Born on Friday, 2nd January – Famous Birthdays

02/01/2006

Claudio Echeverri, Argentine footballer

Claudio Jeremías Echeverri is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for La Liga club Girona, on loan from Premier League club Manchester City. He also plays for the Argentina national team.

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02/01/2003

CJ Egan-Riley, English footballer

Conrad Jaden Egan-Riley is an English professional footballer who plays for Ligue 1 club Marseille and the England under-21 national team. A versatile player, he can be deployed as a centre-back, a right-back or a defensive midfielder.

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Elye Wahi, French footballer

Sepe Elye Delmas Wahi is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Nice, on loan from Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt. Born in France, he plays for the Ivory Coast national team.

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02/01/2001

Cole Caufield, American ice hockey player

Cole Caufield is an American professional ice hockey player who is a winger for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the first round, 15th overall, by the Canadiens in the 2019 NHL entry draft.

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Luiz Henrique, Brazilian footballer

Luiz Henrique André Rosa da Silva ,is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Russian Premier League club Zenit Saint Petersburg and the Brazil national team.

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02/01/2000

Spencer Arrighetti, American baseball player

Spencer Zane Arrighetti is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2024.

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02/01/1999

Georgios Kalaitzakis, Greek basketball player

Georgios Kalaitzakis is a Greek professional basketball player for Maroussi of the Greek Basketball League. He is a 2.01 m tall small forward. As a teenager, Kalaitzakis used to be regarded as one of the top young European prospects in his age range.

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Fernando Tatís Jr., Dominican baseball player

Fernando Gabriel Tatís Medina Jr., nicknamed "El Niño" and "Bebo", is a Dominican professional baseball right fielder and shortstop for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the son of former MLB player Fernando Tatís Sr.

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Aaron Wiggins, American professional basketball player

Aaron Daniel Wiggins is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins and was selected by the Thunder in the second round of the 2021 NBA draft. He won an NBA championship with the Thunder in 2025.

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02/01/1998

Tfue, American online streamer

Turner Tenney, better known as Tfue, is an American online streamer, esports player, and YouTuber best known for playing Fortnite.

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Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer

Evans Timothy Fosu Fosu-Mensah is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder, centre-back or full-back. He is currently a free agent.

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02/01/1997

Arshad Nadeem, Pakistani javelin thrower

Arshad Nadeem is a Pakistani javelin thrower. He is the reigning Olympic, Asian and Commonwealth Games champion. His 92.97 metres (305.0 ft) throw at the 2024 Paris Olympics is an Olympic and Asian record, and it's also the sixth longest throw in the history of javelin throw, when considering only the best throw from each athlete.

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Carlos Soler, Spanish footballer

Carlos Soler Barragán is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Sociedad and the Spain national team.

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02/01/1996

Jonah Bolden, Australian-American basketball player

Jonah Anthony Bolden is an Australian-American professional basketball player for the Illawarra Hawks of the National Basketball League (NBL). He started his professional career with FMP in Serbia, where he was named the ABA League Top Prospect in 2017. He played a season-and-a-half in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Philadelphia 76ers before joining the Phoenix Suns.

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02/01/1994

Ronald Darby, American football player

Ronald Darby is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles and was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the second round of the 2015 NFL draft. He has played for the Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Commanders, Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens, and Jacksonville Jaguars. A world-class sprinter during his high school years, Darby won medals at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics.

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02/01/1993

Bryson Tiller, American singer and rapper

Bryson Djuan Tiller is an American R&B singer and rapper. He began his career in 2011 with his debut mixtape, Killer Instinct Vol. 1. He gained mainstream recognition following the release of his 2015 single "Don't", which peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and received quintuple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Its success led to a recording contract with RCA Records, who issued "Don't" as the lead single for his debut studio album Trapsoul (2015), which entered the top ten of the Billboard 200.

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02/01/1992

Paulo Gazzaniga, Argentine footballer

Paulo Dino Gazzaniga Farías is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Girona.

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Alexey Marchenko, Russian ice hockey player

Alexey Igorevich Marchenko is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing for Ak Bars Kazan in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Marchenko was drafted 205th overall by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.

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Teemu Pulkkinen, Finnish ice hockey player

Teemu Pulkkinen is a Finnish professional ice hockey right winger for Starbulls Rosenheim in the second German league, DEL2. He previously played for the club of his hometown, Kiekko-Vantaa who plays in Mestis. Pulkkinen was drafted 111th overall by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.

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Korbin Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player

Korbin Sims is a former Fiji international rugby league footballer who last played as a prop, loose forward and second-row forward for Hull Kingston Rovers in the Super League.

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02/01/1991

Ben Hardy, English actor

Ben Hardy is an English actor. A graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Hardy made his professional acting debut in 2012 and gained recognition for playing Peter Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2013–2015). He followed this up with his film debut as Archangel in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and subsequently portrayed Queen drummer Roger Taylor in the biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018). Other films in which Hardy has appeared include Mary Shelley, Only the Brave, 6 Underground (2019), and The Voyeurs (2021).

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02/01/1988

Germán Cano, Argentine footballer

Germán Ezequiel Cano Recalde is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Fluminense.

