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)