{"id":2867,"date":"2026-02-24T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:52:12","slug":"birthdays-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2867","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wilhelm Karl Grimm<\/strong> (born Hanau, Germany, 1786; died Berlin, Germany, December 16, 1859) and his brother, Jacob, wrote <em>Grimm\u2019s Fairy Tale<\/em>s. Children\u00a0could read portions of <em>Grimm\u2019s Fairy Tales<\/em> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>. They could learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/grimm-wilhelm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wilhelm Karl Grimm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winslow Homer<\/strong> (born Boston, Massachusetts, 1836; died Prout\u2019s Neck, Maine, September 29, 1910) was an artist known for his outdoor scenes. Children could learn\u00a0more about him at the National Gallery of Art site:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/collection\/artist-info.1401.html#works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winslow Homer<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nga.gov\/cgi-bin\/tbio?person=15100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steven Jobs<\/strong> (born Los Altos, California, 1955; died Palo Alto, California, October 5, 2011) co-founded Apple, Inc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uri Orlev<\/strong> (born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski in Warsaw, Poland, 1931; died Jerusalem, Israel, July 25, 2022) published over 30 books for children. He grew up in the Warsaw Ghetto. His mother was killed by Nazis, and he was placed in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. He received the 1996 Hans Christian Andersen Award. His books include <em>The Lady with the Hat<\/em> and <em>Hairy Tuesday<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11906\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11906\" class=\"wp-image-11906 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Honus-Wagner-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Honus Wagner\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honus Wagner<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Honus Wagner<\/strong> (born John Peter Wagner in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, 1874; died Carnegie, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1955) was a famous baseball player. He was nicknamed the \u201cFlying Dutchman.\u201d Children could read Dan Gutman&#8217;s <em>Honus and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure<\/em>. They could also learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballhall.org\/hall-of-famers\/wagner-honus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Honus Wagner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilhelm Karl Grimm (born Hanau, Germany, 1786; died Berlin, Germany, December 16, 1859) and his brother, Jacob, wrote Grimm\u2019s Fairy Tales. Children\u00a0could read portions of Grimm\u2019s Fairy Tales at: Project Gutenberg. They could learn more at:\u00a0Wilhelm Karl Grimm. Winslow Homer (born Boston, Massachusetts, 1836; died Prout\u2019s Neck, Maine, September 29, 1910) was an artist known <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2867' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6160,4309,4307,4308,4305,4306],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-february-24-birthdays","tag-honus-wagner","tag-steven-jobs","tag-uri-orlev","tag-wilhelm-karl-grimm","tag-winslow-homer","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29971,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/29971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}