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Luke Harangody, American basketball player

Luke Cameron Harangody is an American former professional basketball player who last played for Divina Seguros Joventut of the Spanish Liga ACB. He completed his college career at the University of Notre Dame in 2010. He is the only men's player in the history of the Big East Conference to average 20 points and 10 rebounds per game in conference play for his career. He was the 2008 Big East Player of the Year, and was named to the second team on the 2008 Associated Press All-America team. He is also the first Notre Dame men's player to be a three-time first-team All-Big East selection (2008–2010), and the first men's player to lead the conference in both scoring and rebounding in consecutive seasons.

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Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player

Damien Tussac is a rugby union player for Castres Olympique in the Top 14 and the German national rugby union team. He is a French citizen but qualifies to play for Germany because of a German grandmother.

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02/01/1987

Shelley Hennig, American actress and model

Shelley Hennig is an American actress, model and beauty queen. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Teen Choice Award and two Daytime Emmy Award nominations.

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Robert Milsom, English footballer

Robert Steven Milsom is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for National League South club Dorking Wanderers.

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Loïc Rémy, French footballer

Loïc Alex Teliére Hubert Rémy is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward.

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02/01/1983

Kate Bosworth, American actress

Catherine Anne Bosworth is an American actress. Following minor roles in the films The Horse Whisperer (1998) and Remember the Titans (2000), she had a leading role in the movie Blue Crush (2002).

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Anthony Carrigan, American actor

Anthony Carrigan is an American actor. He is best known for playing Chechen mobster NoHo Hank in the HBO series Barry (2018–2023), for which he was nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2019, 2022, and 2023.

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02/01/1981

Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player

Kirk James Hinrich is an American former professional basketball player. A point guard, he played in the NBA from 2003 to 2016 and was also a member of the U.S. national team.

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Maxi Rodríguez, Argentine footballer

Maximiliano Rubén Rodríguez, is an Argentine former professional footballer. Nicknamed La Fiera, he was commonly used as a winger on both flanks but could also operate as an attacking midfielder.

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02/01/1980

David Gyasi, British actor

David Kwaku Asamoah Gyasi is an English actor. His films include Cloud Atlas (2012) and Interstellar (2014). On television, he is known for his roles in the BBC series White Heat (2012) and Troy: Fall of a City (2018), the CW miniseries Containment (2016), the Amazon Prime series Carnival Row (2019–2023), and the Netflix political thriller The Diplomat (2023–present).

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02/01/1979

Jonathan Greening, English footballer

Jonathan Greening is an English professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Scarborough Athletic of the National League North.

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02/01/1977

Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player and sportscaster

Brian Boucher is a former professional American ice hockey goaltender and current game analyst, appearing on both national TNT games and also Philadelphia Flyers games on NBC Sports Philadelphia. During his 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), Boucher played for the Philadelphia Flyers, Phoenix Coyotes, Calgary Flames, Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, San Jose Sharks, and Carolina Hurricanes.

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Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player

Stefan Koubek is a retired tennis player from Austria. Koubek played left-handed with a double-handed backhand. His idol when growing up was Thomas Muster. Koubek won three titles, two of which came on hardcourts; despite this, he said his favorite surface was clay.

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02/01/1976

Paz Vega, Spanish actress

María de la Paz Campos Trigo, known professionally as Paz Vega, is a Spanish actress. She became popular for her performance in comedy television series 7 vidas. Her film credits include Sex and Lucia (2001), Mine Alone (2001), The Other Side of the Bed (2002), Carmen (2003), Spanglish (2004), and Theresa: The Body of Christ (2007). She played the role of Catalina Creel in the 2019 television series Cradle of Wolves. She made her directorial debut with Rita (2024), which she also wrote.

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02/01/1975

Dax Shepard, American actor

Dax Randall Shepard is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. Since 2018, he has hosted Armchair Expert, a podcast in which he interviews celebrities, journalists, and academics about their lives.

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Jeff Suppan, American baseball player

Jeffrey Scot Suppan is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current professional baseball coach who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Boston Red Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, Kansas City Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, and San Diego Padres.

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Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby player

Reuben David Thorne is a New Zealand rugby union player, and former captain of the national team, the All Blacks. Now involved with Big Brother Big Sister and is the Christ College first XV coach.

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02/01/1974

Ludmila Formanová, Czech runner

Ludmila Formanová is a former Czech middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. She was born in Čáslav.

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Juha Lind, Finnish ice hockey player

Juha Petteri Lind is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player.

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Tomáš Řepka, Czech footballer

Tomáš Řepka is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a centre-back for Baník Ostrava, Sparta Prague, Fiorentina, West Ham United and České Budějovice, and the Czech national team. Currently, Řepka is playing amateur football for Sokol Červené Janovice.

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02/01/1972

Rodney MacDonald, Canadian educator and politician, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia

Rodney Joseph MacDonald is a Canadian politician, educator and musician who served as the 26th premier of Nova Scotia from 2006 to 2009 and as MLA for the riding of Inverness in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1999 to 2009.

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Shiraz Minwalla, Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist

Shiraz Naval Minwalla is an Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist. He is a faculty member in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Prior to his present position, Minwalla was a Harvard Junior Fellow and subsequently an assistant professor at Harvard University.

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Mattias Norström, Swedish ice hockey player and manager

Erik Johan Mattias "Notan" Norström is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman, currently working for the AIK organization. Norström began his National Hockey League career with the New York Rangers. However, he is most noted for his ten seasons as a member of the Los Angeles Kings for whom he served as team captain from 2001–2007; he was the team's first non-North American-born captain and would represent the Kings twice in the NHL All Star Game. Norström played the final season of his NHL career for the Dallas Stars.

