1799 – Joao Batista da Silva Leitao de Almeida Garret, Portuguese playwright
1859 – Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya (d. 1881)
1884 – Julius Callewaert, Flemish dominican/bringing up children
1929 – Mary Joan Nielubowicz, rear admiral/nurse
1929 – Jerry Adler, American actor, director and producer (The Sopranos, The Good Wife), born in Brooklyn, New York
1947 – James Danforth “Dan” Quayle, USA (Sen-R-Ind, 44th Vice President 1989-93), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
1948 – Marguerite “Marge” Ganser, American pop singer (The Shangri-Las), born in Queens, New York (d. 1996)
1960 – Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish author (d. 2007)
1961 – Denis Savard, Canadian NHL centre (Chicago Blackhawks) named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players’ in history, born in Pointe Gatineau, Canada
1964 – Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring)
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 3rd February 2020
1784 – John Fane graaf van Westmorland, English (opera)composer/diplomat
1903 – Priaulx Rainier, South African British composer, born in Howick, South Africa (d. 1986)
1925 – John Fiedler, American actor (Mr Peterson-Newhart), born in Platteville, Wisconsin
1928 – C V Gadkari, cricketer (Indian batsman in 6 Tests 1953-55)
1958 – Joe Frank Edwards Jr, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 89), born in Richmond, Virginia
1959 – Loi Tolhurst, rocker (Cure-Hell’s Kitchen)
1961 – Jay Adams, American skateboarder
1970 – Oscar Cordoba, Colombian footballer
1970 – Keith Carney, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks, Team US), born in Providence, Rhode Island
1976 – Dwayne Rudd, linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
Famous Birthdays for 2nd February 2020
1888 – Candelario Huizar, composer
1911 – Johan J “Jussi” Bjorling, Swedish tenor
1919 – Allie Reynolds, NY Yankee pitcher (1952 AL ERA leader (2.07))
1927 – Friedrich K Flick, German industrialist
1927 – Richard Ray, (Rep-D-GA, 1983- ) [or Jan 2]
1928 – Alan Fluck, musical educationalist
1944 – Katherine Crawford, actress (Gemini Man, Captains and Kings), born in Los Angeles, California
1968 – Scott Erickson, pitcher (Minnesota Twins, Baltimore Orioles), born in Long Beach, California
1974 – J R Conrad, offensive tackle/guard (NY Jets)
1977 – Libor Sionko, Czech football player
Famous Birthdays for 1st February 2020
1663 – Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, Filipino Religious Sister of the Roman Catholic Church, born in Bonondo, Manila, Philippines (d. 1748)
1841 – William Henry Davenport, American stage magician, claimed to be a spirit medium, born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1877)
1877 – Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer
1883 – Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Armenian-Russian theatrical director of the Moscow Art Theatre (Vakhtangov Theatre), born in Vladikavkaz, Russia (d. 1922)
1892 – Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer and musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall), born in Krefeld (d. 1959)
1948 – Debbie Austin, American golfer (7 LPGA Tour wins), born in Oneida, New York
1964 – Jani Lane, American musician and singer (Warrant-Cherry Pie), born in Akron, Ohio
1968 – Lisa Marie Presley Keough Jackson, daughter of Elvis, born in Memphis, Tennessee
1971 – Harald Brattbakk, Norwegian soccer striker (17 caps; Rosenburg, Celtic), born in Trondheim, Norway
1972 – Yoshi DeHerrera, American TV personality, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Famous Birthdays for 31st January 2020
1817 – Antony Winkler Prins, Dutch writer (Groiler Encyclopaedia)
1858 – André Antoine, French actor and stage manager (founded Théâtre-Libre), born in Limoges, France (d. 1943)
1877 – Max Ettlinger, German philosopher, born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1929)
1890 – Adolf Bach, German language/sociologist (Deutsche Namenkunde)
1913 – Wayne Millner, NFL end (Boston/Washington Redskins)
1915 – Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)
1946 – Subroto Guha, Indian cricketer (right arm swing bowler for India 1967-69), born in India
1951 – Phil Manzanera, English musician and record producer (Roxy Music-Let’s Stick Together), born in London, United Kingdom
1976 – Buddy Rice, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 2004, 24 Hours of Daytona 2009), born in Phoenix, Arizona
