; ct2gcal.pl output ; ; Absolutely NO warrenty! ; ; ;# CalenTool V2.2 - nflag=1 range=1,2 - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE ;# $Header: /home/cna/billr/src/xcalentool/dates/RCS/lives1,v 1.1 1991/03/07 16:18:52 billr Exp billr $ ;# (Jan-Feb) ;# Famous people's births, deaths and marriages file for calentool ;# extracted from ProLine's today file and Today in History provided ;# by Robert Heckendorn at Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado. ;# converted to calentool format by lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu. ;# ;# There may be duplicates where I don't have a definitive correct ;# date. billr@saab.cna.tek.com ;# 00000101 Hank Williams, country singer, dies (1953)%s19530101 00000101 J. Edgar Hoover, first director of the FBI, is born (1895)%s18950101 00000101 J.D. Salinger is born (1919)%s19190101 00000101 Lorenzo de Medici, Florentine ruler was born (1449)%s14490101 00000102 Robert Marshall, for whom the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Alaska was named, is born (1901)%s19010102 00000103 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii. (1840)%s18400103 00000103 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings. (1892)%s18920103 00000103 Mel Gibson, actor and hunk, is born (1951)%s19510103 00000104 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person) (1838)%s18380104 00000104 Dyan Cannon, the actress, is born in Tacoma, Washington (1937)%s19370104 00000104 Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American born Catholic saint, dies in Emmitsburg, Maryland (1921)%s19210104 00000104 Louis Braille, blind educator, inventor of Braille alphabet, is born in Coupvray, France (1809)%s18090104 00000104 T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, the poet dies at 76 (1965)%s19650104 00000104 Tiny Tim, the dwarf made famous by P. T. Barnum, is born (1838)%s18380104 00000105 Calvin Coolidge dies (1933)%s19330105 00000105 Grace Kelly announces engagement to Prince Ranier (1956)%s19560105 00000105 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor (1855)%s18550105 00000105 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero (1779)%s17790105 00000105 Zebulon Pike, the explorer, is born (1779)%s17790105 00000106 Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer, is born in Illinois (1878)%s18780106 00000106 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator (1811)%s18110106 00000106 Danny Thomas, actor and comedian, is born (1914)%s19140106 00000106 Earl Scruggs, bluegrass musical performer, is born (1924)%s19240106 00000106 George Washington and Martha Custis were married (1759)%s17590106 00000106 Jedediah Strong Smith, American fur trader and explorer, is born (1799)%s17990106 00000106 John DeLorean, automaker and entrepreneur, is born (1925)%s19250106 00000106 Khalil Gibran, metaphysical author, is born in Lebanon (1883)%s18830106 00000106 King Henry VIII marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. The marriage will last about six months. (1540)%s15400106 00000106 Loretta Young, actress, is born (1913)%s19130106 00000106 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957) (1882)%s18820106 00000106 Sherlock Holmes is born (1854)%s18540106 00000106 Syd Barrett, born Roger Keith Barrett (Cambridge, 1946)%s19460106 00000106 Theodore Roosevelt died at his home in Oyster Bay, NY (1919)%s19190106 00000106 Tradition says that Joan of Arc was born on this day (1412)%s14120106 00000107 Emperor Hirohito of Japan dies of cancer. He is succeeded by his son Akihito, a fish biologist. (1989)%s19890107 00000107 George Burns and Gracie Allen marry (1926)%s19260107 00000107 Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850-1853) (1800)%s18000107 00000108 Chou En-lai, Chinese premier, dies (1976)%s19760108 00000108 David Bowie born David Robert Jones (London, 1947)%s19470108 00000108 Elvis Presley, early rock performer and truck driver, is born (1935)%s19350108 00000108 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co. (1862)%s18620108 00000108 Lord Baden-Powell, philanthopist and founder of the Boy Scouts, dies (1941)%s19410108 00000108 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank. (1786)%s17860108 00000108 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity (1868)%s18680108 00000108 Tod Brannan (1946)%s19460108 00000108 the passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico (1880)%s18800108 00000109 Astronomer Caroline Herschel, publisher of "Herschel's Catalog of Stars" and sister of