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* ScionPC "On This Day" (This Day in History) events data file
* ============================================================
*
* For this file to be recognised by ScionPC, as well as starting with the signature-string
* specified above, it MUST be named "otd.txt", and be placed in the ScionPC program folder.
*
* The format of each entry is as follows -
*
*   Xmmddyyyy Descriptive text
*
*         where: X = B for birth event
*                  = D for death event
*                  = S for special event
*                  = T for timeline historical event
*                Lines beginning with any other character are ignored.
*
*         'mmddyyyy' month/day/year components are all digits (with leading zeros if necessary)
*         NOTE: This is different from "CDay" which permits leading spaces rather than 0's
*
* That is -
*   Column 1:    The event type -
*                    B     birth event
*                    D     death event
*                    S     special event
*                    T     timeline historical event (see also 'T' section below)
*                    *     indicates a comment (entirely cosmetic)
*                    Lines with any other character in column 1 are ignored.
*
*   Columns 2-5: Month and day as MMDD with leading zeros.
*
*   Columns 6-9: The full year of the event as four digits (with leading zeros).
*                Blanks are NOT accepted.
*
*   Column 10:   ALWAYS a space. "CDay" style continuation lines ('C' in column 10) are
*                NOT supported, but long lines ARE permitted (although discouraged).
*
*   Columns 11+: The descriptive text to display for this date. Restrict to a sensible length.
*                Descriptive text must be at least 5 characters long to be considered valid.
*
* Example -
*    Columns
*    ----------
*    1234567890
*    B01081935 Elvis Presley, singer.
*
* Inspired by, and with some data from, the "CDAY" program (Copyright 2003, 2004 by
* Andrew Ziem) and the "Today" program (Copyright 1986, 1993 by Patrick Kincaid),
* augmented with additional data from a multitude of public sources and a LOT of
* editing and corrections by me! Any data from CDay or Today are used under the
* "GNU Free Documentation License".
*
* The contents of this file are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind whatsoever.
* The author disclaims all warranties, either express or implied, including the warranties
* of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall the author be
* liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential,
* loss of business profits or special damages, even if the author has been advised of the
* possibility of such damages. Use at your own risk.
*
* Duplicate entries are highly likely. The list is also guaranteed to have many errors!
*
* Errors can be simply corrected, duplicates removed, and new entries added, using any
* plain text editor.
*
* Because of the data sources, this list is largely "USA-centric"
*
* LAST UPDATE: Jan 2015
*
B12130037 Nero, Roman Emperor.
B09230063 Octavian (Augustus C‘sar), first Roman Emperor.
B09200086 Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor.
B01030106 Cicero, Roman statesman.
B04200121 Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, philosopher.
B11130354 St. Augustine of Hippo, in Numidia, Algeria.
B09200357 Alexander III the Great, King of Macedonia, Emperor.
B07020419 Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (425-55).
B06120445 Maximus, Roman Emperor.
B09280551 Confucius.
B06080570 Mohammed, prophet of Islam.
B04020742 Charlemagne, King of the Franks.
B06130823 Charles II (the Bald), King of France (843-77), Emperor (875-77).
B09170879 Charles III (The Simple), King of France (893-923).
B11230912 Otto I (the Great), German King, Holy Roman Emperor (962-73).
B11070994 Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian, jurist, writer of Islamic Spain.
B11111050 Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1036-1106).
B09081157 King Richard I of England, "The Lionhearted", crusader,.
B07281165 Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic, philosopher.
B10011207 Henry III, King of England (1216-72).
B11231221 Alfonso X (the Wise), King of Castile and Leon (1252).
B06171239 Edward I, King of England (1272-1307).
B05011265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet.
B09171271 Wenceslas II, King of Bohemia and Poland (1278-1305).
B07111274 Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.
B10041289 Louis X (the Stubborn), King of France (1314-16).
B07201304 Petrarch, poet, in Italy.
B11131312 Edward III, King of England (1327-77).
B06151330 Edward, the Black Prince.
B03041394 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsor of Portuguese exploration.
B01061412 Tradition says that Joan of Arc, martyr, was born on this day.
B07031423 Louis XI of France.
B04281442 Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 1471-83).
B01011449 Lorenzo de Medici (The Magnificent), Florentine ruler.
B04221451 Isabella of Castile, patron of Columbus.
B10301451 Christopher Columbus, Italian navigator.
B04151452 Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine artist, engineer, musician and scientist.
B10021452 Richard III, in Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire.
B10281466 Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly".
B11301466 Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman, admiral.
B05031469 Niccolo Machiavalli, philosopher.
B02191473 Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer (heliocentrism), in Thorn, Poland.
B02071478 Sir Thomas More, humanist, philosopher, statesman, in London.
B04181480 Lucrezia Borgia, patron of the arts.
B01011481 Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer.
B04061483 Raffaello Santi (Raphael), Italian painter and architect.
B12161485 Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII.
B09101487 Julius III, Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55).
B02091489 George Hartmann, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
B02111489 William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer.
B06281491 Henry VIII of England in Greenwich.
B12271493 Philippus Paracelsus, Alchemist and physician, opposed humoral theory, stressed observation.
B02041494 Francois Rabelais, French author and humanist.
B12201494 Oronce Fine, French mathematician, He refined the precision to which the constant pi was known to 3+11/78 .
B09161498 Tomas de Torquemada, Dominican monk largely responsible for the Spanish Inquisition.
B09241501 Geronimo Cardano, Italian physician and mathematician.
B06071502 Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582.
B11171503 Il Bronzino, Florentine painter.
B12141503 Michael de Nostradamus, supposed seer into the future.
B07101509 John Calvin, Protestant theologian.
B05171510 Sandro Botticelli, painter.
B04101512 King James V of England.
B02181516 Mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], Greenwich, Queen of England (1553-58).
B07131527 John Dee, English alchemist, astrologer, and mathematician.
B08251530 Ivan the Terrible, Czar of Russia.
B12071532 Mary Queen of Scots.
B02281533 Michel de Montaigne, French essayist.
B09071533 Elizabeth I, of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, at Greenwich.
B05241540 William Gilbert, English physician and early researcher into magnetism.
B01031543 Juan Cabrillo, discoverer of California.
B10071543 Hans Holbein, German painter.
B12141546 Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and mathematician.
B11301554 Philip Sidney, English poet, statesman, soldier (Arcadia).
B01221561 Francis Bacon, English statesman, essayist (Novum Organum).
B02151564 Galileo Galilei, astronomer/physicist, in Pisa, Italy.
B04231564 William Shakespeare, bard.
B07031567 Samuel de Champlain, explorer.
B12271571 Johannes Kepler, German astronomer.
B06111572 Ben Johnson, English playwright and poet.
B07151573 Inigo Jones, English architect, landscape designer and antiquary.
B06121577 Paul Guldin, Swiss goldsmith, Jesuit priest and mathematician.
B04011578 William Harvey, English physician who explained the circulation of the blood.
B01041581 Bishop James Ussher, calculated that earth began Nov 23, 4004 BC.
B09091585 Cardinal de Richelieu, chief minister to Louis XIII of France.
B01081587 Johannes Fabricius, Dutch astronomer who discovered sunspots.
B11171587 Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet, dramatist.
B01121588 John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
B04051588 Thomas Hobbes, philosopher.
B01051592 Shah Jahan, Moghul Emperor of India(1628-58) and built the Taj Mahal.
B03191593 Georges de La Tour, French painter.
B08091593 Izaac Walton, fisherman, writer (Compleat Angler).
B12091594 Gustavus II Adolphus, King who made Sweden a big power (1611-32).
B03311596 René Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician.
B09031596 Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker.
B11071598 Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish Baroque painter.
B04251599 Oliver Cromwell, English military, political and religious leader.
B11201602 Otto von Guericke, inventor of the air pump.
B10031605 Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming Emperor.
B10191605 Thomas Browne, philosopher.
B07151606 Rembrandt van Rijn, painter, in Leiden Netherlands.
B11261607 John Harvard, minister, philanthropist, and founder of Harvard University.
B10151608 Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist.
B12091608 John Milton, epic poet.
B01281611 Johannes Hevelius, Danzig star cataloguer.
B08181618 Virginia Dare, first child born in America of English parents.
B02241619 Charles Le Brun, painter, in Paris.
B03061619 Cyrano de Bergerac, French author, romanticized by Rostand.
B04241620 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography.
B11201620 Peregrine White, son of William and Susanna White, born aboard Mayflower.
B06191623 Blaise Pascal, French mathematician.
B06081625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian astronomer.
B10041626 Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59).
B01251627 Robert Boyle, Irish physicist, chemist, author.
B03101628 Marcello Malpighi, Italian physiologist.
B11281628 John Bunyan, English cleric, author (Pilgrim's Progress).
B04141629 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch physicist and astronomer, discoverer of Saturn's rings.
B08291632 John Locke, writer and thinker on the philosophy of government.
B10201632 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer and architect, who built many of the cathedrals in London.
B10241632 Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscope pioneer.
B10311632 Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter, in Delft Netherlands.
B11241632 Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and theologian.
B11281632 Jean-Baptiste Lully, French/Italian composer - Florence, Italy.
B02231633 Samuel Pepys, English author and diarist.
B11111636 Yen Jo-chü, Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty.
B09051638 King Louis XIV of France.
B12251642 Isaac Newton, in Grantham, England.
B09251644 Olaus Roemer, first to accurately measured speed of light.
B09211645 Louis Joliet, explorer and discoverer of the Mississippi River.
B07011646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, mathematician-philosopher.
B08191646 John Flamsteed, first Astronomer Royal of England.
B04051649 Elihu Yale, philanthropist who founded Yale.
B02021650 Nell Gwynn, actress and mistress of King Charles II.
B11041650 King William III of Orange.
B05041655 Bartolommeo Cristofori, inventor of the pianoforte.
B08131655 Johann Christoph Denner, inventor of the clarinet.
B09191655 Jan Luyts, Dutch scholar, physicist, mathematician, astronomer.
B11081656 Sir Edmond Halley, English astronomer, first to calculate a comet's orbit.
B03051658 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, soldier, founder of Detroit and governor of Louisiana, in France.
B04161660 Hans Sloane, British naturalist who founded British Museum.
B08211660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote first book on bridge building.
B11061661 Charles II, last Habsburg King of Spain (1665-1700).
B07271667 Johann Bernoulli, mathematician.
B11301667 Jonathan Swift, satirist, author (Gulliver's Travels).
B11101668 Francois Couperin, French composer.
B11061671 Colley Cibber, English dramatist, poet laureate (Love's Last Shift).
B06201674 Nicholas Rowe, dramatist, English poet laureate.
B08261676 Sir Robert Walpole, Whig statesman and British Prime Minister.
B03041678 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer, in Venice, Italy.
B03141681 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer.
B02281683 René Antoine de Réaumur, French scientist and inventor of a thermometer scale.
B11101683 George II, King of England (1727-60).
B04151684 Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27).
B02231685 George Frederick Handel, German Baroque composer.
B03211685 Johann Sebastian Bach, baroque composer, in Eisenach, Germany.
B10011685 Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1711-40).
B10261685 Domenico Scarlatti, virtuoso harpsichordist and composer, in Naples.
B01291688 Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish religious leader.
B05211688 Alexander Pope, poet and satirist.
B02201694 Voltaire, French philosopher.
B09221694 Lord Chesterfield, who brings Gregorian calendar to England in 1752.
B11211694 Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire.
B12221696 James Oglethorpe, English general, author, colonizer of Georgia.
B11101697 William Hogarth, English satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress).
B02161698 Pierre Bouguer, founder of photometry.
B02091700 Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician.
B11271701 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer who invented the centigrade thermometer.
B06171703 John Wesley, co founder of Methodist movement.
B04151707 Leonhard Euler, mathematician.
B09071707 George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history.
B10161708 Albrecht von Haller, father of experimental physiology.
B11141708 William Pitt the Elder (Whig), British PM (1756-61, 1766-68).
B09181709 Samuel Johnson, writer.
B11221710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach.
B01241712 Frederick I (the Great), King of Prussia (1740-86).
B06281712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, social contractor.
B09231713 Ferdinand VI, King of Spain (1746-59).
B10051713 Denis Diderot, encyclopaedist.
B11241713 Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist, satirist (Tristram Shandy).
B11241713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.
B09241717 Horace Walpole, English writer.
B11171717 Jean d'Alembert, French mathematician, scientist, philosopher.
B05231718 William Hunter, Scottish anatomist and obstetrician.
B11031718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same.
B03301719 Sir John Hawkins, wrote first history of music in English.
B07181720 Gilbert White, English naturalist.
B04131721 John Hanson, first US President under Articles of Confederation.
B09271722 Samuel Adams, American patriot.
B06051723 Adam Smith, economist, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
B07101723 Sir William Blackstone, English jurist, Blackstone's Commentaries.
B07161723 Sir Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter.
B04221724 Immanuel Kant, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason).
B06081724 John Smeaton, English civil engineer.
B09251725 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed and built first automobile.
B06031726 James Hutton, Scottish geologist.
B09071726 Francois-Andre Philidor of France, chess champion and musician.
B11201726 Oliver Wolcott, governor of Conn., signer of Declaration of Indep.
B05141727 Thomas Gainsborough, artist and portrait painter.
B12221727 William Ellery, signed Declaration of Independence.
B01091728 Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy).
B02131728 John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and anatomist.
B05021729 Catherine the Great of Russia.
B12031729 Antonio Soler, famed late 18th century Spanish composer.
B01231730 Joseph Hewes, American revolutionary leader.
B06261730 Charles Messier, cataloguer of astronomical "M objects".
B07121730 Josiah Wedgewood, English pottery designer, manufacturer.
B09171730 Baron Frederick von Steuben, made the Continental Army winners.
B11101730 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish novelist, dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer).
B10101731 Henry Cavendish, English physicist, chemist.
B02221732 George Washington, father figure for US, President (1789-1796).
B03311732 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer, in Austria.
B04081732 David Rittenhouse, astronomer and mathematician.
B04131732 Frederick, Lord North, British Prime Minister (1770-82).
B06211732 Martha Washington, US First Lady.
B10061732 Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal.
B12231732 Richard Arkwright, English inventor.
B05231733 Friedrich Mesmer, Austrian physician.
B11021734 Daniel Boone, frontiersman, explorer.
B01011735 Paul Revere, American silversmith and patriot.
B09051735 Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach (English Bach).
B10301735 John Adams, 2nd US President (1797-1801).
B01191736 James Watt, Scottish inventor of the practical steam engine.
B01251736 Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange, Turin, French mathematician.
B05291736 Patrick Henry, American patriot.
B06141736 Charles Augustin Coulomb, French physicist.
B01291737 Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason).
B05081737 Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".
B09091737 Luigi Galvani, Italian physiologist.
B01101738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (led the Green Mountain Boys).
B06041738 George III, English King during American Revolution (1760-1820).
B10101738 Benjamin West, painter.
B03161739 George Clymer, American politician and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
B06021740 Marquis de Sade, writer and all around fun guy.
B10291740 James Boswell, in Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer.
B01141741 Benedict Arnold, soldier and spy.
B10181741 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, artillery officer and writer of "Les Liaisons dangereuses".
B06171742 William Hooper, signer of Declaration of Independence.
B06261742 Arthur Middleton, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
B01211743 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton.
B04131743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President (1801-1809).
B05241743 Jean Paul Marat, revolutionary leader, in France.
B07171744 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander".
B08011744 Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, French zoologist.
B11111744 Abigail Smith Adams, 2nd US First Lady.
B01011745 General Anthony Wayne, military leader ("Mad Anthony").
B02181745 Alessandro Volta, Italian scientist and inventor of the electric battery.
B02181745 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, inventor of the electric battery.
B03301746 Francisco Jose de Goya, painter, in Spain.
B07161746 Giuseppe Piazzi, discovered first asteroid, Ceres.
B11271746 Robert Livingston, delivered oath of office to George Washington.
B03041747 Casimir Pulaski, Polish nobleman who served in the American Revolution.
B07061747 John Paul Jones, naval hero, "I have not yet begun to fight".
B11111748 Charles IV, King of Spain (1788-1808).
B01191749 Isaiah Thomas, American printer, editor, publisher, historian.
B02221749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist and first biographer of Bach.
B03281749 Pierre Simon de Laplace, mathematician and astronomer.
B05171749 Edward Jenner, English pioneer of vaccination.
B08281749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, novelist.
B11231749 Edward Rutledge, Governor of S.C., signer of Declaration of Independence.
B03161750 Caroline Lucretia Herschel, English astronomer.
B05201750 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during the War of 1812.
B03161751 James Madison, 4th US President (1809-1817).
B01011752 Elizabeth Griscom (Betsy) Ross, flag maker.
B07071752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, inventor of the punch card weaving machine, in Lyons, France.
B10231752 Nicolas Appert, inventor of food canning, bouillon tablet.
B11191752 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War.
B07041753 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, first balloon flights.
B02021754 Talleyrand, French statesman and diplomat.
B07111754 Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare.
B08211754 William Murdock, Scottish inventor.
B08231754 Louis XVI, future French King, at Versailes.
B09091754 William Bligh, captain of the Bounty.
B01111755 Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the US Treasury.
B04111755 James Parkinson, English physician who discovered Parkinson's disease.
B06061755 Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary war officer.
B08041755 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor of the modern pencil.
B09131755 Oliver Evans, pioneered the high-pressure steam engine.
B09241755 John Marshall, US Supreme Court Chief Justice.
B09291755 Robert, Lord Clive, founder of British empire in India.
B11171755 Louis XVIII, first post-revolutionary King of France (1814-24).
B01271756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musical prodigy (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik), in Salzburg.
B02061756 Aaron Burr, duelist.
B06061756 John Trumbull, painter.
B09211756 John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer who created macadam road surface (asphalt).
B08091757 Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer.
B09061757 Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary.
B09061757 Lafayette, French hero of the American revolution.
B11281757 William Blake, English poet and painter.
B04061758 Maximilien de Robespierre, lawyer and leader, in the French Revolution, in Arras France.
B04281758 James Monroe, 5th US President (1816-1824).
B09291758 Admiral Horatio Nelson, British naval commander at Trafalgar, in Burnham Thorpe.
B10111758 Wilhelm Olbers, discoverer of asteroids Pallas and Vesta.
B10161758 Noah Webster, lexicographer.
B01251759 Robert Burns, Scottish poet.
B10261759 Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader.
B11101759 Frederich von Schiller, poet in Germany.
B06071761 John Rennie, Scottish engineer.
B12071761 Madame Marie Tussaud, created wax museum.
B11011762 Spencer Perceval, British PM (1809-12).
B07171763 John Jacob Astor, millionaire, in North American trapping industry, in Germany.
B08081763 Charles Bullfinch, first US professional architect.
B03131764 Charles, Earl Grey, Whig statesmen and Prime Minister.
B11141765 Robert Fulton, US engineer, built first commercial steamboat.
B12081765 Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin.
B02141766 Thomas Malthus, English economist.
B09061766 John Dalton, British chemist.
B11161766 Rodolphe Kreutzer, French composer, virtuoso violinist.
B03151767 Andrew Jackson, 7th US President (1828-1836).
B07111767 John Quincy Adams, 6th US President (1825-1829).
B03141768 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician and physicist.
B03211768 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and Egyptologist.
B04281768 William Wallace, English mathematician who invented the pantograph.
B09041768 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French poet, novelist, statesman.
B05011769 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy.
B08151769 Napoleon Bonaparte.
B09141769 Baron von Humboldt, German traveler and naturalist.
B10131769 Horace H. Hayden, co founder of first dental college.
B04071770 William Wordsworth, English poet laureate (The Prelude).
B12161770 Ludwig van Beethoven, inventor of the classical symphony.
B01171771 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel.
B04131771 Richard Trevithick, English engineer.
B08151771 Sir Walter Scott, author.
B11061771 Alois Senefelder, Austrian inventor of lithography.
B04191772 David Ricardo, English economist.
B06081772 Robert Stevenson, English engineer.
B10211772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic and theologian.
B02091773 William Henry Harrison, 9th US President (March 4 - April 4, 1841).
B04061773 James Mill, philosopher, historian, economist.
B12271773 George Cayley, British aviation pioneer.
B03161774 Matthew Flinders, English navigator who explored the coast of Australia.
B04271774 Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist.
B09261774 John Chapman, alias Johnny Appleseed.
B01201775 Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist and mathematician, in Lyon.
B02101775 Charles Lamb, English critic, poet, essayist.
B12161775 Jane Austen, author.
B06111776 John Constable, English painter.
B08091776 Amedeo Avogadro, Italian physicist (6.022 x 10E23).
B11141776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered and named process of osmosis.
B04301777 Karl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician and astronomer.
B10181777 Heinrich von Kleist, German dramatist, poet.
B06071778 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, English dandy, gambler, friend of royalty.
B12171778 Sir Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements.
B01051779 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero.
B01051779 Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer (Pike's Peak).
B01181779 Peter Roget(of Thesaurus fame), inventor of slide rule, pocket chess.
B07151779 Clement Clarke Moore, American author.
B08011779 Francis Scott Key, author of "Star-Spangled Banner".
B08071779 Carl Ritter, co founder of modern science of geography.
B08291780 Jean Ingres, artist.
B06091781 George Stephenson, English locomotive engineer.
B06211781 Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician whose work spanned statistics, heat and electric potential.
B10011781 James Lawrence, naval hero.
B11201781 Andres Bello, Venezuelan diplomat, author, humanist.
B12111781 Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist, inventor of kaleidoscope.
B01181782 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician.
B03181782 John C. Calhoun, statesman.
B10271782 Niccole Paganini, composer, violin virtuoso.
B11011782 Viscount Goderich, British PM (1827-28).
B12051782 Martin Van Buren, 8th US President (1837-1841).
B04031783 Washington Irving, writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow).
B07241783 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from the Spanish.
B08071783 John Heathcoat, inventor of lace-making machinery.
B11241784 Zachary Taylor, 12th US President (1849-1850).
B01041785 Jacob Grimm, German librarian, philologist, fairy tale collector.
B02101785 Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier, French mathematician and pioneer in fluid dynamics.
B04261785 John James Audubon, American ornithologist and artist, in Haiti.
B08191785 Seth Thomas, American pioneer in mass production of clocks.
B08231785 Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. Naval hero, in Rhode Island.
B11211785 William Beaumont, surgeon, studied digestion.
B05081786 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry.
B06131786 Winfield Scott, American army general, US presidential candidate.
B08171786 Davy Crockett, American folk hero.
B11181786 Carl Maria von Weber, German composer - Eutin, Oldenburg, Germany.
B03081787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery.
B03161787 Georg Ohm, German physicist.
B11211787 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded first regular Atlantic steamship line.
B01221788 George Gordon, Lord Byron, English Romantic poet.
B02051788 Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister, founder of London Police force.
B05101788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics.
B09091789 William Cranch Bond, American astronomer, co discover of Hyperion.
B11181789 Louis Daguerre, French photographic pioneer.
B03291790 John Tyler, 10th US President (1841-1845).
B11121790 Letitia Christian Tyler, first wife of US President Tyler.
B11171790 August Ferdinand Möbius, mathematician, inventor of Möbius strip.
B12191790 Sir William Parry, British Arctic explorer.
B12231790 Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics.
B01141791 Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male (67 cm).
B04121791 Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party.
B04231791 James Buchanan, 15th US President (1857-1861).
B04271791 Samuel F. B. Morse, US inventor of Morse Code.
B06091791 John Howard Payne, American author, actor, diplomat.
B09221791 Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist.
B03071792 Sir John Frederick William Herschel, astronomer and brother of Caroline Herschel.
B08041792 Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet.
B11131792 Edward John Trelawney, English traveler, author.
B11261792 Sarah Moore Grimké, American antislavery, women's rights advocate.
B12261792 Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor of the calculating machine.
B11101793 Jared Kirtland, American physician, naturalist.
B11301793 Johann Lukas Schönlein, helped establish scientific medicine.
B07051794 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker.
B11031794 William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis).
B11101794 Admiral Matthew Perry, opened Japan to the world.
B10311795 John Keats, Romantic poet.
B11021795 James Knox Polk, 11th US President (1845-1849).
B07061796 Nicholas I, tsar of Russia (1825-55).
B02151797 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker.
B08301797 Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley, English author ("Frankenstein").
B11141797 Sir Charles Lyell, geologist.
B12131797 Heinrich Heine, poet, journalist, satirist.
B11011798 Sir Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer, Dublin mayor.
B01061799 Jedediah Strong Smith, American fur trader and explorer.
B05201799 Honore de Balzac, French author.
B06181799 William Lassell, discoverer of satellites of Uranus and Neptune.
B11171799 Titian Ramsey Peale, American artist, naturalist.
B01071800 Millard Fillmore, 13th US President (1850-1853).
B05091800 John Brown, abolitionist.
B09231800 William H McGuffey, educator (McGuffey Readers).
B12291800 Charles Goodyear, US inventor of vulcanisation process for rubber.
B05161801 William H. Seward, bought Alaska at $0.02/acre.
B06011801 Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, founder of Salt Lake City.
B07051801 David G Farragut, American naval hero, in Knoxville Tenn.
B11031801 Karl Baedeker, German publisher of travel books.
B01221802 Richard Upjohn, American Gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, NY).
B02121802 Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (1861-1865).
B02261802 Victor Hugo, French author.
B04041802 Dorothea Dix, social reformer.
B07091802 Thomas Davenport, inventor of first successful electric motor.
B08051802 Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician.
B11091802 Elijah P. Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher, abolitionist.
B05121803 Justus von Liebig, German chemist.
B05251803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and essayist.
B08151803 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia.
B10031803 John Gorrie, inventor of the cold-air process of refrigeration.
B11291803 Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist.
B12111803 Hector Berlioz, composer in France.
B02071804 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements.
B03081804 Alvan Clark, astronomer and lens manufacturer.
B03171804 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellence.
B06011804 Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer.
B07011804 George Sand, Amadine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, French author.
B07041804 Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (The Scarlet Letter), in Salem, MA.
B10031804 Townsend Harris, first Western consul to reside in Japan.
B11231804 Franklin Pierce, 14th US President (1853-1857).
B11271804 Sir Julius Benedict, composer.
B12211804 Benjamin Disraeli, statesman and novelist.
B04021805 Hans Christian Andersen, author, in Odense Denmark.
B11191805 Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat, built Suez Canal.
B12121805 Henry Wells, founded American Express Co. and Wells Fargo and Co.
B12201805 Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry.
B12231805 Joseph Smith, founder of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), in Sharon, Vermont.
B03061806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet.
B03211806 Benito Juarez, Mexican revolutionary and president.
B04091806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English engineer, designer of first transatlantic steamer.
B05201806 John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and economist.
B01111807 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph and Cornell University.
B01191807 Robert E. Lee, Leader of the Army of the Confederacy.
B02271807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet, in Portland, Maine.
B07041807 Giuseppe Garibaldi, unifier of Italy.
B04201808 Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), Emperor of France (1852-71).
B06031808 Jefferson Davis, Confederate President (1861-1865).
B08191808 James Nasmyth, Scottish inventor.
B12291808 Andrew Johnson, 17th US President (1865-1869).
B01041809 Louis Braille, blind educator, inventor of Braille alphabet, in Coupvray, France.
B01191809 Edgar Allen Poe, poet/writer (Annabelle Lee, The Raven).
B02031809 Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Felix Mendelssohn), composer, in Hamburg.
B02121809 Charles Darwin, English scientist, developer of the theory of evolution, in Shrewsbury, England.
B03311809 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam".
B08061809 Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England.
B08161809 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet Laureate.
B08291809 Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician and father of the jurist.
B10061809 John W. Griffiths, developer of the Clipper ship.
B11271809 Fanny Kemble, English actress.
B12241809 Kit Carson, explorer.
B12291809 William Ewart Gladstone, British statesman.
B04061810 Philip Henry Gosse, inventor of the institutional aquarium.
B06081810 Robert Schumann, German composer.
B07051810 P. T. Barnum, showman.
B09041810 Donald McKay, US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships.
B11261810 William George Armstrong, English inventor.
B11301810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker.
B12071810 Theodore Schwann, physiologist.
B02031811 Horace Greeley, journalist, in Amherst New Hampshire.
B03111811 Urbain Leverrier, French astronomer.
B03311811 Robert Bunsen, German chemist and inventor of the Bunsen Burner.
B06031811 Henry James, American philosopher and author.
B06071811 James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician who pioneered the use of anaesthetics.
B06141811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, novelist and reformer.
B07181811 William Makepeace Thackeray, Victorian novelist, "Vanity Fair".
B08031811 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safe elevator.
B09061811 James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington.
B10221811 Franz Liszt, Hungary, Romantic composer, virtuoso pianist.
B10271811 Issac Merrit Singer, inventor of first practical home sewing machine.
B11291811 Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage, antislavery, prison reformer.
B02071812 Charles Dickens, author, "David Copperfield".
B03061812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking.
B05071812 Robert Browning, poet.
B10201812 Austin Flint, 19th century pioneer in US heart research.
B01041813 Sir Issac Pitman, shorthand inventor.
B01181813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor of first useable barbed wire.
B01211813 John C Fremont, map maker and explorer of Western US.
B03151813 John Snow, English physician who pioneered the use of ether as an anaesthetic.
B03271813 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier and Ives).
B05221813 Richard Wagner, composer.
B10101813 Giuseppe Verdi, operatic composer, (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello).
B05301814 Eugčne Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician.
B07191814 Samuel Colt, American gunsmith and inventor of the Colt Revolver.
B08131814 Anders Jonas Angstrom.
B01211815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anaesthesia.
B04241815 Anthony Trollope, England, novelist (Barchester Towers).
B11021815 George Boole, English mathematician.
B11121815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Johnstown, NY, suffragist.
B04211816 Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (Jane Eyre).
B08241816 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid first successful trans-Atlantic cables.
B02071817 Frederick Douglas, first black to hold high rank in US government.
B07121817 Henry David Thoreau, author.
B11121817 Baha'Ullah (Mirza Husayn Ali), founded Bahá'i faith.
B11301817 Theodor Mommsen, German historian, writer (Nobel 1902).
B04291818 Alexander II, Tsar of all Russia (1855-81).
B05201818 William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo and Co.
B05271818 Amelia Bloomer, suffragist known for her pantaloons.
B06171818 Charles Gounod, composer.
B07301818 Emily Bronte, English novelist (Wuthering Heights).
B08131818 Lucy Stone, pioneer in Woman's Rights.
B09121818 Richard Jordan Gatling, US inventor of hand-cranked machine gun.
B11091818 Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, poet, playwright (Fathers and Sons).
B11291818 George Brown (L), Canadian publisher (Toronto Globe), PM (1858).
B02141819 Christopher Sholes, US inventor of the typewriter.
B03291819 Edwin Drake, drilled first productive oil well in US.
B05241819 Queen Victoria.
B05311819 Walt Whitman, American poet.
B06051819 John Couch Adams, co discoverer of Neptune.
B06201819 Jacques Offenbach, composer.
B06261819 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball.
B07091819 Elias Howe, inventor of sewing machine, in Spencer Mass.
B08261819 Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's husband), in Bavaria.
B09181819 Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, French physicist.
B11101819 Cyrus West Field, financed first successful transatlantic cable.
B11221819 George Eliot, novelist, in England (Silas Marner).
B12201819 John Geary, first Postmaster, first Mayor (May 1, 1850) of San Francisco.
B02081820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general.
B02151820 Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage advocate.
B04271820 Herbert Spencer, English Victorian philosopher.
B05121820 Florence Nightingale, English nursing pioneer in Florence, Italy.
B06141820 John Bartlett, American editor, compiler of Familiar Quotations.
B08021820 John Tyndall, Irish physicist.
B10061820 Jenny Lind, Swedish singer.
B01111821 Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russian author.
B03191821 Sir Richard Burton, explorer, writer, discoverer of Lake Tanganyikain Devon.
B05161821 Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev, Russian mathematician who never married and lived alone in a 10-room house.
B07161821 Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the "Church of Christ, Scientist".
B08161821 Arthur Cayley, British mathematician.
B10131821 Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist.
B10301821 Dostoyevsky, author.
B11111821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian author (Crime and Punishment).
B12121821 Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, (Madame Bovary).
B02161822 Francis Galton, English scientist and founder of eugenics.
B04271822 Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th US President (1869-1877).
B07221822 Gregor Mendel, geneticist who discovered laws of heredity.
B10041822 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US President (1877-1881).
B12061822 John Eberhard, built first large scale pencil factory in US.
B01061823 Gustave Dore, illustrator (Inferno, Rime of Ancient Mariner).
B01081823 Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer of evolution.
B04041823 Karl Wilhelm Siemens, inventor, laid undersea cables.
B10201823 Thomas Hughes, British author (Tom Brown's School Days).
B01211824 Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, Confederate general.
B03051824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier and Ives fame).
B03091824 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford University.
B03121824 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, German physicist.
B09041824 Anton Bruckner, composer - Wagner disciple.
B05041825 Thomas Huxley, English naturalist.
B10251825 Johann Strauss the Younger, composer (Waltz King).
B04041826 Zenobe Theophile Gramme, inventor of electric motor.
B07041826 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna".
B11101827 Lewis Wallace, soldier, diplomat and novelist ("Ben Hur").
B02081828 Jules Verne, pioneered what later became science fiction, in Nantes, France.
B03201828 Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist and poet.
B05081828 Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA.
B05221828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology.
B10311828 Joseph Wilson Swan, English inventor of the electric lamp.
B05081829 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, first great US pianist.
B06081829 Sir John Everett Millais, English painter.
B06121829 Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (Heidi).
B09071829 August von Stradonitz, discovered structure of the benzene ring.
B10051829 Chester A. Arthur, 21st US President (1881-1884).
B10151829 Asaph Hall, astronomer, discovered the moons of Mars.
B11281829 Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer - Vykhvatinetz, Podolia.
B04291830 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels, etc.
B05011830 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), American labour leader.
B09081830 Frederic Mistral, Provencal poet (Nobel 1904).
B09151830 Porfirio Dˇaz, soldier, president of Mexico (1877-1911).
B12101830 Emily Dickinson, poet.
B03121831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer.
B06131831 James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, formulated electromagnetic theory.
B11191831 James A. Garfield, 20th US President (March 4-September 19, 1881).
B01231832 Edouard Manet, French Impressionist painter.
B01271832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, writer and mathematician, in Cheshire.
B03121832 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts.
B06171832 William Crookes, English chemist.
B07061832 Maximilian, Mexican Emperor .
B11261832 Mary Edwards Walker, American doctor, women's rights leader.
B12151832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, French engineer.
B05071833 Johannes Brahms, composer, in Hamburg.
B10211833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite, in Stockholm.
B11121833 Aleksandr Borodin, Russian composer.
B11131833 Edwin Booth, American actor.
B12201833 Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, convicted of giving medical aid to J.W. Booth.
B01271834 Dmitri Mendeleyev, chemist, formulated the periodic table of elements, in Tobolsk, Russia.
B03171834 Gottlieb Daimler, German automobile pioneer.
B03241834 John Wesley Powell, explorer of the Colorado River.
B07101834 James Whistler, artist.
B07191834 Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter.
B08181834 Marshall Field, founded a Chicago-based store chain.
B03141835 Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, astronomer who named Mars "canals".
B06021835 Pope Pius X.
B07271835 Giosue Carducci, Italian poet (Nobel 1906).
B10091835 Camille Saint-Saens, French composer.
B10231835 Adlai Stevenson, US statesman.
B11251835 Andrew Carnegie, steel industrialist, library builder.
B11301835 Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), author, in Florida, Missouri.
B12041835 Samuel Butler, English novelist.
B12131835 Phillips Brooks, clergyman, composer (O Little Town of Bethlehem).
B02241836 Winslow Homer, artist, in Boston.
B03161836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car.
B05171836 Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer of Helium in Sun.
B08251836 Francis Bret Harte, American author.
B11111836 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American author, editor (Story of a Bad Boy).
B11181836 Sir W.S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame).
B03181837 Grover Cleveland, US President (1885-1889, 1893-1897).
B04171837 John Pierpont (J. P.) Morgan, American banker and financier.
B05021837 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert's Rules of Order".
B05271837 Wild Bill Hickock.
B06221837 Paul Morphy, US chess player, champion (1857-61).
B12261837 Admiral George Dewey, American naval hero of Manila.
B01041838 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person).
B02181838 Ernst Mach, Austrian philosopher and optics pioneer.
B02201838 Ludwig Boltzmann, atomic physics pioneer.
B02211838 Alexis De Rochon, developed spyglass.
B02221838 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, who found hydrogen in the sun.
B04211838 John Muir, American naturalist, conservationist.
B07081838 Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor.
B09021838 Queen Liliuokalani (last Queen of Hawaii).
B10251838 Georges Bizet, composer.
B01191839 Paul Cezanne, painter.
B04201839 Francesco Siacci, Italian mathematician who applied mechanics to artillery.
B06241839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift and Co.
B09021839 Henry George, land reformer, writer (Progress and Poverty).
B09101839 Isaac Kauffman Funk, American publisher (Funk and Wagnalls).
B09101839 Charles Sanders Peirce, US mathematician who worked on the four colour problem.
B09281839 Frances Willard, founded Women's Christian Temperance Union.
B12051839 George Armstrong Custer of Little Big Horn fame.
B01031840 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii.
B01231840 Ernst Abbe, formulated diffraction theory.
B02051840 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tyre.
B02291840 John Holland, US submarine inventor.
B03201840 Franz Mertens, Polish mathematician and pioneer of number theory.
B04271840 Edward Whymper, artist and mountaineer, first man to climb the Matterhorn.
B05071840 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer.
B09271840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America.
B11121840 Auguste Rodin, French sculptor.
B11141840 Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter.
B02251841 August Renoir, French impressionist painter.
B09081841 Anton Dvorak, Czech composer, (From The New World), in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia.
B09281841 Georges Clemenceau, French statesman.
B11091841 Edward VII, King of England (1901-10).
B11201841 Sir Wilfrid Laurier (L), 7th Canadian prime minister (1896-1911).
B05131842 Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame.
B05131842 Arthur S. Sullivan, of Gilbert and Sullivan.
B06241842 Ambrose Bierce, American satirist.
B01291843 William McKinley, 25th US President (1897-1901).
B06091843 Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist, pacifist (Nobel 1905).
B06151843 Edvard Hagerup Grieg, composer, in Bergen, Norway.
B02171844 A. Montgomery Ward, founder of mail-order business.
B03061844 Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, composer, in Russia.
B04161844 Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize in 1921.
B07221844 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, inventor of "spoonerisms".
B07251844 Thomas Eakins, American realist painter.
B10111844 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company.
B10151844 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philologist and philosopher.
B10221844 Sarah Bernhardt, "the Divine Sarah" French actress Rosine Bernard, in Paris.
B11101844 Sir John S.D. Thompson (C), 4th prime minister of Canada (1892-94).
B11251844 Carl Benz, German engineer and automobile manufacturer.
B03271845 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, discoverer of X-rays.
B05121845 Gabriel Faure, composer.
B01051846 Rudolf Eucken, German Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908).
B02261846 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, frontiersman and impresario.
B07191846 Charles Edward Pickering, pioneer American spectroscopist.
B09041846 Daniel Burnham, American architect, built skyscrapers.
B10061846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US.
B10281846 Auguste Escoffier, "the King of chefs and the chef of kings".
B02111847 Thomas Alva Edison, US inventor and holder of over 1000 patents.
B02111847 Henry Fox Talbot, British photographic pioneer,.
B03031847 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor of the telephone.
B06111847 Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement.
B09051847 Jesse James, outlaw in Missouri.
B02181848 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glass maker.
B03011848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor designed 1907 $20 gold piece.
B06071848 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gauguin, French painter who lived in Tahiti.
B07181848 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer.
B11081848 Gottlob Frege, German mathematician, logician, philosopher.
B12091848 Joel Chandler Harris, created the Uncle Remus stories.
B02131849 Randolph Churchill, English politician and father of Winston Churchill.
B03071849 Luther Burbank, plant breeder.
B07221849 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
B09141849 Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, pioneer in psychology.
B09261849 Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Russian physiologist.
B10071849 James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (The Raggedy Man).
B11291849 Sir Ambrose Fleming, invented diode.
B12191849 Henry Clay Frick, industrialist, worked for Carnegie.
B01151850 Sofya Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician.
B01271850 Samuel Gompers, first president of American Federation of Laborers.
B01291850 Lawrence Hargrave, inventor of the box kite.
B05181850 Oliver Heaviside, physicist who predicted the existence of the ionosphere.
B06061850 Karl F. Braun, co developer of wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909).
B07151850 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (Mother Cabrini), first US saint.
B08051850 Guy de Maupassant, author.
B09091850 Harishchandra, Indian poet, dramatist, father of modern Hindi.
B11091850 Lewis Lewin, German toxicologist, father of psychopharmacology.
B11131850 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (Treasure Island).
B09131851 Walter Reed, American physician and army surgeon.
B10021851 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be the leader responsible for Allies winning World War I.
B11061851 Charles Henry Dow, co-founder of Dow Jones/first editor of Wall St Journal.
B12101851 Melvil Dewey, created the Dewey Decimal System for libraries.
B12301851 Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola.
B02261852 John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired flaked cereals.
B04131852 Frank W. Woolworth, US merchant.
B09231852 William Stewart Halsted, established first surgical school in US.
B09281852 Henri Moissan, French chemist who isolated fluorine (Nobel 1906).
B10021852 William Ramsay, Scottish chemist.
B12121852 Henri Becquerel, discoverer of radioactivity (Nobel 1903).
B12191852 Albert Michelson, measured the speed of light, (Nobel 1907).
B01161853 Andre Michelin, French industrialist, tyre manufacturer.
B03291853 Elihu Thomson, US inventor.
B03301853 Vincent Van Gogh, painter, in the Netherlands.
B07011853 Cecil John Rhodes, South African politician, diamond merchant.
B07051853 Henry Rhodes, statesman.
B07181853 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1902).
B09021853 Wilhelm Ostwald, German physical chemist (Nobel 1909).
B11011853 José Santos Zelaya (L), ruler of Nicaragua (1893-1910).
B01011854 Sir James Frazer, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough).
B01061854 Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft, fictional detective (via Arthur Conan Doyle).
B01181854 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell.
B03151854 Emil von Behring, German bacteriologist.
B03311854 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine.
B04101854 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, naval commander.
B04291854 Jules Henri Poincare, French mathematician, astronomer, philosopher.
B06131854 Sir Charles Parsons, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine.
B07121854 George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera, in Waterville NY.
B09011854 Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer.
B10161854 Oscar Wilde (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills), author, in Dublin.
B10201854 Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud, French poet.