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02/01/1971

Taye Diggs, American actor and singer

Scott Leo "Taye" Diggs is an American actor and singer. He is known for his roles in the Broadway musicals Rent and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the TV series Private Practice (2007–2013), Murder in the First (2014–2016), and All American (2018–2023), and the films How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Brown Sugar, Chicago, Malibu's Most Wanted (2003), Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011), and The Best Man (1999) and its sequel, The Best Man Holiday (2013).

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Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress

Renée Elise Goldsberry is an American actress and singer. Known for her roles on stage and screen she has received a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Grammy Award as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.

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02/01/1970

Eric Whitacre, American composer and conductor

Eric Edward Whitacre is an American composer, conductor, and speaker best known for his choral music.

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02/01/1969

István Bagyula, Hungarian pole vaulter

István Bagyula is a retired Hungarian pole vaulter.

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William Fox-Pitt, English horse rider and journalist

William Speed Lane Fox-Pitt is an English equestrian who competes in eventing. His career highlights include winning three Olympic medals in the team event, with silver in 2004 and 2012, and bronze in 2008. At the World Equestrian Games, he won team gold and individual silver in 2010, and team silver and individual bronze in 2014. He also won World team medals in 2002 and 2006. At the European Championships, he has won six team gold medals, as well as Individual silver in 1997 and 2005, and Individual bronze in 2013. He is the recordman CCI*****'s winner with 14 grand slam titles. In 2011, he became the first rider to win five different five-star events, having won the Burghley Horse Trials a record six times, Rolex Kentucky three times, Stars of Pau twice, the Badminton Horse Trials twice, and the Luhmühlen Horse Trials once (2008). A serious fall in 2015 left him in a coma for two weeks, but he came back to make the British eventing team and attend the 2016 Summer Olympics. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours.

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Elena Gorolová, Czech Romani activist

Elena Gorolová is a Czech Romani human rights defender and women's reproductive rights activist. After being forcefully sterilized at the age of 21, Gorolová began campaigning for Romani women's rights to bodily autonomy and for compensation for victims of forced sterilization. She testified in front of the United Nations and was declared one of the BBC's 100 inspiring and influential women. After a Czech law promising to compensate the victims of forced sterilization was passed, she announced that she would refocus on campaigning against discrimination in maternity wards.

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Róbert Švehla, Slovak ice hockey player

Róbert Švehla is a Slovak former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the NHL for 9 seasons from 1995 until 2003 for the Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs.

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Christy Turlington, American model

Christy Nicole Turlington Burns is an American fashion model. She initially attracted fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a supermodel. She represented Calvin Klein's Eternity campaign in 1989 and again in 2014, and also represents Maybelline. Grace Coddington, the long-time creative director of American Vogue magazine, has described Turlington as "the most beautiful woman in the world."

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02/01/1968

Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor and producer

Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. is an American actor. After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991), he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor playing a football star in Jerry Maguire (1996). His other notable films include A Few Good Men (1992), Judgment Night (1993), Lightning Jack (1994), As Good as It Gets (1997), Men of Honor (2000), Pearl Harbor (2001), Snow Dogs (2002), Radio (2003), Norbit (2007), Linewatch (2008), and he played Dr. Ben Carson in the film Gifted Hands (2009). He played in Red Tails (2012), and The Butler (2013). He has done voice acting in Home on the Range (2004) and The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007).

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Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion

Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda "Anky" van Grunsven is a Dutch dressage champion who is the only rider to record three successive Olympic wins in the same event. Along with her Olympic successes, she has won numerous medals at the World Equestrian Games (WEG), and is the only rider to have competed at every WEG since they began in 1990. Between 1990 and 2006, she competed at the Games in dressage, but in 2010 she was named as part of the Dutch reining team, marking a major change in discipline.

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02/01/1967

Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player

Jacobus Francois Pienaar is a retired South African rugby union player. He played flanker for South Africa from 1993 until 1996, winning 29 international caps, all of them as captain. He is best known for leading South Africa to victory in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. After being dropped from the Springbok team in 1996, Pienaar went on to a career with English club Saracens.

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Tia Carrere, American actress

Althea Rae Duhinio Janairo, known professionally as Tia Carrere, is an American actress and singer who got her first big break as a regular on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.

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Jón Gnarr, Icelandic actor and politician; 20th Mayor of Reykjavík

Jón Gnarr is an Icelandic actor, comedian, and politician who served as the Mayor of Reykjavík from 2010 to 2014. He is currently a member of the Althing for Viðreisn, elected in the 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election.

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02/01/1964

Chris Welp, German-American basketball player (died 2015)

Christian Ansgar Welp was a German professional basketball player. During his playing career, he was a 213 cm, 111 kg (245 lb) center. He played three seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was the MVP of the 1993 EuroBasket.

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Pernell Whitaker, American boxer (died 2019)

Pernell Whitaker Sr. was an American professional boxer who competed from 1984 to 2001, and subsequently worked as a boxing trainer. He was a four-weight world champion, having won titles at lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight, and light middleweight; the undisputed lightweight title; and the lineal lightweight and welterweight titles. In 1989, Whitaker was named Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine and the Boxing Writers Association of America. He currently holds the longest unified lightweight championship reign in boxing history at six title defenses. Whitaker is generally regarded as one of the greatest defensive boxers of all time.

