Births on 2 January
2000s
Claudio Echeverri
2006
Argentine footballer (born 2006)
CJ Egan-Riley
2003
English footballer (born 2003)
Elye Wahi
2003
French footballer (born 2003)
Cole Caufield
2001
Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 2001)
Luiz Henrique (footballer, born 2001)
2001
Brazilian footballer (born 2001)
Spencer Arrighetti
2000
American baseball player (born 2000)
1900s
Georgios Kalaitzakis
1999
Greek basketball player (born 1999)
Fernando Tatís Jr.
1999
Dominican baseball player (born 1999)
Aaron Wiggins
1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Tfue
1998
American professional esports player (born 1998)
Timothy Fosu-Mensah
1998
Dutch footballer (born 1998)
Arshad Nadeem
1997
Pakistani javelin thrower (born 1997)
Carlos Soler
1997
Spanish footballer (born 1997)
Jonah Bolden
1996
Australian-American basketball player (born 1996)
Ronald Darby
1994
American football player (born 1994)
Bryson Tiller
1993
American singer (born 1993)
Paulo Gazzaniga
1992
Argentine footballer (born 1992)
Alexey Marchenko
1992
Russian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Teemu Pulkkinen
1992
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1992)
Korbin Sims
1992
Fiji international rugby league footballer
Ben Hardy (actor)
1991
English actor (b. 1991)
Germán Cano
1988
Argentine footballer (born 1988)
Luke Harangody
1988
American basketball player (born 1988)
Damien Tussac
1988
Germany international rugby union player
Shelley Hennig
1987
American actress and model (born 1987)
Robert Milsom
1987
English footballer
Loïc Rémy
1987
French footballer (born 1987)
Kate Bosworth
1983
American actress (born 1983)
Anthony Carrigan (actor)
1983
American actor (born 1983)
Kirk Hinrich
1981
American basketball player (born 1981)
Maxi Rodríguez
1981
Argentine footballer (born 1981)
David Gyasi
1980
Ghanaian British actor (born 1980)
Jonathan Greening
1979
English footballer and coach
Brian Boucher
1977
American ice hockey player (born 1977)
Stefan Koubek
1977
Austrian tennis player (born 1977)
Paz Vega
1976
Spanish actress (born 1976)
Dax Shepard
1975
American actor, comedian and filmmaker (born 1975)
Jeff Suppan
1975
American baseball player (born 1975)
Reuben Thorne
1975
NZ international rugby union player
Ludmila Formanová
1974
Czech middle-distance runner
Juha Lind
1974
Finnish ice hockey player
Tomáš Řepka
1974
Czech footballer
Rodney MacDonald
1972
Premier of Nova Scotia from 2006 to 2009
Shiraz Minwalla
1972
Indian physicist
Mattias Norström
1972
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1972)
Taye Diggs
1971
American actor and singer (born 1971)
Renée Elise Goldsberry
1971
American actress (born 1971)
Eric Whitacre
1970
American composer (born 1970)
István Bagyula
1969
Hungarian pole vaulter (born 1969)
William Fox-Pitt
1969
British equestrian
Elena Gorolová
1969
Czech human rights defender
Róbert Švehla
1969
Ice hockey player
Christy Turlington
1969
American model
Cuba Gooding Jr.
1968
American actor (born 1968)
Anky van Grunsven
1968
Dutch equestrian
Francois Pienaar
1967
South African rugby union player
Tia Carrere
1967
Filipino-American actress (born 1967)
Jón Gnarr
1967
Icelandic actor and politician
Chris Welp
1964
German basketball player (1964–2015)
Pernell Whitaker
1964
American boxer (1964–2019)
David Cone
1963
American baseball player and analyst (born 1963)
Edgar Martínez
1963
Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1963)
Gabrielle Carteris
1961
American actress
Paula Hamilton
1961
English model
Todd Haynes
1961
American filmmaker (born 1961)
Craig James (running back)
1961
American football player and broadcaster (born 1961)
Robert Wexler
1961
American politician (born 1961)
Henry Bonilla
1954
American journalist (born 1954)
Évelyne Trouillot
1954
Indulis Emsis
1952
Latvian biologist and politician (born 1952)
Wendy Phillips
1952
American actress
Christopher Durang
1949
American playwright (1949–2024)
Iris Marion Young
1949
American philosopher (1949–2006)
Judith Miller
1948
American journalist (born 1948)
Deborah Watling
1948
English actress (1948–2017)
Jack Hanna
1947
American zookeeper and wildlife conservationist
Calvin Hill
1947
American football player (born 1947)
David Shapiro (poet)
1947
American poet (1947–2024)
Charlie Davis (cricketer)
1944
West Indian cricketer (born 1944)
Péter Eötvös
1944
Hungarian composer, conductor and teacher (1944–2024)
Norodom Ranariddh
1944
Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1993 to 1997
Mohamed Ali Yusuf
1944
Vice President of Puntland from 2004 to 2005
Janet Akyüz Mattei
1943
Turkish-American astronomer
Thomas Hammarberg
1942
Swedish diplomat and human rights defender
Dennis Hastert
1942
American politician (born 1942)
Jim Bakker
1940
American televangelist (born 1940)
Saud bin Faisal Al Saud
1940
Saudi royal and foreign minister (1940–2015)
David Bailey
1938
British photographer (born 1938)
Lynn Conway
1938
American computer scientist and electrical engineer (1938–2024)
Robert Smithson
1938
20th-century American artist
Roger Miller
1936
American country musician (1936–1992)
John Hollowbread
1934
English footballer
Toshiki Kaifu
1931
Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991
Charles Beaumont
1929
American author (1929–1967)
Tellervo Koivisto
1929
Finnish politician (born 1929)
Dan Rostenkowski
1928
American politician (1928–2010)
Gino Marchetti
1926
American football player (1926–2019)
Glen Harmon
1921
Canadian ice hockey player
Bob Feerick
1920
American basketball player, coach, executive
Ernest Bender
1919
American Indologist (1919–1996)
Beatrice Hicks
1919
Early woman engineer from the United States
Willi Graf
1918
German resistance member (1918–1943)
Vera Zorina
1917
German-Norwegian ballerina, actress and choreographer (1917–2003)
Juanita Jackson Mitchell
1913
American lawyer and activist (1913–1992)
Anna Lee
1913
British and American actress (1913–2004)
Riccardo Cassin
1909
Italian mountaineer and businessman
Barry Goldwater
1909
American politician and military officer (1909–1998)
Michael Tippett
1905
English composer (1905–1998)
Luigi Zampa
1905
Italian film director (1905–1991)
Walter Heitler
1904
German–Irish theoretical physicist (1904–1981)
Kane Tanaka
1903
Japanese supercentenarian (1903–2022)
Dan Keating
1902
Irish republican (1902–2007)
Bob Marshall (wilderness activist)
1901
American wilderness activist (1901–1939)
Una Ledingham
1900
British physician (1900–1965)
1800s
Theodore Plucknett
1897
British legal historian (1897-1965)
Dziga Vertov
1896
Soviet-Jewish filmmaker (1896–1954)
Lawrence Wackett
1896
Australian aviation pioneer
Folke Bernadotte
1895
Swedish diplomat (1895–1948)
Seiichiro Kashio
1892
Japanese tennis player (1892–1962)
Giovanni Michelucci
1891
Italian architect (1891-1990)
Bertram Stevens (politician)
1889
Australian politician (1889–1973)
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
1886
English polar explorer & Author (1886–1959)
Gordon Flowerdew
1885
English-born Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross (1885–1918)
Ben-Zion Dinur
1884
Israeli politician and historian (1884–1973)
Jaakko Mäki
1878
Finnish politician (1878–1938)
Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai
1878
Indian social reformer and freedom fighter
Anton Pannekoek
1873
Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist (1873–1960)
Thérèse of Lisieux
1873
French Discalced Carmelite nun and saint (1873–1897)
Ernst Barlach
1870
German expressionist sculptor, printmaker and writer (1870–1938)
Tex Rickard
1870
American sports promoter
Gilbert Murray
1866
Anglo-Australian scholar (1866–1957)
Dugald Campbell Patterson
1860
William Corless Mills
1860
American museum curator
M. Carey Thomas
1857
American educator, suffragist, and linguist (1857–1935)
Mily Balakirev
1837
Russian composer and pianist (1837–1910)
Mendele Mocher Sforim
1836
Belarusian-Ukrainian Jewish author
Queen Emma of Hawaii
1836
Queen of Hawaii from 1856 to 1863
Frederick A. Johnson
1833
American politician
Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky
1827
Russian geographer and statistician (1827–1914)
Rudolf Clausius
1822
German physicist and mathematician (1822–1888)
Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja
1803
Italian count and mathematician (1803–1869)
Before 1800
Christian Daniel Rauch
1777
German sculptor (1777–1857)
František Brixi
1732
Czech composer (1732–1771)
James Wolfe
1727
British Army officer (1727–1759)
Marie Dumesnil
1713
French actress (1713–1803)
Osman III
1699
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 to 1757
Nathaniel Bacon (Virginia colonist)
1647
Colonist of the Virginia Colony and leader of Bacon's Rebellion
Mehmed IV
1642
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687
Henry of Stolberg
1509
Piero di Cosimo
1462
Italian painter (1462–1522)
Emperor Yōzei
869
Emperor of Japan from 876 to 884