Author Anniversaries for Feb 15


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Born:

1564: Galileo GALILEI, aka GALILEO
1645: Rev, Thomas WAGSTAFFE
1748: Jeremy BENTHAM
1762: Francis BUCHANAN-HAMILTON
1764: Jens Immanuel BAGGESEN
1771: Henry St George TUCKER
1775: Paul ALLEN
1780: John LEIFCHILD
1783: Charles Thomas BODENHAM
1785: Rev, James William GELDART
1788: Dean, Samuel ADAMS
1792: Hrabia, Fryderyk Florian SKARBEK
1798: Rev, Henry REES
1803: Johann/John August/Augustus SUTTER (Sr)
1805: John EPPS
1809: Owen JONES
1811: AR Pres, Domingo Faustino SARMIENTO
1812: Chandra Wren HOSKYNS
1812: Prof, Joseph George CUMMING
1814: William Fishburn DONKIN
1815: Rev, Thomas Samuel GRACE
1815: Rufus Wilmot GRISWOLD (&ps: LUDWIG)
1816: Sir, (Isaac) Lowthian BELL
1817: Robert Angus SMITH
1818: John Stilwell JENKINS
1820: Susan Brownell ANTHONY
1822: Bp, Henry Benjamin WHIPPLE
1824: Raja Rajendra Lal MITRA
1826: Anthony Charles COOKE
1826: George Johnstone STONEY
1829: Silas Weir MITCHELL
1829: Thomas MacKNIGHT
1830: Henry (George) BLACKBURN
1832: Gov, Nelson DINGLEY, Jr
1834: Sir, William Henry PREECE
1835: Virginius DABNEY
1836: Mary GRYLLS
1841: Sir, Edward George CLARKE
1842: Anton NYSTROM
1842: Charles Bertrand LEWIS (ps: M QUAD)
1843: Russell Herman CONWELL
1845: Elihu ROOT
1847: Fr, Basil William MATURIN
1849: Francis Abel William Taylor ARMSTRONG
1852: Canon, Solomon NIHALSINGH
1852: Pascal POIRIER
1853: Sir, Frederick TREVES, 1st Baronet TREVES
1858: Rev, John Robert FLEMING
1858: William Henry PICKERING
1859: Gilbert (James Duke) COLERIDGE
1861: Alfred North WHITEHEAD
1861: Charles Edouard GUILLAUME
1861: Sir, Halford John MACKINDER
1863: James Augustine FARRELL
1866: Sir, Banister Flight FLETCHER
1866: Walter George HEADLAM
1867: Albert BROADBENT
1869: Sir, James Campbell PERCY
1874: Sir, Ernest Henry SHACKLETON
1876: Ernest Henry WILSON
1876: William GRIFFITH
1877: Thornwell JACOBS
1878: Fred BULLOCK
1880: Joseph HERGESHEIMER
1880: Sir, Hannibal Publius SCICLUNA
1882: George Freeland BARBOUR
1883: Arthur Henry (later Sarsfield) WARD (ps: Michael FUREY; Sax ROHMER)
1883: George Kendall ALLEN
1887: Henry Mayo BATEMAN
1889: Sir, Syed Ross MASOOD
1890: Glenn (Gaywaine) MUNN
1890: Harold H FISHER
1890: Robert LEY
1891: Prof, Leslie Brainerd AREY
1893: Maj, Charles James Prior BALL
1894: Robbie TRENT
1895: Leonard Logoz BRIDGMAN
1897: Earl Henry BLAIK, aka 'Red' BLAIK
1897: Eugene L GRANT
1897: James Harold MANNING
1897: Thomas Harold MANNING
1898: Masuji IBUSE
1898: Prof, Enrico CERULLI
1899: (Kilmeny) Lucy (Beatrice) MALLESON (ps: Lucy EGERTON; Anthony GILBERT; J KEITH; J Kilmeny KEITH; Anne MEREDITH)
1899: Abram Leon SACHAR
1899: Georges AURIC
1899: Matthew JOSEPHSON
1899: Olive (Dingle) BLACKHAM
1900: Charles Allen THOMAS
1900: Sir, (James) Randall PHILIP
1901: André PARROT
1901: Judge, (Travers) Christmas HUMPHREYS
1901: Lutz WELTMANN
1903: Hervey (Cadwallader) ADAMS
1904: Prof, Harold WENTWORTH
1904: Rhoda Coleman ELLISON
1904: Richard CHASE
1904: Sir, George TAYLOR
1905: Hyman ARLUCK (ps: Harold ARLEN)
1905: Prof, Giovanni COSTIGAN
1905: Walter George HINGSTON
