Births on 1 February
2000s
Brian Brobbey
2002
Dutch footballer (born 2002)
Talanoa Hufanga
2000
American football player (born 2000)
1900s
Mohamed Abdelmonem
1999
Egyptian footballer (born 1999)
Drew Eubanks
1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Jihyo
1997
South Korean singer (born 1997)
Ahmad Abughaush
1996
Jordanian taekwondo athlete
Doyoung
1996
South Korean singer (born 1996)
Anna-Lena Friedsam
1994
German tennis player (born 1994)
Julia Garner
1994
American actress (born 1994)
Harry Styles
1994
English singer, songwriter and actor (born 1994)
Diego Mella
1993
Italian footballer (born 1993)
Sean Manaea
1992
American baseball player (born 1992)
Blake Austin
1991
GB, England & Portugal international rugby league footballer
Tyler Myers
1990
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Ricky Pinheiro
1989
Portuguese footballer
Brett Anderson (baseball)
1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
Sebastian Boenisch
1987
Polish footballer (born 1987)
Moises Henriques
1987
Australian international cricketer
Austin Jackson (baseball)
1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Heather Morris
1987
American actress, dancer, and singer
Giuseppe Rossi
1987
Italian-American footballer (born 1987)
Ronda Rousey
1987
American actress and martial artist (born 1987)
Jorrit Bergsma
1986
Dutch speed skater (born 1986)
Lauren Conrad
1986
American television personality (born 1986)
Ladislav Å mÃd
1986
Czech ice hockey player (born 1986)
Dean Shiels
1985
Northern Irish footballer (born 1985)
Darren Fletcher
1984
Scottish footballer (born 1984)
No Rain
1983
1993 single by Blind Melon
Kevin Martin (basketball, born 1983)
1983
American basketball player (born 1983)
Jurgen Van den Broeck
1983
Belgian cyclist
Andrew VanWyngarden
1983
American musician (born 1983)
Gavin Henson
1982
Welsh international rugby union player (born 1982)
Shoaib Malik
1982
Pakistani cricketer (born 1982)
Hins Cheung
1981
Chinese-Hong Kong singer and songwriter
Christian Giménez (footballer, born 1981)
1981
Mexican footballer and manager (born 1981)
Graeme Smith
1981
South African cricketer (born 1981)
Héctor Luna
1980
Dominican baseball player (born 1980)
ValentÃn Elizalde
1979
Mexican singer (1979–2006)
Jason Isbell
1979
American singer-songwriter (born 1979)
Juan (footballer, born 1979)
1979
Brazilian footballer
Tim Harding (musician)
1978
Australian musician
Robert Traylor
1977
American basketball player (1977–2011)
Phil Ivey
1976
American poker player (born 1977)
Mat Rogers
1976
Australian rugby league and rugby union footballer (born 1976)
Big Boi
1975
American rapper (born 1975)
Martijn Reuser
1975
Dutch footballer (born 1975)
Tomáš Vlasák
1975
Ice hockey player
Walter McCarty
1974
American basketball player and coach (born 1974)
Andrew DeClercq
1973
American professional basketball player and coach
Óscar Pérez (footballer, born 1973)
1973
Mexican footballer
Leymah Gbowee
1972
Liberian peace activist (born 1972)
Christian Ziege
1972
German football player and manager
Michael C. Hall
1971
American actor (born 1971)
Tommy Salo
1971
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1971)
Yasuyuki Kazama
1970
Japanese racing driver
Malik Sealy
1970
American basketball player (1970–2000)
Gabriel Batistuta
1969
Argentine footballer (born 1969)
Andrew Breitbart
1969
American journalist (1969–2012)
Brian Krause
1969
American actor (born 1969)
Joshua Redman
1969
American jazz saxophonist and composer (born 1969)
Franklyn Rose
1969
West Indian cricketer (born 1972)
Patrick Wilson (drummer)
1969
American musician, singer and songwriter
Lisa Marie Presley
1968
American singer-songwriter (1968–2023)
Mark Recchi
1968
Canadian ice hockey player, coach (b. 1968)
Pauly Shore
1968
American Comedian and actor (born 1968)
Meg Cabot
1967
American novelist
Michelle Akers
1966
American soccer player (born 1966)
Sherilyn Fenn
1965
American actress (born 1965)
Brandon Lee
