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101/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919 201/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735 301/01 Heinz Zemanek born in Vienna, Austria, 1920 401/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now Russia), 1920 501/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864 601/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785 701/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars 801/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer 901/08 Stephen Hawking born in Oxford, England, 1942 1001/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738 1101/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757? 1201/12 "Long" John Baldry born in London, 1941 1301/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834 1401/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884 1501/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws 1601/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875 1701/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born, 1929 1801/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706 1901/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809 2001/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807 2101/20 Buzz Aldrin born, 1930 2201/20 George Burns born, 1898 2301/21 Vladimir Lenin died, 1924 2401/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824 2501/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561 2601/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory 2701/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899 2801/23 John Hancock born, 1737 2901/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730 3001/24 John Belushi born in Chicago, 1949 3101/25 Robert Burns born, 1759 3201/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882 3301/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874 3401/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850 3501/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882 3601/31 Jackie Robinson born, 1919 3702/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874 3802/05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935 3902/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952 4002/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885 4102/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography 4202/08 John von Neumann died, 1957 4302/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828 4402/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. 4502/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775 4602/10 William Allen White born, 1868 4702/11 Thomas Edison born, 1847 4802/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1800, photographic pioneer 4902/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809 5002/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809 5102/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564 5202/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820 5302/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry 5402/17 Frederick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone 5502/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902 5602/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874 5702/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer 5802/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473 5902/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer 6002/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass 6102/22 George Washington born, 1732 6202/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun 6302/23 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868 6402/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836 6502/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943 6602/25 Renoir born, 1841 6702/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786; 68 observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21 6902/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533 7002/29 Herman Hollerith born, 1860 7103/01 David Niven born, 1910 7203/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904 7303/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747 7403/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982 7503/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer 7603/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer 7703/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900 7803/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737 7903/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890 8003/11 Douglas Adams born, 1952 8103/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist 8203/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879 8303/14 Casey Jones born, 1864 8403/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; 85 named Mars "canals" 8603/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist 8703/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44 BC 8803/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia 8903/16 George Clymer born, 1739 9003/16 James Madison born, 1751 9103/23 Thomas Kelly, Father of the Lunar module, died, 2002 9203/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874 9303/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist 9403/26 David Packard died, 1996; age of 83 9503/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays 9603/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer 9703/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746 9803/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880 9903/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 10003/30 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, died at the age of 101, 2002 10103/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher 10204/03 Washington Irving born, 1783 10304/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher 10404/08 Buddha born, 563 BC 10504/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician 10604/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer 10704/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919 10804/10 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854 10904/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army 11004/13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743 11104/14 Christiaan Huygens born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; 112 discovered Saturn's rings 11304/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452 11404/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889 11504/22 Immanuel Kant born, 1724 11604/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist 11704/28 James Monroe born, 1758 11804/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology 11904/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863 12004/30 Carl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer 12105/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) born in Alexandria, 122 Louisiana, 1930 12305/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903 12405/09 Pinza died, 1957 12505/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899 12605/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768 12705/11 Douglas Adams died, 2001 12805/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820 12905/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842 13005/15 Mike Oldfield born in Essex, England, 1953 13105/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890 13205/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427 BC 13305/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911 13405/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934 13505/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874 13605/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917 13705/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736 13805/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908 13906/01 Brigham Young born, 1801 14006/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928 14106/03 Henry James born, 1811 14206/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848 14306/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778 14406/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954 14506/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869 14606/11 Alexander the Great dies (323 BC) 14706/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843 14806/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 BC 14906/18 M.C. Escher born, 1898 15006/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903 15106/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949 15206/22 Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, Germany, 1910 15306/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912 15406/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903 15506/27 Helen Keller born, 1880 15607/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883 15707/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804 15807/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826 15907/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866 16007/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747 16107/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891 16207/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838 16307/10 John Calvin born, 1509 16407/11 John Quincy Adams born, 1767 16507/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817 16607/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from 167 Saint Nicholas" 16807/18 Brian Auger born in London, 1939 16907/25 Steve Goodman born in Chicago, 1948 17007/29 Benito Mussolini born, 1883 17107/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818 17207/30 Henry Ford born, 1863 17308/01 Herman Melville born, 1819 17408/03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966 17508/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937 17608/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955 17708/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860 17808/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927 17908/17 Mae West born, 1892 18008/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1774, American explorer 18108/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940 18208/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912 18308/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908 18408/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist 18508/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907 18609/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638 18709/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942 18809/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909 18909/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789 19009/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533 19109/08 King Richard I of England born, 1157 19209/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925 19309/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976 19409/09 Dennis Ritchie born in Bronxville, New York, 1941 19509/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913 19609/13 Walter Reed born, 1851 19709/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890 19809/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914 19909/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905 20009/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878 20109/21 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866 20209/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645 20309/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881 20409/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC 20509/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC 20609/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896 20709/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774 20809/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888 20909/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840 21009/28 Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573 21109/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106 BC 21209/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925 21309/29 Gene Autry born, 1907 21410/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924 21510/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC 21610/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869 21710/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903 21810/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881 21910/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902 22010/08 Dennis Ritchie died in Murray Hill, New Jersey, 2011 22110/13 Lenny Bruce born in New York City, 1925 22210/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC 22310/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890 22410/14 William Penn born in London, 1644 22510/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881 22610/16 Noah Webster born, 1758 22710/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854 22810/16 Dr. Jonathan B. Postel dies at age 55, 1998 22910/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S. 23010/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833 23110/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933 23210/27 James Cook born, 1728 23310/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887 23410/31 Dale Evans born, 1912 23511/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734 23611/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650 23711/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912 23811/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934 23911/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483 24011/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982 24111/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922 24211/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850 24311/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354 24411/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908 24511/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836 24611/20 Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1925 24711/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922 24811/26 Norbert Wiener born in Columbia, Missouri, 1894 24911/29 John Mayall born in Cheshire, England, 1933 25011/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC 25111/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835 25212/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935 25312/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976 25412/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901 25512/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65 BC 25612/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894 25712/10 Emily Dickinson born, 1830 25812/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893 25912/14 George Washington dies, 1799 26012/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929 26112/18 Konrad Zuse died, 1995 26212/20 Carl Sagan died, 1996 26312/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804 26412/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858 26512/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805 26612/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642 26712/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791 26812/28 John von Neumann born, 1903 269