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Born:
1527: Abraham ORTELS, aka Abraham ORTELIUS 1572: William STRACHEY 1746: John ANDREWS 1748: William WHITE 1752: Niccolo/Nicola Antonio ZINGARELLI 1771: Thomas Green FESSENDEN (ps: Christopher CAUSTIC) 1774: Ignaz Ferdinand ARNOLD, aka Arnold Ignaz Ernst Ferdinand Cajetan THEODOR 1777: Rev, John SCOTT 1780: Rev, Geoffrey HORNBY 1782: Richard HAMPTON 1784: Alexander CSOMA 1785: Bettina(=Elisabeth Catharina) (nee)Brentano von ARNIM 1786: Rev, Augustus CAMPBELL 1788: Henry BOOTH (&ps: A SHAREHOLDER) 1793: (Jean François) Casimir DELAVIGNE 1802: Dorothea Lynde DIX 1807: Eliza Mary HAMILTON 1808: Alfred MEESON 1809: Joseph BROWN 1809: Prof, Benjamin PEIRCE 1809: Renton NICHOLSON 1810: Rev, James Freeman CLARKE 1811: Bp, Jesse Truesdell PECK 1812: Prof, George GRUB 1814: Canon, George WILLIAMS 1816: Marianne ORVIS, nee DWIGHT 1817: Hugh MACDONALD 1817: Jabez HOGG 1818: Benjamin A BAKER 1818: Capt, (Thomas) Mayne REID 1819: Louis Gustave VAPEREAU 1823: Canon, John Powell JONES 1823: Sir, Charles William SIEMENS 1825: John Williamson PALMER (&ps: John COVENTRY) 1826: Zénobe GRAMME 1828: Margaret (Oliphant) OLIPHANT, nee WILSON 1828: William Ralston Shedden RALSTON / SHEDDEN-RALSTON 1832: Sir, Algernon (Edward) WEST 1836: Francis DUNCAN 1843: William Henry JACKSON 1846: Isidore DUCASSE (ps: Comte, de LAUTRÉAMONT) 1848: Sir, Adam Scott REID 1852: Prof, Arthur Philemon COLEMAN 1855: John SNEAD-COX 1855: Thomas Glover LYON 1856: Benjamin Harrison WILKINS, Sr 1857: Rev, William James FOXELL 1858: Rémy de GOURMONT 1860: Bp, James Nicol OGILVIE 1863: Aubrey HOPWOOD 1863: Blanche CASTRONE, 1:Baroness de PODHRAGY, 2:Baronne ANZON CACCAMISI (ps: Blanche MARCHESI) 1867: (Arthur Frederick) Basil WILLIAMS 1870: Joseph Ernest McAFEE 1872: Abdullah (ibn) Yusuf ALI 1872: Archdeacon, Charles Edmund LAMBERT 1872: Mary (nee)Ware DENNETT 1874: Lt-Col, Arthur MARTIN-LEAKE 1879: Charles Wallace COLLINS 1879: Eric William ALLEN 1880: Homer L SAMPSON 1883: Charles Frederick HEARTMAN (&ps: C F H; Semper IDEM) 1883: Edward Turner WINTERTON, 6th Earl WINTERTON 1883: Garland (G) GREEVER 1884: Adm, Isoroku YAMAMOTO 1884: Frederick William FIELD 1884: Sir, (Aubrey) Kenneth SOLOMON 1886: Prof, Frank Luther MOTT 1886: Wladyslaw TATARKIEWICZ 1887: Frederick Levi ATTENBOROUGH 1888: Prof, Leonard Victor Davies OWEN 1890: Eleanore (nee)Myers JEWETT 1890: Harold Victor ANDERSON 1891: Rev, Emmons Eaton WHITE 1892: Albert Isaac POLACK 1892: Edith (Irene) SÖDERGRAN 1894: Dan(=Daniel J) JARRETT 1895: Arthur Murray TEICHMAN (ps: Arthur MURRAY) 1895: Helen Dore BOYLSTON 1895: Philip WITTENBERG 1896: Preston BENSON 1896: Robert (Emmet) SHERWOOD 1897: Sir, John (Lionel) KOTELAWALA 1898: Eloise Whitlow MERONY 1899: Guy Oliver NICKALLS 1899: Sigurd Ferdinand OLSON 1900: Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy SOMERSET, 10th Duke of BEAUFORT 1900: Ruth SAMPTER 1902: Louise Leveque DE VILMORIN 1903: Cleveland Bruce CHASE 1903: Nicolas NABOKOV 1905: Prof, Gordon Lynn WALLS 1905: Sir, William (Wilkinson) ADDISON 1906: Glen (Harold) ROUNDS 1906: Simon BREINES 1906: William Leonard GROSSMAN 1907: Nathan Marsh PUSEY 1907: Ralph MANHEIM (&ps: Ralph MARLOWE) 1911: Prof, Carl (Barnett) ALLENDOERFER 1912: Leo John ALILUNAS 1913: Harry Reiner BOER 1913: Jerome WEIDMAN 1913: Prof, William Franklin FRATCHER (&ps: Franklin F THOMAS) 1914: Marguerite DONNADIEU, 1:Mrs ANTHELME, 2:Mrs MASCOLO (ps: Marguerite DURAS) 1914: Prof, Zdenek KOPAL 1915: McKinley MORGANFIELD (ps: Muddy WATERS) 1916: Prof, William E WELMERS 1916: Sir, Bryce Muir KNOX 1918: Alexander MARSHACK 1918: George Patrick John Rushworth JELLICOE, 2nd Earl JELLICOE 1918: M Searle WRIGHT 1918: Norvin PALLAS 1920: Judge, Anthony Patrick BABINGTON, aka Tony BABINGTON 1920: Verner Arne Gerber ANDERSEN 1921: (Francis Arthur) Michael BRAY 1921: John David NEWTON 1922: Anthony (Morris) BROOKS 1922: Elmer BERNSTEIN 1922: Nairainsamy Thumbi NAICKER 1923: Edward K WILLIAMS 1923: Peter (Jack George) KNEEBONE 1923: Prof, Dorothy DINNERSTEIN 1923: Raymond PIPER 1924: Fr, Leo James HAIGERTY 1925: Catherine Winifred REILLY 1927: Hisham SHARABI 1927: Robert F SLATZER 1928: Marguerite Ann JOHNSON, 1:Mrs ANGELOS, 2:Mrs DU FEU (ps: Maya ANGELOU) 1928: Prof, Peter Northcote WILSON 1930: Edwin C STEINBRECHER 1930: Paul CRUMP 1931: David (Hector) LEMMON 1931: Edward (Roderick) BRAMAH 1931: Prof, Aleksandras SHTROMAS 1934: Willi GEISMEIER 1935: Trevor GRIFFITHS 1936: Prof, (Geraint Dyfed) Barri JONES 1938: Angelo Bartlett GIAMATTI 1940: (Stanley) Mike(=Michael Bailey) HAILWOOD, aka 'Mike the Bike' 1945: Brian ROYLANCE 1950: Richard CRAZE 1951: Prof, Donald C LAVOIE 1960: Jonathan (Philip) AGNEW 1963: Graham William WALKER (ps: Graham NORTON) 1963: Justin (William) HOWES
Died:
