Author Anniversaries for Feb 20


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Born:

1706: Fr(SJ), Claude Godefroy COQUART
1745: Henry James PYE
1792: Benjamin Faneuil HUNT
1802: Charles-Auguste de BÉRIOT
1805: Angelina Emily GRIMKÉ
1816: Prince, Josef Michel Xaver Johann PONIATOWSKI
1816: William RIMMER
1817: Rev, Samuel GARRATT
1821: Myles Gerald KEON
1822: Robert LEIGHTON (&ps: ROBIN)
1824: Louisa Catherine SHORE (&ps: L)
1825: William Allen BUTLER
1828: Rev, Edmund George HARVEY (&ps: The CAPTAIN)
1829: Joseph JEFFERSON
1829: Odo William Leopold RUSSELL, 1st Baron AMPTHILL
1835: Sir, Robert HART
1839: Rev, Benjamin WAUGH
1844: Capt, Joshua SLOCUM
1845: Archdeacon, William SIMMS
1846: James Laughlin HUGHES
1849: Rev, Stanton P ALLEN
1852: Charles Erskine Scott WOOD
1854: Canon, George Rickards BROWNE
1858: Howard Atwood KELLY
1859: Lt-Col, Stephen Thomas BANNING
1860: William Henry HOWELL
1861: Prof, Edward JENKS
1863: Lucien PISSARRO
1864: Archdeacon, Albert Oewn EVANS
1864: Henry Seymour RAWLINSON, 1st Baron RAWLINSON
1866: Edwin Diller STARBUCK
1868: John Christopher WILLIS
1869: Arthur COMPTON-RICKETT
1869: William J D CROKE
1870: Jay Johnson MORROW
1870: Peter Cornelis BOUTENS
1871: Raymond DODGE
1872: Maj-Gen, Edward Bailey ASHMORE
1872: William LYGON, 7th Earl of BEAUCHAMP
1873: Charles Hubbard JUDD
1873: Hugh Pattison MACMILLAN, (life) Baron MACMILLAN of Aberfeldy
1874: Gordon BOTTOMLEY
1874: Mary GARDEN
1874: Rev, Orville Anderson PETTY
1874: Willie Lewis LUTTMAN
1876: Ashley (Perry) ABRAHAM
1878: Emilie Paulina Venceslava KITTLOVA / KITTL / KITTEL, aka Ema DESTINNOVA (ps: Emmy DESTINN)
1881: Sir, (Mark) Frank LINDLEY
1883: Naoya SHIGA
1886: Peter FREUCHEN
1887: (Edward) Hesketh (Gibbons) PEARSON (&ps: An EX-DIPLOMAT)
1887: Vincent MASSEY
1888: Dame, Cyvia RAMBAM, Mrs DUKES, aka Myriam RAMBERG; Myriam RAMBACH (ps: Marie RAMBERT)
1888: Georges BERNANOS
1888: Prof, Arnold Horrex ROWBOTHAM
1890: William Aubrey (Cecil) DARLINGTON
1892: Raymond Cecil MOORE
1893: Russel (M) CROUSE
1894: Curt Paul RICHTER
1894: Jaroslaw IWASZKIEWICZ
1896: Dorothy (Mary) LANGSFORD, Mrs EDWARDS (&ps: D M E)
1896: Fañch/Jean-François-Marie ELIES (ps: ABEOZEN; Fañch ELIES-ABEOZEN)
1899: Cornelius Vanderbilt WHITNEY
1899: Nora KENT
1900: Prof, Quinn McNEMAR
1900: Prof, Robert WAEDLER
1901: Bp, Robert Wright STOPFORD
1901: Cecil Harmsworth KING
1901: Henry EYRING
1901: René Jules DUBOS
1902: Ansel (Easton) ADAMS
1902: Rev, George APPLETON
1902: William Gordon ZEEVELD
1903: Ella Kini MAILLART
1903: Sir, William MANSFIELD COOPER
1906: Claude H GAVER (ps: Jack GAVER)
1907: Helen (nee)Gere CRUICKSHANK
1907: Sir, Basil (Arthur) PARKES
1907: Sir, Owain (Trevor) JENKINS
1908: (Constance) Molly(=Mary) MATTHEWS, nee CARRINGTON
1908: Frederick MACHETANZ
1908: Prof, Leland James PRITCHARD
1909: Margery (nee)Thompson LOCKHART
1910: Albert C MANUCY
1910: Carl E STOTZ
1910: James William KENYON
1910: Julian Otto TREVELYAN
1910: Prof, Irving Abraham AGUS, ne ?
