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1249259Sdim01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919 2249259Sdim01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735 3249259Sdim01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR), 1920 4249259Sdim01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864 5249259Sdim01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785 6249259Sdim01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars 7249259Sdim01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer 8249259Sdim01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738 9249259Sdim01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757? 10249259Sdim01/12 "Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941 11249259Sdim01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834 12249259Sdim01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884 13249259Sdim01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws 14249259Sdim01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875 15249259Sdim01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born 16249259Sdim01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706 17249259Sdim01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809 18249259Sdim01/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807 19249259Sdim01/20 George Burns born, 1898 20249259Sdim01/21 Lenin died, 1924 21249259Sdim01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824 22249259Sdim01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561 23249259Sdim01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory 24249259Sdim01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899 25249259Sdim01/23 John Hancock born, 1737 26249259Sdim01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730 27249259Sdim01/23 Samuel Barber died, 1981 28249259Sdim01/24 John Belushi is born in Chicago, 1949 29249259Sdim01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759 30249259Sdim01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882 31249259Sdim01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874 32249259Sdim01/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850 33249259Sdim01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882 34249259Sdim01/31 Jackie Robinson born, 1919 35249259Sdim02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874 36249259Sdim02/05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935 37249259Sdim02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952 38249259Sdim02/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885 39249259Sdim02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography 40249259Sdim02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828 41249259Sdim02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. 42249259Sdim02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775 43249259Sdim02/10 William Allen White born, 1868 44249259Sdim02/11 Thos. Edison born, 1847 45249259Sdim02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer 46249259Sdim02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809 47249259Sdim02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809 48249259Sdim02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564 49249259Sdim02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820 50249259Sdim02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry 51249259Sdim02/17 Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone 52249259Sdim02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902 53249259Sdim02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874 54249259Sdim02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer 55249259Sdim02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473 56249259Sdim02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer 57249259Sdim02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass 58249259Sdim02/22 George Washington born, 1732 59249259Sdim02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun 60249259Sdim02/23 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868 61249259Sdim02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836 62249259Sdim02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943 63249259Sdim02/25 Renoir born, 1841 64249259Sdim02/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786; 65249259Sdim observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21 66249259Sdim02/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533 67249259Sdim02/29 Herman Hollerith born, 1860 68249259Sdim03/01 David Niven born, 1910 69249259Sdim03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904 70249259Sdim03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747 71249259Sdim03/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982 72249259Sdim03/07 Aristotle died, 322BC 73249259Sdim03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer 74249259Sdim03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer 75249259Sdim03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900 76249259Sdim03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737 77249259Sdim03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890 78249259Sdim03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist 79249259Sdim03/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879 80249259Sdim03/14 Casey Jones born, 1864 81249259Sdim03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; 82249259Sdim named Mars "canals" 83249259Sdim03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist 84249259Sdim03/16 George Clymer born, 1739 85249259Sdim03/16 James Madison born, 1751 86249259Sdim03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874 87249259Sdim03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist 88249259Sdim03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays 89249259Sdim03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer 90249259Sdim03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746 91249259Sdim03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880 92249259Sdim03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 93249259Sdim03/31 Descartes born, 1596 94249259Sdim03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher 95249259Sdim04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783 96249259Sdim04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher 97249259Sdim04/08 Buddha born, 563 BC 98249259Sdim04/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician 99249259Sdim04/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer 100249259Sdim04/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919 101249259Sdim04/10 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854 102249259Sdim04/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army 103249259Sdim04/13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743 104249259Sdim04/14 Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; 105249259Sdim discovered Saturn's rings 106249259Sdim04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452 107249259Sdim04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889 108249259Sdim04/22 Kant born, 1724 109249259Sdim04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist 110249259Sdim04/28 James Monroe born, 1758 111249259Sdim04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology 112249259Sdim04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863 113249259Sdim04/30 Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer 114249259Sdim05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) is born in Alexandria, 115249259Sdim Louisiana, 1930 116249259Sdim05/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903 117249259Sdim05/09 Pinza died, 1957 118249259Sdim05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899 119249259Sdim05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768 120249259Sdim05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820 121249259Sdim05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842 122249259Sdim05/15 Mike Oldfield is born in Essex, England, 1953 12305/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890 12405/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427BC 12505/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911 12605/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934 12705/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874 12805/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917 12905/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736 13005/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908 13106/01 Brigham Young born, 1801 13206/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928 13306/02 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857 13406/03 Henry James born, 1811 13506/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848 13606/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778 13706/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869 13806/13 Alexander the Great dies (323BC) 13906/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843 14006/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc 14106/18 M.C. Escher born, 1898 14206/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903 14306/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949 14406/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903 14506/27 Helen Keller born, 1880 14607/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883 14707/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804 14807/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866 14907/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747 15007/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891 15107/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838 15207/10 John Calvin born, 1509 15307/11 John Quincy Adams born, 1767 15407/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817 15507/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from 156 Saint Nicholas" 15707/18 Brian Auger is born in London, 1939 15807/25 Steve Goodman is born in Chicago, 1948 15907/29 Mussolini born, 1883 16007/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818 16107/30 Henry Ford born, 1863 16208/01 Herman Melville born, 1819 16308/03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966 16408/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937 16508/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860 16608/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927 16708/17 Mae West born, 1892 16808/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1927 16908/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912 17008/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908 17108/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist 17208/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907 17309/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638 17409/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942 17509/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909 17609/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789 17709/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533 17809/08 King Richard I of England born, 1157 17909/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925 18009/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976 18109/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913 18209/13 Walter Reed born, 1851 18309/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890 18409/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914 18509/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905 18609/18 Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970 18709/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878 18809/21 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866 18909/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645 19009/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881 19109/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC 19209/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC 19309/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896 19409/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774 19509/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888 19609/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840 19709/28 Michelangelo Buanarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573 19809/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106BC 19909/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925 20009/29 Gene Autry born, 1907 20110/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924 20210/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC 20310/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869 20410/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903 20510/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881 20610/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902 20710/13 Lenny Bruce is born in New York City, 1925 20810/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC 20910/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890 21010/14 William Penn born in London, 1644 21110/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881 21210/16 Noah Webster born, 1758 21310/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854 21410/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S. 21510/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833 21610/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933 21710/27 James Cook is born, 1466 21810/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887 21910/31 Dale Evans born, 1912 22011/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734 22111/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650 22211/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912 22311/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934 22411/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483 22511/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982 22611/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922 22711/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850 22811/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354 22911/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908 23011/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836 23111/20 RFK born, 1925 23211/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922 23311/26 Norbert Weiner born, 1894 23411/29 John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933 23511/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC 23611/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835 23712/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935 23812/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976 23912/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901 24012/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC 24112/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894 24212/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830 24312/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893 24412/14 George Washington dies, 1799 24512/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929 24612/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804 24712/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858 24812/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805 24912/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642 25012/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791 25112/28 John von Neumann born, 1903 25203/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia 25303/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44BC 25407/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826 25507/12 Thoreau's Birthday, 1817 25608/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955 25708/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940 258