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- Birthday
- 01.01.1735
- Paul Revere
- Birthday
- 01.01.1919
- J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye'.
- Birthday
- 01.03.1840
- Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
- Birthday
- 01.03.1892
- J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.
- Birthday
- 01.04.1809
- Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.
- Birthday
- 01.04.1643
- Sir Issac Newton
- Birthday
- 01.04.1838
- Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person)
- Birthday
- 01.05.1779
- Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero
- Birthday
- 01.05.1855
- King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor
- Birthday
- 01.05.
- Sherlock Holmes
- Birthday
- 01.06.1811
- Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator
- Birthday
- 01.06.1878
- Carl Sandburg
- Birthday
- 01.06.1882
- Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957)
- Birthday
- 01.07.1800
- Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850-1853)
- Birthday
- 01.08.1786
- Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank.
- Birthday
- 01.08.1862
- Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co.
- Birthday
- 01.08.1868
- Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
- Birthday
- 01.08.1935
- Elvis Presley, singer.
- Birthday
- 01.08.1946
- Tod Brannan
- Birthday
- 01.09.1870
- Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge.
- Birthday
- 01.09.1901
- Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.
- Birthday
- 01.09.1913
- Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1968-1974)
- Birthday
- 01.10.1738
- Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys)
- Birthday
- 01.10.1877
- Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic
- Birthday
- 01.10.1877
- precipitator, used for polution control and air ionizers.
- Birthday
- 01.11.1755
- Alexander Hamilton, the 1st Secretary of the US Treasury
- Birthday
- 01.11.1807
- Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University.
- Birthday
- 01.12.1588
- John Winthrop, 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- Birthday
- 01.12.1737
- John Hancock
- Birthday
- 01.13.1832
- Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Birthday
- 01.14.1741
- Benedict Arnold, fink
- Birthday
- 01.14.
- Albert Schweitzer, doctor, humanitarian, organist.
- Birthday
- 01.14.1892
- Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
- Birthday
- 01.15.1908
- Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
- Birthday
- 01.15.1929
- Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer
- Birthday
- 01.17.1706
- Benjamin Franklin
- Birthday
- 01.17.1771
- Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
- Birthday
- 01.17.1880
- Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
- Birthday
- 01.17.1942
- Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
- Birthday
- 01.18.1779
- Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, pocket chessboard
- Birthday
- 01.18.1782
- Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
- Birthday
- 01.18.1813
- Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st commercially useable barbed wire
- Birthday
- 01.18.1854
- Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell.
- Birthday
- 01.18.1892
- Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
- Birthday
- 01.19.1736
- James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
- Birthday
- 01.19.1807
- Robert E. Lee
- Birthday
- 01.19.1809
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Birthday
- 01.19.1839
- Paul Cezanne, painter
- Birthday
- 01.20.1896
- Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns)
- Birthday
- 01.21.1743
- John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.
- Birthday
- 01.21.1813
- John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US
- Birthday
- 01.21.1815
- Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia.
- Birthday
- 01.23.1756
- Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy
- Birthday
- 01.25.1759
- Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
- Birthday
- 01.24.1888
- Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft.
- Birthday
- 01.25.1874
- Somerset Maugham, poet
- Birthday
- 01.25.1882
- Virginia Woolf, author.
- Birthday
- 01.26.1880
- Douglas MacArthur, he did return!
- Birthday
- 01.27.1832
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll)
- Birthday
- 01.27.1850
- Samuel Gompers, 1st president of the American Federation of Labor
- Birthday
- 01.28.1855
- William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
- Birthday
- 01.29.1843
- William McKinley, 25th President (1897-1901)
- Birthday
- 01.29.1850
- Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite
- Birthday
- 01.29.1860
- Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard)
- Birthday
- 01.29.1880
- Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields)
- Birthday
- 01.29.1901
- Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st commercially practical cathode ray tube
- Birthday
- 01.30.1882
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945)
- Birthday
- 01.31.1830
- James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight'.
- Birthday
- 01.31.1872
- Zane Gray, American West novelist
- Birthday
- 01.31.1919
- Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player