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1 01/01 J.D. Salinger born, 1919
2 01/01 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735
3 01/01 Heinz Zemanek born in Vienna, Austria, 1920
4 01/02 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now Russia), 1920
5 01/04 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864
6 01/04 Jakob Grimm born, 1785
7 01/04 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
8 01/05 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
9 01/08 Stephen Hawking born in Oxford, England, 1942
10 01/10 Ethan Allen born, 1738
11 01/11 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757?
12 01/12 "Long" John Baldry born in London, 1941
13 01/13 Horatio Alger born, 1834
14 01/13 Sophie Tucker born, 1884
15 01/13 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
16 01/14 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875
17 01/15 Martin Luther King, Jr. born, 1929
18 01/17 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706
19 01/19 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809
20 01/19 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807
21 01/20 Buzz Aldrin born, 1930
22 01/20 George Burns born, 1898
23 01/21 Vladimir Lenin died, 1924
24 01/21 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824
25 01/22 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561
26 01/23 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
27 01/23 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899
28 01/23 John Hancock born, 1737
29 01/23 Joseph Hewes born, 1730
30 01/24 John Belushi born in Chicago, 1949
31 01/25 Robert Burns born, 1759
32 01/25 Virginia Woolf born, 1882
33 01/25 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874
34 01/27 Samuel Gompers born, 1850
35 01/30 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882
36 01/31 Jackie Robinson born, 1919
37 02/03 Gertrude Stein born, 1874
38 02/05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935
39 02/06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952
40 02/07 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885
41 02/08 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
42 02/08 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828
43 02/09 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
44 02/10 Charles Lamb born, 1775
45 02/10 William Allen White born, 1868
46 02/11 Thomas Edison born, 1847
47 02/11 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1800, photographic pioneer
48 02/12 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
49 02/12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809
50 02/15 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564
51 02/15 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
52 02/16 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
53 02/17 Frederick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
54 02/17 Marion Anderson born, 1902
55 02/17 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
56 02/18 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer
57 02/19 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473
58 02/20 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
59 02/21 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
60 02/22 George Washington born, 1732
61 02/22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
62 02/23 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868
63 02/24 Winslow Homer born, 1836
64 02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943
65 02/25 Renoir born, 1841
66 02/26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786;
67 observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21
68 02/28 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533
69 02/29 Herman Hollerith born, 1860
70 03/01 David Niven born, 1910
71 03/02 Dr. Seuss born, 1904
72 03/04 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
73 03/05 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982
74 03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
75 03/08 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
76 03/08 Howard Aiken born, 1900
77 03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
78 03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890
79 03/11 Douglas Adams born, 1952
80 03/12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
81 03/14 Albert Einstein born, 1879
82 03/14 Casey Jones born, 1864
83 03/14 Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer;
84 named Mars "canals"
85 03/14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
86 03/15 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44 BC
87 03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
88 03/16 George Clymer born, 1739
89 03/16 James Madison born, 1751
90 03/23 Thomas Kelly, Father of the Lunar module, died, 2002
91 03/24 Harry Houdini born, 1874
92 03/26 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
93 03/26 David Packard died, 1996; age of 83
94 03/27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
95 03/28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
96 03/30 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
97 03/30 Sean O'Casey born, 1880
98 03/30 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
99 03/30 Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, died at the age of 101, 2002
100 03/31 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
101 04/03 Washington Irving born, 1783
102 04/05 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher
103 04/08 Buddha born, 563 BC
104 04/08 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician
105 04/09 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer
106 04/09 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919
107 04/10 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854
108 04/10 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army
109 04/13 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743
110 04/14 Christiaan Huygens born, 1629, physicist & astronomer;
111 discovered Saturn's rings
112 04/15 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
113 04/16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889
114 04/22 Immanuel Kant born, 1724
115 04/27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
116 04/28 James Monroe born, 1758
117 04/29 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
118 04/29 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863
119 04/30 Carl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
120 05/01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) born in Alexandria,
121 Louisiana, 1930
122 05/02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903
123 05/09 Pinza died, 1957
124 05/10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899
125 05/11 Johnny Appleseed born, 1768
126 05/11 Douglas Adams died, 2001
127 05/12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820
128 05/13 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842
129 05/15 Mike Oldfield born in Essex, England, 1953
130 05/19 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890
131 05/21 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427 BC
132 05/27 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911
133 05/28 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934
