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Board game designer birthday calendar
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Can we find a board game designer birthday for each day?

January

1Harry Gavitt, 1875; Ethan Allen, 1904	2	3	4	5Wild Bill Wilder, 1937; Peter Rice, 1942	6Albert Nofi, 1944	7
8	9John Prados, 1951; Jamey Stegmaier	10Len Lakofka, 1944; Bill McCord, Jr., 1946	11	12Brian Blume, 1950	13Albert Lamorisse, 1922	14
15	16Bill Markham, 1917	17Richard Tait, 1964	18	19	20	21
22Steve Perrin, 1946	23	24	25	26	27Lewis Carroll, 1832; William Gamson, 1934; Joli Quentin Kansil, 1943	28
29Michael Lalet	30	31

February

1Christian Freeling, 1947	2Richard Hamblen, 1945	3Charles Roberts, 1930	4Satish Pillalamarri, 1978	5	6	7
8	9Greg Stafford, 1948	10John Suckling, 1609	11	12	13Serge Laget, 1959	14
15	16	17Lou Zocchi, 1935; Darren Watts, 1969	18Corey Konieczka	19Ken Garland, 1929	20	21
22	23	24Ed Pugh, 1958	25Stephen Sniderman, 1943	26Kimber Lee Eastland, 1952	27	28
29

March

1	2Frederic Moyersoen	3	4	5Dominique Erhard, 1958; Daryl Andrews	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13Dean Essig, 1961; Mac Gerdts, 1962	14
15Ralph Anspach, 1926	16	17Steven Mohan, 1967	18Edgar Cayce, 1877; Daniel Chen, 1980	19David Nalle, 1959	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27Uwe Rosenberg, 1970	28Dirk Henn, 1960
29Norman Sas, 1925; Hal Halliwell, 1959;	30Charles Spiegel, 1952	31Greg Sovan, 1954

April

1	2	3	4Christian Petersen	5	6Don Rubin, 1945	7
8	9	10Anne Wales Abbot(t), 1808	11	12Ea Ea, 1927	13Alfred Butts, 1899	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21Michael Schacht, 1964; Chris Gabrielson, 1974
22	23	24Niek Neuwahl, 1944	25Fletcher Pratt, 1897	26	27Andrea Angiolino, 1966	28
29	30Aaron Weissblum, 1964; Clark Rodeffer	Allen Varney, 1959

May

1Mike Fitzgerald	2	3Doris Matthäus, 1963	4Alex Randolph, 1922; Kim Mohan, 1949	5	6Dale Walton	7
8	9Elizabeth Magie, 1866	10	11	12	13Benno Delonge, 1957	14
15	16	17	18David Parlett, 1939	19	20Steve Jackson (UK), 1951	21David Lupo, 1975
22Richard Tait, 1947	23Jim Ward, 1951	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

June

1Friedemann Friese, 1970	2	3	4Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 1928	5	6	7
8James Winslow, 1929	9	10	11	12Laurent Levi	13	14Ivan Moscovich, 1926
15	16Cameron Browne	17	18Redmond Simonsen, 1942	19	20Reuben B. Klamer, 1922	21
22	23	24RObert Bennie, 1960	25Klaus Teuber, 1952	26Richard Garfield, 1963	27Neil Rabens, 1929	28Wolfgang Kramer, 1942
29John Tiller, 1953	30

July

1	2David Schueler, 1964	3	4	5	6Harold Vanderbilt, 1884	7
8Dany Aditya, 1976	9	10Martin Wallace, 1962	11	12	13	14Marvin Glass, 1914; Arnold Hendrick, 1950
15	16	17	18	19	20	21James Cooke Brown, 1921
22	23	24Lloyd Krassner, 1970	25	26	27Gary Gygax, 1938	28
29	30Stefan Dorra, 1958; Rüdiger Dorn, 1969	31Wag Wagmon, 1957

August

1Volodymyr Yezhov, 1984	2	3	4	5Stephen Glenn	6	7
8Jim Dunnigan, 1943	9Chris Haney, 1950	10Charles Darrow, 1889; Marcel-André Casasola Merkle, 1977	11	12	13	14
15Ed Bucko, 1914	16	17	18	19Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, 1963	20	21
22	23Chris Dean, 1969	24Giacomo Sottocasa	25Antoine Bauza, 1978	26	27	28
29	30Rudi Hoffman, 1924	31

September

1	2	3David Watts, 1932	4	5	6Charles Foley, 1930	7Carla Mae Horger, 1969
8Tom Vasel, 1976	9Eleanor Abbott, 1910	10	11Eric Lang, 1972	12	13	14Vladimír Chvátil, 1971
15	16Sandy Petersen, 1955	17	18	19	20	21H.G. Wells, 1866
22	23Ignacy Trzewiczek, 1976	24Richard Borg	25	26	27Michael Kiesling, 1957; James Miller, 1969	28
29	30Richard Guy, 1916

October

1Dave Arneson, 1947; Alan Emrich, 1959	2Brian Degas, 1935	3	4Kazuki Takahashi, 1961	5	6	7
8	9	10	11Bryan Ansell, 1955	12	13	14Jennell Jaquays, 1956
15	16Richard Barber, 1954; Bryan Johnson, 1971	17	18Terry Amthor, 1958; Alexander Pfister, 1971	19	20	21
22	23Darwin Bromley, 1950; Bruno Faidutti, 1961	24	25Teeuwynn Woodruff, 1966	26	27	28
29	30	31

November

1	2	3	4	5Andrew Looney, 1963	6Andreas Seyfarth, 1961	7Charles Phillips, 1944
8Milton Bradley, 1836; Tom Oleson, 1936; Marco Donadoni, 1951	9	10	11Kurt Vonnegut, 1922	12Tony Boydell; Henry Makow, 1949	13Peer Sylvester	14
15	16Reiner Knizia, 1957; Jon Thompson, 1971	17	18Alan Moon, 1951; Mark Herman, 1954	19Leo Colovini	20	21
22Sid Sackson, 1920; Bruno Cathala, 1963	23	24Ginichiro Suzukie, 1934; Ted Sofian, 1962	25	26	27	28
29	30Mark Twain, 1835; Hiroshi Yamamoto, 1956; Crow Taylor, 1959

December

1Ennio Peres, 1945	2	3Daryl Hannah, 1960	4Philippe des Pallières, 1959	5	6	7Allan Calhamer, 1931
8	9	10	11Roberto Fraga	12George Parker, 1866; Peter Perla III, 1951	13	14
15	16	17	18Justin Mason, 1979	19	20	21Hermance Edan, 1851
22	23	24Andrew Hackard, 1970	25	26John Conway, 1937	27	28
29Ian Livingstone, 1949	30	31

All birthdays gleaned from information freely available on the Internet.

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