JANUARY
1st - 1449 Lorenzo de' Medici, (The Magnificent) of Florence
2nd - 1642 Mehmed IV sultan, (Turkey)
3rd - 1810 Antoine T d'Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia)
4th - 1785 Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, librarian (fairy tale collector)
5th - 1855 King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor)
6th - 1412 Joan of Arc Domremy, martyr
7th - 1877 Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer (1 great dog)
8th - 1862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co)
9th - 1890 Karel Capek, Czechoslovakia, writer (R U R );
coined the word "robot"
10th - 1898 Sergei M Eisenstein, Russian director (Alexandr Nevski)
11th - 1807 Ezra Cornell, founder (Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University)
12th - 1580 Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Belgian chemist, (found boiling point temperature)
13th - 1958 Ricardo Acuna, Chile, tennis star
14th - 1741 Benedict Arnold, U.S. General turned traitor
(Revolutionary War)
15th - 1812 Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer
16th - 1932 Dian Fossey, zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist)
17h - 1501 Leonhard Fuchs, Germany, botanist (History of Plants)
18th - 1904 Cary Grant, England, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)
19th- 0570 Mohammed, Islamic prophet (Koran)
20th - 1951 Magomed Omarovich Tolboyev, Russian cosmonaut
21st - 1887 Wolfgang Kohler, German/U.S. Gestalt psychologist (Mentality of Apes)
22nd - 1874 Wincenty Witoz Galicia, PM of Poland
(1920-21, 1923, 1926)
23rd - 1832 Edouard Manet, France, Impressionist painter
(Dejeuner sur L'Herbe)
24th - 1968 Mary Lou Retton Fairmont WV, gymnast
(Olympics-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-84)
25th - 1627 Robert Boyle, Ireland, physicist/chemist/author
(experiments with color)
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