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01011735 Paul Revere, midnight rider.
01011919 J. D. Salinger, author of 'Catcher in the Rye.'
01031840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
01031892 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings.
01041809 Louis Braille, developed reading system for the blind.
01041643 Sir Isaac Newton, "inventor of gravity." (?)
01041838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person.)
01051779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero.
01051855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor.
0105     Sherlock Holmes, year unknown.  Attended elementary school.
01061811 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator.
01061878 Carl Sandburg, poet to the world.
01061882 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House (1940 - 1957.)
01071800 Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the U.S. from 1850 - 1853.
01081786 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US first effective central bank.
01081862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co.
01081868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity.
01081935 Elvis Presley, singer, king.
01091870 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge.
01091901 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.
01091913 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the U.S. from 1968 - 1974.
01101738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys.)
01101877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic
0110     precipitator, used for polution control and air ionizers.
01111755 Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the US Treasury.
01111807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University.
01121588 John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
01121737 John Hancock, famed calligrapher and insurance man. (?)
01131832 Horatio Alger, Jr.
01141741 Benedict Arnold, traitor and fink.
01141892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
01151908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
01151929 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer.
01171706 Benjamin Franklin, author, poet, statesman, inventor.
01171771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
01171880 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops
01171942 Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
01181779 Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule,
0118     created pocket chessboard.
01181782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
01181813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented first commercially useable
0118     barbed wire.
01181854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Alexander Graham Bell.
01181892 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
01191736 James Watt, made the steam engine workable.
01191807 Robert E. Lee, southern legend.
01191809 Edgar Allen Poe, raven breeder.
01191839 Paul Cezanne, painter.
01201894 Harold L. Gray, creator of "Little Orphan Annie."
01201896 Nathan Birnbaum (better known as George Burns).
01211743 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.
01211813 John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US.
01211815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia.
01231756 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy.
01251759 Robert Burns, the Scottish poet.
01241888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built first rocket-powered aircraft.
01251874 Somerset Maugham, poet.
01251882 Virginia Woolf, author.
01261880 Douglas MacArthur. He did return!
01271832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll.)
01271850 Samuel Gompers, first president of the American Federation of
0127     Labor.
01281855 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine.
01291843 William McKinley, 25th President of the U.S. from 1897 - 1901.
01291850 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite.
01291860 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard.)
01291880 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields.)
01291901 Allen B DuMont, perfected first commercially practical
0129     cathode ray tube.
01301882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the U.S. from 1933 - 1945.
01311830 James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight.'
01311872 Zane Gray, American West novelist.
01311919 Jackie Robinson, first black major league baseball player.
02011901 Clark Gable, didn't give a damn about Scarlet O'Hara.
02021754 Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat.
02031811 Horace Greeley, told young men to go west
02031821 Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to get MD from a US Medical school.
02031874 Gertrude Stein, beloved by Hemmingway.
02041902 Charles A. Lindburgh, 'Lucky Lindy'
02051840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire.
02051878 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker.
02061756 Aaron Burr.
02061885 George Herman Ruth (The Babe!)
02061911 Ronald Reagan, 40th President from 1981 - 1988.
02071804 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements.
02071812 Charles Dickens
02071817 Frederick Douglas, first black to hold high rank in US government
02071883 Eubie Blake, composer
02081820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general.
02081828 Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction.
02081906 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing)
02081925 Jack Lemmon
02091773 William Henry Harrison, 9th President served only from
0209     March 4 - April 4, 1841.
02111847 Thomas Alva Edison, who lit up your life
02121802 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President from 1861 - 1865.
02121809 Charles Darwin
02121893 General of the Army Omar Bradley, 'The GI General'
02131805 David Dudley Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification
0213     had international effects.
02131885 Bess Truman, married to President Harry S Truman.
02141894 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny.  Oh, Rochester!
02151564 Galileo Galilei
02151797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker
02151803 John Augustus Sutter
02161884 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film.
02171844 A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business.
02181745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented
0218     the electric battery.
02181848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker
02191473 Nicolaus Copernicus
02201902 Ansel Adams, landscape photographer extraordinaire!
02221732 George Washington, Father figure for US, President from 1789 -
0222     1796.
02221749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & first biographer of Bach
02231685 George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer
02241787 Wilhelm Grimm, collector of fairy tales.
02241885 Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII.
