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Born:
1501: Prof, Leonhart/Leonhard FUCHS 1560: Gaspard/Caspar BAUHIN 1600: Pedro CALDERÓN De La BARCA (HENAO De La BARREDA Y RIAÑO) 1672: Antoine Houdar de LA MOTTE, aka LAMOTTE-HOUDAR 1686: Archibald BOWER 1706: Benjamin FRANKLIN 1709: George LYTTELTON, 1st Baron LYTTELTON 1728: Ralph DARLING 1761: André RIGAUD 1761: Sir, James HALL, 4th Baronet HALL of Dunglass 1770: Charles JERRAM 1771: Charles Brockden BROWN 1773: Johann Christian (August) HEINROTH (&ps: Tremund WALLENTRETER) 1776: Jane PORTER (&ps: A RECLUSE) 1779: Canon, Robert WHITTAKER 1781: Prof, Robert HARE 1785: Leonard HORNER 1788: John LONSDALE 1789: Prof, David MENDEL (ps: (Johann) Augustus (Wilhelm) NEANDER) 1800: Caleb CUSHING 1802: Josiah QUINCY, Jr 1803: John MAITLAND 1805: Henry Borren FIELDING 1808: Lewis POCOCK 1809: Charles Samuel SIMMS 1809: Rev, John WEST 1810: Archdeacon, Edward Adderley STOPFORD 1810: William HENDERSON 1814: John Mix STANLEY 1814: Mrs Henry, (Ellen) WOOD, nee PRICE 1815: Benjamin Bridges Hunter RODWELL 1817: Henry CALLAWAY 1817: Rep, John Bassett ALLEY 1820: Anne BRONTË (ps: Acton BELL) 1820: Richard Brinsley KNOWLES 1823: Prof, Robert KERR 1825: Elizabeth PHILP 1825: John Edward SOWERBY 1826: (Lovisa) Adelaïde EHRNROOTH 1826: Rev, Isaiah WALLACE 1826: Samuel LAYCOCK 1827: John Corbet ANDERSON 1830: Elizabeth Julia HASELL 1830: Prof, William WRIGHT 1830: Sir, Eyre Massey SHAW 1832: Henry Martin BAIRD 1832: Wilbraham EGERTON, 1st Earl EGERTON 1834: Prof, August (Friedrich Leopold) WEISMANN 1837: Oscar BROWNING 1840: Prof, (Marie) Paul (Hyacinth) MEYER 1844: Henry Elliot SHEPHERD 1845: John Ames MITCHELL 1846: Alfred Henry ALLEN 1846: Sir, Harry Newton Phillips WOLLASTON 1851: Arthur Burdett FROST 1851: Sir, James CANTLIE 1852: Domingo FIGAROLA-CANEDA 1853: Col, Samuel John THOMSON 1853: Frederick SHERLOCK 1853: Frederick Swinford EDWARDS 1854: Rev, Alfred ROEBUCK 1858: John LEWIS 1860: Anton (Pavlovich) CHEKHOV 1860: George Rice HOVEY 1860: IE Pres, Douglas HYDE, aka 'An Craoibhín Aoibhinn' 1861: Edward Potts CHEYNEY 1861: Lindesay John ROBERTSON 1861: Sir, Harry Gloster ARMSTRONG 1861: Thomas Moffatt ALLISON 1863: David LLOYD GEORGE, 1st Earl LLOYD GEORGE Of DWYFOR 1864: Arthur St John ADCOCK (&ps: A St J A) 1864: Dean, Andrew Ewbank BURN 1864: Frederic William SANDERS (ps: A Retired College PRESIDENT) 1865: Charles Whiting BAKER 1866: Edmund Alexander MOLONY 1868: Prof, Ernst von HALLE 1870: Arthur Henry Howard HEMING 1870: Sir, Charles Edwin ODGERS 1871: Ludvig HOPE 1872: Prof, Timothy (Joseph) CORCORAN 1874: Mgr, Jean (Antoine) CALVET (&ps: Jean QUERCY) 1875: Cora (nee?)Wilson STEWART 1875: Florencio SÁNCHEZ 1876: Sir, Charles