January

Who shares my birthday?

Is your birthday in January? The names of some of the famous people born
in January are shown on the calendar on this page and the next. What do
you know about the person who shares your birthday?

Lucretia Mott

(1793) American Quaker and women’s rights leader

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892) British author of The, Hobbit and *The
Lord of the Rings

James Wolfe (1727)

British general who won Canada for Great Britain

Isaac Asimov

(1920) American biochemist and f author

Jakob Grimm

(1785) German collector of fairy tales

Louis Braille (1809) French inventor of a system of writing for the
blind

Stephen Decatur (1779) American naval hero in the War of 1812

Zebulon Pike (1779)

American explorer for whom Pikes Peak was named

Joan of Arc (1412) French heroine who led the French army to victory

Carl Sandburg (1878) American poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln

Millard Fillmore

(1800) 13th President of the United States

Bernadette

Soubirous (1844)

French saint from Lourdes

Gerald Durrell

(1925) British naturalist and author

Elvis Presley (1935) American rock music singer and motion­picture
star

Carrie Chapman

Catt (1859) American leader in women’s right to vote

Richard M. Nixon

(1913) 37th President of the United States

Robinson Jeffers

(1887) American poet

Ray Bolger

(1904) American entertainer; played the scarecrow in The Wizard of
Oz

Alice Paul (1885)

American leader in fight for equal rights for women

James Earl Jones

(1931) American motion-picture actor

Charles Perrault (1628) French writer of fairy tales

Jack London (1876) American author who wrote The Call of the Wild

Salmon P. Chase

(1808) antislavery leader

Francis Everett Townsend (1867) American physician and social
reformer

Albert Schweitzer (1875) German doctor and missionary

Hugh Lofting (1886) English author who wrote the Doctor Dolittle
books

Horatio Alger

(1832) American author of boys’ books

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929) American minister and civil rights
leader

Paul Revere (1735) hero of the American Revolution

Betsy Ross (1752) flag maker in the American Revolution

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Robert W. Service (1874) Canadian “Poet of the Yukon”

Jerome (Dizzy) Dean (1911) American baseball player and sportscaster

Benjamin Franklin

(1706) American statesman and inventor

Mack Sennett

(1880) Canadian film producer

A. A. Milne

(1882) English author who wrote Winnie-the-Pooh

Muhammad Ali (1942) American heavyweight boxing champion

Robert E. Lee (1807) Confederate army commander

Oveta Culp Hobby (1905) first U.S. secretary of health, education,
and welfare

Harold Gray (1894) American cartoonist who created “Little Orphan
Annie”

Joy Adamson (1920) British author of Born Free

Ethan Allen (1738) hero of the American Revolution; captured Fort
Ticonderoga

Thomas \”Stonewall” Jackson (1824) Confederate general

Lord Byron (1788) English poet

U Thant (1909) Burmese diplomat

John Hancock (1737) first signer of the U.S. Declaration of
Independence

Edith Wharton

(1862) American writer

Maria Tallchief

(1925) American ballet star

Robert Burns

(1759) Scottish poet

Edwin Newman

(1919) American newsman

Mary Mapes Dodge (1831) American author who wrote Hans Brinker

Maria (von) Trapp

(1905) Austrian leader of the Trapp Family Singers

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756) Austrian composer

Lewis Carroll (1832) English author of *Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland

Henry VII (1457) first English king of the House of Tudor

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841) Anglo-American explorer

Thomas Paine (1737) writer in the American Revolution

William McKinley (1843) 25th President of the United States

Franklin Roosevelt

(1882) 32nd President of the United States

Eleanor C. Smeal

(1930) American feminist

Zane Grey (1872) American author of Old West novels

Jackie Robinson

(1919) first black player in modern major league baseball