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02/01/1963

David Cone, American baseball player and sportscaster

David Brian Cone is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, and current color commentator for the New York Yankees on the YES Network and Amazon Prime as well as for ESPN on Sunday Night Baseball. A third round draft pick of the Kansas City Royals in the 1981 MLB draft, he made his MLB debut in 1986 and continued playing until 2003, pitching for five different teams. Cone batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

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Edgar Martínez, American baseball player

Edgar Martínez, nicknamed "Gar" and "Papi", is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball player who is currently the senior director of hitting strategy coach for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB as a designated hitter and third baseman for Seattle from 1987 to 2004. He served as the Mariners' hitting coach from 2015 to 2018 and returned to the position in August 2024. He has also been a hitting advisor with the Mariners from 2019 through 2024.

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02/01/1961

Gabrielle Carteris, American actress

Gabrielle Carteris is an American actress and trade union leader. She is best known for her role as Andrea Zuckerman in Beverly Hills, 90210.

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Paula Hamilton, English model

Paula Hamilton is an English model. She is best known for her appearance in the 1987 Mk II Volkswagen Golf TV advert Changes. In 2006, she returned to public recognition as a judge on Britain's Next Top Model, for two cycles.

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Todd Haynes, American film director, screenwriter, and producer

Todd Haynes is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer whose work is known for its engagement with melodrama, historical pastiche, and queer cinema. Across four decades, his films frequently explore the emotional and psychological consequences of social repression, particularly as they relate to sexuality, identity, illness, and conformity. Haynes is often associated with the New Queer Cinema movement of the early 1990s and is noted for reworking classical Hollywood forms - such as the woman’s picture and the biopic - to examine marginalized experiences and unspoken desire.

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Craig James, American football player and sportscaster

Jesse Craig James is an American former professional football player and sports commentator. He was a running back for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL) and for the Washington Federals of the United States Football League (USFL). He then became a commentator for the ABC and ESPN television networks. James ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate in Texas in 2012, but lost in the first round of the Republican primary.

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Robert Wexler, American lawyer and politician

Robert Ira Wexler is an American politician and lawyer from Florida. He is the president of the Washington-based S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace. Wexler was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Florida's 19th congressional district, from 1997 until his resignation on January 3, 2010.

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02/01/1954

Henry Bonilla, American broadcaster and politician

Henry Bonilla is an American politician and former congressman who represented Texas's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He was defeated in his bid for re-election by Ciro Rodriguez, a former Democratic member of Congress, in a special election runoff held on December 12, 2006. His term expired January 3, 2007 when the 110th Congress officially began.

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Évelyne Trouillot, Haitian playwright and author

Évelyne Trouillot is a Haitian author, writing in French and Creole.

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02/01/1952

Indulis Emsis, Latvian biologist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Latvia

Indulis Emsis is a Latvian biologist and politician. He was Prime Minister of Latvia for ten months in 2004, the first Green politician to lead a country in the history of the world. He was Speaker of the Saeima, the Latvian parliament from 2006 to 2007. Emsis' political views are described as rather conservative, unusual for members of green parties around the world.

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Wendy Phillips, American actress

Wendy Phillips is an American actress, known for her roles on television series including Falcon Crest, Homefront and Promised Land.

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02/01/1949

Christopher Durang, American playwright and screenwriter (died 2024)

Christopher Ferdinand Durang was an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s, though his career seemed to get a second wind in the late 1990s.

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Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and academic (died 2006)

Iris Marion Young was an American political theorist and socialist feminist who focused on the nature of justice and social difference. She served as Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and was affiliated with the Center for Gender Studies and the Human Rights program there. Her research covered contemporary political theory, feminist social theory, and normative analysis of public policy. She believed in the importance of political activism and encouraged her students to involve themselves in their communities.

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02/01/1948

Judith Miller, American journalist

Judith Miller is an American journalist and commentator who is known for writing about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program both before and after the 2003 invasion, but her writings were later discovered to have been based on fabricated intelligence. She worked in the Washington bureau of The New York Times before joining Fox News in 2008.

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Deborah Watling, English actress (died 2017)

Deborah Patricia Watling was an English actress who played the role of Victoria Waterfield, a companion of the Second Doctor in the BBC television series Doctor Who from 1967 to 1968. She began her career as a child actress, making her debut as a regular in The Invisible Man (1958–1959). Watling also starred in the films Take Me High (1973) with Cliff Richard and That'll Be the Day (1973) with David Essex as well as playing Julie Robertson in The Newcomers (1969) and Norma Baker in Danger UXB (1979) on television.

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02/01/1947

Jack Hanna, American zoologist and author

Jack Bushnell Hanna is an American retired zookeeper and director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio. Commonly nicknamed "Jungle Jack", he was director of the zoo from 1978 to 1992, and is viewed as largely responsible for elevating its quality and reputation. His various television shows and media appearances, particularly with Johnny Carson, David Letterman, James Corden, Good Morning America, and Maury Povich have made him one of the most notable animal experts in the United States. A 2021 documentary, The Conservation Game, alleged that Hanna participated in the mistreatment and private trade of exotic and endangered animals.

