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2007 Calendar
January
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February
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28      
March
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
April
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8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30          
May
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6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31    
June
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3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
July
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8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31        
August
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5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31  
September
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
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October
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7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31      
November
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30  
December
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9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
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30 31          

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

  • 532 - Pope Boniface II
  • 1174 - Queen Petronila of Aragon (b. 1135)
  • 1586 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (killed in battle) (b. 1554)
  • 1660 - Adrian Scrope, English regicide (b. 1601)
  • 1673 - Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (b. 1630)
  • 1757 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
  • 1776 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (b. 1681)
  • 1780 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
  • 1786 - Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss artist (b. 1723)
  • 1806 - Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian independence leader (b. 1758)
  • 1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810)
  • 1887 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824)
  • 1910 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer and abolitionist (b. 1819)
  • 1931 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
  • 1934 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1852)
  • 1958 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (b. 1876)
  • 1967 - Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China (b. 1906)
  • 1970 - Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921)
  • 1973 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (b. 1926)
  • 1979 - S. J. Perelman, American writer (b. 1904)
  • 1984 - Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
  • 1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and television performer (b. 1919)
  • 1992 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (b. 1912)
  • 2001 - Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
  • 2002 - Derek Bell, Irish harpist (The Chieftans) (b. 1935)
  • 2004 - Uzi Hitman, israeli singer (b. 1952)
  • 2005 - Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)