On This Day — January 2
4572 noted people were born and 2176 died on January 2 in our archive, including Filipp Fortunatov, Konrad Steffen and Rudolf Clausius.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 2
Filipp Fortunatov
1848 – 1914
Konrad Steffen
1952 – 2020
Rudolf Clausius
1822 – 1888
Amy Mainzer
b. 1974
Andrew Wood
b. 1940
Anton Pannekoek
1873 – 1960
Barclay Vincent Head
1844 – 1914
Catherine Chisholm
1878 – 1952
Charles Hatchett
1765 – 1847
Charles Peake
1897 – 1958
Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay
1779 – 1845
Dan Oates
b. 1955
Daphne Barak Erez
b. 1965
David Shakow
1901 – 1981
Dennis Hastert
b. 1942
Farouk El-Baz
b. 1938
Gabriel Compayré
1843 – 1913
Irina Arkhipova
1925 – 2010
Janusz Pałubicki
b. 1948
Jean Dussourd
b. 1948
John Hood
b. 1952
John Tucknott
b. 1958
Kemi Badenoch
b. 1980
Lynn Conway
1938 – 2024
Milan Čič
1932 – 2012
Norodom Ranariddh
1944 – 2021
Paolo Maffei
1926 – 2009
Petr Pithart
b. 1941
Prince Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
1827 – 1892
Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky
1827 – 1914
Roger Adams
1889 – 1971
Roy Farran
1921 – 2006
Tadeusz Żenczykowski
1907 – 1997
Tomás de la Quadra-Salcedo Fernández del Castillo
b. 1946
Veli Merikoski
1905 – 1982
Víctor García de la Concha
b. 1934
Walter Heitler
1904 – 1981
William Allen
1784 – 1868
Aleksander Prystor
1874 – 1941
Aleksandr Kolpakidi
b. 1962
Alex Chisholm
b. 1968
Alexey Krutikov
1902 – 1962
Alfred Pearce Gould
1852 – 1922
Alfredo Quińones- Hinojosa
b. 1968
Ali Al-Naimi
b. 1935
Anastasie Fătu
1816 – 1886
Andreas Rett
1924 – 2024
Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire
1920 – 2004
Andrew Ullmann
b. 1963
Andrzej Pałys
b. 1957
André Aciman
b. 1951
Andrés Chadwick
b. 1956
Anton Lehmden
1929 – 2018
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
1886 – 1959
Ariane Matiakh
b. 1980
Arsen Avakov
b. 1964
Artur Rodziński
1892 – 1958
Barry Goldwater
1909 – 1998
Basil Jones
1822 – 1897
Basile Gras
1836 – 1901
Beaudry Leman
1878 – 1951
Bertram Stevens
1889 – 1973
Bill Rutherford
b. 1955
Bob Marshall
1901 – 1939
Boris Rhein
b. 1972
Brian O'Brien
1898 – 1992
C. V. Ananda Bose
b. 1951
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus
1835 – 1899
Carl Gustaf Nordin
1749 – 1812
Carleton B. Joeckel
1886 – 1960
Chandrashekhara Kambara
b. 1937
Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield
1830 – 1914
Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough
1760 – 1838
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
1783 – 1853
Daniel Hershkowitz
b. 1953
Daniel Obajtek
b. 1976
David Braben
b. 1964
David Glass
1911 – 1978
David Ruhnken
1723 – 1798
Dominique Gros
b. 1943
Désiré-Alexandre Batton
1798 – 1855
Edward B. Saff
b. 1944
Elise Ottesen-Jensen
1886 – 1973
Elizabeth Akua-Nyarko Patterson
b. 1985
Ernst Dümmler
1830 – 1902
Evelynn M. Hammonds
b. 1953
Evgeny Anichkov
1866 – 1937
Ferdinand von Trauttmansdorff
1749 – 1827
Francesco Colasuonno
1925 – 2003
Gaston Monnerville
1897 – 1991
Georg Morgenstierne
1892 – 1978
Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică
1866 – 1934
Gilbert Murray
1866 – 1957
Giuseppe Mussi
1836 – 1904
Goh Kun
b. 1938
Géza Duka
1867 – 1913
Heikki Paasonen
1865 – 1919
Henry Gleason
1882 – 1975
Herbert Walter Levi
