On This Day — February 1
5099 noted people were born and 2494 died on February 1 in our archive, including Alfonso Caso, Andrew Justin Stewart Coats and Anton Zensus.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 1
Alfonso Caso
1896 – 1970
Andrew Justin Stewart Coats
b. 1958
Anton Zensus
b. 1958
Boris Piotrovsky
1908 – 1990
Chaim Samuel Hönig
1926 – 2018
Charles Bingham Penrose
1862 – 1925
Charlotte Osei
b. 1969
Chuu-Lian Terng
b. 1949
Conrad Celtes
1459 – 1508
David Antin
1932 – 2016
Diane Bryant
b. 1962
Emilio G. Segrè
1905 – 1989
Erik Åsbrink
b. 1947
Fernando González Delgado
1947 – 2024
Francis James Child
1825 – 1896
Gina Ortiz Jones
b. 1981
Ignacy Tokarczuk
1918 – 2012
Jale İnan
1914 – 2001
Jan Beenakker
1926 – 1998
Jean Théodore Lacordaire
1801 – 1870
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
1801 – 1887
Jean-Louis Roy
b. 1941
Joanna Senyszyn
b. 1949
John Klensin
b. 1945
José Luis Sampedro
1917 – 2013
Kazimierz Nycz
b. 1950
Kurahei Yuasa
1874 – 1940
Kálmán Laki
1909 – 1983
Leymah Gbowee
b. 1972
Louis St. Laurent
1882 – 1973
Louis-Philippe Pelletier
1857 – 1921
Marian Massonius
1862 – 1945
Mehdi Ghazanfari
b. 1961
Michel Le Bris
1944 – 2021
Milan Hodža
1878 – 1944
Oleg Matveichev
b. 1970
Pavel Nekrasov
1853 – 1924
Richard Whately
1787 – 1863
Roger Y. Tsien
1952 – 2016
Ruth Kanfer
b. 1955
Ruth Teitelbaum
1924 – 1986
Sam Edwards
1928 – 2015
Sambhu Nath De
1915 – 1985
Soon Cho
1928 – 2022
Thorvald Boye
1871 – 1943
Tom Lantos
1928 – 2008
William T. Pecora
1913 – 1972
Wojciech Bożek
b. 1961
Yannick Bolloré
b. 1980
Zahid Oruc
b. 1972
Abraham H. Taub
1911 – 1999
Adalberto Giazotto
1940 – 2017
Adel al-Jubeir
b. 1962
Albert Lebourg
1849 – 1928
Alberto Prebisch
1899 – 1970
Alexander Meiklejohn
1872 – 1964
Alexandre Rousselin de Saint-Albin
1773 – 1847
Alfred Grosser
1925 – 2024
Allan Bromley
1947 – 2002
Anastasio Somoza García
1896 – 1956
Andrei Travnikov
b. 1971
André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin
1783 – 1865
Anil Kumar Das
1902 – 1961
Anil Kumar Gain
1919 – 1978
Ann Z. Caracristi
1921 – 2016
Anna Hakobyan
b. 1978
Anne Holton
b. 1958
Antal Hekler
1882 – 1940
Antanas Merkys
1887 – 1955
Archbishop Dimitrios of America
b. 1928
Archibald Bruce
1777 – 1818
Asmaa Mahfouz
b. 1985
Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya
1919 – 2016
Audrys Bačkis
b. 1937
Bennie G. Adkins
1934 – 2020
Bertha Elias
1889 – 1933
Bogdan Rzońca
b. 1961
Boris Yeltsin
1931 – 2007
Brian Houghton Hodgson
1800 – 1894
Charles Drelincourt the Younger
1633 – 1697
Charles Tate Regan
1878 – 1943
Chen Po-chih
b. 1949
Christine Loh
b. 1956
Concetto Marchesi
1878 – 1957
Corradino D'Ascanio
1891 – 1981
Crisanto Luque Sánchez
1889 – 1959
Dan Fagin
b. 1963
Daniel M. Tani
b. 1961
David Armitage
b. 1965
Debby Applegate
b. 1968
Don Gaffney
b. 1954
Eckart Marsch
b. 1947
Eduard Strasburger
1844 – 1912
Eduardo Torroja Caballe
1847 – 1918
Edward Coke
1552 – 1634
Ekaterina Maximova
1939 – 2009
Eleanor Laing
b. 1958
Ellen Trane Nørby
b. 1980
Elspeth Attwooll
b. 1943
Enrique Meléndez-Hevia
b. 1946
Fran Ulmer
b. 1947
Frances Guy
b. 1959
Francesco Musotto
1947 – 2025
