Author Anniversaries for Apr 2


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Born:

1550: Edward DE VERE, 17th Earl of OXFORD
1708: Fr(SJ), Pierre-Philippe POTIER
1725: Giovanni/Jacques Giacomo CASANOVA De SEINGALT
1731: Catherine MACAULAY, Mrs GRAHAM
1749: David RAMSAY
1769: Cardinal, (Giacinto) Placido ZURLA
1778: Baron, Claude-François de MÉNEVAL
1788: Francisco BALTAZAR (ps: Francisco BALAGTAS)
1794: Charles Cavendish Fulke GREVILLE
1799: Prof, Francis MASON
1805: Hans Christian ANDERSEN (&ps: Villiam Christian WALTER)
1807: John Mitchell KEMBLE
1807: Robert French LAURENCE
1807: Sir, Charles Edward TREVELYAN, 1st Baronet TREVELYAN (&ps: [INDOPHILUS])
1808: Edward VIVIAN
1809: Allen THOMSON
1810: Edward Vansittart NEALE
1812: John FORSTER
1812: Prof, James MILLER
1813: Thomas HEAPHY
1814: Samuel CLEGG
1814: Sydney TURNER
1816: William Henry RIDLEY
1819: Margaret Elizabeth DUFFIELD, nee ROSENBERG
1822: Giuseppina Turrisi COLONNA
1827: Cornelius WALFORD
1827: William HOLMAN-HUNT
1830: Herman BICKNELL
1835: William Eden NESFIELD
1840: Émile (Édouard Charles Antoine) ZOLA
1847: Charles Frederick Moberly BELL
1847: Flora Annie STEEL, nee WEBSTER (&ps: A Fellow MORTAL; F A S)
1847: Rémi TREMBLAY
1853: Peter Phillips BEDSON
1854: Rev, Thomas Ebenezer CLEWORTH
1858: Prof, Lewis Emerson HORNING
1859: Edward Rawle DRAYTON
1859: Prof, Anatole LE BRAZ
1859: Sir, (Henry Francis) Herbert THOMPSON, Baronet THOMPSON
1859: Sir, Charles Edward CALLWELL
1860: Mary Raymond (nee)Shipman ANDREWS
1860: Prof, George MILLIGAN
1862: Melissa Stewart (nee)McKee CARNAHAN
1862: Prof, Nicholas Murray BUTLER (&ps: COSMOS)
1864: Eugene Thomas ALLEN
1864: Prof, John Charles ROBERTSON
1864: Robert Osborne McCULLOCH
1865: Judge, Francis Alexander ANGLIN
1868: Brig-Gen, David Henry DRAKE-BROCKMAN
1869: Clifford Kennedy BERRYMAN
1869: Walter EMANUEL
1870: Sir, John (Smith) SAMUEL
1873: Prof, George Rapall NOYES
1873: Sergei Vassilievich RACHMANINOFF / RACHMANINOV
1874: Frank Elmore ROSS
1875: Brig-Gen, Alexander JOBSON
1875: Walter Percy CHRYSLER (Sr)
1875: {UK}Henry Edmund Gaskin BOYLE
1876: Maj, Evan HAYWARD
1876: William GALLACHER
1877: Leonard Harman ROBBINS
1877: Louis François CAZAMIAN
1877: Prof, Carl Lucas ALSBERG
1879: (William) Hulbert FOOTNER
1879: John Joseph CLARKE
1882: Archibald CRAWFORD
1882: Charles Sidney CHESTON
1882: Herbert von DIRKSEN
1883: Paul RADIN
1884: Frederick Frye ROCKWELL
1884: Herbert Hunter VAUGHAN
1884: Prof, Dennis Robert HOAGLAND
1884: Sir, John (Collings) SQUIRE (&ps: Solomon EAGLE)
1888: Marietta Sergeivna SCHAGINYAN
1889: James Raymond ELDERDICE
1889: Sir, Neville CARDUS
1890: Sir, Leo Francis PAGE
1891: Endre SIK
1891: Laura GILPIN
1891: Max(=Maximillian) ERNST
1891: Prof, Frank Stewart HOWES
1892: Aimée SOMMERFELT, nee DEDICHEN
1892: Richard Henry Brinsley NORTON, 6th Baron GRANTLEY of Markenfield
1893: Alfred LODGE
1894: William Joseph GROSS
1896: Augereau Gray HEINSOHN, Jr
1896: Ole Irving JACOBSEN
1897: John Leslie MIXSON
1898: Prof, Henry Welch ADAMS
1899: Robert HILL
1900: Lt-Col, Ralph BROOKE
1903: Judge, Paul R HAYS
1903: Lionel CHEVRIER
1903: William Henry Waldo SABINE
1904: Grace Lydia GOLDEN
1904: Leslie FARRAR-BROWN
1904: Rabbi, Jossef J KRATZENSTEIN
1905: Katya Gwenda ZEIDMAN, Mrs MOSBACHER (ps: Gwenda DAVID)