02241955 Steven Jobs, Apple co-founder.
02251873 Enrico Caruso, singer
02251888 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for President Eisenhower
02261846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
02261852 John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired the flaked cereal industry.
02261866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry
02271902 John Steinbeck
02271934 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan
02291860 Herman Hollerith, invented first electric tabulating machine.
03011810 Frederic Chopin, composer.
03011848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece.
03041394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsored Portuguese voyages
0304     of discovery.
03041678 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer.
03051824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame.)
03061619 Cyrano de Bergerac.
03061756 Aaron Burr, dualist.
03061812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking.
03061937 Valentina Tereshkova, first woman cosmonaut.
03071849 Luther Burbank, plant breeder.
03071875 Maurice Ravel, and was Bo grateful!
03081787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery.
03081859 Kenneth Grahame, author, "The Wind in the Willows."
03081879 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission.
03091824 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford University.
03091934 Yuri Gagarin, first man into space.
03121831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
03121832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts.
03121936 President Franklin Roosevelt holds his first "Fireside Chat."
03141681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer.
03141864 Casey Jones, famed engineer.
03141879 Albert Einstein, relative, wizard.
03151767 Andrew Jackson, 7th President from 1828 - 1836.
03161751 James Madison, 4th President  from 1809 - 1817.
03161836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car.
03171804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance.
03171834 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer.
03171919 Nat King Cole, crooner, (and Natalie's father.)
03181782 John C. Calhoun, statesman.
03181837 Grover Cleveland, twice President, from 1885 - 1889, and again
0318     from 1893 - 1897.
03181858 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine.
03181932 John Updike, poet and novelist.
03191860 William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner.'
03201856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management.
03201904 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism.
03211685 Johann Sebastian Bach, gone for Baroque.
03211768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist.
03211869 Florenz Ziegfeld, of Follies fame.
03231912 Werner von Braun, rocketeer.
03261874 Robert Frost, poet.
03261911 Tennessee Williams, author.
03261925 Pierre Boulez, French composer.
03261931 Leonard Nimoy, beam him up, Mr. Scott.
03271813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives.)
03271863 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce.
03291790 John Tyler, 10th President from 1841 - 1845.
03291819 Edwin Drake, drilled first productive oil well in US.
03291867 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911).
03301719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote first history of music in English.
03301853 Vincent van Gogh, artist who always lent an ear.
03311596 Rene Descartes, he thought, therefore he was.
03311732 Joseph Haydn, composer, helped develop the Classical style.
03311809 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam."
03311854 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine.
04011883 Lon Chaney, man of a thousand faces
04020742 Emperor Charlemagne
04021875 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.
04021914 Sir Alec Guiness, thespian
04021920 Jack Webb, dum-de-dum-dum
04021924 Doris Day, girl next door
04031924 Marlon Brando, godfather
04041792 Thaddeus Stevens
04041802 Dorothea Dix, social reformer
04051856 Booker T. Washington
04051908 Bette Davis
04061810 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium
04061866 Lincoln Steffens, muckraker.
04061890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer
04061892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
04061892 Lowell Thomas, journalist
04071860 W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company.
04071915 Billie Holiday, blues singer
04071932 Mark Russell, satirist
04081889 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
04091830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography.
04091865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz
04091879 W.C. Fields, Philadelphian
04091919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of first electronic computer
0409     (ENIAC)
04121777 Henry Clay, 'The Great Compromiser'
04121791 Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.
04121913 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor
04131721 John Hanson, first US President under the Articles of Confederation.
04131743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President from 1801 - 1809.
04131852 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king.
04141889 Arnold Toynbee, historian
04151452 Leonardo da Vinci, factotum
04151707 Leonhard Euler, mathematician
04161867 Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
04161889 Charlie Chaplin, tramp
04161947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person
04171837 J.P. Morgan, financed the US.
04171897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist
04181857 Clarence Darrow, lawyer
04191877 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine.
04201889 Adolf Hitler, in Braunau, Austria.
04201893 Harold Lloyd, early film comedian.
04211926 Queen Elizabeth II of Britain.
04211838 John Muir, naturalist.
04221904 J. Robert Oppenheimer.
04231564 William Shakespeare, bard
04231791 James Buchanan, 15th President from 1857 - 1861.
04231813 Stephen Douglas, the "Little Giant", debated Lincoln
04231928 Shirley Temple, child actress
04241620 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography
04241942 Barbra Streisand, profile
04251874 Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible
04251908 Edward R. Murrow, set the standard for TV correspondents.
04261785 John James Audubon, birdwatcher
04261900 Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are.
