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Born:
1604: Roger WILLIAMS 1740: Willoughby BERTIE, 4th Earl of ABINGDON 1741: Hester Lynch PIOZZI, nee SALUSBURY, 1:Mrs THRALE 1749: Count, Vittorio (Amedeo) ALFIERI 1783: Bp, Jean Baptiste BOUVIER 1783: Robert Douglas HAMILTON (&ps: Mungo Coulter GOGGLE) 1788: Henry MONTGOMERY 1795: Rev, Charles Frederick WATKINS 1800: Robert BELL 1803: Rev, Thomas Agar HOLLAND 1803: Sir, Walter ELLIOT 1804: Sophia POOLE, nee LANE 1805: William Jory HENWOOD 1811: William Alexander RICHARDSON 1817: Prof, Islay BURNS 1821: Dr, James Harrison RIGG 1821: Robert William HUGHES 1828: Rev, William John BEAMONT 1831: Dudley Francis Stuart RYDER, 3rd Earl of HARROWBY 1831: Emma LETHERBROW, nee HOPPS 1832: Adam Wallace THAXTER 1835: Charles William HUBNER 1844: George BROWN 1845: R-Adm, Charles Dwight SIGSBEE 1847: (Richard) Homer MEAD 1847: Fr, Marcel MARTINEAU 1848: Augustus Lawrence FRANCIS 1849: Sir, Henry Fielding DICKENS 1850: Sir, James BELL, 1st Baronet BELL 1853: Sir, Alexander HOSIE 1853: Sir, Ian (Standish Monteith) HAMILTON 1853: Sir, Johnston FORBES-ROBERTSON 1855: Eleanor MARX (ps: Eleanor MARX-AVELING) 1856: Solomon Solis CARVALHO 1857: Prof, Herbert Wildon CARR 1858: Prof, Elwood MEAD 1860: Samuel Thomas WOOD 1861: Wilson TAYLOR 1863: Col, Bernard Rowland WARD 1864: Alice Vinton WAITE 1866: Sir, (Harold) Lincoln TANGYE, 1st Baronet TANGYE 1866: Sir, Herbert (John Clifford) GRIERSON 1868: Harrie Irving HANCOCK 1868: Prof, Armin Otto LEUSCHNER 1869: Arthur Digby BESANT 1870: Harry Lorenzo GILCHRIST 1872: (Edward Henry) Gordon CRAIG 1872: Edward (Henry) Gordon CRAIG 1872: Sir, Robert Clermont WITT (ps: R W) 1873: Ernest Romney MATTHEWS 1874: Robert William SERVICE 1877: Charles William PREVITÉ-ORTON 1877: Sir, Westcott (Stile) ABELL 1881: Edwin Lancelot (HOPEWELL-)ASH 1881: Lucius Hudson HOLT 1881: Reed SMITH 1882: Margaret (Wilhelmina) WILSON, Mrs TURNER (ps: [An Elderly SPINSTER]; Elizabeth WEST) 1883: Brig, Charles Herbert BLAINE 1883: John/Jack Freeman FAIRFAX-BLAKEBOROUGH (&ps: [HAMBLETONIAN]) 1884: Jules SUPERVIELLE 1884: Sir, Eric TEICHMAN 1885: Charles PILLEY 1885: ZHOU Zuoren 1886: Canon, William TELFER 1887: Col, Roger Hammet BEADON 1887: George (Edward) KELLY 1887: Lt-Col, Gordon DALYELL of the Binns 1888: V-Adm, Harold Tom BAILLIE-GROHMAN 1890: Carl William ACKERMAN 1891: Anne SIMLEY 1892: August A THOMEN 1893: Prof, John H COLLINS 1895: Arthur James WILLIS 1895: Philip CORTNEY 1896: Lt-Col, Edward BARRY 1897: (Camara) Carlos PELLICER 1897: Elmer G LETERMAN 1897: S Chesterfield OPPENHEIM 1901: Laura Riding REICHENTHAL, 1:Mrs GOTTSCHALK, 2:Mrs JACKSON (ps: Laura Riding GOTTSCHALK; Laura JACKSON; Barbara RICH (2); Laura RIDING; Madeleine VARA) 1901: Thomas Stanley