Every month I post the birthdays of our students, faculty and staff in the window between the library and the school hallway. I also try to include the birthdays of authors, illustrators and famous people the kiddos may be familiar with or should be.
Here are some famous birthdays for January 2020:
January Birthdays are taken from http://holidayinsights.com/bday/ and a calendar from Perma Bound. Since some of these “famous” people may be lesser known to your students, the display could be tied to a trivia contest
1 Paul Revere
1 Betsy Ross
2 Isaac Asimov
2 Crosby Bonsall
3 J.R.R. Tolkein
4 Jacob Grimm
4 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
5 Lynn Cherry
6 Carl Sandburg
6 Joan of Arc
7 Millard Fillmore
9 Stephen Hawking
9 Clyde Robert Bulla
9 Richard Nixon
11 Brian Gloca
11 Alexander Hamilton
12 Clement Hurd
12 Jack London
12 Charles Perrault
14 Hugh Lofting
14 Benedict Arnold
15 Martin Luther King, Jr.
17 Janet Stevens
17 Benjamin Franklin
17 Al Capone
18 A.A. Milne
18 Peter Roget
18 Daniel Webster
19 Robert E Lee
19 Edgar Allan Poe
19 Pat Mora
20 Ted Arnold
20 Buzz Aldrin
21 Ethan Allen
21 Stonewall Jackson
22 Brian Wildsmith
23 John Hancock
25 Robert Boyle
26 Bessie Coleman
26 Shannon Hale
26 Douglas MacArthur
27 Lewis Carroll
27 Julius Lester
27 David Ezra Stein
27 Janice Van Cleve
27 Wolfgang Mozart
28 Vera Williams
29 Christopher Collier
29 Bill Peet
29 Rosemary Wells
29 William McKinley
30 Franklin Roosevelt
30 Lloyd Alexander
31 Denise Fleming
31 Bryan Collier
31 Gerald McDermot
31 Jackie Robinson
How many of these people do you know?
