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January - 1. 1431 |
Pope Alexander VI , Rodrigo Borgia ”Wait a minute…”/”Ok, ok, I'll come. Just give it a moment." |
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January - 1. 1823
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Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and activist (d. 1849)
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January - 2. 1920 |
Isaac Asimov, American chemist and author (d. 1992)
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January - 3. 106 BC
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Cicero, Roman politician and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
”There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.”. These words are directed at Herennius, his assassin by order of Marc Antony, triumvir and co-ruler of Rome. Herennius was a centurion. |
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January - 3. 1892
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J. R. R. Tolkien, English philologist and author (d. 1973)
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January - 4. 1785
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Jacob Grimm, German author and philologist (d. 1863)
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January - 4. 1809
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Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (d. 1852)
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January - 5. 1921
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (d. 1990)
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January - 5. 1932
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Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher and author
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January - 5. 1941
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Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
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January - 6. 1412
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Joan of Arc (d.1431)
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January - 6. 1766
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Mihály Fazekas, Hungarian author (d. 1828)
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January - 7. 1925
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Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper and author
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January - 8. 1942
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Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
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January - 9. 1944
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Jimmy Page, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
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January - 10. 1920
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The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
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January - 11. 1919
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Romania reincorporates Transylvania.
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January - 12. 1822
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Étienne Lenoir, French engineer, designed the Internal combustion engine (d. 1900)
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January - 12. 1893
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Hermann Göring, German military leader and politician, Minister President of Prussia (d. 1946)
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January - 13. 1559
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Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.
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January - 14. 1301
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Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
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January - 15. 1850
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Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (d. 1889)
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January - 16. 27 BC
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Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
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January - 17. 1706
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Benjamin Franklin, American politician, scientist, and publisher, 6th President of Pennsylvania (d. 1790 A dying man can do nothing easily.”. As he lay dying, his daughter suggested that if he lay on his side, he could breathe easier.
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January - 17. 1820
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Anne Brontë, English author and poet (d. 1849)
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January - 18. 1689
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Montesquieu, French philosopher (d. 1755)
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January - 18. 1882
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A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956)
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January - 19. 1809
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Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet (d. 1849)
”Lord help my poor soul.” |
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January - 19. 1736
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James Watt, Scottish engineer (d. 1819)
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January - 20. 1945
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World War II: Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.
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January - 21. 1825
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Imre Madách, Hungarian poet, lawyer, and politician (d. 1864)
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January - 22. 1561
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Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)
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January - 22. 1788
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Lord Byron, English poet (d. 1824)
”Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.” |
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January - 23. 1783
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Stendhal, French author (d. 1842)
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January - 24. 41
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Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims Caligula's uncle Claudius as Emperor
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January - 24. 1458
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Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
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January - 25. 1627
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Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (d. 1691)
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January - 25. 1882
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Virginia Woolf, English author and critic (d. 1941)
”Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.” |
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January - 25. 1900
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István Fekete, Hungarian author (d. 1970)
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January - 26. 1918
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Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian politician, 1st President of Romania (d. 1989)
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January - 26. 1564
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The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
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January - 27. 1756
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
”The taste of death is upon my lips…I feel something, that is not of this earth.” |
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January - 27. 1832
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Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
”Take away those pillows. I shall need them no more.” |
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January - 28. 1912
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Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
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January - 29. 1845
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"The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
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January - 29. 1860
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Anton Chekhov, Russian physician and author (d. 1904)
”I haven't had champagne for a long time.” His doctor had given him champagne after all other attempts to ease the symptoms of death from tuberculosis failed. |
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January - 30. 1882
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, American politician, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
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January - 31. 1606
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Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.
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January - 31. 1797
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Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (d. 1828)
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February - 2.1754
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1838)
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February - 2. 1882
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James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)
“Does nobody understand?” |
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February - 3. 1894
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Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (d. 1978)
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February - 4. 1913
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Rosa Parks, American activist (d. 2005)
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February - 4. 1948
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Alice Cooper, American singer-songwriter and actor
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February - 5. 1859
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Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities.
