Author Anniversaries for Feb 23


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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 DRNOVŠEK