calendar.birthday revision 1.29.2.1       1  1.29.2.1    martin 01/01	Grace Brewster Murray Hopper died in Arlington, Virginia, 1992
      2  1.29.2.1    martin 01/01	Heinz Zemanek born in Vienna, Austria, 1920
      3       1.1       cgd 01/01	J.D. Salinger born, 1919
      4       1.1       cgd 01/01	Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735
      5      1.16  wrstuden 01/02	Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now Russia), 1920
      6       1.1       cgd 01/04	George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864
      7       1.1       cgd 01/04	Jakob Grimm born, 1785
      8       1.1       cgd 01/04	Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
      9       1.1       cgd 01/05	DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
     10      1.19   jnemeth 01/08	Stephen Hawking born in Oxford, England, 1942
     11       1.1       cgd 01/10	Ethan Allen born, 1738
     12  1.29.2.1    martin 01/11	Aaron Hillel Swartz died in Brooklyn, New York, 2013
     13       1.1       cgd 01/11	Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757?
     14       1.7       mjl 01/12	"Long" John Baldry born in London, 1941
     15       1.1       cgd 01/13	Horatio Alger born, 1834
     16       1.1       cgd 01/13	Sophie Tucker born, 1884
     17       1.1       cgd 01/13	Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
     18       1.1       cgd 01/14	Albert Schweitzer born, 1875
     19      1.13       snj 01/15	Martin Luther King, Jr. born, 1929
     20       1.1       cgd 01/17	Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706
     21       1.1       cgd 01/19	Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809
     22       1.1       cgd 01/19	Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807
     23      1.21    simonb 01/20	Buzz Aldrin born, 1930
     24       1.1       cgd 01/20	George Burns born, 1898
     25       1.1       cgd 01/21	Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824
     26  1.29.2.1    martin 01/21	Vladimir Lenin died, 1924
     27       1.1       cgd 01/22	Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561
     28       1.1       cgd 01/23	Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
     29       1.1       cgd 01/23	Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899
     30       1.1       cgd 01/23	John Hancock born, 1737
     31       1.1       cgd 01/23	Joseph Hewes born, 1730
     32       1.7       mjl 01/24	John Belushi born in Chicago, 1949
     33       1.1       cgd 01/25	Robert Burns born, 1759
     34       1.1       cgd 01/25	Virginia Woolf born, 1882
     35       1.1       cgd 01/25	W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874
     36       1.1       cgd 01/27	Samuel Gompers born, 1850
     37       1.1       cgd 01/30	Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882
     38       1.1       cgd 01/31	Jackie Robinson born, 1919
     39       1.1       cgd 02/03	Gertrude Stein born, 1874
     40       1.7       mjl 02/05	Alex Harvey (SAHB) born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935
     41       1.1       cgd 02/06	King George VI of UK dies;  his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952
     42  1.29.2.1    martin 02/07	Alay Jay Perlis died in New Haven, Connecticut, 1990
     43       1.1       cgd 02/07	Sinclair Lewis born, 1885
     44       1.1       cgd 02/08	Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
     45      1.28     sevan 02/08	John von Neumann died, 1957
     46       1.1       cgd 02/08	Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828
     47       1.1       cgd 02/09	George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
     48       1.1       cgd 02/10	Charles Lamb born, 1775
     49       1.1       cgd 02/10	William Allen White born, 1868
     50      1.13       snj 02/11	Thomas Edison born, 1847
     51      1.10       mjl 02/11	William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1800, photographic pioneer
     52       1.1       cgd 02/12	Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
     53       1.1       cgd 02/12	Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809
     54       1.1       cgd 02/15	Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564
     55  1.29.2.1    martin 02/15	Richard Philips Feynman died in Los Angeles, California, 1988
     56       1.1       cgd 02/15	Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
     57       1.1       cgd 02/16	Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
     58      1.18       snj 02/17	Frederick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
     59       1.1       cgd 02/17	Marion Anderson born, 1902
     60       1.1       cgd 02/17	T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
     61       1.1       cgd 02/18	Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer
     62       1.1       cgd 02/19	Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473
     63       1.1       cgd 02/20	Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
     64       1.1       cgd 02/21	Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
     65       1.1       cgd 02/22	George Washington born, 1732
     66       1.1       cgd 02/22	Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
     67       1.1       cgd 02/23	W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868
     68  1.29.2.1    martin 02/24	Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, 1955
     69       1.1       cgd 02/24	Winslow Homer born, 1836
