calendar.birthday revision 1.6 1 1.1 cgd 01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919
2 1.1 cgd 01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735
3 1.1 cgd 01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR), 1920
4 1.1 cgd 01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864
5 1.1 cgd 01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785
6 1.1 cgd 01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
7 1.1 cgd 01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
8 1.1 cgd 01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738
9 1.1 cgd 01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757?
10 1.1 cgd 01/12 "Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941
11 1.1 cgd 01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834
12 1.1 cgd 01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884
13 1.1 cgd 01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
14 1.1 cgd 01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875
15 1.1 cgd 01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born
16 1.1 cgd 01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706
17 1.1 cgd 01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809
18 1.1 cgd 01/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807
19 1.1 cgd 01/20 George Burns born, 1898
20 1.1 cgd 01/21 Lenin died, 1924
21 1.1 cgd 01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824
22 1.1 cgd 01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561
23 1.1 cgd 01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
24 1.1 cgd 01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899
25 1.1 cgd 01/23 John Hancock born, 1737
26 1.1 cgd 01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730
27 1.1 cgd 01/23 Samuel Barber died, 1981
28 1.1 cgd 01/24 John Belushi is born in Chicago, 1949
29 1.1 cgd 01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759
30 1.1 cgd 01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882
31 1.1 cgd 01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874
32 1.1 cgd 01/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850
33 1.1 cgd 01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882
34 1.1 cgd 01/31 Jackie Robinson born, 1919
35 1.1 cgd 02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874
36 1.1 cgd 02/05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935
37 1.1 cgd 02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952
38 1.1 cgd 02/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885
39 1.1 cgd 02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
40 1.1 cgd 02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828
41 1.1 cgd 02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
42 1.1 cgd 02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775
43 1.1 cgd 02/10 William Allen White born, 1868
44 1.1 cgd 02/11 Thos. Edison born, 1847
45 1.1 cgd 02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer
46 1.1 cgd 02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
47 1.1 cgd 02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809
48 1.1 cgd 02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564
49 1.1 cgd 02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
50 1.1 cgd 02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
51 1.1 cgd 02/17 Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
52 1.1 cgd 02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902
53 1.1 cgd 02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
54 1.1 cgd 02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer
55 1.1 cgd 02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473
56 1.1 cgd 02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
57 1.1 cgd 02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
58 1.1 cgd 02/22 George Washington born, 1732
59 1.1 cgd 02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
60 1.1 cgd 02/23 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868
61 1.1 cgd 02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836
62 1.1 cgd 02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943
63 1.1 cgd 02/25 Renoir born, 1841
64 1.1 cgd 02/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786;
65 1.1 cgd observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21
66 1.1 cgd 02/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533
67 1.1 cgd 02/29 Herman Hollerith born, 1860
68 1.1 cgd 03/01 David Niven born, 1910
69 1.1 cgd 03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904
70 1.1 cgd 03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
71 1.1 cgd 03/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982
72 1.1 cgd 03/07 Aristotle died, 322BC
73 1.1 cgd 03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
74 1.1 cgd 03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
75 1.1 cgd 03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900
76 1.1 cgd 03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
77 1.1 cgd 03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890
78 1.1 cgd 03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
79 1.1 cgd 03/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879
80 1.1 cgd 03/14 Casey Jones born, 1864
81 1.1 cgd 03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer;
82 1.1 cgd named Mars "canals"
83 1.1 cgd 03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
84 1.2 perry 03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44BC
85 1.2 perry 03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
86 1.1 cgd 03/16 George Clymer born, 1739
87 1.1 cgd 03/16 James Madison born, 1751
88 1.1 cgd 03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874
89 1.1 cgd 03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
90 1.2 perry 03/26 David Packard died, 1996; age of 83
91 1.1 cgd 03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
92 1.1 cgd 03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
93 1.1 cgd 03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
94 1.1 cgd 03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880
95 1.1 cgd 03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
96 1.1 cgd 03/31 Descartes born, 1596
97 1.1 cgd 03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
98 1.1 cgd 04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783
99 1.1 cgd 04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher
100 1.1 cgd 04/08 Buddha born, 563 BC
101 1.1 cgd 04/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician
102 1.1 cgd 04/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer
103 1.1 cgd 04/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919
104 1.1 cgd 04/10 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854
105 1.1 cgd 04/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army
106 1.1 cgd 04/13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743
107 1.1 cgd 04/14 Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer;
108 1.1 cgd discovered Saturn's rings
109 1.1 cgd 04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
110 1.1 cgd 04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889
111 1.1 cgd 04/22 Kant born, 1724
112 1.1 cgd 04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
113 1.1 cgd 04/28 James Monroe born, 1758
114 1.1 cgd 04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
115 1.1 cgd 04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863
116 1.6 kleink 04/30 Carl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
117 1.1 cgd 05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) is born in Alexandria,
118 1.1 cgd Louisiana, 1930
119 1.1 cgd 05/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903
120 1.1 cgd 05/09 Pinza died, 1957
121 1.1 cgd 05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899
122 1.1 cgd 05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768
123 1.1 cgd 05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820
124 1.1 cgd 05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842
125 1.1 cgd 05/15 Mike Oldfield is born in Essex, England, 1953
126 1.1 cgd 05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890
127 1.1 cgd 05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427BC
128 1.1 cgd 05/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911
129 1.1 cgd 05/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934
130 1.1 cgd 05/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874
131 1.1 cgd 05/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917
132 1.1 cgd 05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736
133 1.1 cgd 05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908
134 1.1 cgd 06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801