B11061854 John Philip Sousa, band leader and composer, in Washington D.C.
B11131854 George Whitefield Chadwick, American composer - Lowell, Mass.
B11211854 Benedict XV, 258th Roman Catholic pope (1914-22).
B01051855 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor.
B11051855 Eugene Victor Debs, American labour organizer and socialist.
B02171856 Frederick Eugene Ives, inventor, pioneer of half-tone photo-engraving and colour photography.
B03201856 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management.
B04051856 Booker T. Washington, influential Black educator.
B05061856 Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst.
B05131856 Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote photography as an independent art.
B05151856 Lyman Frank Baum, creator of the Wizard of Oz.
B06221856 H. Rider Haggard, English novelist, author of "King Solomon's Mines".
B07101856 Nikola Tesla, physicist/visionary.
B07261856 George Bernard Shaw, dramatist (Pygmalion) (Nobel 1925) in Dublin.
B09031856 Louis Sullivan, father of modern US architecture.
B11131856 Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39).
B11251856 Sergei Taneyev, Russian composer - Vladimir District, Russia.
B12221856 Frank Kellogg, US Secretary of State, tried to outlaw war (Nobel 1929).
B12281856 Woodrow Wilson, 28th US President (1912-1921).
B02221857 Heinrich Hertz, physicist, first to broadcast and receive radio waves.
B04181857 Clarence Darrow, lawyer, legalized evolution.
B06021857 Sir Edward Elgar, English composer, in Worcester, England.
B09131857 Milton S. Hershey, US chocolate manufacturer, philanthropist.
B09151857 William Howard Taft, 27th US President (1909-1913).
B09171857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket and space research.
B10141857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the first US autos.
B11261857 Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist.
B12031857 Joseph Conrad, author of "Lord Jim".
B03181858 Rudolf Diesel, German engineer who invented the engine named for him.
B04231858 Max Planck, German physicist.
B06291858 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal.
B07091858 Franz Boas, anthropologist, linguist.
B10151858 John L. Sullivan, famed pugilist.
B10271858 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1901-1909).
B11201858 Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish novelist (Tales of a Manor) (Nobel 1909).
B03081859 Kenneth Grahame, author of "Wind in the Willows", in Edinburgh.
B04071859 Walter Camp, father of American football.
B05151859 Pierre Curie, French physicist and chemist.
B05221859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.
B11231859 William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid), outlaw.
B12021859 Georges Seurat, French painter, pointillist.
B02291860 Herman Hollerith, inventor of first electric tabulating machine.
B04071860 W. K. Kellogg, cornflake manufacturer.
B05031860 John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist.
B05211860 Willam Einthoven, inventor of the electrocardiograph.
B07071860 Gustave Mahler, composer, in Bohemia.
B07191860 Lizzie Borden, reputed but acquitted axe murderess.
B09061860 Jane Addams, American pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931).
B09071860 Grandma Moses, American Primitive painter.
B09131860 Gen. John J. (Blackjack) Pershing, US commander in World War I.
B10121860 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, US inventor of the gyrocompass.
B10311860 Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout founder.
B11231860 Karl Branting, Swedish statesman, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921).
B01141861 Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22).
B06291861 William James Mayo, American surgeon.
B10041861 Frederic Remington, American Western painter, sculptor and author.
B10101861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, humanitarian, (Nobel 1922).
B11061861 Dr. James Naismith, Canadian inventor of Basketball.
B11141861 Frederick Jackson Turner, historian, educator.
B12081861 William Durant, founded General Motors Corp.
B12151861 Charles Edgar Duryea, with his brother, inventor of first auto to be built and operated in US.
B01081862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher and founder of Doubleday and Co.
B01231862 David Hilbert, mathematician.
B01241862 Edith Wharton, American author.
B01291862 Frederick Delius, English composer.
B07021862 William Henry Bragg, English physicist.
B08221862 Claude Debussy, composer.
B09111862 O Henry, pen name of William Sidney Porter, short story writer.
B10191862 Auguste Marie Lumičre, French photographic pioneer.
B11041862 Eden Phillpotts, English novelist, poet, playwright.
B11151862 Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer (Before Dawn) (Nobel 1912).
B03271863 Sir Henry Royce, English automobile designer and manufacturer.
B11301863 Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain.
B12161863 George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist.
B01011864 Alfred Stieglitz, father of modern photography.
B03141864 John Luther "Casey" Jones, railroad engineer.
B03191864 Charles Russell, American Western artist.
B06031864 Ransom Eli Olds, auto (Oldsmobile) and truck (REO) manufacturer.
B06111864 Richard Strauss, German composer (Also Sprach Zarathrustra).
B06141864 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, pathologist.
B09141864 Lord Cecil of Chelwood, helped form League of Nations, Nobel 1937.
B11111864 Alfred Hermann Fried, German pacifist (Nobel 1911).
B11241864 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and graphic artist, in Albi, France.
B04091865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz, electrical engineer.
B06031865 George V, King of England (1910-36).
B06091865 Carl Nielsen, Danish composer.
B06131865 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole)(Nobel 1923.
B06291865 Shigechiyo Izumi, alive at 120 (greatest authenticated human age).
B07191865 Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, co founder of Mayo Clinic.
B11021865 Warren Gamaliel Harding (R), 28th US President (1921-23).
B12081865 Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (Finlandia, Valse Triste).
B12301865 Rudyard Kipling, author and poet (Nobel 1907).
B02261866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry.
B04131866 Butch Cassidy, American outlaw.
B05171866 Erik Satie, composer.
B07031866 Henry Frederick Baker, English mathematician.
B07061866 (Helen) Beatrix Potter, author, creator of Peter Rabbit.
B07281866 Beatrix Potter, English children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit).
B09011866 James Corbett (Gentleman Jim), pugilist and prize fighter, in San Francisco.
B09021866 Hiram Johnson, Califoria governor.
B09211866 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells, English writer, in Bromley, England.
B10061866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast first voice and music program.
B11121866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC).
B11201866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge, first commissioner of baseball.
B01081867 Emily Balch, US sociologist, feminist, pacifist (Nobel 1946).
B02071867 Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of "Little House on the Prairie" series.
B04161867 Wilbur Wright, inventor of the airplane.
B06041867 Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Finnish military hero, president (1944-46).
B06111867 Charles Fabry, discovered ozone layer in the upper atmosphere.
B07041867 Stephen Mather, organizer of the US National Park Service.
B07101867 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley.
B09141867 Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl".
B11071867 Marie Sklodowska Curie, scientist, discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911).
B11271867 Charles Koechlin, French composer - Paris, France.
B01081868 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right: gravity bends light.
B02231868 W. E. B. DuBois, Black educator.
B03161868 Maksim Gorky, Russian novelist.
B06141868 Karl Landsteiner, immunologist, pathologist (Nobel 1930).
B06291868 George Ellery Hale, US astronomer.
B09091868 Mary Hunter Austin, American author and feminist.
B11241868 Scott Joplin, American composer - Texarkana.
B12201868 Harvey Firestone, tyre maker.
B01281869 Ozaki Koyo, Japanese novelist, essayist, haiku poet (The Heart).
B03211869 Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer and impresario, in Chicago.
B06081869 Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
B07291869 Booth Tarkington, American novelist (17, Magnificent Ambersons).
B10021869 Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India.
B10081869 J. Frank Duryea, inventor of first auto built and operated in the US.
B11221869 André Gide, French novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures) (Nobel 1947).
B12301869 Stephen Leacock, economist and humorist.
B12311869 Henri Matisse, French Impressionist painter.
B01091870 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer, builder of Golden Gate Bridge.
B02071870 Alfred Adler, Austrian psychoanalyst.
B04221870 Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Bolshevik Revolutionary leader.
B04301870 Franz Lehar, composer, (Merry Widow, Rose de Noel).
B05061870 A. P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America.
B06171870 George Cormack, inventor of "Wheaties" cereal.
B09241870 Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light.
B09301870 Jean Perrin, French physicist, Brownian motion (Nobel 1926).
B10221870 Ivan Bunin, Russian poet/novelist (Gentleman from SF), Nobel 1933.
B12061870 William S. Hart, star of silent Western movies.
B12181870 Saki, British short-story writer, in Burma.
B01061871 Aleksandr Scriabin, Russian composer.
B03051871 Rosa Luxembourg, "Red Rosa", German socialist leader.
B07101871 Marcel Proust, French author.
B07291871 Grigori Rasputin, Siberian peasant with a powerful influence on Nicolas II.
B08191871 Orville Wright, pioneer aviator.
B08301871 Lord Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist.
B10021871 Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, lowered tariffs, (Nobel 1945).
B11011871 Stephen Crane, poet/writer (Red Badge of Courage).
B01311872 Zane Gray, American West novelist.
B05181872 Bertrand Arthur William Russell, mathematician, logician and founder of analytic philosophy.
B05311872 William Heath Robinson, English illustrator of extraordinary machines.
B07011872 Louis Blériot, French aviator.
B07041872 Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President (1923-1929).
B07161872 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, discoverer of South Pole.
B09041872 Darius Milhaud, composer.
B09101872 Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Indian cricketer, politician.
B10121872 Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer.
B10271872 Emily Post, authority on social behaviour, writer (Etiquette).
B11111872 Frederick A. Stock, German/American conductor - Jülich, Germany.
B01011873 Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (The Flies, The Bosses).
B01201873 Johannes V Jensen, Danish novelist, poet, essayist (Nobel 1944).
B01281873 Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine), French novelist.
B02251873 Enrico Caruso, singer.
B05091873 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found tomb of Pharoah Tutankhamen.
B06201873 Alfred Loewy, German mathematician.
B08261873 Lee De Forest, US physicist, inventor of the Audion vacuum tube (radio tube).
B10081873 Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish astronomer, Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
B10301873 Francisco Madero, Mexican revolutionary, president (1911-13).
B11101873 Henri Rabaud, French composer - Paris, France.
B11161873 William Handy, blues musician.
B11201873 Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer - Brookline, Massachusetts.
B12071873 Willa Cather, novelist, in Virginia.
B01161874 Robert Service, Canadian author.
B01251874 W. Somerset Maugham, novelist, poet (Of Human Bondage, Cakes and Ale).
B02031874 Gertrude Stein, poet, novelist.
B02171874 Thomas J. Watson, Sr., founder of IBM.
B03261874 Robert Frost, American poet.
B04251874 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor of radio, Bologna Italy, (Nobel 1909).
B05031874 Francois Coty, perfume maker.
B05291874 Gilbert Keith Chesterton, journalist and writer.
B08101874 Herbert Hoover, 31st US President (1929-1933).
B09131874 Arnold Schoenberg, composer.
B09211874 Gustav Holst, composer, (The Planets).
B10141874 Raymond Ewry of U.S., won 10 Olympic gold medals for jumping.
B10201874 Charles Ives, composer.
B11271874 Charles A. Beard, American historian.
B11271874 Chaim Weizmann, Israeli statesman.
B11291874 António Egas Moniz, Portuguese lobotomist (Nobel 1949).
B11301874 Sir Winston Churchill (C), Brit. PM (1940-45, 1951-55) (Nobel 1953).
B01141875 Albert Schweitzer, French doctor, humanitarian, organist (Nobel 1952).
B01221875 D. W. Griffith, movie producer (Birth of a Nation).
B03071875 Maurice Ravel, composer, in France.
B04021875 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company.
B04261875 Syngman Rhee, South Korean statesman.
B06061875 Thomas Mann, German novelist (Magic Mountain) (Nobel 1929).
B07261875 Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychologist.
B09011875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist.
B09271875 Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist (Old Man of the Mtn) (Nobel 1926.
B01051876 Konrad Adenauer, German Chancellor.
B01121876 Jack London, author and adventurer.
B08071876 Mata Hari, spy.
B09151876 Bruno Walter, conductor.
B11051876 Raymond Duchamp-Villon, cubist sculptor.
B11231876 Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer - Cádiz, Spain.
B11261876 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment.
B11291876 Nellie Taylor Ross, first woman governor (Wyoming) and first woman director of the US Mint.
B12291876 Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist.
B04191877 Ole Evinrude, inventor of the outboard marine engine.
B04301877 Alice B. Toklas, American author.
B05261877 Isadora Duncan, dancer.
B06181877 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his "I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster.
B07021877 Hermann Hesse, Swiss novelist, poet (Steppenwolf) (Nobel 1946).
B08151877 Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), soldier, archaeologist, adventurer, and author, in Wales.
B09011877 Francis Aston, English physicist.
B09021877 Frederick Soddy, English physical chemist.
B09111877 James Hopwood Jeans, British mathematician and scientist.
B10251877 Henry Norris Russell, astronomer (Hertzsprung-Russell diagram).
B11241877 Alben W. Barkley (D), 35th U.S. vice-president (1949-53).
B01061878 Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer of Lincoln, in Illinois.
B02051878 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker.
B05211878 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aircraft builder (e.g. Curtiss Jennie) and inventor of the aileron.
B06051878 Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader.
B07041878 George M. Cohan, American songwriter, playwright, producer.
B09201878 Upton Sinclair, writer.
B11011878 Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936).
B01011879 E. M. Forster, English novelist (Howard's End, A Passage to India).
B03081879 Otto Hahn, German physicist and chemist, co-discoverer of nuclear fission.
B03141879 Albert Einstein, German-born Swiss physicist.
B07091879 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Pines of Rome).
B07251879 Maxfield Parrish, American artist.
B10071879 Joe Hill, songwriter, IWW organizer, martyr.
B11041879 Will Rogers, humorist.
B11071879 Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist theorist, Bolshevik.
B11261879 Charles W. Goddard, author of "The Perils of Pauline".
B12091879 Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator.
B01061880 Tom Mix, silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin).
B01171880 Mack Sennett, film-maker (Keystone Kops).
B01221880 Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician and pioneer of functional analysis.
B03301880 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright.
B06111880 Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to Congress (from Montana).
B06271880 Helen Keller, blind-deaf author-lecturer, in Alabama.
B08081880 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary.
B09121880 H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, American editor and critic.
B09231880 John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO (Nobel 1949).
B11011880 Sholem Asch, Yiddish novelist, playwright (Three Cities).
B12311880 George C. Marshall, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953).
B04011881 Wallace Beery, film actor.
B06111881 Hilda Phoebe Hudson, English mathematician.
B08061881 Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist.
B08121881 Cecil B. de Mille, director.
B09151881 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, car builder.
B10011881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft company.
B10151881 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, playwright.
B11251881 John XXIII (was Angelo Roncalli), 261st pope (1958-63), (Angelo Roncalli) near Bergamo, It.
B11281881 Stefan Zweig, Austrian poet, essayist, dramatist, translator.
B01181882 A. A. Milne, author of "Winnie the Pooh".
B01251882 Virginia Woolf, novelist and critic.
B01301882 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1933-1945).
B02021882 James Joyce, novelist, in Dublin.
B05091882 Henry J. Kaiser, built Liberty Ships, Jeeps.
B06211882 Rockwell Kent, artist.
B08271882 Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer filmmaker.
B10051882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of modern rocketry.
B11101882 Frances Perkins, first US woman Cabinet member.
B12281882 Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astronomer.
B01061883 Khalil Gibran, Lebanese metaphysical poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings).
B02071883 Eubie Blake, composer.
B04011883 Lon Chaney, actor.
B05231883 Douglas Fairbanks, actor and producer, in Colorado.
B06051883 John Maynard Keynes, English economist, in Cambridge, England.
B07031883 Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, The Trial, Amerika).
B07291883 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce), Italian dictator.
B09141883 Margaret Sanger, feminist, nurse, birth control proponent.
B09171883 William Carlos Williams, American physician and poet.
B11081883 Sir Arnold Bax, English composer - London, England.
B11111883 Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor - Vevey, Switzerland.
B01211884 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of American Civil Liberties Union.
B01281884 Auguste and Jean Felix Piccard, Swiss scientists, explorers.
B02161884 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film.
B05081884 Harry S Truman, U.S. president.
B06141884 John McCormack, Irish tenor.
B08081884 Sara Teasdale, American poet.
B08161884 Hugo Gernsback, responsible for Science Fiction becoming an independent literary form.
B10111884 Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of US President.
B10251884 Eduardo Barrios, Chilean novelist (The Love-Crazed Boy).
B10291884 Bela Lugosi, horror actor (Dracula, Body Snatcher).
B12301884 Tojo Hideki, Japanese Prime Minister in WWII.
B01111885 Alice Paul, founder of US National Woman's Party, ERA advocate.
B01271885 Jerome Kern, Broadway composer.
B01311885 Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina.
B02061885 George Herman Ruth ("Babe Ruth"), US baseball player.
B02071885 Sinclair Lewis, novelist, author of "Babbitt".
B02131885 Bess Truman, wife of US President Harry Truman.
B02241885 Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII.
B03111885 Malcolm Campbell, English speed record holder.
B05071885 Gabby Hayes, Western character actor.
B09111885 D. H. Lawrence, writer, (Lady Chatterly's Lover).
B09201885 Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe (Jelly Roll) Morton, American jazz musician and composer.
B09221885 Erich von Stroheim, early film director.
B10071885 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (Nobel 1922).
B10111885 Francois Mauriac, French novelist, poet, playwright (Nobel 1952).
B10301885 Ezra Loomis Pound, American poet and critic.
B11021885 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer.
B11051885 Will Durant, writer, historian (Story of Civilization).
B11111885 General George S. Patton, World War II tank strategist, in San Gabriel, California.
B12021885 George Minot, US physician, worked on anaemia (Nobel 1934).
B12021885 Nˇkos Kazantazakˇs, Greek writer (Zorba the Greek).
B05261886 Al Jolson, jazz singer.
B06181886 George Mallory, English mountain climber ("because it is there").
B06251886 Henry "Hap" Arnold, commanding general, US Army Air Force in WW I.
B08071886 Louis Alan Hazeltine, inventor of the neutrodyne circuit, making commercial radio possible.
B08241886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty Ships.
B09101886 Hilda (H.D.) Doolittle, American poet.
B11011886 Hermann Broch, Austrian novelist (Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment).
B11091886 Ed Wynn, actor.
B11151886 Pedro Sanjuán, Spanish composer - San Sebastian, Spain.
B11201886 Karl von Frisch, zoologist, bee expert (Nobel 1973).
B12011886 Rex Stout, American detective story writer.
B12061886 Joyce Kilmer, American poet (Trees).
B12081886 Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist.
B12091886 Clarence Birdseye, US inventor of deep-freezing process.
B01211887 Wolfgang Kohler, Gestalt psychologist (The Mentality of Apes).
B01281887 Artur Rubinstein, pianist.
B06021887 Julian Huxley, English biologist.
B06221887 Sir Julian Huxley, biologist and philosopher of science.
B07071887 Marc Chagall, artist, in Vitebsk Russia.
B07221887 Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925).
B07291887 Sigmund Romberg, operetta composer, in Hungary.
B09261887 Emile Berliner, in Germany. Patented the first phonograph.
B10311887 Chiang Kai-Shek.
B11051887 Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian pianist - Vienna, Austria.
B11151887 Georgia O'Keeffe, painter, in Sun Prairie Wisconsin.
B11151887 Marianne Moore, poet in St. Louis.
B11171887 Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Field Marshal, in Moville, Ireland.
B11231887 Boris Karloff, actor, in Dulwich, England.
B12091887 Hermione Gingold, actress who played the mayor's wife, in "The Music Man".
B01181888 Sir Thomas Octave Sopwith, aviator, airplane builder, Sopwith Pup, Sopwith Camel, Hurricane, and Harrier VTOL.
B01241888 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built first rocket-powered aircraft.
B02251888 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for US President Eisenhower.
B04261888 Aleksandr Mikhailov, USSR astronomer.
B05111888 Irving Berlin, composer.
B07161888 Frits Zernike, inventor of phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953).
B07171888 Shmuel Agnon, Israeli novelist (Day Before Yesterday) (Nobel 1966.
B07221888 Selman Abraham Waksman, US biochemist.
B07231888 Raymond Chandler, American author.
B08131888 John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer.
B09061888 Joseph P. Kennedy, Financier-diplomat.
B09121888 Maurice Chevalier, French singer.
B09261888 T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, poet, in St. Louis.
B10061888 Li Ta-chao, co founder with Mao Tse-tung of China's Communist Party.
B10161888 Eugene O'Neill, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms) (Nobel 1936).
B10251888 Richard E Byrd, polar explorer.
B11071888 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist.
B11161888 Burnet Corwin Tuthill, American composer - New York, New York.
B11191888 José Raúl Capablanca of Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27).
B11241888 Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends and Influence People).
B04081889 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra).
B04091889 Efram Zimbalist, violinist.
B04141889 Arnold Toynbee, historian.
B04151889 Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and muralist.
B04161889 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin, actor, in London.
B04201889 Adolf Hitler, in Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany.
B04261889 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian- English philosopher.
B05251889 Igor Sikorsky, US aeronautical engineer, inventor of the helicopter.
B07171889 Erle Stanley Gardner, author and creator of Perry Mason.
B07301889 Vladimir Zworykin, co-inventor of television.
B11011889 Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman, disarmament advocate (Nobel).
B11141889 Jawaharlal Nehru, first Indian Prime Minister (1947-64).
B11181889 Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian operatic soprano.
B11201889 Edwin Powell Hubble, US astronomer.
B01091890 Karel Capek, Czech author and originator of the term robot.
B02101890 Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist, "Dr. Zhivago" (Nobel 1958).
B03051890 Berick Traven Torsvan, American author.
B04061890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer.
B05191890 Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnamese president.
B06161890 Stan Laurel, film comedian, in Lancashire.
B07201890 Theda Bara, American actress and vamp.
B09091890 Colonel Harlan (Kentucky Fried Chicken) Sanders.
B09151890 Dame Agatha Christie, author, in Torquay, England.
B10081890 Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator.
B10091890 Aimee Semple McPherson, Pentecostal evangelist, radio preacher.
B10141890 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President (1953-1961).
B10161890 Paul Strand, photographer.
B11221890 Charles de Gaulle, president of France (1958-1969).
B12051890 Fritz Lang, film director (Metropolis), in Vienna.
B12181890 Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (inventor of FM).
B01081891 Walther Bothe, German subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954).
B03221891 Leonard Marx, Chico of the Marx Brothers.
B04231891 Sergei Prokofiev, composer.
B07051891 John Northrop, US biochemist, crystallized enzymes (Nobel 1946).
B10201891 James Chadwick, English physicist.
B10291891 Fanny Brice, actress, dancer, singer.
B11151891 W. Averell Harriman, governor, cabinet member.
B11151891 Erwin Rommel, German tactician, generally known as "The Desert Fox".
B12261891 Henry Miller, author (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer).
B01031892 J. R. R. Tolkien, author. The REAL Lord of the Rings.
B01141892 Hal Roach, early film director and producer.
B01181892 Oliver Hardy, comedian, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy.
B02161892 Henry Walter Bates, naturalist and explorer of South America.
B02221892 Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet, in Rockland Maine.
B04031892 Hans Rademacher, German mathematician.
B04061892 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company.
B04061892 Lowell Thomas, journalist.
B05111892 Margaret Rutherford, actress.
B06131892 Basil Rathbone, actor renowned for his Sherlock Holmes.
B06211892 Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian.
B06261892 Pearl Buck, author of "The Good Earth" and "This House Divided".
B07231892 Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74).
B08161892 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant".
B08171892 Mae West, actress.
B09121892 Alfred Abraham Knopf, American publisher.
B11011892 Alexander Alekhine of Russia, world chess champion (1927-46).
B11051892 John Haldane, Scottish scientist.
B01121893 Herman Goering, Nazi field marshal.
B02101893 Jimmy Durante, comedian.
B02121893 Omar Bradley, General of the Army, "The GI General".
B04081893 Mary Pickford, actress.
B04201893 Joan Miro, artist.
B05111893 Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer, in Pittsburgh.
B06091893 Cole Porter, composer, lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate).
B09161893 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungarian biochemist (Nobel 1937).
B10301893 Charles Atlas, Italian-American physical culturist.
B11061893 Edsel Ford, automotive manufacturer.
B11231893 Harpo Marx, actor, of the Marx brothers.
B12121893 Edward G. Robinson, actor, in Bucharest, Romania.
B12261893 Mao Tse-tung, Chinese revolutionary, in Hunan Province.
B02141894 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny. Comedian.
B04171894 Nikita S Khrushchev, Soviet leader (1953-64).
B05271894 Dashiell Hammett, American author.
B06231894 Duke of Windsor (King Edward VIII of England, briefly in 1936).
B06251894 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics.
B07261894 Aldous Huxley, English author of Brave New World.
B09151894 Jean Renoir, son of August Renoir and film director.
B10141894 E. E. Cummings, poet.
B11051894 Eugen Zádor, Hungarian/American composer - Bátaszék, Hungary.
B11261894 Norbert Wiener, inventor of cybernetics.
B11301894 Ture Rangström, Swedish composer - Stockholm, Sweden.
B12081894 James (Grover) Thurber, author, in Columbus, Ohio.
B01011895 J. Edgar Hoover, first director of the FBI.
B01051895 Jeannette Piccard, balloonist, Episcopal priest.
B02011895 John Ford, film maker.
B04261895 Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy Fuerher.
B05061895 Rudolph Valentino, silent screen actor.
B06101895 Immanuel Velikovsky, pseudo-science writer, (Worlds in Collision).
B06241895 Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26).
B07121895 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.
B07121895 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers.
B09291895 Joseph Rhine, parapsychologist.
B10021895 Groucho Marx, comedian.
B10041895 Buster Keaton, film comedian.
B10081895 Juan Per˘n, president of Argentina (1946-55, 1973-74).
B11101895 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer.
B11161895 Paul Hindemith, German composer - Hanau, Germany.
B11251895 Wilhelm Kempff, German Pianist - Juterbog, Germany.
B11281895 José Iturbi, Spanish pianist - Valencia, Spain.
B11291895 William V. S. Tubman, 17th Liberian president (1943-70).
B01201896 George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum), comedian, in New York, NY.
B02181896 Andre Breton, French author and critic.
B04271896 Wallace Hume Carothers, inventor of nylon.
B05261896 Yurii Dmitrievich Sokolov, Russian mathematician.
B06071896 Robert Mulliken, U.S. chemist, physicist (Nobel 1966).
B07191896 A. J. Cronin, English author.
B09241896 F. Scott Fitzgerald, author.
B10141896 Lillian Gish, silent film and stage actress (Birth of a Nation).
B11061896 Fibber McGee, early radio comedian.
B11141896 Mamie Doud Eisenhower, US First Lady.
B11161896 Lawrence Tibbett, American Baritone - Bakersfield, California.
B11161896 Jim Jordan, radio comic (Fibber McGee of Fibber McGee and Molly).
B11251896 Virgil Thomson, American composer - Kansas City, Missouri.
B01111897 Aldo Leopold, ecological writer.
B04171897 Thornton Wilder, American novelist, playwright (Our Town).
B05271897 John Cockcroft, English physicist.
B06071897 George Szell, conductor.
B06121897 Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, British prime minister (1955-57).
B06221897 Erich Maria Remarque, German-American novelist.
B09251897 William Faulkner, American author.
B10081897 Rouben Mamoulian, movie director.
B02101898 Bertolt Brecht, German poet and playwright.
B05031898 Golda Meir, Israeli leader.
B06051898 Federico Garcˇa Lorca, Spanish poet and dramatist.
B06181898 M. C. Escher, artist.
B06261898 Willi Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer, in Frankfort.
B07221898 Steven Vincent Benet, writer (The Devil and Daniel Webster).
B07221898 Alexander Calder, sculptor.
B07241898 Amelia Earhart, pioneer aviator, in Kansas.
B09231898 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Madame Curie, Forbidden Planet).
B09241898 Howard Walter Florey, pathologist.
B09261898 George Gershwin, composer, in Brooklyn, NY.
B10161898 William Orville Douglas, Supreme Court Justice.
B11211898 Rene Magritte, artist.
B11221898 Wiley Post, American aviator, parachutist.
B11291898 C. S. Lewis, author.
B01171899 Al Capone, mobster.
B04231899 Vladimir Nabokov, Russian novelist.
B04241899 Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician.
B04291899 Duke Ellington, American jazz musician.
B05101899 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz), dancer and actor, in Omaha, Nebraska.
B07111899 Yasonari Kawabata, Japanese novelist (Thousand Cranes).
B07111899 E. B. White, writer (Charlotte's Web, The Elements of Style).
B07211899 Ernest Hemingway, author.
B08131899 Alfred Hitchcock, film producer and director.
B08241899 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian author.
B08271899 C. S. Forester, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower.
B09031899 Macfarlane Burnet, Australian immunologist.
B11111899 Pat O'Brien, U.S. actor (Knute Rockne, Angels with Dirty Faces).
B11181899 Eugene Ormandy (Blau), conductor - Budapest, Hungary.
B11221899 Hoagy Carmichael, American actor, songwriter (Stardust, Lazybones).
B12161899 Sir Noel Coward, playwright.
B02221900 Luis Bunuel, film director, in Spain.
B03081900 Howard Aiken, computer pioneer.
B04051900 Spencer Tracy, actor.
B04261900 Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the earthquakes are.
B04271900 Walter Lantz, Woody Woodpecker's creator.
B04281900 Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer, (Oort Cloud).
B05171900 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, political and spiritual leader of Iran.
B06051900 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography).
B06251900 Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma.
B06291900 Antoine St.-Exupery, French aviator and author.
B07041900 Louis Armstrong, "Satchmo", musician.
B08041900 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
B10031900 Thomas Clayton Wolfe, American novelist and playwright.
B10101900 Helen Hayes, actress, in Washington D.C.
B11061900 Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS leader.
B11071900 Efrem Kurtz, Russian/American conductor - St.Petersburg, Russia.
B11141900 Aaron Copland, American composer - Brooklyn, New York.
B11201900 Chester Gould, author of Dick Tracy, in Pawnee, Oklahoma.
B11271900 Leon Barzin, Belgian/American conductor - Brussels, Belgium.
B01021901 Robert Marshall (for whom the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Alaska was named).
B01091901 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip.
B01291901 Allen B. DuMont, perfected first practical cathode ray tube.
B02011901 Clark Gable, actor.
B02251901 Zeppo Marx, actor.
B02281901 Linus Pauling, US Nobel prize winning physicist and chemist.
B04291901 Emperor Hirohito of Japan (1926-1990).
B05071901 Gary Cooper, American actor.
B06181901 Jeanette MacDonald, singer/actress, (Indian Love Call, New Moon).
B06291901 Nelson Eddy, baritone, duets with Jeanette MacDonald, (New Moon).
B08081901 Ernest Orlando Lawrence, US physicist.
B09191901 Joseph Pasternak, film producer.
B09291901 Enrico Fermi, physicist, in Rome.
B11031901 André Malraux, French novelist and art historian.
B11221901 Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer - Sagunto, Valencia, Spain.
B11251901 Tibor Serly, American violinist/composer - Losonc, Hungary.
B12051901 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney, animator and film producer, in Chicago.
B12051901 Werner Heisenberg, developed "uncertainty principle" (Nobel 1932).
B12161901 Margaret Mead, US anthropologist.
B02041902 Charles Augustus. Lindbergh, "Lucky Lindy", aviator, in Detroit.
B02171902 Marion Anderson, American contralto.
B02201902 Ansel Adams, photographer.
B02271902 John Steinbeck, author.
B05101902 David O. Selznick, film producer.
B06161902 Barbara McClintock, U.S. cytogeneticist (Nobel 1983).
B06191902 Guy Lombardo, band leader.
B06281902 Richard Rodgers, composer, (South Pacific, Oklahoma).
B07251902 Eric Hoffer, US longshoreman, author (The True Believer).
B08081902 Paul Dirac, British theoretical physicist.
B08111902 Lloyd Nolan, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place).
B08191902 Ogden Nash, humorist.
B09051902 Darryl F. Zanuck, Hollywood producer and motion picture executive.
B09121902 Margaret Hamilton, actress ("Wicked Witch of the West").
B09281902 Ed Sullivan, TV variety show host.
B10051902 Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's fast food restaurants.
B10251902 Henry Steele Commager, historian.
B10281902 Elsa Lanchester, actress, "The Bride of Frankenstein".
B11011902 Eugen Jochum, German conductor - Babenhausen, Bavaria.
B11071902 Jesús Marˇa Sanromá, Puerto Rican pianist - Carolina, Puerto Rico.
B11221902 Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian/American cellist - Kolomea, Galicia.
B01111903 Alan Paton, South African writer (Cry, the Beloved Country).
B01231903 Randolph Scott, actor.
B01271903 John Eccles, Australian physiologist.
B01311903 Tallulah Bankhead, actress, in Huntsville, Alabama.
B02211903 Anais Nin, French- American author and diarist.
B03111903 Lawrence Welk, bandleader, in North Dakota.
B04061903 Harold Edgerton, foremost high-speed photographer.
B05021903 Dr. Benjamin Spock, pediatrician.
B05291903 Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, comedian.
B06061903 Aram Khachaturian, Russian musician, composer.
B06251903 George Orwell, English satirist, author (Animal Farm).
B06251903 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell), author.
B08071903 Louis Leakey, anthropologist.
B09251903 Mark Rothko, American Painter, in Dvinsk, Russia.
B11071903 Konrad Lorenz, zoologist, ethnologist, writer (Nobel 1973).
B11091903 Gregory Pincus, inventor of the birth control pill.
B11091903 Ward Bond, actor.
B11101903 Clare Booth Luce, journalist and diplomat.
B11271903 Mona Washbourne actress.
B12281903 John von Neumann, mathematician and computer scientist.
B01091904 George Balanchine, dancer-choreographer.
B01101904 Ray Bolger, dancer, actor (the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz).
B01181904 Cary Grant, actor (Arsenic and Old Lace, North by Northwest).
B02011904 Sidney Joseph Perelman, American author.
B02291904 Jimmy Dorsey, musician.
B03021904 Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, writer and illustrator of children's books.
B03201904 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism.
B04031904 Sally Rand, actress, fan dancer.
B04121904 Lily Pons, opera singer.
B04141904 Sir John Gielgud, British actor.
B04221904 J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, nuclear pioneer.
B05021904 Bing Crosby, singer and actor.
B05111904 Salvador Dali, artist.
B06021904 Johnny Weismuller swimmer-actor, the definitive Tarzan.
B06101904 Frederick Loewe, composer.
B06261904 Peter Lorre, actor, (M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers).
B07121904 Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (Residence on Earth) (Nobel 1971).
B09151904 Umberto II, King of Italy (1946).
B10011904 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist.
B10021904 Graham Greene, prolific English novelist (Brighton Rock).
B10241904 Moss Hart, playwright.
B11141904 Marya Mannes, writer.
B11171904 Isamu Noguchi, sculptor.
B11211904 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created tenor saxophone for jazz.
B12201904 Irene Dunne, actress, "Life With Father".
B12271904 Marlene Dietrich, singer and actor.
B01031905 Ray Milland, actor (Dial M for Murder, The Lost Weekend).
B04241905 Robert Penn Warren, American poet Laureate.
B05161905 Henry Fonda, actor.
B06201905 Lillian Hellman, American author and playwright.
B06211905 John Paul Sartre, philosopher, novelist, dramatist, in Paris.
B07251905 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian writer (Nobel 1981).
B07291905 Clara Bow, silent-film actress (It, Saturday Night Kid).
B07291905 Dag Hammarskjold, 2nd UN Secretary General (1953-61) (Nobel 1961).
B09181905 Claudette Colbert, actress, in Paris, (Cleopatra).
B09181905 Greta Garbo, actress, in Stockholm (Ninotchka, Blue Angel).
B10151905 C. P. Snow, British novelist and scientist.
B10231905 Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932.
B10231905 Felix Bloch, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1952).
B11051905 Joel McCrea, actor.
B11191905 Tommy Dorsey, musician, band leader.
B11261905 Emlyn Williams, actor, playwright.
B12241905 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, movie maker, plane builder.
B01111906 Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, discoverer of LSD.
B01151906 Aristotle Onassis, industrialist.
B02081906 Chester F. Carlson, inventor of xerography (Xeroxing).
B06031906 Josephine Baker, dancer, singer.
B06221906 Billy Wilder, film director.
B07021906 Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker.
B07181906 S. I. Hayakawa, educator, politician.
B07181906 Clifford Odets, dramatist.
B08051906 John Houston, film maker.
B08191906 Philo T. Farnsworth, co-inventor of television.
B08211906 Count Basie, jazz pianist and bandleader.
B11041906 Bob Considine, sports columnist.
B11061906 Francis Lederer, actor.
B11131906 Hermione Baddeley, actress.
B11141906 Louise Brooks, silent screen star (American Venus, Pandora's Box).
B12021906 Carl Goldmark, US inventor of the LP record.
B12021906 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed colour TV and LP records.
B12091906 Grace Murray Hopper, computer innovator.
B01121907 Tex Ritter, western folk singer.
B02211907 W. H. Auden, English-American author.
B03201907 Ozzie Nelson, American TV star.
B05131907 Daphne du Maurier, English novelist.
B05221907 Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, in Dorking, London.
B05261907 John Wayne, actor.
B05271907 Rachel Carson, environmental author.
B06011907 Nicolas Carnot, French founder of thermodynamics.
B06111907 Paul Mellon, philanthropist.
B06221907 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American aviator/author.
B06251907 J. H. D. Jensen, German physicist (atomic nuclei) (Nobel 1963).
B07071907 Robert A. Heinlein, Science Fiction writer.
B07161907 Barbara Stanwyck, actress.
B07281907 Earl S. Tupper, inventor of Tupperware.
B09031907 Andrew Brewin, Canadian lawyer, co founder of New Democratic Party.
B09101907 Fay Wray, actress, in Alberta Canada. King Kong fell for her.
B11091907 Burrill Phillips, American composer - Omaha, Nebraska.
B11211907 Jim Bishop, author.
B11291907 Merle Travis, U.S. country singer (Sixteen Tons).
B12251907 Cab Calloway, bandleader.
B01091908 Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist and author (The Mandarins, The Second Sex).
B01151908 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb.
B01161908 Ethel Merman, actress and singer.
B02171908 "Red" Barber, pioneering sportscaster.
B03051908 Rex Harrison, actor (Professor Henry Higgins from "My Fair Lady").
B03231908 Joan Crawford, actress.
B04021908 Buddy Ebsen, dancer and vaudeville actor.
B04051908 Bette Davis, actress, (Jezebel).
B04051908 Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic conductor.
B04221908 Eddie Albert, actor.
B04251908 Edward R. Murrow, American broadcast journalist.
B05201908 James Stewart, actor, home-town boy (It's a Wonderful Life).
B05281908 Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond books.
B05301908 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny and many others, in San Francisco.
B06251908 Willard Van Orman Quine, US mathematician and logical philosopher.
B07121908 Milton Berle, "Uncle Miltie", entertainer.
B08271908 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th US President (1963-1969).
B08281908 Roger Tory Peterson, bird lover and naturalist author.
B09041908 Richard Wright, American author (Native Son).
B09071908 Dr. Michael E. De Bakey, artificial heart pioneer.
B09291908 Greer Garson, actress.
B10051908 Joshua Logan, Broadway producer.
B10151908 John Kenneth Galbraith, economist.
B11121908 Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court justice.
B11141908 Harrison E. Salisbury, journalist, writer.
B11161908 Burgess Meredith, actor.
B11181908 Imogene Coca in Phila, actress (Your Show of Shows).
B11201908 Alistair Cooke, author.
B12171908 Willard Libby, chemist, discoverer of carbon dating Grand Valley, Colorado.
B01031909 Victor Borge, pianist, comedian, Denmark.
B02181909 Wallace Stegner, ecological author.
B03241909 Clyde Barrow (Bonnie and Clyde), criminal.
B05011909 Kate Smith, singer.
B05071909 Edwin H. Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid).
B05101909 Mother Maybelle Carter, American country singer.
B05151909 James Mason, actor.
B05301909 Benny Goodman, band leader.
B06141909 Burl Ives, American folk singer.
B06191909 Osamu Dazai, Japanese novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human).
B06201909 Errol Flynn, Tasmanian actor (Robin Hood, Dodge City).
B06241909 William Penney, British physicist.
B07051909 Andrei Gromyko, diplomat.
B07301909 C. Northcote Parkinson, naval historian.
B11031909 James Reston, columnist (NY Times).
B11041909 Ciro Alegrˇa, Peruvian novelist (Golden Serpent).
B11081909 Katherine Hepburn, actress.
B12091909 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, actor, (Prisoner of Zenda).
B01101910 Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina.
B03011910 David Niven, actor.
B05231910 Artie Shaw, band leader and husband.
B06111910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, explorer, captain of the "Calypso".
B10191910 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian physicist (Nobel 1983).
B01071911 Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone with the Wind).
B02061911 Ronald Reagan, 40th US President.
B03031911 Jean Harlow, "the blonde bombshell," American actress.
B04171911 Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion (1948-63), USSR.
B05271911 Hubert H. Humphrey, politician.
B06031911 Paulette Goddard, actress.
B06231911 David Ogilvy advertising whiz.
B06301911 Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-American writer (Nobel 1980).
B07161911 Ginger Rogers, danced beautifully with Fred Astaire.
B07181911 Hume Cronyn, stage actor.
B07211911 Marshall McLuhan, writer (The Medium is the Massage).
B08061911 Lucille (Lucy) Ball, actress and comedienne.
B08121911 Mario Moreno, alias Cantinflas.
B09291911 Gene Autry, cowboy and actor.
B10201911 Will Rogers, Jr., actor, storyteller.
B11021911 Odysseus Elytis, Greek poet (Nobel 1979).
B11031911 Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky, American composer - Hailer, Manchuria.
B01081912 Jose Ferrer, actor, director (Cyrano de Bergerac).
B02271912 Lawrence Durrell, English author.
B03141912 Les Brown, band leader.
B03231912 Werner von Braun, German-born US rocket engineer.
B03261912 Tennessee Williams, American playwright.
B04081912 Sonja Henie, ice skater, in Oslo Norway.
B04301912 Eve Arden, actress.
B05161912 Studs Terkel, author.
B05181912 Perry Como, singer.
B06231912 Alan Mathison Turing, English mathematician, computer pioneer and code-breaker.
B07141912 Woodrow Wilson (Woody) Guthrie, folk singer.
B07311912 Milton Friedman, economist.
B08151912 Julia Child, US chef.
B08231912 Gene Kelly, dancer and actor.
B10211912 Sir Georg Solti, conductor.
B11051912 Roy Rogers, actor and singer, in Cincinnati, OH.
B11261912 Eugčne Ionesco, French dramatist (Rhinoceros).
B11261912 Eric Sevareid, US newscaster.
