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Born:
1633: Samuel PEPYS 1685: Georg Friederich HÄNDEL, aka George Frederick HANDEL 1723: Richard PRICE 1744: Josiah QUINCY, 'Jr', the Elder 1777: James PENNINGTON 1786: William LOGIE 1787: Emma WILLARD, nee HART 1788: Samuel WILLIAMS 1791: Sir, John Stepney COWELL-STEPNEY, 1st Baronet COWELL-STEPNEY 1794: Bp, John GRAHAM 1796: James MARSHALL 1800: Robert Vernon SMITH, 1st Baron LYVEDEN, aka Robert VERNON 1805: Johann Jacob NERVANDER 1806: Sir, William JARDINE, 7th Baronet JARDINE 1817: Samuel BROWN 1820: Rev, William Makepeace THAYER 1832: Bp, John Heyl VINCENT 1839: Maj-Gen, Reginald Colville William Revely MITFORD 1840: Frederick WICKS 1842: Elizabeth Susan MacLEOD, nee MacQUEEN 1842: Emma Elizabeth CROUCH (ps: Cora PEARL) 1842: Karl Robert Eduard von HARTMANN 1843: Augustus PITOU 1846: Sir, Walter Sherburne PRIDEAUX 1849: Rev, Edward Arthur CHICHESTER 1849: Rev, Herbert Edward COPINGER 1849: Thomas GILL 1850: Chewton ATCHLEY 1851: Charles Edward Eardley CHILDERS 1851: Frederick Barkham WARDE 1855: Prof, Maurice BLOOMFIELD 1856: George CAVE, 1st Viscount CAVE 1856: James Henry LEWIS 1856: Sir, Algernon Methuen Marshall METHUEN, 1st Baronet METHUEN 1857: Margaret (Wade) DELAND, nee CAMPBELL 1858: Nina Browne DE COTTES 1860: Max WALLER 1860: Percy Lefroy MAPLETON (ps: Percy LEFROY) 1861: Cardinal, Francis BOURNE 1861: George Ballard MATHEWS 1861: Sir, Dudley Borron MYERS 1863: Charles Joseph CHAMBERLAIN 1863: Daniel Turner HOLMES 1864: Sir, Edward Aurelian RIDSDALE 1865: Anna RITTER, nee NUHN 1868: William Edward Burghardt DU BOIS 1871: Digby Loder Armroid JEPHSON 1874: Nason Henry ARNOLD (Jr) 1875: John Dixon COMRIE 1876: Senjuro HAYASHI 1877: Prof, Frederic Logan PAXSON 1878: Gerald Stephen HUGHES 1878: Prof, Sylvanus Griswold MORLEY 1879: Charlotte B DeFOREST 1879: Georges(-Charles-Jules) BUGNET (&ps: Henri DOUTREMONT) 1879: Norman (Alfred William) LINDSAY 1880: Isaac FOOT 1880: Paul Ferdinand JACOBSTHAL 1881: Norman PORTEOUS 1883: Abraham GOLDBERG 1883: Prof, Karl (Theodor) JASPERS 1884: Bruno (Hermann Max) SANDER (&ps: Anton SANTER) 1884: Stanley Parker SMITH 1885: Charles Gordon HEWITT 1888: Bp, Walter BURD 1889: Arthur Herbert BIRSE 1889: Erwin Gustav/Gustave GUDDE 1889: John Gilbert WINANT 1891: Alta Mae ERB, nee EBY 1891: Pearl (Ida) CASTILE 1892: Harvey Elmer TOBIE 1892: Vance RANDOLPH (&ps: Anton S BOOKER) 1893: Gabe van der ZEE 1893: Leicester Forsyth HAMILTON 1894: Prof, James Houston BAXTER 1895: Bruce Allyn FINDLAY 1895: Fr, Daniel Stanislaus RANKIN 1898: Prof, Clement EATON 1899: Erich KÄSTNER 1900: Edward R WELLES, Sr 1901: (Karl) Ivar LO-JOHANSSON 1901: Ludwig Frederick AUDRIETH 1901: Olive Taylor ECKERSON 1901: Oscar SCHISGALL (&ps: Stuart HARDY) 1902: Margaret Ruth SMITH 1903: Prof, (Francis) Henry SANDBACH 1904: Helen (nee)Knothe NEARING 1904: Leopold TREPPER, aka DOMB; Le Grand CHEF; GILBERT; etc 1904: Prof, Carroll Vincent NEWSOM 1904: William Lawrence SHIRER 1905: Thomas Leslie Wallan HUBBARD 1906: (William) Mervyn MILLS 1906: Denzil Stanley BATCHELOR 1907: Thomas Howard CRAGO 1908: Ellen S SABINE, nee BORCHERDING 1908: Gwynn (nee)McLendon DAY 1908: Harry Patrick LEAP 1911: Mary Jessie McDonald NOBLE 1911: Prof, Alfred Felix Landon BEESTON 1911: Walter (Ernest) ALLEN 1912: Jan VLACHOS, Mrs BARDEN 1912: Paul Maxwell ZEIS 1913: Geoffrey FLAVELL 1913: Kenneth R WHITING 1913: Margaret Hall FRUEAUFF, 1:Mrs FRENCH, 2:Mrs MEREDITH, 3:Mrs FANNING (ps: Margaret PERRY) 1914: Harold E S MARKS 1915: Brig-Gen, Paul Warfield TIBBETS, Jr 1915: Gerd (Walter Christian) SOMMERHOFF 1915: Hiroshi NOMA 1916: Mumtaz Mohammed Khan DAULTANA 1916: Prof, William WALSH 1917: (Elaïs) Judith HUBBACK, nee FISHER-WILLIAMS 1918: Bp, (Christopher) Aelred (Paul) WATKIN 1918: Kelly OECHSLI 1920: (Ann) Philippa PEARCE, Mrs CHRISTIE 1920: Ben Youssef BEN KHEDDA 1920: David (John Murray) WRIGHT (&ps: Henry DROWN) 1923: Bert ISAAC 1923: Bill(=William Harold) STRUTTON 1923: Prof, James Bruce TORRANCE 1924: Charles (A) WECKLER, Jr 1924: Claude SAUTET 1924: Prof, Bernard NORLING 1924: Prof, Lejaren (Arthur) HILLER, Jr 1925: James Graham COOK 1925: Prof, Christopher Francis MOONEY 1927: Canon, Joseph ROBINSON 1927: Régine CRESPIN, Mrs BRUDER 1927: Roger Gilbert OPIE 1929: Leslie HALLIWELL 1930: Albert NISSMAN 1930: Gerry DAVIS 1931: Tom(=Thomas K) WESSELMANN (ps: (Slim) STEALINGWORTH) 1932: Carole Schwerdtfeger ADLER 1932: Prof, Christopher John DUNCAN 1933: Bernard Norman EISMANN 1933: Donna J STONE 1933: Michael (John) LANGLEY 1936: Prof, Harry McGURK 1937: Claude BROWN 1937: Prof, Charles William CHENG 1938: William WERTENBAKER 1941: William HJORTSBERG 1943: Nicholas (Charles) PROFFITT 1944: Bernard CORNWELL, aka Bernard WIGGIN 1953: Nils STEVENSON 1971: Roddy(=Gervase Roderick) SCOTT
Died:
1680: Thomas GOODWIN 1792: Sir, Joshua REYNOLDS 1800: Joseph WARTON 1821: John KEATS 1848: US Pres, John Quincy ADAMS 1851: Joanna BAILLIE 1852: Evan JONES (ps: Ieuan GWYNEDD) 1854: Gorges LOWTHER 1855: John BRISTED 1855: Karl Friedrich GAUSS 1864: Fr, Samuel Charles MAZZUCHELLI 1864: Jonathan GREEN 1866: Thomas Fiott de HAVILLAND 1867: John LILLIE 1867: Sir, George Thomas SMART 1869: George Henry TOWNSEND 1869: Jane Alice SARGANT, nee SMITH 1872: Rev, Henry Hamilton BEAMISH 1874: (Charles William) Shirley BROOKS 1874: Charles William Shirley BROOKS 1874: John Cooper GROCOTT 1877: Thomas Talbot BURY 1879: Brantz MAYER 1880: Alfred GILBEY 1881: George Charles Grantley Fitzhardinge BERKELEY 1881: Prof, James TENNANT 1882: Robert William MACKAY 1883: Charles Robert RIPPIN 1883: Rev, Mynors BRIGHT 1885: John Fletcher HARGRAVE 1885: Joseph Edouard CAUCHON 1885: Thomas Randle BENNETT 1888: Evan DAVIES (ps: Myfyr MORGANWG) 1888: Horace Stebbing Roscoe ST JOHN 1890: Leopold (David) LEWIS 1891: James GAY 1893: William PEDDIE 1897: William Thomas BAIRD 1900: Ernest (Christopher) DOWSON 1902: (William) Charles (Mark) KENT (ps: An English JOURNALIST; C K; An OSCOTIAN; Mark ROCHESTER; A TEMPLAR) 1902: Samuel Rawson GARDINER 1906: Fr, David Shaw RAMSAY 1908: Carl EWALD 1908: Joshua Arthur NUNN 1908: Prof, Johannes Friedrich August von ESMARCH 1913: Paul Marie Pierre THUREAU-DANGIN 1917: Theodore Henry HITTELL 1917: William CHAPMAN 1918: Alice Pyne McDAVITT, nee PINE 1918: Sir, Henry Arthur BLAKE (&ps: Terence M'GRATH) 1918: Thomas BRASSEY, 1st Earl BRASSEY 1919: Rev, John Charles COX 1920: Irving Orrin VINCENT 1920: Judge, Alfred William SAVARY 1921: Frederick Henry Blackburne DANIELL 1922: M (E) LOANE 1925: Sir, Edward THORPE 1929: John Harington GUBBINS 1929: Walter Ambrose BETTESWORTH 1930: Alfred Herbert TUBBY 1931: Dame, Helen Porter MITCHELL, Mrs NESBITT / ARMSTRONG ? (ps: Nellie