2 January Births

January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining until the end of the year (364 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).

Births

869 – Yōzei, Japanese emperor (d. 949)
1403 – Basilios Bessarion, Greek cardinal and scholar (d. 1472)
1462 – Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1522)
1509 – Henry of Stolberg, German nobleman (d. 1572)
1642 – Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (d. 1693)
1647 – Nathaniel Bacon, English-American rebel leader (d. 1676)
1699 – Osman III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1757)
1713 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
1727 – James Wolfe, English general (d. 1759)
1732 – František Brixi, Czech organist and composer (d. 1771)
1777 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor and educator (d. 1857)
1822 – Rudolf Clausius, Polish-German physicist and mathematician (d. 1888)
1827 – Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (d. 1914)
1833 – Frederick A. Johnson, American banker and politician (d. 1893)
1836 – Queen Emma of Hawaii (d. 1885)
1836 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (d. 1917)
1837 – Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1910)
1851 – Ludwig von Graff, Austrian zoologist (d. 1924)
1852 – Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Turkish playwright and poet (d. 1937)
1857 – M. Carey Thomas, American educator and activist (d. 1935)
1860 – William Corless Mills, American historian and curator (d. 1928)
1860 – Dugald Campbell Patterson, Canadian engineer (d. 1931)
1862 – Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor (d. 1919)
1866 – Gilbert Murray, Australian-English playwright and scholar (d. 1957)
1870 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (d. 1938)
1870 – Tex Rickard, American boxing promoter and businessman (d. 1929)
1873 – Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (d. 1897)
1873 – Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and theorist (d. 1960)
1876 – Aquiles Serdán, Mexican activist and politician (d. 1910)
1878 – Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai, Indian activist, founded the Nair Service Society (d. 1970)
1879 – Rudolf Bauer, Hungarian discus thrower (d. 1932)
1884 – Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli historian and politician, 4th Israeli Minister of Education (d. 1973)
1885 – Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
1886 – Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English explorer and author (d. 1959)
1886 – Florence Lawrence, Canadian-American actress (d. 1938)
1886 – Billy Zulch, South African cricketer (d. 1924)
1889 – Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1973)
1890 – Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian-American poet and playwright (d. 1951)
1891 – Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (d. 1990)
1892 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
1893 – Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
1895 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish lieutenant and diplomat (d. 1948)
1896 – Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter (d. 1954)
1896 – Lawrence Wackett, Australian commander and engineer (d. 1982)
1897 – Jim Londos, Greek-American wrestler (d. 1975)
1897 – Theodore Plucknett, English legal historian (d. 1965)
1898 – Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, American economist and lawyer (d. 1989)
1899 – Burhan Asaf Belge, Turkish diplomat (d. 1967)
1900 – William Haines, American actor and interior designer (d. 1973)
1900 – Una Ledingham, British physician, known for research on diabetes in pregnancy (d. 1965)
1901 – Bob Marshall, American activist, co-founded The Wilderness Society (d. 1939)
1902 – Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer (d. 2007)
1904 – Truus Klapwijk, Dutch diver and swimmer (d. 1991)
1905 – Jainendra Kumar, Indian author and translator (d. 1988)
1905 – Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1938)
1905 – Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (d. 1998)
1905 – Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
1909 – Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer and author (d. 2009)
1909 – Barry Goldwater, American general and politician (d. 1998)
1913 – Anna Lee, English-American actress (d. 2004)
1913 – Juanita Jackson Mitchell, American lawyer and activist (d. 1992)
1914 – Kenny Clarke, American drummer and composer (d. 1985)
1914 – Noor Inayat Khan, British SOE agent (d. 1944)
1916 – Zypora Spaisman, Polish-American midwife and actress and producer of the Yiddish stage (d. 2002)
1917 – Vera Zorina, German-Norwegian actress and dancer (d. 2003)
1918 – Willi Graf, German physician and activist (d. 1943)
1918 – Beatrice Hicks, American engineer (d. 1979)
1920 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-American chemist, author, and academic (d. 1992)
1921 – Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1923 – Rachel Waterhouse, English historian and author
1924 – Evgenios Spatharis, Greek puppeteer, actor, and director (d. 2009)
1925 – William J. Crowe, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 2007)
1927 – Gino Marchetti, American football player
1928 – Avie Bennett, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2017)
1928 – Robert Goralski, American journalist and author (d. 1988)
1928 – Kate Molale, South African activist and politician (d. 1980)
1928 – Dan Rostenkowski, American Congressman (d. 2010)
1930 – Julius La Rosa, American traditional pop singer (d. 2016)
1931 – James D. Murray, Scottish mathematician and academic
1931 – Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese lawyer and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Japan
1932 – Peter Redgrove, English poet, author, and playwright (d. 2003)
1933 – Ed Casey, Australian banker and politician (d. 2006)
1933 – Seiichi Morimura, Japanese author
1933 – Richard Riley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 6th United States Secretary of Education
1933 – Keith Thomas, Welsh historian, author, and academic
1935 – David McKee, English author and illustrator
1935 – Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer and academic (d. 1987)
1936 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (d. 1992)