Franci Slak
1953 – 2007
Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland
1580 – 1629
Francis McClean
1876 – 1955
Francisco Gómez-Jordana Sousa
1876 – 1944
Frank J. Tipler
b. 1947
François Jouffroy
1806 – 1882
Freddy Lim
b. 1976
Fritjof Capra
b. 1939
G. Stanley Hall
1844 – 1924
Galway Kinnell
1927 – 2014
Gao Yihan
1885 – 1968
Garri Minkh
b. 1959
George Buchanan
1506 – 1582
George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale
1787 – 1876
George Mackey
1916 – 2006
George Pal
1908 – 1980
Guillaume Mollat
1877 – 1968
Gurmit Singh
b. 1956
Günter Guillaume
1927 – 1995
Harald Arnljot Øye
1935 – 2024
Hattie Caraway
1878 – 1950
Helmut Birkhan
b. 1938
Henry Briggs
1561 – 1630
Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
1824 – 1899
Horacio González
1944 – 2021
Iajuddin Ahmed
1931 – 2012
Ignacio Villamor
1863 – 1933
Irene Emery
1900 – 1981
Irshat Fakhritdinov
1965 – 2021
Jack Keane
b. 1943
Jacob Milgrom
1923 – 2010
Jacques Lauriston
1768 – 1828
James Yorke Scarlett
1799 – 1871
Jan Woltjer
1849 – 1917
Jean-Michel Bony
b. 1942
Johann Andreas Danz
1654 – 1727
Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach
1792 – 1847
Johannes Trithemius
1462 – 1516
John Ford
1894 – 1973
John L. Sarrao
b. 1967
John Nott
1932 – 2024
Josef Lux
1956 – 1999
Kallam Anji Reddy
1939 – 2013
Kanai Masao
1892 – 1979
Karel Řehka
b. 1975
Karl Grossman
b. 1942
Katrín Jakobsdóttir
b. 1976
Kazimierz Mikołaj Michalkiewicz
1865 – 1940
Kazimierz Nitsch
1874 – 1958
Keiro Kitagami
b. 1967
Khaled Al-Osaili
b. 1947
Kjetil Storesletten
b. 1967
Krishna Kumari Kolhi
b. 1979
Langston Hughes
1902 – 1967
Latifa Lakhdar
b. 1956
Lee Shu-chuan
b. 1958
Leonardo Polo
1926 – 2013
Lev Pisarzhevsky
1874 – 1938
Levon Abrahamyan
b. 1947
Li Changchun
b. 1944
Liang Boqiang
1899 – 1968
Lloyd Berkner
1905 – 1967
Louis Blaringhem
1878 – 1958
Louis Rasminsky
1908 – 1998
Mahmadsaid Ubaydulloyev
b. 1952
Maria Fekter
b. 1956
Maria Ilnicka-Mądry
1946 – 2023
Marina Kondratyeva
1934 – 2024
Mario Bellini
b. 1935
Mary E. Hatten
b. 1950
Maryna Poroshenko
b. 1962
María Ángeles Mezquíriz Irujo
1929 – 2026
Matthew Henry Davies
1850 – 1912
Melba Phillips
1907 – 2004
Michal Feldman
b. 1976
Mike Enzi
1944 – 2021
Mikhail Lobov
b. 1971
Minute Alapati Taupo
1962 – 2022
Mir Masoom Ali
b. 1937
Mohamed Meziane
1897 – 1975
Mohammed Arkoun
1928 – 2010
Mourad Benmehidi
b. 1953
Mykola Petruk
b. 1950
Nabil Seidah
b. 1949
Nick Thorpe
b. 1960
Nikolai Reek
1890 – 1942
Nina Afanasyeva
b. 1939
Octavian Codru Tăslăuanu
1876 – 1942
Pablo Casado Blanco
b. 1981
Patrick Cordier
b. 1961
Petar Draganov
1857 – 1928
Peter Tapsell
1930 – 2018
Petro Shelest
1908 – 1996
Phana Khlaeoplotthuk
b. 1970
Philip Dawid
b. 1946
Philippe Juvin
b. 1964
Ramin Guluzade
b. 1977
… and 4,899 more
Died on February 1
Edwin Howard Armstrong
1890 – 1954
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
1819 – 1903
Álvaro d'Ors
1915 – 2004
Alexander Ogston
1844 – 1929
Alva Myrdal
1902 – 1986
Anders Chydenius
1729 – 1803
Antoine Bussy
1794 – 1882
Bernard Altum
1824 – 1900
Clinton Davisson
1881 – 1958
Constantin von Ettingshausen
1826 – 1897
David E. Finley, Jr.