1907: Afanasy SHOROKOV, aka Sven ALLYSON (ps: Vladimir (Mikhaylovich) PETROV)
1907: Sax(=Saxton E) BRADFORD
1907: Theodore Cressy SKEAT
1908: Foy (David) KOHLER
1908: Fred Richard LANOUE
1908: Harold Warris THOMPSON
1908: Hartzell SPENCE
1909: Alexander (P) WINSTON
1909: Sir, Harold BEELEY
1910: Charles Kestner BRIGHTBULL
1910: Prof, Arthur Hawley SCOUTEN
1911: Prof, Glanville (Llewellyn) WILLIAMS
1912: Edmund G LOVE
1912: George MIKES
1913: Denys Eyre Lankester HAYNES
1913: William SCOTT
1914: Bp, Robin(=Robert Wilmer) WOODS
1914: Roland KIBBEE
1914: William Seward BURROUGHS (&ps: William LEE)
1916: (George) Hugh (Nicholas) SETON-WATSON
1916: Jorge GUINLE
1917: Ruby LYTLE, nee COKER
1917: Sam (Jonathan) KYDD
1918: Elizabeth SAVAGE, nee FITZGERALD
1920: Piet van AKEN
1921: Anthony William PRAGNELL
1922: (John) Otis CARNEY
1922: Herman KAHN
1922: Morton PAGLIN
1922: Thomas Edmund DOREMUS
1923: Edith (nee?)Moore SPROUSE
1923: Ray/Raymond Stanley DAWSON
1923: Zachary SOLOV
1925: Prof, Siegfried (Antonius) SCHULZ
1926: Prof, Hazard ADAMS
1926: Val ANDREWS
1927: Prof, Earl Dorchester HANSON
1928: Hugh DOUGLAS
1929: (Norman)Graham HILL
1930: Allen (John Millington) SYNGE (&ps: Christopher LEOPOLD (2))
1930: Prof, Bruce Alan BOLT
1935: Anton BLOK
1939: (Patricia) Jo CLAYTON
1939: Arnold KEMP
1945: Peter Scott RUSHFORTH
1946: Karin Eileen MACK, nee BERGSTROM
1959: Ali(=Alistair Ian) CAMPBELL

Died:

1709: John PHILIPS
1732: Bp, Francis ATTERBURY
1781: Gotthold Ephraim LESSING
1799: Jean Baptiste Joseph GENTIL
1832: H Otto Konrad ZINK
1836: John GILLIES
1846: Otto von KOTZEBUE
1853: Frederick Richard CHICHESTER, Earl of BELFAST
1857: Mikhail Ivanovich GLINKA
1859: John ALLEN
1861: Joseph ADSHEAD
1861: Rev, James ASPINALL
1862: James SHERMAN
1864: William Charles Linnæus MARTIN
1865: Cardinal, Nicholas Patrick Stephen WISEMAN
1867: Serafín ESTÉBANEZ CALDERÓN
1870: Richard CUMING
1874: Nathaniel Alexander NICHOLSON
1874: Rev, John DALTON
1876: Alexander Bridport BECHER
1877: George William SANDERS
1877: Joshua JACOB
1879: Robert CARTER
1886: Rev, Thomas Biddulph HUTTON
1888: David Ross LOCKE (&ps: Petroleum V NASBY)
1890: Alexander Dundas Ross Wishart BAILLIE-COCHRANE, 1st Baron LAMINGTON
1892: William Henry MICHAEL
1896: Eliza Jane NICHOLSON, nee POITEVENT, 1:Mrs HOLBROOK (&ps: Pearl RIVERS)
1897: Charles TOMLINSON
1897: Walter Scott DALGLEISH
1898: Bp, Charles Todd QUINTARD
1901: (James) Maurice THOMPSON
1901: Gilbert Ashville PIERCE
1902: Arthur Patchett MARTIN
1903: Francis Cranmer PENROSE
1903: Mary Kavanaugh EAGLE, nee OLDHAM
1905: Lew(=Lewis) WALLACE
1910: William Earl HODGSON
1911: Henry Richardson CHAMBERLAIN
1912: Annie L JACK, nee HAYR
1914: Horace Bolingbroke WOODWARD
1917: William Arthur CHAPMAN
1918: Judge, William EVANS
1919: Rev, William Henry BLISS
1919: Sir, Roper LETHBRIDGE
1924: Lionel MONCKTON
1924: Rev, William DALE
1924: Rev, Wilson Eustace DANIEL
1926: Henry Noel SHORE, 5th Baron TEIGNMOUTH
1928: Herbert Henry ASQUITH, 1st Earl of OXFORD and ASQUITH
1928: John SQUAIR
1928: Sir, John Richard HALL, 9th Baronet HALL
1929: Grace Leslie Keith JOHNSTON (ps: Leslie KEITH)
1929: Maurice Henry WOODS