1905: Rodney Lewis (de Burgh) WALKERLEY (&ps: ATHOS; Grande VITESSE)
1905: Roger (William) SMITHELLS (&ps: Sebastian CASH)
1905: Serge LIFAR
1906: Adm, Ulysses Simpson Grant SHARP, Jr
1906: Frances (nee)Clements THOMPSON
1907: Beti REES
1907: Beti RHYS
1907: Irene SELZNICK, nee MAYER
1907: Roy Granville McELROY
1908: Arthur (Wolseley) RUSSELL
1908: Christian Rudolph EBSEN (ps: Buddy EBSEN)
1910: Blanche Wilhelmina GERSTMAN
1910: Carvel LEE, nee BIGHAM, 2:Mrs JENSEN
1910: Chico(=Francisco) (De PAULA CANDIDO) XAVIER
1910: Milton M SLAWSKY
1910: Prof, Harry Jay SKORNIA
1910: Robert BARAL
1911: Henry WINSTON
1911: Prof, Jeremy INGALLS
1913: Prof, John Harmon BURMA
1914: Sir, Alec Guinness de CUFFE (ps: Alec GUINNESS)
1915: (Reginald) Patrick (Mahoney) GIBBS
1915: Margaret KANE
1915: Prof, William Thomas Hobdell JACKSON
1919: Howard KENT
1920: (Lionel) George SCALES
1920: (Peter) Hardiman SCOTT
1920: Jack (Randolph) WEBB (&ps: John FARR; Tex GRADY)
1920: Prof, Charles Wesley AKERS
1920: Stella SNEAD
1922: Rev, (Alonzo) Leslie PARROTT (Jr)
1923: Prof, (Berwyn Hugh) Patrick RIVETT
1923: Prof, Carroll STUHLMUELLER
1923: Thomas Palmer MILLAR
1925: (Frederick) Michael CASSON
1925: George MacDonald FRASER (&ps: Dand MacNEILL)
1927: Elizabeth Dexter HAY
1927: Kenneth (Peacock) TYNAN
1927: Kenneth HARKER
1927: Theodore William CLYMER
1928: Lucien GINSBURG (ps: Serge GAINSBOURG)
1929: Catherine GASKIN, Mrs CORNBERG
1929: Prof, Ed(=Edward Merton) DORN
1930: Lt-Col, Fatesinghrao (Pratapsingh) GAEKWAD
1931: Rabbi, Stanley F CHYET
1934: Paul Joseph COHEN
1940: Peter (Alexander) HAINING
1948: Jay (Lee) PARINI
1954: Michael (Peter Anthony) SELLERS

Died:

1657: Fr, Jean Jacques OLIER De VERNEUIL
1705: John HOWE
1754: Thomas CARTE
1787: Thomas GAGE
1803: Hieronymus/Hieronijmus van ALPHEN
1820: Prof, Thomas BROWN
1830: Margaret COMPTON, Marchioness of NORTHAMPTON, nee DOUGLAS-MACLEAN-CLEPHANE
1839: Hezekiah NILES
1840: Sir, Richard PHILLIPS
1851: John RUTTER
1854: Joseph HALL
1856: Grace Buchanan STEVENS, nee CAMPBELL
1857: Lewis Hippolytus Joseph TONNA
1857: Rev, William STEVEN
1857: Robert Douglas HAMILTON (&ps: Mungo Coulter GOGGLE)
1858: Richard HAMPTON
1858: Sir, James Mc GRIGOR
1861: Prof, James ROBB
1862: James ELMES
1865: Richard COBDEN
1866: Charles Wye WILLIAMS
1867: Charles Henry BENNETT
1869: Henry Augustus WISE (&ps: Harry GRINGO)
1869: Rev, Charles BRIDGES
1872: Charles Hughes TERROT
1872: Prof, Samuel Finley Breese MORSE
1872: Prof, Thomas Cogswell UPHAM
1875: Henry CLAPP (Jr) (&ps: FIGARO)
1875: Rev, George BRAITHWAITE
1877: Antoine Augustin COURNOT
1878: Henry JENKYNS
1881: William HILL
1885: Sir, James Edward ALEXANDER
1886: Edward SOLLY
1886: V-Adm, Arthur Parry EARDLEY-WILMOT
1887: Arthur WALKER, later CAMPBELL-WALKER
1887: Bp, Jonathan Holt TITCOMB
1889: William Bayne RANKEN
1890: John Richard de Capel WISE
1891: Albert PIKE
1891: Mrs Augustus, (Pauline Marie Armande) CRAVEN, nee de la FERRONAYS
1891: Thomas Charles BARING
1891: William Laurence SAUNDERS
1892: John MURRAY, III
1898: William Cowper BRANN
1900: George Robert Nicol WRIGHT
1905: Prof, Albert Allen WRIGHT
1908: Col, Andrew Wilson BAIRD
1912: Edward O'Connor TERRY
1913: Sir, William James BELL
1913: William Arthur LAW
1914: Paul (Johann Ludwig) von HEYSE
