Jan 01	J.D. Salinger born, 1919
Jan 01	Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735
Jan 02	Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR), 1920
Jan 04	George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864
Jan 04	Jakob Grimm born, 1785
Jan 04	Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
Jan 05	DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
Jan 10	Ethan Allen born, 1738
Jan 11	Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757
Jan 12	"Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941
Jan 13	Horatio Alger born, 1834
Jan 13	Sophie Tucker born, 1884
Jan 13	Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
Jan 14	Albert Schweitzer born, 1875
Jan 15	Martin Luther King, Jr. born
Jan 17	Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706
Jan 19	Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809
Jan 19	Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807
Jan 20	George Burns born, 1898
Jan 21	Lenin died, 1924
Jan 21	Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824
Jan 22	Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561
Jan 23	Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
Jan 23	Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899
Jan 23	John Hancock born, 1737
Jan 23	Joseph Hewes born, 1730
Jan 23	Samuel Barber died, 1981
Jan 24	John Belushi is born in Chicago, 1949
Jan 25	Robert Burns born, 1759
Jan 25	Virginia Woolf born, 1882
Jan 25	W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874
Jan 27	Samuel Gompers born, 1850
Jan 30	Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882
Jan 31	Jackie Robinson born, 1919
Feb 03	Gertrude Stein born, 1874
Feb 05	Alex Harvey (SAHB) is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935
Feb 06	King George VI of UK dies;  his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952
Feb 07	Sinclair Lewis born, 1885
Feb 08	Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography
Feb 08	Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828
Feb 09	George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
Feb 10	Charles Lamb born, 1775
Feb 10	William Allen White born, 1868
Feb 11	Thos. Edison born, 1847
Feb 11	William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer
Feb 12	Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
Feb 12	Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809
Feb 15	Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564
Feb 15	Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
Feb 16	Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
Feb 17	Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
Feb 17	Marion Anderson born, 1902
Feb 17	T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
Feb 18	Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer
Feb 19	Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473
Feb 20	Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
Feb 21	Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
Feb 22	George Washington born, 1732
Feb 22	Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
Feb 23	W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868
Feb 24	Winslow Homer born, 1836
Feb 25	George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943
Feb 25	Renoir born, 1841
Feb 26	Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786;
		observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21
Feb 28	Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533
Feb 29	Herman Hollerith born, 1860
Mar 01	David Niven born, 1910
Mar 02	Dr. Seuss born, 1904
Mar 04	Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
Mar 05	John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982
Mar 07	Aristotle died, 322BC
Mar 07	Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
Mar 08	Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
Mar 08	Howard Aiken born, 1900
Mar 11	Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
Mar 11	Vannevar Bush born, 1890
Mar 12	Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
Mar 14	Albert Einstein born, 1879
Mar 14	Casey Jones born, 1864
Mar 14	Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer;
		named Mars "canals"
Mar 14	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
Mar 16	George Clymer born, 1739
Mar 16	James Madison born, 1751
Mar 24	Harry Houdini born, 1874
Mar 26	Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
Mar 27	Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
Mar 28	Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
Mar 30	Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
Mar 30	Sean O'Casey born, 1880
Mar 30	Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
Mar 31	Descartes born, 1596
Mar 31	Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
Apr 03	Washington Irving born, 1783
Apr 05	Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher
Apr 08	Buddha born, 563 BC
Apr 08	David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician
Apr 09	Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer
Apr 09	J. Presper Eckert born, 1919
Apr 10	Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854
Apr 10	William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army
Apr 13	Thomas Jefferson born, 1743
Apr 14	Christiaan Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer;
		discovered Saturn's rings
Apr 15	Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
Apr 16	Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889
Apr 22	Kant born, 1724
Apr 27	Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1774, physicist
Apr 28	James Monroe born, 1758
Apr 29	Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
Apr 29	William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863
Apr 30	Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer
May 01	Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) is born in Alexandria,
		Louisiana, 1930
May 02	Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903
May 09	Pinza died, 1957
May 10	Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899
May 11	Johnny Appleseed born, 1768
May 12	Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820
May 13	Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842
May 15	Mike Oldfield is born in Essex, England, 1953
May 19	Ho Chi Minh born, 1890
May 21	Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427BC
May 27	Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911
May 28	Dionne quintuplets born, 1934
May 29	Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874
