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1 | 01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919 |
| 2 | 01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735 | |
| 3 | 01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR), 1920 | |
| 4 | 01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864 | |
| 5 | 01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785 | |
| 6 | 01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars | |
| 7 | 01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer | |
| 8 | 01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738 | |
| 9 | 01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757? | |
| 10 | 01/12 "Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941 | |
| 11 | 01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834 | |
| 12 | 01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884 | |
| 13 | 01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws | |
| 14 | 01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875 | |
| 15 | 01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born | |
| 16 | 01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706 | |
| 17 | 01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809 | |
| 18 | 01/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807 | |
| 19 | 01/20 George Burns born, 1898 | |
| 20 | 01/21 Lenin died, 1924 | |
| 21 | 01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824 | |
| 22 | 01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561 | |
| 23 | 01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory | |
| 24 | 01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899 | |
| 25 | 01/23 John Hancock born, 1737 | |
| 26 | 01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730 | |
| 27 | 01/23 Samuel Barber died, 1981 | |
| 28 | 01/24 John Belushi is born in Chicago, 1949 | |
| 29 | 01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759 | |
| 30 | 01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882 | |
| 31 | 01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874 | |
| 32 | 01/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850 | |
| 33 | 01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882 | |
| 34 | 01/31 Jackie Robinson born, 1919 | |
| 35 | 02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874 | |
| 36 | 02/05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935 | |
| 37 | 02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952 | |
| 38 | 02/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885 | |
| 39 | 02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography | |
| 40 | 02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828 | |
| 41 | 02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. | |
| 42 | 02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775 | |
| 43 | 02/10 William Allen White born, 1868 | |
| 44 | 02/11 Thos. Edison born, 1847 | |
| 45 | 02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer | |
| 46 | 02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809 | |
| 47 | 02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809 | |
| 48 | 02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564 | |
| 49 | 02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820 | |
| 50 | 02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry | |
| 51 | 02/17 Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone | |
| 52 | 02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902 | |
| 53 | 02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874 | |
| 54 | 02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer | |
| 55 | 02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473 | |
| 56 | 02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer | |
| 57 | 02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass | |
| 58 | 02/22 George Washington born, 1732 | |
| 59 | 02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun | |
| 60 | 02/23 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868 | |
| 61 | 02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836 | |
| 62 | 02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943 | |
| 63 | 02/25 Renoir born, 1841 | |
| 64 | 02/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786; | |
| 65 | observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21 | |
| 66 | 02/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533 | |
| 67 | 02/29 Herman Hollerith born, 1860 | |
| 68 | 03/01 David Niven born, 1910 | |
| 69 | 03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904 | |
| 70 | 03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747 | |
| 71 | 03/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982 | |
| 72 | 03/07 Aristotle died, 322BC | |
| 73 | 03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer | |
| 74 | 03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer | |
| 75 | 03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900 | |
| 76 | 03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737 | |
| 77 | 03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890 | |
| 78 | 03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist | |
| 79 | 03/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879 | |
| 80 | 03/14 Casey Jones born, 1864 | |
| 81 | 03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; | |
| 82 | named Mars "canals" | |
| 83 | 03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist | |
| 84 | 03/16 George Clymer born, 1739 | |
| 85 | 03/16 James Madison born, 1751 | |
| 86 | 03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874 | |
| 87 | 03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist | |
| 88 | 03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays | |
| 89 | 03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer | |
| 90 | 03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746 | |
| 91 | 03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880 | |
| 92 | 03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 | |
| 93 | 03/31 Descartes born, 1596 | |
| 94 | 03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher | |
| 95 | 04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783 | |
| 96 | 04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher | |
| 97 | 04/08 Buddha born, 563 BC | |
| 98 | 04/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician | |
| 99 | 04/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer | |
| 100 | 04/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919 | |
| 101 | 04/10 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854 | |
| 102 | 04/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army | |
| 103 | 04/13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743 | |
| 104 | 04/14 Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; | |
| 105 | discovered Saturn's rings | |
| 106 | 04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452 | |
| 107 | 04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889 | |
| 108 | 04/22 Kant born, 1724 | |
| 109 | 04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist | |
| 110 | 04/28 James Monroe born, 1758 | |
| 111 | 04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology | |
| 112 | 04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863 | |
| 113 | 04/30 Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer | |
| 114 | 05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) is born in Alexandria, | |
| 115 | Louisiana, 1930 | |
| 116 | 05/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903 | |
| 117 | 05/09 Pinza died, 1957 | |
| 118 | 05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899 | |
| 119 | 05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768 | |
| 120 | 05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820 | |
| 121 | 05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842 | |
| 122 | 05/15 Mike Oldfield is born in Essex, England, 1953 | |
| 123 | 05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890 | |
| 124 | 05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427BC | |
| 125 | 05/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911 | |
| 126 | 05/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934 | |
| 127 | 05/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874 | |
| 128 | 05/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917 | |
| 129 | 05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736 | |
| 130 | 05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908 | |