1917: Prof, John GWYNN
1919: George WREFORD
1920: Col, Henry Blackburne HAMILTON
1922: Prof, Henry Newton DICKSON
1922: Rev, Archibald Geikie BROWN
1925: Charlotte Eliza HUMPHRY, nee GRAHAM (&ps: [MADGE])
1925: Sir, William Mitchell ACWORTH
1928: Theodore William RICHARDS
1929: Louis (Francis) VUILLEMIN
1930: Sir, George WATT
1931: Katharine TYNAN, Mrs HINKSON
1931: Sir, John Abraham Jacob de VILLIERS
1931: Walter RAYMOND (&ps: Tom COBBLEIGH)
1932: Edward MARJORIBANKS
1933: Maharaja, Kumar Sri RANJITSINHJI / RANAJITSIMHAJI, of Nawangar
1935: Prof, Alexander Pearce HIGGINS
1936: Lt-Col, Francis Ernest GUNTER
1937: Bp, Lewis Bostock RADFORD
1937: Prof, Charles Coley CHOYCE
1938: Bp, Walter Howard FRERE (ps: W H F)
1941: Adolf HEILBORN
1941: Rev, Percy Mordaunt BARNARD
1942: Édouard ESTAUNIÉ
1942: Herman Adriaan van KARNEBEEK
1942: Joseph Bolivar DE LEE
1947: Osbourne McCONATHY
1952: Charles Robertshaw MARSHALL
1952: Prof, Samuel Marinus ZWEMER
1952: Sir, Henry William Watson McANALLY
1954: Thomas CARNWATH
1955: Wilfred PARTINGTON (&ps: Raymond DEAN)
1957: William Byron MOWERY
1958: Charles Frederick Ingram RAMSDEN
1958: Prof, Chester Bailey MARTIN
1960: Charles George AMMON, 1st Baron AMMON of Camberwell
1965: Rabbi, Abraham CRONBACH
1966: Cecil Louis Troughton SMITH (ps: Cecil Scott FORESTER)
1967: Clifford Henry Benn KITCHIN
1967: Prof, John(=Jenö) Waldhorn GASSNER
1969: Boris Sergeevich STECHKIN
1969: Robert Elliott ROBINSON
1974: Charles (Green) SHAW
1976: John Philip IMMROTH
1976: Ruby MILLER
1979: George Leo BAILEY
1979: Sir, Alfred Davies Devonsher BROUGHTON
1980: Ernest HAMBURGER
1980: Karl Worth BIGELOW
1980: Louis Benson SELTZER, aka 'Mr Cleveland'
1980: Ralph Aubrey YOUNG
1983: George Leopold SCHWARTZ
1984: Dr, Ernst van AAKEN
1985: Bernard (Alexander Royle) SHORE
1985: Prof, Dorothy KRIEGER, nee TERRACE, 2:Mrs BARDIN
1987: Harry WATT
1989: Brian (Gilmore) MAEGRAITH
1991: Prof, Coral LANSBURY
1991: Prof, Leo GREBLER
1992: Prof, Geoffrey Reginald GILES
1993: Francis Vernon LLOYD, Jr
1993: Geoffrey Ayrton DRAIN
1993: Ron NANCE
1994: Marc(=Marcus Felix Brudenell) FITCH
1994: Prof, Victor OBENHAUS
1994: Raymond Zinke GALLUN (&ps: Arthur ALLPORT; William CALLAHAN; Dow ELSTAR; E V RAYMOND)
1994: William Herbert HARGREAVES
1994: Willis E PEQUEGNAT
1995: Harvey PENICK
1995: Prof, Hannes (Olof Gösta) ALFVÉN (&ps: Olof JOHANNESSON)
1996: Prof, (George) Gordon LENNON
1998: Ian Wright BELL
1999: Morey(=Morris) BERNSTEIN
2000: G Frederic KUDER
2001: Alex(=Alexander) SAREYAN
2002: Henry SLESAR (&ps: O H LESLIE)
2002: Patrick (Morris Boscawen) SAVAGE
2002: Prof, Edward Irving LEVY
2002: Prof, John Robinson PIERCE (&ps: [J J COUPLING]; [John ROBERTS])
2002: William DIEBOLD
2003: Edward Michael KEATING
2003: Joan (Margaret) PHIPSON, Mrs FITZHARDINGE
2003: Katherine (Po Kan) WHITAKER, nee LAI
2003: Michael KELLY
2003: Prof, Roy Malcolm ACHESON
2003: Ramon MOIX MESSEGUER (ps: Terenci MOIX)
2003: Ruth Leslie SMITH, nee FREEMAN/FRIEDMAN?, 1:Mrs GELLAR
2003: Whitney S STODDARD
2004: Alan LEVY
2004: Natasha KROLL
2004: Prof, John ARGYRIS
2004: Prof, Richard Edmund GROSS
2005: Armand J LABBÉ
2005: Harold George WHITEHEAD
2005: Karol WOJTYLA, Pope JOHN PAUL II (&ps: Andrzej JAWIEN)
2006: Michael J NOVOSEL (Sr)
2006: Prof, Ivy Lilian McCLELLAND