04271791 Samuel F. B. Morse
04271822 Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President from 1869 - 1877.
04271896 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon.
04281758 James Monroe, 5th President from 1816 - 1824.
04291830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels...
04291863 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner)
04291899 Duke Ellington
04301777 Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians.
04301912 Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks
05011769 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy.
05011830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), hellraiser.
05021837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order."
05021904 Bing Crosby, crooner.
05031874 Francois Coty, perfumemaker.
05031898 Golda Meir
05031919 Pete Seeger, folk singer.
05051867 Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for female star reporter.
05061818 Karl Marx
05061856 Sigmund Freud, cigar smoker.
05061870 A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America.
05061895 Rudolph Valentino, sheik.
05061915 Orson Welles, citizen.
05061931 The 'Say Hey Kid', Willie Mays.
05071833 Johannes Brahms, enjoyed a good lullaby.
05071840 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer.
05071901 Gary Cooper, actor in 'High Noon' and 'The Plainsman.'
05071909 Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid.)
05081737 Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline & Fall
0508     of the Roman Empire."
05081786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry.
05081828 Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA.
05081829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, first internationally recognized
0508     US pianist.
05081884 Harry S Truman, 32nd President.  The 'S' doesn't stand for
0508     anything (thus no period.)
05091800 John Brown, abolitionist.
05091873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen.
05091882 Henry J. Kaiser,  built Liberty Ships, Jeeps.
05101788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics.
05101899 Fred Astaire, tapdancer.
05101902 David O. Selznick, film producer.
05111888 Irving Berlin, composer, lover to the world.
05111904 Salvador Dali, painter.
05121820 Florence Nightengale, inspiration to nurses everywhere.
05121845 Gabriel Faure, composer.
05121925 Yogi Barra, catcher.
05131842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame.
05131856 Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote.
0513     photography as an independent art.
05131914 Joe Louis, heavyweight.
05141928 Billy Martin, local boy who made good in baseball.
05141944 George Lucas, skywalker.
05151859 Pierre Curie, physicist.
05161801 William H. Seward, bought Alaska at $0.02/acre.
05161919 Liberace, candelabrist.
05171866 Erik Satie, composer.
05181850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist who predicted the existance of
0518     the ionosphere, used to reflect radio waves.
05181918 Pope John Paul II.
05191890 Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer.
05191918 Mike Wallace, of CBS '60 minutes' fame.
05201750 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during the War of 1812.
05201799 Honore de Balzac, novelist.
05201818 William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Co.
05201913 William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co.
05201915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general & politician.
05211471 Albrecht Durer, painter & printmaker, greatest German
0521     Renaissance artist.
05211860 Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph.
05211878 Glenn Curtis, aircraft pioneer.
05221828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology.
05221859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, brought Sherlock Holmes to life (twice).
05221907 Laurence Olivier, actor.
05221920 Thomas Gold, astronomer, established the steady-state theory
0522     of the universe.
05231883 Douglas Fairbanks, first & greatest of Hollywood's swashbucklers.
05231910 Artie Shaw, band leader and husband.
05241686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, invented the thermometer.
05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher.
05251889 Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter.
05251926 Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz.
05251929 Beverly Sills, soprano.
05261877 Isadora Duncan
05261886 Al Jolson, jazz singer.
05261907 John Wayne, shootist.
05271818 Amelia Bloomer, suffragist known for her pantaloons.
05271837 Wild Bill Hickox
05271894 Dashiell Hammett, author who created the hard-boiled detective.
05271907 Rachel Carson, ecologist.
05281886 Jim Thorpe
05281908 Ian Fleming, gave James Bond a job.
05291903 Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, famous profile.
05291917 John F. Kennedy, 35th President from 1960 - 1963.
05301909 Benny Goodman, swinger.
05311819 Walt Whitman, poet.
06011926 Marilyn Monroe, actress.
06021740 Marquis de Sade, entertainer. (?)
06021835 Pope Pius X.
06021857 Sir Edward Elgar, composer (Pomp and Circumstance.)
06031808 Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy from 1861 - 1865.
06031864 Ransom Eli Olds, auto manufacturer.
06051723 Adam Smith, economist
06051883 John Maynard Keynes, another economist.
06051900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography.)