1921 – 2014
Hitoshi Saito
1961 – 2015
Homer Smith
1895 – 1962
Hripsime Simonyan
1916 – 1998
Hugh Shelton
b. 1942
Igor Tselovalnikov
1944 – 1986
Ilarion Ohienko
1882 – 1972
Indulis Emsis
b. 1952
Iris Marion Young
1949 – 2006
Isaac Asimov
1920 – 1992
Isabel C. F. R. Ferreira
b. 1974
Isamu Kenmochi
1912 – 1971
Issei Nishikawa
b. 1945
Ivan Stranski
1897 – 1979
Iván Erőd
1936 – 2019
James Stuart
1843 – 1913
Jan Fischer
b. 1951
Jeff Grant
b. 1958
Jeremiah Rankin
1828 – 1903
Jessie K. Liu
b. 1973
Joanna Kopcińska
b. 1967
Johan Ringers
1885 – 1965
Johann Daniel Titius
1729 – 1796
Johannes Schmidt
1877 – 1933
John Hope Franklin
1915 – 2009
John Viriamu Jones
1856 – 1901
John Wood
1947 – 2022
Josyp Winski
b. 1956
Juanita Jackson Mitchell
1913 – 1992
Julissa Reynoso
b. 1975
Justin Winsor
1831 – 1897
Kaadyr-ool Bicheldey
b. 1950
Karl-Heinz Grasser
b. 1969
Khristo Kabakchiev
1878 – 1940
Klaus Müllen
b. 1947
Lev Schnirelmann
1905 – 1938
Liz MacDonald
b. 1962
Louis Charles Breguet
1880 – 1955
Lucy Neville-Rolfe
b. 1953
Ludwig von Graff
1851 – 1924
Luis Iberico Núñez
b. 1959
Lynda Barry
b. 1956
M Amir-ul Islam
b. 1937
M. Carey Thomas
1857 – 1935
Marat Kambolov
b. 1965
Marek Całka
b. 1966
Mary Hamilton Swindler
1884 – 1967
Masao Kawai
1924 – 2021
Masatoshi Nei
1931 – 2023
Michael Tippett
1905 – 1998
Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky
1862 – 1919
Miklós Haraszti
b. 1945
Mulugeta Bekele
b. 1947
Nathan Cohn
1907 – 1989
Nathaniel Bacon
1647 – 1676
Nik Welter
1871 – 1951
Nikolay Konstantinov
1932 – 2021
Näcip Cihanof
1911 – 1988
Oleg Deripaska
b. 1968
Om Prakash Mathur
b. 1952
Paul Devinat
1890 – 1980
Pavel Rychagov
1911 – 1941
Péter Eötvös
1944 – 2024
Ria Hebden
b. 1983
Richard Miles
b. 1969
Richard Riley
b. 1933
Robert H. Frank
b. 1945
Robert O. Ritchie
b. 1948
Rodolfo Lanciani
1845 – 1929
Ronald Arculli
b. 1939
Röstäm Kälimullin
b. 1958
Sadhan Kumar Adhikari
b. 1948
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
1898 – 1989
Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan
b. 1940
Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
1940 – 2015
Secondo Pollo
1908 – 1941
Seweryn Morawski
1819 – 1900
Shiraz Minwalla
b. 1972
Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
1790 – 1851
Stanisław Grodziski
1929 – 2020
Stepan Havrysh
b. 1952
Steve Benson
1954 – 2025
Sunny Lowry
1911 – 2008
Tang Shaoyi
1862 – 1938
Tellervo Koivisto
b. 1929
Teofilo Ruiz
b. 1943
Thomas Hammarberg
b. 1942
Théodore Deck
1823 – 1891
Tomasz Szarota
1940 – 2026
Toshiki Kaifu
1931 – 2022
Uryū Sotokichi
1857 – 1937
Uładzimier Andrejčanka
b. 1949
Vasily Petrov
1917 – 2014
Viktor Slauta
b. 1952
Viktor Uhlig
1857 – 1911
Vincent Racaniello
b. 1953
Vira Vovk
1926 – 2022
Vitaliy Oluiko
b. 1961
Vladimir Ovchinnikov
b. 1958
Vladimir Stasov
1824 – 1906
Wilhelm Zimmermann
1807 – 1878
Wille Rydman
b. 1986
… and 4,372 more
Died on January 2
George Biddell Airy
1801 – 1892
Giacomo Luigi Ciamician
1857 – 1922
John Obadiah Westwood
1805 – 1893
Armand Peugeot
1849 – 1915
Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau
1810 – 1892
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
1776 – 1831
Brian Berry
1934 – 2025
Brian Urquhart
1919 – 2021
Bruce McEwen
1938 – 2020
Charles de Visscher
1884 – 1973
Cuno Hoffmeister
