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Born:
1503: Michel de NOSTRADAME, aka NOSTRADAMUS 1546: Tycho(=Tyge Ottesen) BRAHE, aka TYCHO 1631: Anne FINCH, 1:Mrs CONWAY, Viscountess of CONWAY 1730: James BRUCE 1753: Mary Ann KILNER, nee MAZE (ps: S S) 1775: Bp, Philander CHASE 1775: Thomas COCHRANE, 10th Earl of DUNDONALD 1788: Sir, James CLARK, 1st Baronet CLARK of St George's Hanover Square 1791: Charles WOLFE 1791: Prof, Johan Ludvig HEIBERG 1792: Rev, Thomas CROMWELL 1795: Dean, Henry Edward John HOWARD 1796: Charles TÊTU 1803: Friedrich Reinhold KREUTZWALD 1804: Andrew PRITCHARD 1807: Sir, Francis HINCKS 1807: Thomas William WEBB 1810: David Flavel JAMISON 1811: Noah PORTER 1815: Sir, John STAPLES 1817: Gideon Hiram HOLLISTER 1819: Edward John WARING 1820: Bp, Isaac HELLMUTH 1824: Mary Catherine HUME, Mrs ROTHERY, aka Mary Catherine HUME-ROTHERY 1824: Mary Catherine ROTHERY, nee HUME 1824: Prof, William BRIGHT 1826: Frank Booth GOODRICH (&ps: Dick TINTO) 1829: Rep, John Mercer LANGSTON 1829: William Gordon Cornwallis ELIOT, 4th Earl of ST GERMANS 1831: Rev, Griffith JOHN 1835: Rev, John GIBB 1836: Frances Ridley HAVERGAL 1836: Prof, Anton Giulio BARRILI 1837: Paul Marie Pierre THUREAU-DANGIN 1839: Hartwell de la Garde GRISSELL 1842: Jack Francis NEEDHAM 1843: Prof, William Henry CORFIELD 1846: Ina Blenda Augusta LANGE, nee FORSTÉN (&ps: Daniel STEN) 1846: Rev, Daniel Robert WILKIE 1848: William Gregory WALKER 1850: Aaron WATSON 1850: Prof, Sydney Barber Josiah SKERTCHLY 1850: Sir, Cecil Edward DENNY, 6th Baronet DENNY of Castle Moyle 1850: William CHAPMAN 1852: Rev, Charles Albert BERRY 1852: Sir, (William) Watson CHEYNE, 1st Baronet CHEYNE of Leagarth, Fetlar and North Yell 1856: (William) St John (Fremantle) BRODRICK, 1st Earl of MIDLETON 1856: Louis Arthur AUDETTE 1857: Daniel CRILLY (Jr) 1858: William Francis MAGIE 1859: Mary Chavelita DUNNE, 1:Mrs CLAIRMONTE, 2:Mrs MELVILLE, 3:Mrs BRIGHT (ps: George EGERTON) 1861: Brig-Gen, Henry Arthur BETHELL 1861: Katharine CORBET, nee RUSSELL 1861: Richard LAKE 1862: Alexander Dana NOYES 1862: George Wilton WILTON 1862: Robert Webber MOORE 1863: Archdeacon, Edgar HAY 1866: Prof, Roger Eliot FRY 1868: Percy Frederick Seaton SPENCE 1868: Prof, Robert Warden LEE 1868: Thomas LEWIS 1869: Henry Harrold JOHNSON 1870: Felix GATTEL 1870: Karl RENNER 1870: Ulises HEUREAUX (OGANDO), Jr 1871: Andrew Thomas GAGE 1872: Grace Hall GRISWOLD 1873: Prof, Samuel Jackson BARNETT 1874: Adam STEGERWALD 1875: Prof, Lane COOPER 1875: Prof, Martin Stanislas GILLET 1876: Nikolai Nikolaevich PETROV 1878: Harold Godfrey JUDD 1879: William Adair PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE 1880: Walter Blake ODGERS 1882: Harold Adye PRICHARD 1882: Sophia BENJAMIN, aka Zoe BENJAMIN 1883: Joseph Edward BROADBENT 1884: Aram TOROSSIAN 1884: George Cyril BROOKE 1884: Jane COWLES, Mrs KLAUBER (ps: Jane COWL; Allan Langdon MARTIN (1)) 1885: Ouida RATHBONE, nee BERGÈRE, 1:Mrs WEADOCK, 3:Mrs FITZMAURICE 1886: Charles Louis SEEGER 1887: Oscar Agustín Alejandro SCHULZ SOLARI (ps: Xul SOLAR) 1887: Prof, Clarence De Witt THORPE 1887: Prof, William REES 1890: Prof, Victor Fritz LENZEN 1894: Abraham ZUMOFF 1895: Christabel Susan ORWIN, nee LOWRY 1895: Eugène GRINDEL (ps: Didier DESROCHES; Jean DU HAUT; Paul ÉLUARD; Maurice HERVANT) 1895: John Macnair REID 1895: Robert Grannis COWAN 1896: Bryan Hartop BURNS 1896: Gen, James Harold DOOLITTLE 1897: Erich FASCHER 1897: Kurt von SCHUSCHNIGG 1897: Sen, Margaret (Madeline) (nee)Chase SMITH 1897: Stella BLOCH, 1:Mrs COOMARASWAMY, 2:Mrs ELISCU 1897: Thomas Graeme Nelson HALDANE (ps: G H) 1900: Eileen (Louise) SOPER, nee SERVICE 1900: Mrs Dario, Dorle (nee?)Jarmel SORIA 1901: Berthold LUBETKIN 1901: Gladys (nee)Gardner JENKINS 1901: Henri (Jean) COCHET 1901: Kazimierz MICHALOWSKI 1901: Prof, Gordon McKENZIE 1902: Herbert FEIGL 1902: Prof, Bernice (nee)Fowler BLACKWELDER 1903: Fred MAZZULLA 1904: Capt, Stanley Walter Croucher PACK 1904: Prof, Francis Clement HAYES 1906: Anthony Freskyn Charles Hamby CHAPLIN, 3rd Viscount CHAPLIN 1906: Leslie BAILY 1906: Walter DIESENDORF 1907: Prof, (Alfred Rene John) Paul UBBELOHDE 1907: Ralph Nixon CURREY 1907: Ruth (Augusta) ADAM, nee KING 1908: (Robert) Ray HOGAN (&ps: Clay RINGOLD) 1908: Denis Hayes CROFTON 1908: Dolores OLMEDO PATIÑO, 1:Mrs PHILLIPS, 2:Mrs CAÑEDO, 3:Mrs IZQUIERDO 1909: Ronald Oliver FELTON (ps: Ronald WELCH) 1910: Anne(=Annetta Viola Chiverton) MASON, nee FARROW 1910: Emmanuel Winters HOROWITZ, aka Manny WINTERS (ps: Emmanuel WINTERS) 1910: Joseph HOLLIDAY (&ps: [Jack BOSCO]; [Jack DALE]; [Joe HOLLIDAY]) 1910: Philip Sheldon FONER 1910: Prof, Henry George BOOKER 1910: Prof, Jack Donald FONER 1910: Prof, Richard (Abel) MUSGRAVE 1911: Dean, Frederick Edwin LE GRICE 1911: Hans KUTSCHER 1911: Martin JUROW, aka Marty JUROW 1911: Prof, Donald Murdoch FRAME 1912: Frederick Theodore WALL 1912: Joseph AGIUS RUGGIER 1912: Prof, Lewis Samuel FEUER 1913: Artur SANDAUER 1913: Hal EVRY 1913: Konrad KATZENELLENBOGEN (ps: Konrad KELLEN) 1913: Robert MITCHELL, aka Bob MITCHELL 1913: Thomas Christopher WILLIAMS 1914: (Eugene) Franklin BANDY 1914: DE Pres, Karl