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February - 6. 1962
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Axl Rose, American singer-songwriter and producer (Guns N' Roses, Hollywood Rose, and Rapidfire)
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February - 7. 1812
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Charles Dickens, English author (d. 1870)
“On the ground!”. He suffered a stroke on a walk near his home, and asked to be laid down on the ground. |
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February - 8. 1828
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Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905)
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February - 8. 1834
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Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
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February - 9. 1775
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Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1856)
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February - 10. 1890
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Boris Pasternak, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
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February - 11. 1898
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Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist (d. 1964)
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February - 12. 1809
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Charles Darwin, English scientist and theorist (d. 1882)
“I am not the least afraid to die.” |
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February - 13. 1945
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World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
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February - 14. 1948
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Teller, American magician and actor
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February - 15. 1564
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Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)
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February - 16. 1909
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Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (d. 1998)
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February - 17. 1933
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The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
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February - 18. 1745
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Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (d. 1827)
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February - 18. 1825
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Mór Jókai, Hungarian poet
“I want to sleep.” |
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February - 18. 1404
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Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (d. 1472)
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February - 19. 1473
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Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)
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February - 20. 1844
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Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (d. 1906)
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February - 20. 1967
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Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Nirvana and Fecal Matter) (d. 1994)
”...it's better to burn out than to fade away.” |
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February - 21. 1848
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
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February - 22. 1857
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Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
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February - 23. 1962
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Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (d. 2006)
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February - 24. 1443
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Matthias Corvinus, Hungarian king (d. 1490)
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February - 23. 1899
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Erich Kästner, German author and poet (d. 1974)
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February - 24. 1955
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Steve Jobs, American businessman, co-founded Apple Inc. and Pixar (d. 2011)
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February - 25. 1841
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter and sculptor (d. 1919)
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February - 26. 1802
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Victor Hugo, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1885)
”This is the fight of day and night. I see black light.” |
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February - 27. 272
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Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (d. 337)
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February - 27. 1902
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John Steinbeck, American author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
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February - 28. 1901
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Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
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February - 29. 1792
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Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (d. 1868)
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March - 1. 1810
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Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1849)
”As this earth will suffocate me, I implore you to have my body opened so that I will not be buried alive.” ”Not any more.” ”Play Mozart in memory of me— and I will hear you.” He had a neurotic fear of being buried alive. The first quote was written on a note some hours before his death. The second quote was spoken to his physician when asked if he was suffering greatly; he died about two hours later. The third quote is what Chopin reportedly murmured on his death-bed. |
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March - 2. 1817
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János Arany, Hungarian journalist (d. 1882)
“Mennyi az idő? Különben mindegy...” |
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March - 3. 1845
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Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918)
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March - 3. 1847
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Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American engineer, invented the Telephone (d. 1922)
While Alexander Graham Bell was dying, his deaf wife whispered to him, "Don't leave me." Bell responded by signing the word, "No." |
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March - 3. 1882
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Charles Ponzi, Italian businessman (d. 1949)
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March - 4. 1678
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Antonio Vivaldi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1741)
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March - 5. 1326
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Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382)
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March - 5. 1955
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Penn Jillette, American magician, actor, and author
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March - 6. 1475
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Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1564)
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March - 7. 1875
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Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
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March - 8. 1814
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Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian playwright (d. 1878)
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March - 10. 1940
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Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
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March - 11. 1952
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Douglas Adams, English-American author and playwright (d. 2001)
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March - 12. 1824
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Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887)
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March - 14. 1879
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Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
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March - 20. 1904
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B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and author (d. 1990)
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March - 23. 1749
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Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
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March - 24. 1874
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Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician and actor (d. 1926)
”I'm tired of fighting! I guess this thing is going to get me.” |
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March - 25. 1914
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Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
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March - 26. 1913
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Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
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March - 26. 1941
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Richard Dawkins, Kenyan-English biologist
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March - 27. 1784
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Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Hungarian philologist, orientalist, and author (d. 1842)
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March - 27. 1845
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Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
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March - 29. 1885
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Dezső Kosztolányi, Hungarian poet and author (d. 1936)
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March - 30. 1853