1892 – 1968
David Moore Robinson
1880 – 1958
Edward Augustus Bond
1815 – 1898
Edward Burnett Tylor
1832 – 1917
Frank Lascelles
1841 – 1920
Gerda Lerner
1920 – 2013
Gordon Hirabayashi
1918 – 2012
Hermann Kinkelin
1832 – 1913
Ivan Rand
1884 – 1969
John Gray McKendrick
1841 – 1926
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
1878 – 1972
Maclyn McCarty
1911 – 2005
Martinus Tels
1926 – 2008
Mauno Jokipii
1924 – 2007
Niels-Henrik Kolderup 1
1898 – 1971
Pius Font i Quer
1888 – 1964
Richard Leakey
1944 – 2022
Samuel Cooper Thacher
1785 – 1818
Sartaj Aziz
1929 – 2024
Sydney Caine
1902 – 1991
Albert Brewer
1928 – 2017
Albert Gerald Stern
1878 – 1966
Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn
1733 – 1805
Algernon Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland
1810 – 1899
Amanda Labarca
1886 – 1975
Andrew Ure
1778 – 1857
Anna Maxwell
1851 – 1929
Anne Francis
1930 – 2011
Arsenio Lope Huerta
1943 – 2021
Auguste-François Perrinon
1812 – 1861
Bertha Tammelin
1836 – 1915
Bryce Chudleigh Burt
1881 – 1943
Caleb Cushing
1800 – 1879
Carl Jesper Benzelius
1714 – 1793
Cecylia Vetulani
1908 – 1980
Clark Blanchard Millikan
1903 – 1966
Derek Parfit
1942 – 2017
Dick Powell
1904 – 1963
Dino Alfieri
1886 – 1966
Dirk Sager
1940 – 2014
Dixy Lee Ray
1914 – 1994
Dmitry Chernov
1839 – 1921
Edward Stratford, 2nd Earl of Aldborough
1736 – 1801
Eleanor Rathbone
1872 – 1946
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
1941 – 2007
Elmo Zumwalt
1920 – 2000
Evangelos Averoff
1908 – 1990
Fabijan Abrantovich
1884 – 1946
Feodosy Chernyshyov
1856 – 1914
Ferdinando Imposimato
1936 – 2018
Francis Newdegate
1862 – 1936
Frank Kelly Freas
1922 – 2005
Franz Defregger
1835 – 1921
François-Philippe Brais
1894 – 1972
Gaspar de Zúñiga y Avellaneda
1507 – 1571
Gordon R. Sullivan
1937 – 2024
Harekrishna Mahatab
1899 – 1987
Hector Munro Chadwick
1870 – 1947
Heinrich Moritz Gaede
1795 – 1834
Henrik Olrik
1830 – 1890
Henry Darcy
1803 – 1858
Ilya Pavlovich Mazuruk
1906 – 1989
Ingrid Gärde Widemar
1912 – 2009
Ion Niculiţă
1939 – 2022
Ivan Shchukin
1869 – 1908
Jack Carson
1910 – 1963
Jacques de Lacretelle
1888 – 1985
Jerzy Turonek
1929 – 2019
Joan Coromines
1905 – 1997
Joe Darling
1870 – 1946
John Berger
1926 – 2017
Josef Strzygowski
1862 – 1941
Juan Carlos Genao Pérez
1959 – 2024
Jules Destrée
1863 – 1936
Klaus Mehnert
1906 – 1984
Kristi Kiick
1967 – 2026
Lajos Rovátkay
1933 – 2026
Lee S. Dreyfus
1926 – 2008
Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau
1737 – 1816
Louis-Philippe Brodeur
1862 – 1924
Louisa Lumsden
1840 – 1935
Léon Teisserenc de Bort
1855 – 1913
Marcos Paz
1813 – 1868
Mary Catherine Bateson
1939 – 2021
Milán Václavík
1928 – 2007
Montgomery C. Meigs
1816 – 1892
Nashimoto Morimasa
1874 – 1951
Nikolai Sukhomlinov
1850 – 1918
Nikolay Umov
1846 – 1915
Otto Benndorf
1838 – 1907
Patrick Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 4th Baron Derwent
1901 – 1986
Paul Diepgen
1878 – 1966
Paul Sauvé
1907 – 1960
Paul de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle
1873 – 1957
Per-Olof Åstrand
1922 – 2015
Petr Gertsen
1871 – 1947
Qazim Koculi
1887 – 1943
Ralph Block
1889 – 1974
Ramón Castroviejo
1904 – 1987
René Ballet
1928 – 2017
Rhys Carpenter
1889 – 1980
Richard Caton
1842 – 1926
Robert E. Cushman Jr.