1890 – 1977
Dominic Corrigan
1802 – 1880
Ed Koch
1924 – 2013
Henri Dupuy de Lôme
1816 – 1885
Henri Wassenbergh
1924 – 2014
Herbert Wilhelmy
1910 – 2003
Herzl Rosenblum
1903 – 1991
Horst Köhler
1943 – 2025
Johan Huizinga
1872 – 1945
Rafael Lapesa Melgar
1908 – 2001
Rita Süssmuth
1937 – 2026
Vladimir Nikolaevich Semyonov
1874 – 1960
Werner Heisenberg
1901 – 1976
Abdi İpekçi
1929 – 1979
Aldo Ciccolini
1925 – 2015
Alessandro Blasetti
1900 – 1987
Alexander Timashev
1818 – 1893
Alexander VIII
1610 – 1691
Alfred Biliotti
1833 – 1915
Alfréd Rényi
1921 – 1970
Angel Alcala
1929 – 2023
Anthony N. Michel
1935 – 2020
Anton Niklas Sundberg
1818 – 1900
Archibald Standish Hartrick
1864 – 1950
Aykut Barka
1951 – 2002
Barys Kit
1910 – 2018
Benjamin Griffith Brawley
1882 – 1939
Bijan Kumar Mukherjea
1891 – 1956
Blas Taracena Aguirre
1895 – 1951
Boris Didkovsky
1883 – 1938
Burton C. Andrus
1892 – 1977
Carl Platou
1885 – 1956
Charles Lallemand
1857 – 1938
Charles Ligar
1811 – 1881
Charles Raymond Beazley
1868 – 1955
Dag Arvas
1913 – 2004
Daniel Pearl
1963 – 2002
Delfí Abella
1925 – 2007
Edvard Hambro
1911 – 1977
Edward Plumptre
1821 – 1891
Ernst Troeltsch
1865 – 1923
Frank Spitzer
1926 – 1992
François Bovesse
1890 – 1944
Friedrich Rühs
1781 – 1820
Félix de Vuillefroy-Cassini
1841 – 1916
Geoffrey Wheeler
1897 – 1990
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland
1888 – 1963
George Whipple
1878 – 1976
Gherman Pântea
1894 – 1968
Gian Carlo Menotti
1911 – 2007
Gianfranco Contini
1912 – 1990
Gunnar Larsen
1902 – 1973
Gustav Schönleber
1851 – 1917
Harold E. Shear
1918 – 1999
Hassan Ibrahim
1917 – 1990
Ida Rhodes
1900 – 1986
Ivan Bagryanov
1891 – 1945
Ivan Paskevich
1782 – 1856
Jacob van der Hoeden
1891 – 1968
James K. Watkins
1887 – 1970
Jason Smogorzewski
1715 – 1788
Jean-François Cordet
1950 – 2024
John Foster
1904 – 1982
Joseph H. Thompson
1871 – 1928
Joseph T. McNarney
1893 – 1972
Kalpana Chawla
1962 – 2003
Kenneth Case
1923 – 2006
Kiril, Prince of Preslav
1895 – 1945
Laurel Clark
1961 – 2003
Lawrence Humphrey
1527 – 1590
Letitia Fairfield
1885 – 1978
Levon Pashalian
1868 – 1943
Lukas Foss
1922 – 2009
Maurice Houtart
1866 – 1939
Michael Bass, 1st Baron Burton
1837 – 1909
Michael P. Anderson
1959 – 2003
Nicholas John White
1951 – 2026
Nikola Mikhov
1891 – 1945
Nobusuke Takatsukasa
1889 – 1959
Norton P. Chipman
1834 – 1924
Oswald Achenbach
1827 – 1905
Otto Joachim Moltke
1770 – 1853
Paul Mellon
1907 – 1999
Paul Pholeros
1953 – 2016
Paul de Ladmirault
1808 – 1898
Pavel Shternberg
1865 – 1920
Peter Holm
1873 – 1950
Peter Howson
1919 – 2009
Peter Paul Maria Alberdingk Thijm
1827 – 1904
Peter Schmidl
1941 – 2025
Rafael Hui
1948 – 2026
Renato Corsetti
1941 – 2025
Rick Husband
1957 – 2003
Roger Landry
1934 – 2020
Romolo Valli
1925 – 1980
Ryszard Szurkowski
1946 – 2021
Shintarō Ishihara
1932 – 2022
Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet
1758 – 1807
Sven Thofelt
1904 – 1993
Theodore Strong
1790 – 1869
Thomas Chicheley
1614 – 1699
Toshiko Yuasa
1909 – 1980
Tsuboi Kōzō
1843 – 1898
Vasily Petrov
1917 – 2014
Wilhelm Ohnesorge
1872 – 1962
William C. McCool
1961 – 2003
William Gibbs McAdoo
1863 – 1941
William Hilliard
1887 – 1960
William Melvin Kelley
1937 – 2017
William P. Anderson
1851 – 1927
William Sterndale Bennett
1816 – 1875
Wojciech Trzciński
1949 – 2025
Wolfgang Schwanitz
1930 – 2022
X. J. Kennedy
1929 – 2026
Yamagata Aritomo
1838 – 1922
Yuriy Rumer
1901 – 1985
Émile Forgue
1860 – 1943
Émile Henriot
1885 – 1961
Abraham de Veer
1767 – 1838
Abu Muslim al Khorasani
718 – 755
Aleksei Musin-Pushkin
1744 – 1817
Alexander von Lüders
1790 – 1874
Alison Frantz
1903 – 1995
Amet-khan Sultan
1920 – 1971
Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi
1915 – 2004
André Laronde
1940 – 2011
Angelo Dundee
1921 – 2012
Anne Frank
1929 – 1945
Anton Martin Schweigaard
1808 – 1870
Antone S. Aguiar, Jr.
1930 – 2014
Antonio María Javierre Ortas
1921 – 2007
Aníbal Zañartu
1847 – 1902
Arnold Scholz
1904 – 1942
Arthur Donnelly
1890 – 1954
Arthur P. Murphy
1870 – 1914
Arvo Pentti
1915 – 1986
Asano Nagakoto
1842 – 1937
Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély
1794 – 1870
Augustus II the Strong
1670 – 1733
Azzeddine Laraki
1929 – 2010
Balázs Diószegi
1914 – 1999
Barış Manço
1943 – 1999
Basilio Lami Dozo
1929 – 2017
Benedikt Niese
1849 – 1910
Berl Locker
1887 – 1972
Bud Clark
1931 – 2022
Carl Ludwig Sigmund
1810 – 1883
Carlos I of Portugal
1863 – 1908
Carlota Sempé
1942 – 2024
Caroline L. Ransom
1872 – 1952
Charles B. McClintock
1886 – 1965
Charles Brandling
1769 – 1826
Charles Frederick D'Arcy
1859 – 1938
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury
1660 – 1718
Christian Broda
1916 – 1987
Chuan-Chiung Chang
1928 – 2024
Claudie Marcel-Dubois
1913 – 1989
Conway Berners-Lee
1921 – 2019
Costante Maltoni
1915 – 1980
Czesław Idźkiewicz
1889 – 1951
David Brown
1916 – 2010
David M. Brown
1956 – 2003
Davide Giordano
1864 – 1954
Dobry Bozhilov
1884 – 1945
Domenico Jacobini
1837 – 1900
Don Cornelius
1936 – 2012
Dénes Pázmándy
1781 – 1854
Dénes Szécsi
1410 – 1465
E. Ahamed
1938 – 2017
Earl Ramage Lewis
1887 – 1956
Edgar-Henri Boutry
1857 – 1938
Edith Helen Barrett
1872 – 1939
Edmund Naumann
1854 – 1927
Edward Donald Bellew
1882 – 1961
Edward H. Anderson
1858 – 1928
Edward Tipper
1921 – 2017
Edwin Scrymgeour
1866 – 1947
Eikichi Araki
1891 – 1959
Elaine de Kooning
1918 – 1989
Eleanora Carus-Wilson
1897 – 1977
Ellen Tiedtke
1930 – 2022
Elmer Ryan
1907 – 1958
Emery Bopp
1924 – 2007
Emil Hünten
1827 – 1902
Emmanuel Dungia
1948 – 2006
Enevold Sørensen
1850 – 1920
Eric Gordon England
1891 – 1976
Ernst Manker
1893 – 1972
Ewart Horsfall
1892 – 1974
Fay Vincent
1938 – 2025
… and 2,294 more