Who was born on February 1?
– 1402 – Eleonora of Aragon (1445) – Princess of Aragon, Queen of Portugal.
– 1459 – Conrad Celtis (1508) – a prominent German humanist.
– 1828 – Nikolai Teleshov (1895) – inventor, author of the first aircraft project in Russia and one of the first jet aircraft projects in the world.
– 1857 – Vladimir Bekhterev (1927) – Russian Soviet psychiatrist, neuropathologist, physiologist, psychologist.
– 1876 – William Harvey Emmons – (1948) – American geologist.
– 1889 – Viktor Shchekin (1965) – breeder, scientist, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Uzbekistan (1959).
– 1894 – John Ford (1965) – American film director.
– 1905 – Emilio Segre (1989) – Italian and American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1959).
– 1906 – Nu’monbek Dolimov (1977) – geographer. Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan (1970).
– 1917 – Kochkor Turdiyev (1992) – World War II participant, Hero of the Soviet Union (1942).
– 1922 – Tachat Oganesov (1991) – painter, Honored Art Worker of Uzbekistan (1968).
– 1922 – Renata Tebaldi (2004) – Italian opera singer (lyric soprano).
– 1924 – Bektosh Rakhimov (2009) – Uzbek SSR statesman, Hero of Labor of the Soviet Union, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1976-1986). In 1986, he was convicted in the Cotton case.
– 1931 – Boris Yeltsin (1931 – 2007) – the first President of the Russian Federation (1991-1999).
– 1942 – Lev Leshenko – pop singer, People’s Artist of the RSFSR.
– 1944 – Aydin Norboyeva – actress, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1978).
– 1947 – Mamatkul Hazratkulov – Uzbek writer and journalist, “Honored Journalist of the Republic of Uzbekistan”.
– 1953 – Rahmatullayev Sirojiddin – woodcarver, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (2003).
– 1962 – Takashi Murakami – Japanese painter, sculptor.
– 1965 – Stephanie – Princess of Monaco, pop singer.
– 1969 – Gabriel Batistuta – Argentine football player.
– 1990 – Nafisa Muminova – Uzbek chess player, international grandmaster.