January 2: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is January 2nd your birthday? Was someone special to you born on January 2nd? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

January 2nd was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

January 2nd Birthdays: Famous Artists

Russian classical composer Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev (Scherzi and Mazurkas) was born on January 2, 1837.

Ernst Barlach, German Expressionist sculptor (The Avenger, The Dead Day, The Flood, The Herb Plucker, The Magdeburger Ehrenmal and The Poor Cousin), was born on January 2, 1870.

American cartoonist Lynda Barry (Ernie Pook's Comeek) was born on January 2, 1956.

Franz Xaver Brixi, Polish classical composer, was born on January 2, 1732.

Italian painter Renato Guttuso (Flight from Etna, Crucifixion and La Vucciria) was born on January 2, 1912.

Todd Haynes, American film director (Far from Heaven, I'm Not There and Poison), was born on January 2, 1961.

American film director Penelope Spheeris (The Beverly Hillbillies, Black Sheep, The Gospel According to Janis, The Kid & I, The Little Rascals, Senseless, Wayne's World, We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll and Who Is Brad Lenz) was born on January 2, 1945.

British symphonic and operatic composer (A Child of Our Time, The Ice Break, King Priam, The Knot Garden, Midsummer Marriage, New Year and The Rose Lake) and author (Those 20th Century Blues and Tippett on Music) Sir Michael Kemp Tippett was born on January 2, 1905.

Frederick Horsman Varley, Canadian painter (Andante Cantabile, Dharana and View from the Artist's Bedroom Window - Jericho Beach), was born on January 2,

January 2nd Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Lanny Bassham, American sharpshooter and Olympic gold medalist (1976 ), was born on January 2, 1947.

Ludmila Borozna, Russian volleyball player and Olympic gold medalist (1972), was born on January 2, 1954.

American professional football player Calvin Hill (Dallas Cowboys) was born on January 2, 1947.

Karl Martin Lauer, German track runner and Olympic gold medalist (1960), was born on January 2, 1937.