1 01/01 Grace Brewster Murray Hopper died in Arlington, Virginia, 1992 2 01/01 Heinz Zemanek born in Vienna, Austria, 1920 3 01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919 4 01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735 5 01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now Russia), 1920 6 01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864 7 01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785 8 01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars 9 01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer 10 01/08 Stephen Hawking born in Oxford, England, 1942 11 01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738 12 01/11 Aaron Hillel Swartz died in Brooklyn, New York, 2013 13 01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757? 14 01/12 "Long" John Baldry born in London, 1941 15 01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834 16 01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884 17 01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws 18 01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875 19 01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born, 1929 20 01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706 21 01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809 22 01/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807 23 01/20 Buzz Aldrin born, 1930 24 01/20 George Burns born, 1898 25 01/21 Terence Graham Parry Jones died in London, England, 2020 26 01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824 27 01/21 Vladimir Lenin died, 1924 28 01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561 29 01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory 30 01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899 31 01/23 John Hancock born, 1737 32 01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730 33 01/24 John Belushi born in Chicago, 1949 34 01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759 35 01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882 36 01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874 37 01/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850 38 01/30 Douglas Carl Engelbart was born in Portland, Oregon, 1925 39 01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882 40 01/31 Jackie Robinson born, 1919 41 02/01 Terence Graham Parry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, Wales, 1942 42 02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874 43 02/05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935 44 02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952 45 02/07 Alay Jay Perlis died in New Haven, Connecticut, 1990 46 02/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885 47 02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography 48 02/08 John von Neumann died, 1957 49 02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828 50 02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. 51 02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775 52 02/10 William Allen White born, 1868 53 02/11 Thomas Edison born, 1847 54 02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1800, photographic pioneer 55 02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809 56 02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809 57 02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564 58 02/15 Richard Philips Feynman died in Los Angeles, California, 1988 59 02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820 60 02/16 Lawrence Gordon Tesler died in Portola Valley, California, 2020 61 02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry 62 02/17 Frederick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone 63 02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902 64 02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874 65 02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer 66 02/18 William Robert "Bert" Sutherland died in Mountain View, California, 2020 67 02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473 68 02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer 69 02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass 70 02/22 George Washington born, 1732 71 02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun 72 02/23 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868 73 02/24 Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, 1955 74 02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836 75 02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943 76 02/25 Renoir born, 1841 77 02/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786; 78 observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21 79 02/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533 80 02/29 Herman Hollerith born, 1860 81 03/01 David Niven born, 1910 82 03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904 83 03/02 Ron Hardy died in Chicago, Illinois, 1992 84 03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747 85 03/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982 86 03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer 87 03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer 88 03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900 89 03/11 Douglas Adams born, 1952 90 03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737 91 03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890 92 03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist 93 03/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879 94 03/14 Casey Jones born, 1864 95 03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; 96 named Mars "canals" 97 03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist 98 03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia 99 03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44 BC 100 03/16 George Clymer born, 1739 101 03/16 James Madison born, 1751 102 03/23 Thomas Kelly, Father of the Lunar module, died, 2002 103 03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874 104 03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist 105 03/26 David Packard died, 1996; age of 83 106 03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays 107 03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer 108 03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746 109 03/30 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, died at the age of 101, 2002 110 03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880 111 03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 112 03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher 113 04/01 Alan Jay Perlis was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1922 114 04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783 115 04/05 Irwin Allen Ginsberg died in New York City, 1997 116 04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher 117 04/07 Florian Schneider-Esleben was born in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, 1947 118 04/08 Buddha born, 563 BC 119 04/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician 120 04/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer 121 04/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919 122 04/10 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854 123 04/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army 124 04/13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743 125 04/14 Christiaan Huygens born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; 126 discovered Saturn's rings 127 04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452 128 04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889 129 04/21 Florian Schneider-Esleben died in Dusseldorf, Germany, 2020 130 04/22 Immanuel Kant born, 1724 131 04/24 Lawrence Gordon Tesler was born in The Bronx, New York City, 1945 132 04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist 133 04/28 James Monroe born, 1758 134 04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology 135 04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863 136 04/30 Carl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer 137 05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) born in Alexandria, 138 Louisiana, 1930 139 05/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903 140 05/08 Ron Hardy was born in Chicago, Illinois, 1958 141 05/09 Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) died in Tullahoma, Tennessee, 142 2020 143 05/09 Pinza died, 1957 144 05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899 145 05/10 William Robert "Bert" Sutherland was born in Hastings, Nebraska, 1936 146 05/11 Douglas Adams died, 2001 147 05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768 148 05/11 Richard Philips Feynman was born in Queens, New York, 1918 149 05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820 150 05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842 151 05/15 Mike Oldfield born in Essex, England, 1953 152 05/16 Ivan Edward Sutherland was born in Hastings, Nebraska, 1938 153 05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890 154 05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427 BC 155 