Ezra Jack Keats broke the color barrier in childrenâs literature with the mainstream success of The Snowy Day, in 1962. He believed that all children should be able to see themselves in books they love. Read more about Ezra Jack Keats.
Newton's Life. In 1642, the year Galileo died, Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England on Christmas Day. His father had died three months earlier, and baby Isaac, very premature, was also not expected to survive. It was said he could be fitted into a quart pot.
Sir Isaac Newton, (born December 25, 1642 [January 4, 1643, New Style], Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, Englandâdied March 20 [March 31], 1727, London) English physicist and mathematician, who was the culminating figure of the scientific revolution of the 17th century.