William, dies at 97 (1848)%s18480109 00000109 Bob Denver, actor played Gilligan on "Gilligan's Island", is born (1935)%s19350109 00000109 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip. (1901)%s19010109 00000109 Gypsy Rose Lee, entertainer and author, is born (1914)%s19140109 00000109 James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) born (Middlesex, England, 1945)%s19450109 00000109 Joan Baez, folk singer, is born on Staten Island, New York (1941)%s19410109 00000109 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge. (1870)%s18700109 00000109 Karel Capek, Czech author and originator of the term robot, is born (1890)%s18900109 00000109 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1968-1974) (1913)%s19130109 00000109 Simone de Beauvoir, feminist, born (1908)%s19080109 00000110 Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies (Chicago, 1976)%s19760110 00000110 Buffalo Bill Cody dies in Denver, Colorado (1917)%s19170110 00000110 Coco Chanel, the fashion designer, dies (1971)%s19710110 00000110 Dashiell Hammett, the author, dies (1961)%s19610110 00000110 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys) (1738)%s17380110 00000110 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic precipitator, used for polution control and air ionizers. (1877)%s18770110 00000110 Jim Croce born (Phildelphia, 1943)%s19430110 00000110 Pat Benatar born (Long Island, 1952)%s19520110 00000110 Ray Bolger, the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz, is born (1904)%s19040110 00000110 Rod Stewart born (Glasgow, Scotland, 1945)%s19450110 00000111 Aldo Leopold, ecological writer, is born (1897)%s18970111 00000111 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University. (1807)%s18070111 00000111 Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russian author, is born (1821)%s18210111 00000111 Francis Scott Key, the author of "Star Spangled Banner", dies (1843)%s18430111 00000111 Thomas Hardy, the English author, dies (1928)%s19280111 00000112 "Long" John Baldry born (London, 1941)%s19410112 00000112 Agatha Christie, mystery writer, dies (1976)%s19760112 00000112 Herman Goering, Nazi field marshal, is born (1893)%s18930112 00000112 Isaac Pitman, the inventor of shorthand, dies (1897)%s18970112 00000112 Jack London, author and adventurer, born (1876)%s18760112 00000112 John Hancock (1737)%s17370112 00000112 John Winthrop, 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. (1588)%s15880112 00000112 Tex Ritter, western folk singer, is born (1907)%s19070112 00000113 Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832)%s18320113 00000113 James Joyce dies (1941)%s19410113 00000114 Benedict Arnold, fink (1741)%s17410114 00000114 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, dies (1898)%s18980114 00000114 Donna Reed, actress, dies of cancer (1986)%s19860114 00000114 Edmond Halley dies (1742)%s17420114 00000114 Hal Roach, early film director and producer. (1892)%s18920114 00000114 Humphrey Bogart dies (1957)%s19570114 00000114 Ray Kroc, founder of the McDonald's empire, dies (1984)%s19840114 00000115 Charo, entertainer, is born (1951)%s19510115 00000115 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb. (1908)%s19080115 00000115 Fanny Farmer, cook and writer, dies (1915)%s19150115 00000115 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer (1929)%s19290115 00000115 Ray Bolger, the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, dies (1987)%s19870115 00000116 Carole Lombard, actress, her mother and about 20 others are killed in a plane crash near Las Vegas, during a tour to promote War Bonds (1942)%s19420116 00000116 Edmund Spenser, the poet, dies (1599)%s15990116 00000116 Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in automobile crash (1962)%s19620116 00000116 Ethel Merman, actress and singer, is born (1908)%s19080116 00000116 Robert Service, Canadian author, is born (1874)%s18740116 00000117 Al Capone, mobster, is born (1899)%s18990117 00000117 Anton Chekhov, the writer, is born (1860)%s18600117 00000117 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel. (1771)%s17710117 00000117 Juliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, dies (1927)%s19270117 00000117 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops (1880)%s18800117 00000117 Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee. (1942)%s19420117 00000118 A. A. Milne, author of "Winnie the Pooh", is born (1882)%s18820118 00000118 Cary Grant, actor, is born (1904)%s19040118 00000118 