Add David Packard & Konrad Zuse's deaths to calendar.birthday

submitted by Heiko W.Rupp.
closes pr-2448
Also, moved Alan Turing's birthday from calendar.computer to
calendar.birthday, removed duplicate Thoreau entry and cleaned up date
ordering in calendar.birthday
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perry 1997-01-17 02:32:00 +00:00
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03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer;
named Mars "canals"
03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44BC
03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
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
03/26 David Packard died, 1996; age of 83
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
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06/03 Henry James born, 1811
06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778
06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954
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
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06/18 M.C. Escher born, 1898
06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903
06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949
06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912
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
07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826
07/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866
07/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747
07/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891
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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
08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860
08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927
08/17 Mae West born, 1892
08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1927
08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
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
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12/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893
12/14 George Washington dies, 1799
12/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929
12/19 Konrad Zuse died, 1995
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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06/15 UNIVAC I delivered to the Census Bureau, 1951
06/16 First programming error at Census Bureau, 1951 (apocryphal)
06/23 IBM unbundles software, 1969
06/23 Turing's Birthday, 1912
06/30 First advanced degree on computer related topic: to H. Karamanian,
Temple Univ., Phila, 1948, for symbolic diffentiation on the ENIAC
07/08 Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877