CARSTENS 1914: Prof, Rosalyn TURECK, Mrs DOWNS 1914: Robert P RICHMOND 1915: (Henry) Clay WARNICK (Jr) 1915: Dame, Ruth RAILTON, Mrs KING 1915: Dan(=Daniel James) DAILEY 1917: Daniel (John P) COUNIHAN 1918: Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja IYENGAR 1918: Irving SORKIN 1918: Sidney S DELL 1918: Tove (Irma Magit) DITLEVSEN 1919: Prof, Michael Richard Daniell FOOT 1919: Shirley (Hardie) JACKSON, Mrs HYMAN 1920: Rosemary SUTCLIFF 1921: Bp, Henry Gordon HILL 1921: Gérard Mentor LAURENT 1921: Sir, Simon Peter Edmund Cosmo William KOCH De GOOREYND, later WORSTHORNE, later TOWNELEY (ps: Simon Towneley WORSTHORNE) 1922: Arnold Robert MOUNTFORD 1922: Don(=Donald Shepard) HEWITT 1922: Prof, John Eugene UNTERECKER 1922: Prof, Nikolai Gennadievich BASOV 1922: Thomas D NICHOLSON 1923: Gerard (Kornelis van het) REVE 1923: Janet (McLuckie) BROWN, Mrs BUTTERWORTH 1924: Ann WALDRON, nee WOOD 1924: Christopher (John) BEEDELL 1924: Robert Christopher BATTERSBY 1925: Helen(=Elena) O'BRIEN, nee CONSTANTINESCU 1926: Michael John NEALE 1926: Prof, Martin HENGEL 1926: Prof, William Raymond Johnston BARRON 1927: Walter (Daniel) SCHNEIR 1928: Oleg PROKOFIEV 1929: Prof, Raymond Richard PATTERSON 1931: Tim BEARDSWORTH 1932: George SCHWEINFURTH (ps: George FURTH) 1933: Milan LUKES 1936: Terry (Williams) HARKNETT (&ps: Frank CHANDLER; David FORD; George G GILMAN; Peter HAINING; Jane HARMAN; Joseph HEDGES; William M JAMES; Alex PETERS; William PINE; James RUSSELL; Thomas H STONE; William TERRY) 1938: Stewart BRAND 1940: Anthony (Richard) MASTERS 1940: Carolyn Marie RODGERS 1941: Prof, Ellen (Jane) WILLIS, nee/Mrs ?, Mrs ARONOWITZ 1942: Jean (nee)Davies OKIMOTO 1944: Paul EDDY 1944: VèVè Amasasa CLARK 1946: Antony (James) BEEVOR 1948: Boudewijn (Maria Ignatius) BÜCH 1959: Bob PARIS 1961: Prof, Sally LEDGER 1965: India KNIGHT, originally AERTSENS, Mrs LANGMEAD 1965: Michael MURPHY 1969: Theodore CAPLOW, Jr 1979: Michael (James) OWEN 1981: Russell TOVEY
Died:
1591: Juan de YEPES y ÁLVAREZ, aka St, JOHN, of the Cross 1780: John AIKIN 1788: Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH 1799: US Pres, George WASHINGTON 1810: François PÉRON 1843: John Claudius LOUDON (&ps: A Practical FARMER; J C L) 1847: Sir, James ANNESLEY 1851: Franc SADLEIR 1853: Hugh SCOBIE 1855: Lt, Joel ABBOT 1858: Rev, Alexander Porter GOUDY 1860: George GORDON, later HAMILTON-GORDON, 4th Earl of ABERDEEN 1861: Prince, (Francis Charles Augustus) ALBERT (Emmanuel), (house of SAXE-COBURG And GOTHA) 1861: Rev, William CUNNINGHAM 1862: (Johann Michael) Heinrich DÖRING / DOERING 