question: The author of "A Brief History of Time" was born on what date?
answer: 8 January 1942
context: Title: The Big Pink
  Passage: The Big Pink are an English electronic rock band from London, consisting of multi-instrumentalists Robertson "Robbie" Furze, Mary Charteris, Nicole Emery and Bradford Lee Conroy.  Initially a duo, they signed to independent record label 4AD in 2009 and won the "NME" Philip Hall Radar Award for best new act.  To date, they have released five singles, with their debut album "A Brief History of Love" released in September 2009 and its follow-up, "Future This" released in January 2012.
  Title: Charles Village, Baltimore
  Passage: Charles Village is a neighborhood located in the north-central area of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.  It is a middle-class area with many single-family homes that is in proximity to many of Baltimore's urban amenities.  The neighborhood began in 1869 when 50 acre of land were purchased for development.  The land was divided and turned over to various builders who constructed home exteriors, leaving the interiors to be custom built according to buyer specifications.  The area was first developed as a streetcar suburb in the early 20th century, and is thought to be the first community to employ tract housing tactics.  At the time, the area was known as "Peabody Heights;" the moniker "Charles Village," derived from Charles Street, the area's major north-south corridor, was coined in the 1970s as the beginning of a process of conceptually grouping a large and somewhat heterogeneous area.  The neighborhood history has been researched and published by Gregory J. Alexander and Paul K. Williams in their book "Charles Village: A Brief History" (The History Press, 2009).
  Title: Science book
  Passage: A science book is a work of nonfiction, usually written by a scientist, researcher, or professor like Stephen Hawking ("A Brief History of Time"), or sometimes by a non-scientist such as Bill Bryson ("A Short History of Nearly Everything").  Usually these books are written for a wide audience presumed to have a general education rather than a specifically scientific training, as opposed to the very narrow audience that a scientific paper would have, and are therefore referred to as popular science.  As such, they require considerable talent on the part of the author to sufficiently explain difficult topics to
  Title: A Brief History of Time (film)
  Passage: A Brief History of Time is a 1991 biographical documentary film about the physicist Stephen Hawking, directed by Errol Morris.  The title derives from Hawking's bestselling book "A Brief History of Time", but whereas the book is an explanation of cosmology, the film is a biography of Hawking's life, featuring interviews with family members, colleagues, and even his childhood nanny.  The music is by frequent Morris collaborator, Philip Glass.
  Title: Modern Times (novel)
  Passage: Wenming Xiaoshi (; "Short History of Civilization" or "A Brief History of Modern Times" or "A Brief History of Enlightenment") is a novel by Li Baojia (Li Boyuan).  The novel is a satire of pseudo-reformers in the Qing Dynasty period who found difficulty adjusting to modernization, including its complexities and problems.  The work has 60 chapters but it is a shorter work than "Officialdom Unmasked".
  Title: Stephen Hawking
  Passage: Stephen William Hawking, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( born 8 January 1942) is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.  His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation.  Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.  He is a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
  Title: Scott Eyman
  Passage: Scott Eyman (born March 2, 1951) is an American author, and former book editor and art critic of "The Palm Beach Post".  He is a frequent book reviewer for "The Wall Street Journal", and has been a contributor for "The New York Observer".  His books specialize in the Golden Age of Hollywood.  He is the author of "John Wayne: The Life and Legend", (2014), "Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille", (2010), "Louis B. Mayer: Lion of Hollywood" (Simon & Schuster, (2005), "Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford" (2001), "Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise" (2000), and "The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930" (1997), "Mary Pickford: America's Sweetheart" (1990), and "Five American Cinematographers" (1987).  With co-author Louis Giannetti, he published ": A Brief History of Film" (1986), now in its seventh edition.
  Title: Chronologie
  Passage: Chronologie (English: "chronology" – some later reissues use the English spelling) is the eleventh studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, and was released on Disques Dreyfus (with license to Polydor) in 1993.  It is inspired by Stephen Hawking's book "A Brief History of Time".  "Chronologie Part 4" and "Chronologie Part 5" started out as a composition for the Swiss watch company Swatch.  The sound of "Chronologie" was based on a new wave of electronic dance music that had been developing since the late 1980s.  Like Jarre's previous album "Waiting for Cousteau", "Chronologie" charted at Number 11 in the UK charts.  The album cover art was created by long-time collaborator Michel Granger.
  Title: Sanjeev Sanyal
  Passage: Sanjeev Sanyal is an Indian economist, bestselling writer, environmentalist, and urban theorist.  Currently he is the Principal Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India.  He is widely regarded as one of Asia's leading economists and was Deutsche Bank's Global Strategist and a Managing Director till 2015.  A Rhodes Scholar and Eisenhower Fellow, he was named "Young Global Leader 2010" by the World Economic Forum at Davos.  He is also the author of four best selling books "The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline" (published by Penguin and World Scientific), "Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography", published by Penguin in 2012., "The Incredible History of India's Geography" published by Puffin in 2015 and The Ocean of Churn: How human history was shaped by the Indian Ocean (Penguin, 2016).
  Title: A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours &amp; Mine)
  Passage: A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours & Mine) (ISBN  ) is a 2008 nonfiction book by Canadian journalist and author Patricia Pearson.  It is a combination of autobiography, medical history, and social activism that discusses the author's experience with diagnosed anxiety, treatment thereof, the history of mental health treatment in general, and a veteran patient's possible objections to the nature of mental health treatment today.
citations: Chronologie Stephen Hawking