Author Anniversaries for Feb 6


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Born:

1612: Antoine ARNAULD, aka 'The Great Arnault'
1727: Patrick RUSSELL
1772: Sir, George MURRAY
1773: Sir, John STODDART
1778: Ugo FOSCOLO
1778: William BRYANT (ps: William O'BRYAN)
1783: Rev, Joseph HUNTER
1784: Rev, William JONES
1787: Rev, Richard Salter STORRS (Sr)
1796: Prof, John Stephens HENSLOW
1798: Jermyn PRATT
1799: Joseph GLYNN
1800: Thomas PITCAIRN
1801: Rev, William WILLIAMS (ps: CALEDFRYN)
1802: Sir, Charles WHEATSTONE
1804: Alexander SHAW
1806: Prof, William RAMSAY
1808: James ESDAILE
1811: Henry George LIDDELL
1811: William Barclay David Donald TURNBULL
1813: James DODDS
1813: Samuel SIDNEY
1818: Henri (Charles) LITOLFF
1820: Henry Howard BROWNELL
1820: William Matthew/Mattieu WILLIAMS
1825: Sir, William Lockyer MEREWETHER
1826: Prof, Joseph WINLOCK
1830: Daniel OLIVER
1832: Gen, John Brown GORDON
1835: Rev, Thomas Roscoe Rede STEBBING
1838: Alice PARKES, nee GIESLER
1838: Sir, John Henry BRODRIBB (ps: Henry IRVING)
1839: Sir, Spencer WALPOLE
1843: Frederic William Henry MYERS
1843: Paul SÉBILLOT
1844: Arthur McKee RANKIN
1847: Archdeacon, Stamford Raffles RAFFLES-FLINT
1847: McLeod STEWART
1847: Sir, Peter Wyatt SQUIRE
1848: Rev, Roger GRANVILLE
1849: Hermine VILLINGER
1852: Prof, Conwy Lloyd MORGAN
1857: Ernest FLAGG
1857: Jackson Harvey RALSTON
1859: Kate (nee)Slaughter McKINNEY
1859: Ricardo JIMÉNEZ OREAMUNO
1860: Archdeacon, William James ARMITAGE
1860: Henriette SAINT-JACQUES, nee DESSAULLES (&ps: FADETTE)
1861: Rev, George TYRRELL
1863: Prof, Archibald Hope YOUNG
1863: Rev, Herbert Edward SALTER
1863: Sir, Cyril JACKSON
1865: Andrew Claude (de LA CHEROIS-)CROMMELIN
1865: Charles William WALLACE
1867: Eldridge Reeves JOHNSON
1869: John Harsen RHOADES
1870: Henry David ROBERTS
1870: Henry Taylor WYSE
1870: James BRAID
1871: José Luis CANTILO
1873: Frederick SLOCUM
1873: William Webb KEMP
1874: Prof, Frank ALLEN
1875: Abp, Cyril Foster GARBETT
1875: Sir, Henry Cort Harold CARPENTER
1876: Sir, Oscar Emanuel WARBURG
1876: Wilhelm August SCHMIDTBONN
1878: Prof, William Clayton BOWER
1879: Katherine (nee)Fullerton GEROULD
1879: Neville Stephen LYTTON, 3rd Earl of LYTTON
1879: Thomas Jefferson WERTENBAKER
1880: Gen, (Heinrich) Hans KANNENGIESSER
1881: Maj, (Radcliffe James) Lindsay BASHFORD
1882: Anne (Bethel Scales) SPENCER, nee BANNISTER
1883: Sir, Adolphe ABRAHAMS
1885: (Arthur) Russell THORNDIKE
1885: Rev, Raymond Vincent HOLT
1887: Ernest (Henry) GRUENING
1889: Alexander Watts McCOY
1889: Prof, Axel Ragnar OLSON
1890: Sir, Hugh (Stott) TAYLOR
1891: Harry SIMONHOFF
1891: Neil MacNEIL
1893: James Rives CHILDS (&ps: Henry FILMER)
1893: Sir, (Chaudri) Muhammad ZAFRULLAH KHAN
1894: Edith WEIGERT, nee VOWINCKEL