1862: Sir, George Floyd HODGES 1864: Charles PYE 1864: Thomas John TERRINGTON 1868: Walter LOWRIE 1871: Bp, George SMITH 1872: Thomas Evance JONES 1873: James MATHER 1873: Prof, (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) AGASSIZ 1874: Philip James YORKE 1874: Rev, John Edward BOWDEN 1877: Thomas William MARSHALL 1878: Princess, ALICE Maud Mary, (house of SAXE-COBURG And GOTHA); 1:Grand-Duchess of HESSE 1879: Edward Barrett CURTEIS 1881: Charles ANSELL 1881: William Radcliff BIRT 1882: John William MARSH 1884: Searles Valentine WOOD, the Younger 1885: Preb, Charles Page EDEN 1885: Sir, Arthur Purves PHAYRE 1886: Rev, William CAINE 1886: Thomas PLATT 1887: Fr, Flavien MARTINEAU 1887: William Garrow LETTSOM 1888: Richard REDGRAVE 1889: Sir, Charles Farquhar SHAND 1891: Joel Bryan MAYES 1891: Sir, James Risdon BENNETT 1892: John Emile LEMOINNE 1892: Prof, Walter Hayle WALSHE 1893: Karolina Karlovna PAVLOVA, nee JAENISCH 1894: Sir, Oswald Walters BRIERLY (&ps: William BRIERLY) 1895: Edward McPHERSON (&ps: A CITIZEN of Adams County) 1897: Prof, Arthur PALMER 1897: William CLARKSON 1898: Prof, Russell MARTINEAU 1899: Rev, Samuel WAINWRIGHT 1902: Leonard Allison MORRISON 1906: Jean Abraham Chrétien OUDEMANS 1906: Jeremiah CURTIN 1906: Rev, George Jacobs LOW 1908: Edgar LEE 1908: Eustace NEVILLE-ROLFE 1909: Frederick GREENWOOD 1913: Martin John SUTTON 1916: Thomas BARR 1917: Alan REID (&ps: A RESIDENTER) 1918: Kate(=Katherine Elizabeth) BEHNKE, nee ? (&ps: Mrs Emil BEHNKE) 1922: Bp, Élie Anicet LATULIPE 1923: Theophile Alexander STEINLEN 1926: Hugh Campbell ROSS 1927: Francis William MOORE 1927: Sir, Edwin Alfred Hervey ALDERSON 1928: Fr, Georges DUGAS 1928: Lady, Jane Maria STRACHEY, nee GRANT 1929: Lt-Col, Montagu CRADOCK 1931: Mayor, Arthur BENNETT 1931: Prof, James Alexander LINDSAY 1931: Walter HARICH 1933: Gov, Richard Elihu SLOAN 1933: Mark ROGERS 1933: Rev, Alan Hugh M'NEILE 1934: Prof, Sydney Herbert GAIGER 1935: Prof, Charles RICHET 1935: Stanley Grauman WEINBAUM (&ps: [John JESSEL]; Marge STANLEY) 1936: Alfred Arthur ROBB 1936: Rev, Edward Owen DAVIES 1937: George KIRBY (ps: RUSTIC) 1937: Lord, (Albert) Edward (Wilfred) GLEICHEN 1939: John URICH 1939: Lord, Ernest William HAMILTON (&ps: A LEAF) 1941: Jessie POPE, Mrs LENTON 1941: Rev, William Frederick GEIKIE-COBB 1942: Hubert WORK 1942: Prof, William CALDWELL 1943: Ephraim Porter FELT 1943: James MACLEHOSE 1943: John Harvey KELLOGG 1943: John Swift JOLY 1943: Sir, (William) Frederick (Travers) O'CONNOR 1943: William Howard WILLIAMS-TREFFGARNE 1944: Charles Richard