Some cleanup and some checks from the Encyclopedia Britannica Online

1 files changed, 47 insertions, 48 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
index 580f6ab1eba..e2af2f85bb0 100644
--- a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
+++ b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * Birthday
  *
- * $OpenBSD: calendar.birthday,v 1.9 1998/11/02 21:10:35 pjanzen Exp $
+ * $OpenBSD: calendar.birthday,v 1.10 1998/11/03 20:11:03 pjanzen Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef _calendar_birthday_
@@ -14,24 +14,23 @@
 01/04	Jakob Grimm born, 1785
 01/04	Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars
 01/05	DeWitt B. Brace born, 1859, inventor of spectrophotometer
-01/10	Ethan Allen born, 1738
-01/11	Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1757?
+01/11	Alexander Hamilton born in Nevis, British West Indies, 1755/57?
+01/12	John Hancock born, 1737
 01/12	"Long" John Baldry is born in London, 1941
-01/13	Horatio Alger born, 1834
+01/13	Horatio Alger born, 1832
 01/13	Sophie Tucker born, 1884
 01/13	Wilhelm Wien born, 1864, Nobel prize for blackbody radiation laws
 01/14	Albert Schweitzer born, 1875
-01/15	Martin Luther King, Jr. born
+01/15	Martin Luther King, Jr. born, 1929
 01/17	Benjamin Franklin born in Boston, 1706
 01/19	Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston, 1809
 01/19	Robert Edward Lee born in Stratford Estate, Virginia, 1807
-01/20	George Burns born, 1898
+01/20	George Burns born, 1896
 01/21	Lenin died, 1924
 01/21	Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson born in Clarksburg, VA, 1824
+01/21	Ethan Allen born, 1738
 01/22	Sir Francis Bacon born, 1561
 01/23	Ernst Abbe born, 1840, formulated diffraction theory
-01/23	Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899
-01/23	John Hancock born, 1737
 01/23	Joseph Hewes born, 1730
 01/23	Samuel Barber died, 1981
 01/24	John Belushi is born in Chicago, 1949
@@ -50,70 +49,71 @@
 02/09	George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.
 02/10	Charles Lamb born, 1775
 02/10	William Allen White born, 1868
-02/11	Thos. Edison born, 1847
-02/11	William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1489, photographic pioneer
+02/11	Thomas Edison born, 1847
+02/11	William Henry Fox Talbot born, 1800, photographic pioneer
 02/12	Abraham Lincoln born, 1809
 02/12	Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England, 1809
 02/15	Galileo Galilei born in Pisa, Italy, 1564
 02/15	Susan B. Anthony born, 1820
 02/16	Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry
-02/17	Federick Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone
-02/17	Marion Anderson born, 1902
+02/17	Federic Eugene Ives born, 1856, pioneer of halftone process
 02/17	T. J. Watson, Sr. born, 1874
 02/18	Ernst Mach born, 1838, philosopher & optics pioneer
 02/19	Nicolas Copernicus born in Thorn, Poland, 1473
-02/20	Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1838, atomic physics pioneer
-02/21	Gogol dies, 1852
+02/20	Ludwig Boltzmann born, 1844, atomic physics pioneer
 02/21	Alexis De Rochon born, 1838, developed the spyglass
 02/22	George Washington born, 1732
-02/22	Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1838, found hydrogen in the sun
+02/22	Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen born, 1824, found hydrogen in the sun
 02/23	W.E.B. DuBois born, 1868
+02/24	Wilhelm Grimm born, 1786
 02/24	Winslow Homer born, 1836
 02/25	George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943
 02/25	Renoir born, 1841
 02/26	Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, 1786;
 		observed "Poisson's spot" cf June 21
+02/27	Marian Anderson born, 1897
 02/28	Michel de Mantaigne born, 1533
 02/29	Herman Hollerith born, 1860
-03/01	David Niven born, 1910
+03/01	David Niven born, 1909
 03/02	Dr. Seuss born, 1904
 03/04	Casimir Pulaski born, 1747
+03/04	Gogol dies, 1852
 03/05	John Belushi dies in Los Angeles, 1982
+03/06	Michelangelo Buonarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1475
 03/07	Aristotle died, 322BC
 03/07	Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
 03/08	Alvan Clark born, 1804, astronomer & lens manufacturer
-03/08	Howard Aiken born, 1900
-03/11	Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
+03/09	Howard Aiken born, 1900
+03/11	Robert Treat Paine born, 1731
 03/11	Vannevar Bush born, 1890