1894: Eric (Honeywood) PARTRIDGE (&ps: Corrie DENISON)
1895: George Herman RUTH (ps: Babe RUTH)
1895: Woodland KAHLER
1897: Alberto (de ALMEIDA-)CAVALCANTI
1897: Prof, Humphrey Davy Findley KITTO
1897: Sir, (Robert) Victor GODDARD
1898: John HAMPDEN
1900: Russell REID
1901: Prof, Gordon Sherman HAIGHT
1901: Theodor JACOBSEN
1902: (Mrs Horace), Margaret WILLIAMS, Jr, nee JOHNSON
1902: Louis NIZER
1902: Rev, Charles Monroe CROWE
1903: Rev, Raymond Richard Elliott RAYNES
1904: Claude Hilary TAYLOR
1905: Irmgard KEUN
1906: (Charles) Horace JONES, aka HORACE the Poet
1906: Arthur CATHERALL (&ps: [The ROBIN])
1906: Eva LIPS
1906: Evelyn Garth MOORE
1906: Paul (Leon) SOPER
1907: Leona Ruth ZACHARIAS
1908: Amintore FANFANI
1908: Philip Louis GABRIEL
1908: Prof, Robert GORDIS
1909: Wyatt Rainey BLASSINGAME (&ps: W B RAINEY)
1910: Charles JONES
1911: Roman Norbert KETTERER
1911: US Pres, Ronald (Wilson) REAGAN
1912: (John Edward) Christopher HILL (&ps: K E HOLME)
1912: Frank SHELLEY
1912: Rabbi, Solomon SCHONFELD
1913: Mary (Douglas) LEAKEY, nee NICOL
1914: Baron, Bernd Freytag von LORINGHOVEN
1914: Margaret (nee)Turner STEWART
1914: Prof, Francis X CURRAN
1914: Prof, Paul Guiler HASTINGS
1916: Prof, John CRANK
1917: Arthur GOLD
1917: Douglas B HOYT
1918: Lothar-Günther BUCHHEIM
1918: Prof, Louis DUDEK
1919: Cecil Arthur Charles BULPITT, aka Philip BULPITT
1919: Elfriede (Martha) ABBE
1919: Frederic BRADLEE
1919: Louis (Philip) HEREN
1920: Andy LOGAN, Mrs LYON
1920: Prof, Maurice (Warwick) BERESFORD
1920: William(=Vladimir) JOVANOVICH
1921: Norman DUGDALE
1921: Prof, Herbert WEINER
1923: Harold Vernon WITT
1924: Billy(=William Ambrose) WRIGHT
1924: Paolo VOLPONI
1925: Pramoedya Ananta MASTOER (ps: Pramoedya Ananta TOER)
1926: Barbara (nee)Stone GELB
1926: Prof, Alfred Manuel GOLLIN, aka 'Freddie'
1927: Prof, Gerard Kitchen O'NEILL
1929: Keith WATERHOUSE (&ps: Herald FROY (2), Lee GIBB (2))
1929: Nevil JOHNSON
1930: b:LDNRabbi, Lionel BLUE
1931: Fred(=Frederick Sewards) TRUEMAN, aka Freddie TRUEMAN
1931: Prof, Gordon Emanuel CHERRY
1932: François TRUFFAUT
1932: Prof, Frederic Lawrence HOLMES
1933: Leslie CROWTHER
1934: Graydon DeCAMP
1934: John F LAWRENCE
1937: Richard MAGOFFIN
1938: Geoffrey MARSHALL
1941: John Stanton FLEMMING
1950: Elizabeth YOUNG, Mrs MANNHEIM
1953: Betsy DUFFY, nee BYARS
1960: Harry (William) THOMPSON
1960: Jeremy (Francis John) BOWEN

Died:

1793: Carlo GOLDONI (&ps: Logol CARDONI; Logolcardoni COLODISCE; Polisseno FEGEJO)
1801: Annis (nee)Boudinot STOCKTON
1804: Rev, Joseph PRIESTLEY
1825: Rev, Edward SMYTH
1829: Sir, Mark WOOD, 1st Baronet WOOD
1832: Rev, John ROMNEY
1853: Charles PEERS
1853: Granville Gower LOCH
1853: William PETER (&ps: Ralph FERRARS)
1861: Rev, Bulkeley BANDINEL
1862: Edward COOKE
