Born on February 2

French Ursuline nun, mother superior of the convent of Loudun. She was the central figure in the affair of the possessed nuns of Loudun (1632-1634), claiming to be possessed by demons and accusing the priest Urbain Grandier of witchcraft, which led to his trial and execution at the stake.

Louis Vigée (1715–1767) was a French painter and poet, member of the Royal Academy of Painting. He is best known as the father of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, one of the greatest portrait painters at the court of Louis XVI.

French diplomat and statesman (1754–1838), he served under the Ancien Régime, the Revolution, the Empire, and the Restoration. A master negotiator, he defended France's interests at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

French lawyer and republican politician (1807–1874), he was one of the members of the provisional government that emerged from the February 1848 revolution. He was the principal architect of the decree establishing universal male suffrage in France, expanding the electorate from 200,000 to nearly 9 million citizens.

James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish writer, one of the major figures of literary modernism. His novel *Ulysses* (1922), which transposes Homer's *Odyssey* into a single day in Dublin, revolutionized narrative through its stream-of-consciousness technique.

An American philosopher, novelist, and screenwriter of Russian origin, Ayn Rand is the founder of Objectivism, a philosophy championing reason, individualism, and capitalism. Her bestselling novels, including 'The Fountainhead' and 'Atlas Shrugged,' have had a lasting influence on American libertarian thought.

French statesman, President of the Republic from 1974 to 1981. A liberal reformer at the start of his term, he modernized French society before being defeated by François Mitterrand. He was also a key architect of European integration.

American tenor saxophonist and a leading figure of 1950s “cool” jazz. Nicknamed “The Sound” for the warm, lyrical tone of his instrument, he popularized bossa nova in the United States in the early 1960s.

Shakira is a Colombian singer, songwriter, and actress born in 1977 in Barranquilla. A global icon of Latin pop, she blends Arabic, rock, and Afro-Caribbean influences. She was the first Latin American artist to surpass one billion views on YouTube.