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