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Calvin Hill, American football player

Calvin G. Hill is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins, and Cleveland Browns. He also played a season with The Hawaiians of the World Football League (WFL).

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David Shapiro, American poet, historian, and critic (died 2024)

David Shapiro was an American poet, literary critic, and art historian. He wrote some twenty volumes of poetry, literary, and art criticism. He was first published at the age of thirteen, and his first book was published when he was eighteen.

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02/01/1944

Charlie Davis, Trinidadian cricketer

Charles Allan Davis is a former West Indian cricketer who played in fifteen Test matches between 1968 and 1973. Davis started his first-class cricket career at the age of 17, playing for Trinidad and Tobago. After a good Shell Shield season in 1968 Davis was selected for the West Indies. The highlight of his career was a home series against India, in which he scored 529 runs in four Tests at the average of 132.25. He was also a useful bowler, taking 63 wickets at first-class level. His Test career ended while the West Indies were in transition, and the arrival of newer players accounted for any place for Davis in the side.

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Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor (died 2024)

Péter Eötvös was a Hungarian composer, conductor and academic teacher.

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Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian field marshal and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (died 2021)

Norodom Ranariddh was a Cambodian politician and law academic. He was the second son of King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and a half-brother of King Norodom Sihamoni. Ranariddh was the president of FUNCINPEC, a Cambodian royalist party. He was also the first Prime Minister of Cambodia following the restoration of the monarchy, serving between 1993 and 1997, and subsequently as the President of the National Assembly between 1998 and 2006.

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Mohamed Ali Yusuf, Somali politician (died 2024)

Mohamed Ali Yusuf Gaagaab was a Somali politician. He served as acting Vice President of Puntland from 10 October 2004 to 8 January 2005, and later he was appointed Minister of Finance of Puntland beginning on 25 January 2005 to 29 January 2009. He was elected as Interim Speaker of the Senate of Somalia from 11 August 2021 to 26 April 2022.

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02/01/1943

Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer (died 2004)

Janet Hanula Mattei was a Turkish-American astronomer who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1973 to 2004.

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02/01/1942

Thomas Hammarberg, Swedish lawyer and diplomat

Thomas Hammarberg is a Swedish diplomat and human rights defender.

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Dennis Hastert, American educator and politician, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

John Dennis Hastert is an American former politician and convicted felon who served as the 51st speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Illinois's 14th congressional district from 1987 to 2007 and was the 6th longest-serving speaker in history, and the longest serving Republican. In 2016, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for financial offenses related to the sexual abuse of teenage boys, although he was never convicted of any sexual crimes.

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02/01/1940

Jim Bakker, American televangelist

James Orsen Bakker is an American televangelist and convicted felon. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club and its cable television platform, the PTL Satellite Network, with his then wife, Tammy Faye. He also developed Heritage USA, a now-defunct Christian theme park in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

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Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian economist and politician, Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2015)

Saud bin Faisal Al Saud, also known as Saud Al Faisal, was a Saudi Arabian statesman and diplomat who served as the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 2015. He was a member of the Saudi royal family, a son of King Faisal, and one of the grandsons of Saudi Arabia's founder King Abdulaziz.

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02/01/1938

David Bailey, English photographer and painter

David Royston Bailey is an English photographer and director, most known for his fashion photography and portraiture, and role in shaping the image of the Swinging Sixties. Bailey has also directed several television commercials and documentaries.

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Lynn Conway, American computer scientist and electrical engineer (died 2024)

Lynn Ann Conway was an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender rights activist.

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Robert Smithson, American sculptor and photographer (died 1973)

Robert Smithson was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts. His work has been internationally exhibited in galleries and museums and is held in public collections. He was one of the founders of the land art movement whose best known work is the Spiral Jetty (1970).

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02/01/1936

Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (died 1992)

Roger Dean Miller Sr. was an American singer-songwriter, widely known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs and his chart-topping country hits "King of the Road", "Dang Me", and "England Swings".

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02/01/1934

John Hollowbread, English footballer, goalkeeper (died 2007)

John Frederick Hollowbread was an English football goalkeeper who played for Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton.

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02/01/1931

Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese lawyer and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2022)

Toshiki Kaifu was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991.

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02/01/1929

Charles Beaumont, screenwriter and American author of speculative fiction (died 1967)

Charles Beaumont was an American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres. He is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes, such as "The Howling Man", "Static", "Nice Place to Visit", "Miniature", "Printer's Devil", and "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You", but also penned the screenplays for several films, such as 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, The Intruder, and The Masque of the Red Death.

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Tellervo Koivisto, Finnish politician, former First Lady of Finland

Taimi Tellervo Koivisto is a Finnish politician and the former First Lady of Finland from 1982 to 1994. Koivisto is the widow of the 9th President of Finland Mauno Koivisto and a former member of the Finnish parliament, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland.

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02/01/1928

Dan Rostenkowski, American politician (died 2010)

Daniel David Rostenkowski was an American politician and convicted felon, most known for his 36 year tenure as a U.S. representative, from 1959 to 1995. He became one of the most powerful legislators in Congress, especially in matters of taxation. He was imprisoned in 1996. A Democrat and son of a Chicago alderman, Rostenkowski was for many years Democratic Committeeman of Chicago's 32nd Ward, retaining this position while also serving in Congress.