B11271912 David Merrick, Broadway producer.
B11301912 Gordon Parks, film director.
B12011912 Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (World Trade Center, NY).
B01061913 Loretta Young, actress.
B01091913 Richard M. Nixon, 37th US President (1968-1974).
B01181913 Danny Kaye, comedian, actor, UNICEF.
B05161913 Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist and band-leader.
B05201913 William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co.
B06261913 Maurice Wilkes, inventor of stored program concept for computers.
B07141913 Gerald R. Ford, 38th US President (1974-1976).
B07181913 Red Skelton, humorist.
B08251913 Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo comic strip.
B08311913 Bernard Lovell, British astronomer.
B09031913 Alan Ladd, actor.
B09071913 Anthony Quayle, actor (Anne of 1000 Days, Lawrence of Arabia).
B09121913 Jesse Owens, Gold medal winner at 1936 Olympic games, in Berlin.
B11021913 Burt Lancaster, actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry).
B11051913 Vivien Leigh, actress (Gone With the Wind).
B11221913 Sir Benjamin Britten, English composer - Lowestoft, Suffolk.
B12011913 Mary Martin, actress/singer (Peter Pan, South Pacific).
B12181913 Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74) (Nobel).
B12221913 Lady Bird Johnson, wife of US President and Texas environmental proponent.
B01061914 Danny Thomas, actor and comedian.
B02091914 Ernest Tubb, American country music star.
B04021914 Sir Alec Guiness, actor.
B05071914 Johannes de Groot, Dutch mathematician who worked in topology and group theory.
B05131914 Joe Louis, heavyweight boxer, in Lexington Alabama.
B05191914 Max Perutz, Austrian-born British molecular biologist.
B06171914 John Hersey, author (Hiroshima, A Bell for Adano).
B07101914 Joseph Shuster, co-creator of Superman.
B09071914 James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts.
B09141914 Clayton Moore, actor who played the Lone Ranger.
B09161914 Allen Funt "Candid Camera" creator, in Brooklyn, NY.
B10061914 Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist, explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku).
B10211914 Martin Gardner, Scientific American math and puzzles columnist.
B10271914 Dylan Marlais Thomas, Welsh romantic poet (A Child's Christmas in Wales, Under Milkwood).
B10281914 Dr. Jonas Salk, who made polio a fear of the past.
B10281914 Jonas Salk, US microbiologist.
B11111914 Howard Fast, screenwriter.
B11151914 Jorge Bolet, Cuban/American pianist - Havana, Cuba.
B11201914 Emilio Pucci, fashion designer.
B11251914 Joe DiMaggio, baseball player.
B12021914 Ray Walston, actor, (South Pacific, The Sting).
B02281915 Peter Medawar, English immunologist.
B04071915 Billie Holiday, blues singer.
B05061915 Orson Welles, American actor.
B05201915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician.
B06121915 David Rockefeller, banker.
B06241915 Fred Hoyle, cosmologist, proposed steady-state universe theory.
B07101915 Saul Bellow, US novelist (Herzog, Dangling Man) (Nobel 1976).
B10171915 Arthur Miller, American playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible).
B11091915 Hedy Lamarr, actress (Algiers, Ecstasy).
B11261915 Earl Wild, American pianist - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
B11301915 Henry Taube, chemist (Nobel 1983).
B12121915 Frank Sinatra, singer.
B04171916 Sirimavo Bandaranaike, world's first woman PM (Sri Lanka).
B04221916 Yehudi Menuhin, violinist.
B04261916 Morris West, Australian novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman).
B06081916 Francis Crick, co discoverer of DNA structure, (Nobel 1962).
B06241916 John Ciardi, poet, critic, translator of Dante.
B07011916 Olivia DeHaviland, actress, in Tokyo, (Robin Hood).
B07041916 Tokyo Rose, radio personality.
B10261916 Francois Mitterrand, French President.
B11041916 Walter Cronkite, CBS newsman.
B11081916 Peter Weiss, German dramatist, novelist (Marat/Sade).
B11101916 Guido Turchi, Italian composer, Rome, Italy.
B11131916 Jack Elam, American actor.
B11201916 Robert A. Bruce, pioneer in exercise cardiology.
B04261917 I. M. Pei, architect.
B05291917 John F. Kennedy, 35th US President (1960-1963).
B06081917 Byron "Whizzer" White, football star, U.S. Supreme Court justice.
B06301917 Lena Horne, entertainer.
B07121917 Andrew Wyeth, artist and illustrator.
B07171917 Phyllis Diller, comedian, in Lima, OH.
B08061917 Robert Mitchum, actor, "Heaven Knows Mr. Allison".
B10151917 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian.
B10211917 Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter.
B11191917 Indira Gandhi, Indian prime minister (1966-77, 1980-84).
B11281917 "Buffalo" Bob Smith, children's entertainer.
B12161917 Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author, in Somerset.
B01151918 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian leader.
B03091918 Mickey Spillane, novelist, in Brooklyn.
B03101918 Heywood Hale Broun, American journalist.
B05191918 Mike Wallace, US TV journalist.
B06081918 Robert Preston, actor (The Music Man, Victor Victoria).
B07141918 Ingmar Bergman, film maker (Through a Glass Darkly).
B07141918 Jay Wright Forrester, inventor of the computer magnetic core memory.
B08251918 Leonard Bernstein, conductor and composer.
B09041918 Paul Harvey, radio news commentator.
B10171918 Rita Hayworth, actress and beauty.
B11041918 Art Carney, actor.
B11071918 Billy Graham, evangelist.
B11091918 Howard Shanet, American conductor - Brooklyn, New York.
B11091918 Florence Chadwick, swimmer.
B12091918 Kirk Douglas, actor, (Gunfight At The OK Corral, 7 Days In May).
B12111918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writer, (Cancer Ward), Nobel 1970.
B12251918 Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt.
B01011919 J. D. Salinger, author of "Catcher in the Rye".
B01231919 Ernie Kovacs, American comedian.
B01311919 Jackie Robinson, first black major league baseball player.
B02181919 Jack Palance, actor.
B03171919 Nat King Cole, singer.
B04091919 John Presper Eckert, co inventor of first electronic computer (ENIAC).
B05031919 Pete Seeger, American folk singer.
B05161919 Liberace (Wladzio Valentino), pianist and entertainer.
B05181919 Margot Fonteyn, ballerina.
B06291919 Slim Pickens, actor, (Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles).
B06301919 Susan Hayward, actress.
B07201919 Sir Edmund Hillary, one of first two men to scale Mt. Everest, in New Zealand.
B07311919 Curt Gowdy, national sportscaster.
B08281919 Godfrey Hounsfield, British inventor of the body scanner.
B10181919 Pierre Trudeau, Canadian President.
B10261919 Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran (1941-79).
B11041919 Martin Balsam, actor.
B11141919 Veronica Lake, actress.
B11151919 Joseph Albert Wapner, judge (People's Court).
B11171919 Hershy Kay, American composer/arranger - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
B11191919 Alan Young, English actor.
B11201919 Evelyn Keyes, actress.
B01021920 Isaac Asimov, US biochemist and science-fiction writer.
B01201920 DeForest Kelley, actor (Dr. McCoy, in Star Trek), in Atlanta, Georgia.
B01201920 Federico Fellini, film director, in Italy.
B02081920 Lana Turner, actress.
B03141920 Hank Ketcham, cartoonist who penned Dennis the Menace.
B04061920 James Watson, collaborator, in the discovery of the form of DNA, in Chicago.
B05111920 Denver Pyle, actor.
B05221920 Thomas Gold, astronomer, established the steady-state theory of the universe.
B06161920 John Howard Griffin, American photographer, author (Black Like Me).
B07101920 Owen Chamberlain, co discoverer of the antiproton (Nobel 1959).
B07111920 Yul Brynner, actor (The King and I, The Ten Commandments).
B07211920 Isaac Stern, violinist.
B08221920 Ray Bradbury, US science fiction author.
B08261920 Charlie Parker, jazz guitarist.
B09041920 Craig Claiborne, gastronome.
B09231920 Mickey Rooney, actor.
B10081920 Frank Herbert, science-fiction writer (Dune).
B11021920 Ann Rutherford, actress.
B11211920 Ralph Meeker, actor (Anderson Tapes, Night Stalker).
B11251920 Richardo Montalban, actor.
B01041921 Elizabeth Ann Seton, first American Catholic saint, in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
B02141921 Hugh Downs, TV personality.
B05121921 Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf author.
B06101921 Prince Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh.
B06211921 Jane Russell, actress, in Bemidji Minnesota, (Outlaw).
B08061921 Ella Raines, actress.
B08111921 Alex Haley, American author (Roots).
B09121921 Stanislaw Lem, Polish science-fiction writer.
B09241921 Jim McKay, sportscaster.
B09301921 Deborah Kerr, actress (King and I, Night of Iguana) in Helensburg Scotland.
B10151921 Mario Puzo, author (Godfather).
B11061921 James Jones, author.
B11101921 Chuck Connors, actor.
B11141921 Brian Keith, actor.
B11271921 Alexander Dubcek, head of Czech Communist Party (1968-69).
B01281922 Robert Holley, American biochemist, worked with RNA (Nobel 1968).
B02061922 Patrick Macnee, actor.
B02181922 Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmo editor.
B03121922 Jack (Jean-Louis) Kerouac, Canadian-American author.
B04041922 Elmer Bernstein, movie music composer.
B06101922 Judy Garland, actress and singer.
B06191922 Aage "Nils" Bohr, Danish atomic physicist, (Nobel 1975).
B07071922 Pierre Cardin, fashion designer.
B08081922 Rudi Gernreich, designed the topless swimsuit and the miniskirt.
B09081922 Sid Caesar, comedian.
B09221922 Chen Ning Yang, Chinese physicist, disproved parity (Nobel 1957).
B10291922 Bill Mauldin, cartoonist, best known for "Willie and Joe".
B11031922 Charles Bronson actor.
B11081922 Dr. Christiaan Barnard, performed first human heart transplantation.
B11081922 Christiaan Barnard, South African heart transplant pioneer.
B11111922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr, author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan).
B11121922 Kim Hunter, actress.
B11131922 Madeleine Sherwood actress.
B11131922 Oskar Werner, film actor, director.
B11221922 Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, Azerbaijani composer - Kirovabad, Russia.
B11261922 Charles M. Schultz, creator of Peanuts cartoon strip, in Minneapolis.
B12281922 Stan Lee (Stanley Martin Lieber), editor and publisher for Marvel Comics.
B01301923 Carol Channing, actress.
B01311923 Normal Mailer, novelist, NYC mayoral candidate (Naked and the Dead).
B03221923 Marcel Marceau, mime and actor, in Strasbourg.
B05011923 Joseph Heller, American author.
B06091923 Les Paul (Lester Polfus), guitarist, in Waukesha, WI.
B08081923 Esther Williams, actress, swimmer in Inglewood Cal.
B09031923 Mort Walker, cartoonist and originator of Beetle Bailey.
B09051923 Arthur C. Nielsen, market researcher.
B09151923 Hank Williams, country-western music singer.
B09281923 William Windom, actor.
B11131923 Linda Christian in Mexico.
B11181923 Alan B. Shepard, Jr., first American in space (Freedom 7, Apollo 14).
B11201923 Nadine Gordimer, South African writer (Lying Days).
B11211923 Vivian Blaine, actress (Guys and Dolls).
B11301923 Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., actor (77 Sunset Strip).
B12021923 Maria Callas, opera singer.
B01061924 Earl Scruggs, bluegrass musical performer.
B01211924 Telly Savalas, actor.
B02201924 Sidney Poitier, actor.
B02201924 Gloria Vanderbilt, fashion designer.
B03271924 Sarah Vaughn, American singer.
B04031924 Marlon Brando, actor (Godfather).
B04161924 Henry Mancini, popular song writer.
B06121924 George Herbert Walker Bush, 44th President of the US.
B06201924 Audie Murphy, war hero, actor.
B08031924 Leon Uris, writer (Exodus, QB VII).
B09011924 Rocky Marciano, boxer.
B09161924 Lauren Bacall, actress, in New York City.
B09281924 Marcello Mastroianni, actor (8, La Dolce Vita).
B09301924 Truman Capote, a short short story writer.
B10011924 Jimmy Carter, 39th US President (1976-1980).
B11141924 Leonid Kogan, Russian Violinist - Dnepropetrovsk, Russia.
B11301924 Allan Sherman, comedian.
B12031924 John Backus, inventor of FORTRAN computer language.
B01061925 John DeLorean, auto maker and entrepreneur.
B01071925 Gerald Durrell, British author and naturalist.
B01211925 Benny Hill, English comedian.
B01261925 Paul Newman, actor, in Cleveland, Ohio.
B02081925 Jack Lemmon, actor.
B02171925 Hal Holbrook, actor.
B02201925 Robert Altman, movie director.
B02221925 Edward Gorey, slightly morbid cartoonist.
B03121925 Ann Zwinger, American ecological author.
B03261925 Pierre Boulez, French composer.
B04251925 Albert King, blues guitarist.
B05121925 Lawrence Peter (Yogi) Berra, baseball great.
B06031925 Tony Curtis, actor, in New York.
B06061925 Walter Percy Chrysler, auto maker, inspiration for Lee Iacocca.
B06081925 Barbara Bush, US First Lady.
B06261925 Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut, (Voskhod 2).
B09091925 Cliff Robertson, actor (Charly).
B09161925 B. B. King, blues singer, in Itta Bena, MS.
B09281925 Seymour Cray, inventor of Cray I computer.
B10131925 Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady, British Prime Minister (1979-1990).
B10131925 Lenny Bruce, comedian, in New York City.
B10231925 Johnny Carson, TV personality.
B10291925 Klaus Friedrich Roth, German mathematician.
B11101925 Richard Burton, Welsh actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf).
B11111925 Jonathan Winters, comedian.
B11171925 Rock Hudson, actor, in Winnetka, Ill, (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms).
B11171925 Sir Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor - Schenectady, N.Y.
B11201925 Maya Plisetkaya, prima ballerina.
B11201925 Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney General and Senator.
B11221925 Gunther Schuller, American Hornist and composer - New York, N.Y.
B11261925 Eugene Istomin, American pianist - New York, New York.
B12081925 Sammy Davis Jr., entertainer, in New York, New York.
B12131925 Dick Van Dyke, entertainer.
B02161926 John Schlesinger, movie director.
B04211926 Queen Elizabeth II.
B05081926 Don Rickles, comedian.
B05081926 Sir David Attenborough, environmentalist.
B05081926 David Attenborough, English naturalist and broadcaster.
B05131926 Beatrice Authur, actress.
B05251926 Miles Davis, trumpeter, pioneered cool jazz.
B06011926 Marilyn Monroe, actress and beauty.
B06011926 Andy Griffith, actor.
B06031926 Allen Ginsberg, poet.
B06041926 Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human (486 kg).
B07051926 Jan˘s Starker, Hungarian cellist.
B07061926 Nancy Reagan, wife of former US President Reagan.
B08031926 Tony Bennett, singer.
B08131926 Fidel Castro, Cuban leader.
B08141926 Alice Ghostley, actress.
B09231926 John Coltrane, saxophonist.
B11071926 Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano - Sydney, Australia.
B11201926 Kaye Ballard, actress-comedian, in Ohio.
B02101927 Leontyne Price, opera singer.
B03311927 Cesar Chavez, farm labour organizer.
B04271927 Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist.
B05111927 Mort Sahl, satirist and actor, in Montreal, Canada.
B05251927 Robert Ludlum, author.
B06231927 Bob Fosse, choreographer, director (Cabaret, Damn Yankees).
B06271927 Bob Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo ("Good Morning Captain!").
B08091927 Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence computer scientist (MIT).
B08181927 Rosalynn Carter, former US First Lady.
B08251927 Althea Gibson, first black tennis champion (in a major event).
B09101927 Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer.
B10161927 Gunter Grass, German novelist, poet (The Tin Drum).
B10171927 Tom Poston, actor.
B10181927 George C. Scott, actor (Patton).
B11081927 Patti Page, singer, in Claremont Oklahoma.
B11141927 Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist - Lorca, Spain.
B11201927 Estelle Parsons, actress (Rachel, Rachel, Bonnie and Clyde).
B11291927 Vin Scully, sportscaster.
B11301927 Richard Crenna, actor.
B12081927 Vladimir A. Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10).
B03041928 Patrick Moore, English astronomer.
B04071928 James Garner, actor, in Norman, Oklahoma.
B04231928 Shirley Temple Black, child actress and U.S. ambassador.
B05231928 Rosemary Clooney, singer.
B06101928 Maurice Sendak, children's author, illustrator, set designer.
B06141928 Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Latin American guerrilla leader and revolutionary, in Argentina.
B07261928 Stanley Kubrick, film director (2001, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange).
B09171928 Roddy McDowall, actor (Planet of the Apes).
B11141928 Leonie Rysanek, dramatic soprano.
B12071928 Noam Chomsky, linguist.
B01151929 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer (Nobel Peace Prize 1964).
B01261929 Jules Feiffer, satiric cartoonist.
B02271929 Elizabeth Taylor, actress.
B05041929 Audrey Hepburn, actress, in Brussels.
B05251929 Beverly "Bubbles" Sills, opera singer.
B06101929 James A. McDivitt, U.S. astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9).
B06121929 Anne Frank, whose World War II diary was so famous.
B07281929 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former wife of US President Kennedy.
B09051929 Bob Newhart, comedian and actor.
B09051929 Andrian G. Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 3, Soyuz 9).
B09151929 Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks.
B11011929 Betsy Palmer in E Chicago Illinois, actress.
B11021929 Harold Farberman, American conductor/composer - New York, New York.
B11121929 Grace Kelly, actress and Princess of Monaco.
B11141929 McLean Stevenson, actor (TV's M*A*S*H).
B11151929 Ed Asner, actor (Lou Grant).
B11181929 William (Pete) Knight, X-15 pilot.
B11201929 Kenneth DeWitt Schermerhorn, American conductor - Schenectady,N.Y.
B11301929 Dick Clark, US host of "American Bandstand".
B01201930 Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, American astronaut, in New Jersey.
B01271930 Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland), blues singer, in TN.
B03241930 Steve McQueen, actor, "Bullitt".
B06021930 Charles Conrad Jr., astronaut (Gemini 5,11, Apollo 12, Skylab 2).
B06271930 H. Ross Perot, billionaire.
B08051930 Neil Armstrong, X-15 pilot, US astronaut, the first man on the moon.
B08081930 Andy Warhol, artist, movie producer.
B08211930 Princess Margaret Rose, sister of Queen Elizabeth II.
B08251930 Sean Connery, actor most famous for his roles as James Bond, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
B09171930 Thomas P Stafford, astronaut (Gemini 6, 9, Apollo 10).
B09171930 Edgar Dean Mitchell, astronaut (Apollo 14).
B09231930 Ray Charles, singer.
B09241930 John W Young, astronaut (Gemini 3, 10, Apollo 10, 16, STS-1, 9).
B10311930 Michael Collins, US astronaut.
B11031930 William H. Dana, X-15 pilot.
B11141930 Edward H. White II, astronaut (Gemini 4).
B11171930 David Amram, American composer - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
B11171930 Bob Mathias Olympian-turned-politician.
B11221930 Owen K. Garriott, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-9).
B12031930 Jean-Luc Godard, film maker.
B12241930 Robert Joffrey, Choreographer.
B02081931 James Dean, American actor.
B03221931 William Shatner, actor (Captain Kirk of Star Trek), in Montreal,Quebec.
B09301931 Angie Dickinson, actress.
B11081931 Morley Safer, TV newscaster (60 Minutes).
B11301931 Günther Herbig, conductor, Usti-nad-Labem, Czechoslovakia.
B12111931 Rita Moreno, actress (West Side Story), in Puerto Rico.
B03181932 John Updike, poet and novelist.
B04191932 Jayne Mansfield, American actress.
B06061932 David R. Scott, U.S. astronaut (Gemini 8, Apollo 9, 15).
B06241932 David McTaggart, co founder of Greenpeace.
B11061932 Mike Nichols, stage and film director.
B11131932 Richard Mulligan, actor.
B11151932 Petula Clark, singer, in England.
B01181933 David Bellamy, English botanist.
B01251933 Corazon Aquino, president of Philippines.
B03141933 Michael Caine, actor.
B04261933 Carol Burnett, comedian, in San Antonio, TX.
B04301933 Willie Nelson, country/western singer.
B06191933 Viktor I. Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11).
B07181933 Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (Bratsk Station).
B08011933 Dom DeLuise, actor and comedian.
B10271933 Gerald M. Weinberg, computer scientist-author.
B11031933 Ken Berry, actor, dancer, TV personality.
B11101933 Ronald E. Evans, astronaut (Apollo 17).
B11141933 Fred Haise, astronaut (Apollo 13).
B11191933 Larry King, radio talk show host.
B11211933 Henry W. (Hank) Hartsfield, U.S. astronaut.
B11231933 Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer - Debica, Poland.
B11261933 Robert Goulet, singer, in Canada.
B11281933 Hope Lange, actress.
B11291933 John Mayall, blues singer, in Cheshire, England.
B11291933 David Reuben, physician/Writer.
B02141934 Florence Henderson, actress and singer.
B03091934 Yuri Gagarin, Soviet astronaut, first man in space.
B06051934 Bill Moyers, broadcast journalist.
B06271934 Anna Moffo, soprano.
B06301934 Harry Blackstone Jr, magician.
B07121934 Van Cliburn, pianist.
B07171934 Donald Sutherland, actor (M*A*S*H).
B08231934 Barbara Eden, actress.
B09201934 Sophia Loren, actress, in Rome, Italy.
B09211934 Leonard Cohen, in Montreal.
B09281934 Brigitte Bardot, French beauty and actress.
B11091934 Carl Sagan, US astronomer, author (Cosmos, Broca's Brain).
B11121934 Charles Manson, crazed murderer.
B11131934 Garry Marshall, producer.
B11151934 Joanna Barnes, actress.
B01071935 Valeri N. Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 36, Apollo-Soyuz).
B01081935 Elvis Presley, singer.
B01091935 Bob Denver, actor played Gilligan on "Gilligan's Island".
B01221935 Sam Cooke, soul singer, in Chicago.
B04141935 Loretta Lynn, country singer.
B06061935 Dalai Lama, Tibetan religious leader.
B06111935 Gene Wilder, actor.
B06211935 Francoise Sagan, French novelist.
B07171935 P. D. Q. Bach (Peter Schickele), composer.
B08161935 Julie Newmar, Scandinavian actress.
B09011935 Seiji Ozawa, conductor.
B09111935 Ken Kesey, American author.
B09111935 Gherman Titov, first man to spend a day in space (Vostok 2).
B10011935 Julie Andrews, actress and singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins).
B10121935 Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer.
B11011935 Gary Player, South African golfer.
B11141935 Hussein I, King of Jordan.
B11231935 Vladislav N. Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11).
B11261935 Marian Mercer actress-singer.
B12011935 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg), actor, in Brooklyn, NY.
B05231936 Joan Collins, actress and sex symbol, in London.
B05251936 Tom T. Hall, country singer.
B08011936 Yves St. Laurent, fashion designer.
B09071936 Buddy Holly, rock singer Charles Hardin Holley, in Lubbock, Texas.
B09241936 Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, in Greenville, Mississippi.
B11071936 Gwyneth Jones, Welsh Soprano, Pontnewyndd, Wales.
B11081936 Edward G. Gibson, astronaut (Skylab 4).
B11091936 Mary Travers in Louisville Ky (Peter Paul and Mary).
B11091936 Mikhail N. Tal, world chess champion (1960-61), USSR.
B11191936 Dick Cavett, US TV talk show host.
B11211936 James De Priest, American conductor - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
B01041937 Dyan Cannon, actress, in Tacomahington.
B01301937 Vanessa Redgrave, actress and activist.
B02011937 Don Everly, singer, of the Everly Brothers.
B03061937 Valentina Tereshkova, first woman Soviet cosmonaut.
B03301937 Warren Beatty, actor.
B04221937 Jack Nicholson, actor.
B06151937 Waylon Jennings, American country singer.
B07061937 Vladimir Ashkenazy, concert pianist.
B07121937 Bill Cosby, comedian.
B08081937 Dustin Hoffman, actor, in Los Angeles.
B08181937 Robert Redford, actor.
B09111937 Robert L. Crippen, astronaut.
B11041937 Loretta Swit, actress.
B11121937 Richard H. Truly, U.S. astronaut (STS-2, 8).
B11171937 Peter Cook, British actor, comedian.
B11201937 Ruth Laredo (née Meckler), American pianist - Detroit, Michigan.
B11261937 Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (Voskhod 1).
B11271937 Gail Sheehy, writer.
B01311938 Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, Queen of Netherlands.
B04221938 Glen Campbell, singer.
B07201938 Natalie Wood, actress, in San Francisco.
B07291938 Peter Jennings, national US news anchorman.
B09141938 Nicol Williamson, actor.
B10171938 Robert "Evel" Knievel, motorcycle daredevil.
B11021938 Patrick Buchanan, political columnist.
B11171938 Gordon Lightfoot, folk-singer.
B11191938 Ted Turner, broadcasting mogul.
B11261938 Rich Little, impressionist, in Canada.
B01191939 Phil Everly, singer (of the Everly Brothers).
B03261939 Leonard Nimoy, US actor who played Mr Spock in the TV series Star Trek.
B10271939 John Cleese, actor and comedian of Monty Python.
B10301939 Grace Slick, rock singer, in Chicago.
B11011939 Barbara Bossom, actress, in Penn (Hill St Blues).
B11091939 Michael Learned, actress.
B11121939 Lucia Popp, Czech soprano - Uhorská Ves, Czechoslovakia.
B11141939 Wendy (Walter) Carlos, American composer - Pawtucket, R.I.
B11201939 Dick Smothers, comedian.
B11251939 Martin Feldstein, economist.
B11301939 Walter Weller, Austrian conductor - Vienna, Austria.
B12161939 Liv Ullmann, actress.
B02061940 Tom Brokaw, television newsman.
B02101940 Roberta Flack, singer.
B07071940 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), drummer ("The Beatles"), in Liverpool, England.
B08221940 Valerie Harper, actress.
B09051940 Raquel Welch, actress and beauty, in Chicago Ill.
B09111940 Brian De Palma, director (Dressed to Kill).
B10091940 John Lennon, singer songwriter and member "The Beatles", in Liverpool, England.
B10231940 Edison Pele, Brazilian soccer player extraordinaire.
B11151940 Sam Waterston, actor.
B11211940 Natalia Maskarova, ballerina, in Leningrad.
B11291940 Chuck Mangione, jazz musician, composer.
B12211940 Frank Zappa, musician and song writer, in Baltimore.
B01091941 Joan Baez, folk singer, human rights advocate in Staten Island.
B01121941 "Long" John Baldry, in London.
B01211941 Placido Domingo, operatic tenor.
B02091941 Carole King, American singer, in Brooklyn.
B02201941 Buffy Sainte-Marie, singer, songwriter.
B04281941 Ann-Margaret, actress and beauty, in Stockholm, Sweden.
B05241941 Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman), folk singer, in Duluth.
B06151941 Harry Nilsson, singer-songwriter, in Brooklyn.
B07011941 Twyla Tharp, choreographer.
B08141941 David Crosby, singer, in Los Angeles.
B09151941 Miroslaw Hermaszewski, first Polish space traveler (Soyuz 30).
B10031941 Chubby Checker, singer.
B11021941 David Hemmings, English actor.
B11131941 Dack Rambo, actor.
B11191941 Dan Haggerty, actor (Grizzly Adams).
B11201941 Gary Karr, American double-bassist - Los Angeles, California.
B11211941 Juliet Mills, actress, in London England.
B11271941 Eddie Rabbitt, singer.
B01071942 Vasili Alexeyev, world champion weight-lifter.
B01081942 Stephen Hawking, English physicist and mathematician.
B01171942 Muhammed Ali, boxer (who "floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee").
B03161942 Jerry Jeff Walker, American country singer.
B03171942 Paul Kantner, musician (Jefferson Airplane), San Francisco.
B04111942 Anatoli Berezovoi, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5).
B04141942 Julie Christie, actress, in Chukur, India.
B04241942 Barbara Streisand, singer and actress.
B06181942 Paul McCartney, musician, in Liverpool, England.
B08011942 Jerry Garcia, rock musician.
B08071942 Garrison Keillor, US radio personality.
B08231942 Patricia McBride, ballet dancer.
B10151942 Penny Marshall, actress/director, (Awakenings).
B10221942 Annette Funicello, actress and Mouseketeer, in Utica NY.
B10231942 Michael Crichton, author (Andromeda Strain).
B11011942 Larry Flint, publisher (Hustler).
B11021942 Shere Hite, sex therapist.
B11051942 Elke Sommer, actress in Berlin Germany.
B11121942 Stefanie Powers, actress, in Hollywood Cal (Hart to Hart).
B11151942 Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian Pianist/conductor - Buenos Aires.
B11171942 Martin Scorsese, director (Mean Streets, NY, NY).
B11181942 Jeffrey Siegel, American Pianist - Chicago, Illinois.
B11191942 Calvin Klein, clothes designer.
B11271942 Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix), rock guitarist, in Seattle.
B01101943 Jim Croce, singer, in Phildelphia.
B02251943 George Harrison, of the Beatles, in Liverpool, England.
B03091943 Bobby Fischer, US chess champion.
B03251943 Aretha Franklin, in Detroit.
B05081943 Toni Tennille, singer.
B07261943 Mick Jagger, singer, in Kent, England.
B09031943 Valerie Perrine, actress, in Galveston, Texas.
B09291943 Lech Walesa, leader of Polish Solidarity movement (Nobel 1983).
B10051943 Steve Miller, singer-musician, in Dallas.
B11051943 Sam Shepard, American playwright.
B11171943 Lauren Hutton, model, actress (American Gigolo, Lassiter), in SC.
B11201943 Veronica Hamill, actress (Hill Street Blues), Phila.
B11211943 Larry Mahan, rodeo champ.
B11211943 Marlo Thomas, actress (That Girl!, Jenny).
B11221943 Billie Jean King, tennis pro Cal.
B11281943 Randy Newman, singer (Raindrops).
B12081943 Jim Morrison, rock singer, in Melbourne, FL.
B12181943 Keith Richards, rock star.
B12311943 John Denver, song writer and singer, in Roswell, NM.
B01261944 Angela Yvonne Davis, black activist/professor.
B05141944 George Lucas, film director/producer.
B06241944 Jeff Beck, musician, in Surrey, England.
B09141944 Joey Heatherton, actress and singer.
B11171944 Danny DeVito, actor (Taxi, Ruthless People).
B12191944 Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum, US mathematician and physicist.
B12211944 Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor.
B01091945 James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin), musician, in Middlesex, England.
B01101945 Rod Stewart, singer, in Glasgow, Scotland.
B01291945 Tom Selleck, actor (Magnum PI), in Detroit.
B03301945 Eric Clapton, rock musician, in Surrey, England.
B05031945 Bob Seger, singer, in Ann Arbor, MI.
B06251945 Carly Simon, singer, in New York, NY.
B08051945 Loni Anderson, actress and beauty, in St. Paul, Minn.
B09081945 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, musician (Grateful Dead), in San Bruno, CA.
B11111945 Daniel Ortega Saavedra, president of Nicaragua.
B11121945 Neil Young, Canadian singer, songwriter, in Toronto.
B11151945 Anni-Frid, singer, in Lyngsdtad Sweden (ABBA).
B11161945 Martine van Hamel, Belgian ballerina.
B11211945 Goldie Hawn, actress.
B11301945 Radu Lupu, Rumanian pianist - Galati, Rumania.
B12011945 Bette Midler, singer, in Paterson, NJ.
B01061946 Syd (Roger Keith) Barrett, rocker (Pink Floyd-Wall), in Cambridge.
B01191946 Dolly Parton, buxom singer, composer, in Sevierville, Tenn.
B02141946 Gregory Hines, actor and dancer.
B02191946 Karen Silkwood, plutonium plant worker.
B02201946 Sandy Duncan, actress.
B05091946 Candice Bergen, actress.
B05201946 Cher, actress and singer.
B06201946 Andre Watts, concert pianist.
B06281946 Gilda Radner, comedienne, (Saturday Night Live).
B07151946 Linda Ronstadt, singer, in Tucson, AZ.
B08141946 Susan Saint James, actress.
B08201946 Connie Chung, network newscaster.
B09131946 Jaqueline Bisset, actress, in Weybridge England.
B10151946 Richard Carpenter, singer and songwriter, in New Haven Conn.
B11021946 Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor - Venice, Italy.
B11051946 Patricia K. Kuhl, speech and hearing scientist.
B11061946 Sally Field, actress.
B11101946 David Stockman, ex-budget director.
B11151946 Janet Lennon, singer (Lennon Sisters).
B11201946 Judy Woodruff, US newscaster.
B12281946 Edgar Winter, in Beaumont, TX.
B01081947 David Bowie (David Robert Jones), singer, in London.
B02141947 Pham Tuan, first Vietnamese space traveler (on board Soyuz 37).
B03191947 Glenn Close, actress, in Greenwich, Connecticut.
B04021947 Emmy Lou Harris, country music star.
B07101947 Arlo Guthrie, singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans).
B07201947 Carlos Santana, musician, in Autlan, Mexico.
B08101947 Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), musician, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
B08231947 Keith Moon, musician, in London.
B09211947 Stephen King, suspense writer (Shining, Kujo).
B12181947 Stephen Spielberg, movie director, in Cincinnati, OH.
B01281948 Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer.
B02281948 Bernadette Peters, actress.
B03121948 James Taylor, singer songwriter.
B05151948 Brian Peter George St. John de Baptiste de la Salle Eno, in Woodbridge, England.
B07161948 Pinchas Zukerman, violinist.
B07271948 Peggy Fleming, Olympic gold medalist in figure skating.
B08081948 Svetlana Y. Savitskaya, 2nd woman in space (Soyuz T-7, T-12).
B09261948 Olivia Newton-John, singer, in Cambridge England.
B11031948 Lulu, singer, in Glasgow Scotland - To Sir With Love.
B11141948 HRH Charles, Prince of Wales, first son of Queen Elizabeth II.
B01211949 Wolfman Jack, radio personality.
B01241949 John Belushi, comedian, actor (Sat Night Live, Blues Brothers).
B03021949 Rory Gallagher, Blues guitarist, in Ballyshannon, Ireland.
B05181949 Rick Wakeman, composer/musician, in West London, England.
B06221949 Meryl Streep, actress, in Summit, New Jersey.
B08231949 Shelley (sic) Long, actress.
B09231949 Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen, singer, in Freehold, NJ.
B11031949 Larry Holmes, boxer.
B11081949 Bonnie Raitt, singer, in LA.
B11281949 Paul Shaffer, musician.
B11281949 Alexander Godunov, composer.
B12111949 Teri Garr, actress, in Lakewood, Ohio.
B12251949 Sissy Spacek, actress.
B02181950 Cybill Shepherd, actress.
B03021950 Karen Carpenter, drummer and singer of "The Carpenters", in New Haven, Conn.
B03201950 William Hurt, actor.
B04201950 Jessica Lange, actress.
B05131950 Stevie Wonder, singer.
B08111950 Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer.
B08151950 Princess Anne of England.
B10121950 Susan Anton, actress and singer.
B12181950 Leonard Maltin, movie reviewer.
B01031951 Mel Gibson, actor.
B01151951 Charo, entertainer.
B04171951 Olivia Hussey, actress, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
B07241951 Lynda Carter, actress, in Pheonix, AZ.
B08131951 Dan Fogelberg, singer, in Peoria, IL.
B11081951 Mary Hart, television personality.
B11111951 Fuzzy Zoeller, golfer.
B07011952 Dan Akroyd, comedian, actor (Saturday Night Live).
B07211952 Robin Williams, actor, comedian (Good Morning Vietnam, Mork).
B08231952 Queen Noor, Queen of Jordan.
B09021952 Jimmy Connors, tennis player.
B11091952 Lou Ferrigno, actor (Incredible Hulk).
B05151953 Mike Oldfield, musician, in Essex, England.
B06211953 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani opposition leader.
B02181954 John Travolta, actor and dancer.
B03011954 Ron Howard, actor and director, in Duncan, Oklahoma.
B11031954 Adam Ant, punk rocker.
B02241955 Steven Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer.
B10071955 Yo-Yo Ma, cellist.
B11111955 Jigme Singye Wangchuk, King of Bhutan.
B11301955 Billy Idol, singer (White Wedding).
B06061956 Bjorn Borg, tennis player.
B10181956 Martina Navratilova, tennis champion, in Prague Czechoslovakia.
B11201956 Bo Derek, actress.
B02161957 LeVar Burton, actor (Lt. LeForge on "Star Trek, the Next Generation").
B02181957 Vanna White, game show hostess.
B01231958 Princess Caroline of Monaco.
B06141958 Eric Heiden, skater, FIVE Gold Medals at 1984 Winter Olympics.
B07281958 Terry Fox, runs "Marathon of Hope" across Canada.
B08291958 Michael Jackson, singer and dancer, in Gary, Indiana.
B07101959 Davis Phinney, American cyclist.
B10131959 Marie Osmond, singer.
B11031959 Dolph Lundgren, actor (Rocky IV).
B02191960 HRH Prince Andrew, second son of Elizabeth II.
B11251960 John F. Kennedy Jr.
B11291960 Cathy Moriarty, actress.
B06091961 Michael J. Fox, actor.
B07011961 Diana, Princess of Wales.
B11121961 Nadia Comaneci, Olympic gymnast, in Romania.
B11221961 Mariel Hemingway, author, in Ketchum Idaho (Manhattan, Personal Best).
B11191962 Jodie Foster, actress, LA (Bugsy Malone).
B04131963 Gary Kasparov, world chess champion from USSR.
B11051963 Tatum O'Neal, actress, in LA aka Mrs John Macenroe (Paper Moon).
B11111963 Demi Moore, actress.
B11141963 The island of Surtsey off Iceland was born by the eruption of an underwater volcano.
B02181964 Matt Dillon, actor.
B03101964 HRH Prince Edward Anthony Richard Louis, third son of Elizabeth II of England.
B06261964 Zeng Jinlian, became tallest woman known (2.46 m, 8'1").
B11111964 Philip McKeon, actor.
B11161967 Lisa Bonet, actress (Cosby Show), in SF, Cal.
B02181968 Molly Ringwald, actress.
B04211969 Jack Kerouac, Canadian-American author.
B11161971 Donald Wolf, computer game creator.
B07251978 Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby in Britain was born at Oldham General Hospital, Lancashire.
B04101984 Zoe, first frozen-embryo child, in Melbourne, Australia.
B09151984 Prince Harry (to Prince Charles and Princess Diana).
B07222013 Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, son of Prince William and Catherine, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
D08070044 King Herod, persecutor of the Apostles.
D10130054 Roman Emperor Claudius.
D08240079 Pliny the Elder, naturalist and author during the Vesuvius eruption.
D11260311 St. Peter, martyr and bishop of Alexandria.
D03070322 Aristotle.
D05220337 Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor.
D12060342 St. Nicholas, archbishop of Myrna and confessor, patron saint of Russia, mariners, youth and virgins.
D05260604 Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury.
D01120689 Benedict Biscop, English saint.
D04240729 Egbert(us), English bishop, saint in Iona.
D05260735 Beda Venerabilis, English speaking church historian.
D06050754 Boniface, (Winfrid), English saint/archbishop (Dokkum).
D06050754 Eoda, English speaking Bishop of Utrecht, murdered.
D05190804 Alcuin of York, English scholar in Tours France.
D04100879 Louis the II of France.
D10280900 Alfred the Great, English monarch.
D07170924 Edward, the Older, English speaking King (899-924).
D05190988 Dunstan(us), English archbishop of Canterbury.
D07201031 Robert II, King of France.
D03171040 Harold, British King (1035-40).
D01051056 Saint Edward the Confessor, son of Ethelred the Unready.
D12051057 Scottish King MacBeth.
D09101087 William the Conqueror at age 61 from an earlier fall from his horse.
D11251120 Countess of Perche, bastard daughter of English King Henry I, drowned.
D09011159 Adrian IV, (Nicole Breakspear), only English pope (1154-59).
D01121167 Aelred of Hexham/Rievaulx, English abbot/saint.
D02271167 Robert of Melun, English philosopher, Bishop of Hereford.
D02041189 Gilbert of Sempringham, English monastery founder/saint.
D04071199 Richard I Coeur de Lion, King of England.
D04011204 Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France.
D10191216 King John of England.
D10031226 St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, in a small chapel at Portiuncula.
D08181227 Genghis Khan, Mongol Emperor.
D08211245 Alexander van Hales, English scholar.
D10081253 Robert Grosseteste, English Bishop.
D10091253 Grosseteste, an English scholar.
D08041265 Simon de Montfort, English Earl of Leicester in battle.
D09101279 Robert Kilwardby/Anglicus, English philosopher, Cardinal.
D12081292 John Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury.
D09111297 Hugh de Cressingham, English treasurer in battle.
D06071329 Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.
D05201364 Sir Henry Percy, knight and supporter of Henry IV, aka Harry Hotspur.
D07191374 Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), poet and scholar near Padua, Italy.
D06151381 Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London.
D07151381 John Ball, English priest/ideologist of Boer uprising, hanged.
D12311384 John Wycliffe, English religious reformer, bible translator.
D02151400 Richard II, British King (1377-99), murdered at Pontefract Castle.
D02191401 William Sawtree, first English religious martyr, burned in London.
D11061406 Sir John Falstaff, English knight.
D12141417 John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned.
D05301431 Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by the English at Rouen.
D02091450 Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII of France.
D07121450 Jack Cade, slain in a revolt against British King Henry VI.
D02231468 John Gutenberg, German inventor (boekdrukkunst).
D08221485 King Richard III of England, in the Battle of Bosworh Field ending the War of the Roses.
D04081492 Lorenzo de Medici, Florentine ruler.
D05201506 Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer.
D08171510 Richard Empson, English treasurer, beheaded.
D12041514 Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide(?).
D12241524 Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer and navigator.
D06211527 Nicolo Machiavelli, diplomat and writer.
D04061528 Albrecht Durer, painter and engraver, in Nuremberg, Germany.
D06211529 John Skelton, English poet.
D11291530 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, one time advisor to Henry VIII.
D08221532 William Warham, English archbishop of Canterbury (1502-32).
D04201534 Elizabeth Barton, (St Magd van Kent), British prophet.
D04291535 John Houghton, English, executed.
D06221535 John Fisher, English bishop (1504-35), Cardinal, beheaded.
D05191536 Lord Rochford, English brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded.
D08241540 Il Parmigianino, aka Francesco Mazzola, painter Cremona, Italy.