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Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)
”I wish I could pass away like this.” The famous line "La tristesse durera toujours" ("The sadness will last forever") was spoken on his deathbed, but was not actually his last words according to his brother, who was with him. |
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March - 31. 1596
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René Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician (d. 1650)
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March - 31. 1685
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Johann Sebastian Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1750)
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March - 31. 1732
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Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
”Children be comforted, I am well.” |
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April - 2. 1805
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Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author and poet (d. 1875)
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April - 5. 1588
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Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (d. 1679)
”I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.” |
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April - 9. 1932
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Ágai Ágnes, Hungarian poet
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April - 11. 1905
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Attila József, Hungarian poet (d. 1937)
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April - 13. 1743
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Thomas Jefferson, American politician, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
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April - 13. 1866
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Butch Cassidy, American criminal (d. 1908)
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April - 15. 1452
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Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (d. 1519)
”I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” |
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April - 15. 1707
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Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783)
”I die.” |
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April - 16. 1889
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Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 1977)
”Why not? After all, it belongs to him”, said this after a priest was reading him his last rites and said "may the lord have mercy on your soul". |
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April - 18. 1480
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Lucrezia Borgia, Italian daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)
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April - 20. 1889
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Adolf Hitler, Austrian-German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1945)
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April - 21. 1816
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Charlotte Brontë, English author and poet (d. 1855)
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April - 22. 1724
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Immanuel Kant, Russian-German philosopher (d. 1804)
”It is good” |
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April - 22. 1870
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Vladimir Lenin, Russian politician (d. 1924)
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April - 22. 1899
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Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American author (d. 1977)
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April - 23. 1858
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Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
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April - 25. 1599
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Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician (d. 1658)
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April - 25. 1874
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Guglielmo Marconi, Italian businessman and inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
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April - 27. 1822
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Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (d. 1885)
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April - 27. 1759 |
Mary Wollstonecraft, English author and philosopher (d. 1797) |
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April - 28. 1906
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Kurt Gödel, Czech-American mathematician (d. 1978)
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April - 28. 1948
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Terry Pratchett, English author
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April - 29. 1777
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Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician (d. 1855)
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April - 30. 1916
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Claude Shannon, American mathematician and engineer (d. 2001) |
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April - 30. 1976
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Amanda Palmer, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Dresden Dolls and Evelyn Evelyn) |
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May - 1. 1923
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Joseph Heller, American author and playwright (d. 1999) |
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May - 3. 1469
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Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and philosopher (d. 1527) |
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May - 4. 1929
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Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-English actress and singer (d. 1993)
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May - 5., 1977 |
William Henry "Hank" Green ll |
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May - 5. 1818
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Karl Marx, German philosopher (d. 1883)
“Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”, asked by his housekeeper what his last words were |
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May - 5. 1846
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Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
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May - 5. 1909
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Radnóti Miklós, Hungarian poet
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May - 6. 1856
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Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist (d. 1939)
“Tell Anna of our talk.” Anna was Freud's daughter. Freud had been in agony for some months due to oral cancer and had previously discussed with his physician that he wished to be euthanized rather than endure prolonged suffering. |
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May - 7. 1840
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)
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May - 7. 1833
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Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (d. 1897)
”Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you. “Note: That line was said after he had a small glass of wine. |
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May - 11. 1918
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Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
“I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.” |
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May - 11. 1904
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Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)
”Where is my clock?” |
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May - 12. 1845
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Gabriel Fauré, French pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1924)
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May - 15. 1859
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Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
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May - 17. 1866
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Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (d. 1925)
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May - 22. 1813
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Richard Wagner, German composer and director (d. 1883)
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May - 22. 1859
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Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish physician and author (d. 1930)
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May - 23. 1819
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Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
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May - 30. 1980
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Ryohgo Narita, Japanese author
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June - 1. 1926
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Marilyn Monroe, American model, actress, and singer (d. 1962)
”Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.” |
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June - 2. 1740
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Marquis de Sade, French author and politician (d. 1814)
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June - 10. 1922
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Judy Garland, American actress and singer (d. 1969)
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June - 12. 1929
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Anne Frank, German-Dutch author and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
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June - 13. 1831
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James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)
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June - 14. 1736
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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
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June - 14. 1811
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (d. 1896)
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June - 17. 1898
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M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator (d. 1972)
