Major-General James Wolfe was a British Army officer known for his training reforms and, as a major general, remembered chiefly for his victory in 1759 over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec, in the final moments of which he was killed in action.
Biography from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
James Wolfe in our timeline
Also born on January 2
- Cuba Gooding Jr.1968 · American actor
- Kate Bosworth1983 · American actress
- Thérèse of Lisieux1873 · French Discalced Carmelite nun and saint
- Kemi Badenoch1980 · British politician
- Tia Carrere1967 · Filipino-American actress
- Mehmed IV1642 · Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687
- Barry Goldwater1909 · American politician and military officer
- Dax Shepard1975 · American actor, comedian and filmmaker
Also born in 1727
- Thomas Gainsborough1727 · English painter
- Anne Robert Jacques Turgot1727 · French economist and statesman
- Maximilian III Joseph1727 · Elector of Bavaria from 1745 to 1777
- Michel Adanson1727 · French naturalist
- Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin1727 · Chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands
- Jean-Georges Noverre1727 · French dancer
- Artemas Ward1727 · Continental Army general
- Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau1727 · Austrian diplomat