D06261541 Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror, in Lima Peru.
D09241541 Paracelsus, Swiss physician, alchemist, and scientist, in Salzburg, Austria.
D05241543 Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer.
D07191545 George Carew, English admiral, drowns.
D07191545 Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns.
D03101546 Thomas Elyot, English diplomat (Boke named the Governor).
D12021547 Hernando Cortez, conqueror of Mexico.
D09071548 Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII.
D03201549 Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded.
D12021552 St. Francis Xavier, founder of the Jesuits.
D08221553 John Dudley, English Lord Admiral, Premier (1551-53), beheaded.
D08251554 Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk, English great admiral.
D05251555 Regnier Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician.
D10161555 Nicholas Ridley, English theologist, Bishop of Rochester, burned.
D11121555 Stephen Gardiner, English Bishop of Winchester.
D07311556 Ignatius Loyola, Jesuit founder.
D11171558 Reginald Pole, English cardinal/scholar/"heretic".
D11171558 "Bloody" Mary Tudor, Queen of England.
D01291559 Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor.
D09081560 Amy Robsart, wife of English premier Robert Dudley by accident.
D10091562 Gabriel Fallopius, Italian anatomist.
D05101566 Leonhard Fuchs, German physician and botanist.
D07021566 Michel de Nostradamus (the "prophet"), in Salon.
D02101567 Lord Darnley Stuart, husband of English Queen Mary, murdered.
D09051569 Edmund Bonner, English Bishop of London (1539-49, 53-9).
D06021572 Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk, English Earl, executed.
D11241572 John Knox, Scottish religious and political reformer.
D08271576 Titian, Venetian painter.
D12011580 Edmund Campion, English Jesuit, hanged.
D07061583 Edmund Grindal, English Bishop of London, Archbishop of York.
D03181584 Ivan the Terrible, Czar of Russia.
D10171586 Philip Sidney, English poet, diplomat, in battle.
D04061590 Francis Walsingham, English secretary of state.
D04061593 John Greenwood, English Congressionalist, hanged.
D04061593 Henry Barrow, English puritan/Congressionalist, hanged.
D10161594 William Allen, English cardinal, founder seminary of Douai.
D11221594 Martin Frobisher, English vice-admiral/explorer.
D12021594 Gerhardt Mercator, Belgian cartographer.
D01281595 Francis Drake, English pirate (Porto Bello West Indies).
D08241595 Thomas Digges, English astronomer (Universe Infinite).
D11121595 John Hawkins, English navigator, treasurer of the Navy.
D08041598 William Cecil first Baron Burghley, English premier.
D01161599 Edmund Spenser, poet.
D02131602 Alexander Nowell, English churchman, dean of St Paul's.
D03231603 Elizabeth I of England.
D12271603 Thomas Cartwright, English Presbyterian publicist.
D04061605 John Stow, British historian.
D10171605 Akbar the Great, Muslim ruler of Northern India.
D01211609 Joseph Scaliger, chronologist and inventor of the Julian date.
D04181610 Robert Parsons, English Jesuit leader/plotter.
D07181610 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter.
D11211610 Benedict van Canfield, (William Fish), English missionary.
D04081614 El Greco, Spanish painter.
D04231616 William Shakespeare, playwright.
D04231616 Miguel de Cervantes, author.
D04041617 John Napier, Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms.
D04111617 Pocahontas.
D10291618 Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer, writer and courtier.
D03131619 Richard Burbage, English actor (Shakespeare).
D01231622 William Baffin, British explorer.
D08061623 Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife, at age of 67.
D11091623 William Camden, English historian: Brittania/Annales.
D02281626 Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist.
D09261626 Lancelot Andrewes, English theologist/bishop of Winchester.
D07011627 Nathaniel Bacon, English painter.
D11151630 Johannes Kepler, German astronomer.
D03311631 John Donne, dean of Saint Paul's, poet and author.
D10051631 Arabella Holles, wife of English politician Thomas Wentworth.
D11271632 John Eliot, English parliament leader, author (In Jail).
D03011633 George Herbert, English poet.
D08041633 George Abbott, English theologist, Archbishop of Canterbury.
D11071633 Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist, inventor of submarine.
D05121634 George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter.
D09031634 Edward Coke, English Chief Justice, politician.
D08061637 Ben Johnson, English playwright and poet.
D03221639 Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture).
D01031641 Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomical prodigy.
D05121641 Thomas Wentworth, English Viceroy of Ireland, beheaded.
D01081642 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer.
D05141643 Louis XIII, French King.
D06241643 John Hampden, English politician.
D12081643 John Pym, English House of Commons member.
D09081644 Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion).
D09021645 Lady Alice Lisle, English widow of John Lisle, beheaded.
D09141646 Thomas H. Earl of Arundel, English art collector (Marbles).
D08241647 Nicholas Stone "Elder", English sculptor/architect.
D10251647 Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and inventor of the barometer.
D08201648 Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military, philosopher.
D05121649 Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered.
D07111649 Margaret Coventry, first English Earl of Shaftesbury.
D08251649 Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet.
D09061649 Robert Dudley, English navigator/writer (Arcano del Mare).
D11261651 Henry Ireton, English General, parliament leader (Marston Moor).
D06211652 Inigo Jones, English architect, landscape designer and antiquary, in Somerset House, London.
D12311652 Frances Cecil, second wife of English Earl of Shaftesbury.
D03211656 James Usher, Archbishop of Armagh, scholar at Reigate, Surrey.
D04271656 Jan van Goyen, Dutch landscape painter.
D06031657 William Harvey, English physician who explained the circulation of the blood.
D08071657 Robert Blake, English admiral (Dover, Dungeness).
D09031658 Oliver Cromwell, British general (1653-58), Lord Protector.
D06301660 William Oughtred, English mathematician.
D08161661 Thomas Fuller, English prime minister.
D02131662 Elisabeth Stuart, English daughter of James I.
D04221662 John Tradescant, English naturalist.
D08191662 Blaise Pascal, French philosopher and mathematician.
D01121665 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician.
D06301666 Alexander Brome, British poet.
D07281667 Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress, Sex libri plantarum).
D12221668 Stephen Day, first British colonial printer.
D10041669 Rembrandt Van Rijn, Dutch painter.
D01031670 George Monck, English general.
D12161670 Dorothy, first English marquis of Halifax.
D05071671 Edward Montagu, English Baron Kimbolton.
D11121671 Thomas, third Baron Fairfax of Cameron, English general.
D09271674 Thomas Traherne, English poet/mystic (Roman Forgeries).
D11081674 John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost).
D12091674 Edward Hyde first Earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67).
D12051675 John Lightfoot, English theologist (Horae Hebraicae).
D08161678 Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love).
D09251680 Samuel Butler, poet and author.
D11271680 Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern).
D06091681 William Lilly, English astrologer.
D10191682 Thomas Browne, philosopher.
D07211683 Lord William Russell, English plotter against Charles II, beheaded.
D09091683 Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded.
D01281687 Johannes Hevelius, Danzig star cataloguer.
D10211687 Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot).
D11141687 Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn, English mistress of King Charles II.
D06261688 Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (Intellectual system).
D12291689 Thomas Sydenham, English physician.
D05211690 John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts.
D02011691 George Etherege, English stage writer (Love in a Tub).
D12301691 Robert Boyle, Irish physicist and chemist.
D05011700 John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies).
D07061701 William Kidd, English/US buccaneer, hanged.
D11041702 John Benbow, English vice-admiral (Santa Marta).
D03031703 Robert Hooke, English physicist.
D10281703 John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (wig of W).
D11261703 England was hit by severe gales, known as the Great Storm, in which 8,000 people died.
D10281704 John Locke, writer and thinker on the philosophy of government.
D03081709 William Cowper/Cooper, English anatomist.
D11231709 Hans Willem Baron Bentinck, Dutch/English Earl of Portland.
D03281712 Jan van der Heyden, Dutch inventor of street lantern.
D07121712 Richard Cromwell, English Lord Protector (1658-59).
D07261712 Thomas Osborne, English PM (1690-94).
D08291712 Gregory King, English statistician (law of King).
D09111712 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French astronomer.
D12151712 Sidney first Earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance.
D11201713 Thomas Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel).
D08121715 Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright, Poet Laureate.
D09011715 Louis XIV, King of France.
D12151715 George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology).
D11141716 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher.
D03031717 Pierre Allix, French/British theologist/vicar.
D03081717 Abraham Darby, English iron-master, the first to use coke for smelting iron.
D07301718 William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer (No cross, no crown).
D11221718 Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, English pirate, killed off Virginia coast.
D06171719 Joseph Addison, English poet/writer/Secretary of State.
D12311719 John Flamsteed, first Astronomer Royal.
D02051721 James Stanhope 1st Earl of Stanhope, English general.
D07181721 Jean-Antoine Watteau, painter.
D06161722 John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough and military commander.
D08261723 Thonis van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch biologist, inventor of microscope.
D11071723 Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77).
D11161724 Jack Sheppard, English robber, hanged.
D05211725 Robert Haley Earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4).
D03261726 John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife).
D03201727 Sir Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist and astronomer, in London.
D05171727 Catherine I, Russian Empress and favourite consort of Peter the Great, in St. Petersburg.
D01191729 William Congreve, English dramatist (Love for Love).
D08051729 Thomas Newcomen, English steam engine pioneer.
D04211730 Jan Palfijn, Flemish physician, inventor of forceps.
D12291731 J. Brook Taylor, English mathematician.
D12041732 John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera).
D11141734 Louise de Keroualle, English duchess, mistress of King Charles II.
D09161736 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, German physicist.
D12181737 Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin maker, in Cremona, Italy.
D08161738 Joe Miller, English comic.
D09031739 George Lillo, English dramatist (Fatal Curiosity).
D02211741 Jethro Tull, English agriculturalist.
D12081741 Vitus Bering, discoverer of the Bering strait.
D01141742 Edmond Halley, English astronomer.
D07021743 Spencer Compton Earl of Wilmington, English minister of Finance.
D08011743 Richard Savage, English poet/playwright.
D02151744 John Hadley, inventor of sextant.
D04251744 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer who invented the centigrade thermometer.
D05301744 Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard).
D10191745 Jonathan Swift, English writer (Gulliver's Travels).
D11161745 Lucas von Hildebrandt, architect.
D04091747 Lord Lovat, English Jacobite.
D04121748 William Kent, English sculptor/architect (Kensington Palace).
D07281750 Johann Sebastian Bach, organist and composer, in Leipzig Germany.
D01111753 Hans Sloane, British physician and naturalist.
D03061754 Henry Pelham, English premier (1745, 46-54), Gin Act.
D10081754 Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones).
D07091755 E. Braddock, British Gen, mortally wounded during French & Indian War.
D03141757 John Byng, English admiral (Minorca), executed at age 52.
D07241758 John Dyer, poet.
D04131759 George Frederick Handel, German composer.
D06121759 William Collins, English poet (Ode to Simplicity).
D09131759 James Wolfe, British general (Plains of Abraham), in battle.
D01041761 Stephen Hales, English vicar/inventor (ventilator).
D05141761 Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson).
D01021763 John Casteret Earl Granville, English premier.
D03171764 George Parker, English astronomer.
D04151764 Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV of France, in Versailles.
D10261764 William Hogarth, artist and engraver, in London.
D04051765 Edward Young, English poet (Love of Fame).
D10311765 Duke of Cumberland, English politician, uncle of George III.
D12221767 John Newberry, English publisher.
D08291769 Edmond Hoyle, games master at 97.
D08241770 Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge).
D09091770 Georg D. Ehret, German/English cartoonist.
D11131770 George Grenville, British premier (1763-65), Stamp Act.
D07071771 Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy).
D09301772 James Brindley, British canal engineer.
D11221773 Robert Clive, English occupier (India).
D07011774 Henry Fox Holland, English corrupt politician.
D01081775 John Baskerville, English printer/type designer.
D12311775 Richard Montgomery, General fighting British.
D06271776 Thomas Hickey, planned to hand George Washington to British, executed.
D08251776 David Hume, philosopher.
D09221776 Nathan Hale, US captain/patriot/spy, hanged by British.
D10071777 Simon Fraser, English general in battle.
D01101778 Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist.
D04221778 James Hargreaves, English inventor of the spinning jenny.
D05111778 William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68).
D11131779 Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker.
D02141780 William Blackstone, English lawyer.
D03171782 Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and physicist.
D08291782 Richard Kempenfeldt, English admiral, drowns.
D02061783 Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew).
D03301783 William Hunter, Scottish anatomist and obstetrician.
D04041784 Mary Mead, wife of English journalist John Wilkes.
D04201786 John Goodricke, English deaf & dumb astronomer.
D04231786 Alexander Cozens, English water colours painter.
D06191787 John Brown, (British?) theologist.
D01311788 Charles E Stuart, English pretender to the throne.
D09021788 Thomas Gainsborough, artist, portrait painter (Blue Boy).
D04171790 Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and politician.
D05211790 Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage).
D12051791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,musical prodigy.
D02231792 Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (Simplicity).
D03101792 John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, English premier (1760-63).
D04301792 John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, English Naval minister.
D08031792 Richard Arkwright, English inventor.
D08051792 Frederick 7th Baron North, English premier (1770-82).
D10281792 John Smeaton, English civil engineer.
D02021793 William Aiton, English botanist (Kew Gardens).
D06261793 Gilbert White, English clergyman and naturalist.
D11121793 John Sylvan, French astronomer.
D04271794 William Jones, British Orientalist/jurist.
D07281794 Robespierre, on the guillotine like those he sent before him.
D01031795 Josiah Wedgwood, British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker.
D10011795 Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder.
D07211796 Robert Burns, Scottish poet, in Scotland of a lingering illness brought on by excessive drinking.
D11061796 Catherine the Great.
D03021797 Horace (Horatio) Walpole, British horror writer.
D07091797 Edmund Burke, British author, parliament leader (Reflections).
D08031797 Jeffrey Amherst, English Governor General of America.
D12261797 John Wilkes, English journalist, Higher/Lower house leader.
D05101798 George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery).
D07021798 John Fitch, American inventor, clock maker, etc.
D12041798 Luigi Galvani, Italian physiologist.
D02111799 Lazaro Spallanzani, Italian physiologist and chemist.
D07071799 William Curtis, English botanist (Botanical Magazine).
D08021799 Jacques Etienne Montgolfier, balloonist and paper manufacturer.
D08071799 John Bacon, English sculptor.
D09071799 John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English physician, nature investigator.
D12141799 George Washington, US President, general, surveyor at Mount Vernon.
D04251800 William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (Olney Hymns).
D03281801 Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland).
D06141801 Benedict Arnold, soldier and spy.
D09011801 Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong).
D07221802 Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist.
D10021803 Samuel Adams, American patriot.
D01041804 Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote).
D02061804 Joseph Priestley, English chemist.
D07251804 William Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia).
D12191804 Mary Bright, British PM Rockingham.
D05091805 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German poet and playwright.
D10211805 Horatio Nelson, British naval commander.
D08231806 Charles Augustin Coulomb, French engineer, mathematician and pioneer of electrostatic theory.
D12031807 Clara Reeve, English author (old English Baron).
D11181808 Boatswain (Lord Byron's dog).
D05311809 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer.
D06081809 Thomas Paine, political writer.
D02241810 Henry Cavendish, English physicist.
D11111810 Johann Zoffany, British? painter.
D02091811 Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal.
D03141811 August Henry Fitzroy, English premier (1768-70).
D09301811 Thomas Percy, English Bishop of Dromore.
D10131812 Isaac Brock, English general (conquered Detroit) in battle.
D04101813 Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange, French mathematician.
D10051813 Tecumseh, US Shawnee-chief, English Gen (Battle of Thames).
D07191814 Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast).
D08191814 Count Rumford, aka Benjamin Thompson, Physicist, inventor and adventurer.
D12091814 Joseph Bramah, English inventor of the hydraulic press.
D09091815 John Singleton Copley, British painter.
D12071817 William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame.
D05101818 Paul Revere, American silversmith and patriot.
D03111820 Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe).
D06191820 Joseph Banks, English botanist.
D04221821 John Crome, (Old Crome), English landscape painter/etcher.
D05051821 Napoleon Bonaparte, on the island of St. Helena.
D08161821 Arthur Cayley, British mathematician.
D04251822 Frederick "William" Herschel, German/British astronomer.
D07081822 Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (Prometheus unbound), drowned off the coast of Italy.
D08251822 William Herschel, English astronomer.
D01261823 Edward Jenner, English physician.
D02071823 Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet, author of horror novels.
D02261823 John P. Kemble, English actor/director (Covent Garden).
D10301823 Edmund Cartwright, English inventor.
D04191824 Lord Byron, poet, in Missolonghi, Greece.
D12211824 James Parkinson, British neurologist.
D01081825 Eli Whitney, US inventor of the cotton gin.
D02241825 Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare.
D05071825 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer.
D01051827 Frederick of York, English duke/bishop/general.
D03051827 Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist.
D03261827 Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer.
D06261827 Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny).
D08081827 George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs.
D08121827 William Blake, English poet.
D03061828 Hongi Hika, Ngapuhi War Chief of New Zealand.
D11191828 Franz Schubert, composer.
D04061829 Neils Abel, Norwegian mathematician.
D05161829 William Congreve, English officer.
D05291829 Humphry Davy, English scientist who invented a safety lamp for miners.
D12171830 Simon Bolivar, revolutionary leader, in South America.
D02151831 Henry Maudslay, inventor of metal lathe.
D06081831 Sarah Kemble Siddons, English actress (Lady Macbeth), in London.
D07041831 James Monroe, 5th US President.
D02031832 George Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough).
D03041832 Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist.
D03221832 Johann Wolfgang Goethe, poet, novelist.
D08241832 Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist.
D04221833 Richard Trevithick, inventor of steam locomotive.
D05151833 Edmund Kean, English actor (Shylock).
D08241833 Adrian H. Haworth, English entomologist/botanist.
D02161834 Lionel Lukin, English inventor of the lifeboat.
D05201834 Marquis de Lafayette, revolutionary war hero.
D07251834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet.
D09021834 Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer.
D01301835 Chief Osceola, Seminole leader, in prison.
D02151835 Henry Hunt, British politician.
D05131835 John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park).
D03061836 Davy Crockett, American folk hero, in the Alamo.
D06101836 Andrée Ampčre, French physicist.
D11261836 John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer.
D01201837 John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs).
D03311837 John Constable, English Landscape painter.
D07241837 Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter.
D03221838 Hendrik Fagel, Dutch/English Baron.
D03301840 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, man of fashion.
D06191840 John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial.
D02131841 Thomas Ainsworth, English/Dutch industrialist.
D04041841 US President Harrison, one month after inauguration.
D11141841 Thomas Bruce, Count of Elgin & Kincardine, British diplomat.
D01111843 Francis Scott Key, author of "Star Spangled Banner".
D05281843 Noah Webster, lexicographer and teacher.
D07251843 Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor.
D07271844 John Dalton, English physicist and chemist.
D08301844 Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads).
D03111845 John Chapman ("Johnny Appleseed").
D07171845 Charles, Earl Grey, Whig statesman and Prime Minister.
D03191847 Mary Anning, English paleontologist who discovered the first ichthyosaur.
D11041847 Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Felix Mendelssohn), composer, in Leipzig.
D01091848 Caroline Lucretia Herschel, astronomer and publisher of "Herschel's Catalog of Stars" and sister of William.
D08091848 Frederick Marryat, English captain, author (Mr Midshipman Easy).
D11241848 William Lamb second Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834-41).
D01261849 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide.
D08021849 Mehemet Ali, British Viceroy to Egypt.
D10071849 Edgar Allen Poe, mystery and horror writer.
D10171849 Frederic Francois Chopin, Polish master of short piano composition of tuberculosis.
D11131849 William Etty, English painter (nudist).
D04071850 William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets).
D04231850 William Wordswoth, poet near Grasmere, Westmorland.
D05091850 Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist.
D07021850 Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM, founder London Police.
D07091850 Zachary Taylor, U.S. president and general, in Indian and Mexican Wars.
D01271851 John James Audubon, naturalist and painter.
D07101851 Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, French photographic pioneer.
D12191851 J. M. William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam & Speed).
D12191851 William Turner, artist known for brilliant impressionistic skies.
D06211852 Friedrich Froebel, educator and developer of the idea of the kindergarten.
D11271852 Augusta Ada King, (Countess of Lovelace), only child of Lord and Lady Byron, assistant to the mathematical engineer Charles Babbage.
D03171853 Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist.
D07071854 Georg Ohm, German physicist.
D11251854 John G. Lockhart, (scorpion), English biographer.
D02231855 Karl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and astronomer.
D03311855 Charlotte Bronte, eldest of the Bronte sisters, author of Jane Eyre.
D07081855 Admiral Parry, Arctic explorer.
D10061855 August L Crelle, inventor/mathematician (Rechentafeln).
D06151856 David Cox, English painter (Treatise on Landscape Paint).
D12161858 Richard Bright, British Dr (Bright's disease, nephritis).
D01281859 Seth Thomas, American clock maker.
D09151859 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer.
D11281859 Washington Irving, American writer and diplomat.
D12281859 Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian.
D02201860 Henry Drummond, English banker, religious leader.
D06291860 Thomas Addison, English physician (A-Biermer Disease).
D07011860 Charles Goodyear, US inventor of vulcanisation process for rubber.
D10121860 Henry G. W. Smith, leader of British-Indian forces.
D05201861 Henry Seely White, US mathematician.
D06291861 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet.
D06301861 Lola Montez, actress.
D12141861 Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, of Typhoid.
D01101862 Samuel Colt, inventor of 6-shot revolver.
D05061862 Henry David Thoreau, writer and naturalist.
D06171862 Charles J Canning, English first Viceroy of British-Indies.
D08141863 Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore).
D05181864 Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author.
D05201864 John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail).
D04151865 US President Lincoln, of gun shot wound at 7:30 this morning.
D10181865 Lord Henry J. T. Palmerston, English min of Foreign affairs.
D04191867 Robert Smirke, British architect.
D08251867 Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist.
D05231868 Kit Carson, frontiersman.
D05261868 Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution.
D11131868 Gioacchino Rossini, opera composer.
D09111869 David Thomas Graham, Scottish chemist.
D06091870 Charles Dickens, author, near Rochester, Kent.
D04071871 Alexander, grandson of English Queen Victoria.
D05111871 Sir John Frederick William Herschel, English astronomer, in London.
D09071871 Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns.
D10181871 Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor of the calculating machine.
D04021872 Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of Morse code.
D05011873 David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa).
D06081874 Cochise, Apache chief.
D01231875 Charles Kingsley, English vicar/writer (Westward Ho!).
D02221875 Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology).
D06031875 Georges Bizet, composer of Carmen and The Pearl Fishers.
D07231875 Isaac Merritt Singer, inventor of the sewing machine.
D08041875 Hans Christian Andersen, author.
D11021875 J. W. W. Birch, first British resident of Perak Malakka, murdered.
D05201876 Harold, grandson of English Queen Victoria.
D05241876 Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer.
D06081876 George Sand (Amantine Dupin), novelist, in France.
D03091877 Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Neth Spectator).
D03241877 Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker.
D06031877 Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo.
D09171877 William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer.
D02011878 George Cruikshank, English illustrator (Grimm).
D03161878 William Banting, English undertaker.
D06231878 George Backing, English sea officer, explorer (B's River).
D01221879 George Shepstone, British political affiliate in battle.
D01221879 Anthony Durnford, British colonel in battle.
D04181879 Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian, British Museum.
D04301879 Sarah Hale, author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
D05041879 William Froude, English engineer and mathematician.
D05081880 Gustave Flaubert, French novelist and author of "Madame Bovary".
D10041880 William Lassell, English astronomer (first moon of Neptune).
D02271881 George Colley, British Governor of Natal, General.
D07201881 Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English first Baron of Hesketh.
D09191881 James Garfield, 20th US President, finally of wounds from an assassination attempt, in Baltimore.
D01031882 William H. Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes).
D01201882 John Linnell, British painter/miniaturist/engraver.
D04091882 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, English poet/painter.
D04271882 Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet, in Concord, Massachusetts.
D06021882 Giusepppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot.
D07081882 Phiz (Hablôt Knight Browne), English artist (David Cupperfield).
D02131883 Richard Wagner, composer.
D03141883 Karl Marx, socialist.
D04201883 Edouard Manet, French artist.
D07241883 Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls.
D08121883 The quagga in Amsterdam Zoo, the last of this species in the world.
D11051883 William Hicks, British Colonel, commander (Egyptian army) in battle.
D01061884 Gregor Mendel, Austrian monk and geneticist.
D05131884 Cyrus Hall McCormick, perfecter of the mechanical harvester.
D01191885 Fred Burnaby, English colonel, balloon pioneer.
D05221885 Victor Hugo, novelist.
D10291885 James Hannington, English missionary, murdered in Uganda.
D05161886 Emily Dickinson, poet.
D11081886 Frederick J. "Fred" Archer, English jockey, committed suicide.
D02101887 Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey).
D02271887 Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist.
D10171887 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, German physicist.
D11081887 Doc Holliday, notorious dentist of the Old West.
D03061888 Louisa May Alcott, American novelist.
D04151888 Matthew Arnold, English poet.
D08171888 James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo).
D09301888 Catherine Eddowes, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper.
D09301888 Elizabeth Stride, Long Liz, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper.
D03081889 John Ericsson, Swedish-born US inventor of the screw propeller.
D08241889 Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine).
D09231889 William W. Collins, English writer (Moonstone).
D10111889 James Joule, English physicist.
D12121889 Robert Browning, English poet (Ring & Book).
D12211889 Joseph B. Lightfoot, English theologist, Bishop of Durham.
D02221890 John Jacob Astor, millionaire.
D07131890 John Charles Fremont, American soldier, explorer and politician.
D07291890 Vincent Van Gogh, artist, in Auvers, France.
D08111890 John Henry Newman, English cardinal.
D10201890 Sir Richard Burton, English explorer, writer, discoverer of Lake Tanganyika.
D01261891 Nikolaus August Otto, German engineer.
D04071891 Phineas T. (P..T.) Barnum, entrepreneur of Barnum and Bailey.
D10061891 Charles S. Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader.
D11031891 Louis Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator.
D01021892 George B. Airy, English astronomer/writer.
D01211892 John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune.
D02161892 Henry Walter Bates, English naturalist and explorer.
D03261892 Walt Whitman, poet.
D03291892 William Bowman, English anatomist.
D05151892 Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered.
D07181892 Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook & Son).
D10061892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet Laureate.
D12061892 Ernst Werner von Siemens, German inventor.
D12181892 Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus).
D11061893 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, of Cholera after knowingly drinking un-boiled water.
D12031893 Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian major in battle.
D12301893 Samuel White Baker, English explorer.
D01011894 Heinrich Hertz, German physicist.
D03271894 Verney L. Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika).
D12301894 Amelia Bloomer, women's rights activist, popularised the term bloomers.
D01241895 Lord Randolph Churchill, English statesman.
D05151895 Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack).
D06291895 T. H. Huxley, English biologist.
D08051895 Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/Marxist.
D09281895 Louis Pasteur, French scientist.
D10251895 Charles Halle, British pianist.
D12031895 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, in Samoa.
D12301895 L. P Hartley, British writer.
D08101896 Otto Lillienthal, German aviator.
D08131896 John Everett Millais, English painter.
D11221896 George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor of Ferris wheel.
D01121897 Isaac Pitman, inventor of shorthand.
D02061897 Ebenezer C. Brewer, British writer (Dictionary of Phrase & Fable).
D06221897 Ralph Abercromby, British meteorologist.
D10191897 George Pullman, US engineer and sleeping-car manufacturer.
D01031898 James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (vacuum pump).
D01141898 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, writer and mathematician.
D01141898 Lewis Carroll, English mathematician and author.
D02201898 Enzo Ferrari, Italian automobile manufacturer.
D03151898 Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist who invented the Bessemer converter.
D03161898 Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome).
D06031898 Samuel Plimsoll, English MP ( Folkestone).
D09021898 Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times) through friendly fire.
D11201898 John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway).
D02111899 George Morgan, first English motorist to die in an motor accident.
D03181899 Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains).
D08161899 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist and inventor.
D10281899 Ottmar Mergenthaler, German inventor of the Linotype.
D10281899 C. Grant B. Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did).
D12111899 Lord Winchester, British marquis, Major in battle.
D12111899 Andrew "Andy" Wauchope, British general-major in battle.
D12301899 James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget).
D01201900 Richard D. Blackmore, English novelist (Lorna Doone).
D01201900 John Ruskin, English writer and philosopher.
D03061900 Gottlieb Daimler, German motor engineer who invented the motorcycle.
D04201900 Mebel Mercer, popular British singer.
D04241900 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car.
D08251900 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher.
D08281900 Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University).
D11061900 P. W. J. Le Gallais, British Lt-Colonel in battle at Bothaville.
D11301900 Oscar Wilde, Irish author.
D01141901 Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian.
D01211901 Elisha Gray, US inventor.
D01221901 Queen Victoria, Queen of England, at her winter home on the Isle of Wight.
D01271901 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of "La Traviata and Rigoletto", in Milan.
D09091901 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, artist.
D09141901 US President William McKinley.
D10301901 U. Benson, British Lt Colonel (Magers' fountain), killed in battle.
D11061901 Kate Greenaway, English children book illustrator.
D11301901 Edward J. Eyre, British explorer, Governor (Jamaica).
D02231902 Samuel R. Gardiner, British historian (Oliver Cromwell).
D05011902 John Glover, English chemist (production sulphuric acid).
D06181902 Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom).
D06191902 John E. E. Dalberg Baron van Acton, English historian.
D09061902 Frederick A. Able, English chemist/inventor (cordite).
D09061902 Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn).
D09231902 John Wesley Powell, explorer.
D02011903 George G. Stokes, British physicist, President of Royal Society.
D02261903 Richard Jordan Gatling, US inventor of the Gatling gun.
D03041903 Joseph H. Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant).
D07171903 James Whistler, painter, lithographer.
D08221903 Robert A. T. G. C. Salisbury, British Premier (1885-1902).
D12081903 Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher.
D12281903 George (Robert) Gissing, English novelist.
D05011904 Anton Dvorak, Czech composer.
D05081904 Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot).
D05101904 Henry M. Stanley, (John Rowlands), British explorer.
D06201904 Anthony F. A. Sandys, (British?) painter.
D06301904 Thomas Emmett, cricketer.
D10011904 William GGVV Harcourt, historian, English Secretary of State.
D10131905 Henry Irving, (John H Brodribb), English actor (Hamlet).
D12031905 John Bartlett, author of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
D04191906 Pierre Curie, French chemist and physicist.
D10091906 Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor of barbed wire.
D07141907 William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor of aniline dyes.
D09041907 Edvard Hagerup Grieg, composer.
D12171907 Lord Kelvin, physicist.
D12191907 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn.
D03281908 John Eliot, English meteorology.
D04221908 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08).
D06021908 Redvers H. Buller, English general.
D06081908 Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and teacher.
D12281908 Messina, Italy struck by an earthquake (nearly 80,000 died).
D04101909 Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet.
D05181909 George Meredith, English poet/writer (Diana of Crossways).
D01171910 Thomas Crapper, inventor of flush toilet.
D04021910 Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered.
D04131910 William Orchardson, British painter.
D04211910 Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), author.
D05271910 Robert Koch, German bacteriologist.
D06011910 Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist.
D07031910 Mordecai Sherwin, English cricket wicket keeper (Aust 1886-88).
D07121910 Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator.
D08131910 Florence Nightingale, English nurse.
D09291910 Winslow Homer, American painter, in Maine.
D12031910 Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the "Church of Christ, Scientist".
D01171911 Francis Galton, English anthropologist and explorer.
D01261911 Charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State.
D06091911 Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader.
D09161911 Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (Ascent of Matterhorn).
D10291911 Joseph Pulitzer, journalist.
D12101911 Joseph D. Hooker, British botanist.
D02161912 Edgar Evans, British explorer (Antarctica).
D02281912 Bill Storer, English cricket wicket keeper (6 Tests 1897-99).
D03291912 Robert Falcon Scott, Antarctic explorer.
D04151912 Over 1,500 people died when the passenger liner Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg on its first voyage.
D07251912 Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter.
D08201912 William Booth, English minister, founder (Leader des Heils).
D10301912 Preston Lockwood, actor/writer.
D02271913 Adam Sedgwick, English zoologist (Peripatus).
D03311913 John Pierpont (J. P.) Morgan, American banker and financier.
D05281913 Lord Avebury, (John Lubbock), British banker/politician.
D09291913 Rudolf Diesel, German engineer.
D11071913 Alfred R. Wallace, British zoologist (Is Mars habitable?).
D02251914 John Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland).
D07021914 Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany.
D08171914 James Grierson, British general.
D08231914 George A. Pogson, British consul in Puerto Rico.
D08301914 Adrian H. Stewart, British lieutenant in battle in Cameroon.
D09071914 Lord O'Brien, British nobleman.
D09081914 William E. Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin.
D11011914 Christopher "Kit" Cradock, English admiral in battle.
D12021914 Edmond Rostand, dramatist, and author of "Cyrano de Bergerac", in Paris.
D12241914 John Muir, naturalist.
D01031915 James E. Flecker, British diplomat/novelist (Hassan).
D01151915 Fanny Farmer, cook and writer.
D03171915 Walter Crane, English painter/cartoonist/illustrator.
D04231915 Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania).
D08091915 Henry Longbottom, English lieutenant in battle.
D08201915 Paul Ehrlich, German biochemist.
D10121915 Edith L Cavell, British nurse, executed by Germans in Belgium (WW II).
D10231915 W. G. Grace, British cricketer.
D02191916 Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist, philosopher.
D02281916 Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians) in London.
D05031916 Pádraic Pearse, Irishg nationalist, executed by British firing squad.
D05311916 Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland) in battle.
D06051916 Horatio H. Kitchener, British General (Sudan), drowned.
D07271916 Charles Fryatt, British Captain of SS Brussels, executed by Germans.
D08181916 Edward D. Pain, English journalist (NY World), in battle.
D10021916 Benjamin Kidel, English sociologist (Social Evolution).
D11121916 Percival Lowell, astronomer at Flagstaff Arizona.
D11221916 Jack London, author.
D12091916 Natsume Soseki, Japanese novelist and critic.
D01021917 Edward B. Tylor, English anthropologist.
D01101917 Buffalo Bill Cody, in Denver, Colorado.
D01291917 Evelyn Baring Earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt.
D02171917 Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle.
D03081917 Graf (count) Ferdinand von Zeppelin, airship pioneer, in Berlin.
D07021917 Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor/director (Hamlet).
D07211917 Christopher J Forster, British RAF-pilot, Captain in battle.
D09261917 Edgar Degas, French artist.
D10151917 Mata Hari, spy, by firing squad outside Paris.
D11141917 William Smith, British deserter in France, executed.
D12171917 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, first English woman physician.
D07261918 Eduard "Mick" Mannock, British WW I flyer (Victoria Cross).
D08311918 Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I).
D01181919 John C. F., son of English King George V.
D04041919 William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe).
D04081919 Frank W. Woolworth, US merchant.
D04101919 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary.
D05061919 Lyman Frank Baum (aka Frank L. Baum), author of "The Wizard of Oz".
D05141919 Henry Heinz, US food manufacturer.
D08201919 Gregor MacGregor, English cricket wicket keeper (8 Tests 1890-93).
D10221919 Bruce F Cummings, English author (Enjoying Life).
D05101920 John Wesley Hyatt, inventor, plastics pioneer.
D08011920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindu leader.
D08161920 J. Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun).
D08021921 Enrico Caruso, singer of pleurisy.
D10231921 John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor of the pneumatic tyre.
D01051922 Henry Shackleton, Irish Antarctic explorer.
D06041922 William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist.
D08021922 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor of the telephone.
D01091923 Katherine Mansfield, NZ/British writer (Dove's Nest).
D03271923 James Dewar, Scottish physicist and chemist who invented the thermos flask.
D04051923 George Herbert, Earl of Carnarvon, British Egyptologist.
D08021923 US President Harding, at the Palace Hotel.
D10301923 Andrew Bonar Law, English PM.
D12281923 Gustave Eiffel, French engineer.
D01211924 Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Bolshevik Revolutionary, of a stroke.
D03121924 Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor of rayon.
D04241924 George Street, English cricket wicket keeper (1 Test 1923).
D06031924 Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist.
D06231924 Cecil (James) Sharp, English folk musician.
D08031924 Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness).
D09181924 Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism).
D11191924 Lee Stack, Gov-Gen of Sudan, murdered.
D02041925 Oliver Heaviside, English physicist.
D02221925 Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist.
D03201925 George N. Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22).
D04151925 John Singer Sargent, portrait painter.
D05121925 Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony), minister.
D05141925 Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She).
D05211926 Ronald Arthur A. Firbank, British writer (Prancing Nigger).
D07111926 Gertrude M. L. Bell, British archaeologist (Desert & Sown).
D08011926 Israel Zangwill, British Zionists writer (Ghetto tragedies).
D08231926 Rudolph Valentino, silent film actor, at the age of 31.
D10311926 Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weisz), magician and escape artist, in Detroit.
D12051926 Claude Monet, French impressionist painter.
D01091927 Houston S. Chamberlain, British/German race theorist.
D01171927 Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts.
D08041927 John Dillon, Irish nationalist, British Lower house leader.
D09141927 Isadora Duncan, pioneer of modern dance.
D09291927 Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist.
D01111928 Thomas Hardy, English author.
D05041928 Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch).
D06141928 Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist.
D08291928 Richard B. Haldane, British Viscount, Lord-Chancellor.
D01071929 Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King).
D03201929 Marshall Ferdinand Foch, French military leader.
D04041929 Karl Benz, German automobile engineer.
D01131930 C-E Auguste Rateau, French inventor (R-steam turbine).
D03191930 Arthur J. Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05).
D06161930 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, US inventor of gyroscope compass.
D07071930 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British creator of Sherlock Holmes.
D01141931 William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician.
D02111931 Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine).
D06131931 Jesse Boot, English pharmacist, drug manufacturer, and philanthropist.
D10181931 Thomas Alva Edison, US inventor.
D01211932 (Giles) Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic.
D02101932 R. H. Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men).
D03061932 John Philip Sousa, American composer and band leader.
D03141932 George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera.
D07051932 René-Louis Baire, French mathematician.
D07091932 Henry Howell, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests 1920-24).
D07091932 King Camp Gillette, US safety-razor inventor.
D08101932 The original Rin Tin Tin.
D10301932 Paul S. Methuen, English Baron, Field Marshal, Governor of Natal.
D01051933 Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President (1923-1929).
D04041933 In the US, 73 people died when the airship Akron crashed into the sea off the New Jersey coast.
D09071933 Edward Grey, English Viscount of Fallodon, Foreign minister.
D09201933 Annie Besant, English theosophy (Esoteric Christianity).
D04141934 Gerald du Maurier, British actor-manager (Unmarried, Escape).
D01101935 Edwin H. Flack, English 800/1500m runner (Olympic Gold, 1896).
D02131935 Violet Paget, British author (Gospels of Anarchy).
D05191935 Thomas Edward Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia", in a motorcycle accident in Dorset England.
D07111935 Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly imprisoned French army officer.
D08111935 William Watson, British poet (Purple East).
D10101935 Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934).
D12011935 Bernard Schmidt, inventor of Schmidt camera.
D01181936 Rudyard Kipling, author.
D02271936 Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and psychologist, in Leningrad.
D05141936 Edmond HH Allenby, English field marshal in Egypt.
D05171936 Paul Dukas, composer of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice".
D06141936 Maksim Gorky, Russian novelist.
D06141936 Gilbert K. Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown).
D08021936 Louis Blériot, French aviator.
D03161937 J. Austen Chamberlain, English Min of For affairs (Nobel).
D03251937 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand).
D04191937 William M. Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen).
D05281937 Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist.
D06071937 Jean Harlow, actress.
D07111937 George Gershwin, composer.
D07201937 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian radio pioneer.
D07201937 Butch Cassidy, outlaw, in Spokane Washington.
D08061937 Ferdinand C. S. Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!).
D08141937 Sapper, British soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond).
D10191937 Lord Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist.
D10191937 Betty Carver, wife of English Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
D11081937 James Ramsay MacDonald, British PM (Lab, 1924, 29-35).
D02211938 George Ellery Hale, US astronomer.
D03131938 Clarence Darrow, lawyer.
D10271938 Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic.
D11111938 Typhoid Mary . She was under permanent detention for refusing to give up serving food.
D12251938 Karel Capek, Czech dramatist who coined the word "Robot".
D03021939 Howard Carter, English Egyptologist who discovered Tutankhamen's tomb.
D04061939 Robert Courtneidge, British theater producer.
D06261939 Ford M. Ford, (Hueffer), British writer, (Tietjens Saga).
D07081939 Henry Havelock Ellis, English physician and author.
D09231939 Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst.
D10231939 Zane Grey, writer of westerns.
D11101939 Bob Marshall, Alaskan explorer.
D11261939 James Naismith, Canadian inventor of Basketball.
D12121939 Douglas Fairbanks Sr., actor.
D04091940 Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide).
D04261940 Karl Bosch, German metallurgist and chemist.
D06211940 Edouard Vuillard, painter.
D06301940 Paul Klee, artist.
D08131940 George C. Pearce, actor (Hold tat Lion, British Agent).
D08221940 Oliver Lodge, English physicist.
D08301940 Joseph John Thomson, English physicist.
D11101940 Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40).
D12211940 F. Scott Fitzgerald, author, in Hollywood.
D01051941 Amy Johnson, English aviator.
D01081941 Lord Baden-Powell, philanthropist and founder of the Boy Scouts.
D01131941 James Joyce, novelist.
D02191941 Alexander Josiah Webbe, English cricket keeper (v Aus 1879).
D03281941 Virginia Woolf, novelist and critic. Suicide by drowning.
D05241941 Lancelot Holland, British vice-admiral ((WW II/Hood) in battle.
D06011941 Hugh S. Walpole, British writer (Killer & the Slain).
D06281941 Henri Léon Lebesgue, French mathematician.
D01221942 Walter Richard Sickert, British painter (Free House!).
D07201942 Patric Cobb, British sea officer in battle.
D07311942 Francis E. Younghusband, British journalist/explorer.
D01091943 Robin G. Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain).
D01241943 John Burns, English minister of Local Government (1905-14).
D03131943 Stephen Vincent Benet, poet.
D03281943 Sergei Rachmaninov, composer and pianist, in Beverly Hills, California.
D04291943 Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate).
D04301943 Beatrice Potter Webb, British writer (My Apprenticeship).
D10211943 Alfred D. P. R. Pound, British admiral, 1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II).
D10311943 Max Reinhardt, stage and film director.