1914 – 1985
Robert Raynolds McMath
1891 – 1962
Rolf Liebermann
1910 – 1999
Sebastian Haffner
1907 – 1999
Shigetarō Yoshimatsu
1859 – 1935
Suzanne Lapointe
1934 – 2015
Szeto Wah
1931 – 2011
Søren Absalon Larsen
1871 – 1957
Teddy Kollek
1911 – 2007
Thornton Leigh Page
1913 – 1996
Tom Harpur
1929 – 2017
Viktor Fainberg
1931 – 2023
Vladimir Korenev
1940 – 2021
Walthère Frère-Orban
1812 – 1896
Wilhelm Herrmann
1846 – 1922
William Adams
1813 – 1897
William Campion
1870 – 1951
William P. Rogers
1913 – 2001
William Searle Holdsworth
1871 – 1944
Yukiko Miyake
1965 – 2020
A. Richard Newton
1951 – 2007
Aase Lionæs
1907 – 1999
Ahmed Dawood
1905 – 2002
Alan Hale, Jr.
1921 – 1990
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Volzhin
1862 – 1933
Alexander William Kinglake
1809 – 1891
Alfred Dehodencq
1822 – 1882
Ali Akbar Moinfar
1928 – 2018
Allan G. Brodie
1897 – 1976
Andreas Heldal-Lund
1964 – 2024
Antoine Brun
1599 – 1654
Antoni Knot
1904 – 1982
Anusorn Mongkolkarn
1915 – 1998
Anwar Jalalpuri
1947 – 2018
Armando Monteiro Filho
1925 – 2018
Arnold Marshall Rose
1918 – 1968
Arthur A. Neu
1933 – 2015
Bahrum Daido
1964 – 2021
Bali Ram Bhagat
1922 – 2011
Bartolomé Calvo
1815 – 1889
Ben Reifel
1906 – 1990
Ben Sternberg
1914 – 2004
Bengt Rasin
1922 – 2013
Bertram Home Ramsay
1883 – 1945
Bill Shelton
1929 – 2003
Bob Einstein
1942 – 2019
Bronisław Zaleski
1819 – 1880
Buta Singh
1934 – 2021
Carel de Vos van Steenwijk
1759 – 1830
Carl Nipperdey
1821 – 1875
Cecil Graves
1892 – 1957
Cecilia Muñoz-Palma
1913 – 2006
Charles Baur
1929 – 2015
Charles E. Huntington
1919 – 2017
Charles I de La Vieuville
1583 – 1653
Charles Porterfield Krauth
1823 – 1883
Charles Wolfran Cornwall
1735 – 1789
Daniel Clark
1809 – 1891
Daniel S. Earhart
1907 – 1976
Dante Troisi
1920 – 1989
David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore
1656 – 1730
Dinu Adameșteanu
1913 – 2004
Dominique Bucchini
1943 – 2026
Dumitru Radu Popescu
1935 – 2023
Edmund Allen Meredith
1817 – 1899
Edmund H. Bennett
1824 – 1898
Edo Murtić
1921 – 2005
Edward F. Welch, Jr.
1924 – 2008
Elizabeth Lee Bloomstein
1859 – 1927
Ellen Gulbranson
1863 – 1947
Emil Carlsen
1848 – 1932
Ernst Wigforss
1881 – 1977
Erroll Garner
1921 – 1977
Etta Moten Barnett
1901 – 2004
Faris al-Khoury
1877 – 1962
Ferdinand Bonaventura, 7th Prince Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau
1834 – 1904
Fernand de Saintignon
1846 – 1921
Francesc Antich Oliver
1958 – 2025
Francis W. Rockwell
1886 – 1979
Francisco de Cubas
1826 – 1899
Frank Cremeans
1943 – 2003
François Chérèque
1956 – 2017
Frederic J. Mouat
1816 – 1897
Frederick Nicholas Charrington
1850 – 1936
Frederick Thomas Sargood
1834 – 1903
Frederick William IV of Prussia
1795 – 1861
Frederik Motzfeldt
1779 – 1848
Friedrich Adler
1879 – 1960
… and 1,976 more