     70       1.1       cgd 02/25	George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943
     71       1.1       cgd 02/25	Renoir born, 1841
     72       1.1       cgd 02/26	Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786;
     73       1.1       cgd 		observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21
     74       1.1       cgd 02/28	Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533
     75       1.1       cgd 02/29	Herman Hollerith born, 1860
     76       1.1       cgd 03/01	David Niven born, 1910
     77       1.1       cgd 03/02	Dr. Seuss born, 1904
     78       1.1       cgd 03/04	Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
     79       1.1       cgd 03/05	John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982
     80       1.1       cgd 03/07	Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
     81       1.1       cgd 03/08	Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
     82       1.1       cgd 03/08	Howard Aiken born, 1900
     83  1.29.2.1    martin 03/11	Douglas Adams born, 1952
     84       1.1       cgd 03/11	Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
     85       1.1       cgd 03/11	Vannevar Bush born, 1890
     86       1.1       cgd 03/12	Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
     87       1.1       cgd 03/14	Albert Einstein born, 1879
     88       1.1       cgd 03/14	Casey Jones born, 1864
     89       1.1       cgd 03/14	Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer;
     90       1.1       cgd 		named Mars "canals"
     91       1.1       cgd 03/14	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
     92       1.2     perry 03/15	J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
     93  1.29.2.1    martin 03/15	Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44 BC
     94       1.1       cgd 03/16	George Clymer born, 1739
     95       1.1       cgd 03/16	James Madison born, 1751
     96       1.8  jdolecek 03/23	Thomas Kelly, Father of the Lunar module, died, 2002
     97       1.1       cgd 03/24	Harry Houdini born, 1874
     98       1.1       cgd 03/26	Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
     99       1.2     perry 03/26	David Packard died, 1996; age of 83
    100       1.1       cgd 03/27	Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
    101       1.1       cgd 03/28	Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
    102       1.1       cgd 03/30	Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
    103  1.29.2.1    martin 03/30	Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, died at the age of 101, 2002
    104       1.1       cgd 03/30	Sean O'Casey born, 1880
    105       1.1       cgd 03/30	Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
    106       1.1       cgd 03/31	Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
    107  1.29.2.1    martin 04/01	Alan Jay Perlis was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1922
    108       1.1       cgd 04/03	Washington Irving born, 1783
    109       1.1       cgd 04/05	Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher
    110       1.1       cgd 04/08	Buddha born, 563 BC
    111       1.1       cgd 04/08	David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician
    112       1.1       cgd 04/09	Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer
    113       1.1       cgd 04/09	J. Presper Eckert born, 1919
    114       1.1       cgd 04/10	Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854
    115       1.1       cgd 04/10	William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army
    116       1.1       cgd 04/13	Thomas Jefferson born, 1743
    117      1.24       wiz 04/14	Christiaan Huygens born, 1629, physicist & astronomer;
    118       1.1       cgd 		discovered Saturn's rings
    119       1.1       cgd 04/15	Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
    120       1.1       cgd 04/16	Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889
    121      1.13       snj 04/22	Immanuel Kant born, 1724
    122       1.1       cgd 04/27	Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
    123       1.1       cgd 04/28	James Monroe born, 1758
    124       1.1       cgd 04/29	Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
    125       1.1       cgd 04/29	William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863
    126       1.6    kleink 04/30	Carl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
    127       1.7       mjl 05/01	Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) born in Alexandria,
    128       1.1       cgd 		Louisiana, 1930
    129       1.1       cgd 05/02	Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903
    130       1.1       cgd 05/09	Pinza died, 1957
    131       1.1       cgd 05/10	Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899
    132      1.25   jnemeth 05/11	Douglas Adams died, 2001
    133  1.29.2.1    martin 05/11	Johnny Appleseed born, 1768
    134  1.29.2.1    martin 05/11	Richard Philips Feynman was born is Queens, New York, 1918
    135       1.1       cgd 05/12	Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820
    136       1.1       cgd 05/13	Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842
    137       1.7       mjl 05/15	Mike Oldfield born in Essex, England, 1953
    138       1.1       cgd 05/19	Ho Chi Minh born, 1890
    139       1.7       mjl 05/21	Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427 BC
    140       1.1       cgd 05/27	Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911