LONG 1944: Sir, William (Athelstane Meredith) GOODE 1944: V-Rev, Robert Oswald Patrick TAYLOR 1944: William Henry Pope JARVIS 1945: Bernard (Gay) MARSHALL 1945: Col, Roger Hammet BEADON 1945: Tobias MATTHAY 1945: Wg-Cdr, Maurice BARING 1947: Stanley BALDWIN, 1st Earl BALDWIN of Bewdley 1948: Alfred Henry John COCHRANE 1948: John ANSELL 1949: Carl Eric BECHHOFER, later BECHHOFER ROBERTS (&ps: EPHESIAN) 1949: Carl Eric Bechhofer ROBERTS 1949: Herbert Henry COUSINS 1950: Stanley WASHBURN 1951: Rev, David Lakie RITCHIE 1952: Joaquim Pereira TEIXEIRA De VASCONCELOS (ps: Teixeira de PASCOAES) 1952: Robert James PROBYN-WILLIAMS 1953: (Mary) Dora(=Theodora Joyce) WILCOX, 1:Mrs HAMELIUS, 2:Mrs MOORE 1953: Marjorie (nee)Kinnan RAWLINGS, 2:Mrs BASKIN 1953: Sir, Maneckji Byramji DADBHOY 1954: Arthur Garfield HAYS 1954: Walter Lee SARGANT 1955: Prof, Thomas Benjamin DAVIE 1955: Thomas Atholl ROBERTSON 1956: Juho Kusti PAASIKIVI 1957: Katherine Elizabeth WALLIS 1959: Ethel (Lucy) CLIFFORD, 1:Lady DILKE 1960: John Rupert FIRTH 1963: Laura BANNON 1964: Frederick James MARQUIS, 1st Earl of WOOLTON 1964: Rev, Albert David BELDEN (&ps: A D B of the 'Manchester Evening News') 1965: Alice Calhoun HAINES, Mrs BASKIN 1965: Herman SANDBY 1967: Lt-Col, Patrick Richard BUTLER 1967: Prof, David Guy POWERS 1968: Prof, John George SMITH 1970: John WISHART 1970: Miles Mark FISHER 1970: William Joseph SLIM, 1st Viscount SLIM 1972: Prof, William Gauld MACLAGAN 1974: John RAMSBOTTOM 1974: John Sharp GRANT 1974: Sir, Morris FINER 1974: Stanley Frederick LINSLEY (ps: S F L) 1974: Walter LIPPMANN 1975: Hector HAWTON (&ps: John SYLVESTER) 1975: Maurice EDELMAN 1975: Sir, James GRAY 1975: Sir, John Paley JOHNSON, 6th Baronet JOHNSON of New York 1976: Carlyle EMERY (&ps: The Village RHYMESTER) 1976: Douglas (Shenton) ANNAND 1976: John PATON 1976: Kenneth Bassett TINDALL 1976: Marina (Angélica) ARZOLA (PORCELL) 1976: Prof, Donald Howard MENZEL 1976: Prof, Nila Banton SMITH 1977: Prof, Robert H DeWOLFE 1977: Sydney James Christopher Lyon BUTLIN 1978: Brig, Alan Bruce McPHERSON 1978: Ralph Roylance SCOTT 1978: Salvador de MADARIAGA y ROJO 1979: Prof, Charles Brian Montagu McBURNEY 1979: Sturt (de Burgh) GRIFFITH 1980: Sir, Weldon DALRYMPLE-CHAMPNEYS, ne CHAMPNEYS, 2nd Baronet DALRYMPLE-CHAMPNEYS of Littlemeads 1981: Frederick August ZEUSLER 1981: Nathaniel (Goddard) BENCHLEY 1983: Bernard Charles SAUNDERS 1983: Prof, John Clifton SNIDECOR 1984: Antony Cuthbert SPURLING 1984: James KEGIE 1984: Vicente (Pío Marcelino Cirilo) ALEIXANDRE (y MERLO) 1986: Derrick Guy Edmund HURD 