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June - 22. 1913
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Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet (d. 1989)
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June - 23. 1912
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Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1954)
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June - 25. 1903
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George Orwell, English author (d. 1950)
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June - 28. 1712
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and polymath (d. 1778)
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June - 29. 1900
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (d. 1944)
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June - 29. 1879
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Zsigmond Móricz
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July - 1. 1646
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1716) |
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July - 1. 1818
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Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865) |
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July - 4. 1883
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Franz Kafka, Czech-German author (d. 1924) |
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July - 6. 1958
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Bill Watterson, American cartoonist |
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July - 11. 1856
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Nikola Tesla, Croatian-American physicist and engineer (d. 1943)
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July - 20. 1879
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Ferenc Móra
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July - 19. 1976
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Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor
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July - 21. 1899
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Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
”Goodnight my kitten.” Speaking to his wife before commiting suicide. |
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July - 24. 1897
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Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author (d. 1937)
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July - 28. 1866
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Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)
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July - 31. 1965
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J. K. Rowling, British novelist
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August - 1. 1885
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George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
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August - 4. 1792
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
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August - 9. 1927
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Daniel Keyes, American author
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August - 12. 1887
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Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
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August - 13. 1899
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Alfred Hitchcock, English director and producer (d. 1980)
”One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes. |
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August - 15. 1769
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Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican-French military officer and political leader, emperor of France (d. 1821)
”France, army, Josephine” |
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August - 20. 1890
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H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937)
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August - 24. 1977
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John Michael Green, American author
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August - 24. 1957
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Stephen Fry, British comedian, actor, journalist, and author
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August - 27. 1770
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831)
„Only you have ever understood me. … And you got it wrong..” Speaking to his favorite student. |
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August - 28. 1749
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
”More light.”/”Nothing More”/ "Come my little one, and give me your hand." were the last words he declared to his daughter-in-law Ottilie. |
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August - 29. 1434
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Janus Pannonius, Hungarian bishop, poet, and diplomat (d. 1472)
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August - 29. 1632
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John Locke, English philosopher and physician (d. 1704)
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August - 31. 1797
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Mary Shelley, English author (d. 1851)
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Steptember - 1. 1653
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Johann Pachelbel, German composer (d. 1706)
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September - 5. 1946
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Freddie Mercury, Tanzanian-English singer-songwriter and producer (Queen) (d. 1991)
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September - 6. 1766
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John Dalton, English chemist and physicist (d. 1844)
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September - 7. 1533
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Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
”All my possessions for a moment of time.” |
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September - 8. 1971
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Martin Freeman, English actor
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September - 9. 1828
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Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (d. 1910)
”But the peasants...how do the peasants die?” |
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September - 13. 1475
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Cesare Borgia, Italian politician and cardinal (d. 1507)
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September - 15. 1890
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Agatha Christie, English author (d. 1976)
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September - 16. 1893
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Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
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September - 16. 1927
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Peter Falk, American actor (d. 2011)
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September - 20. 1948
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George R. R. Martin, American screenwriter and author
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September - 21. 1947
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Stephen King, American author
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September - 22. 1791
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Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
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September - 22. 1910
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György Faludy, Hungarian poet (d. 2006)
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September - 23. 1215
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Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor (d. 1294)
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September - 24. 1896
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author (d. 1940)
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September - 25. 1906
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Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975)
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September - 25. 1897
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William Faulkner, American author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
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September - 26. 1849
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Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
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September - 29. 1547
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Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
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September - 29. 1901
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Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
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October - 4. 1941
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Anne Rice, American author
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October - 4. 1822
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Rutherford B. Hayes, American politician, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
”I know that I am going where Lucy is.”. Speaking of his late wife. |
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October - 5. 1713
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Denis Diderot, French philosopher (d. 1784)
“But how the devil do you think this could harm me?”, upon being warned by his wife not to eat too much. |
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October – 5 1958
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist
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October - 6. 1846
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George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)
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October - 7. 1885
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Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
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October - 9. 1835
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Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer and conductor (d. 1921)
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October - 12. 1875
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Aleister Crowley, English magician and author (d. 1947)
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October - 13. 1821
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Rudolf Virchow, German physician, biologist, and politician (d. 1902)
