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Board game designer birthday calendar
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January
1
Harry Gavitt, 1875; Ethan Allen, 1904
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 3
 4
 5
 6
Albert Nofi, 1944
 7
8
 9
John Prados, 1951;
Jamey Stegmaier
 10
 11
 12
 13
Albert Lamorisse, 1922
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15
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Bill Markham, 1917
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 19
 20
 21
22
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 24
 25
 26
 27
Lewis Carroll, 1832; Joli Quentin Kansil, 1943
 28
29
Michael Lalet
 30
 31
  
February
1
 2
Richard Hamblen, 1945
 3
Charles Roberts, 1930
 4
 5
 6
 7
8
 9
Greg Stafford, 1948
 10
John Suckling, 1609
 11
 12
 13
Serge Laget
 14
15
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 17
Darren Watts, 1969
 18
Corey Konieczka
 19
 20
 21
22
 23
 24
 25
 26
 27
 28
29
  
March
1
 2
Frederic Moyersoen
 3
 4
 5
Dominique Erhard, 1958;
Daryl Andrews
 6
 7
8
 9
 10
 11
 12
 13
Mac Gerdts, 1962
 14
15
Ralph Anspach, 1926
 16
 17
 18
Edgar Cayce, 1877
 19
 20
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22
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 24
 25
 26
 27
Uwe Rosenberg, 1970
 28
Dirk Henn, 1960
29
Norman Sas, 1925
 30
 31
  
April
1
 2
 3
 4
Christian Petersen
 5
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8
 9
 10
Anne Wales Abbot(t), 1808
 11
 12
 13
Alfred Butts, 1899
 14
15
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 17
 18
 19
 20
 21
Michael Schacht, 1964
22
 23
 24
Niek Neuwahl, 1944
 25
 26
 27
Andrea Angiolino, 1966
 28
29
 30
Aaron Weissblum, 1964; Clark Rodeffer
 Allen Varney, 1959
May
1
Mike Fitzgerald
2
 3
Doris Matthäus, 1963
 4
Alex Randolph, 1922
 5
 6
Dale Walton
7
8
 9
Elizabeth Magie, 1866
 10
 11
 12
 13
Benno Delonge, 1957
 14
15
 16
 17
 18
David Parlett, 1939
 19
 20
Steve Jackson (UK), 1951
 21
22
Richard Tait, 1947
 23
 24
 25
 26
 27
 28
29
 30
 31
  
June
1
Friedemann Friese, 1970
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
8
 9
 10
 11
 12
Laurent Levi
13
 14
15
 16
Cameron Browne
 17
 18
Reuben B. Klamer, 1922; Redmond Simonsen, 1942
 19
 20
 21
22
 23
 24
 25
Klaus Teuber, 1952
 26
Richard Garfield, 1963
 27
 28
Wolfgang Kramer, 1942
29
 30
  
July
1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
Harold Vanderbilt, 1884
 7
8
 9
 10
Martin Wallace, 1962
 11
 12
 13
 14
Marvin Glass, 1914
15
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 18
 19
 20
 21
James Cooke Brown, 1921
22
 23
 24
 25
 26
 27
Gary Gygax, 1938
 28
29
 30
Stefan Dorra, 1958; Rüdiger Dorn, 1969
 31
  
August
1
 2
 3
 4
 5
Stephen Glenn
6
 7
8
Jim Dunnigan, 1943
 9
Chris Haney, 1950
 10
Charles Darrow, 1889; Marcel-André Casasola Merkle, 1977
 11
 12
 13
 14
15
 16
 17
 18
 19
Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, 1963
 20
 21
22
 23
 24
Giacomo Sottocasa
25
Antoine Bauza, 1978
 26
 27
 28
29
 30
Rudi Hoffman, 1924
 31
  
September
1
 2
 3
David Watts, 1932
 4
 5
 6
Charles Foley, 1930
 7
8
Tom Vasel, 1976
 9
Eleanor Abbott, 1910
 10
 11
Eric Lang, 1972
 12
 13
 14
Vladimír Chvátil, 1971
15
 16
 17
 18
 19
 20
 21
H.G. Wells, 1866
22
 23
Ignacy Trzewiczek, 1976
 24
Richard Borg
25
 26
 27
Michael Kiesling, 1957
 28
29
 30
  
October
1
Dave Arneson, 1947
 2
 3
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 5
 6
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8
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 12
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15
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 18
Alexander Pfister, 1971
 19
 20
 21
22
 23
Darwin Bromley, 1950; Bruno Faidutti, 1961
 24
 25
 26
 27
 28
29
 30
 31
  
November
1
 2
 3
 4
 5
Andrew Looney, 1963
 6
Andreas Seyfarth, 1961
 7
8
Milton Bradley, 1836; Marco Donadoni, 1951
 9
 10
 11
 12
Tony Boydell; Henry Makow, 1949
 13
Peer Sylvester
 14
15
 16
Reiner Knizia, 1957
 17
 18
Alan Moon, 1951
 19
Leo Colovini
20
 21
22
Sid Sackson, 1920;
Bruno Cathala, 1963
 23
 24
 25
 26
 27
 28
29
 30
Mark Twain, 1835
 Mark Herman, 1954
December
1
 2
 3
Daryl Hannah, 1960
 4
Philippe des Pallières, 1959
 5
 6
 7
Allan Calhamer, 1931
8
 9
 10
 11
Roberto Fraga
12
George Parker, 1866
 13
 14
15
 16
 17
 18
Justin Mason, 1979
 19
 20
 21
Hermance Edan, 1851
22
 23
 24
 25
 26
 27
 28
29
Ian Livingstone, 1949
 30
 31
  
All birthdays gleaned from information freely available on the Internet.
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