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician. (1782)%s17820118 00000118 Henry Morgan, the pirate, captured Panama on behalf of England and was knighted regardless of his ruthless techniques (1671)%s16710118 00000118 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st commercially useable barbed wire (1813)%s18130118 00000118 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. (1892)%s18920118 00000118 Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, pocket chessboard (1779)%s17790118 00000118 Rudyard Kipling, author, dies (1936)%s19360118 00000118 Sir Thomas Octave Sopwith, aviator, airplane builder, Sopwith Pup, Sopwith Camel, Hurricane, and the Harrier VTOL, born (1888)%s18880118 00000118 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell. (1854)%s18540118 00000119 Dolly Parton, buxom singer, composer, is born in Sevierville, Tenn. (1946)%s19460119 00000119 James Watt, inventor of the practical steam engine, is born (1736)%s17360119 00000119 Paul Cezanne, the artist, was born (1839)%s18390119 00000119 Phil Everly (of the Everly Brothers) is born (1939)%s19390119 00000120 Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist and mathematician, is born in Lyon (1775)%s17750120 00000120 Barbara Stanwyck, actress, dies (1990)%s19900120 00000120 DeForest Kelley, Dr. McCoy in Star Trek, is born in Atlanta, Georgia (1920)%s19200120 00000120 Dmitri Mendeleyev, chemist, formulated the periodic table of the elements, dies in St. Petersburg, Russia (1907)%s19070120 00000120 Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, American astronaut, is born in New Jersey (1930)%s19300120 00000120 Federico Fellini, film director, is born in Italy (1920)%s19200120 00000120 George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum), comedian, born in New York, NY (1896)%s18960120 00000120 John Ruskin, philosopher, dies (1900)%s19000120 00000120 Johnny Weismuller, Tarzan, actor and swimmer, dies at 79 in Acapulco (1984)%s19840120 00000121 Benny Hill, comedian, is born (1925)%s19250121 00000121 Cecil B. De Mille, film producer, dies (1959)%s19590121 00000121 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) dies in London (1950)%s19500121 00000121 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia. (1815)%s18150121 00000121 John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US (1813)%s18130121 00000121 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton. (1743)%s17430121 00000121 Joseph Scaliger, the chronologist and inventor of the Julian date, dies (1609)%s16090121 00000121 Louis XVI is beheaded by the guillotine of the French revolution (1793)%s17930121 00000121 Telly Savalas, actor, is born (1924)%s19240121 00000121 Vladimir Lenin, the revolutionary, dies of a stroke (1924)%s19240121 00000121 Wolfman Jack, radio personality, is born (1949)%s19490121 00000122 Lord Byron, poet, lover, revolutionary, is born (1788)%s17880122 00000122 Molly Pitcher, distinguished herself in the battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary War, dies (1832)%s18320122 00000122 Queen Victoria, long time queen of England, dies at her winter home on the Isle of Wight (1901)%s19010122 00000122 Sam Cooke born (Chicago, 1935)%s19350122 00000123 Ernie Kovacs, American comedian, is born (1919)%s19190123 00000123 Ernst Abbe, formulated diffraction theory, is born (1840)%s18400123 00000123 John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence and first governor of Massachusetts, is born (1737)%s17370123 00000123 Joseph Hewes, American revolutionary leader, born (1730)%s17300123 00000123 Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter and founder of the movement, dies (1989)%s19890123 00000123 Samuel Barber, the American composer, dies (1981)%s19810123 00000123 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy (1756)%s17560123 00000124 Edith Wharton, American author, is born (1862)%s18620124 00000124 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft. (1888)%s18880124 00000124 John Belushi born (Chicago, 1949)%s19490124 00000124 Lord Randolph Churchill, English statesman, dies (1895)%s18950124 00000124 Ted Bundy, confessed serial murderer of over 21 (possibly as many as 100) women during a period of 15 years, is executed (1989)%s19890124 00000125 Ava Gardner, actress, dies (1990)%s19900125 00000125 J. L. Lagrange born (1736)%s17360125 00000125 Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochran Seaman), American journalist, went around the world in 72 days (1890)%s18900125 00000125 Robert Burns, poet, born (1759)%s17590125 00000125 