Author Anniversaries for Apr 4


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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