calendar.birthday revision 1.8
1 1.1 cgd 01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919 2 1.1 cgd 01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735 3 1.7 mjl 01/01 Heinz Zemanek born in Vienna, Austria, 1920 4 1.1 cgd 01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR), 1920 5 1.1 cgd 01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864 6 1.1 cgd 01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785 7 1.1 cgd 01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars 8 1.1 cgd 01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer 9 1.1 cgd 01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738 10 1.1 cgd 01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757? 11 1.7 mjl 01/12 "Long" John Baldry born in London, 1941 12 1.1 cgd 01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834 13 1.1 cgd 01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884 14 1.1 cgd 01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws 15 1.1 cgd 01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875 16 1.1 cgd 01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born 17 1.1 cgd 01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706 18 1.1 cgd 01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809 19 1.1 cgd 01/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807 20 1.1 cgd 01/20 George Burns born, 1898 21 1.1 cgd 01/21 Lenin died, 1924 22 1.1 cgd 01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824 23 1.1 cgd 01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561 24 1.1 cgd 01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory 25 1.1 cgd 01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899 26 1.1 cgd 01/23 John Hancock born, 1737 27 1.1 cgd 01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730 28 1.1 cgd 01/23 Samuel Barber died, 1981 29 1.7 mjl 01/24 John Belushi born in Chicago, 1949 30 1.1 cgd 01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759 31 1.1 cgd 01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882 32 1.1 cgd 01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874 33 1.1 cgd 01/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850 34 1.1 cgd 01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882 35 1.1 cgd 01/31 Jackie Robinson born, 1919 36 1.1 cgd 02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874 37 1.7 mjl 02/05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935 38 1.1 cgd 02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952 39 1.1 cgd 02/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885 40 1.1 cgd 02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography 41 1.1 cgd 02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828 42 1.1 cgd 02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. 43 1.1 cgd 02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775 44 1.1 cgd 02/10 William Allen White born, 1868 45 1.1 cgd 02/11 Thos. Edison born, 1847 46 1.1 cgd 02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer 47 1.1 cgd 02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809 48 1.1 cgd 02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809 49 1.1 cgd 02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564 50 1.1 cgd 02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820 51 1.1 cgd 02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry 52 1.1 cgd 02/17 Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone 53 1.1 cgd 02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902 54 1.1 cgd 02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874 55 1.1 cgd 02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer 56 1.1 cgd 02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473 57 1.1 cgd 02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer 58 1.1 cgd 02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass 59 1.1 cgd 02/22 George Washington born, 1732 60 1.1 cgd 02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun 61 1.1 cgd 02/23 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868 62 1.1 cgd 02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836 63 1.1 cgd 02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943 64 1.1 cgd 02/25 Renoir born, 1841 65 1.1 cgd 02/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786; 66 1.1 cgd observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21 67 1.1 cgd 02/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533 68 1.1 cgd 02/29 Herman Hollerith born, 1860 69 1.1 cgd 03/01 David Niven born, 1910 70 1.1 cgd 03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904 71 1.1 cgd 03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747 72 1.1 cgd 03/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982 73 1.7 mjl 03/07 Aristotle died, 322 BC 74 1.1 cgd 03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer 75 1.1 cgd 03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer 76 1.1 cgd 03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900 77 1.1 cgd 03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737 78 1.1 cgd 03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890 79 1.1 cgd 03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist 80 1.1 cgd 03/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879 81 1.1 cgd 03/14 Casey Jones born, 1864 82 1.1 cgd 03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; 83 1.1 cgd named Mars "canals" 84 1.1 cgd 03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist 85 1.7 mjl 03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44 BC 86 1.2 perry 03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia 87 1.1 cgd 03/16 George Clymer born, 1739 88 1.1 cgd 03/16 James Madison born, 1751 89 1.8 jdolecek 03/23 Thomas Kelly, Father of the Lunar module, died, 2002 90 1.1 cgd 03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874 91 1.1 cgd 03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist 92 1.2 perry 03/26 David Packard died, 1996; age of 83 93 1.1 cgd 03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays 94 1.1 cgd 03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer 95 1.1 cgd 03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746 96 1.1 cgd 03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880 97 1.1 cgd 03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 98 1.8 jdolecek 03/30 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, died at the age of 101, 2002 99 1.1 cgd 03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher 100 1.1 cgd 04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783 101 1.1 cgd 04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher 102 1.1 cgd 04/08 Buddha born, 563 BC 103 1.1 cgd 04/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician 104 1.1 cgd 04/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer 105 1.1 cgd 04/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919 106 1.1 cgd 04/10 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854 107 1.1 cgd 04/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army 108 1.1 cgd 04/13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743 109 1.1 cgd 04/14 Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; 110 1.1 cgd discovered Saturn's rings 111 1.1 cgd 04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452 112 1.1 cgd 04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889 113 1.1 cgd 04/22 Kant born, 1724 114 1.1 cgd 04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist 115 1.1 cgd 04/28 James Monroe born, 1758 116 1.1 cgd 04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology 117 1.1 cgd 04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863 118 1.6 kleink 04/30 Carl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer 119 1.7 mjl 05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) born in Alexandria, 120 1.1 cgd Louisiana, 1930 121 1.1 cgd 05/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903 122 1.1 cgd 05/09 Pinza died, 1957 123 1.1 cgd 05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899 124 1.1 cgd 05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768 125 1.1 cgd 05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820 126 1.1 cgd 05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842 127 1.7 mjl 05/15 Mike Oldfield born in Essex, England, 1953 128 1.1 cgd 05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890 129 1.7 mjl 05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427 BC 130 1.1 cgd 05/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911 131 1.1 cgd 05/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934 132 1.1 cgd 05/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874 133 1.1 cgd 05/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917 134 1.1 cgd 05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736 135 1.1 cgd 