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1.1 ! root 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
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