 03/12	Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born, 1824, physicist
 03/14	Albert Einstein born, 1879
 03/14	Casey Jones born, 1864
-03/14	Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer;
+03/14	Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli born, 1835, astronomer;
 		named Mars "canals"
-03/14	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
 03/15	Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus; Ides of March, 44BC
 03/15	J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
 03/16	George Clymer born, 1739
 03/16	James Madison born, 1751
+03/21	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier born, 1768, mathematician & physicist
+03/23	Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
 03/24	Harry Houdini born, 1874
 03/26	Benjamin Thompson born, 1753, Count Rumford; physicist
 03/26	David Packard died, 1996; age of 83
 03/27	Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, 1845, discoverer of X-rays
-03/28	Pierre Simon de Laplace born, 1749, mathematician & astronomer
 03/30	Francisco Jose de Goya born, 1746
 03/30	Sean O'Casey born, 1880
 03/30	Vincent Van Gogh born, 1853
-03/31	Descartes born, 1596
 03/31	Rene Descartes born, 1596, mathematician & philosopher
-04/01	Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol born, 1809
+03/31	Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol born, 1809
 04/03	Washington Irving born, 1783
-04/04	Andrey Tarkovskey born, 1932
+04/04	Andrey Tarkovsky born, 1932
 04/05	Thomas Hobbes born, 1588, philosopher
 04/08	Buddha born, 563 BC
 04/08	David Rittenhouse born, 1732, astronomer & mathematician
 04/09	Edward Muybridge born, 1830, motion-picture pioneer
 04/09	J. Presper Eckert born, 1919
-04/10	Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1854
+04/10	Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1794
 04/10	William Booth born, 1829, founder of the Salvation Army
 04/13	Thomas Jefferson born, 1743
 04/14	Christian Huygen born, 1629, physicist & astronomer;
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
 04/15	Leonardo da Vinci born, 1452
 04/16	Charles (Charlie) Chaplin (Sir) born in London, 1889
 04/22	Kant born, 1724
+04/23	Shakespeare born, 1564
 04/28	James Monroe born, 1758
 04/29	Jules Henri Poincare born, 1854, founder of topology
 04/29	William Randolph Hearst born in San Francisco, 1863
@@ -130,7 +131,6 @@
 05/02	Dr. Benjamin Spock born, 1903
 05/09	Pinza died, 1957
 05/10	Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska, 1899
-05/11	Johnny Appleseed born, 1768
 05/12	Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy, 1820
 05/13	Arthur S. Sullivan born, 1842
 05/15	Mike Oldfield is born in Essex, England, 1953
@@ -143,17 +143,17 @@
 05/29	Patrick Henry born, 1736
 05/30	Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc born in San Francisco, 1908
 06/01	Brigham Young born, 1801
-06/01	Marilyn Monroe born, 1928
-06/02	Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcester, England, 1857
+06/01	Marilyn Monroe born, 1926
+06/02	Edward Elgar (Sir) born in Worcestershire, England, 1857
 06/03	Henry James born, 1811
-06/07	(Eugene Henri) Paul Gaugin born, 1848
+06/07	(Eugene Henri) Paul Gauguin born, 1848
 06/07	George Bryan "Beau" Brummel born, 1778
 06/07	Alan Mathison Turing died, 1954
-06/08	Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1869
+06/08	Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, 1867
 06/13	Alexander the Great dies (323BC)
 06/15	Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway, 1843
-06/16	Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 bc
-06/18	M.C. Escher born, 1898
+06/16	Hammurabi the Great dies, Babylon, 1686 BC
+06/17	M.C. Escher born, 1898
 06/22	Carl Hubbell born, 1903
 06/22	Meryl Streep born in Summit, New Jersey, 1949
 06/23	Alan Mathison Turing born, 1912
@@ -162,19 +162,18 @@
 07/03	Franz Kafka born, 1883
 07/04	Nathaniel Hawthorne born in Salem, Massachusetts, 1804
 07/04	John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day, 1826
-07/06	(Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866
 07/06	John Paul Jones born, 1747
 07/07	P.T. Barnum dies, 1891
 07/08	Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born, 1838
 07/10	John Calvin born, 1509
 07/11	John Quincy Adams born, 1767
 07/12	Henry David Thoreau born, 1817
-07/12	Thoreau's Birthday, 1817
 08/12	Thomas Mann's Death, 1955
 07/15	Clement Clarke Moore born, 1779, author of "A Visit from
 		Saint Nicholas"
 07/18	Brian Auger is born in London, 1939
 07/25	Steve Goodman is born in Chicago, 1948
+07/28	(Helen) Beatrix Potter born, 1866
 07/29	Mussolini born, 1883
 07/30	Emily Bronte born, 1818
 07/30	Henry Ford born, 1863
@@ -182,10 +181,10 @@
 08/03	Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose, 1966
 08/08	Dustin Hoffman born in Los Angeles, 1937
 08/13	Annie Oakley born, 1860
-08/13	Fidel Castro born, 1927
+08/13	Fidel Castro born, 1926/w7
 08/15	Louis Victor de Broglie born, 1892, physicist
-08/17	Mae West born, 1892
-08/18	Meriwether Lewis born, 1927
+08/17	Mae West born, 1892/93
+08/18	Meriwether Lewis born, 1774
 08/20	Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940
 08/23	Gene Kelly born, 1912
 08/27	Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
@@ -205,17 +204,16 @@
 09/16	Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY, 1914
 09/18	Greta Garbo born, 1905
 09/18	Jimi Hendrix dies from an overdose, 1970
+09/19	President Garfield dies of wounds in Elberon, N.J., 1881
 09/20	Upton (Beall) Sinclair born, 1878
 09/21	H.G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England, 1866
 09/21	Louis Joliet born, 1645
-09/22	President Garfield dies of wounds in Baltimore, 1881
 09/23	Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born in Rome, 63 BC
 09/23	Euripides born in Salamis, Greece, 480 BC
 09/24	F. Scott Fitzgerald born, 1896
 09/26	Johnny Appleseed born, 1774
 09/26	T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis, 1888
 09/27	Thomas Nast born, 1840
-09/28	Michelangelo Buanarroti born in Caprese, Italy, 1573
 09/28	Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome, 106BC
 09/28	Seymour Cray born, 1925
 09/29	Gene Autry born, 1907
@@ -226,16 +224,16 @@
 10/05	Pablo Picasso born in Malaga, Spain, 1881
 10/05	Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's) born, 1902
 10/13	Lenny Bruce is born in New York City, 1925
-10/13	Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC
 10/14	Dwight David Eisenhower born, 1890
 10/14	William Penn born in London, 1644
+10/15	Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC
 10/15	Pelham Grenville Wodehouse born, 1881
 10/16	Noah Webster born, 1758
 10/16	Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde born in Dublin, 1854
 10/17	Richard Mentor Johnson born, 1780, 9th V.P. of U.S.
 10/21	Alfred Nobel born in Stockholm, 1833
 10/27	Gerald M. Weinberg born, 1933
-10/27	James Cook is born, 1466
+10/27	James Cook is born, 1728
 10/31	Chiang Kai-Shek born, 1887
 10/31	Dale Evans born, 1912 
 11/02	Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA, 1734
@@ -249,29 +247,30 @@
 11/13	St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria, 354
 11/18	Imogene Coca born, 1908
 11/18	William S. Gilbert born, 1836
-11/20	RFK born, 1925
+11/20	Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy born, 1925
 11/26	Charles Schulz born in Minneapolis, 1922
 11/26	Norbert Weiner born, 1894
 11/29	John Mayall is born in Cheshire, England, 1933
 11/30	Cleopatra died, 30 BC
-11/30	Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
+11/30	Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) born in Florida, Missouri, 1835
 12/01	Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY, 1935
+12/03	John von Neumann born, 1903
 12/04	Tommy Bolin dies of a heroin overdose in Miami, 1976
 12/05	Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago, 1901
 12/06	Samich Laus brewing
 12/08	Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa (Italy), 65BC
 12/08	James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio, 1894
-12/10	Emily Dickenson born, 1830
+12/10	Emily Dickinson born, 1830
 12/12	E.G. Robinson born, 1893
 12/14	George Washington dies, 1799
 12/17	William Safire (Safir) born, 1929
-12/19	Konrad Zuse died, 1995
+12/18	Konrad Zuse died, 1995
 12/20	Carl Sagan died, 1996
 12/21	Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804
 12/22	Giacomo Puccini born, 1858
 12/23	Joseph Smith born, 1805
-12/25	Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642
-12/26	Chas. Babbage born, 1791
-12/28	John von Neumann born, 1903
+12/25	Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Lincolnshire, England, 1642
+12/25	Humphrey Bogart born in New York City, 1899
+12/26	Charles Babbage born, 1791
 
 #endif /* !_calendar_birthday_ */