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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