Nathaniel Bacon leader of Bacons Rebellion Va (1676)
Marie Dumesnil French actress (Iphignie en Aulide) born in Paris France (d. 1803)
Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat French shipbuilder (d. 1797)
Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso Austrian countdiplomat in Belgium
Philip Freneau poet of American Revolution (The American Village)
Gugliemo Libri [della Somaia] ItalFren mathematicianbook collector
Rudolph J E Clausius German physicist (thermodynamics)
Peter Semenov of Tian Shan Russian explorer (d. 1914)
Henry Kingsley English Australian writer born in Northamptonshire (d. 1876)
Frederick A. Johnson American politician (d. 1893)
Charles Russell Lowell Jr American railroad executive and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Boston Massachusetts (d. 1864)
Queen Emma of Hawaii Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885)
Mendele Moykher Sforim Jewish writer (d. 1917)
Mily Balakirev Russian pianist and composer (Islamej Tamara) born in Nizhny Novgorod Russia (d. 1910)
Amy G C A Bonet-Maury French reformed theologist
Sandor Erkel Hungarian composerson of Ferenc Erkel born in Pest (d. 1900)
Frederick Opper cartoonist (Maud Alphonse & Gaston)
Martha Carey Thomas American educator suffragist linguist and second President of Bryn Mawr College born in Baltimore Maryland (d. 1935)
William C Mills museum curator (excavated Ohio Indian mounds)
Lucia Zarate became lightest known adult human (2.1 kg at 17)
Prof Gilbert Murray Australian classical scholar (d. 1957)
Arthur Gore British tennis player (Wimbledon 1901 08-09) born at Lydhurst England (d. 1928)
Ernst Barlach German writer and artist born in Wedel (d. 1938)
Anton Pannekoek Dutch astronomermarxist theorist (Communist Tactics)
Thrse de Lisieux French Roman-Catholic nun (d. 1897)
Johannes L Jan Walch Dutch literary (Grimaces)
Pieter Tesch Dutch geologist (Pedestal of Nederlands)
Jacques Chardonne [Boutelleau] French writer (lEpithalame)
Johannes Ringers Dutch water engineer (dikes)
Moyshe Leyb Halpern GalicanUS poet (In New-York)
Florence Lawrence Canadian actress (Lady Helens Escapade) born in Hamilton Ontario Canada (d. 1938)
Apsley Cherry-Garrard English Antarctic explorer (d. 1959)
Walter Baldwin American actor (The Best Years of Our Lives The Long Long Trailer) born in Lima Ohio (d. 1977)
Jan 02 1235 Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names
Jan 02 1492 Muhammad XII. (Boabdil) last Nasird ruler of Moorish fortress Alhambra surrenders to the Catholic Monarchs
Jan 02 1585 Spain & Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville