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
