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39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter born 1924
Disabilities Awareness Month
UN International Day of Older Persons
 		 2
Political leader Mahatma Gandhi born 1869
Community hero Soedati Warsito Rasman born 1937
Slave revolt leader Nat Turner born 1800
 		 3
Author James Herriot born 1916
 		 4
Religious leader St. Francis of Assisi born 1181
World Space Week (4-10)
 
5
Architect and artist Maya Lin born 1959
UN Teachers Day
Dramatist and president of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel born 1936
 		 6
Inventor and engineer George Westinghouse born 1846
 		 7
UN World Habitat Day
Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu born 1931
Danish physicist Niels Bohr born 1885
 		 8
Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson born 1941
 		 9
Singer and songwriter John Lennon born 1940
Nobel Peace Prize and landmine activist Jody Williams born 1950
 		 10
1st Lady of American theater, Helen Hayes born 1900.
UN World Mental Health Day
Explorer Fridtjof Nansen born 1893
 		 11
Humanitarian and former first lady of the U.S. Eleanor Roosevelt born 1884
 
12
Track star Marion Jones born 1975
Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti born 1935
National Heroes' Day in Bahamas
 		 13
Former prime minister of England Margaret Thatcher born 1925
Revolutionary War heroine Molly Pitcher born 1754
 		 14
Former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden born 1910
Founder of Pennsylvania William Penn born 1644
 		 15
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith born 1908
 		 16
UN World Food Day
 		 17
Astronaut and scientist Mae Jemison born 1956
Dutch explorer Alexandrine Tinne born 1839
 		 18
Musician Wynton Marsalis born 1961
Poet Ntozake Shange born 1948
 
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Historian and writer Lewis Mumford born 1895
 		 20
Baseball player Mickey Mantle born 1931
Educator and philosopher John Dewey born 1859
 		 21
Chemist and engineer who established the Nobel Prizes Alfred Nobel born 1833
Poet Samuel Coleridge born 1772
Conservationist/cartoonist J.N. "Ding" Darling born 1876
 		 22
Composer and pianist Franz Liszt born 1811
Nobel Prize winning author Doris Lessing born 1919
 		 23
Novelist Michael Crichton born 1942
Soccer player Pele born 1940
First woman to swim the English Channel Gertrude Ederle born 1906
English businesswoman Anita Roddick born 1942
 		 24
UN Disarmament Week (24-30)
United Nations Day
Dutch biologist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek born 1632
 		 25
Artist Pablo Picasso born 1881
Aviator and Antarctic explorer Richard E. Byrd born 1888
 
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Singer Mahalia Jackson born 1911
 		 27
26th President of the U.S. Theodore Roosevelt born 1858
Poet Dylan Thomas born 1914
Dutch philosopher Erasmus born 1469
 		 28
Developer of the polio vaccine Jonas Salk born 1914
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates born 1955
 		 29
President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf born 1938
 		 30
2nd President of the U.S. John Adams born 1735
 		 31 Founder of the Girl Scouts Juliette Gordon Low born 1860
Film Director Peter Jackson born 1961
 		  
 
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