05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908 136 1.1 cgd 06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801 137 1.1 cgd 06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928 138 1.1 cgd 06/02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857 139 1.1 cgd 06/03 Henry James born, 1811 140 1.1 cgd 06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848 141 1.1 cgd 06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778 142 1.2 perry 06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954 143 1.1 cgd 06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869 144 1.7 mjl 06/13 Alexander the Great dies (323 BC) 145 1.1 cgd 06/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843 146 1.7 mjl 06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 BC 147 1.1 cgd 06/18 M.C. Escher born, 1898 148 1.1 cgd 06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903 149 1.1 cgd 06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949 150 1.2 perry 06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912 151 1.1 cgd 06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903 152 1.1 cgd 06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880 153 1.1 cgd 07/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883 154 1.1 cgd 07/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804 155 1.2 perry 07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826 156 1.1 cgd 07/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866 157 1.1 cgd 07/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747 158 1.1 cgd 07/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891 159 1.1 cgd 07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838 160 1.1 cgd 07/10 John Calvin born, 1509 161 1.1 cgd 07/11 John Quincy Adams born, 1767 162 1.1 cgd 07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817 163 1.1 cgd 07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from 164 1.1 cgd Saint Nicholas" 165 1.7 mjl 07/18 Brian Auger born in London, 1939 166 1.7 mjl 07/25 Steve Goodman born in Chicago, 1948 167 1.1 cgd 07/29 Mussolini born, 1883 168 1.1 cgd 07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818 169 1.1 cgd 07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863 170 1.1 cgd 08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819 171 1.1 cgd 08/03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966 172 1.1 cgd 08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937 173 1.2 perry 08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955 174 1.1 cgd 08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860 175 1.1 cgd 08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927 176 1.1 cgd 08/17 Mae West born, 1892 177 1.1 cgd 08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1927 178 1.2 perry 08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940 179 1.1 cgd 08/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912 180 1.1 cgd 08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908 181 1.1 cgd 08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist 182 1.1 cgd 08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907 183 1.1 cgd 09/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638 184 1.1 cgd 09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942 185 1.1 cgd 09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909 186 1.1 cgd 09/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789 187 1.1 cgd 09/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533 188 1.1 cgd 09/08 King Richard I of England born, 1157 189 1.1 cgd 09/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925 190 1.1 cgd 09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976 191 1.7 mjl 09/09 Dennis Ritchie born, 1941 192 1.1 cgd 09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913 193 1.1 cgd 09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851 194 1.1 cgd 09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890 195 1.1 cgd 09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914 196 1.1 cgd 09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905 197 1.1 cgd 09/18 Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970 198 1.1 cgd 09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878 199 1.1 cgd 09/21 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866 200 1.1 cgd 09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645 201 1.1 cgd 09/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881 202 1.1 cgd 09/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC 203 1.1 cgd 09/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC 204 1.1 cgd 09/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896 205 1.1 cgd 09/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774 206 1.1 cgd 09/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888 207 1.1 cgd 09/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840 208 1.7 mjl 09/28 Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573 209 1.7 mjl 09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106 BC 210 1.1 cgd 09/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925 211 1.1 cgd 09/29 Gene Autry born, 1907 212 1.1 cgd 10/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924 213 1.1 cgd 10/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC 214 1.1 cgd 10/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869 215 1.1 cgd 10/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903 216 1.1 cgd 10/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881 217 1.1 cgd 10/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902 218 1.7 mjl 10/13 Lenny Bruce born in New York City, 1925 219 1.1 cgd 10/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC 220 1.1 cgd 10/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890 221 1.1 cgd 10/14 William Penn born in London, 1644 222 1.1 cgd 10/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881 223 1.1 cgd 10/16 Noah Webster born, 1758 224 1.1 cgd 10/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854 225 1.7 mjl 10/16 Dr. Jonathan B. Postel dies at age 55, 1998 226 1.1 cgd 10/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S. 227 1.1 cgd 10/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833 228 1.1 cgd 10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933 229 1.7 mjl 10/27 James Cook born, 1728 230 1.1 cgd 10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887 231 1.1 cgd 10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912 232 1.1 cgd 11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734 233 1.1 cgd 11/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650 234 1.1 cgd 11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912 235 1.1 cgd 11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934 236 1.1 cgd 11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483 237 1.1 cgd 11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982 238 1.1 cgd 11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922 239 1.1 cgd 11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850 240 1.1 cgd 11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354 241 1.1 cgd 11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908 242 1.1 cgd 11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836 243 1.7 mjl 11/20 Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1925 244 1.1 cgd 11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922 245 1.7 mjl 11/26 Norbert Wiener born in Columbia, Missouri, 1894 246 1.7 mjl 11/29 John Mayall born in Cheshire, England, 1933 247 1.1 cgd 11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC 248 1.1 cgd 11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835 249 1.1 cgd 12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935 250 1.1 cgd 12/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976 251 1.1 cgd 12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901 252 1.7 mjl 12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65 BC 253 1.1 cgd 12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894 254 1.1 cgd 12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830 255 1.1 cgd 12/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893 256 1.1 cgd 12/14 George Washington dies, 1799 257 1.1 cgd 12/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929 258 1.2 perry 12/19 Konrad Zuse died, 1995 259 1.3 explorer 12/20 Carl Sagan died, 1996 260 1.1 cgd 12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804 261 1.1 cgd 12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858 262 1.1 cgd 12/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805 263 1.1 cgd 12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642 264 1.1 cgd 12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791 265 1.1 cgd 12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903 266
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