This Day in History: (4-February)

1447
Lodovico Lazzarelli

Lodovico Lazzarelli, Italian poet (d. 1500)

1465
Frans van Brederode

Frans van Brederode, Dutch rebel (d. 1490)

1495
Francesco II Sforza

Francesco II Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1535)

1495
Jean Parisot de Valette

Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (d. 1568)

1505
Mikołaj Rej

Mikołaj Rej, Polish poet and author (d. 1580)

1575
Pierre de Bérulle

Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and theologian, founded the French school of spirituality (d. 1629)

1646
Hans Erasmus Aßmann

Hans Erasmus Aßmann, German poet and politician (d. 1699)

1676
Giacomo Facco

Giacomo Facco, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1753)

1677
Johann Ludwig Bach

Johann Ludwig Bach, German violinist and composer (d. 1731)

1688
Pierre de Marivaux

Pierre de Marivaux, French author and playwright (d. 1763)

1725
Dru Drury

Dru Drury, English entomologist and author (d. 1804)

1740
Carl Michael Bellman

Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (d. 1795)

1778
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Swiss botanist, mycologist, and academic (d. 1841)

1799
Almeida Garrett

Almeida Garrett, Portuguese journalist and author (d. 1854)

1831
Oliver Ames (governor)

Oliver Ames, American financier and politician, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)

1848
Jean Aicard

Jean Aicard, French poet, author, and playwright (d. 1921)

1849
Jean Richepin

Jean Richepin, French poet, author, and playwright (d. 1926)

1862
Édouard Estaunié

Édouard Estaunié, French novelist (d. 1942)

1865
Abe Isoo

Abe Isoo, Japanese minister and politician (d. 1949)

1871
Friedrich Ebert

Friedrich Ebert, German lawyer and politician, 1st President of Germany (d. 1925)

1872
Gotse Delchev

Gotse Delchev, Bulgarian and Macedonian revolutionary activist (d. 1903)

1873
Étienne Desmarteau

Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1905)

1875
Ludwig Prandtl

Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (d. 1953)

1877
Eddie Cochems

Eddie Cochems, American football player and coach (d. 1953)

1881
Eulalio Gutiérrez

Eulalio Gutiérrez, Mexican general and politician, President of Mexico (d. 1939)

1881
Fernand Léger

Fernand Léger, French painter and sculptor (d. 1955)

1883
Reinhold Rudenberg

Reinhold Rudenberg, German-American inventor and a pioneer of electron microscopy (d. 1961)

1891
M. A. Ayyangar

M. A. Ayyangar, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha (d. 1978)

1892
E. J. Pratt

E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and academic (d. 1964)

1895
Nigel Bruce

Nigel Bruce, English actor (d. 1953)

1896
Friedrich Glauser

Friedrich Glauser, Austrian-Swiss author (d. 1938)

1896
Friedrich Hund

Friedrich Hund, German physicist and academic (d. 1997)

1897
Ludwig Erhard

Ludwig Erhard, German soldier and politician, 2nd Chancellor of West Germany (d. 1977)

1900
Jacques Prévert

Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (d. 1977)

1902
Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (d. 1974)

1902
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross

Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, German-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (d. 2003)

1903
Alexander Imich

Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (d. 2014)

1904
MacKinlay Kantor

MacKinlay Kantor, American author and screenwriter (d. 1977)

1906
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian (d. 1945)

1906
Clyde Tombaugh

Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (d. 1997)

1908
Julian Bell

Julian Bell, English poet and academic (d. 1937)

1912
Ola Skjåk Bræk

Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian banker and politician, Norwegian Minister of Industry (d. 1999)

1912
Erich Leinsdorf

Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian-American conductor (d. 1993)

1912
Byron Nelson

Byron Nelson, American golfer and sportscaster (d. 2006)

1913
Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)

1913
Richard Seaman

Richard Seaman, English race car driver (d. 1939)

1914
Alfred Andersch

Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author and publisher (d. 1980)

1915
William Talman (actor)

William Talman, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1968)

1915
Norman Wisdom

Norman Wisdom, English singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2010)

1917
Yahya Khan

Yahya Khan, Pakistan general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan (d. 1980)

1918
Ida Lupino

Ida Lupino, English-American actress and director (d. 1995)

1918
Luigi Pareyson

Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher and author (d. 1991)

1920
Janet Waldo

Janet Waldo, American actress and voice artist (d. 2016)

1921
Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan, American author and feminist (d. 2006)

1921
Lotfi Zadeh

Lotfi Zadeh, Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic (d. 2017)

1923
Conrad Bain

Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (d. 2013)

1923
James Dibble

James Dibble, Australian journalist (d. 2010)

1925
Russell Hoban

Russell Hoban, American author and illustrator (d. 2011)

1925
Stanley Karnow

Stanley Karnow, American journalist and historian (d. 2013)

1925
Christopher Zeeman

Christopher Zeeman, English mathematician and academic (d. 2016)

1926
Gyula Grosics

Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2014)

1926
Dave Sands

Dave Sands, Australian boxer (d. 1952)

1927
Rolf Landauer

Rolf Landauer, German-American physicist and academic (d. 1999)

1928
Oscar Cabalén

Oscar Cabalén, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1967)

1928
Osmo Antero Wiio

Osmo Antero Wiio, Finnish journalist, academic, and politician (d. 2013)

1929
Paul Burlison

Paul Burlison, American rockabilly guitarist (d. 2003)

1930
Tibor Antalpéter

Tibor Antalpéter, Hungarian volleyball player and diplomat, Hungarian Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 2012)

1930
Arthur E. Chase

Arthur E. Chase, American businessman and politician (d. 2015)

1930
Jim Loscutoff

Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (d. 2015)

