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01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919
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01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735
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01/01 Heinz Zemanek born in Vienna, Austria, 1920
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01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now Russia), 1920
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01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864
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01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785
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01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
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01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
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01/08 Stephen Hawking born in Oxford, England, 1942
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01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738
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01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757?
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01/12 "Long" John Baldry born in London, 1941
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01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834
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01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884
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01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
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01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875
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01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born, 1929
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01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706
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01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809
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01/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807
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01/20 Buzz Aldrin born, 1930
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01/20 George Burns born, 1898
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01/21 Vladimir Lenin died, 1924
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01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824
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01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561
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01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
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01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899
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01/23 John Hancock born, 1737
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01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730
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01/24 John Belushi born in Chicago, 1949
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01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759
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01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882
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01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874
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01/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850
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01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882
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01/31 Jackie Robinson born, 1919
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02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874
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02/05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935
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02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952
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02/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885
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02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
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02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828
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02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
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02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775
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02/10 William Allen White born, 1868
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02/11 Thomas Edison born, 1847
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02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1800, photographic pioneer
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02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
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02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809
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02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564
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02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
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02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
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02/17 Frederick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
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02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902
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02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
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02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer
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02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473
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02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
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02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
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02/22 George Washington born, 1732
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02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
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02/23 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868
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02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836
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02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943
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02/25 Renoir born, 1841
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02/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786;
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observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21
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02/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533
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02/29 Herman Hollerith born, 1860
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03/01 David Niven born, 1910
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03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904
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03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
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03/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982
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03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
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03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
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03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900
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03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
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03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890
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03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
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03/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879
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03/14 Casey Jones born, 1864
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03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer;
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named Mars "canals"
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03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
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03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44 BC
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03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
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03/16 George Clymer born, 1739
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03/16 James Madison born, 1751
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03/23 Thomas Kelly, Father of the Lunar module, died, 2002
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03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874
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03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
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03/26 David Packard died, 1996; age of 83
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03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
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03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
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03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
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03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880
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03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
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03/30 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, died at the age of 101, 2002
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03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
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04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783
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04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher
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04/08 Buddha born, 563 BC
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04/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician
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04/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer
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04/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919
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04/10 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854
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04/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army
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04/13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743
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04/14 Christiaan Huygens born, 1629, physicist & astronomer;
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discovered Saturn's rings
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04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
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04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889
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04/22 Immanuel Kant born, 1724
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04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
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04/28 James Monroe born, 1758
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04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
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04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863
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04/30 Carl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
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05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) born in Alexandria,
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Louisiana, 1930
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05/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903
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05/09 Pinza died, 1957
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05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899
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05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768
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05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820
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05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842
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05/15 Mike Oldfield born in Essex, England, 1953
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05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890
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05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427 BC
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05/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911
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05/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934
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05/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874
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05/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917
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05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736
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05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908
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06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801
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06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
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06/03 Henry James born, 1811
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06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
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06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778
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06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954
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06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869
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06/13 Alexander the Great dies (323 BC)
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06/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843
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06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 BC
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06/18 M.C. Escher born, 1898
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06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903
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06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949
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06/22 Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, Germany, 1910
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06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912
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06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903
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06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880
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07/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883
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07/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804
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07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826
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07/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866
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07/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747
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07/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891
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07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
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07/10 John Calvin born, 1509
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07/11 John Quincy Adams born, 1767
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07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
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07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from
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Saint Nicholas"
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07/18 Brian Auger born in London, 1939
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07/25 Steve Goodman born in Chicago, 1948
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07/29 Benito Mussolini born, 1883
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07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818
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07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863
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08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819
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08/03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966
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08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937
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08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
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08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860
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08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927
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08/17 Mae West born, 1892
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08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1774, American explorer
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08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
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08/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912
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08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
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08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist
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08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907
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09/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638
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09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942
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09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909
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09/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789
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09/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533
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09/08 King Richard I of England born, 1157
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09/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925
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09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976
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09/09 Dennis Ritchie born in Bronxville, New York, 1941
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09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913
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09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851
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09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890
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09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914
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09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905
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09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
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09/21 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866
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09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645
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09/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881
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09/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC
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09/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC
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09/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896
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09/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774
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09/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888
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09/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840
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09/28 Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573
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09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106 BC
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09/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925
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09/29 Gene Autry born, 1907
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10/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924
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10/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC
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10/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869
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10/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903
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10/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881
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10/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902
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10/08 Dennis Ritchie died in Murray Hill, New Jersey, 2011
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10/13 Lenny Bruce born in New York City, 1925
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10/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC
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10/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890
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10/14 William Penn born in London, 1644
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10/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881
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10/16 Noah Webster born, 1758
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10/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854
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10/16 Dr. Jonathan B. Postel dies at age 55, 1998
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10/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S.
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10/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833
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10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933
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10/27 James Cook born, 1728
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10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887
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10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912
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11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734
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11/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650
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11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912
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11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934
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11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483
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11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982
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11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922
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11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850
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11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354
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11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908
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11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836
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11/20 Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1925
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11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922
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11/26 Norbert Wiener born in Columbia, Missouri, 1894
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11/29 John Mayall born in Cheshire, England, 1933
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11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC
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11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
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12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935
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12/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976
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12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901
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12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65 BC
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12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
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12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830
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12/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893
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12/14 George Washington dies, 1799
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12/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929
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12/18 Konrad Zuse died, 1995
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12/20 Carl Sagan died, 1996
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12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
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12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
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12/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805
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12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642
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12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791
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12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903
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