January Birthdays

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Here’s a list of authors and illustrators as well as a few famous people with birthdays in January. You can find more famost people at  http://holidayinsights.com/bday/ or the birthday calendar from Perma Bound

January 1, 1735- Paul Revere, Revolutionary War.

January 1, 1752- Betsy Ross, designed first U.S.flag

January 1, 1895- J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director

January 2, 1920- Isaac Asimov, Science Fiction Writer

January 2 – Crosby Bonsall, children’s book author

January 3, 1892- J.R.R. Tolkien, Author of “Lord of the Rings”

January 4, 1643 – Isaac Newton, Astronomer, Physicist, Mathematician

January 4 – Jacob Grimm of the Grimm brothers

January 4 – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, children’s book author

January 5 – Lynne Cherry, children’s book author

January 6 – Vera Cleaver, children’s book author

January 6 – Carl Sandburg, author

January 6, 1412- Joan of Arc

January 7, 1800- Millard Filmore, 13th President, (1850-1853)

January 8, 1889 – Edward Elijah Perkins, creator of Kool-Aid

January 8, 1935- Elvis Presley, King of Rock ‘n Roll

January 8 – Stephen Hawking, physicist

January 9, 1913 – Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1969-1974)

January 9, 1935- Bob Denver, TV Actor “Gilligan”

January 9 – Clyde Robert Bulla, children’s book author

January 11 – Brian Floca, children’s book author

January 12 – Clement Hurd, children’s book author

January 12 – Charles Perrault (Mother Goose), fairy tale author

January 12, 1964 – Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com

January 12 – Jack London, author

January 14, 1741- Benedict Arnold, traitor in American Revolutionary War.

January 14 – Hugh Lofting, author

January 15th, 1929- Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Activist

January 16, 1853- Andre Michelin, inflatable auto tire inventor

January 16, 1935- A.J. Foyt, race car driver

January 17, 1706- Benjamin Franklin, inventor, statesman, writer

January 17, 1899- Al Capone, notorious 1920’s gangster

January 17, 1934- Shari Lewis, TV children’s puppeteer

January 17 – Robert Cormier, author

January 17 – Janet Stevens, author

January 18 – Raymond Briggs, author

January 18 – Arthur Ransome, author

January 18, 1779- Peter Roget, author of Roget’s Thesaurus

January 18, 1782- Daniel Webster, politician and speaker 

January 18, 1882- A.A. Milne, author of Childrens’ storybooks. Created Winnie the Pooh and friends.

January 18, 1892- Oliver Hardy, “Ollie” in Stan and Laurel comedies

January 19, 1807- Robert E. Lee, Civil War Confederate Army General

January 19, 1809- Edgar Allen Poe, Author and Poet, most notably macabre and horror stories

January 19 – Pat Mora, children’s author

January 20 – Tedd Arnold, children’s author

January 20,1930- Edwin “Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut, walked on the moon

January 21, 1738- Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War Hero

January 21, 1824- Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Confederate Army general

January 22 – Brian Wildsmith, children’s author/illustrator

January 23, 1737- John Hancock, politician, first to sign the Declaration of Independence

January 25 – Robert Boyle, scientist

January 26 – Bessie Coleman, aviator, the first African American, and the first Native American woman pilot

January 26, 1880- Douglas MaCarthur, WWII General, Quote: “I shall return!”

January 26 – Shannon Hale, author

January 27, 1756- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the greatest musical composers ever

January 27, 1832- Lewis Carroll, wrote “Alice in Wonderland”

January 27 – Julius Lester, author

January 27 – David Ezra Stein, author

January 27 – Janice VanCleave, author

January 28 – Vera B. Williams, children’s author

January 29 – Christopher Collier, children’s author

January 29 – Bill Peet, children’s author/illustrator

January 29 – Rosemary Wells, children’s author

January 29, 1843 – William McKinley, 25th U.S. President(1897-1901), assassinated while in office.

January 29, 1880- W. C. Fields, comedian

January 30, 1882 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President, elected to four terms (1933-1945)

January 30 – Lloyd Alexander, author

January 31 – Bryan Collier, author

January 31 – Denise Fleming, children’s author

January 31 – Gerald McDermott, children’s author/illustrator

January 31, 1919- Jackie Robinson, first Afro-American to play in Major League Baseball

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