This Week’s Birthdays – Week of January 30

January 30, 1930 – Eugene Allen Hackman, an acclaimed Academy Award-winning American actor.

January 31, 1981 – Justin Randall Timberlake, a two-time Grammy Award-winning American singer and aspiring actor.

February 1, 1901 – William Clark Gable was an American film actor.

February 2, 1920 – George Hardwick, an English football player and coach.

February 3, 1809 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)

February 4, 1881 – Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. (kjfitz’s favorite Cubist)

February 5, 1788 – Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846.