calendar.birthday revision 1.23
1 01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919 2 01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735 3 01/01 Heinz Zemanek born in Vienna, Austria, 1920 4 01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now Russia), 1920 5 01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864 6 01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785 7 01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars 8 01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer 9 01/08 Stephen Hawking born in Oxford, England, 1942 10 01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738 11 01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757? 12 01/12 "Long" John Baldry born in London, 1941 13 01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834 14 01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884 15 01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws 16 01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875 17 01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born, 1929 18 01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706 19 01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809 20 01/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807 21 01/20 Buzz Aldrin born, 1930 22 01/20 George Burns born, 1898 23 01/21 Vladimir Lenin died, 1924 24 01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824 25 01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561 26 01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory 27 01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899 28 01/23 John Hancock born, 1737 29 01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730 30 01/24 John Belushi born in Chicago, 1949 31 01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759 32 01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882 33 01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874 34 01/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850 35 01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882 36 01/31 Jackie Robinson born, 1919 37 02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874 38 02/05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935 39 02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952 40 02/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885 41 02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography 42 02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828 43 02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. 44 02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775 45 02/10 William Allen White born, 1868 46 02/11 Thomas Edison born, 1847 47 02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1800, photographic pioneer 48 02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809 49 02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809 50 02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564 51 02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820 52 02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry 53 02/17 Frederick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone 54 02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902 55 02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874 56 02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer 57 02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473 58 02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer 59 02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass 60 02/22 George Washington born, 1732 61 02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun 62 02/23 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868 63 02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836 64 02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943 65 02/25 Renoir born, 1841 66 02/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786; 67 observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21 68 02/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533 69 02/29 Herman Hollerith born, 1860 70 03/01 David Niven born, 1910 71 03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904 72 03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747 73 03/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982 74 03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer 75 03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer 76 03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900 77 03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737 78 03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890 79 03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist 80 03/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879 81 03/14 Casey Jones born, 1864 82 03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; 83 named Mars "canals" 84 03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist 85 03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44 BC 86 03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia 87 03/16 George Clymer born, 1739 88 03/16 James Madison born, 1751 89 03/23 Thomas Kelly, Father of the Lunar module, died, 2002 90 03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874 91 03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist 92 03/26 David Packard died, 1996; age of 83 93 03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays 94 03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer 95 03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746 96 03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880 97 03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 98 03/30 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, died at the age of 101, 2002 99 03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher 100 04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783 101 04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher 102 04/08 Buddha born, 563 BC 103 04/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician 104 04/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer 105 04/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919 106 04/10 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854 107 04/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army 108 04/13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743 109 04/14 Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; 110 discovered Saturn's rings 111 04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452 112 04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889 113 04/22 Immanuel Kant born, 1724 114 04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist 115 04/28 James Monroe born, 1758 116 04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology 117 04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863 118 04/30 Carl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer 119 05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) born in Alexandria, 120 Louisiana, 1930 121 05/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903 122 05/09 Pinza died, 1957 123 05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899 124 05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768 125 05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820 126 05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842 127 05/15 Mike Oldfield born in Essex, England, 1953 128 05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890 129 05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427 BC 130 05/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911 131 05/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934 132 05/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874 133 05/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917 134 05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736 135 05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908 136 06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801 137 06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928 138 06/03 Henry James born, 1811 139 06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848 140 06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778 141 06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954 142 06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869 143 06/13 Alexander the Great dies (323 BC) 144 06/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843 145 06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 BC 146 06/18 M.C. Escher born, 1898 147 06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903 148 06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949 149 06/22 Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, Germany, 1910 150 06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912 151 06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903 152 06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880 153 07/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883 154 07/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804 155 07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826 156 07/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866 157 07/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747 158 07/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891 159 07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838 160 07/10 John Calvin born, 1509 161 07/11 John Quincy Adams born, 1767 162 07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817 163 07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from 164 Saint Nicholas" 165 07/18 Brian Auger born in London, 1939 166 07/25 Steve Goodman born in Chicago, 1948 167 07/29 Benito Mussolini born, 1883 168 07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818 169 07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863 170 08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819 171 08/03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966 172 08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937 173 08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955 174 08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860 175 08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927 176 08/17 Mae West born, 1892 177 08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1774, American explorer 178 08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940 179 08/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912 180 08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908 181 08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist 182 08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907 183 09/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638 184 09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942 185 09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909 186 09/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789 187 09/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533 188 09/08 King Richard I of England born, 1157 189 09/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925 190 09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976 191 09/09 Dennis Ritchie born in Bronxville, New York, 1941 192 09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913 193 09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851 194 09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890 195 09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914 196 09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905 197 09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878 198 09/21 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866 199 09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645 200 09/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881 201 09/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC 202 09/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC 203 09/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896 204 09/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774 205 09/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888 206 09/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840 207 09/28 Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573 208 09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106 BC 209 09/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925 210 09/29 Gene Autry born, 1907 211 10/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924 212 10/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC 213 10/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869 214 10/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903 215 10/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881 216 10/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902 217 10/08 Dennis Ritchie died in Murray Hill, New Jersey, 2011 218 10/13 Lenny Bruce born in New York City, 1925 219 10/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC 220 10/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890 221 10/14 William Penn born in London, 1644 222 10/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881 223 10/16 Noah Webster born, 1758 224 10/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854 225 10/16 Dr. Jonathan B. Postel dies at age 55, 1998 226 10/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S. 227 10/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833 228 10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933 229 10/27 James Cook born, 1728 230 10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887 231 10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912 232 11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734 233 11/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650 234 11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912 235 11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934 236 11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483 237 11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982 238 11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922 239 11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850 240 11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354 241 11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908 242 11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836 243 11/20 Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1925 244 11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922 245 11/26 Norbert Wiener born in Columbia, Missouri, 1894 246 11/29 John Mayall born in Cheshire, England, 1933 247 11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC 248 11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835 249 12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935 250 12/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976 251 12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901 252 12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65 BC 253 12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894 254 12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830 255 12/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893 256 12/14 George Washington dies, 1799 257 12/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929 258 12/18 Konrad Zuse died, 1995 259 12/20 Carl Sagan died, 1996 260 12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804 261 12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858 262 12/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805 263 12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642 264 12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791 265 12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903 266
Indexes created Thu Oct 23 18:09:57 GMT 2025