D02231944 Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor (Bakelite).
D03231944 O. C. Wingate, British general-major (Burma) in air crash.
D05121944 Arthur T. Quiller-Couch (Q), British author/critic.
D06061944 Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, first to die during D-Day.
D07171944 Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32).
D07181944 George A. Hartland, English MP (Norwich 1931-35).
D07181944 Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty).
D07191944 Harry C. A. Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania).
D07201944 Arthur J. Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington.
D07281944 Otto Hahn, German nuclear physicist.
D08191944 Henry J. Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms).
D09181944 Peter Waddy, British major, 1st Para Brigade in battle in Arnhem.
D09181944 Anthony Stefanich, British boxer, Captain, killed in Arnhem.
D09191944 Hilary Barlow, British colonel.
D09191944 John A. C. Fitch, British Lt Colonel, in battle in Arnhem.
D09191944 David Lord, British Lieutenant, Dakota-pilot DFC, VC in battle.
D09201944 John Grayburn, English (Victoria Cross) in battle in Arnhem.
D09221944 "Cab" Calloway, British scout in battle of Oosterbeek.
D11061944 Lord Moyne, British prefect (Middle-East), murdered.
D03261945 David Lloyd George, British premier (1916-22).
D04121945 US President Franklin Roosevelt.
D04181945 Ernest T. Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II.
D04211945 John Poston, British Major, Montgomery's ADC.
D12211945 General George S. Patton, of injuries received in a car accident.
D12221945 Otto Neurath, Austrian/British philosopher.
D04211946 John Maynard Keynes, English economist.
D06041946 Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, Finnish mathematician.
D06141946 John Logie Baird, Scottish television pioneer.
D07271946 Gertrude Stein, poet, novelist.
D08131946 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells, English writer.
D09161946 James Jeans, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer.
D12171946 Constance (Clara) Garnett, Russian-English translator.
D12251946 W. C. Fields, American actor.
D01121947 Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Wertwissenschaft).
D01301947 Frederick F. Blackman, English botanist.
D04071947 Henry Ford, industrialist and car manufacturer.
D10041947 Max Planck, German physicist and creator of Quantum Physics.
D11121947 Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel).
D12011947 Aleister Edward S Crowley, British occultist.
D12141947 Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 24-29, 35-37).
D12301947 Alfred Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher.
D01301948 Orville Wright, US aviation pioneer.
D06161948 Marcel Louis Brillouin, French mathematician.
D08161948 Babe Ruth, baseball player.
D10041948 Arthur Whitten Brown, pioneer aviator.
D02221949 Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire).
D03301949 Friedrich Bergius, German scientist.
D01211950 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell), author, in London.
D03191950 Edgar Rice Burroughs, writer and creator of Tarzan.
D09111950 John C. Smuts, co-found British RAF, S African PM (1919-48).
D10191950 Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet.
D10231950 Al Jolson, American singer and entertainer.
D01301951 Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor.
D03071951 Ivor Novello, British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning).
D03131951 James I. Wedgwood, British theosophist, Catholic bishop.
D04161951 Seventy-five people died when the British submarine Affray sank in the English Channel.
D04291951 Ludwig J. J. Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher.
D08141951 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, in Beverly Hills.
D10061951 Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated.
D02061952 King George VI of UK. His daughter becomes Elizabeth II.
D11291952 Rosa Lewis, English chef/owner (Cavendish Hotel London).
D01011953 Hank Williams, country-western music singer.
D03051953 Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator, in Moscow.
D03051953 Sergei Prokofiev, composer, in Moscow.
D03101953 Charles Gordon Curtis, inventor of Curtis-steam turbine.
D05041953 Edward B. B. Shanks, British poet/critic.
D09281953 Edwin Powell Hubble, US astronomer.
D10081953 Kathleen Ferrier, English alto singer.
D11091953 Dylan Marlais Thomas, Welsh romantic poet, in New York.
D11241953 Robert H. Lightfoot, English theologist.
D11271953 Eugene O'Neill, dramatist, in Boston.
D12181953 Robert Andrews Millikan, US physicist.
D01311954 Edwin H Armstrong, US radio inventor (FM), committed suicide.
D02261954 William R. Inge, English theologist/philosopher.
D06081954 Alan M. Turing, British mathematician (Turing), committed suicide.
D11281954 Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist.
D11291954 George Edward Robey, English comic/actor (Henry IV).
D12201954 James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon).
D03111955 Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin.
D04071955 Theda Bara, silent film actress.
D04181955 Albert Einstein, German-born physicist.
D07131955 Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging.
D08121955 Thomas Mann, American author.
D09101955 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer.
D09301955 James Dean, film actor, in two car crash, in California.
D01231956 Alexander Korda, English movie producer (Henry VIII).
D04191956 Lionel K. P. "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II).
D06191956 Thomas J. Watson, Sr., founder of IBM.
D08141956 Bertolt Brecht, dramatist and theatrical director.
D09071956 Charles Burgess Fry, English athlete/cricketer/journalist.
D01141957 Humphrey Bogart, actor.
D01211957 Arthur L. Bowley, English statistician/economist.
D03021957 Harry E Soref, inventor of padlock.
D03231957 L. Patrick Abercrombie, English architect.
D03291957 Joyce A. L. Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth).
D04221957 Ignatius Roy D. Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca).
D06271957 Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Ultramarine).
D07211957 Bernard Spooner, US inventor of the bulletproof jacket.
D10191957 Vere G. Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian.
D02051958 Henry M. Tomlinson, British writer (Under red ensign).
D05191958 Ronald Colman, British actor (Prisoner of Zenda).
D06281958 Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood).
D09111958 Robert Service, Canadian poet.
D09171958 Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian/British chemist.
D01211959 Cecil B. de Mille, film producer.
D02021959 Buddy Holly, rock singer Charles Hardin Holley.
D02151959 Owen W Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928).
D03071959 Arthur C. Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare).
D04091959 Frank Lloyd Wright, architect.
D04271959 Gordon Armstrong, inventor of baby incubator.
D06181959 Ethel Barrymore, American actress.
D08191959 Jacob Epstein, US/English sculptor/painter.
D09061959 Kay Kendall, British actress (Genevieve) of leukaemia.
D12231959 Edward F. L. W. Halifax, English Viscount, Viceroy of India.
D02071960 Igor Vasilevich Kuchatov, Russian nuclear physicist.
D02281960 F. S. Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement).
D04111960 Archibald McIndoe, New Zealand-born plastic surgeon.
D05231960 Georges Claude, engineer, inventor of the neon light.
D08231960 Oscar Hammerstein II, librettist.
D09221960 Melanie Klein, Austria/British psycho analyst.
D09271960 Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist, daughter of Emmeline.
D09301960 Harry St John Philby, (sheik Abdullah), British explorer.
D11161960 Clark Gable, film actor.
D01101961 Dashiell Hammett, American author.
D02051961 Anthony G. de Rothschild, British philanthropist.
D03061961 George Formby, British singer/comedian.
D03081961 Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Last Night of the Prom).
D04061961 Jules Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist.
D05131961 Gary Cooper, movie actor.
D06061961 Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychologist.
D06301961 Lee de Forest, inventor of the electron tube.
D07161961 (Louise) Sophie M E de Vries, actress (English Prof).
D09211961 Earle Dickson, inventor (band-aid).
D12131961 Anna Mary "Grandma" Moses, American primitive painter.
D12251961 Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope.
D01161962 Ernie Kovacs, comedian, in automobile crash.
D03261962 Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper.
D07201962 George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian.
D11071962 Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of US President.
D11181962 Niels Henrik Bohr, Danish physicist.
D12151962 Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame).
D01111963 Arthur D. Nock, English/American historian (St Paul).
D02181963 Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party.
D06031963 Pope John XXIII.
D06121963 Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II).
D06171963 John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils).
D09011963 Guy Burgess, British spy for the USSR.
D09121963 Mervyn A. Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope).
D10131963 Henry Daniell, English actor (Woman in Green, Body Snatchers).
D11211963 Robert Stroud (a.k.a. Bird Man of Alcatraz).
D11221963 Aldous L. Huxley, English author (Devils of Loudon).
D11221963 William R. Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars).
D12091963 Juan de la Cierva, Spanish engineer.
D02081964 Tom Terriss, English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru).
D02201964 R. T. Stanyforth, English cricket wicket keeper (S Africa 1927-28).
D04141964 Rachel Carson, American author of "Silent Spring".
D06091964 Lord Beaverbrook, politician and newspaper man.
D07241964 Erwin F. Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer.
D08121964 Ian L. Fleming, British journalist/writer (James Bond).
D11281964 Jan Fabricius, Dutch/English playwright (Dolle Hans).
D12011964 J. B. S. Haldane, English scientist and writer.
D12091964 Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels).
D01041965 T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, poet, at age 76.
D04211965 Edward V. Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947).
D05011965 Spike Jones, American band leader.
D05031965 Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us).
D05211965 Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer.
D07141965 Adlai Stevenson, US statesman.
D09041965 Albert Schweitzer, French organist and missionary surgeon.
D09271965 Clara Bow, silent-film actress.
D10021965 (John) Selwyn (Brooke) Lloyd, British statesman.
D12161965 William Somerset Maugham, English novelist and dramatist (Razor's Edge).
D04021966 Cecil Scott Forester, English author (Horatio Hornblower).
D04101966 Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black Mischief).
D05141966 Megan Lloyd George, English politician.
D06271966 Arthur D. Waley, (Schloss), British sinology/poet (Monkey).
D07301966 Edward G. Craig, English actor/director (On Art of Theatre).
D08031966 Lenny Bruce, comedian, of morphine overdose.
D12151966 Walt Disney, animator and film producer.
D01161967 Robert Van de Graff, US nuclear physicist.
D01271967 Three US astronauts died in a fire which broke out aboard the spacecraft Apollo during tests at Cape Kennedy.
D02181967 Robert Oppenheimer, US physicist, pioneer of the atomic bomb.
D06031967 Arthur W. Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II).
D07211967 Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box).
D07221967 Carl Sandburg, poet at Flat Rock, North Carolina.
D08091967 Joe Orton, English actor/playwright (Leaf, Murdered).
D08281967 Charles Darrow, US inventor of Monopoly.
D09011967 Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet/writer (Counterattack).
D09181967 John Douglas Cockcroft, English nuclear physicist.
D10031967 Woody Guthrie, folk singer.
D10031967 Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Last Night of Proms).
D10071967 Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933).
D10071967 Clarence Birdseye, US inventor of deep-freezing process.
D02211968 Howard Walter Florey, Australian pathologist who developed penicillin.
D02211968 Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial).
D05011968 Harold G. Nicolson, English author (English sense of humour).
D06011968 Helen Keller, writer and spokeswoman for the deaf and blind.
D07261968 Lilian Harvey, British actress (Congress Dances).
D08311968 George P. Gooch, English historian/House of Commons leader.
D09191968 Chester F. Carlson, US inventor of the xerography photocopying process.
D10271968 Lise Meitner, Austrian nuclear physicist.
D12201968 John Steinbeck, author.
D02021969 Boris Karloff, (Pratt), British actor (Frankenstein).
D03281969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, American statesman and soldier.
D05041969 F. Osbert S. Sitwell, English poet (Who Killed Cock Robin?).
D06221969 Judy Garland, actress and singer, in London.
D08141969 Leonard Sidney Woolf, English publisher/writer.
D09031969 Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnamese president.
D10211969 Jack Kerouac, American "beat" poet.
D01051970 Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954).
D01291970 Basil H Liddell Hart, English military historian.
D01301970 Malcolm Keen, English actor (Uncle Chris-Mama).
D02021970 Bertrand Arthur William Russell, English philosopher, in Merioneth.
D03111970 Erle Stanley Gardner, writer and creator of Perry Mason.
D04271970 Gypsy Rose Lee, American entertainer and author.
D05171970 Nigel M. Balchin, English author (My Executioner).
D07071970 Allen Lane (Williams), English publisher (Penguin Books).
D07281970 John Barbirolli, English conductor (NY Philharmonic Orch).
D09181970 Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist of drug overdose.
D10041970 Janis Joplin, singer, of heroin overdose in Hollywood.
D11091970 Charles de Gaulle, French military and political leader.
D11211970 Venkata Raman, Indian physicist.
D12081970 Christopher K Ingold, English chemist.
D01101971 Coco Chanel, fashion designer.
D04061971 Igor Stravinsky, composer of "The Firebird" and "The Rite of Spring", in New York City.
D05151971 Donald F. Duncan, inventor of the yo-yo.
D05191971 Ogden Nash, humorist.
D07031971 Jim Morrison, rock singer with the Doors, of drug overdose in Paris.
D05021972 J. Edgar Hoover, first director of the FBI.
D05221972 Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's).
D10011972 Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, English anthropologist.
D10011972 Louis Leakey, English anthropologist.
D10261972 Igor Sikorsky, US aeronautical engineer, inventor of the helicopter.
D03061973 Pearl Buck, American novelist.
D03081973 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, musician (Grateful Dead), in CA.
D03261973 Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters).
D08311973 Stan Worthington, English cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1930-36).
D09021973 John R. R. Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbitt), of an ulcer.
D09201973 Jim Croce, singer, in plane crash.
D09231973 A. S. Neill, British headmaster.
D09281973 Wystan H. Auden, British/US writer (Spain, Platonic Blow).
D10181973 Walt Kelly (Walter Crawford Kelly), American cartoonist and illustrator (Pogo author).
D10221973 Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist.
D01201974 Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic.
D01311974 Samuel Goldwyn, Polish/English US film magnate (MGM).
D05221974 Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, Stanford University's first woman Professor of Engineering.
D05241974 Duke Ellington, jazz composer and pianist.
D06101974 Henry W. F. A., English Duke of Gloucester, Baron Culloden.
D07131974 Patrick M. S. Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948).
D07241974 James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935).
D08101974 Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death).
D08221974 Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian.
D08261974 Charles Augustus Lindbergh, US pioneer aviator.
D11131974 Karen Silkwood, plutonium plant worker.
D01031975 Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag).
D02141975 Pelham G. Wodehouse, English/US writer (Piccadilly Jim).
D02141975 Julian Huxley, English biologist and philosopher.
D04141975 Frederick March, actor.
D05201975 Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor in a fire.
D06271975 Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, English applied mathematician.
D10221975 Arnold Toynbee, English historian, cultural sociologist.
D11201975 Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain, in Madrid.
D12071975 Thornton Wilder, novelist, author of "The Bridge of San Luis Rey".
D01081976 Chou En-lai, Chinese premier.
D01121976 Agatha Christie, mystery writer.
D02221976 Michael Polany, Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist.
D03241976 Bernard L. Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel.
D04051976 Howard Hughes, industrialist.
D06091976 Dame Sybil Thorndike, actress.
D07211976 Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated.
D08021976 Fritz Lang, film director.
D09091976 Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Communist Party Chairman, at age of 82.
D11281976 Rosalind Russell, actress of cancer at age 63.
D12201976 Richard Daley, mayor of Chicago.
D01141977 Anthony Eden, British premier (1955-57).
D02091977 Sergei Vladimirovich Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer.
D08041977 Edgar Adrian, British physiologist.
D08131977 Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter).
D12121977 Clementine O. Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British Barones.
D02041978 Bergen Evans, English professor ($64,000 Question).
D09071978 Keith Moon, musician (The Who), of drug overdose in London.
D11151978 Margaret Mead, US anthropologist.
D02281979 Jane Hylton, English actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot).
D03021979 Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland.
D03301979 Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb.
D08271979 Louis Mountbatten, British Admiral of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA.
D10051979 Charlie Smith, oldest American (137 yrs).
D10301979 Barnes Neville Wallis, British aeronautical engineer.
D01031980 Joy Adamson, British naturalist and author.
D01181980 Cecil Beaton, British photographer.
D02221980 Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist.
D04291980 Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British film producer and director (Psycho, Birds).
D05181980 Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division), committed suicide at age 23.
D06071980 Henry Miller, American playwright.
D07011980 Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends & Associates).
D07271980 The deposed Shah of Iran, in Cairo, Egypt.
D08231980 Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech).
D09251980 John Bonham, musician (Led Zeppelin), of alcohol poisoning.
D11221980 Mae West, actress and sex idol, in LA at age 87.
D01231981 Samuel Barber, American composer.
D05111981 Bob Marley, Reggae singer, in hospital in Miami.
D12271981 Hoagy Carmichael, American songwriter.
D01301982 Lightnin' Hopkins, most-recorded blues artist.
D02171982 Thelonius Monk, jazz musician, in Englewood, NJ.
D03051982 John Belushi, actor, in Los Angeles.
D03111982 Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came).
D04261982 Celia Johnson, British actress (Jean Brodie) of a stroke.
D06141982 Marie Rambert, (Cyviam Ramberg), Polish/British ballerina.
D08021982 Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables).
D10081982 Philip J. Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959).
D11031982 Edward H. Carr, British historian.
D11101982 Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet President, at age 75.
D11161982 Arthur Askey, British comedian.
D12201982 Arthur Rubinstein, pianist, in Geneva, Switzerland.
D03261983 Anthony F. Blunt, British art historian, spy for USSR.
D07011983 R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, in LA.
D07291983 Raymond Massey, actor.
D07291983 David Niven, actor.
D08171983 Ira Gershwin, lyricist and brother of George Gershwin.
D10101983 Ralph (David) Richardson, English actor (Richard III).
D11151983 John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army).
D12131983 Mary Renault (Challans), British author (Funeral games).
D01141984 Ray Kroc, founder of the McDonald's fast food empire.
D01201984 Johnny Weismuller, Tarzan, actor and swimmer at 79, in Acapulco.
D03281984 Kenneth Whitty, 1st Sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead.
D03301984 Peter Yarrall, strongest Englishman, weighed 826 lb (374.7 kg).
D04051984 Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF.
D04061984 Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border).
D04091984 Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher.
D04201984 Mabel Mercer, English/US singer (Fly me to the moon).
D05151984 Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist.
D05201984 Peter Bull, British actor (Dr Doolittle) of a heart attack.
D05281984 Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe & Wise).
D06201984 Lillian Hellman, American author and playwright.
D07271984 James Mason, British actor (Lolita) of a heart attack, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
D08061984 Richard Burton, Welsh actor.
D08141984 John Boynton Priestley, English, stage writer (Magicians).
D08271984 Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street).
D09061984 Ernest Tubb, American country music star.
D01041985 Brian Gwynne Horrocks, English Lt-General (A Full Life).
D03071985 Victor W Farris, inventor of paper milk carton, etc.
D04251985 Richard Haydn, British actor (Mutiny on the Bounty).
D05111985 Samuel Frith, English co-founder of soccer team (Bradford City).
D05161985 Margaret Hamilton, actor known for her role as Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz.
D06111985 Karen Ann Quinlan, finally, in her mother's arms, of pneumonia after 10 years in a coma.
D06301985 James Dewar, inventor of the Twinkie.
D07301985 Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, US mathematician.
D08131985 Kenneth Ernst, "Mary Worth" artist since 1942 at age 67.
D10021985 Rock Hudson, actor, of complications of AIDS.
D10101985 Yul Brynner, actor (The King and I, The Ten Commandments), of lung cancer.
D10101985 Orson Welles, radio and movie star.
D12011985 Bill Scott, actor who did the voice of Bullwinkle, Doright and Mr. Peabody.
D12021985 Philip Larkin, (Hermit of Hull), English poet.
D12071985 Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus).
D01041986 Christopher Isherwood, British writer (Lions & Shadows).
D01141986 Donna Reed, actress of cancer.
D03301986 James Cagney, actor.
D04031986 Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice).
D04241986 The Duchess of Windsor, in Paris at age 89.
D07181986 Stanley Rous, British soccer official.
D08311986 Henry Moore, English sculptor/cartoonist.
D09171986 Patricia Phoenix, English actress (Coronation Street).
D01151987 Ray Bolger, "Scarecrow" in the Wizard of Oz.
D01191987 Gerald Brenan, English writer.
D02041987 Liberace (Wladzio Valentino), pianist and entertainer of AIDS related disease.
D02221987 Andy Warhol, creator of the Pop art movement.
D02221987 David Susskind, talk show producer and host.
D02271987 Joan Greenwood, English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister).
D03031987 Danny Kaye, actor and comedian.
D03141987 John Holmes, porn star.
D03211987 Robert Preston, actor, known for his role as the Music Man, at age 68.
D03281987 Maria Augusta von Trapp, of the Austrian family portrayed in the film "Sound of Music", at 82.
D05141987 Rita Hayworth, actress, of Alzheimer's disease.
D06221987 Fred Astaire, dancer and actor.
D06241987 Jackie Gleason, comedian and actor at 87.
D08291987 Lee Marvin, actor.
D10021987 Peter Medawar, British immunologist.
D10191987 Jacqueline du Pre, British cellist.
D10291987 Woody Herman, jazz musician.
D01111988 Isidor Rabi, US physicist.
D02061988 Marghanita Laski, English author (Victorian chaise-lounge).
D02151988 Richard Feynman, winner of Nobel prize, in physics, educator, philosopher, bongo player.
D05111988 H. A. R. (Kim) Philby, British double agent.
D10271988 Charles Hawtrey, English actor (Carry On) near London.
D12211988 Nicholas Tinbergen, Dutch/British biologist.
D01071989 Emperor Hirohito of Japan of cancer. Succeeded by his son Akihito, a fish biologist.
D01181989 Bruce Chatwin, British writer.
D01231989 Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter and founder of the movement.
D02061989 Barbara Tuchman, historian and author "A Distant Mirror".
D03141989 Edward Abbey, environmentalist author, author of "The Monkey Wrench Gang", in Tucson, AZ.
D04191989 Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn).
D05201989 John R. Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972).
D06041989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, political and spiritual leader of Iran.
D06271989 Alfred J. Ayer, English philosopher (Logical Positivism).
D07101989 Thomas E. "Tommy" Trinder, English comic (Bitter Springs).
D07101989 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny and many others.
D07111989 Sir Laurence Olivier, actor.
D08231989 Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry).
D09221989 Irving Berlin, songwriter, at the age of 101.
D09281989 Ferdinand Marcos, Phillippine hero and dictator.
D10041989 Graham Chapman, actor (Monty Python's Flying Circus), of cancer.
D11051989 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist.
D12051989 John M. Pritchard, British conductor.
D12141989 Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and human-rights campaigner.
D12191989 Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author.
D01201990 Barbara Stanwyck, actress.
D01251990 Ava Gardner, actress.
D05161990 Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, of complications of the flu.
D05161990 Sammy Davis Jr., entertainer, of throat cancer.
D06021990 Rex Harrison, actor (Professor Henry Higgins from "My Fair Lady").
D06021990 Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the semi-conductor, founder of Intel.
D06161990 Eva Turner, British soprano.
D07081990 Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests).
D07301990 Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered.
D08011990 Norbert Elias, German/English/Netherlands philosopher/sociologist.
D08121990 B. Kliban, cartoonist best known for his "CAT" character.
D08181990 Pearl Baily, spiritual singer.
D08191990 B. F. Skinner, psychologist.
D08211990 George Adamson, British conservationist (Born Free), murdered in Kenya.
D09071990 Alan J. P. Taylor, British historian (Origins of WW II).
D09141990 Leonard Bernstein, conductor and composer.
D11031990 Mary Martin, stage actress of Peter Pan and South Pacific.
D11071990 Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Mount Olive).
D12021990 Aaron Copland, Americian composer.
D02211991 Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (first Lady of British Ballet).
D03011991 Edwin H. Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), his 500 patents was exceeded only by Edison.
D03031991 Arthur Murray, dance instructor.
D03211991 Leo Fender, inventor of Fender guitar.
D03271991 Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard).
D04201991 Steve Marriott, English guitarist (Small Faces) in a fire.
D04301991 George Sperti Sperti, inventor of "Preparation H".
D05161991 Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer.
D05231991 Peter T. Thwaites, British Brig-Gen, playwright (Love or money).
D05311991 Angus Wilson, (Johnstone-W), British writer (Wrong Set).
D06091991 Charles Loloma, painter and sculptor.
D06141991 Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (A passage to India).
D06141991 Joy Finzi, (Joyce A Black), British painter.
D07241991 Freddie Brown, cricketer (English Test captain 1950-51).
D08121991 Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St Justice).
D08131991 Jack Ryan, inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels).
D08201991 Betty Bowden, British dancer/actress (Vote for Nigel).
D08291991 Dallas Adams, British painter/writer/actor (Terror from Within).
D09011991 Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl).
D10221991 Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live).
D11141991 Tony Richardson, British director (Tom Jones) of AIDS.
D11241991 Freddie Mercury, British singer (Queen) of AIDS.
D12031991 Alex Graham, British cartoon strip artist (Fred Basset).
D12141991 Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas).
D12151991 Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die).
D01101992 Barbara Couper, British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn).
D02021992 Jack (John T.) Aitken, British anatomist.
D02161992 Angela Carter, British novelist (Magic Toyshop) of cancer.
D02211992 Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars).
D02291992 Johnny Mack, British actor (Time Lord-Dr Who).
D03041992 Christian K Nelson, inventor of Eskimo Pie.
D03171992 Charles Rea, British actor (Ipcress File).
D03231992 Friedrich A. von Hayek, British economist (Road to Serfdom).
D04061992 Isaac Asimov, US scientist.
D04281992 Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter.
D05091992 Mike Tyrell (Red Baron), British air acrobat in an accident.
D05111992 Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita).
D05211992 Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer.
D07121992 Reginald Beck, English film editor (Robbery, Accident, Boom).
D07121992 Albert Pierrepont, last British executioner (433 men/17 women).
D08121992 Lady Rothermere, (Bubbles), wife of British newspaper magnate.
D10011992 Bruce Vorhauer, inventor of contraceptive sponge, committed suicide.
D10061992 Denholm Elliott, English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark).
D10291992 Kenneth MacMillan, British choreographer (Manon, Judas Tree).
D11091992 Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was).
D12211992 Sybil Andrews, English/Canada painter.
D12251992 Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author.
D12251992 Helen B. M. Fennell Joseph, English/South African anti-apartheid.
D12251992 Ted Croker, RAF-pilot, secretary of English soccer team (sponsoring).
D02091993 David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service).
D02121993 James Bulger, English child, aged 2, beaten to death by 10 yr old boys.
D02181993 Leslie Norman, English director, producer (Dunkirk).
D02241993 Bobby Moore, English soccer team captain (World champs 1966).
D02281993 Joyce Carey, (Lawrence), English actress (Number 27).
D03061993 Nicholas Ridley, English Minister of Finance.
D03101993 C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist.
D03201993 Jonathan Ball, 3yr old English youngster, killed by IRA.
D03271993 Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas) of cancer.
D04151993 Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint).
D04291993 Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople).
D05091993 Penelope Gilliatt (Conner), British author.
D05091993 Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday).
D05181993 Pamela M. Cunnington, English architect/writer.
D05201993 Max Klein, inventor of "paint by numbers".
D05211993 John Frost, English Lt-Col (operation Market Garden 1944).
D06091993 Ian Mikardo, British politician.
D06111993 Muriel C. Bradbrook, English writer (Rise of Common Player).
D06171993 Angus Suttie, English potter of AIDS.
D07061993 John Bolton, English astronomer.
D07081993 Fred Weick, US aeronautical engineer.
D07171993 Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel).
D08281993 René Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again).
D09011993 Hew Lorimer, British sculptor.
D09021993 Eric Berry, English/US actor (Pippin, 49th Parallel).
D09201993 Leonard Parkin, British TV host (ITN).
D09261993 James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79).
D09301993 Alex Lyon, English Labor Lower house leader (1966-83).
D10071993 Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band).
D10171993 William Paton, English pharmacologist.
D10191993 Roy Armstrong, English historian (Traditional buildings).
D10241993 Desmond Nuttall, English theorist.
D11031993 Leon Theremin, Russian electronic musical instruments inventor.
D11281993 Kenneth Connor, English comic/actor (Carry on Sergeant).
D12031993 Lewis Thomas, US physician and biologist.
D12071993 Wolfgang Pauli, German nuclear physicist.
D12211993 Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon).
D12241993 Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers).
D02201994 Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England).
D02271994 Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector.
D04071994 Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity).
D04091994 Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare).
D04151994 John Curry, English figure skater (Olympic Gold 1976) of AIDS.
D04251994 David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs).
D05121994 John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94).
D05271994 Norman Cook, British museum curator.
D05301994 Baron Marcel Bich, inventor of the "Bic" Pen.
D05311994 Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director.
D06061994 Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day, Admirable Crichton).
D06071994 Dennis Potter, British TV writer (Pennies from Heaven).
D06141994 Simon Prior, British auto maker of injuries.
D07301994 Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst.
D07311994 Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band).
D08051994 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot.
D08141994 Joan Harrison, English producer, Alfred Hitchcock's sect.
D08141994 Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981).
D08191994 Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House).
D08301994 Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic.
D09031994 Billy Wright, English soccer player (World Champion 1950).
D09071994 Terence Young, British director (Thunderball).
D09081994 Arthur Rex Alston, British sports commentator.
D09101994 Amy Clampitt, British poet (Silence Opens).
D09161994 Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom).
D10091994 James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free).
D10221994 Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor of Endoscope.
D10311994 John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian.
D11181994 Michael (George) Somes, English dancer (Royal Ballet).
D12061994 Alan Owen, English screenwriter, actor (Hard Day's Night).
D12101994 Keith Joseph, British MP (C).
D12111994 Stanislaw Maczek, Polish/British General-Major (WW II).
D12181994 Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month).
D12211994 Shauna McDonald Brown, British TV producer.
D12241994 Nathan I. Daniel, inventor (Guitars).
D12241994 John Keith Wright, English Asst Sect of State (1971-84).
D12241994 John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Luther).
D01031995 Gerard W. Taylor, South African/British surgeon.
D01061995 Edward Sutcliffe, judge (British Central Criminal Court).
D01071995 Larry Grayson, British entertainer (Generation Game).
D01091995 Peter Cook, English comic/actor (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled).
D01111995 John A. G. Gere, English art historian (Raphael & his Circle).
D01221995 Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar).
D01241995 Ian Prestt, English ornithologist.
D01261995 Vic Buckingham, English soccer player/trainer (Ajax).
D01271995 Halsey S Colchester, British SAS/MI6-spy/priest.
D01271995 Geoffrey Parsons, Australian/British pianist.
D01291995 Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect.
D01291995 Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock, English agronomist (Rhodesia).
D01291995 Richard Burnell, British rower (Olympic Gold 1948).
D01301995 Gerald M. Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird).
D01301995 George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City).
D01311995 James Johnson, English MP (Labour, 1950-83).
D02021995 Fred Perry, English tennis star (Wimbledon 1934-36).
D02021995 Donald Pleasance, English actor (Halloween).
D02041995 Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn.
D02081995 Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor.
D02141995 Roger de Grey, English chairman of Royal Academy (1984-93).
D02151995 Viscount Camrose, British large landowner.
D02231995 David Melvin English Franklin, singer.
D02251995 Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby).
D03051995 Vivian Stanshall, British musician (Magical Mystery Tour).
D03071995 Don Cook, British foreign correspondent.
D03081995 Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund).
D03171995 Ronnie Kray, English gangster (The Firm).
D04161995 Arthur English, comedian.
D05241995 Harold Wilson, British PM (1964-70, 74-76) of cancer.
D05281995 Jean Muir, (Dress Queen), British model.
D07161995 Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor.
D08021995 Brian Smith, British sportscaster.
D08191995 Danny Arnold, British TV producer.
D08251995 John Killan Houston Brunner, British sci-fi writer.
D08291995 Harry Broadhurst, British airman.
D09121995 Jeremy Brett, English actor (Sherlock Holmes).
D10091995 Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM).
D11091995 Thelma Hulbert, English house painter.
D01011996 Arleigh Albert Burke, British Admiral.
D01211996 Sam Green, industrialist/inventor.
D02171996 Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary.
D03041996 Barbara Lewis, British obituarist.
D03141996 Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature.
D03281996 Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, British bibliophile.
D04181996 Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor.
D04301996 David Michael Ifshin, British political campaign organiser.
D05241996 John Abbott, British actor (Lady Jane, Quest).
D06071996 (Francis) Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor.
D06101996 Norman Lambert, British restaurateur.
D06111996 Alan Weeks, British sports commentator.
D07091996 Susan Cowdy, British ornithologist.
D07091996 Peter Martini, British journalist.
D08081996 Frank A Whittle, British inventor of the Jet engine.
D09301996 Kenneth Muir, English scholar.
D12291996 Willaim Brown, British TV executive.
D02021997 Godfrey Baseley, British radio executive.
D08311997 Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car crash in Paris
D12041997 Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night).
D01081998 Walter Diemer, inventor (bubble gum 1928), of heart failure.
D03302002 Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon), the Queen Mother.
D06052004 Ronald Reagan, US President.
D04022005 Pope John Paul II, to be replaced by Joseph Ratzinger (elected as Pope Benedict XVI).
D12272007 Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan.
D01112008 Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and first to climb Mt Everest
D06252009 Singer Michael Jackson at his Los Angeles home.
D10052011 Steve Jobs, key figure in Apple computers.
D12172011 Kim Jong-il, the Supreme Leader of North Korea (DPRK), during a train journey.
D08252012 Neil Armstrong , US Pilot and astronaut, first person to land on the moon.
D03052013 Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, dies due to prostate cancer.
D12052013 South Africa leader Nelson Mandela dies at the age of 95 from natural causes.
S10091000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England).
S07041054 Brightest known supernova starts shining, for 23 days.
S07041057 Crab Nebula supernova recorded by Chinese & Japanese astronomers.
S09281066 William the Conqueror landed in England.
S10141066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England.
S12251066 William the Conqueror was crowned king of England.
S11271095 Pope Urban II calls for the First Crusade.
S06181178 Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno.
S06251178 Five Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon (the only known observation of probable meteor strike).
S04121204 Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople.
S07161212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain.
S06151215 King John reluctantly signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede.
S01201265 First English Parliament, called by the Earl of Leicester.
S10301270 The 8th and last crusade is launched.
S08011291 Everlasting League forms, the basis of the Swiss Confederation.
S06241314 Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England.
S08261346 English longbows defeat French in Battle of Crécy.
S09191356 English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers.
S06131373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) is signed.
S09081380 Russians defeat Tartars at Kulikovo, beginning decline of Tartars.
S10251415 Battle of Agincourt, Welsh longbow defeats the armoured knight.
S04291429 Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English.
S05311433 Joan of Arc burnt at the stake.
S06241441 Eton College founded by Henry VI.
S09301452 First book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible.
S05291453 Constantinople falls to the Turks (some believe this signaled the end of the Middle Ages).
S08141457 Oldest exactly dated printed book (ca. 3 years after Gutenberg).
S06261483 Richard III crowned King of England.  Vilified by Thomas More.
S08221485 Richard III slain at Bosworth Field - Last of the Plantagenets.
S04171492 Christopher Columbus contracts with Spain to find the Indies.
S08031492 Columbus sets sail for "the Indies" on his first expedition to the New World.
S10121492 Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day.
S10171492 Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador.
S10281492 Columbus discovers Cuba.
S12051492 Columbus discovers Hispaniola.
S12061492 Haiti discovered by Columbus.
S12261492 First Spanish settlement in the new world founded, by Columbus.
S09251493 Columbus sails on his second voyage to America.
S11191493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico.
S03091497 Nicolaus Copernicus first recorded astronomical observation.
S06241497 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England.
S11181497 Bartholomew Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope.
S07311498 Christopher Columbus discovers island of Trinidad.
S04221500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil.
S07271501 Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral.
S04221509 Henry VIII ascends to throne of England.
S06241509 Henry VIII becomes King of England.
S03271512 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Florida.
S04021513 Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de León.
S04081513 Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida.
S09091513 Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland.
S09251513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
S10311517 Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, begins Protestant Reformation.
S09201519 Magellan starts first successful circumnavigation of the world.
S06151520 The pope threatens to toss Luther out of the Catholic Church.
S11281520 Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean.
S12101520 Martin Luther publicly burns the papal edict demanding he recant.
S01031521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church.
S04171524 New York harbour discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.
S08291526 Hungary conquered by Turks in Battle of Mohács.
S04221529 Spain & Portugal divide eastern hemisphere in Treaty of Saragossa.
S11161532 Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa.
S07111533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII.
S08291533 Last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa, killed by Spanish conquerors.
S12061534 Quito, Ecuador is founded by the Spanish.
S01151535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church.
S07011535 Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason.
S07181536 Pope's authority declared void in England.
S12171538 Pope Paul III excommunicates England's King Henry VIII.
S06031539 Hernando De Soto claims Florida for Spain.
S07091540 Henry VIII's 6-month marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled.
S09271540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola.
S02121541 Santiago, Chile founded.
S03181541 de Soto is first European to record flooding of the Mississippi.
S05081541 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River.
S07121543 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife).
S07161548 La Paz, Bolivia is founded.
S01071558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French.
S11171558 Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary.
S04271565 First Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City.
S08281565 St Augustine, Fla established.
S09081565 First permanent settlement in US founded at St Augustine, Florida.
S09081565 Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St. John.
S06161567 Mary Queen of Scots thrown into Lochleven Castle prison.
S10071571 Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish & Italians in Battle of Lepanto.
S01231579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic.
S11271582 The first Advent Sunday.
S12241582 Vasco daGama Day.
S07281586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe.
S07311588 English fleet attacks Spanish armada.
S04151598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots.
S10201600 Battle of Sekigahara, which established the Tokugawa clan as rulers of Japan (SHOGUN) until 1865 (basis of Clavell's novel).
S12311600 British East India Company chartered.
S10081604 The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is first sighted.
S11051605 Plot to blow up British parliament fails - first Guy Fawkes day.
S12201606 Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown.
S04261607 First British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry.
S05131607 English land to found Jamestown (first permanent settlement).
S07031608 City of Quebec founded by Samuel de Champlain.
S09101608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va.
S10021608 Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch a new invention - the telescope.
S08281609 Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson for the Netherlands.
S09041609 Navigator Henry Hudson discovers the island of Manhattan.
S09121609 Henry Hudson discovers what is now called the Hudson River.
S01071610 Galileo discovers first 3 moons of Jupiter, Io, Europa & Ganymede.
S01131610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, fourth satellite of Jupiter.
S04141611 Word "telescope" is first used by Prince Federico Cesi.
S06131611 John Fabricius dedicates the earliest sunspot publication.
S06221611 Henry Hudson set adrift in Hudson Bay during mutiny.
S04051614 Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
S03051616 Copernicus' DE REVOLUTIONIBUS placed on Catholic forbidden index.
S07301619 The House of Burgesses in Virginia is formed.  first elective governing body in a British colony.
S09161620 The Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims.
S11031620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony.
S11111620 41 Pilgrims sign a compact aboard the Mayflower.
S11191620 Mayflower pilgrims reach Cape Cod.
S12211620 The pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock.
S03161621 First Indian appears at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
S03221621 Massasoit & Pilgrims agree on league of friendship (Plymouth).
S06031621 Dutch West India Company receives charter for "New Netherlands".
S12031621 Galileo invents the telescope.
S03271625 Charles I King of England Scotland & Ireland ascends to throne.
S05041626 Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons.
S09061628 Puritans land at Salem, form Massachusetts Bay Colony.
S03141629 Royal charter grants Massachusetts Bay Colony.
S08261629 Cambridge Agreement pledged.  Massachusetts Bay Co. stockholders agreed to emigrate to New England.
S01131630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued.
S06251630 The Fork is introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop.
S09161630 Massachusetts village of Shawmut changes its name to Boston.
S12061631 First predicted transit of Venus is observed, by Kepler.
S06211633 Galileo Galilei is forced by the Inquisition to "abjure, curse, and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views.  Still in effect.
S03251634 Maryland founded as a Catholic colony.
S10091635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony.
S10041636 First code of law for Plymouth Colony.
S10281636 Harvard University founded.
S03131639 Harvard University is named for clergyman John Harvard.
S06101639 First American log cabin at Ft Christina (Wilmington, Del).
S09251639 First printing press in America goes to work.
S01111642 Isaac Newton is elected a member of Royal Society.
S08131642 Christiaan Huygens discovers the Martian south polar cap.
S01181644 First UFO sighting in America, by perplexed Pilgrims in Boston.
S03141644 Royal patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island).
S03251655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan (Saturn's largest satellite).
S09301659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Defoe).
S07151662 Charles II grants a charter to establish Royal Society in London.
S09161662 Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, first known astronomical observation.
S01061663 Great earthquake in New England.
S04061663 Kings Charles II signs Carolina Charter.
S07081663 King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island.
S06151664 The state of New Jersey is founded.
S09081664 Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to English.
S03061665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was first published, and is still published today.
S06121665 English rename New Amsterdam to New York after the Dutch leave.
S09021666 Great Fire of London starts; destroys St. Paul's Church.
S11141666 Samuel Pepys reports the first blood transfusion (between dogs).
S12281669 A patent for chewing gum is granted to William Semple.
S10251671 Giovanni Cassini discovers Iapetus, satellite of Saturn.
S04061672 Comte de Frontenac, is first appointed governor of New France.
S12231672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn.
S03041675 John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England.
S06221675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II.
S10251675 Iapetus, moon of Saturn, Discovered by Giovanni Cassini.
S03131677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000.
S05311678 Lady Godiva takes a ride through Coventry.
S10291682 Pennsylvania granted to William Penn by King Charles II.
S06231683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; the only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken".
S10181685 Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes, outlaws Protestantism.
S04281686 First volume of Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA is published.
S12191686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe).
S07051687 Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England.
S09261687 Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks & Venetians.
S08251689 Montreal taken by the Iroquois.
S12161689 English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution.
S12231690 John Flamsteed sees Uranus but doesn't realize it's undiscovered.
S02061693 College of William and Mary chartered in Williamsburg, Va.
S02081693 Charter granted for College of William & Mary, second college in US.
S08041693 Champagne is invented by Dom Perignon.
S07271694 Bank of England is chartered.
S12201699 Peter the Great orders Russian New Year changed: Sept 1 to Jan 1.
S07241701 French make first landing at site of Detroit.
S07241704 Great Britain takes Gibraltar from Spain.
S04161705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College.
S01071714 The typewriter is patented (it was built years later).
S11261716 The first lion is exhibited in America (in Boston).
S02101720 Edmund Halley is appointed second Astronomer Royal of England.
S10291727 A severe earthquake strikes New England.
S06091732 Royal Charter for Georgia, granted to James Oglethorpe.
S12191732 Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack".
S03221733 Joseph Priestly (father of soda pop) invents carbonated water.
S10201740 Maria Theresa becomes ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia.
S02131741 First magazine published in America (The American Magazine).
S03231743 George Frederic Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London.
S12311744 James Bradley announces earth's motion of nutation (wobbling).
S10221746 Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
S03231752 Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, dies 2 days later.
S05111752 First US fire insurance policy is issued, in Philadelphia.