Frederick HIGHAM 1876: Walter SWAIN 1877: (Cecilia) May GIBBS, Mrs (Ossoli) KELLY (&ps: [Stan COTTMAN]) 1878: Frederick A BLOSSOM 1878: Will Levington COMFORT 1879: Fannie Wych/Wyche DUNN 1880: Albert Eustace HAYDON 1880: Mikall SINNOTT (ps: Mack SENNETT) 1881: Harry PRICE 1881: Prof, Alfred Reginald RADCLIFFE-BROWN 1882: Louise BOWMAN, nee MOREY 1883: Sir, (Edward Montague) Compton MACKENZIE 1885: Irving (Newton) BRANT 1886: (Arthur Annesley) Ronald FIRBANK 1887: Harvey Harlow NININGER 1887: Ola RAKNES (&ps: Carl ARNOLD) 1888: Alan Mason CHESNEY 1888: Edmund Jesse MARSHALL 1888: Sir, Gerald BURRARD, 8th Baronet BURRARD of Walhampton 1889: Sir, Ralph Howard FOWLER 1890: Stanley (Jack) RUBINSTEIN 1891: Bevil Hugh MOLESWORTH 1891: Judge, Ronald Brymer BECKETT (&ps: John ANTHONY) 1891: Sir, Josiah COURT 1893: Elsie DUNN, 1:Mrs WELLMAN, 2:Mrs METCALFE (ps: Evelyn SCOTT; Ernest SOUZA) 1893: Merl/Merle Raymond/Rawls EPPSE 1894: Paul (A) CRUGER 1896: Francis Archibald Kelhead DOUGLAS, 11th Marquess of QUEENSBERRY 1897: Ifor Leslie EVANS 1897: Prof, Lionel George CROCKER 1898: Rudolph Maurice LOEWENSTEIN 1899: Nevil Shute NORWAY (ps: Nevil SHUTE) 1899: Robert Maynard HUTCHINS 1899: Sir, Ronald IVELAW-CHAPMAN 1900: Sir, Edward (Foyle) COLLINGWOOD 1901: Prof, Aron GURWITSCH 1901: Prof, Louis Francis HARTMAN 1903: (Thomas) Douglas (James) CLEVERDON 1904: Prof, Billy E GOETZ 1905: Harry B PRICE 1905: James Edward TOBIN (&ps: Alan RAYNE) 1905: Jean BURTON 1905: Louis ARMAND 1905: Sophie FRIEDLÄNDER 1906: Hiram Bentley GLASS 1907: Alfred WAINWRIGHT 1907: Richard Charles Leslie BOSWORTH 1908: Claude Ronald EVERS 1908: Matthias FALTER 1908: Sir, David (Waldron) SMITHERS 1909: Prof, Gerhard Emanuel FROST 1910: Martin du Pré COOPER 1911: (Arthur) Harold (Makins) SIDDONS 1911: Prof, George Joseph STIGLER 1912: Prof, John Ellis Caerwyn WILLIAMS 1912: Sir, Edward FENNESSY 1912: Sir, Michael (John Sinclair) CLAPHAM 1913: Paul BUGEJA 1913: Shaun WYLIE (&ps: [PETTI]) 1914: Albert H MOSEMAN 1914: Gene(=Eugene Franklin) GLEASON 1914: Irving BRECHER 1914: William (Edgar) STAFFORD 1915: Ann KURTIN, Mrs RUDLEY (ps: Ann LORING) 1915: Prof, Eli SOBEL 1915: Roger (Windle) PILKINGTON 1916: Keith Leonard SUTHERLAND 1916: Prof, Charles Francis HOCKETT 1916: Sir, David (Treharne) LLEWELLYN 1916: William BOWERS 1917: Alfred MAIZELS 1917: Oskar MORAWETZ 1917: Sam(=Samuel David) LOCKE, aka David MALCOLM 1917: Silvio A BEDINI 1918: Conrad C REINING 1918: Keith (Sinjohn) JOSEPH, (life) Baron JOSEPH of Portsoken 1918: Leroy OSTRANSKY 1918: Sophie BLOOM, nee NISSENBAUM 1920: Georges PICHARD 1921: Eloise R GIBLETT 1921: Gordon de Quetteville ROBIN 1922: Betty (Marion) WHITE 1922: Konon Trofimovich MOLODY, aka Georgi