MATTHEWS 1902: Prof, Charles (Rudolph) FEILDING 1903: Prof, Pierre Henri SIMON 1904: Lionel John Farnham BRIMBLE 1905: Elizabeth MONROE 1905: Ernesto HALFFTER (ESCRICHE) 1906: Carla LANYON, Mrs HACKER 1906: Prof, Archibald MacBride HUNTER 1906: Sir, Terence George WARD 1907: Alexander KNOX 1907: Neil Servis BOARDMAN 1907: Paul Henry NITZE 1908: Ethel Agnes ZIMMERMANN, 1:Mrs SMITH, 2:Mrs LEVITT, 3:Mrs SIX, 4:Mrs BORGNINE (ps: Ethel MERMAN) 1909: Clement GREENBERG 1909: Prof, Alexander KENNEDY 1909: Prof, Clifford LEECH 1910: Dwight WEIST 1910: Earl F NATION 1910: Prof, Paul VILLIARD (&ps: J H deGROS) 1911: CL Pres, Eduardo FREI (MONTALVA) 1911: Margaret (nee)Maze CRAIG 1911: Prof, Lawrence Lee VANCE 1911: Sir, Roger (John Massy) SWYNNERTON 1912: Nigel (Forbes) DENNIS 1912: Prof, Norman GASH 1913: Allan (E) BEEKMAN 1913: Prof, Tom BURNS 1913: William Donald JARVIS 1914: Jameson Gilbert CAMPAIGNE 1915: Prof, Eleanor ZAIMIS, nee CHRISTIDES, 1:Mrs CHRYSAFIS 1916: Joseph Tillman HALL 1916: Robert SNYDER 1916: Roland Charles Leslie Gregory GREGORY, aka Roy GREGORY 1916: Sir, Frederick (Henry) STEWART 1916: Veljko MICUNOVIC 1917: Herbert Lewis HACKETT 1917: Prof, Joe B FRANTZ 1917: Rohan Deakin RIVETT 1918: Cardinal, Marcelo GONZÁLEZ MARTÍN 1918: Sir, (Henry) William (Rawson) WADE 1918: Stirling SILLIPHANT 1919: Harry Otis BRUNN, Jr 1920: (Joseph) Donald BEVAN (Jr) 1920: Al(=Albert Edward) MORGAN 1920: Nani Adeshir PALKHIVALA 1920: Prof, William Henry HARBAUGH 1921: Francesco SCAVULLO 1921: Leslie GARDINER 1921: Maj-Gen, Rowland (Spencer Noel) MANS, aka Rowley MANS 1922: Lt-Col, Fred OLIVI 1923: Christine (Frances Evelyn) BROOKE-ROSE, 1:Mrs BAX, 2:Mrs PETERKIEWICZ, 3:Mrs BROOKE 1923: Prof, Anthony (Evan) HECHT 1924: Aleksandar TISMA 1924: Prof, Henri-Jean MARTIN 1924: Samuel C BURCHELL, III 1925: Joe EULA 1925: John WYATT 1926: Eberhardt RECHTIN 1928: (Mary) Patricia MOORE, nee CROWLEY 1928: Albert A TILLMAN 1928: Prof, John William FOZARD 1929: Allard (Kenneth) LOWENSTEIN 1929: James Stewart WILSON 1929: Tage NIELSEN 1932: Colin BANKS 1932: Dian FOSSEY 1933: Susan SONTAG, previously ROSENBLATT, Mrs RIEFF 1934: Maurice Raymond ROTHEROE 1935: Prof, Ruth Margaret WILLIAMSON, aka Kay WILLIAMSON 1936: Ruth HALCOMB, nee MOORE 1940: Michael Brian GEARIN-TOSH, ne GEARIN 1947: Magdalen NABB, nee NUTTAL 1954: Nancy RICHARDS-AKERS
Died:
