diff --git a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
index 38aa4dfe2571..912dbc5a1131 100644
--- a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
+++ b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@
 09/13	Walter Reed born, 1851
 09/15	Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890
 09/16	Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914
+09/17	Kenneth Elton Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, 1935
 09/18	Greta Garbo born, 1905
 09/20	Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
 09/21	H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866
@@ -258,6 +259,7 @@
 11/05	Roy Rogers born, 1912
 11/08	Aaron Hillel Swartz was born in Highland Park, Illinois, 1986
 11/09	Carl Sagan born, 1934
+11/10	Kenneth Elton Kesey died in Eugene, Oregon, 2001
 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