lifetime for recovering a large treasure from a sunken Spanish galleon but is perhaps best remembered today for establishing the court associated with the infamous Salem witch trials, which he grew unhappy with and was forced to prematurely disband after five months.

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02/02/1650

Pope Benedict XIII (died 1730)

Pope Benedict XIII, born Pietro Francesco Orsini and later called Vincenzo Maria Orsini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 May 1724 to his death in February 1730.

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Nell Gwyn, English actress, mistress of King Charles II of England (died 1687)

Eleanor Gwyn was an English stage actress and celebrity figure of the Restoration period. Praised by Samuel Pepys for her comic performances as one of the first actresses on the English stage, she became best known for being a longtime mistress of King Charles II of England.

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02/02/1621

Johannes Schefferus, Swedish author and hymn-writer (died 1679)

Johannes Schefferus was one of the most important Swedish humanists of his time. He was also known as Angelus and is remembered for writing hymns.

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02/02/1613

Noël Chabanel, French missionary and saint (died 1649)

Noël Chabanel was a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the Canadian Martyrs.

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02/02/1611

Ulrik of Denmark, Danish prince-bishop (died 1633)

Prince Ulrik of Denmark was a son of King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway and his consort Queen Anne Catherine of Brandenburg. As the fourth-born son, he bore the merely titular rank of Duke of Holstein and Schleswig, Stormarn and Ditmarsh; however, he had no share in the royal-ducal condominial rule of Holstein and Schleswig, wielded by the heads of the houses of Oldenburg (royal) and its cadet branch Holstein-Gottorp (ducal). In 1624 Ulrik was appointed administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin as Ulrich III. However, in 1628 Wallenstein's conquest of the prince-bishopric de facto deposed him. His father had to renounce all his family claims to prince-bishoprics in 1629. When in 1631 Swedish forces reconquered the prince-bishopric Ulrik failed to reascend as administrator.

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02/02/1600

Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (died 1653)

Gabriel Naudé was a French librarian and scholar. He was a prolific writer who produced works on many subjects including politics, religion, history and the supernatural. In 1627, he published an influential book in the field of library science called Advice on Establishing a Library. Naudé was later able to put into practice all the ideas he had put forth in Advice when he was given the opportunity to build and maintain the Bibliothèque Mazarine, the library of Cardinal Mazarin at Paris.

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02/02/1588

Georg II of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl, German nobleman (died 1644)

Georg II of Fleckenstein Dagstuhl was the last baron of the house of Fleckenstein. He was the eldest son of Philipp Wolfgang of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl and his first wife, Anna Alexandria of Rappoltstein. Georg II gained considerable power as guardian and regent of the still underage Count Friedrich Casimir and the counties of Hanau-Lichtenberg and Hanau-Münzenberg during the final phases of the Thirty Years' War.

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02/02/1585

Judith Quiney, William Shakespeare's youngest daughter (died 1662)

Judith Quiney was the younger daughter of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway and the fraternal twin of their only son, Hamnet Shakespeare. She married Thomas Quiney, a vintner of Stratford-upon-Avon. The circumstances of the marriage, including Quiney's misconduct, may have prompted the rewriting of Shakespeare's will. Thomas was struck out, while Judith's inheritance was attached with provisions to safeguard it from her husband. The bulk of Shakespeare's estate was left, in an elaborate fee tail, to his elder daughter, Susanna, and her male heirs.

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Hamnet Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's only son (baptised; died 1596)

Hamnet Shakespeare was the only son of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the fraternal twin of Judith Shakespeare. Hamnet died at the age of 11. Some Shakespearean scholars speculate on the relationship between Hamnet and his father's later play Hamlet, as well as on possible connections between Hamnet's death and the writing of King John, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Twelfth Night.

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02/02/1576

Alix Le Clerc, French Canoness Regular and foundress (died 1622)

Alix Le Clerc, known as Mother Alix, was a French religious leader and founder of the Canonesses of Saint-Augustin of the Notre-Dame Congregation, a religious order created to provide education to girls, especially those living in poverty. They opened Schools of Our Lady throughout Europe. Offshoots of this order brought its mission and spirit around the globe. Le Clerc was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1947.

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02/02/1551

Nicolaus Reimers, German astronomer (died 1600)

Nicolaus Reimers Baer, also Reimarus Ursus, Nicolaus Reimers Bär or Nicolaus Reymers Baer, was an astronomer and imperial mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II. Due to his family's background, he was also known as Bär, Latinized to Ursus ("bear").

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02/02/1536

Piotr Skarga, Polish writer (died 1612)

Piotr Skarga was a Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist, and leading figure of the Counter-Reformation in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Due to his oratorical gifts, he has been called "the Polish Bossuet".