1327: Nicephorus CHUMNUUS 1747: Barthold Heinrich BROCKES 1755: Nicolas LENGLET Du FRESNOY / LENGLETIUS (&ps: GOSFORD; Gordon de PERCEL; Albert VAN HEUSSEN) 1794: Edward GIBBON 1826: Lindley MURRAY 1828: Duchesse, Claire Louise Rose Bonne Lechal de Kersaint de DURAS 1830: John FREEMAN-MITFORD, ne MITFORD, 1st Baron REDESDALE 1838: Aleksandr Ivanovich POLEZHAEV 1839: Charles LLOYD 1844: John DRINKWATER 1849: Stephen HUMBERT 1852: Sir, John Dean PAUL, 1st Baronet PAUL 1854: Thomas SMIBERT 1856: Rev, Jonathan CROWTHER 1858: Rev, Benjamin SLIGHT 1865: Leitch RITCHIE 1866: David OWEN (&ps: BLEDDYN; BRUTUS) 1866: Phineas Parkhurst QUIMBY 1867: Alexander GIBSON 1867: Joseph GUY, the Elder 1867: William MARSDEN 1869: John Shae PERRING 1871: Maj, Mark William CARR 1878: Mrs Bury, (Fanny) PALLISER, nee MARRYAT 1878: Samuel BOWLES 1879: John Benjamin HEATH 1879: Joseph Octave CRÉMAZIE 1879: Thomas SOPWITH 1885: Edmond (François Valentin) ABOUT 1885: William Garrett LEWIS 1886: Canon, William KAY 1886: Henry Norman HUDSON 1887: Prof, Edward Collett MAY 1888: Sir, John STAPLES 1889: Thomas H Cockburn HOOD 1893: George Byres MAINWARING 1897: Joel Tyler HEADLEY 1899: Fr, Charles Paschal Télesphore CHINIQUY 1900: Théophile Pierre BÉDARD 1902: Jehu MATHEWS 1902: Lizzie CUTLER, nee PETIT 1909: Albert MÉRAT 1909: Francis ELGAR 1909: William Amherst TYSSEN-AMHERST, 1st Baron AMHERST Of HACKNEY 1912: Alfred FOUILLÉE 1913: Rev, Austin POTTER 1914: Henry Albert REEVES 1916: Virginia Wales JOHNSON (&ps: Cousin VIRGINIA) 1917: Adm, George DEWEY 1917: Henry Gorell BARNES, 2nd Baron GORELL 1918: Dora (Mary) (nee)Sigerson SHORTER 1918: Thomas CÔTÉ 1920: (Henry Louis) Reginald DE KOVEN 1920: Alfred PARSONS 1920: Maj, Evan Rowland JONES 1920: Sir, George Dalhousie RAMSAY 1922: Rev, John BROWN 1923: Charlotte (Maria Shaw) MASON 1925: Henry William DISNEY 1925: John Milne BRAMWELL 1925: Luke VOORHEES 1926: George Hillyard SWINSTEAD 1927: Harvey LOHR 1927: James John Haldane BURGESS 1927: Rev, Robert Stuart de Courcy LAFFAN 1927: Sir, Whitworth WALLIS 1928: Arthur Henry PATERSON 1928: James ALGIE (&ps: Wallace LLOYD) 1928: James Edmund HARTING 1928: Jehangir Sorabji WARDEN 1928: Rev, William MORGAN 1929: Dame, Sophia Gertrude WINTZ 1931: Charles R GIBSON 1932: Arthur Robert DOGGART 1933: Baron, DESCAMPS 1934: Prof, Annie W PATTERSON 1935: Frederick Augustus DIXBY 1936: Cecil William DAVIDGE 1936: John Brainerd CAPPER 1936: Sir, John George WOODROFFE (ps: Arthur AVALON) 1937: Bp, Edmund Arbuthnot KNOX 1937: Prof, David ELLIS 1937: Rev, Frederick HASTINGS 1937: Thomas Goodall NASMYTH 1938: Maj, Ernest Edward AUSTEN 1938: William Henry PICKERING 1940: Sir, Charles Tyrell GILES 1941: Archibald Gordon MACDONELL (&ps: John CAMERON; Neil GORDON) 1941: Oliver BRACKETT 1942: (Isabel) Violet HUNT, later HUEFFER (&ps: [Violet HERRIS]) 1942: Boothe Colwell DAVIS 1942: Lady, Ethel (May) BOILEAU 1942: Sir, Jeremiah COLMAN, 1st Baronet COLMAN 1943: Sir, William Arbuthnot LANE 1945: (George William) Gilbert PATTEN (ps: Morgan SCOTT; Burt L STANDISH) 1945: Francis Thomas MALONEY 1945: Hobart Chatfield CHATFIELD-TAYLOR 1945: James Williams TYRRELL 1946: Robin Ernest