LONOV (ps: Gordon LONSDALE) 1922: Nicholas deBelleville KATZENBACH 1922: Prof, Robert EISNER 1923: Kenneth Jamieson PETERS 1924: Mary (nee?)Davies KELLY 1924: Prof, Irving A SPERGEL 1924: Richard (Douglas) HAIGH 1925: Robert (Edmund) CORMIER 1926: Moira Shearer KING, 1:Lady KENNEDY (ps: Moira SHEARER) 1926: Prof, Anthony David BRADSHAW 1926: Sir, Clyde (Leopold) WALCOTT 1926: Tony(=Anthony David) BRADSHAW 1927: Eartha (Mae) KITT, Mrs McDONALD 1927: Helmut MYKURA 1927: Prof, Donald ERB 1927: Tom(=Thomas Anthony) DOOLEY (III) 1928: Anita Clay KORNFELD, nee WALTER, 1:Mrs JOHNSON 1928: Derek JOHNSON 1928: Roman FRISTER 1928: Sylvia WYNTER, Mrs CAREW (&ps: Wynter CAREW) 1928: Vidal SASSOON 1929: Derek Harry Alan LODGE 1929: Donald KARSHAN 1930: Dudley (Allen) DOUST 1930: Jara(=Jaroslava) MOSEROVÁ, Mrs DAVID 1930: Monica (Mavis) FURLONG, Mrs KNIGHTS 1931: Anthony MARRIOTT 1931: Bob GILL 1931: Jonathan (Walter) GOODMAN 1933: Alan PETERS 1933: Prince, Sadruddin AGA KHAN 1933: Shari (Phyllis) LEWIS, nee HURWITZ, 2:Mrs TARCHER 1934: Edward Martin SWARTZ 1938: John (Anthony) BELLAIRS 1942: Cassius Marcellus CLAY, Jr (ps: Muhammad ALI) 1942: Lawrence Hardwick WILLINGHAM 1942: Michael David ANTHONY 1944: Richard Alan WHITE (&ps: [Alberto CABRAL]) 1947: Derek (John) SCOTT 1947: Dick CLUSTER 1952: Darrell R PORTER 1954: Christopher ADLER 1954: Dorothee WONG LOI SING 1956: Hubertus CZERNIN 1957: Paul James MARTIN (ps: Paul MERTON) 1958: James (Lifford) HEWITT 1965: André TEICHMANN (ps: André ALEXANDER) 1971: Richard BURNS
Died:
1691: Richard LOWER 1705: John RAY 1751: Tomaso (Giovanni) ALBINONI 1786: Cdre, Edward THOMPSON, aka 'Rhyming Thompson' 1830: Wilhelm WAIBLINGER 1837: D Robert MACNEISH 1839: John LAWRENCE (&ps: Bennington MOUBRAY) 1841: Adriaan van der WILLIGEN 1848: Rev, William ADAMS 1850: Elizabeth Posthuma SIMCOE, nee GWILLIM 1851: Spencer Joshua Alwyne COMPTON, 2nd Marquess of NORTHAMPTON 1852: Thomas Hudson TURNER 1854: George Robert Wythen BAXTER 1855: Thomas Kirkland GLAZEBROOK 1856: Joseph Timothy HAYDN 1856: Prof, Thomas Attwood WALMISLEY 1861: Arthur Bloxham CORNER 1861: Maria Dolores Eliza Rosanna GILBERT, 1:Mrs JAMES, 2:Mrs HULL, aka Countess von LANDSFELD (ps: Lola MONTEZ) 1861: Thomas Hill Peregrine Furye LOWE 1862: John Ludlum McCONNEL 1866: George PETRIE 1866: Sir, John HALL 1867: James SMITH 1867: William BRINTON (&ps: W B) 1870: Alexander ANDERSON 1874: Edmund KELL 1876: Rev, Benjamin FRANKLAND 1877: Rev, John PETER (ps: Ioan PEDR) 1879: Eneas Sweetland DALLAS (&ps: A KETTNER) 1881: Humphrey LLOYD 1881: Peter Perkins PITCHLYNN 1885: James Jones ASTON 1886: Sir, Peter Stafford CAREY 1887: Peter GRAY 1889: William Norris NICHOLSON 1890: Canon, Aubrey Lackington