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02/02/1522

Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician and academic (died 1565)

Lodovico de Ferrari was an Italian mathematician best known today for solving the quartic equation.

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02/02/1517

Gotthard Kettler, the last Master of the Livonian Order and the first Duke of Courland and Semigallia (died 1587)

Gotthard Kettler, Duke of Courland was the last Master of the Livonian Order from 1559 to 1561 and the first Duke of Courland and Semigallia from 1561 to 1587.

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02/02/1509

John of Leiden, Dutch Anabaptist leader (died 1536)

John of Leiden was a Dutch Anabaptist leader. In 1533 he moved to Münster, capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, where he became an influential prophet, turned the city into a millenarian Anabaptist theocracy, and proclaimed himself King of New Jerusalem in September 1534. The insurrection was suppressed in June 1535 after Prince-Bishop Franz von Waldeck besieged the city and captured John. John was tortured to death in the city's central marketplace on 22 January 1536, along with Bernhard Knipperdolling and Bernhard Krechting.

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02/02/1506

René de Birague, Italian-French cardinal and politician (died 1583)

René de Birague was an Italian then French noble, lieutenant-general, chancellor and cardinal during the latter Italian Wars and the French Wars of Religion. Born to a prominent Milanese family in 1506, his family sided with the French, and as such when Milan was occupied by Emperor Charles V they were forced to flee to French controlled Piedmont. Declared a criminal in 1536, his Milanese estates would be seized. Birague entered French service in the 1540s, being elevated to premier président of the Parlement of Turin, which in combination with his service under the French governor Marshal Brissac from 1550, afforded him immense administrative power in the French occupied territories. In 1562 with the French withdrawal from the Piedmont, he departed his post in the Parlement, however the following year would see him elevated in one of the remaining French held towns, as leader of the Supreme Council of Pignerol.

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02/02/1502

Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher and historian (died 1574)

Damião de Góis was a Portuguese diplomat, historian, musician, and humanist philosopher. A friend and student of Erasmus, Góis is considered one of the most influential intellectuals of the Portuguese Renaissance. He was appointed secretary to the Portuguese factory in Antwerp in 1523 by King John III of Portugal. He compiled one of the first accounts on Ethiopian Christianity.

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02/02/1494

Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (died 1557)

Bona Sforza was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of Sigismund the Old, and Duchess of Bari and Rossano by her own right. She was a surviving member of the powerful House of Sforza, which had ruled the Duchy of Milan since 1450.

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02/02/1467

Columba of Rieti, Italian Dominican sister (died 1501)

Columba of Rieti was an Italian religious sister of the Third Order of St. Dominic who was noted as a mystic. She was renowned for her spiritual counsel, devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, and fantastic miracles were attributed to her. She was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1625.

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02/02/1457

Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Italian-Spanish historian and author (died 1526)

Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, formerly known in English as Peter Martyr of Angleria, was an Savoyard historian at the service of Spain during the Age of Exploration. He wrote the first accounts of explorations in Central and South America in a series of letters and reports, grouped in the original Latin publications of 1511 to 1530 into sets of ten chapters called "decades". His Decades of the New World is of great value in the history of geography and discovery. He describes the first contacts of Europeans and Native American civilisations in the Caribbean, North America and Mesoamerica, and includes the first European reference to India rubber. The work was first translated into English in 1555, and in a fuller version in 1912.

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02/02/1455

John, King of Denmark (died 1513)

Hans, or sometimes called John was a Scandinavian monarch who ruled under the Kalmar Union. He was King of Denmark from 1482 to 1513, King of Norway from 1483 to 1513, and King of Sweden from 1497 to 1501. Additionally, from 1482 to 1513, he held the titles of Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, which he governed jointly with his brother, Frederick.

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02/02/1443

Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (died 1486)

Elisabeth of Bavaria-Munich was a princess of Bavaria-Munich by birth and by marriage Electress of Saxony.

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02/02/1208

James I of Aragon (died 1276)

James I the Conqueror was King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276; King of Majorca from 1231 to 1276; and King of Valencia from 1238 to 1276. His long reign of 62 years is not only the longest of any Iberian monarch, but one of the longest monarchical reigns in history, ahead of Hirohito of Japan but remaining behind Elizabeth II of Britain, Queen Victoria of Britain, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, and King Louis XIV of France.

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02/02/0450

Justin I, Byzantine emperor (died 527)

Justin I, also called Justin the Thracian, was Eastern Roman emperor from 518 to 527. Born to a peasant family, he rose through the ranks of the army to become commander of the imperial guard and when Emperor Anastasius I Dicorus died, he out-maneouvered his rivals and was elected as his successor, in spite of being around 68 years old. His reign is significant for the founding of the Justinian dynasty that included his nephew, Justinian I, and three succeeding emperors. His consort was Empress Euphemia.

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