1911: Paul TRIPP
1911: Peter Vilhelm GLOB
1911: Prof, Douglas COOPER
1912: Buffie JOHNSON, 1:Mrs ?, 2:Mrs SYKES
1912: Eric (Leslie) BARKER
1912: Olive COOK, Mrs SMITH
1912: Pierre(-François-Marie-Louis) BOULLE
1912: Prof, John (S) HESLOP-HARRISON
1913: Alun Menai WILLIAMS
1913: Dame, Mary DURACK, Mrs MILLER
1913: Helen SHAW, nee/Mrs ?
1913: Marianne Townsend ZAYLOR
1914: (Louis) Baldwin BERGERSEN
1914: John Garth WATSON
1914: Prof, (John) Arnold Leslie LAZARUS
1914: Rev, Chevis Ferber HORNE
1914: Rev, Howard Woodrow ELLIS
1915: Prof, Vincent Gaston DETHIER
1916: Lowell William HERRON
1916: Mary E Hill ARTHUR
1916: Pierre MESSMER
1917: Gustav von PLATEN
1917: Tana HOBAN, 1:Mrs GALLOB, 2:Mrs MORRIS
1918: Prof, Arthur Newell STRAHLER
1919: Rick RAPHAEL
1920: Hetty WARWICK
1920: Maeching Li KAO, nee ?
1921: Michael AYRTON, ne GOULD?
1921: Velma (nee)Darbo BROWN, 2:Mrs STEVENS? (&ps: LYNN)
1922: Otis Milton SMITH
1923: (Linden) Forbes (Sampson) BURNHAM
1923: Eliot (Lazarus) FREIDSON
1924: Gloria (Laura Morgan) VANDERBILT, 1:Mrs DeCICCO, 2:Mrs STOKOWSKI, 3:Mrs LUMET, 4:Mrs COOPER
1924: Prof, (Charles) Wickham SKINNER
1925: (Justin) Alex(=Alexander) LA GUMA
1925: Prof, Rondo (Emmett) CAMERON
1926: David McCLURE
1926: Julian W SCHEER
1926: Richard Burton MATHESON
1927: Roy (Marcus) COHN
1927: Sidney POITIER
1931: Kent M DALLETT
1933: Frederick Campbell CREWS
1934: Bobby(=Robert William) UNSER
1934: Myrtle Olive Felix ROBERTSON, 11th Baroness WHARTON, nee ARTBUTHNOT, aka Ziki ARNOT
1935: Ellen GILCHRIST
1936: Robert SHAW
1938: John Anthony PARSONS
1940: Jimmy GREAVES
1941: Richard (Hilton) ECKERSLEY
1941: Richard MABEY
1946: Brenda (Ann) BLETHYN, nee BOTTLE
1950: Tony(=Anthony Howard) WILSON
1951: (James) Gordon BROWN
1952: Claire TOWNSEND
1967: Kurt (Donald) COBAIN

Died:

1437: King, JAMES, I of Scotland
1809: Richard GOUGH
1813: Charles WHITE
1821: Rev, Samuel TAYLOR
1822: John STEWART, aka 'Walking Stewart'
1832: John WHITE
1841: James Gordon BROOKS
1843: Mary HAYS (&ps: EUSEBIA)
1853: Bp, William Grant BROUGHTON
1853: Edward Parker CHARLESWORTH
1855: William JOWETT
1857: Archer RYLAND
1859: Col, Thomas Loraine McKENNEY
1861: (Augustin) Eugène SCRIBE (&ps: Augustin DEBERSCY; EUGÈNE; FÉLIX)
1861: Rev, George HUNT
1862: Francisco BALTAZAR (ps: Francisco BALAGTAS)
1863: John Cart BURGESS
1871: Paul KANE
1873: James HAUGHTON
1873: Samuel William John MERRIMAN
1874: Sir, Sydney (John) COTTON
1878: Edward Mulberry HODDER
