Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 1
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Births
- 1898 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian auto manufacturer (d. 1988)
- 1901 – Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960)
- 1902 – Langston Hughes, American writer (d. 1967) (pictured)
- 1931 – Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of the Russian Federation (d. 2007)
- 1948 – Rick James, American musician and composer (d. 2004)
Deaths
- 1851 – Mary Shelley, English author (b. 1797)
- 1944 – Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (b. 1872)
- 1966 – Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (b. 1885)
- 1966 – Buster Keaton, American actor (b. 1895)
- 2003 – The crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), astronauts:
- Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959)
- David Brown (b. 1956)
- Kalpana Chawla (b. 1961)
- Laurel Clark (b. 1961)
- Rick Husband (b. 1957)
- Willie McCool (b. 1961)
- Ilan Ramon (b. 1954)