1985 – Mario Williams, American football defensive end, born in Richlands, North Carolina
Famous Birthdays for 30th January 2020
1899 – Max Theiler, South African-American virologist who developed vaccine for Yellow Fever (Nobel Prize 1951), born in Pretoria (d. 1972)
1901 – Hans Erich Nossak, German writer, born in Hamburg (d. 1977)
1910 – Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician, born in Pollachi taluk (d. 2000)
1915 – Dorothy Dell [Goff], American child actress (Little Miss Marker, Wharf Angel), born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi (d. 1934)
1928 – Mitch Leigh, American musical composer (Man of La Mancha), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2014)
1951 – Trevor Laughlin, Australian cricketer (Australian all-rounder 1978-79), born in Nyah West, Australia
1956 – Jeremy Gittins, English actor, born in Manchester, United Kingdom
1971 – Milko Pieren, Dutch football player (Sparta), born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
1975 – Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer, born in Pernambuco, Brazil
1990 – Jake Thomas, American actor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Lizzie McGuire), born in Knoxville, Tennessee
Famous Birthdays for 29th January 2020
1900 – Willem F K Hussem, Dutch painter/poet (Coastline, Lookout on Sea)
1908 – Adam Clayton Powell, (Rep-D-NY, 1945-70)
1909 – George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, British politician (Speaker of the House of Commons), born in Port Talbot, Wales (d. 1997)
1922 – Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concetration camp supervisor (d. 1946)
1923 – Jack Burke Jr, American golfer (US Masters, PGA C’ship 1956), born in Fort Worth, Texas
1948 – Pat Kenny, Irish TV presenter and radio host
1954 – Doug Risebrough, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
1957 – Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist
1966 – Romário, Brazilian footballer and politician, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1968 – Susi Erdmann, German bobsledder and luger, born in Blankenburg, Germany
Famous Birthdays for 28th January 2020
1828 – Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor
1841 – Viktor Ernst Nessler, composer
1898 – Wies Moens, Flemish writer/nazi
1898 – Vittorio Rieti, composer
1899 – Zilner T Randolph, jazz trumpeter/arranger
1928 – Slade Gorton, (Sen-R-WA, 1981- )
1945 – Robert Wyatt, English musician
1945 – José Luis Perales, Spanish singer
1946 – Renne Jarrett, American actress (Nancy), born in Brooklyn, New York
1967 – Jan Lamb, Hong Kong disc jockey and stand-up comedian
Famous Birthdays for 27th January 2020
1826 – Richard Taylor, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), (d. 1879)
1872 – Learned Hand, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals), born in Albany, New York
1894 – Fritz Pollard, early African American NFL star (1920-26)
1931 – Mordecai Richler, Montreal author, (Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz)
1934 – Edithe Cresson, premier of France (1991-92)
1939 – Mike Hill, American golfer (3 PGA; PGA 18 Senior titles), born in Jackson, Michigan
1950 – Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born physician
1951 – Brian Downey, Irish rock drummer (Thin Lizzy-Boys are Back in Town), born in Dublin, Ireland
1955 – Brian Engblom, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 – Rhett Warrener, Shaunavon, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
Famous Birthdays for 26th January 2020
1915 – William Hopper, American actor (Perry Mason, The Bad Seed, Rebel Without a Cause), born in NYC, New York (d. 1970)
1918 – Philip José Farmer, Terre Haute Indiana, American sci-fi novelist (Riverworld)
1922 – Michael Bentine, England, author/comedian (Reluctant Jester)
1925 – Paul Newman, American actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler), racing car driver and charity food company founder (Newman’s Own), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2008)
1925 – Claude Ryan, Quebec newspaper editor (d. 2004)
1932 – Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer
1943 – Peter Kenton Winkler, composer
1957 – Ashok Malhotra, Indian cricketer (Indian batsman in 7 Tests 1982-84), born in Amritsar, India
1960 – Gary Plummer, American NFL linebacker (San Diego Chargers, SF 49ers), born in Fremont, California
1967 – Pradip Somasundaran, Indian playback singer, born in Thrissur, India