06061755 Nathan Hale, had but one life to give for his country.
06061756 John Trumbull, painter.
06061956 Bjorn Borg, Racketeer extraordinaire.
06071778 Beau Brummel, English Dandy.
06071848 Paul Gauguin, painter.
06080570 Mohammed, prophet.
06081625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer.
06081869 Frank Lloyd Wright, master builder.
06091781 George Stephenson, principal inventor of the railroad locomotive.
06091915 Les Paul, guitarist, inventor.
06091934 Donald Duck, famous fowl mouth.
06101904 Frederick Loewe, composer.
06111572 Ben Johnson, playwright.
06111847 Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement.
06111867 Charles Fabry, discovered the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere.
06111910 Jacques Cousteau, diver and environmentalist.
06121915 David Rockefeller, International Power Broker.
06121929 Anne Frank, diarist.
06131903 Harold "Red" Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" of football.
06141811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin.)
06171870 George Cormack, the inventor of "Wheaties" cereal.
06171882 Igor Stravinsky, composer (The Rite of Spring.)
06181877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his
0618     "I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster.
06181942 Paul McCartney, Yah-Yah-Yah
06191623 Blaise Pascal, mathematician.
06191886 Duchess of Windsor, divorcee.
06191903 Henry Louis Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of the Yankees.
06191978 Garfield the cat. "Big fat hairy deal."
06211732 Martha Washington, George's Mrs.
06211921 Jane Russell, full-figured gal.
06231846 George Sax, inventor of the saxophone.
06231912 Alan Turing, mathematician, pioneer in computer theory.
06241839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift & Co.
06251894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics.
06261819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball.
06261892 Pearl Buck, authoress (The Good Earth.)
06261913 Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers.
06271880 Helen Keller, a portrait of courage.
06271927 Bob Keeshan, a.k.a. Captain Kangaroo (Good Morning, Captain.)
06281491 Henry VIII of England.  Don't lose your head over him.
06281712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, social contractor.
06281947 Patrick Kincaid, creator of this 'TODAY' file structure.
06291858 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal.
07041753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, first balloon flights
0704     in England, US.
07041804 Nathaniel Hawthorne.
07041826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna."
07041872 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President from 1923 - 1929.
07041878 George M. Cohan.
07041883 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult.
07041900 Louis Armstrong, 'Satchmo.'
07051794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker.
07051810 P.T. Barnum.
07061747 John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to fight."
07071752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom.
07071907 Robert A. Heinlein, author who helped develop Science Fiction.
0707     as a sophisticated mode of literary expression.
07081839 John D. Rockefeller.
07091802 Thomas Davenport, invented first commercially successful
0709     electric motor.
07101834 James Whistler, mama's boy.
07101867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley.
07111767 John Quincy Adams, 6th President from 1825 - 1829.
07121817 Henry David Thoreau, always had Ralph Waldo Emerson.
0712     around to bail him out of trouble.
07121854 George Eastman, created the Kodak camera.
07121895 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.
07121895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers.
07121908 Milton Berle, "Uncle Miltie."
07141912 Woodie Guthrie.
07141913 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President from 1974 - 1976.
07141918 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory.
07151606 Rembrandt, Dutch painter.
07171744 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander."
07171900 James Cagney, hold that grapefruit.
07181811 William Makepeach Thackeray, Victorian novelist, wrote
0718     'Vanity Fair.'
07181848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer.
07181913 Red Skelton, clown to the world.
07181906 S. I. Hayakawa.
07181921 John Glenn, Jr., first American in orbit.
07191814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver.
07211899 Ernest Hemingway, never asked for whom the bell tolled...
07221844 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented 'spoonerisms.'
07221849 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
07221890 Rose Kennedy, mother of Jack, Robert, and Ted.
07241783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule.
07241802 Alexandre Dumas, told the Count of Monte Christo how to escape.
07241898 Amelia Earhart, into the wild blue yonder.
07251978 Louise Brown, first test-tube baby (born under the sign of Pyrex.)
07261856 George Bernard Shaw.
07261943 Mick Jagger, never gathers moss.
07281929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, redecorator.
07291869 Booth Tarkington, novelist.
07291871 Rasputin, the mad Russian monk.
07291907 Melvin Belli, San Francisco's 'King of Torts.'
07301863 Henry Ford.
08011770 William Clark, explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis.
08011779 Francis Scott Key, wrote the 'Star-Spangled Banner.'
08031811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safe elevator.
