01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919 01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735 01/01 Heinz Zemanek born in Vienna, Austria, 1920 01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now Russia), 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 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, 1929 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 Vladimir 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 01/24 John Belushi 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) 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 Thomas Edison born, 1847 02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1800, 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 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 03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44 BC 03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia 03/16 George Clymer born, 1739 03/16 James Madison born, 1751 03/23 Thomas Kelly, Father of the Lunar module, died, 2002 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 03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880 03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 03/30 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, died at the age of 101, 2002 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 Immanuel 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 Carl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer 05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) 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 born in Essex, England, 1953 05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890 05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427 BC 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 06/03 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 (323 BC) 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 06/22 Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, Germany, 1910 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 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 born in London, 1939 07/25 Steve Goodman born in Chicago, 1948 07/29 Benito 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 08/12 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 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 09/09 Dennis Ritchie born, 1941 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 09/20 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 Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573 09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106 BC 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 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 10/16 Dr. Jonathan B. Postel dies at age 55, 1998 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 born, 1728 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 Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1925 11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922 11/26 Norbert Wiener born in Columbia, Missouri, 1894 11/29 John Mayall 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), 65 BC 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 12/18 Konrad Zuse died, 1995 12/20 Carl Sagan died, 1996 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