135 1.1 cgd 06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
136 1.1 cgd 06/02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857
137 1.1 cgd 06/03 Henry James born, 1811
138 1.1 cgd 06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
139 1.1 cgd 06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778
140 1.2 perry 06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954
141 1.1 cgd 06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869
142 1.1 cgd 06/13 Alexander the Great dies (323BC)
143 1.1 cgd 06/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843
144 1.1 cgd 06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc
145 1.1 cgd 06/18 M.C. Escher born, 1898
146 1.1 cgd 06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903
147 1.1 cgd 06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949
148 1.2 perry 06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912
149 1.1 cgd 06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903
150 1.1 cgd 06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880
151 1.1 cgd 07/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883
152 1.1 cgd 07/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804
153 1.2 perry 07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826
154 1.1 cgd 07/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866
155 1.1 cgd 07/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747
156 1.1 cgd 07/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891
157 1.1 cgd 07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
158 1.1 cgd 07/10 John Calvin born, 1509
159 1.1 cgd 07/11 John Quincy Adams born, 1767
160 1.1 cgd 07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
161 1.1 cgd 07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from
162 1.1 cgd Saint Nicholas"
163 1.1 cgd 07/18 Brian Auger is born in London, 1939
164 1.1 cgd 07/25 Steve Goodman is born in Chicago, 1948
165 1.1 cgd 07/29 Mussolini born, 1883
166 1.1 cgd 07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818
167 1.1 cgd 07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863
168 1.1 cgd 08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819
169 1.1 cgd 08/03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966
170 1.1 cgd 08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937
171 1.2 perry 08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
172 1.1 cgd 08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860
173 1.1 cgd 08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927
174 1.1 cgd 08/17 Mae West born, 1892
175 1.1 cgd 08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1927
176 1.2 perry 08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
177 1.1 cgd 08/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912
178 1.1 cgd 08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
179 1.1 cgd 08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist
180 1.1 cgd 08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907
181 1.1 cgd 09/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638
182 1.1 cgd 09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942
183 1.1 cgd 09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909
184 1.1 cgd 09/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789
185 1.1 cgd 09/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533
186 1.1 cgd 09/08 King Richard I of England born, 1157
187 1.1 cgd 09/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925
188 1.1 cgd 09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976
189 1.1 cgd 09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913
190 1.1 cgd 09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851
191 1.1 cgd 09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890
192 1.1 cgd 09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914
193 1.1 cgd 09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905
194 1.1 cgd 09/18 Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970
195 1.1 cgd 09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
196 1.1 cgd 09/21 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866
197 1.1 cgd 09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645
198 1.1 cgd 09/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881
199 1.1 cgd 09/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC
200 1.1 cgd 09/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC
201 1.1 cgd 09/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896
202 1.1 cgd 09/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774
203 1.1 cgd 09/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888
204 1.1 cgd 09/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840
205 1.1 cgd 09/28 Michelangelo Buanarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573
206 1.1 cgd 09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106BC
207 1.1 cgd 09/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925
208 1.1 cgd 09/29 Gene Autry born, 1907
209 1.1 cgd 10/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924
210 1.1 cgd 10/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC
211 1.1 cgd 10/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869
212 1.1 cgd 10/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903
213 1.1 cgd 10/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881
214 1.1 cgd 10/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902
215 1.1 cgd 10/13 Lenny Bruce is born in New York City, 1925
216 1.1 cgd 10/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC
217 1.1 cgd 10/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890
218 1.1 cgd 10/14 William Penn born in London, 1644
219 1.1 cgd 10/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881
220 1.1 cgd 10/16 Noah Webster born, 1758
221 1.1 cgd 10/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854
222 1.5 hwr 10/16 Jon Postel dies at age of 55, 1998
223 1.1 cgd 10/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S.
224 1.1 cgd 10/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833
225 1.1 cgd 10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933
226 1.1 cgd 10/27 James Cook is born, 1466
227 1.1 cgd 10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887
228 1.1 cgd 10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912
229 1.1 cgd 11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734
230 1.1 cgd 11/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650
231 1.1 cgd 11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912
232 1.1 cgd 11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934
233 1.1 cgd 11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483
234 1.1 cgd 11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982
235 1.1 cgd 11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922
236 1.1 cgd 11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850
237 1.1 cgd 11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354
238 1.1 cgd 11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908
239 1.1 cgd 11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836
240 1.1 cgd 11/20 RFK born, 1925
241 1.1 cgd 11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922
242 1.1 cgd 11/26 Norbert Weiner born, 1894
243 1.1 cgd 11/29 John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933
244 1.1 cgd 11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC
245 1.1 cgd 11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
246 1.1 cgd 12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935
247 1.1 cgd 12/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976
248 1.1 cgd 12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901
249 1.1 cgd 12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC
250 1.1 cgd 12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
251 1.1 cgd 12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830
252 1.1 cgd 12/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893
253 1.1 cgd 12/14 George Washington dies, 1799
254 1.1 cgd 12/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929
255 1.2 perry 12/19 Konrad Zuse died, 1995
256 1.3 explorer 12/20 Carl Sagan died, 1996
257 1.1 cgd 12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
258 1.1 cgd 12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
259 1.1 cgd 12/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805
260 1.1 cgd 12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642
261 1.1 cgd 12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791
262 1.1 cgd 12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903
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