08011815 Richard Henry Dana, spent 2 years before the mast.
08041755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, invented the modern pencil.
08051930 Neil Armstrong, first Moonwalker.
08061809 Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England.
08061881 Sir Alexander Fleming, cashed in on penicillin.
08071783 John Heathcoat, invented lace-making machinery.
08071886 Louis Alan Hazeltine, invented the neutrodyne circuit, making
0807     commercial radio possible.
08081763 Charles Bullfinch, first US professional architect.
08081922 Rudi Gernreich, designed first women's topless swimsuit & the miniskirt
08091930 Betty Boop.
08101874 Herbert Hoover, 31st President from 1929 - 1933.
08121881 Cecil B. deMille, directed God.
08121911 Mario Moreno, alias Cantinflas.
08131655 Johann Christoph Denner, invented the clarinet.
08131818 Lucy Stone, pioneer in Woman's Rights.
08131860 Annie Oakley, sharpshooter.
08151769 Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba.
08151803 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia.
08151912 Julia Child, chef.
08161884 Hugo Gernsback, responsible for science fiction becoming an
0816     independent literary form.
08161892 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant", known for
0816     its fine drawing and historical detail.
08171786 Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.
08171892 Mae West.  Go up and see her sometime.
08181618 Virginia Dare, first child born in America of English parents.
08181834 Marshall Field, founded a Chicago-based store chain.
08191646 John Flamsteed, first astronomer royal of England.
08191785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks.
08191871 Orville Wright, famed brother and aviator.
08201833 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President from 1889 - 1893.
08211660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote first book on bridge building.
08221862 Claude Debussy, composer
08221920 Ray Bradbury, science fiction author.
08231869 James "Sunny Jim" Rolph, Mayor (1912-1931), Muni backer.
08241816 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid first successful trans-Atlantic cables.
08241886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed the Liberty ships.
08251927 Althea Gibson, first black tennis champion (in a major event.)
08261873 Lee De Forest, invented the Audion vacuum tube (radio tube.)
08271882 Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer filmmaker.
08271899 C.S. Forester, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower.
08271908 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President from 1963 - 1969.
08281749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, social philosopher.
08301797 Mary Shelley, wrote 'Frankenstein.'
09011875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist, Ah-ee-ah-ee-ah!
09021838 Queen Liliuokalani (last queen of Hawaii.)
09021866 Hiram Johnson, Calif governor, Progressive.
09021952 Jimmy Connors, tennis brat.
09031856 Louis Sullivan, father of modern US architecture.
09041824 Anton Bruckner, Wagner disciple.
09051902 Darryl F. Zanuck, Hollywood producer & motion picture executive.
09061766 John Dalton, developed the atomic theory of matter.
09061811 James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington.
09071533 Queen Elizabeth I.
09071860 Grandma Moses.
09071914 James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts.
09081841 Anton Dvorak, composer.
09081925 Peter Sellers, (not now, Kato.)
09101934 Charles Kuralt, "On the road..." for CBS.
09111862 O Henry, pen name of William Sidney Porter, short story writer.
09111885 D.H. Lawrence, Taos pioneer.
09111913 Bear Bryant, keeps the Crimson Tide winning...
09121818 Richard Jordan Gatling, US inventor of hand-cranked machine gun.
09121880 H.L. Mencken, Baltimore's son.
09121888 Maurice Chevalier, thanked heaven for little girls.
09131755 Oliver Evans, pioneered the high-pressure steam engine.
09121913 Jesse Owens, spoiled Hitler's Olympic plans in 1936.
09131851 Walter Reed, who proved mosquitos transmit yellow fever.
09141867 Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew the "Gibson Girl."
09141883 Margaret Sanger, feminist.
09151789 James Fenimore Cooper, first major American novelist.
09151857 William Howard Taft, 27th President from 1909 - 1913.
09151881 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, car builder.
09151890 Dame Agatha Christie, novelist.
09151894 Jean Renoir, cineaste.
09161822 Charles S. Crocker, of Southern Pacific fame.
09161924 Lauren Bacall, whistler.
09171730 Baron Frederick von Steuben, made the Continental Army winners.
09181709 Samuel Johnson, Boswell's tour guide.
09201878 Upton Sinclair, author.
09211756 John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface (asphalt.)
09211866 H.G. Wells, futurist.
09211874 Gustav Holst, composer of 'The Planets.'
09221791 Michael Faraday, discovered principle of the electric motor.
09221885 Erich von Stroheim, early film director.
09221946 Sam Watson, Creator of Ye Old BBS Almanac.
09231852 William Stewart Halsted, established first surgical school in US.
09231926 John Coltrane, saxophonist.
09231930 Ray Charles, singer.
09241870 Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light.