1863: Joseph GLYNN
1865: Isabella (Mary) BEETON, nee MAYSON
1865: William Bentley FOWLE
1866: James MACFARLANE
1867: Salomon MUNK
1869: Francis James JAMESON
1869: George F MULVANY
1872: Sir, Thomas PHILIPS
1872: Sir, Thomas PHILLIPPS, 1st Baronet PHILLIPPS
1874: John PYE
1875: Thomas Turner WILKINSON
1876: Lady, Henrietta Georgiana Marcia CHATTERTON, nee IREMONGER
1877: Prof, Robert LEE
1878: Jacob B de LIEFDE
1878: Jacob DE LIEFDE
1879: Rev, Joseph Calrow MEANS
1880: James Coleman FITZPATRICK
1880: Myles William Patrick O'REILLY
1881: James ODAMS
1881: John William ANSON
1881: Karl Julius PLOETZ
1882: Marquesa, Frances Erskine CALDERÓN DE LA BARCA, nee INGLIS (&ps: Madame C- de la B-)
1884: Jules Fabian GINGRAS
1886: Philip Henry PEPYS
1887: Alexander WYLIE
1890: Richard Ottaway TURNER
1892: Benjamin Bridges Hunter RODWELL
1893: Edward (H) KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN, ne HUGESSEN, 1st Baron BRABOURNE of Brabourne
1894: John Patrick PRENDERGAST
1897: John Daly BRISCOE
1900: Rev, John KENNEDY
1900: Sir, William Wilson HUNTER
1901: Archdeacon, Henry JACOBS
1905: Luther HOLDEN
1906: James ANNAND
1910: Edward SAUNDERS
1910: Rev, Andrew Robert FAUSSET
1913: Rev, Forbes Edward WINSLOW
1915: Abp, Edward (Gilpin) BAGSHAWE
1916: Félix Rubén GARCÍA SARMIENTO (ps: Rubén DARÍO)
1919: Richard Alexander STREATFEILD
1920: Judge, Robert WOODFALL
1920: Vincent Arthur SMITH
1921: Abba Louisa WOOLSON, nee GOOLD
1921: Charles Edward (W) JERNINGHAM, aka 'Marmaduke'
1921: Prof, Frederick William PENNEFATHER
1922: Sir, Francis Henry MAY
1923: Edward Emerson BARNARD
1923: Prof, Bernhard Eduard FERNOW
1924: Henry Crosby EMERY
1926: (Kathleen) (Matilda) Mannington CAFFYN, nee HUNT (&ps: IOTA)
1928: Canon, William Hey SHARP
1929: Charlotte (nee)Carmichael STOPES
1930: Edward (William BOOTLE-)WILBRAHAM, 3rd Earl of LATHOM
1932: Cecil REDDIE
1934: Bernard HOLLANDER
1934: Rabbi, Hyman Gerson ENELOW
1936: Clifton Armstrong HOWES
1936: Francis HAWKINS
1936: Prof, Francis Hovey STODDARD
1937: Rev, William Henry LAX
1937: Wilfred BLACKET
1938: Sir, Harry Gloster ARMSTRONG
1938: Wilfranc HUBBARD
1939: Sir, Sayaji Rao BARODA, III
1942: George Washington STEPHENS
1942: Lauri Kristian RELANDER
1944: Kremer Jacob HOKE
1944: Philip Max RASKIN
1944: Will B JOHNSTONE
1945: Ragnar ÖSTBERG
1945: Robie Lewis REID
1945: William Henry HOWELL
1946: Hugh Wansey BAYLY
1947: Ellen Cicely WILKINSON
1947: Rev, Henry Marshall TORY
1947: Rudolf DITZEN (ps: Hans FALLADA)
1948: Sir, Bernard Henry BOURDILLON
1950: Norman AULT
1953: Rev, Edward George PACE
1954: Frederick (Sydney) LOCH (&ps: Sydney de LOGHE)
1954: Maxwell BODENHEIM, ne BODENHEIMER
1956: Prof, Warner BROWN
1958: Charles Langbridge MORGAN
1958: Prof, Thomas Dale STEWART
1959: Prof, James Alexander Kerr THOMSON