134 05/29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874
135 05/29 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917
136 05/29 Patrick Henry born, 1736
137 05/30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908
138 06/01 Brigham Young born, 1801
139 06/01 Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
140 06/03 Henry James born, 1811
141 06/07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
142 06/07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778
143 06/07 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954
144 06/08 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869
145 06/13 Alexander the Great dies (323 BC)
146 06/15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843
147 06/16 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 BC
148 06/18 M.C. Escher born, 1898
149 06/22 Carl Hubbell born, 1903
150 06/22 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949
151 06/22 Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, Germany, 1910
152 06/23 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912
153 06/25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903
154 06/27 Helen Keller born, 1880
155 07/03 Franz Kafka born, 1883
156 07/04 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804
157 07/04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826
158 07/06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866
159 07/06 John Paul Jones born, 1747
160 07/07 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891
161 07/08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
162 07/10 John Calvin born, 1509
163 07/11 John Quincy Adams born, 1767
164 07/12 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
165 07/15 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from
166 Saint Nicholas"
167 07/18 Brian Auger born in London, 1939
168 07/25 Steve Goodman born in Chicago, 1948
169 07/29 Benito Mussolini born, 1883
170 07/30 Emily Bronte born, 1818
171 07/30 Henry Ford born, 1863
172 08/01 Herman Melville born, 1819
173 08/03 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966
174 08/08 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937
175 08/12 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
176 08/13 Annie Oakley born, 1860
177 08/13 Fidel Castro born, 1927
178 08/17 Mae West born, 1892
179 08/18 Meriwether Lewis born, 1774, American explorer
180 08/20 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
181 08/23 Gene Kelly born, 1912
182 08/27 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
183 08/29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist
184 08/30 John W. Mauchly born, 1907
185 09/05 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638
186 09/05 Raquel Welch born, 1942
187 09/06 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909
188 09/07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789
189 09/07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533
190 09/08 King Richard I of England born, 1157
191 09/08 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925
192 09/09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976
193 09/09 Dennis Ritchie born in Bronxville, New York, 1941
194 09/12 Jesse Owens born, 1913
195 09/13 Walter Reed born, 1851
196 09/15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890
197 09/16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914
198 09/18 Greta Garbo born, 1905
199 09/20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
200 09/21 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866
201 09/21 Louis Joliet born, 1645
202 09/22 President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881
203 09/23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC
204 09/23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC
205 09/24 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896
206 09/26 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774
207 09/26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888
208 09/27 Thomas Nast born, 1840
209 09/28 Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573
210 09/28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106 BC
211 09/28 Seymour Cray born, 1925
212 09/29 Gene Autry born, 1907
213 10/01 Jimmy Carter born, 1924
214 10/02 Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC
215 10/02 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869
216 10/04 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903
217 10/05 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881
218 10/05 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902
219 10/08 Dennis Ritchie died in Murray Hill, New Jersey, 2011
220 10/13 Lenny Bruce born in New York City, 1925
221 10/13 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC
222 10/14 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890
223 10/14 William Penn born in London, 1644
224 10/15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881
225 10/16 Noah Webster born, 1758
226 10/16 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854
227 10/16 Dr. Jonathan B. Postel dies at age 55, 1998
228 10/17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S.
229 10/21 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833
230 10/27 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933
231 10/27 James Cook born, 1728
232 10/31 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887
233 10/31 Dale Evans born, 1912
234 11/02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734
235 11/04 King William III of Orange born, 1650
236 11/05 Roy Rogers born, 1912
237 11/09 Carl Sagan born, 1934
238 11/10 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483
239 11/10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982
240 11/11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922
241 11/13 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850
242 11/13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354
243 11/18 Imogene Coca born, 1908
244 11/18 William S. Gilbert born, 1836
245 11/20 Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1925
246 11/26 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922
247 11/26 Norbert Wiener born in Columbia, Missouri, 1894
248 11/29 John Mayall born in Cheshire, England, 1933
249 11/30 Cleopatra died, 30 BC
250 11/30 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
251 12/01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935
252 12/04 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976
253 12/05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901
254 12/08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65 BC
255 12/08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
256 12/10 Emily Dickenson born, 1830
257 12/12 E.G. Robinson born, 1893
258 12/14 George Washington dies, 1799
259 12/17 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929
260 12/18 Konrad Zuse died, 1995
261 12/20 Carl Sagan died, 1996
262 12/21 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
263 12/22 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
264 12/23 Joseph Smith born, 1805
265 12/25 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642
266 12/26 Chas. Babbage born, 1791
267 12/28 John von Neumann born, 1903