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02/01/1926

Gino Marchetti, American football player (died 2019)

Gino John Marchetti (Pronounced: Mar-KETT-i) was an American professional football player who was a defensive end and offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played in 1952 for the Dallas Texans and from 1953 to 1966 for the Baltimore Colts.

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02/01/1921

Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2007)

David Glen Harmon was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1942 to 1951. He was born in Holland, Manitoba and died in Mississauga, Ontario.

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02/01/1920

Bob Feerick, American basketball player and coach (died 1976)

Robert Joseph Feerick was an American professional basketball player, coach and general manager. He was born in San Francisco, California at the old French Hospital, attended Star of the Sea Catholic school and old Lowell High school.

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02/01/1919

Ernest Bender, American Indologist (died 1996)

Ernest Bender was a Professor of Indo-Aryan languages and literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Beatrice Hicks, American engineer (died 1979)

Beatrice Alice Hicks was an American engineer and the owner of Newark Controls Company. Hicks developed a gas density switch that has been used in the U.S. space program, including the Apollo Moon landing missions, in aircraft including the Boeing 707, in communications, to monitor nuclear weapons, and in equipment for the electric utility industry. Hicks was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

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02/01/1918

Willi Graf, German physician and activist (died 1943)

Wilhelm "Willi" Graf was a German member of the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany. The Catholic Church in Germany included Graf in their list of martyrs of the 20th century. In 2017, his cause for beatification was opened. He was given the title Servant of God, the first step toward possible sainthood.

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02/01/1917

Vera Zorina, German-Norwegian actress and dancer (died 2003)

Eva Brigitta Hartwig, known professionally as Vera Zorina, was a German-Norwegian ballerina, theatre and film actress, and choreographer, chiefly remembered for her films choreographed by her husband George Balanchine. They include the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue sequence from On Your Toes, The Goldwyn Follies, I Was an Adventuress with Erich Von Stroheim and Peter Lorre, Louisiana Purchase with Bob Hope, and dancing to "That Old Black Magic" in Paramount Pictures' Star Spangled Rhythm.

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02/01/1913

Juanita Jackson Mitchell, American lawyer and activist (died 1992)

Juanita Elizabeth Jackson Mitchell was the first African-American woman to practice law in Maryland, and was a civil rights activist and organizer with the NAACP.

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Anna Lee, English-American actress (died 2004)

Anna Lee, MBE was an English and American actress, labelled by studios "The British Bombshell".

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02/01/1909

Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (died 2009)

Riccardo Cassin was an Italian mountaineer, developer of mountaineering equipment and author, and an important figure in the history of rock climbing, alpine climbing and big wall climbing.

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Barry Goldwater, American politician, businessman, and author (died 1998)

Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician and major general in the Air Force Reserve who served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987, and was the Republican Party's nominee for president in 1964.

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02/01/1905

Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (died 1998)

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked with his contemporary Benjamin Britten as one of the leading British composers of the 20th century. Among his best-known works are the oratorio A Child of Our Time, the orchestral Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, and the opera The Midsummer Marriage.

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Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter (died 1991)

Luigi Zampa was an Italian film director.

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02/01/1904

Walter Heitler, German physicist and chemist (died 1981)

Walter Heinrich Heitler was a German–Irish theoretical physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory. He brought chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.

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02/01/1903

Kane Tanaka, Japanese Supercentenarian, Oldest Japanese person ever, Second oldest verified person in world history (died 2022)

Kane Tanaka was a Japanese supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 119 years, 107 days, was the world's oldest verified living person, following the death of Chiyo Miyako on 22 July 2018. She is the oldest verified Japanese person and the second-oldest verified person ever, after Jeanne Calment.

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02/01/1902

Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer (died 2007)

Daniel Keating was a lifelong Irish republican and former president of the Republican Sinn Féin. At the time of his death, he was Ireland's oldest man and the last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence.

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02/01/1901

Bob Marshall, American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society (died 1939)

Robert Marshall was an American forester, writer and wilderness activist who is best remembered as the person who spearheaded the 1935 founding of the Wilderness Society in the United States. Marshall developed a love for the outdoors as a young child. He was an avid hiker and climber who visited the Adirondack Mountains frequently during his youth, ultimately becoming one of the first Adirondack Forty-Sixers. He also traveled to the Brooks Range of the far northern Alaskan wilderness. He wrote numerous articles and books about his travels, including the bestselling 1933 book Arctic Village.

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02/01/1900

Una Ledingham, British physician, known for research on diabetes in pregnancy (died 1965)

Una Christina Ledingham was a British physician known for her studies of diabetes in pregnancy. She worked at the Marie Curie Hospital and Hampstead General Hospital, and was on the board of governors of the Royal Free Hospital and the Royal College of Physicians. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1942.

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02/01/1897

Theodore Plucknett, English legal historian (died 1965)

Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett was a British legal historian who was the first chair of legal history at the London School of Economics.

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02/01/1896

Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (died 1954)

Denis Arkadyevich Vertov, better known as Dziga Vertov, was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical film-making cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972. He was a member of the Kinoks collective, with Elizaveta Svilova and Mikhail Kaufman.

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Lawrence Wackett, Australian commander and engineer (died 1982)

Sir Lawrence James Wackett is widely regarded as "father of the Australian aircraft industry". He has been described as "one of the towering figures in the history of Australian aviation covering, as he did, virtually all aspects of activities: pilot, designer of airframes and engines, entrepreneur and manager". He was knighted for his services to aviation and was a winner of the Oswald Watt Gold Medal. He was also a keen angler and wrote two books on the subject.