397: St, AMBROSE 1284: King, ALFONSO, X of Castile & Leon, aka ALFONSO, the Learned 1617: John NAPIER / NEPER 1765: Mikhail (Vasilyevich) LOMONOSOV 1766: John TAYLOR (&ps: Marinor SANDVICENSE) 1774: Oliver GOLDSMITH 1806: Conte, Carlo GOZZI 1824: Alexander HENRY, the Elder 1831: Isaiah THOMAS 1842: Hugh Ker FOSTER 1844: Joseph François PERRAULT 1851: Edward RUSHTON 1853: Canon, James SCHOLEFIELD 1857: Rev, Richard Webster HUNTLEY 1858: John Kearsley MITCHELL 1862: John Edmund ELLIOT 1863: John HOWELL (&ps: Bill TRUCK) 1866: Prof, William DICK 1866: Thomas HODGKIN 1868: David Field RENNIE 1868: Rev, William Chalmers BURNS 1869: Francis Athow WEST 1870: James STEUART 1870: Owen Wyn JONES (ps: GLASYNYS) 1876: Julia Rosa NEWBERRY 1879: Eliza METEYARD (ps: SILVERPEN) 1879: William Arthur Brown LUNN (&ps: Arthur WALLBRIDGE) 1880: Philip GRANT 1885: James BARR 1885: Lt-Col, William McCULLOCH / Mc CULLOCH 1886: William Debonaire HAGGARD 1887: Abraham Coates FITZ-GIBBON 1889: Rev, Asa MAHAN 1890: Pierre Joseph Olivier CHAUVEAU 1891: Rev, Adolph SAPHIR 1900: Rep, John BIDWELL 1907: Thomas (C) COWHERD 1911: Rev, Charles Thomas CRUTTWELL 1912: Isaac Kaufman FUNK 1913: Prof, Edward DOWDEN 1914: Sir, Henry Hallam PARR 1915: Henry Lewis JONES 1915: Louis PERGAUD 1916: Archdeacon, William DANKS 1916: George Washburn SMALLEY 1916: John HUTCHINSON 1916: Sir, John Eldon GORST 1917: Robert Murray GILCHRIST 1918: Prof, Alfred Henry CARTER 1919: John Edward PATTERSON 1919: Sir, William CROOKES 1920: Josephine GRAU 1923: John VENN 1923: Mrs Arthur, (Florence Ellen Hungerford) HENNIKER(-MAJOR), nee MILNES 1924: James MILLS 1925: Walter William Rouse BALL 1928: William Lawson MICKS 1929: Francis Neil GASQUET 1932: Wilhelm OSTWALD 1933: John Herbert FISHER 1933: Walter Burton HARRIS 1935: Col, Walter Gawen KING 1935: George Henry Everett JEFFERY 1935: Robert Henry Synyard POWELL 1935: Sir, (James) George SCOTT (&ps: Shway YOE) 1935: Sir, John COLLIE 1936: Bp, John McKIM 1939: Joseph John ROBINSON 1940: Archdeacon, Hamilton Francis PEILE 1940: Frank Home KIRKPATRICK 1943: Peter Phillips BEDSON 1943: Raoul LAPARRA 1943: Sir, Edwin John BUTLER 1944: John Peale BISHOP 1945: Bp, Henry Pryor Almon ABBOTT 1946: John Henry GRAY 1950: Sir, Cuthbert Wilfrid WHITAKER 1951: Sir, Henry Mendelssohn HAKE 1952: Henry WOODS 1953: Joseph William HULL 1953: Sir, Francis Howe Seymour KNOWLES, 5th Baronet KNOWLES 1954: Gen, Pedro ZAMORA CASTELLANOS 1954: Henry BROMLEY-DERRY 1954: Lionel Frederick LEONARD (ps: Frederick LONSDALE) 1955: George Herbert MILES 1957: Carl H PFORZHEIMER 1957: William James HURLBUT 1958: Rev, William MANSON 1959: Prof, Edgar Booth MANLEY 1959: William Ringrose Gelston ATKINS 1960: Albert LABERGE 1960: Sydney Granville TIBBLES 1965: Prof, James Ralston CALDWELL 1967: Herbert ABRAHAM 1968: Paul Gerard/Girard SMITH 1968: Rev, Martin Luther KING, Jr 1968: Vladimir VAND 1969: David BURNS 1969: Gabriel