09241936 Jim Hensen, who made Kermit & Miss Piggy what they are today.
09251725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built first automobile.
09251897 William Faulkner, American author.
09261774 John Chapman, alias Johnny Appleseed.
09261888 T.S. Eliot, Anglican poet.
09261898 George Gershwin, composer.
09271722 Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser.
09271840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America.
09281909 Al Capp, put Dogpatch, USA on the map.
09291901 Enrico Fermi, physicist, gone fission.
09291912 Gene Autry, cowpoke and enterpreneur.
09301924 Truman Capote, a short short story writer.
10011881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft company.
10011924 Jimmy Carter, 39th President from 1976 - 1980.
10021851 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be the leader responsible for
1002     Allies winning World War I.
10021869 Mahatma Ghandi, pacifist.
10031803 John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration.
10031804 Townsend Harris, first Western consul to reside in Japan.
10031925 Gore Vidal, writer.
10041822 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President from 1877 - 1881.
10041895 Buster Keaton, clown.
10041931 Dick Tracy, private detective.
10051829 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President from 1881 - 1884.
10051882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of modern rocketry.
10051905 Ray Kroc, who gave Ronald McDonald a job.
10061820 Jenny Lind, nightingale.
10061846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US.
10061866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast first program of
1006     voice & music.
10071885 Niels Bohr, physicist & Nobel laureate, expanded quantum physics.
10081869 J. Frank Duryea, with his brother, invented first auto built &
1008     operated in the US.
10101738 Benjamin West, painter.
10101813 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas.
10111844 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company.
10111884 Eleanor Roosevelt, crusader.
10121935 Luciano Pavarotti, tenor.
10131769 Horace H. Hayden, cofounder of first dental college.
10131925 Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister.
10141857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the first US autos.
10141890 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President from 1953 - 1961.
10141894 e.e. cummings, poet.
10141896 Lillian Gish, actress.
10151829 Asaph Hall, astronomer, discovered the moons of Mars,
1015     Phobos & Deimos.
10151844 Friedrich Nietzsche, Ubermensch.
10151858 John L. Sullivan, famed pugelist.
10151905 C. P. Snow, British novelist and scientist.
10161708 Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology.
10161854 Oscar Wilde, wit.
10161890 Paul Strand, photographer.
10171915 Arthur Miller, playwright.
10181919 Pierre Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister.
10201632 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer, greatest English architect
1020     of his time, built many of the cathedrals in London.
10201812 Austin Flint, 19th century pioneer in US heart research.
10201874 Charles Ives, composer.
10211833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, created dynamite and Peace Prizes.
10211917 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz.
10231835 Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Vice President.
10231925 Johnny Carson, bedtime storyteller.
10251881 Pablo Picasso, doodler.
10261855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals.
10271728 Captain James Cook, discovered the Sandwich Islands.
10271811 Isaac Merrit Singer, invented first practical home
1027     sewing machine.
10271858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President from 1901 - 1909.
10281466 Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly."
10281846 Auguste Escoffier, "the king of chefs & the chef of kings."
10281914 Dr. Jonas Salk, who made polio a fear of the past.
10291740 James Boswell, Samuel Johnson's biographer.
10301735 John Adams, 2nd President from 1797 - 1801.
11021734 Daniel Boone, coonskin cap model and hunter.
11021795 James K. Polk, 11th President from 1845 - 1849.
11021865 Warren G. Harding, 29th President from 1921 - 1923.
11021885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
11031718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
11041879 Will Rogers, who never met Richard Nixon.
11041916 Walter Cronkite, "...and that's the way it is."
11051857 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy.)
11051912 Roy Rogers, Happy Trails to you, Roy & Trigger. And Dale, too.
11061771 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography.
11061851 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co.
11061854 John Phillip Souza, the march king.
11061861 James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball.
11071867 Madame Marie Curie, discoverer of radium.
11081656 Edmond Halley, astronomer, first to calculate a comet's orbit.
1108     No relation to Haley's Comment.
11091934 Carl Sagan, who has BILLIONS and BILLIONS of admirers.
11101668 Francois Couperin, composer.
11101819 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success of the first
1110     transatlantic cable.
