Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 1

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)