    141       1.1       cgd 05/28	Dionne quintuplets born, 1934
    142       1.1       cgd 05/29	Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874
    143       1.1       cgd 05/29	John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917
    144       1.1       cgd 05/29	Patrick Henry born, 1736
    145       1.1       cgd 05/30	Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908
    146       1.1       cgd 06/01	Brigham Young born, 1801
    147       1.1       cgd 06/01	Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
    148       1.1       cgd 06/03	Henry James born, 1811
    149       1.1       cgd 06/07	(Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
    150       1.2     perry 06/07	Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954
    151  1.29.2.1    martin 06/07	George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778
    152       1.1       cgd 06/08	Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869
    153      1.26       snj 06/11	Alexander the Great dies (323 BC)
    154       1.1       cgd 06/15	Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843
    155       1.7       mjl 06/16	Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 BC
    156  1.29.2.1    martin 06/17	Theodor Holm Nelson was born in Chicago, Illinois, 1937
    157       1.1       cgd 06/18	M.C. Escher born, 1898
    158       1.1       cgd 06/22	Carl Hubbell born, 1903
    159      1.10       mjl 06/22	Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, Germany, 1910
    160  1.29.2.1    martin 06/22	Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949
    161       1.2     perry 06/23	Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912
    162       1.1       cgd 06/25	Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903
    163       1.1       cgd 06/27	Helen Keller born, 1880
    164      1.29     sevan 07/01	Fernando Jose Corbato was born in Oakland, California, 1926
    165       1.1       cgd 07/03	Franz Kafka born, 1883
    166       1.2     perry 07/04	John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826
    167  1.29.2.1    martin 07/04	Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804
    168       1.1       cgd 07/06	(Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866
    169       1.1       cgd 07/06	John Paul Jones born, 1747
    170       1.1       cgd 07/07	P.T. Barnum dies, 1891
    171       1.1       cgd 07/08	Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
    172       1.1       cgd 07/10	John Calvin born, 1509
    173       1.1       cgd 07/11	John Quincy Adams born, 1767
    174      1.29     sevan 07/12	Fernando Jose Corbato died in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 2019
    175       1.1       cgd 07/12	Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
    176       1.1       cgd 07/15	Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from
    177       1.1       cgd 		Saint Nicholas"
    178       1.7       mjl 07/18	Brian Auger born in London, 1939
    179       1.7       mjl 07/25	Steve Goodman born in Chicago, 1948
    180      1.13       snj 07/29	Benito Mussolini born, 1883
    181       1.1       cgd 07/30	Emily Bronte born, 1818
    182       1.1       cgd 07/30	Henry Ford born, 1863
    183       1.1       cgd 08/01	Herman Melville born, 1819
    184       1.1       cgd 08/03	Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966
    185       1.1       cgd 08/08	Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937
    186  1.29.2.1    martin 08/12	Danny Cohen died in Palo Alto, California, 2019
    187       1.2     perry 08/12	Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
    188       1.1       cgd 08/13	Annie Oakley born, 1860
    189       1.1       cgd 08/13	Fidel Castro born, 1927
    190       1.1       cgd 08/17	Mae West born, 1892
    191      1.17      reed 08/18	Meriwether Lewis born, 1774, American explorer
    192       1.2     perry 08/20	Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
    193       1.1       cgd 08/23	Gene Kelly born, 1912
    194       1.1       cgd 08/27	Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
    195       1.1       cgd 08/29	Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist
    196       1.1       cgd 08/30	John W. Mauchly born, 1907
    197       1.1       cgd 09/05	King Louis XIV of France born, 1638
    198       1.1       cgd 09/05	Raquel Welch born, 1942
    199       1.1       cgd 09/06	Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909
    200       1.1       cgd 09/07	James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789
    201       1.1       cgd 09/07	Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533
    202       1.1       cgd 09/08	King Richard I of England born, 1157
    203       1.1       cgd 09/08	Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925
    204       1.1       cgd 09/09	Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976
    205      1.23   mbalmer 09/09	Dennis Ritchie born in Bronxville, New York, 1941
    206       1.1       cgd 09/12	Jesse Owens born, 1913
    207       1.1       cgd 09/13	Walter Reed born, 1851
    208       1.1       cgd 09/15	Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890
    209       1.1       cgd 09/16	Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914
    210       1.1       cgd 09/18	Greta Garbo born, 1905
    211       1.1       cgd 09/20	Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
    212       1.1       cgd 09/21	H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866
