calendar.birthday revision 1.7
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 part of USSR), 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 01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738 10 01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757? 11 01/12 "Long" John Baldry born in London, 1941 12 01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834 13 01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884 14 01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws 15 01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875 16 01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born 17 01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706 18 01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809 19 01/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807 20 01/20 George Burns born, 1898 21 01/21 Lenin died, 1924 22 01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824 23 01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561 24 01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory 25 01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899 26 01/23 John Hancock born, 1737 27 01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730 28 01/23 Samuel Barber died, 1981 29 01/24 John Belushi born in Chicago, 1949 30 01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759 31 01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882 32 01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874 33 01/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850 34 01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882 35 01/31 Jackie Robinson born, 1919 36 02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874 37 02/05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935 38 02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952 39 02/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885 40 02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography 41 02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828 42 02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. 43 02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775 44 02/10 William Allen White born, 1868 45 02/11 Thos. Edison born, 1847 46 02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer 47 02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809 48 02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809 49 02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564 50 02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820 51 02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry 52 02/17 Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone 53 02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902 54 02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874 55 02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer 56 02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473 57 02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer 58 02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass 59 02/22 George Washington born, 1732 60 02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun 61 02/23 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868 62 02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836 63 02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943 64 02/25 Renoir born, 1841 65 02/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786; 66 observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21 67 02/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533 68 02/29 Herman Hollerith born, 1860 69 03/01 David Niven born, 1910 70 03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904 71 03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747 72 03/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982 73 03/07 Aristotle died, 322 BC 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 03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874 90 03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist 91 03/26 David Packard died, 1996; age of 83 92 03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays 93 03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer 94 03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746 95 03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880 96 03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 97 03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher 98 04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783 99 04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher 100 04/08 Buddha born, 563 BC 101 04/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician 102 04/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer 103 04/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919 104 04/10 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854 105 04/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army 106 04/13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743 107 04/14 Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; 108 discovered Saturn's rings 109 04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452 110 04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889 111 04/22 Kant born, 1724 112 04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist 113 04/28 James Monroe born, 1758 114 04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology 115 04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863 116 04/30 Carl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer 117 05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) born in Alexandria, 118 Louisiana, 1930 119 05/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903 120 05/09 Pinza died, 1957 121 05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899 122 05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768 123 05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820 124 05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842 125 05/15 Mike Oldfield born in Essex, England, 1953 126 05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890 127 05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427 BC 128 05/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911 129 05/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934 130 05/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874 131 05/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917 132 05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736 133 05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908 134 06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801 135 06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928 136 06/02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857 137 06/03 Henry James born, 1811 138 06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848 139 06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778 140 06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954 141 06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869 142 06/13 Alexander the Great dies (323 BC) 143 06/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843 144 06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 BC 145 06/18 M.C. Escher born, 1898 146 06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903 147 06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949 148 06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912 149 06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903 150 06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880 151 07/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883 152 07/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804 153 07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826 154 07/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866 155 07/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747 156 07/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891 157 07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838 158 07/10 John Calvin born, 1509 159 07/11 John Quincy Adams born, 1767 160 07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817 161 07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from 162 Saint Nicholas" 163 07/18 Brian Auger born in London, 1939 164 07/25 Steve Goodman born in Chicago, 1948 165 07/29 Mussolini born, 1883 166 07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818 167 07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863 168 08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819 169 08/03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966 170 08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937 171 08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955 172 08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860 173 08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927 174 08/17 Mae West born, 1892 175 08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1927 176 08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940 177 08/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912 178 08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908 179 08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist 180 08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907 181 09/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638 182 09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942 183 09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909 184 09/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789 185 09/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533 186 09/08 King Richard I of England born, 1157 187 09/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925 188 09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976 189 09/09 Dennis Ritchie born, 1941 190 09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913 191 09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851 192 09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890 193 09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914 194 09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905 195 09/18 Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970 196 09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878 197 09/21 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866 198 09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645 199 09/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881 200 09/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC 201 09/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC 202 09/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896 203 09/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774 204 09/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888 205 09/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840 206 09/28 Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573 207 09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106 BC 208 09/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925 209 09/29 Gene Autry born, 1907 210 10/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924 211 10/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC 212 10/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869 213 10/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903 214 10/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881 215 10/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902 216 10/13 Lenny Bruce born in New York City, 1925 217 10/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC 218 10/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890 219 10/14 William Penn born in London, 1644 220 10/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881 221 10/16 Noah Webster born, 1758 222 10/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854 223 10/16 Dr. Jonathan B. Postel dies at age 55, 1998 224 10/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S. 225 10/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833 226 10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933 227 10/27 James Cook born, 1728 228 10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887 229 10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912 230 11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734 231 11/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650 232 11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912 233 11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934 234 11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483 235 11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982 236 11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922 237 11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850 238 11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354 239 11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908 240 11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836 241 11/20 Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1925 242 11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922 243 11/26 Norbert Wiener born in Columbia, Missouri, 1894 244 11/29 John Mayall born in Cheshire, England, 1933 245 11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC 246 11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835 247 12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935 248 12/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976 249 12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901 250 12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65 BC 251 12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894 252 12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830 253 12/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893 254 12/14 George Washington dies, 1799 255 12/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929 256 12/19 Konrad Zuse died, 1995 257 12/20 Carl Sagan died, 1996 258 12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804 259 12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858 260 12/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805 261 12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642 262 12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791 263 12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903 264
Indexes created Thu Oct 23 22:10:10 GMT 2025