| 131 | 06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801 | |
| 132 | 06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928 | |
| 133 | 06/02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857 | |
| 134 | 06/03 Henry James born, 1811 | |
| 135 | 06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848 | |
| 136 | 06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778 | |
| 137 | 06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869 | |
| 138 | 06/13 Alexander the Great dies (323BC) | |
| 139 | 06/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843 | |
| 140 | 06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc | |
| 141 | 06/18 M.C. Escher born, 1898 | |
| 142 | 06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903 | |
| 143 | 06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949 | |
| 144 | 06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903 | |
| 145 | 06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880 | |
| 146 | 07/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883 | |
| 147 | 07/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804 | |
| 148 | 07/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866 | |
| 149 | 07/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747 | |
| 150 | 07/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891 | |
| 151 | 07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838 | |
| 152 | 07/10 John Calvin born, 1509 | |
| 153 | 07/11 John Quincy Adams born, 1767 | |
| 154 | 07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817 | |
| 155 | 07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from | |
| 156 | Saint Nicholas" | |
| 157 | 07/18 Brian Auger is born in London, 1939 | |
| 158 | 07/25 Steve Goodman is born in Chicago, 1948 | |
| 159 | 07/29 Mussolini born, 1883 | |
| 160 | 07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818 | |
| 161 | 07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863 | |
| 162 | 08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819 | |
| 163 | 08/03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966 | |
| 164 | 08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937 | |
| 165 | 08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860 | |
| 166 | 08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927 | |
| 167 | 08/17 Mae West born, 1892 | |
| 168 | 08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1927 | |
| 169 | 08/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912 | |
| 170 | 08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908 | |
| 171 | 08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist | |
| 172 | 08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907 | |
| 173 | 09/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638 | |
| 174 | 09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942 | |
| 175 | 09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909 | |
| 176 | 09/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789 | |
| 177 | 09/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533 | |
| 178 | 09/08 King Richard I of England born, 1157 | |
| 179 | 09/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925 | |
| 180 | 09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976 | |
| 181 | 09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913 | |
| 182 | 09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851 | |
| 183 | 09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890 | |
| 184 | 09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914 | |
| 185 | 09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905 | |
| 186 | 09/18 Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970 | |
| 187 | 09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878 | |
| 188 | 09/21 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866 | |
| 189 | 09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645 | |
| 190 | 09/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881 | |
| 191 | 09/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC | |
| 192 | 09/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC | |
| 193 | 09/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896 | |
| 194 | 09/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774 | |
| 195 | 09/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888 | |
| 196 | 09/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840 | |
| 197 | 09/28 Michelangelo Buanarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573 | |
| 198 | 09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106BC | |
| 199 | 09/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925 | |
| 200 | 09/29 Gene Autry born, 1907 | |
| 201 | 10/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924 | |
| 202 | 10/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC | |
| 203 | 10/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869 | |
| 204 | 10/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903 | |
| 205 | 10/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881 | |
| 206 | 10/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902 | |
| 207 | 10/13 Lenny Bruce is born in New York City, 1925 | |
| 208 | 10/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC | |
| 209 | 10/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890 | |
| 210 | 10/14 William Penn born in London, 1644 | |
| 211 | 10/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881 | |
| 212 | 10/16 Noah Webster born, 1758 | |
| 213 | 10/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854 | |
| 214 | 10/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S. | |
| 215 | 10/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833 | |
| 216 | 10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933 | |
| 217 | 10/27 James Cook is born, 1466 | |
| 218 | 10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887 | |
| 219 | 10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912 | |
| 220 | 11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734 | |
| 221 | 11/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650 | |
| 222 | 11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912 | |
| 223 | 11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934 | |
| 224 | 11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483 | |
| 225 | 11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982 | |
| 226 | 11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922 | |
| 227 | 11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850 | |
| 228 | 11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354 | |
| 229 | 11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908 | |
| 230 | 11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836 | |
| 231 | 11/20 RFK born, 1925 | |
| 232 | 11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922 | |
| 233 | 11/26 Norbert Weiner born, 1894 | |
| 234 | 11/29 John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933 | |
| 235 | 11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC | |
| 236 | 11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835 | |
| 237 | 12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935 | |
| 238 | 12/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976 | |
| 239 | 12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901 | |
| 240 | 12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC | |
| 241 | 12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894 | |
| 242 | 12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830 | |
| 243 | 12/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893 | |
| 244 | 12/14 George Washington dies, 1799 | |
| 245 | 12/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929 | |
| 246 | 12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804 | |
| 247 | 12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858 | |
| 248 | 12/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805 | |
| 249 | 12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642 | |
| 250 | 12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791 | |
| 251 | 12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903 | |
| 252 | 03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia | |
| 253 | 03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44BC | |
| 254 | 07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826 | |
| 255 | 07/12 Thoreau's Birthday, 1817 | |
| 256 | 08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955 | |
| 257 | 08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940 |