S09141752 England and colonies adopt Gregorian calendar, 11 days disappear.
S01041754 Columbia University opens.
S04281754 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty occurs.
S09181755 Fort Ticonderoga, New York opened.
S06191756 146 English people imprisoned in Black Hole of Calcutta.
S06231757 Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal.
S09121758 Charles Messier observes the Crab Nebula and begins catalog.
S01151759 British Museum opens.
S11241759 Destructive eruption of Vesuvius.
S03201760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings.
S02101763 Treaty of Paris ends French & Indian War.
S03221765 Britain enacts the now infamous Stamp Act.
S03241765 Britain enacts Quartering Act.
S10071765 The Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York.
S03181766 Britain repeals Stamp Act, partial cause of American Revolution.
S06071769 Daniel Boone begins exploring the Bluegrass State of Kentucky.
S07161769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, first mission in Calif.
S03051770 Boston Massacre.
S06031770 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo founded in California.
S06111770 Capt Cook runs aground on Australian Great Barrier Reef.
S07141771 Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California.
S09081771 Mission San Gabriel Archangel founded in California.
S06101772 British revenue cutter "Gaspee" is burned by Rhode Islanders.
S06221772 Slavery is outlawed in England.
S01171773 Capt James Cook becomes first to cross Antarctic Circle (66° 33" S).
S12161773 Big Tea Party in Boston harbour.  Indians most welcome.
S09051774 First Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia.
S10141774 First declaration of colonial rights in America.
S03231775 Patrick Henry asks for Liberty or Death.
S04181775 "The British are Coming!" Paul Revere rides.
S04191775 At Lexington Common, the shot "heard round the world".
S04201775 British begin siege of Boston.
S05101775 Continental Congress issues paper currency for first time.
S06141775 The US Army is founded.
S06151775 Washington appointed commander-in-chief of the American Army.
S06161775 The Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill).
S06221775 First Continental currency authorized.
S07031775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass.
S07261775 Benjamin Franklin becomes the first Postmaster General.
S08051775 The first Spanish ship, "San Carlos", enters San Francisco bay.
S10131775 Continental Congress establishes a navy.
S11101775 US Marine Corps established by Congress.
S01021776 First American revolutionary flag displayed.
S01101776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine is published.
S06071776 Richard Lee of Virginia calls for Declaration of Independence.
S06121776 Virginia is first to adopt the Bill of Rights.
S06291776 Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay.
S07041776 U.S. Declaration of Independence from Britain.
S07081776 Col. John Nixon gives first public reading of Declaration of Independence.
S08271776 Americans defeated by British in Battle of Long Island.
S09091776 Continental Congress authorizes the name "United States".
S09151776 British forces occupy New York during the American Revolution.
S09171776 The Presidio of San Francisco was founded as Spanish fort.
S10091776 Mission Delores is founded by San Francisco Bay.
S12051776 Phi Beta Kappa, first American scholastic fraternity, founded.
S12251776 Washington crosses the Delaware and surprises the Hessians.
S01031777 Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ.
S01121777 Mission Santa Clara de Asis founded in California.
S04261777 16 year old Sybil Ludington rides from NY to CT rallying her father's militia to fight the British in Danbury.
S06141777 Stars and Stripes adopted as US flag, replacing Grand Union flag.
S09111777 Battle of Brandywine, PA -  Americans lose to British.
S10071777 British defeated by Americans at the Battle of Saratoga.
S10171777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY.
S11151777 Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
S12171777 France recognizes independence of the 13 colonies in America.
S12191777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge for the winter.
S01151778 Nootka Sound discovered by Capt. Cook.
S01181778 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Hawaiian Islands.
S03071778 James Cook first sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay.
S03221778 Captain Cook sights Cape Flattery, in Washington state.
S04011778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans Businessman, creates the "$".
S06191778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
S11261778 Captain Cook discovers Maui (in the Sandwich Islands).
S09231779 Naval engagement between "Bonhomme Richard" and "HMS Serepis".
S09231780 John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point.
S03011781 The Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress.
S09041781 Los Angeles is founded in the Valley of Smokes (Indian Name).
S09051781 Battle of Virginia Capes, where the French Fleet defeats the British rescue fleet, trapping Cornwallis at Yorktown.
S09281781 Siege of Yorktown begins, last battle of the Revolutionary War.
S09301781 siege of Yorktown begins.
S10171781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown.
S10191781 Cornwallis surrenders at 2PM, the fighting is over.
S11051781 John Hanson elected first "President of the United States in Congress assembled" (8 years before Washington was elected).
S06201782 Congress approves Great Seal of US and the Eagle as its symbol.
S06051783 Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make first public balloon flight.
S08271783 First hydrogen-filled balloon ascent (unmanned).
S09031783 Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, is signed.
S11251783 British evacuate New York, their last military position in US.
S12041783 Gen. Washington bids his officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern,.
S01041784 US treaty with Great Britain is ratified.
S01141784 Revolutionary War ends when Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris.
S06041784 Mme. Thible becomes first woman to fly (in a balloon).
S09211784 First daily newspaper in US begins publication in Pennsylvania.
S01071785 First balloon flight across the English Channel.
S06081786 First commercially made ice cream is sold in New York.
S01111787 Titania & Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel.
S05251787 Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia.
S08221787 John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton.
S09171787 The Constitution of The United States is adopted.
S09271787 Constitution submitted to the states for ratification.
S10271787 The "Federalist" letters started appearing in NY newspapers.
S12071787 Delaware ratifies the Constitution, becomes the first state.
S12121787 Pennsylvania becomes the second state.
S12181787 New Jersey becomes the third state.
S01021788 Georgia is fourth state to ratify US constitution.
S01091788 Connecticut becomes 5th state.
S01261788 First settlement established by the English in Australia.
S01291788 Australia Day.
S06211788 US Constitution effective as NH is ninth state to ratify it.
S09131788 New York City becomes the capitol of the United States.
S03041789 Congress declares the Constitution to be in effect.
S04301789 George Washington is inaugurated as first president of the US.
S06031789 Alex Mackenzie began exploration of Mackenzie River.
S07141789 French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille.
S08281789 William Herschel discovers Enceladus, satellite of Saturn.
S09021789 US Treasury Department established by Congress.
S09151789 Department of Foreign Affairs is renamed the Department of State.
S09171789 William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn.
S09221789 The US Post Office was established.
S09241789 Congress creates the Post Office.
S09251789 Congress proposes the Bill of Rights.
S09261789 Jefferson appointed first Sec of State; John Jay first chief justice; Samuel Osgood first Postmaster & Edmund J Randolph first Attorney Gen.
S10031789 Washington proclaims the first national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26.
S11201789 New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
S11211789 NC becomes 12th state.
S11261789 The first national celebration of Thanksgiving.
S01041790 President Washington delivers first "State of the Union" speech.
S02011790 US Supreme Court convened for first time (NYC).
S04101790 US Patent system established.
S04151790 First US patent law passed.
S07161790 Congress establishes the District of Columbia.
S07311790 First US Patent granted (for a potash process).
S08011790 First U.S. Census.
S12171790 an Aztec calendar stone is discovered in Mexico City.
S12201790 First successful US cotton mill, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
S03031791 Congress passed a resolution ordering U.S. Mint be established.
S03041791 Vermont admitted as 14th state.
S06201791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution.
S08261791 John Fitch granted a US patent for his working steamboat.
S12151791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval.
S12171791 New York City traffic regulation creates the first one-way street.
S03041792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii.
S04021792 Congress establishes Coin denominations and authorizes US Mint.
S05171792 24 brokers meet to found the New York Stock Exchange.
S06011792 Kentucky becomes 15th state.
S10131792 George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Executive Mansion.
S11141792 George Vancouver is first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay.
S12091792 The first cremation in the US.
S01091793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes first balloon flight in North America.
S03041793 Shortest inauguration speech, 133 words, Washington (second time).
S09181793 Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building.
S10281793 Eli Whitney applies for patent for the cotton gin.
S11081793 The Louvre, in Paris, is opened to the public.
S12091793 Noah Webster establishes New York's first daily newspaper.
S03141794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
S03271794 The US Navy is founded.
S03281794 Nathan Briggs gets patent for the washing machine.
S08011794 Whisky Rebellion.
S09161795 British capture Capetown.
S10271795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi.
S03091796 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais.
S04131796 First elephant brought to America.
S06011796 Tennessee becomes 16th state.
S07081796 First American Passport issued by the US State Department.
S09191796 George Washington's presidential farewell address.
S06261797 Charles Newbold patents first cast-iron plow.
S09201797 US frigate "Constitution" (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston.
S10111797 British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, Netherlands.
S10211797 US Navy frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, launched in Boston.
S10221797 André-Jacques Garnerin makes first parachute jump from balloon.
S04301798 Department of the Navy established.
S07111798 US Marine Corps is created by an act of Congress.
S07231798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt.
S01091799 First income tax imposed, in England.
S11091799 Napoleon becomes dictator (first consul) of France.
S04241800 Library of Congress is founded with a $5000 allocation.
S11171800 Congress convenes for its first Washington, DC session.
S01011801 United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland established.
S01011801 Giuseppe Piazzi discovered first asteroid, later named Ceres.
S03041801 Jefferson is the first President inaugurated in Washington, DC.
S06101801 State of Tripoli declares war on the US.
S11101801 Kentucky outlaws duelling.
S03161802 Law signed to establish US Military Academy at West Point, NY.
S03271802 Asteroid Pallas discovered by Heinrich Olbers.
S07041802 US Military Academy officially opens at West Point, NY.
S04301803 US more than doubles its size through the Louisiana Purchase.
S10201803 The Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
S10211803 John Dalton presents table of atomic weights and proposes atoms exists.
S12201803 Louisiana Purchase officially transferred from France to the US.
S01011804 Haiti gains its independence.
S02211804 First self-propelled locomotive on rails demonstrated, in Wales.
S05171804 Lewis & Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.
S07111804 Burr and Hamilton duel.  Burr won.
S09021804 Harding discovers Juno, the third known asteroid.
S12021804 Napoleon becomes the first French emperor, crowning himself.
S10211805 Battle of Trafalgar - Nelson's great victory and death.
S11071805 Lewis and Clark first sight the Pacific Ocean.
S12021805 Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz.
S03231806 Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific coast.
S06271806 Buenos Aires captured by British.
S01281807 London's Pall Mall is the first street lit by gaslight.
S03271807 Asteroid Vesta discovered by Olbers.
S06221807 British board USS Chesapeake, leading to the War of 1812.
S08071807 First serviceable steamboat, the Cleremont, goes on first voyage.
S08171807 R. Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins first trip up Hudson River.
S09011807 Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire.
S06221808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak, it was all downhill after that.
S01051809 Treaty of Dardanelles was concluded between Britain & France.
S06061809 Swedish Constitution and Flag Day (National Day).
S08101809 Ecuador gains its independence.
S12301809 Wearing masks at balls is forbidden in Boston.
S03111810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise.
S07201810 Columbia gains its independence.
S09181810 Chile gains its independence.
S05141811 Paraguay gains its independence.
S07051811 Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
S10111811 "Juliana", the first steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation.
S11071811 Battle of Tippecanoe, gave Harrison a presidential slogan.
S03031812 Congress passes first foreign aid bill.
S06121812 Napoleon invades Russia.  Classic "what not to" lesson.
S06181812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain.
S07121812 US forces lead by Gen. Hull invade Canada (War of 1812).
S09141812 Napoleon occupies Moscow.
S09191812 Napoleon's retreat from Russia begins.
S01111813 First pineapples planted in Hawaii.
S01211813 The pineapple is introduced to Hawaii.
S06011813 Capt John Lawrence utters Navy motto: "Don't give up the ship".
S09101813 Oliver H. Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie.
S08241814 British sack Washington, DC.
S09111814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY - British lose to Americans.
S09141814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner".
S12241814 Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812 (this news did not arrive until after the Battle of New Orleans).
S01081815 Battle of New Orleans, made a hero out of Andrew Jackson (the War of 1812 had ended on 12/24/1814, but nobody knew that).
S06181815 Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon defeated by Wellington and Blücher.
S07151815 Napoleon Bonaparte captured.
S07091816 Argentina gains its independence.
S12021816 First savings bank in US opens as the Philadelphia Savings Fund.
S12111816 Indiana becomes 19th state.
S04141817 First American school for deaf (Hartford, Conn).
S06241817 First coffee planted in Hawaii, on the Kona coast.
S12101817 Mississippi becomes 20th state.
S12301817 First coffee is planted in Hawaii.
S04041818 Congress decides US flag is 13 red and white stripes, 20 stars.
S10201818 US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country.
S12241818 "Silent Night" is composed by Franz Gruber and sung next day.
S07031819 First savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors.
S09171819 First whaling ship arrives in Hawaii.
S12141819 Alabama becomes the 22nd state.
S01121820 Royal Astronomical Society, founded in England.
S03151820 Maine admitted as 23rd state.
S06281820 The tomato is proved to be nonpoisonous.
S10201820 Spain gives Florida to the United States.
S11181820 Antarctica discovered by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer.
S12201820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men from 21-50.
S01281821 Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica.
S03251821 Greece gains its independence.
S07171821 Spain ceded Florida to US.
S07281821 Peru gains its independence.
S09151821 Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua all gain their independence.
S12011821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain.
S01071822 Liberia colonized by Americans.
S03091822 Charles Graham of NY granted patent for artificial teeth.
S03191822 Boston, Mass incorporated.
S09071822 Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day).
S12021823 President James Monroe declares his doctrine.
S05071824 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time.
S09261824 Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives.
S10041824 Mexico becomes a republic.
S04101825 First hotel in Hawaii opens.
S08251825 Uruguay gains its independence.
S09271825 Railroad transportation is born with first track in England.
S10261825 Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened.
S12271825 First public steam railroad completed in England.
S03041826 First US railroad chartered, the Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass.
S08191826 Canada Co. chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario).
S10071826 Granite Railway (first chartered railway in US) begins operations.
S03161827 First US black newspaper, Freedom's Journal, New York.
S04141828 First edition of Noah Webster's dictionary is published.
S04211828 Noah Webster publishes first American dictionary.
S07041828 First US passenger railroad started, The Baltimore & Ohio.
S08281828 Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was born near Tula.
S04131829 English Parliament grants freedom of religion to Catholics.
S07231829 The typewriter is patented.
S09291829 Scotland Yard formed in London.
S05031830 First regular steam train passenger service starts.
S04091831 Robert Jenkins loses an ear: war between Britain and Spain.
S07211831 Belgium gains its independence.
S12271831 Darwin begins his voyage onboard the HMS Beagle.
S11141832 First streetcar appears, in New York.
S03201833 US and Siam conclude their first commercial treaty.
S06051833 Ada Lovelace (future computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage.
S08231833 Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed.
S09041833 First newsboy in the US hired (Barney Flaherty), by the NY Sun.
S10291833 First College Fraternity founded.
S06211834 Cyrus Hall McCormick patents reaping machine.
S06301834 Congress creates Indian Territory.
S06251835 Pueblo founded with construction of first building (start of Yerba Buena, later to be called San Francisco).
S07081835 The Liberty Bell cracks (again).
S08061835 Bolivia gains its independence.
S03021836 Texas declares independence from Mexico.
S03271836 First Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio.
S06151836 Arkansas becomes 25th state.
S07271836 Adelaide, South Australia founded.
S07301836 First English newspaper published in Hawaii.
S10021836 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle.
S10221836 Sam Houston inaugurated as first elected President of Republic of Texas.
S10241836 The match is patented.
S01261837 Michigan is admitted as the 26th of the United States.
S06201837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She ruled for 63 years, until 1901.
S01061838 First public demonstration of telegraph, by Samuel F. B. Morse.
S06121838 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass.
S06271838 Queen Victoria is crowned.
S01091839 The daguerreotype process announced at French Academy of Science.
S01091839 Thomas Henderson measures first stellar parallax Alpha Centauri.
S06071839 The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed.
S06121839 The first baseball game is played in America.
S09091839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
S01101840 The Penny Post mail system is started.
S03231840 First photo of moon is taken.
S05011840 First adhesive postage stamps (English "Penny Blacks") issued.
S01261841 Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain.
S03041841 Longest inauguration speech, 8443 words, William Henry Harrison.
S07171841 British humour magazine "Punch" first published.
S08211841 John Hampson patents the venetian blind.
S03301842 Dr. Crawford Long first uses ether as an anaesthetic.
S08091842 The US-Canada border defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
S08311842 US Naval Observatory is authorized by an act of Congress.
S12071842 The New York Philharmonic plays its first concert.
S12191842 US recognizes the independence of Hawaii.
S01091843 Caroline Herschel, "first lady of astronomy," dies at 98 in Germany.
S12171843 Charles Dickens' classic, "A Christmas Carol" is published.
S02271844 Dominican Republic gains it's independence.
S05241844 Samuel F.B. Morse taps out "What Hath God Wrought".
S06061844 YMCA founded in London.
S06151844 Goodyear patents the process for vulcanisation of rubber.
S11061844 Spain grants the Dominican Republic independence.
S03031845 Florida becomes 27th state.
S03051845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US.
S03261845 Adhesive medicated plaster patented, precursor of Band-Aid.
S06011845 Homing pigeon ends an 11,000 km trip (Namibia-London) in 55 days.
S07041845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond.
S09241845 First baseball team is organized.
S10101845 US Naval academy opens at Annapolis, Maryland.
S10191845 Wagner's opera Tannhäuser performed for the first time.
S12291845 Texas becomes the 28th state.
S05131846 US declares war on Mexico.
S06141846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma.
S06151846 Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49° North.
S06191846 First baseball game: NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1 (Hoboken, NJ).
S07071846 United States annexes California.
S07091846 Capt Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for the U.S.
S08141846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance.
S08261846 W. A. Bartlett appointed first US mayor of Yerba Buena (SF).
S09101846 Elias Howe receives patent for his sewing machine.
S09231846 Johann Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune.
S09301846 William Morris first tooth extraction under anaesthetics Charlestown.
S10101846 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell.
S10161846 Dentist William T. Morton demonstrates the effectiveness of ether.
S12281846 Iowa becomes the 29th state.
S01091847 First San Francisco paper, "California Star", published.
S01301847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.
S03101847 First money minted in Hawaii.
S06141847 Bunson invents a gas burner.
S06221847 The doughnut is invented.
S07011847 First adhesive US postage stamps go on sale.
S07241847 Mormon leader Brigham Young & followers arrive at Salt Lake City,.
S07261847 Liberia gains its independence.
S09141847 US troops capture Mexico City.
S01241848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, Calif.
S02021848 First shipload of Chinese immigrants arrive in San Francisco.
S02021848 Mexico sells California, New Mexico and Arizona to the USA.
S03071848 In Hawaii, the Great Mahele (division of lands) is signed.
S07191848 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, NY.
S08141848 Oregon Territory created.
S09191848 Bond (US) & Lassell (England) independently discover Hyperion.
S12291848 Gas lights installed at White House for first time.
S02281849 First steamship enters San Francisco Bay.
S03031849 Gold Coinage Act passed, allowing gold coins to be minted.
S03101849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent, only US president to do so.
S04101849 Safety pin is patented by Walter Hunt.
S06051849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
S07281849 "Memmon" is first clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY.
S09011849 California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey.
S09031849 California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey.
S09191849 First commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California.
S11131849 Peter Burnett is elected first governor of California.
S12181849 William Bond takes first photograph of moon through a telescope.
S01221850 The Alta California becomes a daily paper, first such in Calif.
S02181850 Legislature creates the 9 San Francisco Bay Area counties.
S03121850 First $20 Gold piece issued.
S03181850 American Express founded.
S04011850 San Francisco County Government established.
S05011850 John Geary becomes first mayor of City of San Francisco.
S07011850 At least 626 ships lying at anchor around San Francisco Bay.
S07141850 First public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration.
S07171850 Harvard Observatory takes first photograph of a star (Vega).
S08301850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city.
S09091850 California becomes the 3first state.
S09111850 Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale", makes first US concert.
S01311851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, first in California, founded.
S03031851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin, the 3-cent piece.
S03211851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California, paradise found.
S05041851 First of the major San Francisco fires.
S05061851 Patent granted to Dr. John Farrie for a "refrigeration machine".
S07281851 total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph.
S08121851 Issac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
S08221851 Gold fields discovered in Australia.
S09181851 The New York Times goes on sale, at 2 cents a copy.
S10241851 William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus.
S11141851 Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" is published.
S12241851 Library of Congress burns, 35,000 volumes are destroyed.
S01031852 First Chinese arrive in Hawaii.
S01171852 British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa).
S03131852 Uncle Sam makes his debut in the New York "Lantern".
S03201852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," published.
S04191852 California Historical Society founded.
S08011852 Black Methodists establish first black SF church, Zion Methodist.
S09241852 A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated.
S11231852 Just past midnight an earthquake makes Lake Merced drop 30 feet.
S03301853 Patent granted to Hyman Lipman for a pencil with an ERASER.
S04011853 Cincinnati becomes the first US city with salaried firefighters.
S05141853 Gail Borden applies for patent for making condensed milk.
S07141853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with the Japanese.
S09241853 First round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt).
S12301853 Gadsden Purchase 45,000 square miles by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million. Area is now southern Arizona & New Mexico.
S01131854 Anthony Foss obtains patent for accordion.
S02111854 Major streets lit by coal gas for first time.
S03301854 Julliard Academy of Music is founded in New York City.
S03311854 Commodore Perry makes Japan opens its ports to foreign trade.
S06101854 George F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved.
S06291854 Congress ratifies Gadsden Purchase of parts of New Mexico, Ariz.
S10251854 The Light Brigade charges (Battle of Balaklava) (Crimean War).
S11041854 A lighthouse is established on Alcatraz Island.
S03271855 Abraham Gesner receives a patent for kerosene.
S06171856 Republican Party opened its first convention in Philadelphia.
S02241857 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized.
S03061857 Dred Scott decision rendered.
S03251857 Frederick Laggenheim takes the first photograph of a solar eclipse.
S04211857 A. Douglas patents the bustle.
S09161857 Patent is issued for the typesetting machine.
S12311857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada.
S06021858 Donati Comet first seen, named after its discoverer.
S06161858 "A house divided against itself cannot stand" - Abraham Lincoln.
S07291858 First commercial treaty between US and Japan is signed.
S09081858 Lincoln makes a speech describing when you can fool people.
S09281858 Donati's comet becomes the first to be photographed.
S10271858 RH Macy & Co. opens first store, on 6th Avenue, New York City.
S02141859 Oregon admitted as 33rd State.
S03011859 Present seal of San Francisco adopted (second seal for city).
S03191859 Faust by Charles Gounod premiers in Paris.
S06111859 Comstock silver load discovered near Virginia City, Nevada.
S07051859 Captain N.C. Brooks discovers the Midway Islands.
S07201859 admission fee first charged to see a baseball game (50 cents).
S08271859 First successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn.
S09011859 Carrington & Hodgson make first observation of a solar flare.
S09201859 Patent granted on the electric range.
S09291859 Spectacular auroral display visible over most of the US.
S10161859 John Brown attacks the armoury at Harper's Ferry.
S12151859 G.R. Kirchoff describes chemical composition of sun.
S03271860 ML Byrn patents the corkscrew.
S04141860 First Pony Express rider arrives in SF from St. Joseph, Missouri.
S05011860 First school for the deaf founded.
S05061860 The Olympic Club, first athletic club in US, founded in SF.
S06091860 First dime novel published.
S10151860 Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard.
S11061860 Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president.
S12201860 South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the union.
S01151861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis.
S01171861 Flush toilet is patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper.
S01291861 Kansas becomes 34th state.
S02151861 Fort Point completed & garrisoned (but has never fired it's cannon in anger).
S03021861 Congress creates the Territory of Nevada.
S03031861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom.
S03041861 Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag.
S03111861 Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution.
S04121861 Fort Sumter, S. C., shelled by Confederacy, starts Civil War.
S07031861 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from New York.
S07161861 First major battle of the Civil War -- Bull Run.
S08051861 US levies its first Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800).
S10261861 Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express).
S01301862 US Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", launched.
S01311862 Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius.
S03081862 The Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched.
S03091862 The ironclads "Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel) battle in Hampton Roads.  It was a standoff.
S04061862 Battle of Shiloh.
S04211862 Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Colorado.
S05191862 The Homestead Act becomes law.
S06191862 Slavery outlawed in US territories.
S07041862 Lewis Carroll begins inventing "Alice in Wonderland" for his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell during a boating trip.
S07121862 Congress authorizes Medal of honour.
S11061862 First Direct Telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco.
S12311862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sinks off Cape Hatteras, NC.
S01011863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln.
S01101863 First underground railway opens in London.
S02261863 President Lincoln signs the National Currency Act.
S03031863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences.
S06201863 West Virginia became 35th state.
S06291863 The very first First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa.
S07011863 Battle of Gettysburg, PA - Lee's northward advance halted.
S07041863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho).
S08161863 The United States abolishes slavery when Emancipation Proclamation signed.
S09221863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech.
S10031863 Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving.
S10261863 Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game.
S10291863 Intl Comm. of the Red Cross founded (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963).
S11191863 Lincoln delivers his famous address in Gettysburg.  Expecting a long speech, the photographer wasn't ready before Lincoln left.
S11231863 Patent granted for a process of making colour photographs.
S03011864 Patent issued for taking & projecting motion pictures to Louis Ducos du Hauron (he never did build such a machine, though).
S04221864 US Congress authorizes "In God We Trust" on coinage.
S07111864 Confederate forces, led by Gen J Early, invade Washington DC.
S08051864 Spectrum of a comet observed for first time, by Giovanni Donati.
S10301864 Helena, capital of Montana, founded.
S10311864 Nevada admitted as 36th state.
S11101864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of Mexico.
S11161864 Sherman begins his march to sea through Georgia.
S02011865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day).
S04091865 Lee surrenders at Appomattox, ending Civil War.
S04141865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford's Theater.
S04241865 SF Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph system put into operation.
S07051865 William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.
S07131865 Horace Greeley advises readers to "Go west". He meant Michigan.
S07141865 First ascent of the Matterhorn.
S11091865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox, ending the US Civil War.
S11261865 Alice in Wonderland is published.
S12181865 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished.
S12241865 Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, TN.
S12261865 James Mason invents the first American coffee percolator.
S04101866 ASPCA (Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) organized.
S04161866 Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo and Co. office explodes.
S05161866 Congress authorizes nickel 5-cent piece (the silver half-dime was used up to this point).
S05241866 Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne).
S07271866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long).
S07281866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US.
S08201866 President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over.
S11251866 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
S02011867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days.
S02131867 "Blue Danube" waltz premiers in Vienna.
S03011867 Nebraska becomes a state.
S03111867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (volcano in Hawaii).
S03301867 US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2˘ an acre - Seward's Folly).
S07011867 Dominion of Canada formed.
S09091867 Luxembourg gains independence.
S10181867 US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia.
S03121868 Congress abolishes manufacturers tax.
S04061868 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife.
S04181868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals born.
S05261868 President Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote.
S05311868 First recorded bicycle race, 2 kilometres in Paris.
S06231868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents the typewriter.
S07281868 14th Amendment ratified, citizenship to ex-slaves.
S08181868 Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse.
S12251868 Despite bitter opposition, Johnson grants unconditional pardons to everyone involved in the Southern rebellion (the Civil War).
S01181869 The elegant California Theatre opens in San Francisco.
S04181869 First International Cricket Match held in SF, won by Californian.
S05011869 Folies-Bergere opens in Paris.
S05101869 The Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah: The Transcontinental railroad is completed.
S06081869 Ives McGaffey patents his vacuum cleaner.
S06101869 The "Agnes" arrives in New Orleans with the first ever shipment of frozen beef.
S08231869 First carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in San Francisco, from Boston, after a 16-day rail trip.
S08241869 The Waffle Iron is invented.
S09061869 First westbound train arrives in San Francisco.
S09241869 Black Friday: crashing gold prices causes stock market panic.
S10011869 First postcards are issued in Vienna.
S10161869 A hotel in Boston becomes the first to have indoor plumbing.
S11061869 First intercollegiate football game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4).
S11151869 Free Postal Delivery formally inaugurated.
S11171869 Suez Canal opens.
S12101869 Women granted right to vote in Wyoming Territory.
S01031870 Brooklyn Bridge begun, completed on May 24, 1883.
S02101870 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time).
S02171870 Mississippi readmitted to U.S. after Civil War.
S03141870 Legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible.
S03301870 15th Amendment passed, guarantees right to vote to all races.
S03311870 Thomas P Mundy became first black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ).
S04041870 Golden Gate Park established by City Order No.800.
S06141870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer first loss in 130 games.
S07151870 NW Territories created & Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province.
S09041870 French republic proclaimed.
S10021870 Italy annexes Rome & the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital.
S11011870 US Weather Bureau begins operations.
S01171871 First Cable Car is patented by Andrew S. Hallidie.
S01261871 American income tax repealed.
S01311871 Birds fly over the western part of San Francisco in such large numbers that they actually darken the sky.
S03291871 Albert Hall opens it's doors in London.
S04231871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay is blown up.
S07201871 British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province.
S10081871 The Great Fire destroys over 4 square miles of Chicago.
S11101871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa.
S12121871 Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum.
S12241871 Giuseppe Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening.
S01201872 California Stock Exchange Board organized.
S03011872 Yellowstone becomes world's first national park.
S07181872 Britain introduces voting by secret ballot.
S11071872 Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; found abandoned 4 weeks later.
S02201873 University of California gets its first Medical School (UC/SF).
S06021873 Construction of world's first cable car system, begins in SF.
S06181873 Susan B Anthony fined $100 for attempting to vote for President.
S07011873 Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province.
S07211873 World's first train robbery, by Jesse James.
S08021873 First trial run of an SF cable car, on Clay Street between Kearny and Jones, downhill all the way, at 4AM.
S09191873 Black Friday: Jay Cooke & Co. fails, causing a securities panic.
S10181873 The Ivy League establishes rules for college football.
S11241874 Patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
S03031875 A 20-cent coin was authorized by Congress (It lasted 3 years).
S06051875 Formal opening of the Pacific Stock Exchange.
S11051875 Susan B. Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote.
S11071875 Verney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea.
S02021876 National Baseball League formed with 8 teams.
S02141876 Alexander Graham Bell files for a patent on the telephone.
S02171876 Sardines were first canned, in Eastport, Maine.
S03071876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
S03101876 First telephone call, made by Alexander Graham Bell.
S04111876 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks organized.
S06261876 Custer's Last Stand.
S07041876 First public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco.
S08131876 Reciprocity Treaty between US and Hawaii ratified.
S02091877 U.S. Weather Service is founded.
S03131877 Chester Greenwood patents ear muffler.
S04121877 British annex Transvaal, in South Africa.
S08021877 San Francisco Public Library opens with 5000 volumes.
S08111877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars" moon Deimos.
S12151877 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
S01281878 George W. Coy hired as first full-time telephone operator.
S02171878 First telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones.
S02191878 Thomas Elva Edison patents the phonograph.
S02211878 First Telephone book is issued, in New Haven, Conn.
S03031878 Bulgaria liberated from Turkey.
S03261878 Hastings College of Law founded.
S04101878 California Street Cable Car Railroad Company starts service.
S05041878 Phonograph shown for first time at the Grand Opera House.
S06151878 First attempt at motion pictures, using 12 cameras, to see if all 4 horse's hooves leave the ground during a gallop.
S09011878 First woman telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston).
S02101879 First electric arc light used (in California Theater).
S05311879 First electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition.
S06211879 F. W. Woolworth opens his first store (failed almost immediately, so he found a new location).
S10191879 Thomas A. Edison successfully demonstrates the electric light.
S10211879 Edison perfects the electric light bulb.
S12311879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US).
S12311879 Edison gives public demonstration of his incandescent lamp.
S01081880 The passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico.
S01271880 Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp.
S02021880 SS Strathleven arrives in London with first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia.
S03311880 Wabash Ind - first town completely illuminated by electric light.
S07191880 SF Public Library allows patrons to start borrowing books.
S09301880 Henry Draper takes the first photograph of the Orion Nebula.
S03181881 Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
S05211881 The American Red Cross is founded.
S10261881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Arizona.
S11151881 American Federation of labour (AFL) is founded in Pittsburgh.
S03221882 Congress outlaws polygamy.  Male longevity increases.
S03241882 German Robert Koch discovers bacillus, cause of Tuberculosis.
S04101882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco and Hawaii).
S07041882 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens.
S09041882 First district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station).
S12061882 Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit.
S01161883 Pendleton Act creates basis of federal civil service system.
S02081883 Louis Waterman begins experiments that invent the fountain pen.
S02161883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication.
S02281883 First vaudeville theater opens.
S05241883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres. Arthur & Gov. Cleveland.
S08271883 Krakatoa, Java explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons.
S09081883 Northern Pacific Railroad's last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mo.
S03131884 US adopts standard time.
S05011884 Construction begins in Chicago on the first skyscraper.
S05131884 Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded.
S07041884 Statue of Liberty is presented to the United States, in Paris.
S09201884 Equal Rights Party founding convention in San Francisco, nominated female candidates for President, Vice President.
S11251884 John Meyenberg, of St Louis, patents evaporated milk.
S02091885 First Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
S03031885 American Telephone and Telegraph incorporated.
S03261885 Eastman Film Company makes first commercial motion picture film.
S06171885 Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship "Isere".
S07061885 First inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur.
S09051885 First gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer.
S11071885 Canada completes its own transcontinental railway.
S03201886 First commercial AC-power plant begins operation.
S03291886 Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine).
S09041886 Geronimo is captured, ending last major US-Indian war.
S09141886 The typewriter ribbon is patented.
S10281886 Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
S01161887 Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo of gunpowder on the schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
S01201887 Pearl harbour obtained by US from Hawaii for use as a naval base.
S02041887 Interstate Commerce Act: Federal regulation of railroads.
S02051887 Snow falls on San Francisco.
S02231887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco.
S07261887 First book published in Esperanto.  Not a hit.
S11291887 US receives rights to Pearl harbour, on Oahu, Hawaii.
S01031888 First drinking straw is patented.
S01271888 National Geographic Society founded in Washington, DC.
S06031888 "Casey at the Bat" is first published (by the SF Examiner).
S09041888 George Eastman patents first roll film camera & registers "Kodak".
S10091888 Public admitted to Washington Monument.
S11201888 William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
S02071889 Astronomical Society of Pacific holds first meeting in SF.
S03311889 Eiffel Tower completed.
S04221889 Oklahoma land rush officially starts; some were Sooner.
S05311889 Johnstown Flood.
S07081889 Vol 1, No 1, of "The Wall Street Journal" published.
S10021889 First Pan American conference.
S10061889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
S11081889 Montana admitted as 4first state.
S11111889 Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
S11141889 Nellie Bly beats Phineas Fogg's time for a trip around the world by 8 days (72 days).
S12191889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii.
S07021890 Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits industrial monopolies.
S07031890 Idaho becomes 43rd state.
S07101890 Wyoming becomes the 44th state.
S09251890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park.
S10111890 Daughters of the American Revolution founded.
S11291890 First Army-Navy football game.  Score: Navy 25, Army 0.
S12281890 Battle of Wounded Knee, SD - Last major conflict with Indians.
S12311890 Ellis Island opens as a US immigration depot.
S07071891 A patent is granted for the travelers cheque.
S08191891 William Huggins describes use of spectrum in astronomy.
S11101891 First Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston).
S01011892 Brooklyn merges with NY to form present City of NY Ellis Island became reception centre for new immigrants.
S03111892 First public game of basketball.
S03181892 Lord Stanley proposes silver cup challenge for Hockey.
S04191892 Charles Duryea takes the first American-made auto out for a spin.
S04211892 First buffalo born in Golden Gate Park.
S05011892 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island.
S06181892 Macadamia nuts first planted in Hawaii.
S09091892 E.E.Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th moon of Jupiter.
S10181892 First commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago - NYC).
S12201892 The pneumatic automobile tire is patented.
S12201892 Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne.
S01021893 World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
S01171893 Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic.
S06301893 The Excelsior diamond (blue-white, 995 carats) discovered.
S09161893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opened to white settlement homesteaders.
S09191893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women the vote.
S09221893 First auto built in US (by Duryea brothers) runs in Springfield.
S12161893 Antonin Dvorák's New World Symphony premieres.
S04141894 First public showing of Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures).
S07041894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of the first US autos.
S07041894 Republic of Hawaii established.
S04171895 Treaty of Shimonoseki, ends first Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895).
S06111895 First auto race.
S09211895 First auto manufacturer opens -- Duryea Motor Wagon Company.
S09241895 First round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months.
S11051895 First US patent, granted for the automobile, to George B Selden.
S11081895 Wilhelm Röntgen discovers x-rays.
S11191895 The pencil is invented.
S11271895 Alfred Nobel establishes the Nobel Prize.
S11281895 America's auto race starts: 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averaged 7mph.
S01041896 Utah becomes 45th state.
S03141896 Sutro Baths opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952).
S04061896 First modern Olympics.
S06041896 Henry drives his first Ford through streets of Detroit.
S07081896 William Jennings Bryan makes his "cross of gold" speech at the Democratic Convention in Chicago.
S08171896 Gold discovered at Bonanza Creek, in Klondike region of the Yukon.
S08291896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador.
S09261896 John Philip Sousa's Band's first performance in Plainfield, NJ.
S10011896 Yosemite becomes a National Park.
S10081896 Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks.
S10271896 First Pali Road completed in Hawaii (the Pali is a cliff where the winds are so strong streams flow UP!).
S04271897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song and legend) is dedicated.
S10211897 Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago is dedicated.
S02151898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbour, cause unknown.
S04121898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island to Navy.
S04211898 Spanish American war begins (Remember the Maine).
S05011898 Dewey sinks the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay.
S05231898 First Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from San Francisco.
S06091898 China leases Hong Kong's New Territories to Britain for 99 years.
S06101898 US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War.
S06121898 Philippines gains its independence from Spain.
S06131898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital.
S07011898 Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill.
S07031898 US Navy defeats Spanish fleet in the harbour at Santiago Cuba.
S07071898 Hawaii annexed to the United States.
S07171898 Spanish American War ends, in Santiago, Cuba.
S08121898 The peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War was signed.
S09021898 Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain.
S09301898 City of New York is established.
S12101898 Spanish-American War ends - US acquires Guam from Spain.
S01171899 US takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific.
S01241899 The rubber heel is patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.
S05241899 In Boston, the first auto repair shop opens.
S07011899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building.
S09141899 While in New York, Henry Bliss becomes first automobile fatality.
S02061900 Spanish-American War ends.
S02221900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory.
S02231900 Steamer "Rio de Janiero" sinks in San Francisco Bay.
S03141900 US currency goes on gold standard.
S04301900 Hawaii becomes a US Territory.
S06131900 China's Boxer Rebellion begins, against foreigners and Christians.
S06141900 Hawaiian Territorial Government begins.
S06261900 Walter Reed begins research that beats yellow fever.
S07021900 First flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1).
S07281900 The Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut.
S09031900 British annex Natal (South Africa).
S01011901 Commonwealth of Australia established.
S02201901 First territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes.
S04251901 New York becomes first state requiring license plates for cars.
S08011901 Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited.
S08151901 Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro-gelatin.
S10241901 Anna Taylor, first to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel & live.
S12101901 First Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frédéric Passy).
S12121901 Marconi receives first trans-Atlantic radio signal: England to US.
S01011902 First Rose Bowl game held in Pasadena, California.
S03041902 American Automobile Association (AAA) founded.
S04041902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund established with $10 million.
S04201902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium.
S12281902 Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US.
S01191903 First regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England.
S03141903 First national bird reserve established in Sebastian, Florida.
S06161903 Ford Motor Company, a vehicle manufacturer, is founded.
S07041903 Pacific Cable (San Francisco, Hawaii, Guam, Philippines) opens. President Roosevelt sends a message around the world in 12 minutes.
S09221903 Italo Marchiony granted a patent for the ice cream cone.
S10011903 First World Series starts between the National & American Leagues.
S10251903 Senate begins investigating Teapot Dome scandals of Harding admin.
S10261903 "Yerba Buena" is first Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay.
S11031903 Panama gains its independence from Columbia.
S11181903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, gives US canal rights through Panama.
S12131903 Wright brothers first airplane flight at Kittyhawk.
S12171903 First sustained motorized air flight at 10:35AM, for 12 seconds, by the Wright Brothers.
S12271903 "Sweet Adaline", a barbershop quartet favourite, is first sung.
S01291904 First athletic letters given: to Univ of Chicago football team.
S07231904 The Ice Cream Cone is invented.
S10281904 St. Louis Police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.
S06071905 Norway declares independence from Sweden.
S07081905 Part of Angel Island (in SF bay ) becomes an Immigration Detention centre (port of entry for immigrants).
S09011905 Alberta and Saskatchewan become 8th and 9th Canadian provinces.
S10301905 Tsar Nicholas II grants Russia a constitution.
S12161905 "Variety", covering all phases of show business, first published.
S03171906 President Theodore Roosevelt first uses the term "muckrake".
S04061906 First animated cartoon copyrighted.
S04181906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, "The Big One".
S06301906 Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act adopted.
S09131906 First airplane flight in Europe.
S10201906 Dr Lee DeForest gives a demonstration of his radio tube.
S11221906 The International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopts "SOS" as the new call for help.
S12101906 Theodore Roosevelt (first American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
S12241906 The first radio program is broadcast, in Brant Rock, Mass.
S04181907 Fairmont Hotel opens.
S05271907 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco.
S07081907 Florenz Ziegfeld stages first "Follies" on NY Theater roof.
S08261907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at SF's Aquatic Park in 57 seconds.
S08281907 United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle.
S09071907 Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF is destroyed by fire.
S11161907 Oklahoma becomes the 46th state.
S12091907 First Christmas Seals sold, in the Wilmington Post Office.
S12161907 Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on its World Cruise.
S02081908 Boy Scouts of America founded.
S03051908 First ascent of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica.
S05051908 The Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco.
S05231908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die.
S06301908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (the Tunguska Event).
S07261908 Federal Bureau of Investigation established.
S09161908 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors.
S09171908 Thomas Selfridge becomes first fatality of powered flight.
S10011908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car.
S10051908 Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey.
S03181909 Einar Dessau of Denmark - first ham broadcaster.
S04061909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson.
S04061909 First credit union established in US.
S07251909 First airplane flight across the English Channel.
S08241909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
S09061909 Word received: Peary discovered the North Pole five months ago.
S03171910 Camp Fire Girls are organized.
