{"id":4110,"date":"2026-04-14T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:30:00","slug":"birthdays-165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4110","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Saturn-Voyager-I-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"130\" \/>Christiaan Huygens<\/strong> (born The Hague, Dutch Republic, 1629; died The Hague, Dutch Republic, July 8, 1695) was a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He discovered that Saturn had a ring around it and that Saturn had at least one moon, Titan. He wrote a book about probability theory, and he quantified several physics concepts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gary D. Schmidt<\/strong> (born Hicksville, New York, 1957) writes books for children. His <em>Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy<\/em> earned both a Newbery Honor Award and a Printz Award in 2005. <em>The Wednesday Wars<\/em> received a 2008 Newbery Honor Award.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anne Mansfield Sullivan<\/strong> (born Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, 1866; died Forest Hills, New York, October 20, 1936) was Helen Keller\u2019s teacher from 1887 until her death in 1936. Older children can learn a great deal about Sullivan from the American Foundation for the Blind website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afb.org\/asm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.afb.org\/asm\/.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christiaan Huygens (born The Hague, Dutch Republic, 1629; died The Hague, Dutch Republic, July 8, 1695) was a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He discovered that Saturn had a ring around it and that Saturn had at least one moon, Titan. He wrote a book about probability theory, and he quantified several physics concepts. Gary D. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4110' 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":[2553,5472,2552],"class_list":["post-4110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-anne-mansfield-sullivan","tag-april-14","tag-christiaan-huygens","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\/4110","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=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22738,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions\/22738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}