    213       1.1       cgd 09/21	Louis Joliet born, 1645
    214       1.1       cgd 09/22	President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881
    215       1.1       cgd 09/23	Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC
    216       1.1       cgd 09/23	Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC
    217       1.1       cgd 09/24	F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896
    218       1.1       cgd 09/26	Johnny Appleseed born, 1774
    219       1.1       cgd 09/26	T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888
    220       1.1       cgd 09/27	Thomas Nast born, 1840
    221       1.7       mjl 09/28	Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573
    222       1.7       mjl 09/28	Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106 BC
    223       1.1       cgd 09/28	Seymour Cray born, 1925
    224       1.1       cgd 09/29	Gene Autry born, 1907
    225       1.1       cgd 10/01	Jimmy Carter born, 1924
    226       1.1       cgd 10/02	Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC
    227       1.1       cgd 10/02	Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869
    228       1.1       cgd 10/04	John V. Atanasoff born, 1903
    229       1.1       cgd 10/05	Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881
    230       1.1       cgd 10/05	Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902
    231  1.29.2.1    martin 10/05	Steven Paul Jobs died in Palo Alto, California, 2011
    232      1.23   mbalmer 10/08	Dennis Ritchie died in Murray Hill, New Jersey, 2011
    233       1.7       mjl 10/13	Lenny Bruce born in New York City, 1925
    234       1.1       cgd 10/13	Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC
    235       1.1       cgd 10/14	Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890
    236       1.1       cgd 10/14	William Penn born in London, 1644
    237       1.1       cgd 10/15	Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881
    238  1.29.2.1    martin 10/16	Dr. Jonathan B. Postel dies at age 55, 1998
    239       1.1       cgd 10/16	Noah Webster born, 1758
    240       1.1       cgd 10/16	Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854
    241       1.1       cgd 10/17	Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S.
    242       1.1       cgd 10/21	Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833
    243       1.1       cgd 10/27	Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933
    244       1.7       mjl 10/27	James Cook born, 1728
    245       1.1       cgd 10/31	Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887
    246       1.1       cgd 10/31	Dale Evans born, 1912 
    247       1.1       cgd 11/02	Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734
    248       1.1       cgd 11/04	King William III of Orange born, 1650
    249       1.1       cgd 11/05	Roy Rogers born, 1912
    250  1.29.2.1    martin 11/08	Aaron Hillel Swartz was born in Highland Park, Illinois, 1986
    251       1.1       cgd 11/09	Carl Sagan born, 1934
    252       1.1       cgd 11/10	Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483
    253       1.1       cgd 11/10	Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982
    254       1.1       cgd 11/11	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922
    255       1.1       cgd 11/13	Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850
    256       1.1       cgd 11/13	St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354
    257       1.1       cgd 11/18	Imogene Coca born, 1908
    258       1.1       cgd 11/18	William S. Gilbert born, 1836
    259       1.7       mjl 11/20	Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1925
    260       1.1       cgd 11/26	Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922
    261       1.7       mjl 11/26	Norbert Wiener born in Columbia, Missouri, 1894
    262       1.7       mjl 11/29	John Mayall born in Cheshire, England, 1933
    263       1.1       cgd 11/30	Cleopatra died, 30 BC
    264      1.18       snj 11/30	Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
    265       1.1       cgd 12/01	Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935
    266       1.1       cgd 12/04	Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976
    267       1.1       cgd 12/05	Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901
    268       1.7       mjl 12/08	Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65 BC
    269       1.1       cgd 12/08	James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
    270  1.29.2.1    martin 12/09	Danny Cohen born in Haifa, Israel, 1937
    271  1.29.2.1    martin 12/09	Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was born in New York City, 1906
    272      1.27      leot 12/10	Emily Dickinson born, 1830
    273       1.1       cgd 12/12	E.G. Robinson born, 1893
    274       1.1       cgd 12/14	George Washington dies, 1799
    275       1.1       cgd 12/17	William Safire (Safir) born, 1929
    276      1.10       mjl 12/18	Konrad Zuse died, 1995
    277       1.3  explorer 12/20	Carl Sagan died, 1996
    278       1.1       cgd 12/21	Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
    279       1.1       cgd 12/22	Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
    280       1.1       cgd 12/23	Joseph Smith born, 1805
    281       1.1       cgd 12/25	Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642
    282       1.1       cgd 12/26	Chas. Babbage born, 1791
    283       1.1       cgd 12/28	John von Neumann born, 1903
    284