1878: George MOFFATT
1879: John Orlando PARRY
1887: Richard CAULFIELD
1891: Thomas PICTON (&ps: Paul PRESTON)
1893: Gen, Pierre Gustave Toutant BEAUREGARD
1893: William SHELMERDINE
1895: Frederick Augustus Washington BAILEY (ps: Frederick DOUGLASS)
1905: George W BAILEY
1908: (Robert Sydenham) Fancourt BARNES
1908: Fr, François DANIEL
1908: William CALLOW
1911: Charles Alexander MacMUNN
1911: Frances Ellen Watkins HARPER
1912: John WARD
1913: Conte, Angelo de GUBERNATIS
1915: Clement Edwin STRETTON
1915: Edward Cox SEATON
1915: Sir, Charles Augustus HARTLEY
1917: Raphael PETRUCCI
1917: Rev, William Edward ADDIS
1918: Rev, James Mark Saurin BROOKE
1919: Canon, Arthur John WORLLEDGE
1919: VRev, John BROWN
1920: Edward Richard RUSSELL, 1st Baron RUSSELL
1922: Richard Septimus HAYNES
1923: John Sutherland BLACK
1924: Sir, Henry LUCY (&ps: [TOBY, MP])
1926: Abp, Paul Eugène ROY
1926: Francis Allston CHANNING, 1st Baron CHANNING of Wellingborough
1926: Michael Francis COX
1928: Adolph Charles BABENROTH
1928: Victor Alexander Sereld HAY, 20th Earl of ERROLL
1929: Clarence George Eugene FLETCHER
1929: Sir, (Herbert) George FORDHAM
1929: Surg-Capt, Edward Leicester ATKINSON
1932: Maj-Gen, John BOUGHEY
1933: Henry HARCOURT
1933: William PRENDERGAST
1935: Archdeacon, Alexander George DE LA PRYME
1937: Charles GORDON, 11th Marquess of HUNTLY
1937: Sir, Augustus BARTOLO
1937: Sir, Percy Zachariah COX
1939: Alfred Henry Robinson THORNTON
1939: Archdeacon, Montague Blamire WILLIAMSON
1942: Frank Herman SCHOFIELD
1944: Eleanor (Harris) (nee)Rowland WEMBRIDGE
1946: Prof, William Alfred MORRIS
1946: Raymond Leslie BUELL
1946: Rev, T Ratcliffe BARNETT
1947: Charles B TOWNS
1947: Clement Clarence WILLIAMS
1949: Rev, George Charles Fraser PRINGLE
1951: Cyril (Francis) MAUDE
1951: David Gervan McMILLAN
1952: James Watson CURRAN
1953: Carita BORDERIEUX
1953: Francis Wrigley HIRST
1953: Prof, James Garfield RANDALL
1953: Sir, Bartle Henry Temple FRERE
1954: Henry HARRISON
1954: Sir, Victor (Alexander Augustus Henry) WELLESLEY
1955: Sir, Alfred Victor CRANE
1956: Sir, Travers HUMPRHEYS
1957: Sir, John Lionel SIMONSEN
1958: James Sterling TIPPETT
1959: Laurence HOUSMAN
1960: Prof, Henry Goland ROBINSON
1960: Sir, (Charles) Leonard WOOLLEY
1960: Sir, David (Randall) PYE
1960: {UK}Sir, Charles Leonard WOOLLEY
1961: Mary Sewall GARDNER
1961: Percy (Aldridge) GRAINGER
1966: Adm, Chester William NIMITZ
1966: Carl Custer CUTLER
1966: Dard HUNTER (Sr?)