William FLOWER 1946: William Warwick BUCKLAND 1947: Pedro Leão VELLOSO 1949: Christopher Wilson BROWN 1950: Grace Maxwell FERNALD 1951: Prof, George Ernest GASK 1952: Bp, Horace CROTTY 1953: Henry Vaughan LANCHESTER 1953: Rev, William Ainger WIGRAM 1957: Mary POWER (ps: A SISTER of Charity; Sister MAURA) 1958: Prof, Francis (de) ZULUETA 1959: Prof, Robert McELROY 1962: (Frederick Charles) Hannen SWAFFER 1962: Clyde Bruce AITCHISON 1962: Richard Henry TAWNEY 1967: Marie MAJEROVNA 1968: Edmund Ware SINNOTT 1968: Leopold INFELD 1969: Vladimir DUKELSKY (ps: Vernon DUKE) 1970: Prof, Theodore Robert HUSEK 1974: Sylvester Kirby STEVENS 1975: BANDO Mitsugoro VIII, aka OYKOSUKE 1976: Mabel H MEYER 1979: Arthur H SULLY 1981: Prof, William Stephen BRISCOE 1981: R-Adm, René-Emile GODFROY 1983: Vladimir BAKARIC 1984: Gardner D STOUT (Sr) 1984: Joan LIVERSIDGE 1985: Prof, Robert (Stuart) FITZGERALD 1986: Herbert W ARMSTRONG 1986: Jean CASSON 1987: Earl WILSON 1988: Allen CHURCHILL 1988: Lakshmi Kant JHA 1989: Prof, Michael Boris SHIMKIN 1989: Prof, Thomas Raymond McCONNELL 1990: Joe Alex MORRIS, Sr 1991: Preston (Ercelle) CLOUD 1991: Prof, (Philip) Nicholas (Seton) MANSERGH 1991: Prof, David Lloyd DeJARNETTE 1991: Sir, Richard (Moulton) EGGLESTON 1992: Dame, Shelagh (Marjorie) ROBERTS 1992: Eric Burns McLELLAN 1992: Janio da Silva QUADROS 1992: Prof, Hunton D SELLMAN 1994: György/Georges CZIFFRA 1994: Stephen (M) KRITSICK 1995: Prof, Eric MOTTRAM 1996: Kaye WEBB, 1:Mrs BRIERLEY, 2:Mrs HUNTER, 3:Mrs SEARLE 1996: Marcia DAVENPORT, nee GLUCK 1996: Prof, Robert Royal RUSSEL 1996: Sir, John BADENOCH 1996: Sir, Richard (Hugh Sedley) ALLEN 1998: Prof, Robert Henry Stewart THOMPSON 1999: George Humphrey Wolferstan RYLANDS 2000: Bernard Willard AGINSKY 2001: Auberon (Alexander) WAUGH 2001: John ROSSELLI 2001: Prof, Robert NIKLAUS 2001: Richard S MacNEISH 2002: (Gwilym) John BLOCKLEY 2002: Bertalan de NEMETHY 2002: Jean ELLENSTEIN, aka Jean ELLEN 2002: Prof, Robert HANBURY BROWN 2002: Rev, Ernest GORDON 2003: Alfred KANTOR 2003: Chris(=Christopher John) MEAD 2003: Georg KNEPLER 2003: Harold B GERARD 2003: Ken(=Kenneth) GALLACHER 2003: Margot (nee)Patterson DOSS (&ps: Francisco BALTIMORE; Silas FACTOR; Francisco SHUNPIKE) 2003: Rev, Hamish McINTOSH 2003: Sir, Peter Richard PAIN 2004: (Taisto) Kalevi SORSA 2004: Albert A TILLMAN 2004: William ROWLINSON 2005: Dame, Juliet (Martin) BINGLEY, nee VICK 2005: Hiram Bentley GLASS 2005: Muff SINGER, Mrs TUTTLE 2005: Prof, Marshall EDELSON 2005: Sidney CARTER 2006: Jan(=Janet Marjorie) MARK, nee BRISLAND 2006: Kate BARBASH, nee HUBELBANK 2006: Prof, Arthur Taylor von MEHREN 2006: Prof, Philip GRIERSON 2007: Fr, Charles Stewart WATSON 2008: Hassan Sheikh MUMIN 2008: Hone TUWHARE 2008: Philip CONISBEE