Vladimir Nabakov--novelist, "at daybreak" on Morskaya (now Gercen or Nertzen) Street, St. Petersburg, Russia: 59N55.9, 30E19.0. The most famous Russian emigré novelist, Nabokov was also a critic, teacher, inventor of chess problems, and entomologist, having several new species of butterfly to his credit. He left St. Petersburg in November 1917; left the Crimea, never to re-enter the Russian empire, in March 1919; his father was shot in Berlin by Russian rightists on 28th March 1922; came to America in May 1940; published his notorious Lolita in 1965; retired to the Palace Hotel in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1961; died there in the Summer of 1977. The following passage from Nabokov's autobiography is a typical example of calendrical confusion: "…we lagged twelve days behind the rest of the civil-ized world in the nineteenth century, and thirteen in the beginning of the twentieth. By the Old Style I was born on April 10, at daybreak, in the last year of the last century, and that was…April 22 in, say Germany; but since all my birthdays were celebrated, with dimini-shing pomp, in the twentieth century, everybody, includ-ing myself, upon being shifted by revolution and expat-riation from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian, used to add thirteen, instead of twelve days to the 10th of April. The error is serious. What is to be done? I find "April 23" under "birth date" in my most recent pass-port…" We suggest a birth time of 01:59 UT and an Ascendant on the cusp of Aries. This is early, but at 60º North latitude it puts the Sun a scant 3.5º below the horizon, well inside the twi-light belt. Moon-Venus-Saturn-Neptune grand cross in mutable signs; Sun-Mars-Jupiter T-cross in fixed signs. Source for time: Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory. New York: Putnam1966. Page 13. Source for place: ibid., illustration opposite page 64, and Baedeker's St. Petersburg, 1902.
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Guru Nanek founder of the Sikh sect, II: 1
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Napoleon Bonaparte, X: 3. 8/15/1769 9:50 AM LMT (09:15 UT), Ajaccio, Corsica: 41N55 8E44
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Victor Neuberg, poet, X: 2. 5/6/1883 00:15 AM UT London: 51N30 0W10
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Sir Isaac Newton FRS, scientist, philosopher, XVIII: 2. 1/4/1643 (NS) 2:36 AM LMT (2:33 UT), Woolsthorpe, England: 52N48 0W07
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Nicholas II--Czar of Russia, see III: 1. 5/18/1868, 10:00 AM UT, 59N55, 30E25,
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Czar Nicholas II abdicates, see III: 3. 3/15/1917 1:06:18 PM UT, 57N48, 28E26

Friedrich Nietzsche--philosopher, see II: 1 & XVII: 3. 10/15/1844, 9:11:28 AM UT, 51N15, 12E08,
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Nietzsche's zusammenbruch, see article in II: 1. 1/3/1889, 12:30:48PM 45N04, 7E40

Richard M. Nixon, US President, X: 4. 1/9/1913 9:35 PM PST (1/10/1913 03:35 UT), Yorba Linda, CA: 33N53 117W49
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Laurence Olivier--actor, article in IV: 1. 5/22/1907. 5:00 AM UT, 51N14 0W20
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Aristotle Onassis, shipping magnate, see XII: 3. 1/15/1906 7:25 AM Smyrna, Turkey: 38N26 27E13
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Yoko Ono, wife of John Lennon, VIII: 1. 2/18/1933 11:30 AM UT, 35N40 139E45
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Osel, believed to be the reincarnation of the Lama Yeshe, XIII: 3. 2/12/1985 6:40 PM GMT (18:40 UT), Granada, Spain: 37N10 3W35
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Owen, musician, composer & jeweler, XI: 3. 1/26/1927 8:00 AM GMT (08:00 UT) London, England: 51N30 0W10
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