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Today's Anniversary – Sunday, February 01


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Births

* 1969 Gabriel Batistuta Former professional footballer who played as a striker for the Argentine national team.
* 1969 Andrew Breitbart American publisher, commentator for the Washington Times, author, an occasional guest commentator on various news programs who has served as an editor for the Drudge Report website.
* 1965 Sherilyn Fenn Better known by her stage name Sherilyn Fenn, is an American actress, best known for her role as Audrey Horne in the American television series Twin Peaks.
* 1942 Terry Jones British comedian, actor, screenwriter, film director, political commentator, children's writer and Chaucerian scholar.
* 1941 Jerry Spinelli Noted children's author, specializing on novels written for and about early adolescence.
* 1939 Fritjof Capra Austrian-born American physicist, author and founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California.
* 1939 Fritjof Capra Austrian-born American physicist, author and founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California.
* 1938 Jimmy Carl Black Known as Jimmy Carl Black, is a drummer who was a member of the rock group The Mothers of Invention.
* 1931 Boris Yeltsin First president of post-Soviet Russia.
* 1928 Tom Lantos Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until his death, representing California's 12th congressional district, located in the southwest part of San Francisco and the area just south in San Mateo County.
* 1927 Galway Kinnell One of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century.
* 1918 Muriel Spark Scottish novelist, short-story writer, biographer and literary critic.
* 1915 Stanley Matthews Football player.
* 1904 S. J. Perelman American humorist and writer for the stage and screen.
* 1902 Langston Hughes American poet, novelist, playwright and newspaper columnist.
* 1901 Frank Buckles Was, at age 110, the last known surviving American-born veteran of the First World War.
* 1901 Clark Gable Academy Award-winning American film actor.
* 1900 Stephen Potter English scholar, critic, broadcaster and humorist.
* 1885 Friedrich Kellner Justice inspector during the Nazi period in Germany.
* 1884 Yevgeny Zamyatin Russian author, known mostly for his dystopian novel, We, which influenced and inspired later dystopian works such as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
* 1801 Thomas Cole American artist and poet.
* 1787 Richard Whately English logician and theological writer, and served as archbishop of Dublin.
* 1780 Charles Miner Member of the U S House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
* 1757 John Philip Kemble English actor.
* 1552 Edward Coke Early English colonial entrepreneur and jurist whose writings on the English common law were definitive legal texts for some 300 years.

Deaths

† 2013 Ed Koch United States Congressman representing New York from 1969 to 1977 and the Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.
† 2012 Wislawa Szymborska Polish poet, essayist and translator.
† 2003 Kalpana Chawla Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist.
† 2000 Peter Levi Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford.
† 1997 Herb Caen Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist working in San Francisco.
† 1995 Richey James Edwards Guitarist and lyricist from the the Manic Street Preachers.
† 1976 Werner Heisenberg German physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the founders of the field of quantum mechanics.
† 1966 Buster Keaton American actor and filmmaker, often called The Great Stone Face, he was the first person ever called "Buster", acquiring the nickname from Harry Houdini who saw him take a fall down some stairs as an infant.
† 1958 Clinton Davisson American physicist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction.
† 1957 Friedrich Paulus Officer in the German military from 1910 to 1943, attaining the rank of Generalfeldmarschall during World War II He is most known for commanding the Sixth Army's assault on Stalingrad during Operation Blue in 1942.
† 1945 Johan Huizinga Dutch historian, and one of the founders of modern cultural history.
† 1944 Piet Mondrian Dutch painter starting in Dutch impressionism but soon developping abstraction in his landscape paintings.
† 1903 Sir George Stokes Mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important contributions to fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics.
† 1899 Charles Seymour Robinson Pastor, and an editor and compiler of hymns.
† 1851 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley English novelist.
† 1803 Anders Chydenius Swedish-Finnish priest and member of the Riksdag of the Estates.
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