1932: Canon, Edward SELL
1932: Prof, Robert Hatch KENNETT
1933: Cecil Marcus KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN, 4th Baron BRABOURNE of Brabourne
1934: George Ernest NEWSOM
1934: Sewell COLLINS
1935: Thomas Robert GAMBIER-PARRY
1938: R-Adm, Cary Travers GRAYSON
1940: Col, Rookes Evelyn Bell CROMPTON
1943: Nathaniel Murdoch William John McKENZIE
1943: Sydney (Haldane) OLIVIER, 1st Baron OLIVIER of Ramsden
1944: James Augustin Brown SCHERER
1945: Fred Houdlett ALBEE
1946: Julius Isaac FOUST
1947: (Margaret) Marshall SAUNDERS
1952: Rev, George Oliver FALLIS
1953: Herbert SMITH
1955: Sir, Charles James MARTIN
1956: Rev, William YOUNGER
1959: Flaud Conaroe WOOTON
1959: Lady, Dorothea HOSIE, nee SOOTHILL
1959: Sir, Owen (Willans) RICHARDSON
1960: Leslie Pinckney HILL
1966: Bp, Spence BURTON
1967: Prof, Lily Bess CAMPBELL
1967: Simon Jacob SMITH
1967: William Christian BULLITT (Jr)
1970: Hugh Caswall Tremenheere DOWDING, 1st Baron DOWDING of Bentley Priory
1971: Beatrice MAYOR, nee MEINERTZHAGEN
1972: Edgar Parks SNOW
1973: Prof, Dilman Walter GOTSHALK
1973: Wally/Wallace (Maynard) COX
1974: Conel Hugh O'Donel ALEXANDER
1976: Prof, Burtis Lowell ROBERTSON
1978: Ilka CHASE, 1:Mrs CALHERN, 2:Mrs MURRAY, 3:Mrs BROWN
1980: Albert Charles SIMONIN
1980: Vasily Abgarovich KATANYAN
1981: Isaac Don LEVINE
1982: Noah DIETRICH
1982: Richard Brandon KERSHNER
1983: Waldeck ROCHET
1984: Ethel Agnes ZIMMERMANN, 1:Mrs SMITH, 2:Mrs LEVITT, 3:Mrs SIX, 4:Mrs BORGNINE (ps: Ethel MERMAN)
1985: Leonard SPIGELGASS
1988: Richard Phillips FEYNMANN
1990: Prof, Francis William HUTCHINSON
1990: Ronald William Parkinson SMITH (ps: Norman PARKINSON)
1991: Prof, Alfred F HAVIGHURST
1991: Prof, Darwin T TURNER
1991: Prof, Hubert M BLALOCK, Jr
1992: Anthony (M) ASTRACHAN
1992: Prof, Troy Wilson ORGAN
1992: Rev, Jamie W BUCKINGHAM
1992: William (Howard) SCHUMAN
1993: Abp, Robert Lowder SEABORN
1993: Charles Young CARSTAIRS
1993: Malcolm/Mal (C) HANCOCK (&ps: MAL)
1993: Philip Shriver KLEIN
1995: John Patrick SOMERS-COCKS, 8th Baron SOMERS
1995: Prof, Josephine Ketcham PIERCY
1996: Alice Mackenzie SWAIM
1997: Philip HERSHKOVITZ
1998: Henny(=Henry Jacob) YOUNGMAN
1998: Robert David ABRAHAMS
1999: Prof, Henry Way KENDALL
1999: Prof, James (Earle) DEESE
2000: Barry M BLUESTEIN
2000: George RODGERS
2000: Melvin John VOIGT
2000: Sydney H KASPER
2001: Boris GOLDOVSKY
2002: A Dolly (nee WALKER-)WRAIGHT
2002: Bruce Arthur WHITTEN
2002: Bruce C NETSCHERT
2002: Howard Kingsbury SMITH, Jr
2003: David (Brian) PEACE
2003: Prof, Kenneth TAYLOR
2003: Richard Orme WILBERFORCE, (life) Baron WILBERFORCE of Hull
2004: Herbert SCHLUETER
2004: Michel CONIL-LACOSTE
2004: Prof, Lawrence Stanley RITTER
2004: Rev, John H TIETJEN
2005: Howard KENT
2005: Lt-Col, Anthony Stean HARVEY, aka 'Tich' HARVEY
2005: Richard GRUNBERGER
2005: Samuel T FRANCIS
2006: Barbara (Ann) GUEST, nee PINSON, 1:Mrs DUDLEY, 3:Mrs HIGGINS
2006: Prof, Philip Hall COOMBS
2007: (Itsye) Mordkhe SCHAECHTER
2007: Bil(=Billie Rae) CARSON
2007: Stephen GARDINER
2008: Peter Bela NEUBAUER
2008: Rev, Esther L GRIER, nee BLAIR
2008: Saundra A JOHNSON, Mrs JONES