1987: Ricardo (Beckwith) QUINTANA 1987: Tim(=Timothy Kay) DINSDALE 1987: William FIFIELD 1988: Philip (David) WHITTING 1989: Andrei (Dmitriyevich) SAKHAROV 1989: Prof, James Franklin BEARD 1990: Friedrich DÜRRENMATT 1991: (Leslie Thomas) John ARLOTT 1991: George Thexton WARDS 1991: Remus Francis CAROSELLI 1992: Prof, William Henry OLDENDORF 1993: Francis JONES 1993: Prof, Fred (B) PHLEGER 1994: John Hugh CHESTERS 1994: Orval Eugene FAUBUS 1995: Al(=Alvin J) STUMP 1995: José Mario Garry Ordoñez EDMONDSON y COTTON (ps: G C EDMONDSON; Kelly P GAST; J B MASTERSON; Mario MURPHY) 1995: Orvin Kenneth ZIMMERMAN 1995: Prof, George Stanley RUSHBROOKE 1995: Prof, Henry Ernest William TURNER, aka Hugh TURNER 1995: Prof, James Munro CAMERON 1996: Gaston MIRON 1996: Prof, William Dillon PIERSON 1996: Thomas Edward SMITH 1997: (Arthur) Owen BARFIELD (&ps: G A L BURGEON) 1997: Emily (Cheney) NEVILLE 1998: Evelyn (nee)Millis DUVALL 1998: Prof, Glenn Richard CAPP 1998: William Alexander ALLEN 1999: (Gordon) Malcolm RUTHERFORD 1999: Prof, Antony (Kelynge Revington) EASTHOPE 2000: Enoch DUMBUTSHENA 2001: Alfred Byrd GRAF 2001: Edgar Barton WORTHINGTON 2001: Elisabeth (Theresia) AUGUSTIN, nee GLASER 2001: Prof, Winfried Georg Maximilian SEBALD 2001: William Avery CRAWFORD 2002: Barbara KLAW, nee VAN DOREN 2002: Jean Houston (nee?)Baldwin DANIEL 2003: Daniel ARASSE 2003: Fenton (Shea) BRESLER 2003: Helen (nee? Buchta) GUSTAFSON 2003: Sören Christian SOMMERFELT 2004: Harry Yoshio UENO 2004: Prof, Carsten (Peter) THIEDE 2005: Donald CANTY 2005: Eliot (Lazarus) FREIDSON 2005: George (William) TARGET 2005: Herman (R) ROIPHE 2005: Patricia Anne VAN TIGHEM, Mrs JANZ 2005: Prof, Harry KAY 2005: Rod(=Rodney William) WHITAKER, aka J B SAVAGE? (ps: Benat le CAGAT; Edoard MORAN; Nicholas SEARE; TREVANIAN) 2005: Victor (Cecil Froggatt) CLARK 2006: Iverach McDONALD 2006: Lt-Cdr, John BRIDGE 2006: Prof, Konstantin M SIMIS 2006: William Norman BRAND 2007: Emory SEKAQUAPTEWA 2007: Hank KAPLAN 2008: Archibald Carl KOTCHIAN 2008: Candida TOBIN, nee PUGH, 1:Mrs ? 2008: Gérard Vergniaud ÉTIENNE 2008: Nancy (nee)Faber ZELASKO 2008: Prof, Willard Edmund CALDWELL 2008: Prof, William Weed KAUFMANN 2008: Robin PRISING 2009: Robert (Leslie) GRIEVES 2009: Walter Edward STAMM 2010: (Rosina) Ruth (Lucia) PARK, Mrs NILAND (&ps: [WENDY]) 2010: Jean (Clarice) MIDDLETON 2010: Prof, Gary (Brent) CHAPMAN 2011: (John) Tony(=Anthony) WEIR 2011: Boris (Yevseyevich) CHERTOK 2011: Dean, James LEO 2011: Eric (Cyril Raynold) REEVE 2011: Joe(=Joseph Henry) SIMON 2011: Mary Ellen AVERY, aka Mel AVERY