Author Anniversaries for Feb 26


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Born:

1590: Johann LAUREMBERG
1671: Anthony Ashley COOPER, 3rd Earl of SHAFTESBURY
1672: Abbot, Antoine Augustin CALMET
1714: James HERVEY
1725: David HOÜARD
1776: John PATERSON
1786: (Dominique) François ARAGO
1787: James RENNIE
1788: Gov, John REYNOLDS
1789: Eaton HODGKINSON
1800: !Abp, John Baptist PURCELL
1802: Vicomte, Victor(-Marie) HUGO
1810: Archdeacon, William HORNBY
1810: John CHASE
1811: Robert Gardiner HILL
1814: Rev, Benjamin DAVIES
1816: Whitwell ELWIN
1825: Henry Robert REYNOLDS
1825: Prof, William Nassau LEES
1826: Rev, John Llewellyn DAVIES
1831: Thomas Hingston HARVEY
1832: John George NICOLAY
1832: Prof, Thomas ANDERSON
1833: John HYDE (ps: A Bible STUDENT)
1833: Rev, John SERVICE
1836: Elihu VEDDER
1836: Eugene STOCK
1839: Sir, John Pentland MAHAFFY
1840: Eugene SCHUYLER
1841: Evelyn BARING, 1st Earl of CROMER
1842: Camille FLAMMARION
1846: William Frederick CODY, aka 'Buffalo Bill'
1847: Mark Hayler JUDGE
1847: William Joseph PETRE, 13th Baron PETRE
1849: (Katherine) Sherwood BONNER, Mrs MACDOWELL
1850: Adolf KRAUS
1850: Charles Eustace PILLANS
1851: Canon, Thomas Henry MAY
1852: John Harvey KELLOGG
1854: Canon, Charles Llewelyn IVENS
1854: Ivar WILSKMAN
1856: Katharine STEPHEN
1857: Rev, Charles Monroe SHELDON
1857: Thomas William LAWSON
1858: Canon, Thomas TAYLOR
1859: William Benjamin Basil KING
1860: Frederick Coate WADE
1860: Prof, Alexander Creever ABBOTT
1861: Judge, William Bernard WALLACE
1863: John SANDES
1864: Nathaniel Lyon GARDNER
1866: Maj, Henry Lysaght GRIFFIN
1868: William Richmond SMITH
1870: Nicol MacNICOL
1870: Sir, John Fischer WILLIAMS
1873: Prof, John Swinnerton PHILLIMORE
1873: Thomas Franklin CURRIER
1874: Arthur (John Arbuthnot/Arbuthnott) STRINGER
1875: Lewis Warrington BALDWIN
1876: Agustín Pedro JUSTO
1877: Carel Steven ADAMA Van SCHELTEMA
1877: Rudolph DIRKS
1878: Henry Lightfoot NUNN
1879: Henri FAUCONNIER
1879: Mabel Dodge LUHAN, nee GANSON
1879: Richard Ellis ROBERTS
1880: Mabel (nee)Guinnip LA RUE
1881: Henry Strong HUNTINGTON, Jr
1881: Jens Hendrik Oliver DJURHUUS
1882: Leila Pier KING
1882: Pierre DUMARCHAY / DUMARCHAIS (ps: Pierre MacORLAN)
1882: Prof, Ferdinand Diedrich/Diederich LESSING
1883: Coningsby (William) DAWSON
1883: Ethel (nee?)Romig FULLER
1883: Kate M MONRO
1883: Robert Livingston SCHUYLER
1884: (Christina Adriana) Dina(=Arendina) APPELDOORN
1884: (Henry) Lee SHIPPEY
1884: Hugh WILEY
1885: Otto Arthur CARGILL
1890: Kenyon Judson SCUDDER
1890: Prof, Stuart Alfred QUEEN
1891: Albert Croll BAUGH
1891: Guido L SCHOENBERGER
1891: Percy Tom FREEMAN
1893: Dorothy WHIPPLE, nee STIRRUP
