04 February: today's birthdays

• Arjun Appadurai - Indian-born American anthropologist. He is the major theorist in globalization studies
• Charles Bally - Swiss linguist, fellow and collegue of Swiss linguist and semiotician Ferdinand de Saussure
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer - German theologian and anti-Nazi dissident
• Mario Brkljača - Croatian soccer player
• Jules Combarieu - French musicologist
• Alice Cooper - American singer-songwriter and musician, born Vincent Damon Furnier 
• Siobhan Dowd - Irish writer and activist. She wrote the novels A Swift Pure Cry, The London Eye Mystery, and Bog Child
• Friedrich Ebert - German politician
• Eric Garcetti - American politician of Italian descent, born Eric Michael Garcetti. He is currently the Mayor of Los Angeles and a member of the Democratic Party
• Friedrich Hermann Hund - German physicist best known for his studies of atoms and molecules
• Antoine Lacroix - French geologist, mineralogist and volcanologist
• Pablo Martín Ledesma - Argentine soccer player
• Fernand Léger - French painter and sculptor
• Pierre de Marivaux - French novelist and dramatist, born Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux. He wrote The Triumph of Love and The Game of Love and Chance
• Luigi Pareyson - Italian philosopher
• Isabel Perón - Argentine politician
• Jacques Prévert - French poet and author. He wrote the poems Les Enfants du Paradis and Les Feuilles mortes
• George Andrew Romero - American film director and screenwriter
• ​Mahvash Sabet - Mahvash Sabet is an acclaimed Iranian poet and author who was unjustly arrested in Iran for her religious beliefs. She is part of the Baháʼí 7, a group of Baháʼí community leaders, the second largest religion in Iran. In 2008, the 7 leaders, including Mahvash Sabet, were sentenced to prison for 10 years. Mahvash Sabet was finally released in 2017.
  The correct pronunciation of Mahvash Sabet is Mah(k)-vahsh SAH-bet.
  The "h" in Mahvash is pronounced like a guttural "h", that sounds a bit like there is a "k" at the end. The "a" in the second syllable, -vash, is pronounced with an open "ah" sound.
  In her last name, Sabet, the stress is on the first syllable and it is once again pronounced with an open "ah" sound.