Author Anniversaries for Jan 16


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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