1893: Ivor Armstrong RICHARDS
1898: Harold (B) MATSON
1898: Shields WARREN
1900: Jean NEGULESCO
1901: Sir, Leslie Knox MUNRO
1902: Jean (Marcel) BRULLER (&ps: VERCORS)
1904: David Gervan McMILLAN
1904: Prof, Hans ROSENBERG
1904: Prof, Harold Richard JOLLIFFE
1905: Charles ZUNKEL
1905: Frederick Lovatt REDEFER
1905: Hugh ELDER (ps: H E)
1905: Robert BYRON (&ps: Richard WAUGHBURTON (1))
1906: Samuel James LEE
1907: (Edward) John (Mostyn) BOWLBY
1907: Harry GOLDBERG (ps: Harry GOLD)
1909: Edward (Francis Leopold) BRECH
1909: Phyllis (Nan Sortain) CRADOCK, nee PECHEY, 1:Mrs VERNON-EVANS, 2:Mrs CHAPMAN, 3:Mrs HOLDEN-DYE (&ps: Fanny CRADOCK; Frances DALE; [Elsa FRANCES]; Bon VIVEUR (1))
1910: David Roden BUXTON
1910: Gertrude SAMUELS
1911: Sir, Eric (Gardner) TURNER
1913: Hermann LENZ
1913: Prof, Durand ECHEVERRIA
1913: Prof, George (Granville) BARKER
1914: Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto d'ABRUZZO (ps: Robert ALDA)
1914: Peter (Frederick) CARTER-RUCK
1914: Witold ROWICKI
1916: Freda (Mary) Russell VINES
1917: John Dick SCOTT (&ps: Malcolm GAIR)
1918: Bryan (Allan Lefevre) CRANSTONE
1918: Edward Hamilton WALDO, later Theodore Hamilton STURGEON (ps: Frederick R EWING (2); Theodore STURGEON; E Hunter WALDO)
1918: James Monroe CANNON, III
1919: Casimir LEWY
1919: Prof, David Andrew CLARKE, Jr
1920: Basil (Jack) GREENHILL
1920: Gp-Capt, Kenneth (Gilbert) HUBBARD
1920: John Howard DENNY
1920: Norman Frederick MORRIS
1921: Marilyn WILLIAMS
1921: Prof, George Brown TINDALL
1921: Prof, Jacob William GRUBER
1923: John N COLE
1927: Gerald (Francis) PRIESTLAND
1927: James KANTOR
1929: Chaim (Icyk) BERMANT
1931: Ally(=Alistair Reid) MacLEOD
1931: Prof, Harold Alexander BALTAXE
1932: Johnny(=John R) CASH
1933: Sir, James (Michael) GOLDSMITH
1940: Whitney SMITH, Jr
1941: Rhys (Maengwyn) JONES
1943: Joan THOMPSON, nee PHILLIPPS
1944: Christopher HOPE
1945: Christiane (nee)SOURVINOU-INWOOD, 1:Mrs ? (&ps: Christiana ELFWOOD)
1946: Gabrielle (Craig) LORD
1946: Sarah Betsy FULLER, nee COHEN
1947: Joyce (nee)Piell WEXLER
1949: Keith SWORD
1955: Harry KONDOLEON
1958: Tory(=Victorine) DENT, Mrs HARVEY
1971: Wasim KHAN

Died:

1723: Thomas D'URFEY
1802: Alexander GEDDES
1821: Comte, Joseph(-Marie) de MAISTRE
1823: John Philip KEMBLE
1848: Maj, Edward MOOR
1851: James MYLES
1852: Abp, Daniel MURRAY
1852: Richard GILBERT
1854: Charles William Edward JERNINGHAM
1855: Charles Blackford MANSFIELD
1856: Philip/Phillip Parker KING
1857: George DARNELL
1858: Thomas TOOKE
1860: Thomas JARMAN
1861: Francis ADAMS (&ps: A Scotch PHYSICIAN)
1861: Robert RIGG
1861: Taras (Hryhorovych) SHEVCHENKO
1862: Cornelius Conway FELTON
