S. J. Perelman, the comic writer, was born on February 1, 1904. He is reputed to have loved his canaries more than his actual children. I do not know if this is a canard, but I do know he was funny. In his book "Eastward Ha" (1977) he mentions a cat named Magellan.
May 27, 1564 John Calvin, a Protestant theologian who argued for predestination, was fond of his wife's cat,"Henriette." His wife and his wife's cat died in the same month, and according to J. Stephen Lang, author of 1,001 Things You Always Wanted to Know about Cats, Calvin did not get another wife or another cat. John Calvin died on May 27, 1564.
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