Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
André Aciman |
Author |
2-Jan-1951 |
|
Out of Egypt |
Roger Adams |
Chemist |
2-Jan-1889 |
6-Jul-1971 |
Organic chemist at Illinois |
Isaac Asimov |
Author |
2-Jan-1920 |
6-Apr-1992 |
Foundation |
Nathaniel Bacon |
Politician |
2-Jan-1647 |
26-Oct-1676 |
Bacon's Rebellion |
Jim Bakker |
Religion |
2-Jan-1939 |
|
Adulterous bisexual TV evangelist |
Walter Baldwin |
Actor |
2-Jan-1889 |
27-Jan-1977 |
The Best Years of Our Lives |
Albert C. Barnes |
Curator |
2-Jan-1872 |
24-Jul-1951 |
Barnes Foundation |
Lynda Barry |
Cartoonist |
2-Jan-1956 |
|
Ernie Pook's Comeek |
Henry Bonilla |
Politician |
2-Jan-1954 |
|
Congressman from Texas, 1993-2007 |
Kate Bosworth |
Actor |
2-Jan-1983 |
|
Wonderland |
Ian Brady |
Criminal |
2-Jan-1938 |
|
British serial killer, convicted of Moors Murders |
Howard Caine |
Actor |
2-Jan-1928 |
28-Dec-1993 |
Maj. Hochstetter on Hogan's Heroes |
Levin H. Campbell |
Judge |
2-Jan-1927 |
|
1st Circuit Court of Appeals, 1972-1992 |
Tia Carrere |
Actor |
2-Jan-1967 |
|
Wayne's World |
Gabrielle Carteris |
Actor |
2-Jan-1961 |
|
Beverly Hills 90210 |
Andrew Cavendish |
Aristocrat |
2-Jan-1920 |
3-May-2004 |
11th Duke of Devonshire |
Ruth Channing |
Actor |
2-Jan-1908 |
|
The Merry Widow |
Dustin Clare |
Actor |
2-Jan-1982 |
|
Riley Ward on McLeod's Daughters |
Rudolf Clausius |
Physicist |
2-Jan-1822 |
24-Aug-1888 |
Second Law of Thermodynamics |
William J. Crowe, Jr. |
Government |
2-Jan-1925 |
18-Oct-2007 |
US Navy Admiral |
Deelishis |
TV Personality |
2-Jan-1978 |
|
Flavor of Love |
Taye Diggs |
Actor |
2-Jan-1971 |
|
How Stella Got Her Groove Back |
Dan L. Duncan |
Business |
2-Jan-1933 |
28-Mar-2010 |
Billionaire, Enterprise Products |
Robert Dutkowsky |
Business |
2-Jan-1955 |
|
CEO of Tech Data |
Rod Eddington |
Business |
2-Jan-1950 |
|
CEO of British Airways, 2000-05 |
Jason Evers |
Actor |
2-Jan-1922 |
13-Mar-2005 |
The Brain That Wouldn't Die |
John Hope Franklin |
Historian |
2-Jan-1915 |
25-Mar-2009 |
From Slavery to Freedom |
Cuba Gooding, Jr. |
Actor |
2-Jan-1968 |
|
Show him the money already |
William Haines |
Actor |
2-Jan-1900 |
26-Dec-1973 |
Hollywood's first openly gay leading man |
Larry Harmon |
Performance Artist |
2-Jan-1925 |
3-Jul-2008 |
Bozo the Clown |
Dennis Hastert |
Politician |
2-Jan-1942 |
|
Speaker of the House, 1999-2006 |
Todd Haynes |
Film Director |
2-Jan-1961 |
|
Far From Heaven |
George Herbig |
Astronomer |
2-Jan-1920 |
|
Herbig-Haro objects |
Erica Hubbard |
Actor |
2-Jan-1979 |
|
Lincoln Heights |
Howard P. Jones |
Diplomat |
2-Jan-1899 |
Sep-1973 |
US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1958-65 |
Tony Judt |
Historian |
2-Jan-1948 |
6-Aug-2010 |
Postwar |
Lew Landers |
Film Director |
2-Jan-1901 |
16-Dec-1962 |
The Raven |
Anna Lee |
Actor |
2-Jan-1913 |
14-May-2004 |
Lila Quartermaine on General Hospital |
Richard Lingeman |
Author |
2-Jan-1931 |
|
Biographer of Theodore Dreiser |
Bill Madlock |
Baseball |
2-Jan-1951 |
|
Mad Dog, MLB 3rd Baseman |
Gino Marchetti |
Football |
2-Jan-1927 |
|
NFL Hall of Famer |
James Marshall |
Actor |
2-Jan-1967 |
|
A Few Good Men |
Oscar Micheaux |
Film/TV Producer |
2-Jan-1884 |
25-Mar-1951 |
Within Our Gates |
Judith Miller |
Journalist |
2-Jan-1948 |
|
Credulous NY Times WMD maven |
Roger Miller |
Country Musician |
2-Jan-1936 |
25-Oct-1992 |
King of the Road |
Rick Mystrom |
Politician |
2-Jan-1944 |
|
Mayor of Anchorage, 1994-2000 |
Robert G. Neumann |
Diplomat |
2-Jan-1916 |
18-Jun-1999 |
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1969-73 |
Kay A. Orr |
Politician |
2-Jan-1939 |
|
Governor of Nebraska, 1987-91 |
Joanna Pacula |
Actor |
2-Jan-1957 |
|
Gorky Park |
William Lyon Phelps |
Critic |
2-Jan-1865 |
21-Aug-1943 |
Essays on Modern Novelists |
Richard W. Riley |
Politician |
2-Jan-1933 |
|
Governor of South Carolina, 1979-87 |
Artur Rodzinski |
Conductor |
2-Jan-1892 |
27-Nov-1958 |
Conductor, NY Philharmonic, 1943-47 |
Edward L. Romero |
Business |
2-Jan-1934 |
|
US Ambassador to Spain, 1998-2001 |
Dan Rostenkowski |
Politician |
2-Jan-1928 |
11-Aug-2010 |
Congressman from Illinois, 1959-95 |
Edmund de Rothschild |
Business |
2-Jan-1916 |
17-Jan-2009 |
British banker |
James J. Schiro |
Business |
2-Jan-1946 |
|
CEO of Zurich Financial Services, 2002-09 |
Hugh Shelton |
Military |
2-Jan-1942 |
|
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1997-2001 |
Dax Shepard |
Actor |
2-Jan-1975 |
|
Crosby Braverman on Parenthood |
Carl E. Stewart |
Judge |
2-Jan-1950 |
|
5th Circuit Court of Appeals |
James S. Tisch |
Business |
2-Jan-1953 |
|
CEO of Loews |
Christy Turlington |
Model |
2-Jan-1969 |
|
Supermodel, started Sundari |
Paz Vega |
Actor |
2-Jan-1976 |
|
Spanglish |
Karl-Heinrich von Stuelpnagel |
Military |
2-Jan-1886 |
30-Aug-1944 |
Nazi general, tried to overthrow Hitler |
Charles T. Wethington, Jr. |
Educator |
2-Jan-1936 |
|
President, University of Kentucky, 1990-2001 |
Rob Wexler |
Politician |
2-Jan-1961 |
|
Former Congressman from Florida |
Justin Winsor |
Curator |
2-Jan-1831 |
22-Oct-1897 |
Librarian of Harvard University |
James Wolfe |
Military |
2-Jan-1727 |
13-Sep-1759 |
Hero of Quebec |