1965
American actor and martial artist (1965–1993)
Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
1965
Monégasque princess (born 1965)
Jani Lane
1964
American rock singer (1964–2011)
Eli Ohana
1964
Israeli footballer (born 1964)
Mario Pelchat
1964
Canadian Francophone singer from Quebec (born 1964)
Linus Roache
1964
British actor (born 1964)
José Luis Cuciuffo
1962
Argentine footballer
Tomoyasu Hotei
1962
Japanese musician (born 1962)
Takashi Murakami
1962
Japanese artist (born 1962)
Volker Fried
1961
German field hockey player
Kaduvetti Guru
1961
Former Politician from Tamil Nadu, India
Daniel M. Tani
1961
American astronaut and engineer (born 1961)
Wade Wilson (American football)
1959
American football player and coach (1959–2019)
Luther Blissett
1958
English association football player, coach, and manager (born 1958)
Eleanor Laing
1958
British politician and life peer (born 1958)
Gilbert Hernandez
1957
American cartoonist (born 1957)
Mohammed Jamal Khalifa
1957
Saudi Arabian businessman (1957–2007)
Exene Cervenka
1956
American singer (born 1956)
T. R. Dunn
1955
American basketball player and coach
Chuck Dukowski
1954
American musician (born 1954)
Bill Mumy
1954
American actor (born 1954)
Owoye Andrew Azazi
1952
11th Chief of Defence Staff of Nigeria (1952–2012)
Sonny Landreth
1951
American blues musician
Mike Campbell (musician)
1950
American guitarist (born 1950)
Ali Haydar Konca
1950
Turkish politician
Rich Williams
1950
American guitarist
Lex Marinos
1949
Australian actor (1949–2024)
Rick James
1948
American musician (1948–2004)
Adam Ingram (Labour politician)
1947
British Labour Party politician (born 1947)
Normie Rowe
1947
Australian rock and roll singer (born 1947)
Jessica Savitch
1947
American television news reporter (1947–1983)
Karen Krantzcke
1946
Australian tennis player
Elisabeth Sladen
1946
British actress (1946–2011)
Serge Joyal
1945
Canadian politician
Ferruccio Mazzola
1945
Italian footballer (1945–2013)
Mary Jane Reoch
1945
American cyclist
Burkhard Ziese
1944
German football manager
Bibi Besch
1942
Austrian-American actress (1942–1996)
Terry Jones
1942
Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)
Jerry Spinelli
1941
American children's writer (born 1941)
Fritjof Capra
1939
American physicist and author (born 1939)
Claude François
1939
French singer, songwriter and dancer (1939–1978)
Paul Gillmor
1939
American politician (1939–2007)
Ekaterina Maximova
1939
Russian ballet dancer
Joe Sample
1939
American jazz musician and composer (1939–2014)
Jimmy Carl Black
1938
American drummer and vocalist (1938–2008)
Jacky Cupit
1938
American professional golfer (1938–2026)
Sherman Hemsley
1938
American actor (1938–2012)
Don Everly
1937
American singer-songwriter (1937–2021)
Garrett Morris
1937
American actor (born 1937)
Tuncel Kurtiz
1936
Turkish actor and director (1936–2013)
Marina Kondratyeva
1934
Russian ballet dancer (1934–2024)
John Nott
1932
British politician (1932–2024)
Hassan al-Turabi
1932
Sudanese religious and political leader (1932–2016)
Boris Yeltsin
1931
President of Russia from 1991 to 1999
Shahabuddin Ahmed
1930
President of Bangladesh (1990–1991; 1996–2001)
Hussain Muhammad Ershad
1930
President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990
Sam Edwards (physicist)
1928
Welsh physicist
Tom Lantos
1928
American politician (1928–2008)
Stuart Whitman
1928
American actor (1928–2020)
Galway Kinnell
1927
American poet
Vivian Maier
1926
American photographer (1926–2009)
Emmanuel Scheffer
1924
Israeli footballer (1923–2012)
Ben Weider
1923
Canadian sports businessman (1923–2008)
Renata Tebaldi
1922
Italian opera singer (1922–2004)
Teresa Mattei
1921
Italian partisan and politician (1921–2013)
Patricia Robins
1921
British author of short stories and novels (1921-2016)
Peter Sallis
1921
English actor (1921–2017)
Zao Wou-Ki
1920
Chinese-French painter (1920–2013)
Muriel Spark
1918
Scottish author (1918–2006)