1960: Canon, Edwin Basil REDLICH
1960: Rev, Thomas William Ernest DRURY
1961: Lawrence John Lumley DUNDAS, 2nd Marquess of ZETLAND
1965: Sophie KERR, Mrs UNDERWOOD
1967: Henry MORGENTHAU, Jr
1968: James Gomer BERRY, Viscount KEMSLEY
1971: Prof, Nels Fredrik Solomon FERRE
1972: Francis Scott SMYTH
1974: Prof, Olga Louise BRIDGMAN
1975: Prof, Aarne LAITAKARI
1975: Prof, John Thomas McNEILL
1977: Sir, Kenneth (Granville) BRADLEY
1979: Sir, George Norman CLARK
1980: Ashley (Howard) BUCK
1980: Prof, Thomas Paul JENKIN
1981: Queen, FREDERIKA (Luise Thyra Viktoria Margarete Sophia Olga Cecilia Isabella Christa), of Greece, nee Princess of BRUNSWICK-LUNEBURG
1981: St John Dudley BUXTON
1984: Jorge GUILLÉN (SANZ)
1984: Rabbi, Solomon SCHONFELD
1984: Ulrich ERNST (ps: Jimmy ERNST)
1985: (Helen) Muriel GARDINER, nee MORRIS, 2:Mrs BUTTINGER
1985: Prof, Shlomo(=Solomon) Dov(=Dob) (Fritz) GOITEIN
1985: René Lodge Brabazon RAYMOND (ps: James Hadley CHASE; James L DOCHERTY; Ambrose GRANT; Raymond MARSHALL)
1986: Minoru YAMASAKI
1988: Iris VINTON
1988: Marghanita LASKI, Mrs HOWARD (&ps: Sarah RUSSELL)
1988: Rev, Bertrand Rippington BRASNETT
1989: André(-Jean) CAYATTE
1989: Barbara TUCHMAN, nee WERTHEIM
1989: Frank Wilson KENYON
1989: Stacy Vanderhoof JONES
1990: Prof, Richard B ADLER
1990: Robert William KISTNER
1991: Muzyad YAHKOOB, later Amos JACOBS (ps: Danny THOMAS)
1991: Prof, Salvador (Edward) LURIA
1993: Arthur (Robert) ASHE (Jr)
1993: Arthur (Robert) ASHE (Jr)
1994: Prof, Dorothy R PITELKA, nee RIGGS
1995: James (Ingram) MERRILL
1995: Richard (H) BASSETT
1996: Derek Roland WIGRAM
1998: (Katherine Maud) Elisabeth MURRAY
1998: Robert E McENROE
1999: Don(=Donald Allan) DUNSTAN
1999: Prof, Leslie Francis SMITH
2000: Grace Edith CAIRNS
2001: (Thomas) Geoffrey BIBBY
2001: Prof, Emily Dickinson Townsend VERMEULE
2001: Sir, Richard (William) SOUTHERN
2002: Guy (Harry) STOCKWELL
2002: Prof, John (McEwen) POTTER
2002: Prof, Max (Ferdinand) PERUTZ
2002: Viola Wilson HOGG, 1:Lady TAIT
2003: Diana de ROSSO
2003: Eric ASHBY
2003: Herb(=Herbert H) BRIN
2003: Landrum Brewer SHETTLES
2003: Marie-Therese DANIELSSON
2003: Robert (William) ST JOHN
2003: Sir, Peter SAUNDERS
2004: Humphry (Fortescue) OSMOND
2004: Jerome F LEDERER
2004: Prof, Hans H WELLISCH
2004: Stefan Otto SCHIFF
2005: George A DUDLEY
2005: John (Edward) PERCIVAL
2005: Karl HAAS
2005: Lora (C) (nee?)Bryning REDFORD
2005: Michael (Evelyn) ADAMS
2005: Prof, (John) Barry CULLINGWORTH
2006: Prof, Thomas Lee WHISLER
2006: Stella ROSS-CRAIG, Mrs SEALY
2007: Francesco Paolo LoVECCHIO (ps: Frankie LAINE)
2007: Prof, Nelson Woolf POLSBY (&ps: [Arthur CLUN])
2007: Sir, Gareth (Gwyn) ROBERTS
2008: (Loretta) Ruth (nee)Stafford PEALE
2008: Saul GREENBLATT (ps: Paul S GREEN)