MOORE 1890: François Xavier Anselme TRUDEL 1890: Rev, William LYALL 1891: George BANCROFT 1892: Benjamin SCOTT 1892: George Overend DREWRY 1892: Henry Blair MAYNE 1892: John NOBLE 1893: Philip Henry EGERTON 1893: Rutherford Birchard HAYES 1894: Robert Fuller MURRAY (&ps: A St Andrews MAN) 1895: Murray THOMSON 1896: George Washington HEYWOOD 1898: Countess John, (Frances Anna Maria) RUSSELL, nee ELLIOT-MURRAY-KYNYNMOUND 1898: Emanuel Harry de ALMEDA 1899: John Russell YOUNG 1900: Canon, Edward Thomas VAUGHAN 1901: Frederic William Henry MYERS 1903: Alexander AKSAKOF 1903: Quintin HOGG 1904: Sir, Henry KEPPEL 1905: Elizabeth Mary ALFORD 1909: Rev, David Worthington SIMON 1911: Bp, John LYSTER 1911: George JOHNSON 1911: Sir, Francis GALTON 1916: Jeannette GILDER, nee LEONARD 1916: Sir, Andrew Richard SCOBLE 1917: Bp, Anthony MITCHELL 1918: Julius WELLHAUSEN 1919: James Bovell MACKENZIE 1919: Maj-Gen, Alexander Angus Airlie KINLOCH 1920: Dean, Isaac Gregory SMITH 1921: Canon, William Charles SIMONS 1922: Maj, Ralph Walter MAUDE 1923: Joseph John LISH 1928: Sir, George Anthony KING 1929: Canon, William Leslie LOW 1929: Mabel Mary Holland GRAVE, nee THOMAS 1929: William (Leonard) HUNT, aka 'The Great Farini' 1930: Bp, Beverley Dandridge TUCKER 1930: Maj-Gen, Arthur FORBES 1932: Bp, Charles GORE 1932: Ernest Ashton BURCHARDT 1932: Rep, John Wesley LANGLEY 1933: Charles Henry COOK (ps: John BICKERDYKE) 1933: Hans STURM 1934: Ada Irene BIDGWAY, nee CREWS (ps: Rene RETCLIFFE) 1935: Frédéric DORET 1936: Sir, George Frederick WARNER 1936: Sir, Richard Beale COLVIN 1937: Capt, George Sitwell Campbell SWINTON 1937: George Latimer APPERSON 1937: Rev, Thomas Albert HAMILTON 1937: Richard(=Ryszard) BOLESLAVSKI / BOLESLAVSKY / BOLESLAWSKI 1938: Archdeacon, John Daniel JAMES 1939: Prof, Robert WALLACE 1940: James Granville LEGGE 1941: Prof, Frank Thomas PAUL 1942: Alfred EDMONDS 1942: Field-Marshal, Walter (Karl Ernst August) von REICHENAU 1942: John Alfred GOTCH 1945: Édouard BOURDET 1945: (Walter) Malcolm (Neil) McEACHERN (ps: Mr JETSAM) 1945: Arthur CORBETT-SMITH 1945: Arthur Thomas BOLTON 1945: Eugène SEERS 1945: Everett Parker LESLEY 1945: Fernand MARTINEAU 1945: Louis DANTIN (&ps: Louis DANET; Lucien DANET; LUCIUS; MARJIOTTA; SAINT-LINOUD; Serge USÈNE; Eugène VOYANT) 1946: Clarence Erwin McCLUNG 1946: Fannie Wych/Wyche DUNN 1947: Cardinal, Jean-Marie Rodrigue VILLENEUVE 1947: Elzéar PAQUIN 1948: George Thomas HUTCHINSON 1949: Dean, Henry Lewis JAMES 1949: Prof, Alexander SOUTER 1949: Sydney Gardnor JARMAN 1950: Edward Sheldon WILKINSON 1950: Gov, Henry Justin ALLEN 1951: Léon GÉRIN 1954: (John Edward) Gunby HADATH (&ps: Florence Gunby HADATH) 1954: Leonard Eugene DICKSON 1954: Sir, Ernest