# This calendar is a slightly modified version of the calendars # distributed in OpenBSD and FreeBSD. # # Original versions of these calendars can be found at: # # http://bsdcalendar.sf.net/ # http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/ # BD Birth/Death 00000101 J.D. Salinger born, 1919 00000101 Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735 00000102 Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR), 1920 00000104 George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864 00000104 Jakob Grimm born, 1785 00000104 Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars 00000105 DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer 00000106 Millard Fillmore's birthday (let's party!) 00000111 Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 175557? 00000112 John Hancock born, 1737 00000112 "Long" John Baldry born in London, 1941 00000113 Horatio Alger born, 1832 00000113 Sophie Tucker born, 1884 00000113 Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws 00000114 Albert Schweitzer born, 1875 00000115 Martin Luther King, Jr. born, 1929 00000117 Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706 00000119 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809 00000119 Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807 00000120 George Burns born, 1896 00000121 Lenin died, 1924 00000121 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824 00000121 Ethan Allen born, 1738 00000122 Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561 00000123 Joseph Hewes born, 1730 00000123 Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory 00000123 Sergei M. Eisenstein born in Riga, Latvia, 1898 00000123 Samuel Barber died, 1981 00000124 John Belushi born in Chicago, 1949 00000125 Robert Burns born, 1759 00000125 Virginia Woolf born, 1882 00000125 W. Somerset Maugham born, 1874 00000127 Samuel Gompers born, 1850 00000129 Andre the Giant died, 1993 00000130 Franklin Delano Roosevelt born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882 00000131 Jackie Robinson born, 1919 00000203 Gertrude Stein born, 1874 00000203 Paul Auster born in Newark, N.J., 1947 00000205 Alex Harvey (SAHB) born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1935 00000206 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952 00000207 Sinclair Lewis born, 1885 00000208 Friedleib F. Runge born, 1795, father of paper chromatography 00000208 Jules Verne born in Nantes, France, 1828 00000209 George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. 00000210 Charles Lamb born, 1775 00000210 William Allen White born, 1868 00000211 William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1800, photographic pioneer 00000211 Thomas Edison born, 1847 00000211 Sergei M. Eisenstein died in Moscow, Russia, 1988 00000212 Abraham Lincoln born, 1809 00000212 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809 00000215 Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564 00000215 Susan B. Anthony born, 1820 00000216 Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry 00000217 Federic Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone process 00000217 T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874 00000218 Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer 00000219 Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473 00000220 Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1844, atomic physics pioneer 00000221 Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass 00000222 George Washington born, 1732 00000222 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1824, found hydrogen in the sun 00000223 W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868 00000224 Wilhelm Grimm born, 1786 00000224 Winslow Homer born, 1836 00000225 Renoir born, 1841 00000226 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786; observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21 00000227 Marian Anderson born, 1897 00000228 Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533 00000229 Herman Hollerith born, 1860 00000301 David Niven born, 1909 00000302 Dr. Seuss born, 1904 00000304 Casimir Pulaski born, 1747 00000304 Gogol dies, 1852 00000305 Joseph Stalin dies in Moscow, 1953 00000305 John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982 00000306 Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1475 00000307 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer 00000308 Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer 00000309 Howard Aiken born, 1900 00000311 Robert Treat Paine born, 1731 00000311 Vannevar Bush born, 1890 00000312 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist 00000314 Albert Einstein born, 1879 00000314 Casey Jones born, 1864 00000314 Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer; named Mars "canals" 00000315 Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44BC 00000315 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia 00000316 George Clymer born, 1739 00000316 James Madison born, 1751 00000321 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist 00000323 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer 00000324 Harry Houdini born, 1874 00000326 Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist 00000326 David Packard died, 1996; age of 83 00000327 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays 00000330 Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746 00000330 Sean O'Casey born, 1880 00000330 Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853 00000330 Adolph Hitler comitted suicide, 1945 00000331 Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher 00000331 Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol born, 1809 00000403 Washington Irving born, 1783 00000404 Andrey Tarkovsky born, 1932 00000405 Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher 00000408 Buddha born, 563 BC 00000408 David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician 00000409 Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer 00000409 J. Presper Eckert born, 1919 00000410 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1794 00000410 William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army 00000411 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was born at Rotterdam, 1930 00000413 Samuel Beckett born in Foxrock, County Dublin, 1906 00000413 Thomas Jefferson born, 1743 00000414 Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer; discovered Saturn's rings 00000415 Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452 00000415 Jean Genet died in Paris, 1986 00000416 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889 00000419 Andre Rene the Giant (Roussimoff) born in Grunoble, France, 1946 00000420 Adolph Hitler born, 1889 00000422 Kant born, 1724 00000422 Lenin born, the best friend of all the children, 1870 00000423 Shakespeare born, 1564 00000428 James Monroe born, 1758 00000428 Mussolini executed, 1945 00000429 Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology 00000429 William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863 00000430 Karl Friedrich Gauss born, 1777, mathematician & astronomer 00000501 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) born in Alexandria, Louisiana, 1930 00000502 Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903 00000509 Pinza died, 1957 00000510 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899 00000512 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820 00000513 Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842 00000515 Mike Oldfield born in Essex, England, 1953 00000519 Ho Chi Minh born, 1890 00000521 Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?), 427BC 00000527 Hubert H. Humphrey born, 1911 