Ignacy Tokarczuk
1918
Polish prelate
José Luis Sampedro
1917
Spanish economist and writer (1917–2013)
Eiji Sawamura
1917
Japanese baseball player
Stanley Matthews
1915
English footballer (1915–2000)
Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme
1910
Tibetan politician (1910–2009)
George Beverly Shea
1909
American gospel singer and hymn composer born in Canada (1909-2013)
George Pal
1908
Hungarian-American animator, film director and producer (1908–1980)
Louis Rasminsky
1908
3rd governor of the Bank of Canada
Günter Eich
1907
German lyricist, dramatist and author
Camargo Guarnieri
1907
Brazilian composer
Adetokunbo Ademola
1906
Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1958 to 1972
Emilio Segrè
1905
Italian-American nuclear physicist and radiochemist (1905–1989)
S. J. Perelman
1904
American screenwriter (1904–1979)
Therese Brandl
1902
Nazi concentration camp guard (1902–1948)
Langston Hughes
1902
American writer and social activist (1901–1967)
Frank Buckles
1901
United States Army soldier and supercentenarian
Clark Gable
1901
American actor (1901–1960)
1800s
Leila Denmark
1898
American pediatrician (1898–2012)
Denise Robins
1897
English novelist (1897–1985)
Conn Smythe
1895
Canadian sports executive (1895–1980)
John Ford
1894
American film director (1894–1973)
James P. Johnson
1894
American pianist and composer (1894–1955)
Nikolai Reek
1890
Estonian military commander
Charles Nordhoff
1887
American novelist (1887–1947)
Bradbury Robinson
1884
American football player and physician (1884–1949)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
1884
Russian author (1884–1937)
Vladimir Dimitrov
1882
Bulgarian painter and teacher
Louis St. Laurent
1882
Prime Minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957
Tip Snooke
1881
South African cricketer
Alfréd Hajós
1878
Hungarian swimmer and architect
Milan Hodža
1878
Slovak politician and journalist
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
1874
Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist (1874–1929)
John Barry (VC)
1873
Recipient of the Victoria Cross (1873–1901)
Clara Butt
1872
British singer (1872–1936)
Jerome F. Donovan
1872
American politician (1872–1949)
Erik Adolf von Willebrand
1870
Finnish physician (1870–1949)
Ștefan Luchian
1868
Romanian painter (1868–1916)
Agda Meyerson
1866
Swedish nurse and activist
Victor Herbert
1859
Irish-American composer (1859–1924)
Ignacio Bonillas
1858
Mexican diplomat (1858–1942)
Durham Stevens
1851
American diplomat (1851–1908)
G. Stanley Hall
1844
American psychologist and educator (1844–1924)
Emil Hartmann
1836
Danish composer (1836–1898)
George Hendric Houghton
1820
Émile Littré
1801
19th-century French lexicographer and philosopher
Before 1800
Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich
1796
Swiss poet (1796–1865)
Thomas Campbell (minister)
1763
Irish Presbyterian minister (1763–1854)
Christiaan Hendrik Persoon
1761
German mycologist (1761–1836)
Johan Agrell
1701
German/Swedish baroque composer
Francesco Maria Veracini
1690
18th-century Italian composer
Johann Adam Birkenstock
1687
German composer and violinist
Marie Thérèse de Bourbon
1666
Queen of Poland (titular) (1666–1732)
Ignacia del EspÃritu Santo
1663
Filipina nun and Venerable (1663–1748)
Jacob Roggeveen
1659
Dutch explorer of the Pacific Ocean (1659–1729)
Elkanah Settle
1648
English poet and playwright (1648–1724)
Marquard Gude
1635
German archaeologist
Henry Briggs (mathematician)
1561
British mathematician (1561–1630)
Edward Coke
1552
English lawyer and judge (1552–1634)
Johannes Trithemius
1462
German Benedictine abbot and polymath (1462–1516)
Conrad Celtes
1459
German Renaissance humanist scholar and poet (1459–1508)
Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg
1447
Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy
1435
Duke of Savoy from 1465 to 1472
Walter Stapledon
1261
English bishop and Treasurer of England (died 1326)