{"id":7976,"date":"2026-10-28T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7976"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:44:51","slug":"birthdays-348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7976","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Desiderius Erasmus<\/b> (born Rotterdam, probably 1467; died Basel, Switzerland, July 12, 1536) was a Dutch writer, philosopher, and theologian. Young adults can read some of his works at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bill Gates<\/b> (born Seattle, Washington, 1955) is a developer of computer software. Experts believe he is one of the richest men in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><b>Leonard Kessler<\/b> (born Akron, Ohio, 1921; died Sarasota, Florida, February 16, 2022) wrote and\/or illustrated more than 200 books for children. His books include the<em> Mr. Pine <\/em>series\u00a0and <em>I Made a Line.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Jonas Salk<\/b> (born New York, New York, 1914; died La Jolla, California, June 23, 1995) developed the Salk Polio Vaccine and announced his results in 1953. Older children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/about\/history-of-salk\/jonas-salk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonas Salk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lauren Wolk<\/strong> (born Baltimore, Maryland, 1956) is an author, poet, and artist. Her book <em>Wolf Hollow<\/em> received a 2017 Newbery Honor Award; her book <em>Beyond the Bright Sea<\/em> was awarded the 2018 Scott O&#8217;Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenwolk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lauren Wolk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desiderius Erasmus (born Rotterdam, probably 1467; died Basel, Switzerland, July 12, 1536) was a Dutch writer, philosopher, and theologian. Young adults can read some of his works at: Project Gutenberg. Bill Gates (born Seattle, Washington, 1955) is a developer of computer software. Experts believe he is one of the richest men in the United States. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7976' 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":[3218,3217,3220,3219,5978],"class_list":["post-7976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-bill-gates","tag-desiderius-erasmus","tag-jonas-salk","tag-leonard-kessler","tag-october-28-birthdays","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\/7976","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=7976"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25289,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions\/25289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}