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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 of Wallington (&ps: [INDOPHILUS]) 1808: Edward VIVIAN 1809: Allen THOMSON 1810: Edward Vansittart NEALE 1812: John FORSTER 1812: Prof, James MILLER 1812: Rev, John Newton WADDELL 1813: Isaac LATIMER 1813: Thomas HEAPHY 1814: Samuel CLEGG 1814: Sydney TURNER 1815: Abraham HOLROYD 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 1851: John Rhydybont WILLIAMS 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 1861: Walter Ashby PLECKER 1861: Walter Edmund ROTH 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: Henry Edmund Gaskin BOYLE 1875: Walter Percy CHRYSLER (Sr) 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 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: Lady, Gertrude BLISS, nee HOFFMANN 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, Darrell Arlynn AMYX 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, Ronald Frederick WILLETTS 1915: Prof, William Thomas Hobdell JACKSON 1916: John STAMATOPOULOS (ps: John SAVILLE) 1919: Howard KENT 1920: (Eliot) Antony BRETT-JAMES 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 1920: William Whitesides WARNER 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) 1926: Richard MAYNE 1927: (Norman) Des(=Desmond) BARTLETT 1927: Elizabeth Dexter HAY 1927: Kenneth (Peacock) TYNAN 1927: Kenneth HARKER 1927: Theodore William CLYMER 1928: Lucien GINSBURG (ps: Serge GAINSBOURG) 1928: Stuart Cary WELCH, Jr 1929: (Joachim) Max GOLDSTROM 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 1935: Bernard ASHLEY 1940: Peter (Alexander) HAINING 1943: Charles Howard WHITEBREAD 1948: Jay (Lee) PARINI 1954: Michael (Peter Anthony) SELLERS
Died:
1640: Fr(SJ), Maciej/Mathias Kazimierz/Casimire SARBIEWSKI 1657: Fr, Jean Jacques OLIER De VERNEUIL 1705: John HOWE 1754: Thomas CARTE 1771: Robert SANDEMAN 1787: Thomas GAGE 1791: Honoré-Gabriel de RIQUETI / RIQUETTI, Comte de MIRABEAU (&ps: Karel van LIGTDAL) 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 (&ps: James ADAIR) 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 1865: William (later)Arundell Harris ARUNDELL 1866: Charles Wye WILLIAMS 1867: Charles Henry BENNETT 1867: Stuart ALEXANDER 1869: Henry Augustus WISE (&ps: Harry GRINGO) 1869: Rev, Charles BRIDGES 1872: Charles Edward ARMSTRONG 1872: Charles Hughes TERROT 1872: Prof, Samuel Finley Breese MORSE 1872: Prof, Thomas Cogswell UPHAM 1874: Rev, James BONWELL 1875: Henry CLAPP (Jr) (&ps: FIGARO) 1875: Rev, George BRAITHWAITE 1877: Antoine Augustin COURNOT 1878: Rev, Henry JENKYNS 1879: Eleanor EDEN 1881: Rev, 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 (&ps: VERIFIER) 1895: James Foulis DUNCAN 1896: Annie EDWARDS, nee ? (&ps: Annie EDWARDES; Mrs EDWARDS) 1898: Charles Butler GREATREX (&ps: Abel LOG; Lindon MEADOWS) 1898: Hilda GAMLIN, nee FURNISS 1898: William Cowper BRANN 1899: William SQUIRE 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 1920: Sir, Edward Albert STONE 1922: Prof, Henry Newton DICKSON 1922: Rev, Archibald Geikie BROWN 1925: Charlotte Eliza HUMPHRY, nee GRAHAM (&ps: [MADGE]) 1925: Sir, William Mitchell ACWORTH 1926: Patrick (Edward) QUINN 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 1950: Prof, William John DAKIN 1952: Charles Robertshaw MARSHALL 1952: Prof, Samuel Marinus ZWEMER 1952: Richard Elwood DODGE 1952: Sir, Henry William Watson McANALLY 1954: Thomas CARNWATH 1955: Wilfred PARTINGTON (&ps: Raymond DEAN) 1956: Isabella Henrietta (nee)Younger ROSS 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 1972: Dorothy Ellen Marion GARDNER 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) 1995: Prof, Laurence Englemohr MOREHOUSE 1996: Prof, (George) Gordon LENNON 1998: Ian Wright BELL 1999: Morey(=Morris) BERNSTEIN 2000: Fr, Michael Seymour SEWELL (ps: Joseph JEROME; Brocard SEWELL) 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 2008: Johnny(=John Christopher) BYRNE 2008: Paul (Howard) ARDEN 2008: Sir, Geoffrey (Sandford) COX 2009: Humphrey ap EVANS (ps: Humphrey DRUMMOND)