S04031910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed.
S06021910 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea.
S06191910 Father's Day celebrated for first time in Spokane, Washington.
S06221910 First passenger carrying airship, the Zeppelin "Deutscheland".
S09111910 First commercially successful electric bus line opens, in Hollywood.
S10051910 Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic.
S10231910 Blanche Scott becomes first woman solo a public airplane flight.
S11141910 First airplane flight from the deck of a ship.
S11201910 Revolution breaks out in Mexico, led by Francisco Madero.
S11271910 New York's Penn Station opens - world's largest railway terminal.
S01051911 San Francisco has its first official airplane race.
S01181911 First shipboard landing of a plane (from Tanforan Park to the USS Pennsylvania).
S01311911 Congress passes resolution naming San Francisco as the site of the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal.
S05301911 Indianapolis 500 car race run for first time.
S06221911 King George V of England crowned.
S06261911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 133 kph.
S09041911 Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft).
S10101911 The Manchu Dynasty is overthrown in China.
S12141911 South Pole first reached by Amundsen.
S12291911 San Francisco Symphony is formed.
S01011912 First running of SF's famed "Bay to Breakers" race (7.63 miles).
S02141912 Arizona becomes 48th state.
S03071912 Roald Amundsen announces the discovery of the South Pole.
S03121912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) founded in Savanah Ga.
S04101912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its first and last voyage.
S04151912 Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 AM.
S04161912 Harriet Quimby flies English Channel, first woman to do so.
S09231912 First Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movie is released.
S11281912 Albania declares independence from Turkey.
S12041912 Roald Amundsen reaches South pole.
S12281912 San Francisco Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St. (MUNI was the first municipally-owned transit system).
S03151913 Woodrow Wilson holds the first Presidential Press Conference.
S04081913 17th Amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified.
S04291913 Gideon Sundback of Hoboken NJ patents the zipper.
S10031913 Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%).
S11171913 Panama Canal opens for use.
S11181913 Lincoln Deachey performs the first airplane loop-the-loop.
S12011913 First drive-up gasoline station opens, in Pittsburgh.
S12211913 First crossword puzzle (with 32 clues), printed in New York World.
S01061914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded.
S01141914 Henry Ford introduces the Assembly Line for his cars.
S02161914 First airplane flight to Los Angeles from San Francisco.
S02281914 Construction begins on the Tower of Jewels for the Exposition.
S04281914 W. H. Carrier patents air conditioner.
S07281914 Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia - World War I begins.
S07291914 First transcontinental phone link.  Between NYC and San Francisco.
S08181914 President Wilson issues Proclamation of Neutrality.
S09261914 Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce.
S10151914 ASCAP founded (American Soc of Composers, Authors & Publishers).
S11201914 The State Department begins requiring photographs for passports.
S01251915 Alexander Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
S01281915 US Coast Guard established, Semper Paratus.
S02201915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco.
S08121915 "Of Human Bondage", by William Somerset Maugham, published.
S10231915 25,000 women march in New York, demanding the right to vote.
S12041915 Panama Pacific International Exposition opens.
S03151916 Pershing and 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico.
S03161916 US and Canada sign Migratory Bird Treaty.
S06291916 The first Boeing aircraft flies.
S10161916 Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic, in New York.
S01301917 First jazz record in United States is cut.
S02151917 San Francisco Public Library dedicated.
S03021917 Puerto Rico territory created, US citizenship granted.
S03081917 US invades Cuba, for third time.
S03151917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates.
S03191917 US Supreme Court upheld 8 hour work day for the railroads.
S04061917 US declares war on Germany (WWI).
S04161917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution.
S07171917 British royal family adopts the name "Windsor".
S08281917 10 suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House.
S09151917 Russia is proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky.
S11021917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement.
S11061917 The Russian Bolshevik revolution begins.
S11071917 October Revolution overthrows Russian Provisional Government.
S12011917 Father Edward Flanagan founds Boys Town.
S12061917 Finland gains its independence, from Russia.
S12111917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia.
S02031918 Twin Peaks Tunnel, longest (11,920 feet) streetcar tunnel in the world, begins service in San Francisco.
S02161918 Lithuania proclaims its short-lived independence.
S03191918 Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight time.
S04011918 Royal Air Force established.
S06081918 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's in 1604, is discovered.
S09041918 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months.
S10211918 Margaret Owen sets world typing speed record of 170 wpm for 1 min.
S10281918 Czechoslovakia declares independence from Austria.
S11071918 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rocket.
S11111918 Armistice Day -- WW I ends (at 11AM on the Western Front).
S11121918 Austria becomes a republic.
S11181918 Latvia declares independence from Russia.
S12011918 Iceland becomes independent state under the Danish crown.
S12131918 Wilson becomes first to make a foreign visit while President.
S01181919 Versailles Peace Conference, ending World War I.
S02251919 Oregon is first state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon).
S03231919 Benito Mussolini founds the Fascist movement in Milan, Italy.
S04281919 First successful parachute jump is made.
S05031919 America's first passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City).
S06141919 First direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic.
S06151919 First flight across Atlantic (Alcock and Brown).
S06281919 The Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, was signed.
S07131919 First lighter-than-air transatlantic flight completed.
S08231919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premiers in Chicago Tribune.
S09101919 NYC welcomes home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers.
S09161919 The American Legion is incorporated.
S10171919 The Radio Corporation of America (RCA), is created.
S10281919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, starting Prohibition.
S11191919 Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations rejected by US Senate.
S12201919 Canadian National Railways established (longest on continent with more than 50,000 kilometres of track in US & Canada).
S01131920 NY Times Editorial says rockets can never fly.
S01161920 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933.
S01291920 Walt Disney starts first job as an artist $40 week with KC Slide Co.
S02011920 The first armoured car is introduced.
S03191920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for second time.
S04261920 Shapley and Curtis hold the "Great Debate" on nature of nebulae.
S07291920 First transcontinental airmail flight: New York to San Francisco.
S08201920 US's first radio broadcaster, 8MK later WWJ, Detroit begins daily broadcasting.
S08261920 19th Amendment passes - Women's Suffrage granted.
S09081920 First US Air Mail service begins.
S09281920 Baseball's biggest scandal, grand jury indicts 8 White Sox for throwing the 1919 World Series with the Cincinnati Reds.
S11021920 KDKA (Pittsburgh) on the air as first commercial radio station.
S11151920 League of Nations holds first meeting, in Geneva.
S12101920 President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize.
S12131920 Interferometer used to measure first stellar diameter (Betelgeuse).
S12231920 Ireland is divided into two parts, each with its own parliament.
S12241920 Enrico Caruso gave his last public performance.
S01021921 DeYoung Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park opens.
S01191921 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador sign Pact of Union.
S06101921 Babe Ruth becomes all time home-run champ with 120 of them.
S10051921 The first radio broadcast of a World Series.
S11111921 President Harding dedicates the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier.
S11131921 The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, is released.
S02061922 US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington Naval Arms Limitation Treaty.
S02081922 Radio arrives in the White House.
S10181922 British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, is established.
S10281922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government.
S10311922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy.
S11041922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
S11141922 BBC begins domestic radio service.
S12011922 First skywriting over the US: "Hello USA"  by Capt Turner, RAF.
S12201922 14 states form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
S02161923 Howard Carter finds the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen.
S03031923 Time magazine publishes its first issue.
S03141923 President Harding is the first president to file his income tax.
S04151923 First talking picture is screened before a paying audience.
S04151923 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics.
S09291923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public.
S10051923 Edwin Hubble identifies the first Cepheid variable star.
S10211923 Deutsches Museum, Walther Bauersfeld's first Zeiss Planetarium.
S10291923 Turkey is proclaimed to have a republican government.
S11081923 Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" fails, in jail he writes "Mein Kampf".
S02121924 Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premiers in Carnegie Hall.
S09281924 2 US Army planes completed first around the world flight.
S11041924 First woman governor in US elected in Wyoming.
S11111924 Palace of Legion of honour in San Francisco is dedicated.
S12301924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other Milky Way systems.
S01251925 Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa.
S03121925 First transatlantic radio broadcast.
S03131925 Law passed in Tennessee prohibiting teaching evolution.
S05021925 Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park opens.
S06011925 Lou Gehrig starts in first of 2130 consecutive games, a record.
S07101925 USSR's official news agency TASS established.
S07101925 The Scopes "Monkey Trial" on evolution starts.
S01271926 First public demonstration of television.
S03071926 First transatlantic telephone call (London-New York).
S03161926 Robert Goddard launches first liquid fuel rocket - 184 feet.
S04061926 4 planes take off on first successful around-the-world flight.
S05281926 United States Customs Court created by Congress.
S07021926 US Army Air Corps created.
S08061926 The first woman swims the English Channel.
S09091926 NBC created by the Radio Corporation of America.
S09251926 Henry Ford announces the five day work week.
S10041926 The Dahlia is designated as the San Francisco City Flower.
S11151926 National Broadcasting Company goes on-the-air, with 24 stations.
S12251926 Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan.
S01151927 Dunbarton Bridge, first bridge in Bay Area, opens.
S05071927 San Francisco Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated.
S05201927 At 7:40am, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic.
S05211927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after first solo across Atlantic.
S05251927 Henry Ford stops producing the Model T car (begins Model A).
S09181927 Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
S10061927 "The Jazz Singer", first movie with a sound track, premieres.
S11121927 Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin is now total dictator.
S03191928 "Amos and Andy" debut on radio.
S05011928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration).
S07061928 Preview of first all-talking motion picture took place in NYC.
S08271928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agreed to outlaw war.
S11181928 Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willy".
S01071929 "Tarzan", one of the first adventure comic strips appears.
S01201929 First talking motion picture taken outdoors "In Old Arizona".
S02111929 Vatican City (world's Smallest Country) made an enclave of Rome.
S03021929 US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals created by US Congress.
S03231929 First telephone installed in the White House.
S05111929 First regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week).
S05161929 First Oscars announced (best film was "Wings").
S06071929 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.
S06271929 First colour TV demo, in New York.
S06291929 First high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field, CA.
S07241929 Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounced war.
S08111929 Babe Ruth hits his 500th homer.
S08251929 Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco, headed for Los Angeles after trans-Pacific voyage from Tokyo.
S09241929 Lt James H Doolittle guided a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the first all-instrument flight.
S10241929 U.S. "Black Thursday" stock market crash precipitates global depression.
S10291929 "Black Tuesday", the Stock Market crash.
S11281929 Admiral RE Byrd makes first flight over the South Pole.
S12011929 Bingo, invented by Edwin S Lowe.
S01131930 Mickey Mouse comic strip first appears.
S02181930 Pluto, the ninth planet, is discovered by Clyde Tombaugh.
S03131930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory.
S03281930 Constantinople and Angora change names to Istanbul and Ankara.
S04101930 Synthetic rubber first produced.
S05101930 The first US planetarium opens, in Chicago.
S06241930 First radar detection of aircraft, at Anacostia, DC.
S06301930 First round-the-world radio broadcast, from Schenectady NY.
S07071930 Construction begins on Boulder (later Hoover) Dam.
S08201930 Dumont's first TV Broadcast for home reception, NY city.
S09211930 Johann Ostermeyer patents his invention, the flashbulb.
S02201931 Congress allows California to build the Oakland-Bay Bridge.
S03031931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem.
S03181931 First electric razor marketed by Schick.
S03191931 Nevada legalized gambling.
S04071931 Seals Stadium opens.
S06091931 Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design.
S06191931 First commercial photoelectric cell installed in West Haven Ct.
S07181931 First air-conditioned ship launched - "Mariposa".
S07281931 Congress makes The Star-Spangled Banner our second National Anthem.
S10051931 First nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Washington state.
S10071931 First infra-red photographs taken, in Rochester, NY.
S10171931 Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion.
S11201931 Commercial teletype service begins.
S12081931 Coaxial cable is patented.
S12291931 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey.
S01081932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter.
S02041932 First Winter Olympics held (At Lake Placid, NY).
S03311932 Ford publicly unveils its first V-8 engine.
S06061932 US Federal gas tax enacted.
S06101932 First demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass.
S06191932 First concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove.
S07281932 President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment.
S08241932 First transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, AE Putnam.
S09231932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia formed, (National Day).
S10031932 Iraq gains full independence from Britain.
S12191932 The BBC begins transmitting overseas.
S12271932 Radio City Music Hall in New York City opens.
S01051933 Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side.
S02261933 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony.
S03041933 Roosevelt inaugurated, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself".
S03051933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday.
S03071933 The game "Monopoly" is invented.
S03101933 Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making a movie when it struck & the cameras kept running).
S03231933 German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers.
S03271933 US Farm Credit Administration authorized.
S03311933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
S04071933 US Prohibition ends.
S04121933 Moffatt Field (Naval Air Station) is commissioned.
S05181933 Tennessee Valley Authority Act signed by President Roosevelt.
S06011933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago.
S06061933 First drive-in theatre opens, in Camden, New Jersey.
S06161933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is created.
S07041933 Work begins on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
S07061933 First All-Star baseball game.  American League won 5-2.
S07121933 Congress passes first minimum wage law ($0.33 per hour).
S07221933 Wiley Post completes first round-the-world solo flight.
S07281933 First Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee).
S08111933 Temp. hits 58°C (136°F) at San Luis Potosí, Mex. (world record).
S09041933 First airplane to exceed 300 mph, JR Wendell, Glenview, Illinois.
S10081933 San Francisco's Coit Tower is dedicated to firefighters.
S10101933 First synthetic detergent for home use marketed.
S10171933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany.
S11121933 First known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken.
S11161933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
S11211933 First US ambassador is sent to the USSR - WC Bullitt.
S12171933 First professional football game: Chicago Bears vs. NY Giants.
S12261933 US forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere.
S01011934 Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison.
S02121934 Export-Import Bank incorporated.
S03041934 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson dedicated.
S03081934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars.
S03241934 FDR grants future independence to Philippines.
S04181934 First "Washateria" (Laundromat) is opened, in Fort Worth, Texas.
S04191934 Shirley Temple appears in her first movie, "Stand Up and Cheer".
S04241934 Wind gusts reach 372 kph at Mt Washington, NH.
S06031934 Dr Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin knighted.
S06061934 Securities and Exchange Commission established.
S06121934 Black-McKeller Bill splits United Airlines from Boeing.
S06191934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created.
S06261934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions.
S08121934 Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand.
S09241934 Babe Ruth makes his farewell appearance as a baseball player.
S12271934 The first youth hostel is opened, in Northfield, Mass.
S01081935 Spectrophotometer patented, by AC Hardy.
S01111935 Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly solo across Pacific, left Honolulu for California, AE Putnam.
S01241935 First beer in cans is sold.
S02021935 Lie detector first used in court in Portage, Wisconsin.
S03161935 Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty.
S04021935 Watson Watt granted a patent for RADAR.
S06031935 French "Normandie" sets Atlantic crossing record: 1077 hours.
S06101935 Alcoholics Anonymous formed in Akron by Dr Robert Smith.
S07051935 First Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast.
S07161935 First automatic parking meter in US installed: Oklahoma City, OK.
S08141935 Social Security Act became law.
S09031935 First automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell.
S10021935 NY Hayden Planetarium, the fourth in the US, opens.
S10081935 Ozzie & Harriet Nelson are married.
S11141935 FDR proclaims the Philippines are a free commonwealth.
S11151935 Philippine Islands become a self-governing U.S. Commonwealth.
S01021936 First electron tube described, St Louis, Missouri.
S01141936 L.M. "Mario" Giannini elected president of Bank of America.
S02041936 First radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E.
S03071936 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland.
S03121936 FDR conducts his first "Fireside Chat".
S04181936 The Pan Am "Clipper" begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu.
S06021936 Gen. Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua.
S06301936 40 hour work week law approved in US.
S07181936 Spanish Civil War began, Francisco Franco leads uprising.
S09111936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam.
S10021936 First alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas.
S10091936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
S11121936 Oakland Bay Bridge opens.
S11181936 Main span of the Golden Gate Bridge is joined.
S12241936 First radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, CA.
S01201937 Inauguration day, every fourth year.
S02131937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail and fine detail drawing.
S02161937 Nylon patented, WH Carothers.
S03151937 First blood bank established, Chicago, Illinois.
S03261937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye.
S04271937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment.
S05261937 Golden Gate Bridge opens.
S05271937 Golden Gate Bridge dedicated.
S06031937 Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Warfield Simpson.
S07021937 Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean.
S07231937 Isolation of the pituitary hormone is announced.
S11131937 NBC forms first full symphony orchestra exclusively for radio.
S12121937 The first mobile TV unit, in New York.
S12211937 The first feature-length cartoon with colour and sound premieres, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".  Still one of the best.
S12291937 Pan Am starts San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand service.
S01281938 First Ski Tow starts running (in Vermont).
S03111938 Germany invades Austria.
S03181938 Mexico takes control of foreign-owned oil properties.
S04121938 First US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses, NY.
S06071938 The first Boeing 314 Clipper "Flying Boat" is flown by Eddie Allen.
S06141938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin.
S06251938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40˘ per hour.
S07051938 Herb Caen gets his first column in the S.F. Chronicle.
S07181938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan lands in Ireland-left NY for Calif.
S10271938 DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon".
S10301938 Orson Welles panics nation with broadcast: "War of the Worlds".
S12301938 Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin.
S01141939 All commercial ferry service to the East Bay ends.
S01221939 Aquatic Park dedicated.
S02181939 Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island (which was built for the occasion) in San Francisco Bay.
S03281939 Spanish Civil War ends, fascist Francisco Franco wins.
S04191939 Connecticut approves the Bill of Rights (only 148 years late).
S04301939 NBC/RCA make first US demo of TV at opening of NY World's Fair.
S05021939 Lou Gehrig sets record for most consecutive games (2130).
S06281939 Pan Am begins transatlantic air service with the Dixie Clipper.
S08171939 "The Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY.
S09011939 PHYSICAL REVIEW publishes first paper to deal with "black holes".
S09011939 Germany invades Poland, starting World War II.
S09031939 Britain declared war on Germany. France followed six hours later, quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada.
S09301939 First manned rocket flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel).
S10291939 Golden Gate International Exposition closes (first closure).
S11061939 WGY-TV (Schenectady NY), first commercial-license station begins.
S11081939 Life with Father, opens on Broadway, closes in 1947, a record.
S11111939 Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America".
S11151939 Social Security Administration approves first unemployment check.
S11301939 USSR invades Finland over a border dispute.
S12151939 The first commercial manufacture of nylon yarn.
S12201939 Radio Australia starts shortwave service.
S12251939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer.
S02071940 Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" released.
S04201940 First electron microscope demonstrated, Philadelphia, PA.
S05151940 First nylon stockings are sold in America.
S05251940 Golden Gate International Exposition reopens.
S06041940 British complete miracle of Dunkirk by evacuating 300,000 troops.
S06081940 Discovery of element 93 "Neptunium"  is announced.
S06101940 Italy declares war on France and Britain.
S06141940 France falls to Nazi Germany.  Vichy water loses popularity.
S06151940 France surrenders to Hitler.
S07101940 Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attack by air.
S07151940 First betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Illinois.
S07211940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
S07271940 Billboard magazine starts publishing best-sellers charts.
S08201940 Churchill says of the Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.".
S09031940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for military bases.
S09031940 First showing of high definition colour television.
S09141940 Congress passes first peace time draft law.
S10011940 Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens.
S11131940 Walt Disney's film "Fantasia" is released.
S01061941 FDR names 4 freedoms (speech, religion; from want, from fear).
S03111941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill with England.
S03171941 National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, DC.
S03221941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state goes into operation.
S04171941 Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing).
S07011941 First TV licenses granted: W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), New York.
S08141941 Atlantic Charter signed by FDR & Churchill.
S09121941 First German ship in WW II is captured by US ship (Busko).
S09241941 Nine Allied governments pledged adherence to the Atlantic Charter.
S09271941 First WWII liberty ship, freighter Patrick Henry, is launched.
S10171941 First American destroyer torpedoed in WW II, USS Kearny off Iceland.
S10231941 Walt Disney's "Dumbo" is released.
S12071941 Pearl harbour is attacked ("A day that will live in infamy.").
S12071941 First Japanese submarine sunk by American ship (USS Ward).
S12221941 Japanese troops invade the Philippines.
S01061942 First around world flight by Pan Am "Pacific Clipper".
S02241942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German).
S03111942 Gen MacArthur leaves Bataan for Australia.
S03201942 MacArthur vows to Filipinos, "I shall return".
S04281942 "WW II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll.
S04301942 First submarine built on the Great Lakes launched, the "Peto", from Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
S05061942 U.S. forces on Corregidor surrender to the Japanese.
S06031942 Battle of Midway begins: first major battle won by air-power.
S06111942 US and USSR sign Lend-Lease agreement during WW II.
S06141942 Walt Disney's film "Bambi" is released.
S06271942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off Long Island, NY.
S08201942 WW II dim-out regulations implemented in San Francisco.
S09091942 First bombing of the continental US, at Mount Emily Oregon by a Japanese plane launched from a submarine.
S10021942 First self-sustaining nuclear reaction demonstrated, in Chicago.
S10031942 Launch of the first A-4 (V-2) rocket to altitude of 53 miles.
S12021942 First controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago.
S01171943 It was Tin Can Drive Day.
S03311943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" opens on Broadway.
S04111943 Frank Piasecki, flies his first single-rotor helicopter.
S07011943 First automatic withholding tax from paychecks.
S09081943 Italy surrenders to the allies in WW II.
S11011943 WW II dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area.
S11221943 Lebanon gains its independence.
S03231944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute and lives.
S06041944 First submarine captured and boarded on high seas - German U 505.
S06061944 D-Day, the Allied Invasion of "Festung Europa".
S06171944 Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland.
S06221944 FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act).
S07011944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide financial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank).
S07051944 First rocket airplane flown.
S09111944 FDR and Churchill meet in Canada at the second Quebec Conference.
S10201944 MacArthur returns to the Philippines, says "I have returned.".
S01101945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close.
S01171945 Liberation Day in Poland (end of Nazi occupation).
S02031945 Yalta Conference, Russia agrees to enter WWII against Japan.
S02121945 San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference.
S02191945 Marines land on Iwo Jima.
S03221945 Arab League is founded.
S04251945 United Nations Conference starts.
S04271945 Founding of the Second Republic, in Austria.
S05071945 World War II ends in Europe.
S05081945 Germany surrenders, ending World War II in Europe.
S06261945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco.
S07161945 First atomic blast, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico.
S07171945 Potsdam Conference. FDR, Stalin, Churchill hold first meeting.
S08061945 The first Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the "Enola Gay".
S08091945 The second Atom Bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
S08141945 VJ Day - Japan surrendered to end World War II.
S08151945 Riot in San Francisco celebrating end of World War II.
S08151945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule.
S09021945 Vietnam declares independence from France (National Day).
S09021945 V-J Day; Japan formally surrenders aboard the USS Missouri.
S09081945 US invades Japanese-held Korea.
S09101945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.
S09161945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low).
S09201945 German rocket engineers begin work in US.
S10211945 Women in France allowed to vote for the first time.
S10241945 United Nations Charter goes into effect.
S10301945 US government announces end of shoe rationing.
S11101945 Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald is liberated by US troops.
S11291945 Yugoslav Republic Day is first proclaimed.
S12271945 International Monetary Fund established-World Bank founded.
S01101946 US Army establishes first radar contact with moon.
S01101946 UN General Assembly meets for first time.
S02161946 First commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport Ct.
S03051946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech.
S03221946 Jordan (formerly Transjordan) gains independence from Britain.
S04171946 France grants Syria independence (National Day).
S04181946 League of Nations goes out of business, replaced by UN.
S04271946 Radar first installed aboard a commercial ship.
S05261946 Patent filed in US for the H-Bomb.
S06061946 Henry Morgan is first to take off his shirt on TV.
S06291946 British arrest 2700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists.
S07041946 Philippines gains independence from US.
S07071946 Mother Frances X Cabrini canonized as first American saint.
S07241946 US detonates atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll.  See film Radio Bikini.
S07301946 First rocket to attain 100-mile altitude, White Sands, NM.
S08011946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission.
S09111946 First mobile long-distance, car-to-car telephone conversation.
S10231946 First meeting of U.N. General Assembly.
S11121946 First "autobank" (banking by car) is established, in Chicago.
S12111946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965).
S12191946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks the French.
S12311946 President Truman officially proclaims the end of World War II.
S02121947 A daytime fireball & meteorite fall is seen in eastern Siberia.
S04111947 Jackie Robinson becomes first black in major league baseball.
S04281947 Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki sail from Peru to Polynesia.
S04301947 Boulder Dam renamed in honour of Herbert Hoover.
S06041947 Taft-Hartley Act approved despite a Truman veto.
S06051947 Sec of State George C. Marshall outlines "The Marshall Plan".
S06111947 WW II sugar rationing finally ends.
S06171947 First around-the-world civil air service leaves New York.
S06191947 First plane to exceed 600 mph - Albert Boyd at Muroc, CA.
S07081947 Demolition begins in New York for headquarters of United Nations.
S07261947 Department of Defence established.
S09111947 US Department of Defence is formed.
S09151947 First 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh.
S10031947 The first 200 inch telescope lens (for Mt Palomar) is completed.
S10141947 Chuck Yeager makes first supersonic flight, Mach 1.015 at 12,800m.
S11021947 Howard Hughes" Spruce Goose flies for first (& last) time.
S11201947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten.
S12231947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley at Bell Labs.
S01041948 Burma gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S01151948 World's largest office building, The Pentagon, is completed.
S01271948 First Tape Recorder is sold.
S02041948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence.
S03141948 Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco.
S04031948 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan (Aid to Europe).
S04071948 World Health Organization is established.
S04301948 Organization of American States (OAS) charter signed in Bogotá.
S05141948 State of Israel proclaimed.
S06031948 200 inch Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory.
S06071948 Communists take over Czechoslovakia.
S06141948 TV Guide is first published.
S06201948 Ed Sullivan has his first really big "shoe" on Sunday night TV.
S06211948 First stored computer program run, on the Manchester Mark I.
S06261948 US responses to Soviet blockade of Berlin with an airlift.
S06301948 Transistor demonstrated Murray Hill, NJ.
S07171948 Republic of Korea founded.
S07311948 President Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (Kennedy Airport), NY.
S09071948 First use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron OH.
S11021948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers.
S11231948 A patent is granted for the first zoom lens to F.G. Back.
S12101948 UN Genl Assembly adopts Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
S01101949 First Jewish family show - The Goldberg's begin.
S01251949 First Emmy Awards are presented.
S01251949 First popular elections in Israel.
S03021949 First automatic street light installed. (In New Milford, CT).
S03191949 First museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, TN.
S03311949 Newfoundland becomes 10th Canadian province.
S04041949 NATO established.
S04181949 Irish Republic comes into existence.
S04231949 Courtesy Mail Boxes for motorists appear in San Francisco.
S05051949 Council of Europe established.
S06031949 "Dragnet" is first broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles).
S06241949 Cargo airlines first licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board.
S06241949 Hopalong Cassidy becomes first network western.
S06261949 Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus INSIDE orbit of Mercury.
S08291949 USSR explodes its first atomic bomb.
S10011949 People's Republic of China proclaimed (National Day).
S10071949 Democratic Republic of Germany (East) is formed.
S10261949 President Truman increases minimum wage - from 40 cents to 75 cents.
S11151949 KRON (Channel 4, San Francisco) signs on, from 7 to 10 PM.
S11261949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic.
S12291949 First UHF TV station operating regular basis, Bridgeport CT.
S01261950 India becomes a republic ceasing to be a British dominion.
S01311950 President Truman authorizes production of H-Bomb.
S02151950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released.
S03171950 Element 98 (Californium) is announced.
S03301950 Invention of the photo-transistor is announced at Murray Hill, NJ.
S04181950 First transatlantic jet passenger trip.
S06251950 El Al begins air service.
S06251950 Korean War begins; North Korea invades South.
S06271950 President Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict.
S07051950 Law of Return passes allowing all Jews rights to live in Israel.
S08171950 Indonesia gains its independence.
S09041950 First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.
S09111950 First typesetting machine without metal type is exhibited.
S09151950 UN forces land at Inchon during Korean conflict.
S09261950 UN troops in Korean War recaptured South Korean capital of Seoul.
S10021950 The comic strip "Peanuts" first appears, in nine newspapers.
S12101950 Ralph J. Bunche (first black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize.
S01101951 First jet passenger trip made.
S03251951 Purcell and Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab.
S05111951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.
S06141951 UNIVAC 1, first commercial computer, is unveiled.
S06151951 First commercial electronic computer dedicated in Philadelphia.
S06251951 First colour TV broadcast: CBS" Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities.
S06281951 "Amos "n Andy" show premiers on television (CBS).
S07051951 Junction transistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ.
S09041951 First transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman.
S09201951 First North Pole jet crossing.
S11101951 First Long Distance telephone call without operator assistance.
S11271951 First rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM.
S11291951 First underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada.
S12011951 Golden Gate Bridge closed because of high winds.
S12241951 Libya gains independence from Italy.
S02061952 Elizabeth II becomes queen of Great Britain.
S03181952 First plastic lens for cataract patients fitted, Philadelphia.
S04011952 "Big Bang" theory published by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow.
S04281952 WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect.
S06141952 Keel laid for first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.
S06291952 First aircraft carrier to sail around Cape Horn - the Oriskany.
S07251952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created.
S08261952 Fluoridation of San Francisco water begins.
S09231952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech.
S09231952 First closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event.
S10011952 First Ultra High Frequency (UHF) TV station, in Portland, Oregon.
S10311952 First thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands.
S11011952 First hydrogen bomb exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific.
S11031952 Charles Birdseye markets frozen peas.
S12291952 First transistorised hearing aid offered for sale, Elmsford NY.
S02051953 Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released.
S03261953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio.
S04021953 Watson and Crick publish discovery of DNA.
S04071953 First jet transatlantic non-stop flight (west to east).
S04091953 TV Guide publishes their first issue.
S04101953 House of Wax, first 3-D movie, released in New York.
S04241953 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
S05291953 New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Tensing Norgay become the first men to conquer Mount Everest.
S06021953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey.
S06071953 The first colour network telecast, from Boston, Massachusetts.
S06081953 Supreme Court forbids segregated lunch counters in Washington DC.
S06181953 Egypt is proclaimed a republic.
S06251953 First passenger flies commercially around the world < 100 hours.
S07091953 First helicopter passenger service, in New York.
S07141953 First national monument dedicated to a Negro - GW Carver.
S07261953 Korean War Armistice is signed.
S07261953 Fidel Castro begins revolution against Batista.
S08011953 California introduces its Sales Tax (for Education).
S09051953 First privately operated atomic reactor - Raleigh NC.
S09101953 Swanson sells its first "TV Dinner".
S09121953 Khruschchev becomes First Secretary of the Communist Party.
S09171953 First successful separation of Siamese twins.
S10221953 Laos gains full independence from France.
S10301953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize for 1952.
S10301953 General George C. Marshall is awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
S11091953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union.
S11201953 First airplane to exceed 1300 mph - Scott Crossfield.
S01211954 The Nautilus launched, first nuclear submarine.
S01261954 Ground breaking begins on Disneyland.
S02151954 First bevatron in operation - Berkeley, California.
S03091954 Edward R. Murrow criticizes Senator McCarthy (See it Now).
S03251954 RCA manufactures the first COLOR television.
S04261954 Nationwide test of the Salk anti-polio begins.
S05171954 Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, overthrowing the principle of "separate but equal".
S06101954 PBS reaches San Francisco: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting.
S07151954 First US passenger jet transport airplane tested (Boeing 707).
S07171954 Construction begins on Disneyland.
S08291954 San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opens.
S09041954 First passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed.
S09111954 First Miss America TV broadcast.
S09201954 First FORTRAN computer program is run.
S09211954 The nuclear submarine "Nautilus" is commissioned.
S09241954 "The Tonight Show" premieres.
S11121954 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY harbour, is closed.
S11301954 First meteorite known to have struck a woman - Sylacauga Alabama.
S12031954 Joseph McCarthy goes too far in his attacks and is condemned by the U.S. Senate.  Not well remembered.
S03041955 First radio facsimile transmission is sent across the continent.
S03241955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway.
S03251955 East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR.
S04091955 United Nations Charter hearing.
S04121955 Salk polio vaccine safe and effective; four billion dimes marched.
S04151955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's fast food restaurants.
S06111955 First magnesium jet airplane is flown.
S06231955 Walt Disney's film "Lady And The Tramp" is released.
S06271955 First automobile seat belt legislation enacted Illinois.
S07111955 USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado.
S07171955 Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County.
S07181955 First electric power generated from atomic energy sold.
S07191955 "Balclutha" ties up at SF Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
S07271955 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation.
S08311955 First sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, IL.
S09101955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS television.
S10031955 Captain Kangaroo premieres.
S01011956 Sudan gains its independence.
S01181956 Tunisian Revolution Day (National Day).
S02281956 Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory.
S03031956 Morocco gains its independence.
S03151956 My Fair Lady opens in New York.
S03231956 Pakistan becomes independent within British Commonwealth.
S04141956 Ampex Co. demonstrates first commercial videotape recorder.
S06041956 Speech by Khruschchev blasting Stalin is made public.
S07251956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after collision with Stockholm.
S07261956 Egypt seizes the Suez Canal.
S07301956 Motto of US "In God We Trust" authorized.
S08241956 First non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC.
S09071956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000+.
S09141956 First prefrontal lobotomy performed in Washington DC. Common now.
S09251956 First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation.
S10231956 The ill-fated revolt in Communist Hungary starts, later crushed by Soviet tanks.
S10261956 International Atomic Energy Agency established.
S11031956 The Wizard of Oz is first televised.
S11131956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation on public buses.
S01031957 First electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pennsylvania.
S01171957 Nine county commission recommends creation of BART.
S02041957 First electric portable typewriter placed on sale, Syracuse NY.
S03221957 Earthquake gives San Francisco the shakes.
S04061957 New York City ends trolley car service.
S04251957 First experimental sodium nuclear reactor starts up.
S06121957 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg.
S07021957 First submarine built to fire guided missiles launched, "Grayback".
S07091957 Announcement of discovery of element 102 - nobelium.
S07261957 USSR launches first intercontinental multi-stage ballistic missile.
S07291957 International Atomic Energy Agency established by UN.
S08231957 Digital Equipment Corp. founded.
S09041957 Ford introduces the Edsel.
S09241957 Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools.
S10041957 USSR launches 'Sputnik I', the first artificial earth satellite.
S10121957 First commercial flight between California and Antarctica.
S10261957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting.
S11031957 USSR launches the dog Laika, the first animal in orbit.
S12021957 First commercial atomic electric power plant goes to work in PA.
S12061957 First US attempt to launch a satellite: Vanguard rocket blows up.
S01011958 European Economic Community (EEC) starts operation.
S01081958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana.
S01281958 Construction began on first private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor.
S01311958 James van Allen discovers radiation belt.
S01311958 First U.S. satellite launched, Explorer I.
S02011958 Egypt & Syria join to form United Arab Republic.
S02231958 Last SF Municipal arc light, over intersection of Mission & 25th Street, removed (it had been installed in 1913).
S03021958 First surface crossing of the Antarctic continent ends.
S03171958 Vanguard 1 measures shape of Earth.
S03261958 Army launched US's third successful satellite Explorer III.
S04021958 NACA renamed NASA.
S07141958 Iraqi army overthrows monarchy, led by  Colonel Saddam Hussein.
S09051958 First colour video recording on mag. tape shown, Charlotte NC.
S09211958 First airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands at Dallas Texas.
S10011958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA.
S10021958 Guinea gains its independence.
S10041958 Transatlantic jet passenger service begins.
S10111958 Pioneer 1 launched; first spacecraft launched by NASA.
S10231958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
S10261958 PanAm flies the first transatlantic jet trip: New York to Paris.
S11301958 First guided missile destroyer launched, the "Dewey", Bath, ME.
S12011958 Central African Republic established (National Day).
S12111958 Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France.
S12181958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day).
S12181958 First voice from space:  Christmas message by Eisenhower.
S01021959 USSR launches Mechta, first lunar probe & artificial in solar orbit.
S01031959 Alaska becomes the 49th state.
S01041959 Soviet Luna 1 first craft to leave Earth's gravity.
S01251959 First transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301).
S01291959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released.
S03041959 Pioneer 4 makes first US lunar flyby.
S03171959 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India.
S03181959 President Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill.
S04071959 NASA selects first seven astronauts.
S04071959 Radar first bounced off sun, from Stanford California.
S04251959 St Lawrence Seaway opens to shipping.
S06091959 First ballistic missile launched from sub "George Washington".
S06181959 First television broadcast transmitted from England to US.
S06261959 St Lawrence Seaway opens, linking Atlantic Ocean with Great Lakes.
S07141959 First atomic powered cruiser, the Long Beach, Quincy Mass.
S07171959 Tibet abolishes serfdom.
S07211959 First atomic powered merchant ship, Savannah, christened.
S07241959 Nixon has the "Kitchen Debate" with Khruschchev.
S08211959 Hawaii became the 50th state.
S09121959 Luna 1 launched by USSR; first spacecraft to impact on the moon.
S09121959 Bonanza, horse opera, premiers on television.
S09131959 Soviet Lunik 2 becomes first human-made object to crash on moon.
S09151959 Soviet Premier Khruschchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit.
S10041959 USSR's Luna 3 sends back first photos of Moon's far side.
S10061959 Soviet Luna 3, first successful photo spacecraft, impacts moon.
S10071959 Luna 3 photographs the far side of the moon.
S10311959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US.
S11141959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii).
S11191959 Ford cancels the Edsel.
S11211959 Jack Benny(Violin) & Richard Nixon(Piano) play their famed duet.
S12011959 First colour photograph of Earth is received from outer space.
S01281960 First photograph bounced off moon, Washington DC.
S03111960 Pioneer 5 launched; orbits sun between Earth & Venus.
S03151960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (first underwater park).
S03221960 Schawlow and Townes obtain a patent for the laser.
S03251960 First guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut).
S04011960 TIROS I (Television and Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched to improve weather prediction.
S04101960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill.
S04271960 First atomic-electric drive submarine launched (Tullibee).
S06271960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized in Cambridge Mass.
S06301960 Zaire gains its independence.
S07011960 Ghana becomes a republic.
S07011960 Italian Somalia gains independence, unites with Somali Republic.
S07121960 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs.
S07121960 Echo I, first passive satellite launched.
S07201960 First submerged submarine fires Polaris missile: George Washington.
S07201960 USSR recovers 2 dogs; first living organisms to return from space.
S08151960 The Congo (Brazzaville) gains its independence.
S08191960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident).
S08191960 Sputnik 5 carries 3 dogs into orbit (recovered alive).
S08241960 Temp. drops to -88° (-127°F) at Vostok, Antarctica (world record).
S09241960 USS Enterprise, first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launched.
S10011960 Nigeria gains its independence.
S10031960 San Francisco's White House department store is first to accept the BankAmericard in lieu of cash.
S10041960 Courier 1B Launched: first active repeater satellite in orbit.
S10121960 Nikita Khruschchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session.
S10251960 First electronic wrist watch placed on sale, New York.
S11251960 First atomic reactor for research & development, Richland WA.
S11281960 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day).
S12071960 France grants the Ivory Coast independence (National Day).
S01311961 Ham the chimp is the first animal sent into space by the US.
S02121961 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus.
S02141961 Element 103, lawrencium, first produced in Berkeley California.
S03011961 President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
S03091961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit.
S03291961 23rd Amendment ratified, Washington DC can vote for the president.
S04121961 Cosmonaut Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes first man in orbit.
S04171961 Bay of Pigs, how not to run an invasion.
S04251961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifts off with an electronic mannequin.
S04251961 Robert Noyce is granted a patent for the integrated circuit.
S05051961 Alan Shepard becomes first American in space (onboard Freedom 7).
S07191961 First In-flight movie is shown (on TWA).
S07211961 Mercury 4 is launched into sub-orbital flight.
S08131961 Berlin Wall erected in East Germany.
S10271961 First Saturn makes an unmanned flight test.
S10301961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Josef Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square.
S10301961 Soviet Union detonates a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb.
S11291961 Mercury 5 launches a chimp (Ham/Enos).
S12091961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain.
S12181961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu.
S12311961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion.
S01211962 Snow falls in San Francisco, believe it or not.
S02021962 Eight of the planets line up for the first time in 400 years.
S02201962 John Glenn is first American to orbit the Earth.
S03071962 US Orbiting Solar Observatory is launched.
S03231962 President John F. Kennedy visits San Francisco.
S04231962 First US satellite to reach moon launched from Cape Canaveral.
S04241962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for first time:  CA to MA.
S04261962 US/UK launched Ariel; first international payload.
S06271962 NASA X-15 flies at 4105 mph.
S06291962 First flight of the Vickers VC-10 long-range airliner.
S07011962 Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days).
S07031962 Algeria becomes independent after 132 years of French rule.
S07101962 Telstar, first communications satellite launched.
S07111962 First transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I).
S07111962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set longevity space flight record-4 days.
S07171962 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft).
S07231962 First live TV broadcast between the US and Europe (via Telstar).
S07271962 Mariner 2 launched on a flyby mission to Venus.
S08261962 Mariner 2 launched for first planet flyby (Venus).
S10011962 Johnny Carson's Tonight Show and The Lucy Show both premier.
S10011962 National Radio Astronomy Observatory gets a 300" radio telescope.
S10031962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into earth orbit.
S10091962 Uganda gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S10161962 Cuban missile crisis begins: JFK learns of missiles in Cuba.
S10181962 Watson of US, Crick & Wilkins of Britain win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining the structure of DNA.
S10221962 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis.
S10221962 Pacific Science centre opens at Seattle centre.
S10281962 Khruschchev orders withdrawal of Cuban missiles.
S11061962 Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more.
S12141962 Mariner 2 makes first US visit to another planet (Venus).
S01171963 Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km.
S03221963 Beatles release their first album, Please Please Me.
S03311963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years.
S05071963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles).
S05151963 Last of the Mercury flights, the "Faith 7", launched.
S06131963 Valentina Tereshkova aboard Vostok 6, becomes the first woman in space.
S06171963 Supreme Court strikes down Lord's Prayer recitation.
S06201963 US and USSR agree to set up a "Hot Line".
S06211963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII.
S06241963 First demonstration of home video recorder, BBC Studios, London.
S06261963 John F. Kennedy visits West Berlin, "Ich bin ein Berliner".
