1927 Birthday Yma Sumac, Chavarri, Ichocan Peru, 5 octave soprano, Omar Khayyam 1925 Death Jan H. Leopold, poet/classical (translated Omar Khayyam), dies at 60 1917 Event 43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6 1865 Birthday Jan H. Leopold, Dutch poet, translated Omar Khayyam 1809 Birthday Edward FitzGerald, born in England, writer, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1131 Death Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, dies 1048 Birthday Omar Khayyam, born in Nayshapur, Iran, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra
