January

Jan 10 Ethan Allen born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 
      1738. (Old Calendar)

Jan 17 Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston,
      Massachusetts in 1706

Jan 16, 2006 Martin Luther King Day in America
      (Note Martin Luther King Jr. was actually born
       on Jan. 15, 1929. He was assassinated on
       Apr. 4, 1968) Obviously not a Deist, but as he
       taught equally and tolerance amongst all and
       was martyred for it, I have included him here.

Jan 21 Ethan Allen born in 1738 in Litchfield,
       Connecticut (New Calendar)

Jan 22 Francis Bacon (aka: Sir Francis Bacon) born in
       York House, London, England in 1561

Jan 22 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing born in 1729 in
      Kamenz, Uppper Lusatia, Saxony (Germany)

Jan 27 Thomas Woolston, dies in London, England in
       1733
       Note: He was born sometime in 1670, in
       Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.

Jan 29 Thomas Paine born Thomas Paine was born in
       1737 in Thetford, Norfolk in England

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February

Feb 12 Abraham Lincoln born near Hodgenville,
       Kentucky in 1809
       Charles Darwin born Shrewsbury, Shropshire,
       England in 1809.
       Note: Interesting that two of the most
       controversial figures of the 19th century were
       born on the same day.

      Ethan Allen dies in Burlington, Vermont in 1789
      
      Immanuel Kant died in 1804 in Konigsberg,
      Prussia, (now Kaliningrad, Russia)

Feb 15 Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl
       of, Baron Cooper of Pawlett, Baron Ashley of
       Wimborne St. Giles, dies in Naples, Italy in
       1713

Feb 15 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Died in 1781 in
       Braunschweig, Brunswick (Germany)

Feb 17 Bruno, Giordano martyred in 1600 in Rome.
       He was born Filippo Bruno sometime in 1548.

Feb 22 George Washington is born in Westmoreland
       County, Virginia in 1732.

Feb 23 John Quincy Adams died in Washington DC
       in 1848

Feb 26 Shaftesbury, (see full name above), is born in
       London, England in 1671
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March

Mar 1 Hermann Samuel Reimarus died in Hamburg,
      Germany in 1768

Mar 3 Edward Herbert, Edward Herbert of Cherbury, is
      born at Eyton in Shropshire, England in 1583

Mar 11 John Toland died in Putney, England in 1722

Mar 16 James Madison born in Port Conway,
       King George Co. Virginia in 1751

Mar 20 Spring Equinox (aka: Vernal Equinox) at
       05:48 UT 2008

Mar 21 Ostara - Spring Equinox, Pagan celebration