1931
Isabel Martínez de Perón

Isabel Martínez de Perón, Argentinian dancer and politician, 41st President of Argentina

1935
Wallis Mathias

Wallis Mathias, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1994)

1935
Martti Talvela

Martti Talvela, Finnish opera singer (d. 1989)

1935
Collin Wilcox (actress)

Collin Wilcox, American actress (d. 2009)

1936
David Brenner

David Brenner, American comedian, actor, and author (d. 2014)

1936
Claude Nobs

Claude Nobs, Swiss businessman, founded the Montreux Jazz Festival (d. 2013)

1937
David Newman (screenwriter)

David Newman, American director and screenwriter (d. 2003)

1938
Frank J. Dodd

Frank J. Dodd, American businessman and politician, president of the New Jersey Senate (d. 2010)

1939
Stan Lundine

Stan Lundine, American lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of New York

1940
George A. Romero

George A. Romero, American director and producer (d. 2017)

1941
Ron Rangi

Ron Rangi, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1988)

1941
Jiří Raška

Jiří Raška, Czech skier and coach (d. 2012)

1941
John Steel (drummer)

John Steel, English drummer

1943
Alberto João Jardim

Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese journalist and politician, 2nd President of the Regional Government of Madeira

1943
Wanda Rutkiewicz

Wanda Rutkiewicz, Lithuanian-Polish mountaineer (d. 1992)

1943
Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson, American computer scientist and programmer, co-developed the B programming language

1944
Florence LaRue

Florence LaRue, American singer and actress

1947
Dennis C. Blair

Dennis C. Blair, American admiral and politician, 3rd Director of National Intelligence

1947
Dan Quayle

Dan Quayle, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 44th Vice President of the United States

1948
Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper, American singer-songwriter

1948
Rod Grams

Rod Grams, American journalist and politician (d. 2013)

1948
Mienoumi Tsuyoshi

Mienoumi Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler

1949
Michael Beck

Michael Beck, American actor

1949
Rasim Delić

Rasim Delić, Bosnian general (d. 2010)

1951
Patrick Bergin

Patrick Bergin, Irish actor

1951
Phil Ehart

Phil Ehart, American rock drummer and songwriter

1952
Jenny Shipley

Jenny Shipley, New Zealand educator and politician, 36th Prime Minister of New Zealand

1952
Thomas Silverstein

Thomas Silverstein, American prisoner, founder and former leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang

1955
Mikuláš Dzurinda

Mikuláš Dzurinda, Slovak politician, Prime Minister of Slovakia

1957
Don Davis (composer)

Don Davis, American composer and conductor

1958
Tomasz Pacyński

Tomasz Pacyński, Polish journalist and author (d. 2005)

1959
Christian Schreier

Christian Schreier, German footballer and manager

1959
Lawrence Taylor

Lawrence Taylor, American football player and sportscaster

1960
Siobhan Dowd

Siobhan Dowd, English author and activist (d. 2007)

1960
Adrienne King

Adrienne King, American actress, dancer, and painter

1960
Jonathan Larson

Jonathan Larson, American composer and playwright (d. 1996)

1961
Stewart O'Nan

Stewart O'Nan, American novelist

1961
Denis Savard

Denis Savard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1962
Clint Black

Clint Black, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1962
Stephen Hammond

Stephen Hammond, English banker and politician

1963
Pirmin Zurbriggen

Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss skier

1966
Tony Butterfield

Tony Butterfield, Australian rugby league player

1966
Viatcheslav Ekimov

Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist

1967
Sergei Grinkov

Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1995)

1970
Gabrielle Anwar

Gabrielle Anwar, English actress

1971
Rob Corddry

Rob Corddry, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

1971
Eric Garcetti

Eric Garcetti, American lieutenant and politician, 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles

1972
Dara Ó Briain

Dara Ó Briain, Irish comedian and television host

1972
Giovanni Silva de Oliveira

Giovanni Silva de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer and manager

1973
Oscar De La Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya, American boxer

1973
James Hird

James Hird, Australian footballer and coach

1973
Manny Legace

Manny Legace, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

1975
Natalie Imbruglia

Natalie Imbruglia, Australian singer-songwriter and actress

1977
Gavin DeGraw

Gavin DeGraw, American singer-songwriter

1979
Giorgio Pantano

Giorgio Pantano, Italian race car driver

1980
Raimonds Vaikulis

Raimonds Vaikulis, Latvian basketball player

1981
Jason Kapono

Jason Kapono, American basketball player

1981
Johan Vansummeren

Johan Vansummeren, Belgian cyclist

1982
Chris Sabin

Chris Sabin, American wrestler

1982
Ivars Timermanis

Ivars Timermanis, Latvian basketball player

1982
Tomas Vaitkus

Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian cyclist

1983
Lee Stempniak

Lee Stempniak, American ice hockey player

1984
Sandeep Acharya

Sandeep Acharya, Indian singer (d. 2013)

1984
Mauricio Pinilla

Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer

1986
Maximilian Götz

Maximilian Götz, German race car driver

1986
Mahmudullah Riyad

Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer

1987
Darren O'Dea

Darren O'Dea, Irish footballer

1987
Lucie Šafářová

Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player

1988
Carly Patterson

Carly Patterson, American gymnast and singer

1989
Kevin Naiqama

Kevin Naiqama, Australian-Fijian rugby league player

1990
Jake Friend

Jake Friend, Australian rugby league player

1993
Bae Noo-ri

Bae Noo-ri, South Korean actress

1993
Jack Wighton

Jack Wighton, Australian rugby league player

1996
Tevita Pangai Junior

Tevita Pangai Junior, Australian rugby league player