00000528 Dionne quintuplets born, 1934 00000529 Gilbert Keith Chesterton born, 1874 00000529 John Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1917 00000529 Patrick Henry born, 1736 00000530 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908 00000601 Brigham Young born, 1801 00000601 Marilyn Monroe born, 1926 00000602 Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcestershire, England, 1857 00000603 Franz Kafka dies in Praha, 1924 00000603 Henry James born, 1811 00000607 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gauguin born, 1848 00000607 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778 00000607 Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954 00000608 Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1867 00000613 Alexander the Great dies (323BC) 00000615 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843 00000616 Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 BC 00000617 M.C. Escher born, 1898 00000622 Carl Hubbell born, 1903 00000622 Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949 00000622 Konrad Zuse born in Berlin, 1919 00000623 Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912 00000625 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) born, 1903 00000627 Helen Keller born, 1880 00000703 Franz Kafka born in Vienna, 1883 00000704 Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804 00000704 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826 00000706 John Paul Jones born, 1747 00000707 P.T. Barnum dies, 1891 00000708 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838 00000710 John Calvin born, 1509 00000711 John Quincy Adams born, 1767 00000712 Henry David Thoreau born, 1817 00000715 Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" 00000718 Brian Auger born in London, 1939 00000725 Steve Goodman born in Chicago, 1948 00000728 (Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866 00000729 Mussolini born, 1883 00000730 Emily Bronte born, 1818 00000730 Henry Ford born, 1863 00000801 Herman Melville born, 1819 00000803 Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966 00000806 Edsger Wybe Dijkstra died after a long struggle with cancer, 2002 00000808 Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937 00000812 Thomas Mann's Death, 1955 00000813 Alfred Hitchcock born, 1899 00000813 Annie Oakley born, 1860 00000813 Fidel Castro born, 1926w7 00000815 Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1892, physicist 00000817 Mae West born, 189293 00000818 Meriwether Lewis born, 1774 00000820 Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940 00000823 Gene Kelly born, 1912 00000827 Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908 00000829 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, 1809, physician & father of the jurist 00000830 John W. Mauchly born, 1907 00000905 King Louis XIV of France born, 1638 00000905 Raquel Welch born, 1942 00000906 Word is received that Perry has reached the North Pole and died, 1909 00000907 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789 00000907 Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533 00000908 Richard ``the Lionheart", King of England born in Oxford, 1157 00000908 Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925 00000909 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age 82, 1976 00000912 Jesse Owens born, 1913 00000912 Stanislaw Lem born in Lwow, Poland, 1921 00000913 Walter Reed born, 1851 00000915 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, England, 1890 00000916 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914 00000918 Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky born, 1857, father of rocket flight 00000918 Greta Garbo born, 1905 00000918 Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970 00000919 President Garfield dies of wounds in Elberon, N.J., 1881 00000919 Tsiolkovsky died, 1935 00000920 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878 00000921 H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866 00000921 Louis Joliet born, 1645 00000923 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC 00000923 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC 00000924 F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896 00000926 Johnny Appleseed born, 1774 00000926 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888 00000927 Thomas Nast born, 1840 00000928 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106BC 00000928 Seymour Cray born, 1925 00000929 Gene Autry born, 1907 00001001 Jimmy Carter born, 1924 00001002 Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC 00001002 Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869 00001004 John V. Atanasoff born, 1903 00001005 Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881 00001005 Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902 00001013 Lenny Bruce born in New York City, 1925 00001014 Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890 00001014 William Penn born in London, 1644 00001015 Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC 00001015 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881 00001016 Noah Webster born, 1758 00001016 Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854 00001017 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S. 00001021 Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833 00001027 Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933 00001027 James Cook born, 1728 00001031 Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887 00001031 Dale Evans born, 1912 00001101 Joseph Stalin's burial, 1961 00001102 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734 00001104 King William III of Orange born, 1650 00001105 Roy Rogers born, 1912 00001109 Carl Sagan born, 1934 00001110 Martin Luther born in Eisleben, Germany, 1483 00001110 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75, 1982 00001111 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, born in Indianapolis, 1922 00001113 Robert Louis Stevenson born, 1850 00001113 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354 00001118 Imogene Coca born, 1908 00001118 William S. Gilbert born, 1836 00001120 Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1925 00001124 Emir Kusturica born in Srajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1954 00001125 Chaucer's death (according to tradition), 1400 00001126 Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1922 00001126 Norbert Weiner born, 1894 00001129 John Mayall born in Cheshire, England, 1933 00001130 Cleopatra died, 30 BC 00001130 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835 00001201 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935 00001203 John von Neumann born, 1903 00001204 Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976 00001205 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901 00001206 Samich Laus brewing 00001208 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC 00001208 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894 00001210 Emily Dickinson born, 1830 00001212 E.G. Robinson born, 1893 00001214 George Washington dies, 1799 00001217 William Safire (Safir) born, 1929 00001218 Konrad Zuse died, 1995 00001219 Jean Genet born in Paris, 1910 00001220 Carl Sagan died, 1996 00001221 Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804 00001222 Giacomo Puccini born, 1858 00001222 Samuel Beckett dies in Paris, 1989 00001222 Joseph Vissarionnovich Djugashvili (Stalin) born, 1879 00001223 Joseph Smith born, 1805 00001225 Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Lincolnshire, England, 1642 00001225 Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899 00001226 Charles Babbage born, 1791