Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 2

Births

• 1754 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician (d. 1838) (pictured)
• 1882 - James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)
• 1905 - Ayn Rand, Russian-born author and philosopher (d. 1982)
• 1947 - Farrah Fawcett, American actress (d. 2009)
• 1977 - Shakira, Colombian singer

Deaths

• 1969 - Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
• 1970 - Bertrand Russell, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1872)
• 1996 - Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, and director (b. 1912)