MELBA) 1931: Hugh GUNN 1933: Lt-Col, David Watts MORGAN 1934: Sir, Edward (William) ELGAR, 1st Baronet ELGAR of Broadheath 1934: Victor Harold ROSS 1937: Adm, Henry Thomas MAYO 1939: Jane M DEALY, 1:Lady LEWIS 1940: Canon, James Michael John FLETCHER 1940: Sir, Trenchard Craven William FOWLE 1942: Bp, Charles Bayard MITCHELL 1942: Edward Theodore SALVESEN, Lord SALVESEN 1942: Prof, August von PARSEVAL 1944: Leo Hendrik BAEKELAND 1944: Viktor Hugo SUOLAHTI 1945: Count, Alexei (Nikolaievich) TOLSTOY 1945: Jacques DORIOT 1945: NI Pres, José María MONCADA 1945: Virginia PERDUE 1946: Frederick Ludwig HOFFMAN 1946: Prof, Carl Louis August SCHMIDT 1946: Vladimir Petrovich POTEMKIN 1947: Grace Livingston HILL, nee ?, 2:Mrs LUTZ (&ps: Grace LIVINGSTON; Grace Livingston HILL-LUTZ; Marcia MACDONALD) 1948: John Robert GREGG 1952: Col, Algernon Essex CAPELL 1952: Maharaja, Srischandra Nandy COSSIMBAZAR 1952: Reuben PEISS 1954: Prof, Kenelm Hutchinson DIGBY 1954: Sir, Launcelot Edward KIGGELL 1955: Paul (Louis Charles Marie) CLAUDEL 1965: Prof, Charles Alexander ROBINSON, Jr 1965: Tsi-an HSIA 1966: Constantine BROWN 1966: Victor WEISZ, aka Vicky WEISZ 1968: Fannie HURST, Mrs DANIELSON 1971: (Lionel Henry) François SULLY 1973: Dickinson W RICHARDS 1974: Harry RUBINSTEIN (ps: Harry RUBY) 1974: Prof, David J KULSTEIN 1974: Raymond (Carl) GLENDENNING 1975: Ernest BLYTHE 1980: Paul Revere WILLIAMS 1981: Benjamin Bernard ZAVIN 1981: John (Moors) CABOT 1983: Arthur Kattendyke Strange David Archibald GORE, 8th Earl of ARRAN 1984: (Mary) Jessamyn WEST, Mrs McPHERSON 1987: Edward G LANSDALE 1987: Esmond (Pennington) KNIGHT 1987: John (William) COUNSELL 1987: Louis Plack HAMMETT 1989: Hans Hellmut KIRST 1989: Katharine (nee)Whiteside TAYLOR 1989: Prof, David (Mowbray) BALME 1990: Lt-Gen, James Maurice GAVIN 1990: Prof, Franklin B HAAR 1991: Sir, Charles (Frederick William) ILLINGWORTH 1992: Prof, Alan Richard WHITE 1992: Prof, Dwight LeMerton BOLINGER 1993: Charles Hugh CALLISON 1993: George S FICHTER (ps: George KENSINGER; Matt WARNER; Marc ZILCOX) 1993: Prof, Robert TRIFFIN 1994: George TAMES 1994: James Louis ROBERTSON 1994: Ophia Delilah SMITH, nee SMITH 1995: Fred(=Frederick) E JACOB 1995: James Alfred WIGHT (ps: James HERRIOT) 1995: Norman (George Lorimer) HUNTER 1995: Sir, Peter (Guy) WYKEHAM 1996: Sir, Charles (Herbert) STUART-HARRIS 2000: Hamilton Horth MABIE 2000: Prof, George Raymond BEASLEY-MURRAY 2000: Sir, Stanley (John) MATTHEWS 2001: Sarah MORGAN, nee WILLIAMS 2002: Prof, Chris(=Christopher Leonard) BROOKS 2003: Amy Bess(=Elizabeth) (nee)Williams MILLER 2003: Prof, Meyer Robert SCHKOLNICK (ps: Robert King MERTON) 2004: (Arthur) Leslie KARK 2004: Douglas FALCONER 2004: Hans-Henning SPEITEL 2004: Hilda Elizabeth KOONTZ 2004: Neil (Richard) ARDLEY 2004: Prof, M Lucetta MOWRY 2005: Prof, Martin PICKER 2006: Brian (Francis) WAY 2006: Francis M FORSTER 2006: Prof, Catherine (Annie) NEILL 2006: Prof, Frederick (Matthew) BUSCH 2006: Prof, Luna Bergere LEOPOLD 2006: Prof, Machteld (Johanna) MELLINK 2006: Tony(=Anthony Phillips) DAVIES 2007: Prof, Robert ENGLER 2007: Susan Rose (nee)Obee SOUTHWICK 2007: Winthrop Donaldson JORDAN 2008: Alice PLATEN-HALLERMUND, 1:Baroness RICCIARDI 2008: Aubrey Willis WILLIAMS, Jr 2008: Kendon MacDonald SMITH 2008: Paul FRÈRE 2008: Prof, Heinz Rudolph SCHAFFER 2008: SI Pres, Janez DRNOVEK