11101895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
11111821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment."
11111885 General George S. Patton. "Old Blood and Guts."
11111922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author.
11121815 Elizabeth Stanton, early leader of women's rights movement.
11121866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC.)
11131850 Robert Louis Stevenson, author, adventurer.
11131856 Justice Louis Brandeis.
11141765 Robert Fulton, built first commercial steamboat.
11141776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis.
11141840 Claude Monet, impressionist.
11141900 Aaron Copland, american composer (Billy the Kid,
1114     Appalachian Spring)
11161873 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues
1116     in band music.
11161901 George Gallop, what's your opinion?
11181789 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography.
11181836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame.)
11181923 Alan Sheppard, first American into space.
11181928 Mickey Mouse, sired by Walt Disney's pen.
11191752 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in the
1119     Revolutionary War.
11191831 James A. Garfield, 20th President, served only from March 4
1119     to September 19, 1881.
11191905 Tommy Dorsey, bandleader.
11201602 Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump.
11201900 Chester Gould, gave Dick Tracy a job.
11201908 Alistair Cooke, raconteur.
11211694 Voltaire, thinker.
11211787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded first regular Atlantic
11211787Csteamship line.
11211904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone
1121     for jazz.
11221888 Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel.
11221890 Charles de Gaulle, French President.
11221899 Hoagy Carmichael, composed 'Star Dust.'
11231804 Franklin Pierce, 14th President from 1853 - 1857.
11231887 Boris Karloff, bogeyman.
11241713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.
11241784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President from 1849 - 1850.
11241868 Scott Joplin, entertainer.
11251835 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian.
11251846 Carry Nation, scourge of barkeepers and drinkers.
11261832 Louisa May Alcott, little woman.
11261876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
11271701 Anders Celsius, scientist.
11291803 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (phase shift.)
11291849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode.
11301667 Jonathan Swift, satirist, wrote "Gulliver's Travels."
11301810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
11301835 Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain.
11301874 Winston Churchill, patriot, Prime Minister.
12021906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records.
12031729 Antonio Soler, famed late 18th century Spanish composer.
12051782 Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the U.S. from 1837 - 1841
12051839 General George A. Custer, lost to Indians.
12051901 Walter Elias Disney, father of Mickey Mouse.
12061822 John Eberhard, built first large scale pencil factory in US.
12061870 William S. Hart, star of silent Western movies.
12081861 William Durant, founded General Motors Corp.
12081865 Jean Sibelius, major Scandinavian composer.
12081894 James Thurber, humorist.
12091848 Joel Chandler Harris, created the Uncle Remus stories.
12091886 Clarence Birdseye, became the frozen vegatable king.
12101830 Emily Dickinson, poet.
12101851 Melvil Dewey, created the Dewey Decimal System for libraries.
12111918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
12121805 Henry Wells, founded American Express Co. and Wells Fargo & Co.
12121821 Gustave Flaubert, novelist, 'Madame Bovary.'
12121915 Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra.
12141546 Tycho Brahe, astronomer
12151832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris.
12151861 Charles Edgar Duryea, with his brother, invented first auto
1215     to be built and operated in US.
12161770 Ludwig von Beethoven
12161863 George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist.
12161899 Sir Noel Coward, playwright
12161917 Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author ('2001'.)
12171778 Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements.
12181886 Ty Cobb
12181890 Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM.)
12191849 Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie.
12201805 Thomas Graham, the father of colloid chemistry.
12201819 John Geary, first Postmaster, first Mayor (May 1, 1850.)
12201868 Harvey Firestone
12211911 Josh Gibson, in professional baseball, the "Negro Babe Ruth."
12221858 Giacomo Puccini, opera composer.
12231790 Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics.
12241809 Kit Carson, Western scout.
12241905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire.
12251899 Humphrey Bogart.  Here's looking at you, kid.
12251918 Anwar Sadat
12271571 Johannes Kepler, discovered planets travel in eliptical
1227     orbits.
12281856 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the U.S. from 1912 - 1921.
12291800 Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanization process for rubber.
12291808 Andrew Johnson, 17th President from 1865 - 1869.
12291809 William Ewart Gladstone, British statesman.
12291876 Pablo Casals, cellist.