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October - 13. 1925
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Margaret Thatcher, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2013)
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October - 15. 70 BC
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Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
”Mantua bore me, Calabria snatched me away, now Naples holds me; I sang of pastures, fields, and kings.” |
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October - 15. 1844
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Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
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October - 16. 1854
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Oscar Wilde, Irish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1900)
”My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.” |
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October - 20. 1882
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Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (d. 1956)
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October - 21. 1833
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Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (d. 1896)
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October - 22. 1811
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Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
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October - 22. 1882
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Edmund Dulac, French illustrator (d. 1953)
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October - 25. 1811
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Évariste Galois, French mathematician (d. 1832)
”Don't cry, Alfred! I need all my courage to die at twenty!”. Spoken to his brother Alfred after being fatally wounded in a duel. |
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October - 25. 1881
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Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
”Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can’t drink any more.” |
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October - 27. 1932
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Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
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October - 27. 1939
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John Cleese, English actor, screenwriter, and producer
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October - 31. 1795
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John Keats, English poet (d. 1821)
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November - 2. 1755
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Marie Antoinette, Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
”Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose.” As she approached the guillotine, convicted of treason and about to be beheaded, she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner. |
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November - 3. 1749
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Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
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November - 3. 1928
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Osamu Tezuka, Japanese animator and producer (d. 1989)
”I'm begging you, let me work!” He spoke these words as a nurse took his drawing board from his hospital bed and encouraged him to get some sleep. |
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November - 7. 1879
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Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (d. 1940)
”I will not survive this attack. Stalin has finally accomplished the task he attempted unsuccessfully before.”/”Don't kill this man. He has a story to tell.” Right after being hurt, Trotsky said this to his guards, who were about to kill Mercader, the man who had mortally wounded him with an ice axe. |
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November - 8. 1867
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Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
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November - 11. 1960
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Neil Gaiman, English author, illustrator, and screenwriter
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November - 12. 1922
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Kurt Vonnegut, American author (d. 2007)
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November - 15. 1840
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Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
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November - 21. 1858
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Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
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November - 20. 1889
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Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)
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November - 21. 1694
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Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778)
”Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.”, when asked by a priest to renounce Satan. "For God sake, leave me alone!" Other sources say his final words were “I am abandoned by God and man! I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months’ life. Then I shall go to hell; and you will go with me. O Christ! O Jesus Christ!”; the earliest report of this version was by Charles Buck, an American preacher, who wrote of it in 1822, more than forty years after the death of Voltaire. |
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November - 22. 1877
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Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)
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November - 30. 1835
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Mark Twain, American author (d. 1910)
“Good bye. If we meet”, spoken to his daughter Clara. |
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November - 30. 1874
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Winston Churchill, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
”I'm so bored with it all.”, before slipping into a coma and dying nine days later. |
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December - 1. 1800
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Vörösmarty Mihály, Hungarian poet
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December - 3. 1948
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Ozzy Osbourne, English singer-songwriter and actor (Black Sabbath)
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December - 5. 1901
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Walt Disney, American animator
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December - 5. 1901
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Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
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December - 10. 1815
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Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852)
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December - 10. 1830
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Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
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December - 12. 1915
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Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (d. 1998)
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December - 13. 1797
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Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856)
“God will forgive me. It is his profession.“ |
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December - 14. 1503
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Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566)
”Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here.” |
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December - 15. 37
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Nero, Roman emperor (d. 68)
”It is too late. This is fidelity.” ”What an artist dies in me.” |
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December - 15. 1852
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Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)
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December - 16. 1485
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Catherine of Aragon (d. 1536)
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December - 16. 1775
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Jane Austen, English author (d. 1817)
”I want nothing but death.” |
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December - 18. 1863
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1914)
“It is nothing... it is nothing...” |
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December - 18. 1870
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Saki, Burmese-English author and playwright (d. 1916)
”Put out the bloody cigarette!”. Spoken to a fellow officer while in a trench during World War I, for fear the smoke would give away their positions; he was then shot by a German sniper who had heard the remark. |
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December - 18. 1878
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Joseph Stalin, Soviet marshal and politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
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December - 19. 1899
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Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (d. 1984)
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December - 19. 1915
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Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1963)
”Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.” |
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December - 23. 1837
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Empress Elisabeth of Austria (d. 1898)
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December - 24. 1642
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Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1727)
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December - 26. 1571
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Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 163
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December - 27. 1654
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Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1705)
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December - 27. 1822
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Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (d. 1895) |
