calendar.birthday revision 1.1
1 01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919 2 01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735 3 01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR), 1920 4 01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864 5 01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785 6 01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars 7 01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer 8 01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738 9 01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757? 10 01/12 "Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941 11 01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834 12 01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884 13 01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws 14 01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875 15 01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born 16 01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706 17 01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809 18 01/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807 19 01/20 George Burns born, 1898 20 01/21 Lenin died, 1924 21 01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824 22 01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561 23 01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory 24 01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899 25 01/23 John Hancock born, 1737 26 01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730 27 01/23 Samuel Barber died, 1981 28 01/24 John Belushi is born in Chicago, 1949 29 01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759 30 01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882 31 01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874 32 01/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850 33 01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882 34 01/31 Jackie Robinson born, 1919 35 02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874 36 02/05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935 37 02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952 38 02/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885 39 02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography 40 02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828 41 02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. 42 02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775 43 02/10 William Allen White born, 1868 44 02/11 Thos. Edison born, 1847 45 02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer 46 02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809 47 02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809 48 02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564 49 02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820 50 02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry 51 02/17 Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone 52 02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902 53 02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874 54 02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer 55 02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473 56 02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer 57 02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass 58 02/22 George Washington born, 1732 59 02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun 60 02/23 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868 61 02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836 62 02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943 63 02/25 Renoir born, 1841 64 02/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786; 65 observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21 66 02/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533 67 02/29 Herman Hollerith born, 1860 68 03/01 David Niven born, 1910 69 03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904 70 03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747 71 03/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982 72 03/07 Aristotle died, 322BC 73 03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer 74 03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer 75 03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900 76 03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737 77 03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890 78 03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist 79 03/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879 80 03/14 Casey Jones born, 1864 81 03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; 82 named Mars "canals" 83 03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist 84 03/16 George Clymer born, 1739 85 03/16 James Madison born, 1751 86 03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874 87 03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist 88 03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays 89 03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer 90 03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746 91 03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880 92 03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 93 03/31 Descartes born, 1596 94 03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher 95 04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783 96 04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher 97 04/08 Buddha born, 563 BC 98 04/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician 99 04/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer 100 04/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919 101 04/10 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854 102 04/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army 103 04/13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743 104 04/14 Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; 105 discovered Saturn's rings 106 04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452 107 04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889 108 04/22 Kant born, 1724 109 04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist 110 04/28 James Monroe born, 1758 111 04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology 112 04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863 113 04/30 Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer 114 05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) is born in Alexandria, 115 Louisiana, 1930 116 05/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903 117 05/09 Pinza died, 1957 118 05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899 119 05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768 120 05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820 121 05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842 122 05/15 Mike Oldfield is born in Essex, England, 1953 123 05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890 124 05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427BC 125 05/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911 126 05/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934 127 05/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874 128 05/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917 129 05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736 130 05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908 131 06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801 132 06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928 133 06/02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857 134 06/03 Henry James born, 1811 135 06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848 136 06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778 137 06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869 138 06/13 Alexander the Great dies (323BC) 139 06/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843 140 06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc 141 06/18 M.C. Escher born, 1898 142 06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903 143 06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949 144 06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903 145 06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880 146 07/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883 147 07/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804 148 07/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866 149 07/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747 150 07/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891 151 07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838 152 07/10 John Calvin born, 1509 153 07/11 John Quincy Adams born, 1767 154 07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817 155 07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from 156 Saint Nicholas" 157 07/18 Brian Auger is born in London, 1939 158 07/25 Steve Goodman is born in Chicago, 1948 159 07/29 Mussolini born, 1883 160 07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818 161 07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863 162 08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819 163 08/03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966 164 08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937 165 08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860 166 08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927 167 08/17 Mae West born, 1892 168 08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1927 169 08/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912 170 08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908 171 08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist 172 08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907 173 09/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638 174 09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942 175 09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909 176 09/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789 177 09/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533 178 09/08 King Richard I of England born, 1157 179 09/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925 180 09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976 181 09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913 182 09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851 183 09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890 184 09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914 185 09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905 186 09/18 Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970 187 09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878 188 09/21 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866 189 09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645 190 09/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881 191 09/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC 192 09/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC 193 09/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896 194 09/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774 195 09/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888 196 09/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840 197 09/28 Michelangelo Buanarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573 198 09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106BC 199 09/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925 200 09/29 Gene Autry born, 1907 201 10/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924 202 10/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC 203 10/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869 204 10/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903 205 10/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881 206 10/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902 207 10/13 Lenny Bruce is born in New York City, 1925 208 10/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC 209 10/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890 210 10/14 William Penn born in London, 1644 211 10/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881 212 10/16 Noah Webster born, 1758 213 10/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854 214 10/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S. 215 10/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833 216 10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933 217 10/27 James Cook is born, 1466 218 10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887 219 10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912 220 11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734 221 11/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650 222 11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912 223 11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934 224 11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483 225 11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982 226 11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922 227 11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850 228 11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354 229 11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908 230 11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836 231 11/20 RFK born, 1925 232 11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922 233 11/26 Norbert Weiner born, 1894 234 11/29 John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933 235 11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC 236 11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835 237 12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935 238 12/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976 239 12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901 240 12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC 241 12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894 242 12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830 243 12/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893 244 12/14 George Washington dies, 1799 245 12/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929 246 12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804 247 12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858 248 12/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805 249 12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642 250 12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791 251 12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903 252 03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia 253 03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44BC 254 07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826 255 07/12 Thoreau's Birthday, 1817 256 08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955 257 08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940 258
Indexes created Wed Oct 22 13:09:56 GMT 2025