Genius....?

This isn't "same day" idiot, this is "same date".

"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), "didn't you link the all-time geniuses together FOR REAL all the way back in 2010?"

Sigh. Yes I did, faithful readers, YES I did:

I decided to see what would happen if I extended this "great men who die the same year another great man is born, therein becoming their torch-bearer of genius" idea a bit, and this is what we've got:

Galileo
1642
Newton
1737
Thomas Paine
1809
Charles Darwin
1882
James Joyce
1941
Tony Ray-Jones
1972
Xmastime