S06271963 Robert Rushworth in X-15 reaches 87 km.
S07251963 US Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty.
S07261963 US launches Syncom 2, the first geosynchronous satellite.
S08051963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed.
S08181963 James Meredith becomes first black graduate of Univ of Miss.
S08221963 Joe Walker in a NASA X-15, reaches 106 km (67 miles).
S08281963 Martin Luther King Jr. announces, "I have a dream," to a quarter-million demonstrators at March on Washington.
S09021963 CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes.
S09101963 Twenty black students enter public schools in Alabama.
S09131963 The Outer Limits premiers.
S09241963 Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing.
S10101963 Nuclear Atmospheric Test Ban treaty is signed by US, UK, USSR.
S10121963 Archaeological dig begins at Masada, Israel.
S11221963 President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
S11241963 First live murder on TV - Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald.
S12101963 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain.
S12121963 Kenya gains its independence from Britain (National Day).
S01231964 24th Amendment ratified, Barred poll tax in federal elections.
S01251964 Echo 2, US communications satellite launched.
S02091964 First appearance of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.
S03271964 Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale.
S04011964 USSR launches Zond 1 towards Venus.
S07021964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
S07061964 Malawi (then Nyasaland) gains independence from Britain.
S07281964 Ranger 7 launched to the moon; sends back 4308 TV pictures.
S07311964 Ranger 7 transmits the first lunar close-up photos before impact.
S09041964 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1).
S09141964 Walt Disney awarded the Medal of Freedom at the White House.
S09211964 Malta gains independence from Britain.
S09271964 Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
S10011964 San Francisco Cable Cars are declared a National Landmark.
S10101964 18th Summer Olympic Games opened in Tokyo.
S10121964 USSR launches first 3-man crew into space.
S10151964 Kosygin & Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Khruschchev.
S10161964 Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Khruschchev as head of Russia.
S10161964 China becomes world's 5th nuclear power.
S10241964 Zambia (Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain.
S11211964 The world's longest suspension bridge, Verrazano Narrows, opens.
S11281964 Mariner 4 launched; first probe to fly by Mars.
S11301964 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars.
S12121964 Russia launches Voshkod I, first multi-crew in space (3 men).
S12151964 American Radio Relay League is founded.
S12221964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet).
S03081965 First US forces arrive in Vietnam.
S03141965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with W Germany.
S03181965 Russia launches second Voshkod, first space walk - Aleksei Leonov.
S03211965 US Ranger 9 launched takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact.
S03211965 Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery.
S03231965 Gemini 3 blasts off, first US 2-man space flight.
S03241965 US Ranger 9 strikes moon 10 miles NE of crater Alphonsus.
S04061965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite.
S04231965 Launch of first Soviet communications satellite.
S06011965 Penzias and Wilson detect 3 degree Kelvin primordial background.
S06031965 Gemini IV is launched Ed White first American to walk in space.
S06071965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits.
S07041965 Mariner 4 flies past Mars, sends first close-up photos.
S07141965 US Mariner IV, first Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles.
S07211965 Gemini 5 launched atop Titan V with Cooper and Conrad.
S07261965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S08211965 Gemini 5 launched into earth orbit (2 astronauts).
S08281965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5.
S09281965 Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km.
S10281965 Gateway Arch (190 meters high) completed in St. Louis, Missouri.
S10281965 Pope Paul VI says Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion.
S11091965 at 5:16pm, a massive power failure blacks out New Engl. & Ontario.
S11111965 Rhodesia proclaims independence from Britain.
S11121965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus.
S11161965 Venera 3 launched, first land on another planet (Crashes on Venus).
S11261965 France launches their first satellite, a 92-pound A1 capsule.
S12041965 Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts.
S12151965 First rendezvous in space: Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 link up.
S12161965 Gemini VI returns to Earth.
S12181965 Borman & Lovell splash down, ending 2 week Gemini VII orbit.
S01311966 Luna 9 launched for moon.
S02031966 Soviet Luna 9 first spacecraft to soft-land on moon.
S03011966 Venera 3 becomes the first manmade object to impact another planet - Venus.
S03161966 Gemini 8 launched with 2 astronauts.
S03171966 US sub locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean.
S03311966 USSR launches Luna 10, first spacecraft to orbit moon.
S04031966 USSR's Luna 10 becomes the first craft to orbit the Moon.
S06021966 Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum first moon soft-landing.
S07011966 Medicare goes into effect.
S07101966 Orbiter 1 Launched to moon.
S07171966 Pioneer 7 research robot is launched into solar orbit.
S07181966 Gemini 10 launched.
S07181966 Carl Sagan turns one billion seconds old.
S08141966 First US lunar orbiter does it.
S08231966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes first photograph of earth from the moon.
S09061966 Star Trek appears on TV for the first time, on NBC.
S09121966 Gemini XI launched.
S09161966 Metropolitan Opera opens at New York's Lincoln centre.
S09181966 Gemini X is launched.
S09261966 Japan launches its first satellite in to space.
S09261966 The Staten Island is first icebreaker to enter SF bay.
S10041966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain.
S11111966 Gemini 12 is launched on a four day flight.
S11261966 First major tidal power plant opened at Rance estuary, France.
S11301966 Barbados gains independence from Britain.
S12241966 Soviet Luna 13 lands on moon.
S01271967 Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee.
S04191967 US Surveyor III lands on moon.
S04211967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin's daughter) defects in NYC.
S04231967 Soyuz 1 launched, Vladimir Komarov becomes first in-flight casualty.
S06011967 Beatles release "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
S06061967 Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbours begins.
S06121967 Israel wins the Six Day War.
S06121967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus.
S06131967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as first black Supreme Court justice.
S06141967 Launch of Mariner V for Venus flyby.
S07041967 Freedom of Information Act goes into effect.
S09091967 First successful test flight of a Saturn V rocket.
S09111967 US Surveyor 5 makes first chemical analysis of lunar material.
S09301967 USSR's Kosmos 186 & 188 complete the first automatic docking.
S09301967 Palace of Fine Arts reopens (first time during 1915 exposition).
S10021967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn as first black Supreme Court Justice.
S10031967 AF pilot Pete Knight flies the X-15 to a record 4,534 MPH.
S10181967 Soviet Venera 4 is the first probe to send data back from Venus.
S10191967 Mariner 5 flies by Venus.
S10301967 USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make first automatic docking.
S11051967 ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth disc.
S11091967 First unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module.
S11301967 South Yemen (then Aden) gains independence from Britain.
S12011967 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch Isaac Newton Telescope.
S12031967 First human heart transplant performed, in Capetown, South Africa.
S01021968 Dr Christian Barnard performs first successful heart transplant.
S01081968 US Surveyor 7 lands near crater Tycho on moon.
S01151968 Soyuz 5 launched.
S01221968 Apollo 5 launched to moon, Unmanned lunar module tests made.
S03041968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched.
S03151968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold.
S03221968 President Johnson's daughter, Lynda, ordered off Cable Car because she was eating an ice cream cone (no food on cars).
S03271968 SF Japanese Trade and Cultural centre (Japan centre) dedicated.
S06201968 Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 secs.
S06261968 Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US.
S07011968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Trea.
S07181968 Intel Corporation, inventor of the microchip, is incorporated.
S07231968 The PLO's first hijacking of an EL AL plane.
S08211968 Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
S08211968 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight).
S09141968 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on first circum-lunar flight.
S09161968 Richard Nixon appears on Laugh-in.
S09171968 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon.
S09191968 Baby born on Golden Gate Bridge.
S10071968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
S10111968 Apollo 7 launched, first of the manned Apollo missions.
S10121968 Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
S10181968 US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith & John Carlos, for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony.
S10181968 Robert Beaman of US broad jumps a record 8.90 m.  Still stands.
S10191968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars.
S10261968 Soyuz 3 is launched.
S11101968 USSR launches Zond 6 to the moon.
S12211968 Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell, Anders), first manned moon voyage.
S12231968 Borman, Lovell & Anders are the first men to orbit the moon.
S12241968 Apollo 8 astronauts broadcast seasons greetings from the moon.
S01051969 USSR Venera 5 launched.  first successful planet landing - Venus.
S01101969 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus.
S01141969 Soyuz 4 is launched.
S01161969 Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform first transfer of crew in space.
S01301969 US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere.
S02091969 The Boeing 747 makes its first commercial flight.
S03031969 Apollo 9 launched.
S03171969 Golda Meir becomes Israeli Prime Minister.
S07011969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as the Prince of Wales.
S07161969 Apollo 11, first manned ship to land on the moon is launched with astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins.
S07171969 Apollo/Soyuz, the first US/USSR linkup in space.
S07201969 First men land on the moon, aboard Apollo 11 at 09:18 GMT. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin establish Tranquility Base.
S07211969 Independence Day, celebrated in Belgium.
S07211969 Neil Armstrong steps onto the moon at 02:56:15 GMT. "It's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.".
S07271969 Pioneer 10 Launched.
S08161969 Woodstock festival begins in New York.
S09011969 Moammar Gadhafi deposes Libya's King Idris.
S10111969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next two days.
S10131969 Soyuz 8 is launched.
S11101969 Sesame Street premiers.
S11141969 Apollo 12 is launched.
S12171969 Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki are married on network television in front of 50 million under whelmed viewers.
S12181969 Britain abolishes the death penalty.
S02111970 Japan becomes fourth nation to put a satellite (Osumi) in orbit.
S03011970 U.S. commercial whale hunting ends.
S03131970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer.
S03261970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory made a City Landmark.
S04111970 Apollo 13 launched to moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days.
S04241970 China launches first satellite, transmitting song "East is Red".
S06111970 US leaves Wheelus Air Force Base in Libya.
S07311970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending "Huntley-Brinkley Report".
S08161970 Venera 7 launched by USSR for soft landing on Venus.
S09121970 Luna 16 launched; returns samples from Mare Fecunditatis.
S09201970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample.
S09281970 Anwar Sadat replaces Nassar as President of Egypt.
S10051970 PBS becomes a network.  TV worth watching.
S10081970 Alexander Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
S10101970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S10161970 Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt, succeeds Gamal Nassar.
S10261970 The "Doonesbury" comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers.
S10281970 US/USSR signed an agreement to discuss joint space efforts.
S11101970 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched.
S11171970 Russia lands unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon.
S11191970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a State Historical Landmark.
S01011971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV.
S01131971 Apollo 14 launched.
S01311971 Apollo 14 is launched, first landing in lunar highlands.
S02051971 Apollo 14, third manned expedition to moon, lands near Fra Mauro.
S03261971 East Pakistan proclaimed independence taking name Bangladesh.
S04011971 US/Canada ISIS II launched to study ionosphere.
S04141971 Fort Point dedicated as first National Park in SF Bay Area.
S04261971 San Francisco Lightship is replaced by an automatic buoy.
S04291971 Salyut 1, world's First space station, launched into earth orbit.
S05031971 national noncommercial network radio begins programming.
S06061971 Soyuz 11 takes 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 1 space station.
S06071971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes first transfer to orbiting Salyut.
S06171971 US returns control of Okinawa to Japanese.
S06291971 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days.
S07011971 Golden Gate Bridge is paid off.
S07261971 US launches Apollo 15 to the Moon.
S07301971 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium.
S10011971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens.
S10251971 UN General Assembly admits Mainland China & expels Taiwan.
S10251971 Roy Disney dedicates Walt Disney World.
S10271971 Republic of the Congo becomes Zaire.
S10281971 England becomes 6th nation with a satellite (Prospero) in orbit.
S11131971 Mariner 9, is the first space ship to orbit another planet, Mars.
S11241971 "D B Cooper" parachutes from a Northwest 727 with $200,000.
S11271971 Soviet Mars 2, is the first to crash land on Mars.
S12021971 Soviet Mars 3 is first to soft land on Mars.
S12151971 USSR's Venera 7 becomes the first craft to land on Venus.
S12191971 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp.
S01021972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars.
S01051972 NASA announces development of Space Shuttle.
S01221972 David Bowie announces his homosexuality.
S02011972 First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced.
S03021972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby.
S03031972 Pioneer 10 launched through asteroid belt & Jupiter.
S03241972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
S03271972 Soviet spacecraft Venera 8 launched to Venus.
S04021972 Apollo 16's Young and Duke land on the moon and hot-rod with the Boeing Lunar Rover No.2.
S04161972 Apollo 16 launched; 5th lunar landing at Decartes Highlands.
S04211972 Orbiting Astronomical Observer 4 (Copernicus) is launched.
S04231972 Apollo 16 astronauts explore the Moon's surface.
S04251972 Glider pilot Hans Grosse flies a record 1461 km.
S06051972 U.N. Conference on the Human Environment opens in Stockholm.
S06071972 German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel.
S06171972 Democratic HQ at Watergate is burglarised by the Republicans.
S06301972 Time-keeping adjusted with the first leap second.
S07221972 Venera 8 makes a soft landing on Venus.
S07231972 ERTS 1 (Earth Resources Technology Satellite) later called LANDSAT, is launched to start its multi-spectral scans of Earth.
S08211972 US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus is launched.
S09041972 US swimmer Mark Spitz is first athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals.
S09111972 BART begins service with a 26 mile line from Oakland to Fremont.
S09161972 First TV series about mixed marriage - Bridgit Loves Bernie.
S09171972 BART begins passenger service.
S10121972 Mariner 9 takes pictures of the Martian north pole.  No Santa.
S10261972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin.
S10271972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created.
S12071972 Apollo 17, last of the Apollo moon series, launched.
S01081973 USSR launches Luna 21 for moon landing.
S01161973 USSR's Lunakhod begins radio-controlled exploration of moon.
S01271973 US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending the longest US war.
S03291973 US troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Resolution.
S04051973 Pioneer 11 blasts off toward Jupiter.
S04061973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter and Saturn.
S04201973 Canadian ANIK A2 became first commercial satellite in orbit.
S04301973 Nixon announces resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al.
S05141973 United States launches space station "Skylab".
S07251973 USSR launches Mars 5.
S07281973 Skylab 3's astronauts are launched.
S08231973 First Intelsat communications satellite launched.
S08261973 Women's Equality Day.
S09231973 Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049 - 1, is calculated.
S09251973 3-man crew of Skylab II make safe splashdown after 59 days.
S09271973 Soyuz 12 launched.
S10061973 Egypt and Syria invade Israel - The Yom Kippur war.
S10091973 Elvis & Priscilla Presley divorce after 6 years.
S10101973 VP Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns.
S10161973 Henry Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
S10171973 The Arab oil embargo begins. It will last until March, 1974.
S10241973 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus.
S11031973 Mariner 10 launched-first Venus pics, first mission to Mercury.
S11161973 Skylab 4 launched into earth orbit.
S12031973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (first fly-by of an outer planet).
S12211973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva.
S12231973 six Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices.
S02041974 Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army.
S02051974 Mariner 10 takes first close-up photos of Venus" cloud structure.
S03291974 Mariner 10's first fly-by of Mercury, returns photos.
S04081974 Hank Aaron hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record.
S04281974 Last Americans are evacuated from Saigon.
S08091974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency.
S09101974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
S09121974 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia overthrown.
S09141974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter.
S09161974 President Ford announces conditional amnesty for Vietnam deserters.
S09161974 BART begins regular TransBay service.
S09211974 US Mariner 10 makes second fly-by of Mercury.
S12131974 Maltese Republic Day is declared.
S12311974 US citizens allowed to buy & own gold for first time in 40 years.
S01051975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days.
S01111975 Soyuz 17 is launched.
S01221975 Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, is launched.
S03161975 US Mariner 10 makes third, and final, fly-by of Mercury.
S04251975 First Boeing Jetfoil service, Hong Kong to Macao.
S04301975 Fall of Saigon signals end of Vietnam War.
S06051975 Suez Canal reopens (after 6 Day War caused it to close).
S06061975 British voters decide to remain in the Common Market.
S06081975 Soviets launch Venera 9 to Venus.
S06141975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing.
S06151975 Soyuz 19 launched.
S07051975 Cape Verde Islands independent, 500 years under Portuguese rule.
S07061975 Comoros Islands gain independence from France (most of them).
S07151975 Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later.
S09091975 Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing.
S09161975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
S10091975 Andrei Sakharov wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
S10101975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt.
S10211975 Venera 9, first craft to orbit the planet Venus launched.
S10221975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 lands on Venus.
S10251975 USSR Venera 10 made day Venus landing.
S11101975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald lost in a storm on Lake Superior.
S11111975 Portugal grants independence to Angola (National Day).
S11251975 Netherlands grants Surinam independence (National Day).
S11291975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii.
S12021975 Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day).
S12101975 A. Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize.
S12231975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act.
S12301975 Democratic Republic of Madagascar founded.
S01171976 Hermes rocket launched by ESA.
S03081976 Largest observed falling single stony meteorite (Jiling, China).
S03231976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect, 35 nations ratify.
S03241976 Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military.
S04131976 $2 bill re-introduced as United States currency, failed again.
S06031976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta.
S06191976 Viking 1 enters Martian orbit after 10 month flight from earth.
S06231976 CN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555m) opens.
S07021976 Supreme Court ruled death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual.
S07041976 Raid on Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France passengers.
S07061976 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station.
S07201976 First pictures from Mars surface received (courtesy Viking 2).
S07281976 Eldon Joersz & Geo. Morgan set world airspeed record of 3,530 kph.
S08181976 USSR's Luna 24 soft lands on the Moon.
S09031976 US Viking 2 lands on Mars at Utopia.
S09151976 Soyuz 22 carries two cosmonauts into earth orbit for 8 days.
S09161976 Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop.
S10211976 Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
S01031977 Apple Computer incorporated.
S02191977 President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose").
S03041977 First CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped to Los Alamos Labs, NM.
S03101977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of SAO.
S03221977 Indira Gandhi resigns as PM of India.
S04211977 Broadway play "Annie" opens, first of 2377 performances.
S04281977 Christopher Boyce is convicted for selling satellite secrets.
S06021977 New Jersey legalizes casino gambling in Atlantic City.
S06061977 Supreme Court tosses out automatic death penalty laws.
S06071977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay law.
S06101977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II.
S06151977 Spain's first free elections since 1936.
S06161977 Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR.
S06181977 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for first time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747.
S06201977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez.
S06251977 Roy C Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightening for 7th time.
S07081977 Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs).
S07111977 Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Martin Luther King.
S07121977 First free flight test of Space Shuttle Enterprise.
S07131977 New York City experiences a 25 hr black-out.
S07201977 Voyager 2 launched to the outer solar system.
S08201977 Voyager II launched.
S08231977 First man-powered flight (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor).
S08311977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets world aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km (125,524 ft) in a Mikoyan E-266M turbojet.
S09011977 First TRS-80 Model I computer is sold.
S09051977 Voyager I launched towards Jupiter and Saturn.
S09181977 US Voyager I takes first space photograph of earth & moon together.
S09291977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into earth orbit.
S10171977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa plane in Mogadishu Somalia, freeing 86 hostages & kill three of the four hijackers.
S10211977 US recalls William Bowdler, ambassador to South Africa.
S10231977 By 2/3 majority, Panamanians vote to approve a new Canal Treaty.
S11171977 Egyptian President Sadat accepts an invitation to visit Israel.
S11191977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel.
S11201977 Egyptian President Sadat is first Arab leader to address Israel Knesset.
S01091978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established.
S01101978 Soyuz 27 is launched.
S02191978 Simon Gallup meets Robert Smith (The Cure) and co. at The Rocket.
S03021978 Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6.
S03221978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, dedicated.
S04181978 US Senate approves transfer of Panama Canal to Panama.
S04201978 Korean Air Lines 707 forced to land; violated Soviet airspace.
S05251978 "Star Wars" is released.
S06061978 Proposition 13 cuts California property taxes 57%.
S06151978 Soyuz 29 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6; they stay 139 days.
S06221978 The planet Pluto's partner, Charon, is discovered.
S06261978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1 launched.
S06271978 Soyuz 30 launched.
S07051978 Soyuz 30 is launched.
S07071978 Solomon Islands gains independence from Britain (National Day).
S07081978 Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus.
S07291978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn & its rings.
S09031978 Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29.
S09051978 Sadat, Begin and Carter began peace conference at Camp David, Md.
S09171978 Begin, Sadat and Carter sign the Camp David accord.
S10161978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul I.
S10271978 Menachim Begin & Anwar Sadat win the Nobel Peace Prize.
S10301978 Laura Nickel & Curt Noll find 25th Mersenne prime, 2 ^ 21701 - 1.
S11031978 UK grants Dominica independence (National Day).
S12051978 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus.
S12091978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus.
S12131978 Susan B. Anthony dollar, first US coin to honour a woman, issued.
S01161979 Iranian revolution overthrows shah.
S01211979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer).
S02051979 According to Census Bureau, US population reaches 200 million.
S03041979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings.
S03051979 Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter.
S03091979 First extraterrestrial volcano found, (Jupiter's satellite Io).
S03261979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
S04011979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of the Shah.
S06021979 John Paul II first pope to visit a communist country - Poland.
S06081979 The Source, first public computer info. service, goes online.
S06121979 Bryan Allen flies the "Gossamer Albatross", the first man-powered aircraft, over the English Channel.
S07091979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter sending home great snapshots.
S07111979 US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates.
S07121979 Kiribati (Gilbert & Ellice Is.) gains independence from Britain.
S08191979 The crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34.
S08301979 First recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the sun (the energy released was about equal to 1 million hydrogen bombs).
S09011979 Pioneer 11 makes first fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings.
S09241979 CompuServe system starts, first public computer info service.
S10011979 US returns Canal Zone, not the canal, to Panama after 75 years.
S10171979 Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
S10201979 John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston.
S10261979 St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains independence from Britain.
S11031979 63 Americans taken hostage at American Embassy in Teheran, Iran.
S12171979 Budweiser rocket car hits 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle).
S12271979 Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, "Russia's Vietnam".
S02141980 Solar Maximum Mission Observatory launched to study solar flares.
S03271980 Mount St. Helens becomes active after 123 years.
S04301980 Terrorists seize Iranian Embassy in London.
S05181980 Mount St. Helens blew its top in Washington State.
S06031980 Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35.
S06051980 Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station.
S07071980 First solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel.
S07101980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen.
S07181980 Rohini 1, first Indian satellite, is launched.
S07231980 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6.
S07301980 Vanuatu (then New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain, France.
S08311980 Solidarity labour Union in Poland is founded.
S09041980 Iraqi troops seize Iranian territory in a border dispute.
S09051980 World's longest auto tunnel, St. Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens.
S09181980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
S09221980 War between Iran and Iraq begins, lasts eight years.  No winner.
S10101980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated.
S10111980 Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days.
S10231980 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness.
S11101980 Voyager I flies past Saturn, sees many rings, moons.
S11111980 Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37.
S11121980 US space probe Voyager I comes within 77,000 miles of Saturn.
S11201980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes first solar-powered flight.
S01201981 US embassy hostages freed in Tehran after 444 days.
S03071981 Walter Cronkite's final CBS anchor appearance.  Still unequaled.
S03121981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station.
S03221981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6.
S04121981 Maiden voyage Space Transit System-space shuttle Columbia.
S04141981 First Space Shuttle - Columbia 1 returns to Earth.
S06071981 Israel bombs Iraqi plutonium production facility at Osirak.
S06181981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on the US Supreme Court.
S06191981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries two satellites into orbit.
S07251981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn, "thousands of rings".
S08101981 Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's record of 3630 hits.
S08121981 The IBM Personal Computer (PC) is introduced.
S08251981 Voyager 2 in its closest approach to Saturn, sees not a few, but thousands of rings.
S09211981 Sandra Day O'Conner becomes the first female Supreme Court Justice.
S10221981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization is decertified.
S10221981 US National debt topped $1 TRILLION.
S11121981 First balloon crossing of Pacific completed (Double Eagle V).
S11121981 First time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle "Columbia" lifts off again.
S12131981 Solidarity Day, in Poland.
S01041982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for the third time by fierce storm.
S01091982 5.9 earthquake in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855.
S01241982 San Francisco 49'ers win their first Super Bowl, 26-21.
S03011982 Soviet Venera 13 makes a soft landing on Venus.
S03221982 Third Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 3 launched.
S03261982 Groundbreaking in Washington DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
S04031982 UN Security Council demands Argentina withdraw from Falklands.
S06061982 Israel invades Lebanon to drive out PLO.
S06111982 Movie "E T, The Extra-Terrestrial" is released.
S06141982 Britain wins the 74 day war for the Falkland Islands.
S06151982 Riots in Argentina after Falklands/Malvinas defeat.
S06171982 Ronald Reagan delivers "evil empire" speech.
S06201982 National Bald Eagle Day was declared.
S06241982 Soyuz T-6 lifts 3 cosmonauts (1 French) to Salyut 7 space station.
S06241982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down in defeat.
S06271982 Fourth Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 4 launched.
S07011982 Kosmos 1383, first search and rescue satellite, launched.
S07261982 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US delta rocket.
S08191982 Soyuz T-7 is launched.
S09091982 "Conestoga I", the world's first private rocket, is launched.
S09191982 Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service.
S09211982 SF cable cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs.
S10051982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, N. Mexico.
S10161982 Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if it excludes Israel.
S10161982 Mt Palomar Observatory first to detect Halley's comet 13th return.
S11111982 Space Shuttle Columbia makes the first commercial flight.
S11131982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC.
S12021982 First permanent artificial heart successfully implanted.
S12101982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off.
S03141983 OPEC cuts oil prices for first time in 23 years.
S04041983 Maiden voyage of STS Space shuttle Challenger.
S04151983 Tokyo Disneyland opens.
S04211983 Soyuz T-8 is launched.
S05251983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) is released.
S06131983 Pioneer 10 is first man-made object to leave the Solar System.
S06181983 Sally Ride becomes first US woman in space, aboard Challenger.
S06221983 First time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle.
S06271983 Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station.
S07031983 Calvin Smith (US) becomes fastest man alive (36.25 kph for 100 m).
S07301983 STS-8 third flight of Challenger. first night launch & land.
S08301983 8th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 3 is launched.
S09011983 A Korean Boeing 747, carrying 269 passengers, strays into Soviet air space and is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter.
S09261983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10.
S09261983 Australia II wins The America's Cup yacht race.
S10251983 US invades Grenada, a country of 1/2000 its population.
S11071983 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries.
S11101983 Fred Cohen, a US student, presents results of first computer virus, a security experiment, that infected a VAX graphics program.
S11251983 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off.
S11281983 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 is launched.
S01011984 AT & T broken up into 8 companies.
S04211984 Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph.
S06161984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race.
S07121984 Geraldine Ferraro, Democrat, becomes the first woman to be a major-party candidate for Vice President.
S07131984 Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m.
S07171984 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7.
S07181984 Svetlana Savitskaya accompanies Vladimir Dzhanibekov on EVA outside Salyut 7, becoming first woman to walk in space.
S07301984 STS-14 first flight of the shuttle Discovery.
S08301984 12th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 1 is launched.
S09181984 Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of Atlantic.
S10051984 Challenger carries first Canadian, Marc Garneau, into orbit.
S10111984 Kathy Sullivan becomes first American woman to walk in space.
S10261984 "Baby Fae" gets a baboon heart in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda, CA.  She will live for 21 days with the animal heart.
S11041984 Nicaragua holds first free elections in 56 years, Sandinistas win.
S11081984 14th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 2 is launched.
S11121984 Space shuttle astronauts snare a satellite: first space salvage.
S12151984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet.
S01241985 15th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 is launched.
S03111985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko.
S07021985 Proto is launched on its way to Halley's Comet.
S07101985 French agents sink Greenpeace "Rainbow Warrior" in New Zealand.
S07291985 19th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 8 is launched.
S09011985 SS Titanic, sunk in 1912, is found by French & American scientists.
S09031985 20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 returns to Earth.
S09111985 Pete Rose, Cincinnati Reds, gets hit 4,192 - eclipsing Ty Cobb.
S09171985 Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station.
S10041985 2first Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 is launched.
S10101985 US jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy.  Gunmen are placed in custody.
S10121985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War get the Nobel Peace Prize.
S10131985 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 is launched.
S10161985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
S10301985 Space Shuttle Challenger carries 8 crewmen (2 Germans, 1 Dutch).
S11261985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 is launched.
S11271985 Space shuttle Atlantis carries the first Mexican astronaut.
S12031985 23rd Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 2 returns to Earth.
S12181985 UN Security Council unanimously condemns acts of hostage-taking.
S01011986 Spain & Portugal become 11th & 12th members of Common Market.
S01121986 24th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 7 is launched.
S01241986 Voyager 2 makes first fly-by of Uranus finds new moons, rings.
S01281986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, killing a brave crew and NASA.
S03061986 Soviet Vega 1 probe passes within 10,000 km of Halley's comet.
S03131986 Soyuz T-15 launched.
S03241986 Libya attacks US forces in Gulf of Sidra.  US 2, Libya 0.
S04081986 Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, California.
S04261986 Chernobyl - world's worst nuclear power plant disaster.
S04271986 Captain Midnight (John MacDougall) interrupts an HBO broadcast.
S06041986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty.
S06231986 Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House.
S06241986 US Senate approves "tax reform" - taxes went up.
S07031986 Renovated Statue of Liberty is rededicated with great ceremony.
S07111986 Mary Beth Whitehead christens her surrogate "Baby M", Sara.
S07181986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains.
S11031986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran.
S11201986 UN's WHO announces first global effort to combat AIDS.
S11281986 Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms agreement for first time.
S12101986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize.
S12191986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile.
S12231986 Rutan & Yeager make first around-the-world flight without refueling.
S07141987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law.
S07251987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton earth-study satellite.
S10111987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington.
S10131987 First military use of trained dolphins, by US Navy in Persian Gulf.
S11111987 Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 million at auction.
S03241989 Exxon Valdez runs aground in Prince William Sound Alaska causing America's largest oil spill.
S08241989 Voyager II passes Neptune, Triton, finds rings here too.
S10171989 Destructive 7.1 earthquake strikes Northern California.
S04241990 Hubble Space Telescope is put into orbit by shuttle Discovery.
S07071990 The world's 3 greatest tenors: Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti appear together, for the only time, in Rome.
S08021990 Saddam Hussein of Iraq invades neighbouring Kuwait in the first act of the Persian Gulf War.
S01161991 US led air forces begin raids on Iraq in response to Iraq's August 1990 takeover of Kuwait.
S02271991 President Bush declares a cease-fire, halting the Gulf War.
S04051991 Atlantis lifts off carrying the 17.5 ton Gamma Ray Observatory.
S06151991 Mt Pinatubo, Philippines erupts: 20 million tons of sulphur dioxide will slightly cool the earth for several years.
S08181991 Russian conservatives start a coup to eliminate Gorbachev, Glasnost and Perestroika.  The second Russian revolution begins.
S08211991 Second Russian revolution fails as coup leaders flee. Gorbachev returns to find Yeltsin a hero.
S12111991 United Soviet Socialist Republics(USSR) breaks up after 74 years.
S05061992 Channel Tunnel opens, linking London and Paris by rail.
S07161992 Ross Perot abandons presidential race.  Goes home to pout.
S11241992 last U.S. servicemen leave the Philippines - the lease expired.
S07051996 Dolly the sheep becomes the first successful cloned mammal.
S06301997 Great Britain hands Hong Kong over to China after 156 years of Democracy.
S05211998 Indonesian President Suharto resigns after the collapse of support for his three-decade-long reign.
S05281998 The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission carries out five underground nuclear tests.
S09041998 The internet search engine Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in Menlo Park, California.
S11091998 United Kingdom abolishes capital punishment for all criminal offences.
S12191998 The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Bill Clinton following the Lewinsky scandal.
S02111999 Pluto moves farther from the Sun than Neptune, regaining its status as the most distant planet.
S12201999 Portugal transfers sovereignty of Macau to China.
S12311999 Control of the Panama Canal reverts to Panama.
S01012000 Gisborne, New Zealand (population 32,754) is first city in the world to welcome in the new millennium.
S11022000 Start of the first long-duration stay on the International Space Station.
S01152001 Wikipedia, the free Internet encyclopedia, launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.
S02122001 NASA's NEAR Shoemaker becomes the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid (Eros).
S09112001 Al-queda Terrorists destroy World Trade centre and damage Pentagon.
S10082001 In response to September 11 attacks, U.S. President George W. Bush announces creation of the Office of Homeland Security.
S10232001 Apple's iPod portable media player is launched.
S01012002 Euro begins as legal tender.
S05202002 East Timor becomes the first new sovereign state of the 21st century by gaining independence from Indonesia.
S02012003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry over Texas, killing all seven astronauts.
S03192003 President George W. Bush ordered the start of the war on Iraq .
S10152003 Shenzhou 5, China's first manned space mission, is launched.
S10172003 Taipei 101 becomes world's tallest building with the addition of a 60m spire.
S02042004 The social networking web site Facebook is launched by four Harvard University students.
S06082004 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
S02152005 YouTube, the web-site for uploading, viewing and sharing videos, is launched by three former PayPal employees.
S03112006 Michelle Bachelet sworn in as first female President of Chile.
S09132006 Pluto reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet.
S12302006 Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq from 1979 until 2003, executed.
S09102008 CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, first powered up.
S09272008 During the Shenzhou 7 mission, Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese citizen to carry out a space walk.
S12142009 The Tino Rangatiratanga flag representing the Maori people officially recognized by the New Zealand government.
S01122010 Over 230,000 killed in Haiti after a massive earthquake.
S04202010 Explosion on Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, causes the largest marine oil spill in history.
S02222011 Magnitude 6.3 earthquake aftershock (with record peak ground acceleration of 2.2g) devastates city of Christchurch, New Zealand.
S03112011 Japan devastated by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami.
S05022011 Al-queda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan by US Navy Seals.
S12312011 Pacific nation Samoa jumps west over the international dateline, effectively erasing 30 December 2011 from its calendar.
S03132012 After 244 years since its first publication, the Encyclopćdia Britannica discontinues its print edition.
S06062012 Transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs.
S04172013 Same-sex marriage is legalized in New Zealand.
S11122014 The Rosetta spacecraft's Philae probe successfully lands on Comet 67P and returns pictures and data from the surface.
S10224004 [B.C.] Universe created at 8:00 PM, according to the 1650 pronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher.
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T10141066 Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England
T11271095 Pope Urban II calls for the First Crusade
T00001096 First Crusade launched
T00001147 Second Crusade launched
T00001189 Third Crusade launched
T00001202 Forth Crusade launched
T00001206 Genghis Khan begins creation of largest land empire in history
T06151215 King John reluctantly signs the Magna Carta at Runnymede
T00001271 Marco Polo begins travels to Asia
T00001291 Fall of Acre marking the end of the Crusades
T00001300 Beginning of Renaissance period
T00001347 Bubonic plague (Black Death) spreads in Europe
T05301431 Joan of Arc burnt at the stake
T00001438 Incan Empire formed in Peru
T00001455 Gutenberg's movable-type printing press produces the Bible 
T05231455 Battle of St Albans starts the War of the Roses
T00001478 Beginning of the Spanish Inquisition
T08031492 Columbus sets sail for "the Indies" on his first expedition to the New World
T00001509 Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel
T10311517 Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses, begins Protestant Reformation
T00001522 Magellan's expedition circumnavigates the globe
T00001543 Copernicus postulates a heliocentric universe
T00001577 Francis Drake's first voyage round the world
T00001582 Pope Gregory XIII reforms calendar 
T00001609 Galileo makes first astronomical observations with a telescope
T12111620 "Pilgrim Fathers" land in New England in the "Mayflower"
T12131642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers New Zealand
T00001664 Newton's theory of universal gravitation
T12161689 English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
T00001692 Salem witch trials in Massachusetts
T00001721 Bach completes the Brandenburg Concertos
T04151755 Johnson's 'Dictionary of the English Language' published
T00001760 Industrial Revolution begins in England
T00001769 Watt patents first practical steam engine
T07041776 U.S. Declaration of Independence from Britain
T09171787 The Constitution of The United States is adopted
T07141789 French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille
T00001796 Jenner discovers smallpox vaccine
T10211805 Battle of Trafalgar - Nelson's great victory and death
T03251807 Britain abolishes the slave trade
T06181815 Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon defeated by Wellington and Blücher.
T00001826 Nicéphore Niepce takes first photograph
T00001829 Stephenson steam locomotive "The Rocket" wins Rainhill Trials
T08281833 Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
T03301842 Dr. Crawford Long first uses ether as an anaesthetic
T05011848 California Gold Rush begins
T00001859 Construction of London's sewers begun by Joseph Bazalgette 
T11241859 Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' is published
T00001860 Étienne Lenoir patents first practical internal-combustion engine
T08161863 The United States abolishes slavery when Emancipation Proclamation signed
T11171869 Suez Canal opens
T03071876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
T10211879 Edison perfects the electric light bulb
T00001885 World's first skyscraper built in Chicago
T09191893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women the vote
T00001895 Marconi sends first radio signals
T02131895 Lumiére brothers patent motion pictures
T10101899 Boer War begins in South Africa
T12131903 Wright brothers first airplane flight at Kittyhawk
T09261905 Einstein publishes theory of relativity
T07281914 Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia - World War I begins
T00001918 Global 'Spanish flu' epidemic
T09301928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
T10241929 U.S. "Black Thursday" stock market crash precipitates global depression
T09011939 Germany invades Poland, starting World War II
T08001945 Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
T10231946 First meeting of U.N. General Assembly
T09211949 Mao Tse-Tung proclaims People's Republic of China
T06001950 Beginning of Korean War
T04021953 Watson and Crick publish discovery of DNA
T10041957 USSR launches 'Sputnik I', the first artificial earth satellite
T07211969 Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the Moon
T04301975 Fall of Saigon signals end of Vietnam War
T00001980 Smallpox proclaimed eradicated
T00001989 Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web
T11091989 Fall of the Berlin Wall marks fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
T04271994 Apartheid ends in South Africa with election of Nelson Mandela
T09112001 Al-queda terrorists destroy World Trade centre and damage Pentagon
T00002005 IRA end military campaign in Northern Ireland
T03112011 Japan devastated by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami
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#09091087 English throne passed from William I to William II 
#08021100 English throne passed from William II to Henry I 
#12011135 English throne passed from Henry I to Stephen 
#10251154 English throne passed from Stephen to Henry II 
#07061189 English throne passed from Henry II to Richard I 
#04061199 English throne passed from Richard I to John Lackland 
#10191216 English throne passed from John Lackland to Henry III 
#11161272 English throne passed from Henry III to Edward I 
#07071307 English throne passed from Edward I to Edward II 
#01251327 English throne passed from Edward II to Edward III 
#06211377 English throne passed from Edward III to Richard II 
#09291399 Richard II deposed and English throne passed to Henry IV 
#03201413 English throne passed from Henry IV to Henry V 
#08311422 English throne passed from Henry V to Henry VI 
#03041461 Henry VI deposed and English throne passed to Edward IV 
#04091483 English throne passed from Edward IV to Edward V 
#06251483 English throne passed from Edward V to Richard III 
#08221485 English throne passed from Richard III to Henry VII 
#04221509 English throne passed from Henry VII to Henry VIII 
#01281547 English throne passed from Henry VIII to Edward VI 
#07061553 English throne passed from Edward VI to Lady Jane Grey 
#07191553 Lady Jane Grey deposed and English throne passed to Mary I 
#07251554 English throne passed from Mary I to joint monarchy of Philip & Mary 
#11171558 English throne passed from Philip & Mary joint monarchy to Elizabeth I 
#03241603 English throne passed from Elizabeth I to James I 
#03271625 English throne passed from James I to Charles I 
#01301649 English monarchy abolished to start the 1st Commonwealth 
#05291660 English monarchy restored to Charles II 
#02061685 English throne passed from Charles II to James II 
#12111688 English monarch James II abdicated to start the 2nd Commonwealth 
#02131689 English monarchy restored to co-monarchs William III & Mary II 
#12281694 William III becomes sole English monarch on death of Mary II
#03081702 English throne passed from William III to Anne 
#08011714 British throne passed from Anne to George I 
#06111727 British throne passed from George I to George II 
#10251760 British throne passed from George II to George III 
#01291820 British throne passed from George III to George IV 
#06261830 British throne passed from George IV to William IV 
#06201837 British throne passed from William IV to Victoria 
#01221901 British throne passed from Victoria to Edward VII 
#05061910 British throne passed from Edward VII to George V 
#01201936 British throne passed from George V to Edward VIII 
#12111936 British monarch Edward VIII abdicated in favour to George VI 
#02061952 British throne passed from George VI to Elizabeth II 
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#03041797 John Adams becomes US president
#03041801 Thomas Jefferson becomes US president
#03041809 James Madison becomes US president
#03041817 James Monroe becomes US president
#03041825 John Quincy Adams becomes US president
#03041829 Andrew Jackson becomes US president
#03041837 Martin van Buren becomes US president
#03041841 William H. Harrison becomes US president
#04041841 John Tyler becomes US president on death of William H. Harrison
#03041845 James Polk becomes US president
#03051849 Zachary Taylor becomes US president
#07101850 Millard Fillmore becomes US president on death of Zachary Taylor
#03041853 Franklin Pierce becomes US president
#03041857 James Buchanan becomes US president
#03041861 Abraham Lincoln becomes US president
#04151865 Andrew Johnson becomes US president on assassination of Abraham Lincoln
#03041869 Ulysses Grant becomes US president
#03051877 Rutherford Hayes becomes US president
#03041881 James Garfield becomes US president
#09191881 Chester A. Arthur becomes US president on death of James Garfield
#03041885 Grover Cleveland becomes US president
#03041889 Benjamin Harrison becomes US president
#03041893 Grover Cleveland becomes US president
#03041897 William McKinley becomes US president
#09141901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes US president on death of William McKinley
#03041909 William Taft becomes US president
#03041913 Woodrow Wilson becomes US president
#03041921 Warren Harding becomes US president
#08031923 Calvin Coolidge becomes US president on death of Warren Harding
#03041929 Herbert Hoover becomes US president
#03041933 Franklin Roosevelt becomes US president
#04121945 Harry Truman becomes US president
#01201953 Dwight Eisenhower becomes US president
#01201961 John F. Kennedy becomes US president
#11221963 Lyndon B. Johnson becomes US president on assassination of John F. Kennedy
#01201969 Richard Nixon becomes US president
#08091974 Gerald Ford becomes US president after the resignation of Richard M. Nixon
#01201977 Jimmy Carter becomes US president
#01201981 Ronald Reagan becomes US president
#01201989 George H.W. Bush becomes US president
#01201993 William Jefferson Clinton becomes US president
#01202001 George W. Bush becomes US president
#11042008 Barack Hussein Obama becomes first black US president