1864: Sir, Louis Hippolyte LAFONTAINE, 1st Baronet LAFONTAINE
1870: David MACLOUGHLIN
1870: Rev, John DUNCAN
1872: Rev, Alfred Penderill WADDINGTON (&ps: ONE of the People)
1873: Prof, Hugh Lenox HODGE
1875: Rev, John Collins M'CABE / McCABE
1875: Robert William BUSS
1876: Muirhead MITCHELL
1880: Augustus Granville STAPLETON
1880: Charles William RUSSELL
1881: Rev, John Casebow BARRETT
1882: Patrick Niesen LYNCH
1883: Rev, John HARRISON
1884: Alexander WOOD
1884: Rev, Charles BADHAM
1886: William HOYLE
1888: James (Augustus) Cotter MORISON
1889: Rev, John Hensley GODWIN
1889: Rev, Thomas MAGUIRE
1891: Charles Lee LEWES
1891: Fortuné(-Hippolyte-Auguste Abraham) CASTILLE (ps: Fortuné du/de BOISGOBEY)
1894: John PUCKLE
1896: Justin SIMPSON
1897: Henry Oliver LACROIX
1898: Frederick TENNYSON
1899: George Paxton YOUNG
1903: Henry John PALMER
1905: (Mayer André) Marcel SCHWOB (&ps: LOYSON-BRIDET)
1905: Guy (Newell) BOOTHBY
1905: Sir, Thomas Wemyss REID
1906: George STEWART
1906: John Williamson PALMER (&ps: John COVENTRY)
1907: Charles William ALCOCK
1907: Mary Elizabeth BLAKE, nee MacGRATH
1910: Prof, Arthur John BUTLER
1911: Sam Walter FOSS
1912: Rev, James Davenport KELLY
1912: Sir, Francis Richard CRUISE
1914: Rev, Samuel Rolles DRIVER
1915: Frank Thomas BULLEN
1915: Samuel Herbert HABERSHON
1917: Canon, Edward Alexander STUART
1917: Robert Percival PORTER
1918: Prof, Pietro BLASERNA
1919: Miss, (Anne Isabella) THACKERAY, 1:Lady RITCHIE (&ps: Anne Isabella RITCHIE)
1919: Reginald Charles Edward ABBOT, 3rd Baron COLCHESTER
1919: William Wright WILSON
1921: James PATON
1922: Prof, Luigi DENZA
1923: Rev, John Gurney HOARE
1924: Frederic CHAPPLE
1924: George Randolph CHESTER
1925: Sir, Archibald Edward Harbord ANSON
1926: William Charles SULLIVAN
1927: Louis Hemington PEGLER
1928: Bp, William BANISTER
1928: James WHITE
1928: Rev, Marcus Samuel Cam RICKARDS
1928: William TIBBLES
1929: Sir, William ROWAN-THOMPSON
1930: Bp, Arthur Crawshay Alliston HALL
1930: Cardinal, Raphael MERRY Del VAL
1930: Prof, Frederick SLATE
1932: Rev, John Alfred SHARROCK
1933: Canon, John Charles FORRESTER
1934: Canon, Herbert Theodore KNIGHT
1934: Christopher Nicholson JOHNSTON, Lord SANDS
1935: Canon, Ronald SYMES
1936: Jaime/Jayme de MAGALHÃES LIMA
1936: Prof, William ROMITI
1937: Mary POWNALL, Mrs BROMET
1937: Sir, James Haldane Stewart LOCKHART
1940: Lt-Col, Herbert Grenville LE MESURIER
1943: Olive Hyde FOSTER
1943: Raymond Asa KENT
1943: Rev, Paul Lendrum BLAKELY
1944: Gustav von BODELSCHWINGH
1946: Robert Morris WASHBURN
1948: Guy Eugene MORTON
1950: Sir, Harry(=Harold MacLennan) LAUDER
1951: Prof, George OLDROYD
1952: Sir, Patrick HASTINGS
1954: Prof, William Ralph INGE