Somerset Maugham, poet (1874)%s18740125 00000125 Virginia Woolf, novelist and critic, born (1882)%s18820125 00000125 W. Somerset Maugham, author, born (1874)%s18740125 00000126 Angela Davis, is born (1944)%s19440126 00000126 Douglas MacArthur, he did return (1880)%s18800126 00000126 Jules Feiffer, satiric cartoonist, is born (1929)%s19290126 00000126 Paul Newman, actor, is born in Cleveland, Ohio (1925)%s19250126 00000127 Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) born (TN, 1930)%s19300127 00000127 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll) (1832)%s18320127 00000127 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, writer and mathematician, is born in Cheshire (1832)%s18320127 00000127 Dmitri Mendeleyev, chemist, formulated the periodic table of elements, is born in Tobolsk, Russia (1834)%s18340127 00000127 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of "La Traviata and Rigoletto", dies in Milan (1901)%s19010127 00000127 John James Audubon, naturalist and painter, dies (1851)%s18510127 00000127 Samuel Gompers, 1st president of the American Federation of Labor (1850)%s18500127 00000127 Sir Thomas Octave Sopwith, aviator, airplane builder, Sopwith Pup , Sopwith Camel, Hurricane, and the Harrier VTOL, dies (1988)%s19880127 00000127 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born (Salzburg, 1756)%s17560127 00000128 Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine), French novelist, is born (1873)%s18730128 00000128 Johannes Hevelius dies (1687)%s16870128 00000128 Seth Thomas, American clock maker, dies (1859)%s18590128 00000128 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine. (1855)%s18550128 00000129 Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st commercially practical cathode ray tube (1901)%s19010129 00000129 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard) (1860)%s18600129 00000129 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields) (1880)%s18800129 00000129 John Davison Rockefeller, industrialist and philanthropist, is born (1838)%s18380129 00000129 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite (1850)%s18500129 00000129 Thomas Paine, American author and Revolutionary leader, is born (1737)%s17370129 00000129 Tom Selleck who plays Magnum PI was born in Detroit (1945)%s19450129 00000129 W.C. Fields, American entertainer, is born (1880)%s18800129 00000129 William McKinley, 25th President (1897-1901) (1843)%s18430129 00000130 Carol Channing, actress, born (1923)%s19230130 00000130 Chief Osceola, Seminole leader, dies in prison. (1835)%s18350130 00000130 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945) (Hyde Park, NY 1882)%s18820130 00000130 Lightnin' Hopkins, most-recorded blues artist, dies (1982)%s19820130 00000130 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated by Hindu fanatic (New Delhi, 1948)%s19480130 00000130 Vanessa Redgrave, actress and activist, is born (1937)%s19370130 00000131 Anna Pavlova, the Russian ballerina, is born (1885)%s18850131 00000131 Eddie Slovik is executed (1945)%s19450131 00000131 Franz Schubert, composer, born in Vienna (1797)%s17970131 00000131 Irving Langmuir invented the tungsten filament lamp (1881)%s18810131 00000131 Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player (1919)%s19190131 00000131 James G. Blaine, the 'Plumed Knight'. (1830)%s18300131 00000131 James Watt, highly criticized Secretary of Interior and professional tool of big industry, is born (1938)%s19380131 00000131 Tallulah Bankhead, actress, is born in Huntsville, Alabama (1903)%s19030131 00000131 Zane Gray, American West novelist (1872)%s18720131 00000201 Clark Gable, the actor, is born (1901)%s19010201 00000201 Don Everly, of the Everly Brothers, is born (1937)%s19370201 00000201 John Ford, the film maker, is born (1895)%s18950201 00000201 Sidney Joseph Perelman, American author, is born (1904)%s19040201 00000202 Buddy Holly, the singer, dies (1959)%s19590202 00000202 Fred Flintstone's birthday 00000202 Graham Nash born (Lancashire, England, 1942)%s19420202 00000202 James Joyce, novelist, is born in Dublin (1882)%s18820202 00000202 Nell Gwynn, actress and mistress of King Charles II, is born (1650)%s16500202 00000202 Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat. (1754)%s17540202 00000203 Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper die in plane crash (1959)%s19590203 00000203 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD from a US Medical school. (1821)%s18210203 00000203 Gertrude Stein, poet, novelist, is born (1874)%s18740203 00000203 Horace Greeley, journalist, born in Amherst New Hampshire (1811)%s18110203 00000203 Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Felix Mendelssohn), the composer, is born in Hamburg (1809)%s18090203 00000204 Charles Lindbergh, aviator, is born in Detroit (1902)%s19020204 00000204 Clyde Tombaugh born (1906)%s19060204 00000204 Francois Rabelais, French author and humanist, is born (1494)%s14940204 00000204 Liberace (Wladzio Valentino), pianist and entertainer, dies of AIDS related disease (1987)%s19870204 00000204 William Dudley ("Big Bill") Haywood, American labor leader who founded I.W.W., is born (1869)%s18690204 00000205 Alex Harvey (SAHB) born (Glasgow, Scotland, 1935)%s19350205 00000205 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker (1878)%s18780205 00000205 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire. (1840)%s18400205 00000205 Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister, founder of London Police force, is born (1788)%s17880205 00000205 William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the adding machine, is born (1914)%s19140205 00000206 Aaron Burr (1756)%s17560206 00000206 Barbara Tuchman, historian and author "A Distant Mirror", dies (1989)%s19890206 00000206 Bob Marley, reggae singer, is born (1945)%s19450206 00000206 George Herman Ruth ('Babe Ruth'), baseball legend, (1885)%s18850206 00000206 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II (1952)%s19520206 00000206 Patrick Macnee, actor, is born (1922)%s19220206 00000206 Ronald Reagan, 40th President (1981-1988) (1911)%s19110206 00000206 Tom Brokaw, television newsman, is born (1940)%s19400206 00000207 Charles Dickens, author, "David Copperfield", is born (1812)%s18120207 00000207 Eubie Blake, composer (1883)%s18830207 00000207 Frederick Douglas, 1st black to hold high rank in US government (1817)%s18170207 00000207 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements. (1804)%s18040207 00000207 Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of "Little House on the Prairie" series, is born (1867)%s18670207 00000207 Philippe Buache, geographer, devised contour lines for maps (1700)%s17000207 00000207 Sinclair Lewis, novelist, author of "Babbitt", is born (1885)%s18850207 00000207 Sir Thomas More, humanist, philosopher, statesman, is born in London (1478)%s14780207 00000208 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing) (1906)%s19060208 00000208 Friedleib F. Runge, father of paper chromatography (1795)%s17950208 00000208 Jack Lemmon, actor, (1925)%s19250208 00000208 James Dean, American actor, is born (1931)%s19310208 00000208 Jules Verne, author, born (Nantes, France, 1828)%s18280208 00000208 Lana Turner the actress is born (1920)%s19200208 00000208 Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded (1587)%s15870208 00000208 The Viceroy of India is murdered (1872)%s18720208 00000208 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general. (1820)%s18200208 00000209 Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII of France, dies (1450)%s14500209 00000209 Carole King, American singer, is born (Brooklyn, 1941)%s19410209 00000209 Ernest Tubb, American country music star, is born (1914)%s19140209 00000209 George Hartmann born, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. (1489)%s14890209 00000209 Gypsy Rose Lee, stripper and author, was born naked (1914)%s19140209 00000209 Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered (1567)%s15670209 00000209 William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841) (1773)%s17730209 00000210 Bertolt Brecht, German poet and playwright, is born (1898)%s18980210 00000210 Boris Pasternak, author of "Dr. Zhivago", is born (1890)%s18900210 00000210 Charles Lamb, English critic and essayist, born (1775)%s17750210 00000210 Leontyne Price, opera singer, is born (1927)%s19270210 00000210 Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert (Francis-Albert-Augustus-Charles-Emmanuel, Duke of Saxe, Prince of Saxe-Colburg and Gotha) (1840)%s18400210 00000210 Robert Wagner, actor, is born (1930)%s19300210 00000210 Roberta Flack, singer, is born (1940)%s19400210 00000210 Tom Thumb and Mercy Lavinia Warren, famous midget couple, wed (1863)%s18630210 00000210 William Allen White born (1868)%s18680210 00000211 Rene Descartes the French philosopher dies (1650)%s16500211 00000211 Thomas Edison, the inventor and holder of over 1000 patents, is born (1847)%s18470211 00000211 William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, is born (1489)%s14890211 00000212 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President (1861-1865) (1809)%s18090212 00000212 Catherine Howard the fifth wife of Henry VIII is beheaded (1542)%s15420212 00000212 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England (1809)%s18090212 00000212 General of the Army Omar Bradley, 'The GI General' (1893)%s18930212 00000212 Lady Jane Grey was Queen of England for nine days. She and her husband were executed on this day. (1554)%s15540212 00000213 Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman (1885)%s18850213 00000213 David Dudley Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification (1805)had international effects.%s18050213 00000213 Randolph Churchill, English politician and father of Winston Churchill, was born (1849)%s18490213 00000213 Richard Wagner, composer, dies (1883)%s18830213 00000214 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny. Oh, Rochester (1894)%s18940214 00000214 Florence Henderson, actress and singer, is born (1934)%s19340214 00000214 Gregory Hines, actor and dancer, is born (1946)%s19460214 00000214 Hugh Downs, TV personality, is born (1921)%s19210214 00000214 St. Valentine beheaded (278)%s02780214 00000214 Thomas Malthus, English economist, is born. (1766)%s17660214 00000215 Galileo Galilei born (Pisa, Italy, 1564)%s15640215 00000215 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (1797)%s17970215 00000215 John Augustus Sutter (1803)%s18030215 00000215 Richard Feynman, winner of Nobel prize in physics, educator, philosopher, bongo player, dies (1988)%s19880215 00000215 Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage advocate, born (1820)%s18200215 00000216 Giordano Bruno burned at stake (1600)%s16000216 00000216 Henry Walter Bates, naturalist and explorer of South America, is born (1892)%s18920216 00000216 John Schlesinger, movie director, is born (1926)%s19260216 00000216 LeVar Burton, actor, Lt. LeForge on "Star Trek, the Next Generation", is born (1957)%s19570216 00000216 Pierre Bouguer, founder of photometry, is born (1698)%s16980216 00000216 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film. (1884)%s18840216 00000217 "Red" Barber, pioneering sportscaster born (1908)%s19080217 00000217 A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business. (1844)%s18440217 00000217 Frederick Eugene Ives, inventor, pioneer of halftone photoengraving process and color photography, is born (1856)%s18560217 00000217 Hal Holbrook, actor, is born (1925)%s19250217 00000217 Jazz great Thelonius Monk dies (Englewood, NJ, 1982)%s19820217 00000217 Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, playwright, author, actor, died on stage while playing the part of a sick man in his "Le Malade Imaginaire" (1673)%s16730217 00000217 Marion Anderson, American contralto, is born (1902)%s19020217 00000217 Thomas J. Watson, Sr. born (1874), founder of IBM%s18740217 00000218 Andre Breton, French author and critic, is born (1896)%s18960218 00000218 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented the electric battery, (1745)%s17450218 00000218 Cybill Shepherd, actress, is born (1950)%s19500218 00000218 Ernst Mach, philosopher and optics pioneer, is born (1838)%s18380218 00000218 Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmo editor, is born (1922)%s19220218 00000218 Jack Palance, actor, is born (1919)%s19190218 00000218 John Travolta, actor and dancer, is born (1954)%s19540218 00000218 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker (1848)%s18480218 00000218 Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, dies (1546)%s15460218 00000218 Matt Dillon, actor, is born (1964)%s19640218 00000218 Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, architect and painter, born in Caprese, Italy (1564)%s15640218 00000218 Molly Ringwald, actress, is born (1968)%s19680218 00000218 Queen Mary (Bloody Mary) is born (1516)%s15160218 00000218 Vanna White, game show hostess, is born (1957)%s19570218 00000218 Wallace Stegner, ecological author, is born (1909)%s19090218 00000218 Yoko Ono, John Lennon's wife, is born (Tokyo, 1933)%s19330218 00000219 Ernst Mach, physicist, philosopher, dies (1916)%s19160219 00000219 HRH Prince Andrew, second son of Elizabeth II is born (1960)%s19600219 00000219 Karen Silkwood, plutonium plant worker, is born (1946)%s19460219 00000219 Nicolas Copernicus born (Thorn, Poland, 1473)%s14730219 00000219 Nicolaus Copernicus (1473)%s14730219 00000219 William "Smokey" Robinson born (Detroit, 1940)%s19400219 00000220 Ansel Adams, photographer, was born (1902)%s19020220 00000220 Buffy Sainte-Marie, singer, songwriter, is born (1941)%s19410220 00000220 Gloria Vanderbilt, fashion designer, is born (1924)%s19240220 00000220 J. Geils (J. Geils Band) born (1946)%s19460220 00000220 Ludwig Boltzmann, atomic physics pioneer, is born (1838)%s18380220 00000220 Robert Altman, movie director, is born (1925)%s19250220 00000220 Sandy Duncan, actress, is born (1946)%s19460220 00000220 Sidney Poitier, actor, is born (1924)%s19240220 00000220 Voltaire, the French philosopher is born (1694)%s16940220 00000221 Alexis De Rochon, developed spyglass, born (1838)%s18380221 00000221 Anais Nin, French-born American author and diarist, is born (1903)%s19030221 00000221 George Ellery Hale dies (1938)%s19380221 00000221 Malcolm X shot to death as he was about to speak to a rally of followers in Harlem (1965)%s19650221 00000221 W.H. Auden, English-born American author, is born (1907)%s19070221 00000222 Andy Warhol, creator of the Pop art movement, dies (1987)%s19870222 00000222 David Susskind, talk show producer and host, dies (1987)%s19870222 00000222 Edna St. Vincent Millay, the American poet, is born in Rockland Maine (1892)%s18920222 00000222 Edward Gorey, slightly morbid cartoonist, is born (1925)%s19250222 00000222 Frederic Chopin, the Polish composer, is born near Warsaw (1810)%s18100222 00000222 George Washington, Father figure for US, President (1789-1796) (1732)%s17320222 00000222 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & 1st biographer of Bach (1749)%s17490222 00000222 John Jacob Astor, the millionaire, dies (1890)%s18900222 00000222 Luis Bunuel, film director, born in Spain (1900)%s19000222 00000222 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, who found hydrogen in the sun, is born (1838)%s18380222 00000222 Russell Porter dies (1949)%s19490222 00000223 George Frederick Handel, German born English composer, is born (1685)%s16850223 00000223 Johnny Winter born (Leland, MS, 1944)%s19440223 00000223 Samuel Pepys, English author and diarist, is born (1633)%s16330223 00000223 W. E. B. DuBois, the Black educator, is born (1868)%s18680223 00000224 Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII. (1885)%s18850224 00000224 Bluebeard executed for burning ten of his wives (1822)%s18220224 00000224 Charles Le Brun, painter, is born in Paris (1619)%s16190224 00000224 Henery Cavendish, physicist, dies (1810)%s18100224 00000224 Steven Jobs, Apple co-founder. (1955)%s19550224 00000224 Thomas Bowdler, censor and prude, dies (1825)%s18250224 00000224 Winslow Homer, artist, is born in Boston (1836)%s18360224 00000225 August Renoir, the French impressionist painter, is born (1841)%s18410225 00000225 Enrico Caruso, singer (1873)%s18730225 00000225 George Harrison of the Beatles is born in Liverpool, England (1943)%s19430225 00000225 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for President Eisenhower (1888)%s18880225 00000225 Zeppo Marx, actor, is born (1901)%s19010225 00000226 Buffalo Bill Cody, frontiersman and impresario, is born (1846)%s18460226 00000226 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, first observer of "Poisson's spot". cf. June 21 (1786)%s17860226 00000226 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry (1866)%s18660226 00000226 John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired the flaked cereal industry. (1852)%s18520226 00000226 Victor Hugo, French author, is born. (1802)%s18020226 00000226 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody. (1846)%s18460226 00000227 Elizabeth Taylor, the actress, is born (1929)%s19290227 00000227 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the Poet, is born in Portland, Maine (1807)%s18070227 00000227 Ivan Pavlov, the physiologist and psychologist, dies in Leningrad (1936)%s19360227 00000227 John Steinbeck, the author, is born. (1902)%s19020227 00000227 Lawrence Durrell, English author, is born (1912)%s19120227 00000227 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan (1934)%s19340227 00000228 Bernadette Peters, actress, is born (1948)%s19480228 00000228 Linus Pauling, Nobel prize winning chemist, is born (1901)%s19010228 00000228 Michel de Montaigne, French essayist, is born (1533)%s15330228 00000228 Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme, 59 was shot to death while walking from a movie theater in central Stockholm (1986)%s19860228 00000229 Herman Hollerith, invented 1st electric tabulating machine. (1860)%s18600229 00000229 Jimmy Dorsey, musician, born (1904)%s19040229