05/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911 156 05/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934 157 05/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874 158 05/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917 159 05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736 160 05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908 161 06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801 162 06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928 163 06/03 Henry James born, 1811 164 06/03 Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey, 1926 165 06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848 166 06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954 167 06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778 168 06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869 169 06/11 Alexander the Great dies (323 BC) 170 06/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843 171 06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 BC 172 06/17 Theodor Holm Nelson was born in Chicago, Illinois, 1937 173 06/18 M.C. Escher born, 1898 174 06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903 175 06/22 Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, Germany, 1910 176 06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949 177 06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912 178 06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903 179 06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880 180 07/01 Fernando Jose Corbato was born in Oakland, California, 1926 181 07/02 Douglas Carl Engelbart died in Atherton, California, 2013 182 07/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883 183 07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826 184 07/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804 185 07/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866 186 07/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747 187 07/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891 188 07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838 189 07/10 John Calvin born, 1509 190 07/11 John Quincy Adams born, 1767 191 07/12 Fernando Jose Corbato died in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 2019 192 07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817 193 07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from 194 Saint Nicholas" 195 07/18 Brian Auger born in London, 1939 196 07/25 Steve Goodman born in Chicago, 1948 197 07/29 Benito Mussolini born, 1883 198 07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818 199 07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863 200 08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819 201 08/03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966 202 08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937 203 08/12 Danny Cohen died in Palo Alto, California, 2019 204 08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955 205 08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860 206 08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927 207 08/17 Mae West born, 1892 208 08/17 Margaret Heafield Hamilton was born in Paoli, Indiana, 1936 209 08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1774, American explorer 210 08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940 211 08/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912 212 08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908 213 08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist 214 08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907 215 09/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638 216 09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942 217 09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909 218 09/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789 219 09/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533 220 09/08 King Richard I of England born, 1157 221 09/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925 222 09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976 223 09/09 Dennis Ritchie born in Bronxville, New York, 1941 224 09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913 225 09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851 226 09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890 227 09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914 228 09/17 Kenneth Elton Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, 1935 229 09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905 230 09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878 231 09/21 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866 232 09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645 233 09/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881 234 09/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC 235 09/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC 236 09/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896 237 09/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774 238 09/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888 239 09/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840 240 09/28 Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573 241 09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106 BC 242 09/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925 243 09/29 Gene Autry born, 1907 244 10/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924 245 10/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC 246 10/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869 247 10/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903 248 10/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881 249 10/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902 250 10/05 Steven Paul Jobs died in Palo Alto, California, 2011 251 10/08 Dennis Ritchie died in Murray Hill, New Jersey, 2011 252 10/13 Lenny Bruce born in New York City, 1925 253 10/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC 254 10/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890 255 10/14 William Penn born in London, 1644 256 10/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881 257 10/16 Dr. Jonathan B. Postel dies at age 55, 1998 258 10/16 Noah Webster born, 1758 259 10/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854 260 10/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S. 261 10/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833 262 10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933 263 10/27 James Cook born, 1728 264 10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887 265 10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912 266 11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734 267 11/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650 268 11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912 269 11/08 Aaron Hillel Swartz was born in Highland Park, Illinois, 1986 270 11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934 271 11/10 Kenneth Elton Kesey died in Eugene, Oregon, 2001 272 11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483 273 11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982 274 11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922 275 11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850 276 11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354 277 11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908 278 11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836 279 11/20 Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1925 280 11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922 281 11/26 Norbert Wiener born in Columbia, Missouri, 1894 282 11/29 John Mayall born in Cheshire, England, 1933 283 11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC 284 11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835 285 12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935 286 12/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976 287 12/05 Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) was born in Macon, Georgia, 288 1932 289 12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901 290 12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65 BC 291 12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894 292 12/09 Danny Cohen born in Haifa, Israel, 1937 293 12/09 Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was born in New York City, 1906 294 12/10 Emily Dickinson born, 1830 295 12/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893 296 12/14 George Washington dies, 1799 297 12/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929 298 12/18 Konrad Zuse died, 1995 299 12/20 Carl Sagan died, 1996 300 12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804 301 12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858 302 12/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805 303 12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642 304 12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791 305 12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903 306
Indexes created Fri Oct 17 17:09:57 GMT 2025