1966: Reginald Otto KAPP
1967: Newton MORTON
1969: Ernest (Alexandre) ANSERMET
1969: Lt-Col, Robert Donald Thain ALEXANDER
1970: (Thomas Arthur) Darcy BRADDELL
1970: Sophie TREADWELL, Mrs McGEEHAN
1972: Prof, Maria (nee)Goeppert MAYER
1973: Maj, Lawrence Lee Bazley ANGAS
1977: Jarmila GLAZAROVA
1979: Howard SCHENKEN
1980: Alice Lee (nee)Roosevelt LONGWORTH
1980: Joseph Banks RHINE
1980: Sir, Roger (Bentham) STEVENS
1981: Ioannis THEODORAKOPOULOS
1982: Prof, Gerhard SCHOLEM (ps: Gershom (Gerhard) SCHOLEM)
1982: René Jules DUBOS
1984: Thorne DEUEL
1986: Judy-Lynn del REY, nee BENJAMIN
1988: Edith Josephine AGNEW (&ps: MARCELINO)
1988: John O CHERRINGTON
1988: Mildred WOOLLEY, 1:Mrs SEYDEL, 2:Mrs SEYDEL (ps: Mildred SEYDELL)
1988: Roger J WILLIAMS
1990: Flora (F) (nee)Jacobi ARNSTEIN
1990: Jeanette G (nee)Flierl GUILLAUME
1991: Eugene Alfred FORSEY
1991: Prof, John Gordon BECKWITH
1991: Prof, Kenneth Hurlstone JACKSON
1992: Eugene Robert BLACK
1992: George BARR
1992: Prof, William (Ayres) ARROWSMITH
1993: John Lewis SANDLIN
1993: Luis Alberto SOLÉ-ROMERO
1993: Prof, Howard Mayer BROWN
1993: Rev, Alfred Thomas HOUGHTON
1994: Kenneth J PREBBLE, aka Jack PREBBLE
1995: Prof, John Humphreys WHITFIELD
1996: George Anthony SHEPHERD
1996: Walter Charles MARSHALL, (life) Baron MARSHALL Of GORING of South Stoke
1998: Alexander Stuart GRAY
1998: Bp, (William) Gordon WHEELER
1998: David McCLURE
1998: George Howard GILLELAN
1998: Henry LIVINGS
1998: Sir, (William) Bernard (John) LEDWIDGE
1999: John L GOLDWATER
1999: Kathleen Cecilia NOTT, Mrs BAILEY
1999: Sarah KANE
1999: Willard R ESPY
2000: Sir, Eric MENSFORTH
2001: Don BERRY
2002: (John) Dale EUNSON
2002: Stephen LONGSTREET (&ps: Thomas BURTON; Paul HAGGARD; David ORMSBEE)
2003: Henry Peter TEWKSBURY
2003: Jan Józef SZCZEPANSKI
2003: Maurice BLANCHOT
2003: Simon (Daniel White) COLLIER
2003: Thomas Wilton PHIPPS
2004: (George) Frederick MORGAN
2004: Catherine (Anne CHICHESTER-)COOKE
2004: Frederic ARMSTRONG (ps: Mark (Graham) HOLLOWAY)
2004: Gen, John B KEELEY
2004: Lady, Virginia Frances (TWISLETON-WYKEHAM-)FIENNES, nee PEPPER, aka Ginny FIENNES
2004: Prof, Christopher John RYAN
2004: Richard Lee EHLER
2005: Dalene MATTHEE, nee SCOTT
2005: Hunter Stockton THOMPSON
2005: Thomas James WILLMORE
2006: Hernán ECHAVARRÍA OLÓZAGA
2006: Jennifer (nee?)Quinn (1:Mrs)Clarke ACKERMAN
2006: Paul SLUD
2006: Prof, Francis Marion MILLER
2006: Prof, Joan Mervyn HUSSEY
2006: Sophie FRIEDLÄNDER
2006: Theodore DRAPER, ne DUBINSKY
2007: **(t+)!Prof, Ronald HILTON
2007: Daniel (Patrick) McGRORY
2007: Kenneth Arthur STEER
2007: Prof, Frank Albert COTTON
2007: Robert W YOUNG
2007: Sir, John Bryan AKEHURST
2007: Theresa (nee?)Fuetterer ZOOK
2008: Mary Elizabeth CARNEGIE