CHEVALLIER 1969: Herbert WELCH 1969: VE Pres, Romulo GALLEGOS (FREIRE) 1971: Bert GILDEN (ps: K B GILDEN (1)) 1972: (William) Hodding CARTER 1972: Rev, Adam Clayton POWELL, Jr 1975: Prof, Michael DOUDOROFF 1979: Inez ROBB, nee CALLAWAY (&ps: Nancy RANDOLPH) 1979: Marvin D ALCORN 1979: Robert Alexander ALLAN, (life) Baron ALLAN OF KILMAHEW of Cardross 1979: Zulfikar Ali BHUTTO 1980: A Wilbert ZELOMEK 1980: Prof, Bell Irvin WILEY 1980: Richard (Brooke) ROBERTS 1982: Rev, Victoria (nee)Booth(-Clibborn) DEMAREST 1983: Gloria May Josephine SVENSSON, 1:Mrs BEERY, 2:Mrs SOMBORN, 3:Marquise de la FALAISE, 4:Mrs FARMER, 5:Mrs DAVEY, 6:Mrs DUFFY (ps: Gloria SWANSON) 1984: David James GERRITY (&ps: GARRITY; Calli GORAN; Mitch HARDIN) 1984: John Putnam MERRILL 1985: Max YAVNO 1985: Mildred CRAM, Mrs McDOWELL 1987: Andrei Borisovich SEVERNY 1987: Catherine Lucille MOORE, 1:Mrs KUTTNER, 2:Mrs REGGIE (&ps: Keith HAMMOND (2); Hudson HASTINGS (2); C H LIDDELL (2); Lawrence O'DONNELL (2); Lewis PADGETT (2)) 1988: Prof, Eric A HAVELOCK 1989: Mary BROWNING 1991: Donald Murdo MacLEAN 1991: Henry SHAPIRO 1991: Max (Rudolf) FRISCH 1991: Sir, Rupert (Stanley Harrington) GRAYSON, 4th Baronet GRAYSON of Ravens Point 1992: Rixi(=Rika) MARKUS, nee SCHARFSTEIN 1992: Samuel (Herman) RESHEVSKY, ne RZESCHEWSKI 1993: Robert Emile GILBERT 1994: Eduardo JIMÉNEZ De ARÉCHAGA 1994: Ray(=Raymond L) LA SCOLA 1995: Maurice James COLE (ps: Kenny EVERETT) 1996: Boone T GUYTON 1996: Frederick Denison Maurice HOCKING 1996: Prof, Brian ABEL-SMITH 1997: David Hugh FREEMAN 1997: Herbert RESNICOW 1997: Sheila (Gwendoline) ROTHWELL, nee PAINE, 2:Mrs REID 1997: Sir, John (Crampton) SUMMERFIELD 1997: Vladimir Alekseievich SOLOUKHIN 1998: Kate BOSSE-GRIFFITHS 1999: Joseph Jay DEISS 2000: Bridget (Heather) JONES, nee WHEELER 2001: Beryl GILROY 2001: Ed ROTH, aka 'Big Daddy' 2001: Prof, Ivor LEWIS 2002: George (Albert) FRANCIS 2002: Harry B PRICE 2002: Prof, Frederick John STARE 2002: Wilma FAIRBANK, nee CANNON 2003: Anthony Richard MASTERS 2003: Fred James COOK 2003: Julius LEVINE 2003: Prof, Russell R MONROE 2004: James J MARTIN 2004: Lt-Col, Yvonne PATEMAN, aka 'Pat' PATEMAN 2004: Peter DREISER 2004: Sir, Alwyn WILLIAMS 2005: Homer Dwight CHAPMAN 2005: Jack KOTEEN 2006: Christine Hazel TURNER, 1:Mrs OATES, 2:Mrs SHANNON (ps: Vickery TURNER) 2006: Galen E ROYALTY 2006: John (Evan) de Courcy IRELAND 2006: Prof, (Nora Elizabeth) Mary BOYCE 2006: Sir, (George) Roy DENMAN 2007: Prof, Karen (Ida Boalth) Spärck JONES, Mrs NEEDHAM 2007: Prof, Reginald Horace FULLER 2007: Terry(=Terence) HALL