1938 – David Bailey, English photographer and painter
1938 – Lynn Conway, American computer scientist and electrical engineer
1938 – Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author and educator
1938 – Goh Kun, South Korean politician, 31st Prime Minister of South Korea
1938 – Robert Smithson, American sculptor and photographer (d. 1973)
1938 – Dana Ulery, American computer scientist
1940 – Jim Bakker, American televangelist
1940 – Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian economist and politician, Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2015)
1942 – Thomas Hammarberg, Swedish lawyer and diplomat
1942 – Dennis Hastert, American educator and politician, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
1942 – Hugh Shelton, American general
1943 – Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer (d. 2004)
1944 – Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor
1944 – Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian field marshal and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia
1946 – Sonny Ruberto, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
1947 – Jack Hanna, American zoologist and author
1947 – Calvin Hill, American football player
1947 – David Shapiro, American poet, historian, and critic
1948 – Judith Miller, American journalist and author
1948 – Joyce Wadler, American journalist and author
1949 – Christopher Durang, American playwright and screenwriter
1949 – Jean Krier, Luxembourger poet (d. 2013)
1949 – Iris Marion Young, American political scientist and academic (d. 2006)
1950 – Anatoli Ushanov, Russian footballer and coach
1951 – Jim Essian, American baseball player and coach
1951 – Alexander Pogrebinsky, Ukrainian-American painter and educator
1952 – Indulis Emsis, Latvian biologist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Latvia
1952 – Wendy Phillips, American actress
1952 – Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
1953 – Vincent Racaniello, American virologist, author, and academic
1953 – Jacques Tichelaar, Dutch educator and politician
1954 – Henry Bonilla, American broadcaster and politician
1954 – Glenn Goins, American R&B/funk guitarist and singer (Parliament-Funkadelic) (d. 1978)
1956 – Lynda Barry, American cartoonist and author
1957 – Beppe Gabbiani, Italian race car driver
1958 – Helen Goodman, English lawyer and politician
1958 – Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist and educator
1959 – Kirti Azad, Indian cricketer and politician
1960 – Raman Lamba, Indian cricketer (d. 1998)
1961 – Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
1961 – Todd Haynes, American director and screenwriter
1961 – Craig James, American football player and sportscaster
1961 – Robert Wexler, American lawyer and politician
1963 – David Cone, American baseball player and sportscaster
1963 – Edgar Martínez, American baseball player
1964 – Michael McCann, Scottish lawyer and politician
1964 – Rumesh Ratnayake, Sri Lankan cricketer
1964 – Pernell Whitaker, American boxer
1965 – Greg Swindell, American baseball player and coach
1967 – Tia Carrere, American actress
1967 – Jón Gnarr, Icelandic actor and politician; 20th Mayor of Reykjavik City
1967 – Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player
1968 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor and producer
1968 – Anky van Grunsven, Dutch horse rider
1969 – István Bagyula, Hungarian pole vaulter
1969 – William Fox-Pitt, English horse rider and journalist
1969 – Robby Gordon, American race car driver
1969 – Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian businessman and politician, 16th Finance Minister of Austria
1969 – Glen Johnson, Jamaican boxer
1969 – Christy Turlington, American model
1970 – Eric Whitacre, American composer and conductor
1971 – Taye Diggs, American actor
1971 – Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress
1971 – Lisa Harrison, American basketball player
1972 – Adam Elliot, Australian animator and screenwriter
1972 – Paweł Januszewski, Polish hurdler
1972 – Rodney MacDonald, Canadian educator and politician, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia
1972 – Mattias Norström, Swedish ice hockey player and manager
1973 – Lucy Davis, English actress
1974 – Jason de Vos, Canadian soccer player and sportscaster
1974 – Ludmila Formanová, Czech runner
1974 – Tomáš Řepka, Czech footballer
1975 – Chris Cheney, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1975 – Dax Shepard, American actor
1975 – Jeff Suppan, American baseball player
1975 – Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby player
1976 – Hrysopiyi Devetzi, Greek jumper
1976 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress
1977 – Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player and sportscaster
1977 – Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player
1977 – Aleš Píša, Czech ice hockey player
1978 – Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American dancer
1978 – Megumi Toyoguchi, Japanese voice actress and singer
1978 – Yoon Se-ah, South Korean actress
1979 – Jonathan Greening, English footballer and coach
1980 – Georgios Dedas, Greek basketball player
1980 – Melvin Holwijn, Dutch footballer
1980 – Jérôme Pineau, French cyclist
1981 – Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
1981 – Ryan Garko, American baseball player
1981 – Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player
1981 – Maxi Rodríguez, Argentinian footballer
1983 – Kate Bosworth, American actress
1984 – Otacílio Jales, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Ivan Dodig, Croatian tennis player
1986 – Ediz Bahtiyaroğlu, Turkish-Bosnian footballer (d. 2012)
1986 – Nicolás Bertolo, Argentinian footballer
1986 – Trombone Shorty, American trumpet player and composer
1988 – Joseph Paulo, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player
1988 – Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player
1988 – Mandy Harvey, Deaf Jazz Musician, Singer, Songwriter
1990 – Karel Abraham, Czech motorcycle racer
1990 – Maurício Alves Peruchi, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
1990 – Chris Sabburg, Australian cricketer
1991 – Luis Pedro Cavanda, Belgian footballer
1991 – Davide Santon, Italian footballer
1992 – Korbin Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
1993 – Bryson Tiller, American singer-songwriter

Source: wikipedia