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02/01/1895

Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (died 1948)

Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. In World War II, he negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners of many nations from the Nazi German Theresienstadt Ghetto. They were released on 14 April 1945. In 1945 he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected by the allies.

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02/01/1892

Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (died 1962)

Seiichiro Kashio was a tennis player from Japan, and with Ichiya Kumagae was one of the first Japanese Olympic medalists. He won the 1919 Canadian Open by defeating United States player Walter Wesbrook 3–6, 6–3, 6–1, 11–9.

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02/01/1891

Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (died 1990)

Giovanni Michelucci was an Italian architect, urban planner, and designer. He had the good fortune to live a long life almost entirely within the span of the twentieth century, giving us a valuable witness through his work with innovative architectural vernaculars and proposals, from his understanding of the complexity of events, transformations, and ideas that animated the twentieth century. He was one of the major Italian architects of that century, known for famous projects such as the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station and the San Giovanni Battista church on the Autostrada del Sole.

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02/01/1889

Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (died 1973)

Sir Bertram Sydney Barnsdale Stevens, also referred to as B. S. B. Stevens, was an Australian politician who served as the 25th Premier of New South Wales, in office from 1932 to 1939 as leader of the United Australia Party (UAP).

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02/01/1886

Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English explorer and author (died 1959)

Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard was an English explorer of Antarctica. He was a member of the Terra Nova expedition and is acclaimed for his 1922 account of this expedition, The Worst Journey in the World.

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02/01/1885

Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1918)

Gordon Muriel Flowerdew was an English-born Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, received for his actions at the Battle of Moreuil Wood.

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02/01/1884

Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli historian and politician, 4th Israeli Minister of Education (died 1973)

Ben-Zion Dinur was a Ukrainian-born Israeli historian, educator, and politician. He held the position of professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and represented Mapai in the first Knesset, serving as Minister of Education. Dinur was one of the founders of Yad Vashem and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences.

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02/01/1878

Jaakko Mäki, Finnish politician (died 1938)

Jaakko Mäki was a Finnish coppersmith, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Vaasa Province South between August 1908 and September 1918. Mäki went to Soviet Russia during the Finnish Civil War and was executed there in January 1938 during Stalin's Great Purge.

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Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai, Indian activist, founded the Nair Service Society (died 1970)

Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai, better known as Mannathu Padmanabhan was an Indian social reformer and agitator from the south-western state of Kerala. He is recognised as the founder of the Nair Service Society (NSS), which represents the Nair community. His birthday is observed as Mannam Jayanti every year. Padmanabhan is considered a visionary reformer who organised the Nair community under the NSS.

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02/01/1873

Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and theorist (died 1960)

Antonie "Anton" Pannekoek was a Dutch astronomer, historian, philosopher, Marxist theorist, and socialist revolutionary. He was one of the main theorists of council communism.

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Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (died 1897)

Thérèse of Lisieux, in religion Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, was a French Discalced Carmelite who is widely venerated in modern times. She is popularly known in English as the Little Flower of Jesus, or simply the Little Flower, and in French as la petite Thérèse.

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02/01/1870

Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (died 1938)

Ernst Heinrich Barlach was a German expressionist sculptor, medallist, printmaker and writer. Although he was a supporter of the war in the years leading to World War I, his participation in the conflict made him change his position, and he is mostly known for his sculptures protesting against it. This created many conflicts during the rise of the Nazi Party, when most of his works were confiscated as degenerate art. Stylistically, his literary and artistic work would fall between the categories of twentieth-century Realism and Expressionism.

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Tex Rickard, American boxing promoter and businessman (died 1929)

George Lewis "Tex" Rickard was an American businessman and boxing promoter who founded the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL), and built the third incarnation of Madison Square Garden in New York City. During the 1920s, he was the leading promoter of the day, and he has been compared to P. T. Barnum and Don King. Sports journalist Frank Deford wrote that Rickard "first recognized the potential of the star system." Rickard also operated saloons, hotels, and casinos, all named Northern and located in Alaska, Nevada, and Canada.

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02/01/1866

Gilbert Murray, Australian-English playwright and scholar (died 1957)

George Gilbert Aimé Murray was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, who served as Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford from 1908 to 1936. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century. He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara, and also appears as the chorus figure in Tony Harrison's play Fram.

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02/01/1860

Dugald Campbell Patterson, Canadian engineer (died 1931)

Dugald Campbell Patterson Sr., is recognized in Vancouver, Burnaby, and New Westminster, British Columbia as a significant pioneer. He arrived in Canada on July 1, 1884 and engaged in the building trade while living in Victoria. In 1894 he moved to Burnaby where he acquired a five-acre parcel of land which today forms the north east section of Central Park. Patterson worked as an engineer for Armstrong Morrison & Balfour and later became foreman boilermaker for the Vancouver Engineering Works. He founded Vulcan Iron Works of New Westminster in 1903, was the first postmaster of the Edmonds district in 1909 and was a member of the New Westminster Board of Trade in 1911. He was elected a Burnaby school trustee in 1912, was a director of the British Columbia Electric and Water Heat Company and owned and operated a real estate business where he purchased and developed properties as far away as Barkerville. He also founded and operated an insurance company for many years. Patterson Avenue, which he originally cleared as a trail, and Patterson station, where he built the original interurban stop along the British Columbia Electric Railway, are named for the family.