May 29	John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917
May 29	Patrick Henry born, 1736
May 30	Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908
Jun 01	Brigham Young born, 1801
Jun 01	Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
Jun 02	Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857
Jun 03	Henry James born, 1811
Jun 07	(Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
Jun 07	George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778
Jun 08	Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869
Jun 13	Alexander the Great dies (323BC)
Jun 15	Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843
Jun 16	Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc
Jun 18	M.C. Escher born, 1898
Jun 22	Carl Hubbell born, 1903
Jun 22	Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949
Jun 25	Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903
Jun 27	Helen Keller born, 1880
Jul 03	Franz Kafka born, 1883
Jul 04	Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804
Jul 06	(Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866
Jul 06	John Paul Jones born, 1747
Jul 07	P.T. Barnum dies, 1891
Jul 08	Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
Jul 10	John Calvin born, 1509
Jul 11	John Quincy Adams born, 1767
Jul 12	Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
Jul 15	Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from
		Saint Nicholas"
Jul 18	Brian Auger is born in London, 1939
Jul 25	Steve Goodman is born in Chicago, 1948
Jul 29	Mussolini born, 1883
Jul 30	Emily Bronte born, 1818
Jul 30	Henry Ford born, 1863
Aug 01	Herman Melville born, 1819
Aug 03	Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966
Aug 08	Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937
Aug 13	Annie Oakley born, 1860
Aug 13	Fidel Castro born, 1927
Aug 17	Mae West born, 1892
Aug 18	Meriwether Lewis born, 1927
Aug 23	Gene Kelly born, 1912
Aug 27	Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
Aug 29	Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist
Aug 30	John W. Mauchly born, 1907
Sep 05	King Louis XIV of France born, 1638
Sep 05	Raquel Welch born, 1942
Sep 06	Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909
Sep 07	James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789
Sep 07	Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533
Sep 08	King Richard I of England born, 1157
Sep 08	Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925
Sep 09	Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976
Sep 12	Jesse Owens born, 1913
Sep 13	Walter Reed born, 1851
Sep 15	Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890
Sep 16	Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914
Sep 18	Greta Garbo born, 1905
Sep 18	Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970
Sep 20	Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
Sep 21	H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866
Sep 21	Louis Joliet born, 1645
Sep 22	President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881
Sep 23	Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC
Sep 23	Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC
Sep 24	F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896
Sep 26	Johnny Appleseed born, 1774
Sep 26	T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888
Sep 27	Thomas Nast born, 1840
Sep 28	Michelangelo Buanarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573
Sep 28	Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106BC
Sep 28	Seymour Cray born, 1925
Sep 29	Gene Autry born, 1907
Oct 01	Jimmy Carter born, 1924
Oct 02	Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC
Oct 02	Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869
Oct 04	John V. Atanasoff born, 1903
Oct 05	Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881
Oct 05	Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902
Oct 13	Lenny Bruce is born in New York City, 1925
Oct 13	Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC
Oct 14	Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890
Oct 14	William Penn born in London, 1644
Oct 15	Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881
Oct 16	Noah Webster born, 1758
Oct 16	Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854
Oct 17	Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S.
Oct 21	Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833
Oct 27	Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933
Oct 27	James Cook is born, 1466
Oct 31	Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887
Oct 31	Dale Evans born, 1912
Nov 02	Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734
Nov 04	King William III of Orange born, 1650
Nov 05	Roy Rogers born, 1912
Nov 09	Carl Sagan born, 1934
Nov 10	Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483
Nov 10	Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982
Nov 11	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922
Nov 13	Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850
Nov 13	St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354
Nov 18	Imogene Coca born, 1908
Nov 18	William S. Gilbert born, 1836
Nov 20	RFK born, 1925
Nov 26	Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922
Nov 26	Norbert Weiner born, 1894
Nov 29	John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933
Nov 30	Cleopatra died, 30 BC
Nov 30	Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
Dec 01	Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935
Dec 04	Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976
Dec 05	Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901
Dec 08	Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC
Dec 08	James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
Dec 10	Emily Dickenson born, 1830
Dec 12	E.G. Robinson born, 1893
Dec 14	George Washington dies, 1799
Dec 17	William Safire (Safir) born, 1929
Dec 21	Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
Dec 22	Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
Dec 23	Joseph Smith born, 1805
Dec 25	Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642
Dec 26	Chas. Babbage born, 1791
Dec 28	John von Neumann born, 1903
Mar 15	J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
Mar 15	Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44BC
Jul 04	John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826
Jul 12	Thoreau's Birthday, 1817
Aug 12	Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
Aug 20	Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940