Some people who were born on this day:


Peter Mark Roget (London, 1779)

- a physician and scientist, experimented with laughing gas, invented the log-log slide rule and, of course, wrote the first edition of "Roget's Thesaurus"


Joseph Farwell Glidden (Clarendon, New York, 1813)

- invented the barbed wire fence


A(lan) A(lexander) Milne (1882, St. John's Wood, London)

- was bitter about the fact that people remembered only his children's books
(featuring Winnie-the-Pooh)

- "When I wrote them, little thinking
All my years of pen-and-inking
Would be almost lost among
Those four trifles for the young."