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William Corless Mills, American historian and curator (died 1928)

William Corless Mills was an American museum curator.

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02/01/1857

M. Carey Thomas, American educator and activist (died 1935)

Martha Carey Thomas was an American educator, suffragist, and linguist. She was the second president of Bryn Mawr College, a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

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02/01/1837

Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist and composer (died 1910)

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian composers, notably Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He began his career as a pivotal figure, extending the fusion of traditional folk music and experimental classical music practices begun by composer Mikhail Glinka. In the process, Balakirev developed musical patterns that could express overt nationalistic feeling. After a nervous breakdown and consequent sabbatical, he returned to classical music but did not wield the same level of influence as before.

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02/01/1836

Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (died 1917)

Mendele Mocher Sforim was a Belarusian Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature.

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Queen Emma of Hawaii (died 1885)

Emma Kalanikaumakaʻamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea Rooke was queen of Hawaii as the wife of King Kamehameha IV from 1856 to his death in 1863. She was later known for being a humanitarian, establishing a hospital, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the throne. For her missionary activities she is venerated as a holy woman in the American Episcopal Church.

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02/01/1833

Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (died 1893)

Frederick Avery Johnson was an American politician and banker who served a U.S. Representative from New York from 1883 to 1887. He was a member of the Republican Party and a resident of Glens Falls, New York.

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02/01/1827

Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (died 1914)

Pyotr Petrovich Semyonov or Semenov was a Russian geographer and statistician who managed the Russian Geographical Society for more than 40 years. He gained international fame for his pioneering exploration of the Tian Shan mountains. He changed his surname to "Semyonov of Tian Shan" at the age of 79.

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02/01/1822

Rudolf Clausius, Polish-German physicist and mathematician (died 1888)

Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founding fathers of the science of thermodynamics. By his restatement of Sadi Carnot's principle known as the Carnot cycle, he gave the theory of heat a truer and sounder basis. His most important paper, "On the Moving Force of Heat", published in 1850, first stated the basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics. In 1865 he introduced the concept of entropy. In 1870 he introduced the virial theorem, which applied to heat.

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02/01/1803

Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic (died 1869)

Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja was an Italian count and mathematician, who became known for his love and subsequent theft of ancient and precious manuscripts. After being appointed the Inspector of Libraries in France, Libri began stealing the books he was responsible for. He fled to England when the theft was discovered, along with 30,000 books and manuscripts inside 18 trunks. In France, he was sentenced to 10 years in jail in absentia; some of the stolen works were returned when he died, but many remained missing.

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02/01/1777

Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor and educator (died 1857)

Christian Daniel Rauch was a German sculptor. He founded the Berlin school of sculpture, and was the foremost German sculptor of the 19th century.

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02/01/1732

František Brixi, Czech organist and composer (died 1771)

František Xaver Brixi was a Czech classical composer. He was the son of composer Šimon Brixi.

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02/01/1727

James Wolfe, English general (died 1759)

Major-General James Wolfe was a British Army officer known for his training reforms and, as a major general, remembered chiefly for his victory in 1759 over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec, in the final moments of which he was killed in action.

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02/01/1713

Marie Dumesnil, French actress (died 1803)

Marie Françoise Dumesnil, original name Marie-Françoise Marchand, was a French actress.

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02/01/1699

Osman III, Ottoman sultan (died 1757)

Osman III was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 to 1757. He was succeeded by his cousin Mustafa III.

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02/01/1647

Nathaniel Bacon, English-American rebel leader (died 1676)

Nathaniel Bacon was an English merchant adventurer who immigrated to the Virginia Colony, where he sat on the Governor's Council. In early 1676 he led Bacon's Rebellion against the Virginia government. The rebellion was briefly successful; but after Bacon’s death from dysentery in October 1676, the rebel forces collapsed.

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02/01/1642

Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (died 1693)

Mehmed IV, nicknamed as Mehmed the Hunter, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. He came to the throne at the age of six after his father was overthrown in a coup. Mehmed went on to become the second-longest-reigning sultan in Ottoman history after Suleiman the Magnificent. While the initial and final years of his reign were characterized by military defeat and political instability, during his middle years he oversaw the revival of the empire's fortunes associated with the Köprülü era. Mehmed IV was known by contemporaries as a particularly pious ruler, and was referred to as gazi, or "holy warrior" for his role in the many conquests carried out during his long reign.

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02/01/1509

Henry of Stolberg, German nobleman (died 1572)

Count Henry of Stolberg was a German nobleman.

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02/01/1462

Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter (died 1522)

Piero di Cosimo, also known as Piero di Lorenzo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, who continued to use an essentially Early Renaissance style into the 16th century.

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02/01/0869

Yōzei, Japanese emperor (died 949)

Emperor Yōzei was the 57th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. Yōzei's reign spanned the years from 876 through 884.Before his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne, his personal name was Sadaakira Shinnō (貞明親王). In ancient Japan, there were four noble clans, the Gempeitōkitsu (源平藤橘). One of these clans, the Minamoto clan (源氏) are also known as Genji, and of these, the Yōzei Genji (陽成源氏) are descended from the 57th emperor Yōzei.

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