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- 01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919
- 01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735
- 01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR), 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
- 01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738
- 01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757?
- 01/12 "Long" John Baldry is 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
- 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 George Burns born, 1898
- 01/21 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
- 01/23 Samuel Barber died, 1981
- 01/24 John Belushi is 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) is 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 Thos. Edison born, 1847
- 02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, 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 Federick 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 Aristotle died, 322BC
- 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
- 03/16 George Clymer born, 1739
- 03/16 James Madison born, 1751
- 03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874
- 03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
- 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
- 03/31 Descartes born, 1596
- 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 Christian Huygen 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 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 Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
- 05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) is 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 is born in Essex, England, 1953
- 05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890
- 05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427BC
- 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
- 06/02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857
- 06/03 Henry James born, 1811
- 06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
- 06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778
- 06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869
- 06/13 Alexander the Great dies (323BC)
- 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
- 06/25 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
- 07/06 (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 is born in London, 1939
- 07/25 Steve Goodman is born in Chicago, 1948
- 07/29 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
- 08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860
- 08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927
- 08/17 Mae West born, 1892
- 08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1927
- 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
- 09/12 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
- 09/18 Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970
- 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 Buanarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573
- 09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106BC
- 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
- 10/13 Lenny Bruce is 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
- 10/17 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 is born, 1466
- 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 RFK born, 1925
- 11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922
- 11/26 Norbert Weiner born, 1894
- 11/29 John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933
- 11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC
- 11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) 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), 65BC
- 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
- 12/21 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
- 03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
- 03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44BC
- 07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826
- 07/12 Thoreau's Birthday, 1817
- 08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
- 08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
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