1955: Agnes Mure MACKENZIE
1955: John Gordon JAMESON
1956: Elsie JANIS
1956: Frank FLETCHER
1960: Marcus Antonius Johnston de LAVIS-TRAFFORD
1962: Jethro BITHELL
1964: Sir, Theobald MATHEW (ps: O)
1966: Gino SEVERINI
1966: Prof, Joseph Russell SMITH
1969: Prof, Karl (Theodor) JASPERS
1974: Edward G ROBINSON, Jr, aka Emanuel GOLDENBERG
1976: Joseph WEIL
1980: Alexander BROOK
1980: Fred BERK
1980: Prof, William (Andrew) Horsley GANTT
1980: Rev, Anthony (John) ARKELL
1981: David SHAKOW
1981: Howard (Harold) HANSON
1983: Margaret NAUMBURG
1984: Prof, Richmond Alexander LATTIMORE
1985: Tjalling Charles KOOPMANS
1986: Lady, Amalia FLEMING, nee KOUTSOURIS, 1:Mrs VOUREKIS
1986: Prof, Alice Elizabeth INGMIRE
1987: John Grosvenor BEEVOR
1989: Milton Wheaton HAMILTON
1990: Iphigene (Bertha) (nee)Ochs SULZBERGER
1991: Bulee GAILLARD (ps: Slim GAILLARD)
1991: Prof, Ruth MOHL
1991: Sir, (Reginald) Roderick (St Clair) CHAMBERLAIN
1992: Archibald Trojan STEELE
1993: Fletcher KNEBEL
1993: Prof, Beaumont NEWHALL
1994: James (Joseph) Lloyd CARR
1994: Leopold KOHR
1994: Sir, Richard (Arthur) HAYWARD
1995: Helen Hill MILLER (&ps: Helen HILL)
1995: Prof, Codman HISLOP
1996: Malcolm Taber WORDELL
1998: Francis Paul THOMSON
1998: Prof, Theodore William SCHULTZ
1999: Michael (Angelo) AVALLONE, Jr (&ps: Nick CARTER; Troy CONWAY; Priscilla DALTON; Mark DANE; Jean-Anne de PRÉ; Dora HIGHLAND; Stuart JASON; Steve MICHAELS; Dorothea NILE; Edwina NOONE; Vance STANTON; Sidney STUART; Max WALKER; Lee Davis WILLOUGHBY)
1999: Prof, Jean M F J COULOMB
2000: Prof, Edwin Royden TRUEMAN
2000: Prof, John Cannon GILBERT
2000: Roger (Erskine) LONGRIGG (&ps: Laura BLACK; Ivor DRUMMOND; Rosalind ERSKINE; Frank PARRISH; Domini TAYLOR)
2000: Thomas William Alfred BORGES
2001: Arturo USLAR PIETRI
2001: Herbert KUPFERBERG
2002: Andrew PURVES
2002: Barry (Cambray) BLOOMFIELD
2002: Dinora PINES, Mrs LEWISON
2002: Helen Dick MEGAW
2002: Oskar SALA
2003: Ali Karim Said Abdullah al-KHAFAJI, aka Abu Firas
2003: George (Thomas Henry) CUSHING
2003: Harry J GAYNOR
2003: Prof, Herbert PASSIN
2003: William True DAVIS (II)
2004: Frances (Margaret) SHELDON, Mrs SIMMONDS
2004: Ralph E WINTERS
2004: Simon (Keith) WALKER
2004: Tony(=Anthony) LAMBRIANOU
2005: (Herbert Gustavus) Max FAULKNER
2005: Alan (James Herbert) HUNTER
2005: Henry(=Heinz Anatole) GRUNWALD
2005: Jef RASKIN
2005: John Donald MacIntyre GASS
2005: Sidney I ROBERTS
2006: (Esther) Georgina BATTISCOMBE, nee HARWOOD
2006: Bill(=William Joseph) CARDOSO
2006: Sir, Hans Wolfgang SINGER
2007: James O HALL
2007: John (Bryant) PRESS
2007: Lena (May) JEGER, nee CHIVERS, (life) Baroness JEGER
2007: Maxine (nee?)Enlow KIEFER
2007: Richard Louis MEIER