John Pickstone BENN, 2nd Baronet BENN of The Old Knoll 1954: Sir, Noel (Brooks) LIVINGSTON 1955: Jonkheer Rene de MAREES-VAN SWINDEREN 1958: Mary Ethel Muir DONALDSON (&ps: Dia's Naomi ANDREA) 1959: Capt, Henry Theodore Augustus BOSANQUET 1960: Erni(=Ernest) Llwyd WILLIAMS 1961: Patrice Emery LUMUMBA 1961: R-Adm, Thomas Brown SHAW 1961: Rev, Leslie Frederic CHURCH 1962: Gerrit ACHTERBERG 1963: Prof, Charles BRYSON (ps: Charles BARRY) 1963: Prof, Walter Marshall William SPLAWN 1964: Arthur Augustus ALLEN 1964: Capt, John Foster-Barham CARSLAKE (ps: John HILSYDE) 1964: Carl Addington DAWSON 1964: Terence Hanbury WHITE (&ps: James ASTON) 1964: Thomas Bramley LAYTON 1965: David (Churchill) SOMERVELL 1965: Edward Opotiki MOUSLEY 1965: Joan TAYLOR, nee SILLS 1966: Col, Thomas John MITCHELL 1966: Lella (Faye) (nee)Secor FLORENCE 1966: Prof, Reid Merrifield BROOKS 1966: Sir, Francis Alfred ENEVER 1967: Evelyn NESBIT, 1:Mrs THAW, 2:Mrs CLIFFORD 1967: Robert Randal PHILLIPS 1968: Donald Craig NORRIS 1968: Prof, Samuel Henry HOOKE 1969: Arthur Stanley BOURINOT 1969: Sir, (Herbert) Stanley REED 1970: Ramon d'ABADAL i/y (De) VINYALS 1971: Julius Rudolph WEINBERG 1971: Prof, Louis Albert PIPES 1972: (Dorothy Estelle) Esmé WYNNE-TYSON, nee RIPPER 1972: Auguste Comte SPECTORSKY 1972: Betty(=Elizabeth/Sophia Lillian) SMITH, nee WEHNER later KEOGH, 2:Mrs JONES, 3:Mrs FINCH (&ps: [Elizabeth WEHNER]) 1972: Camilo DE BRIGARD 1972: George STEPHEN 1973: (Marshall) Louis MERTINS 1974: David L CRAWFORD 1975: Cleveland Bruce CHASE 1975: Rev, Arthur Bruce ALLEN (&ps: Borough TRICE) 1976: Canon, Ernest William SOUTHCOTT 1976: John Herne SANDERS (ps: John ANDERSON; LEX) 1977: Canon, Adam FOX 1977: Dougal HASTON 1977: John Henry Hood PHILLIPS 1977: Prof, (Mary) Gladys TURQUET, nee MILNES 1979: Dilys CADWALADR, Mrs SCHELTINGA? 1981: Hugo AUFDERBECK (&ps: Christian HAMMERSCHMIDT) 1982: Varlam Tikhonovich SHALAMOV 1983: Colin WATSON 1984: Geoffrey Foxall BELL 1987: Prof, Renato GUTTOSO 1988: Hugh (Joseph) SCHONFIELD (&ps: Hubert FIELDING; HEGESIPPUS) 1990: Charles HERNU 1991: Prof, Chad WALSH 1991: Prof, Giacomo MANZÙ, ne MANZONI 1992: Henry Melson STOMMEL 1992: Luise DORNEMANN, nee FREMY 1992: Prof, Robert M GOTTSDANKER 1993: Albert Habib HOURANI 1993: Franklin Osborne ALEXANDER 1994: Prof, Arthur Thomas JERSILD 1994: Samuel S SUSSER 1995: Adolfo CORREIA De ROCHA (ps: Miguel TORGA) 1995: Jean (H) (nee)Lutz BERG 1995: Norvelle (H) SANNEBECK 1996: Barbara (Charline) JORDAN 1996: Marion (Louise) EDMAN 1996: Peter Wright BROOKS 1996: Prof, Charles (Henry) MADGE 1996: Prof, Giles (William) PLAYFAIR 1997: Clyde (William) TOMBAUGH 1997: Lewis Henry GANN 1997: Philip Godfrey STIBBE 1997: William Anthony CAMPS 1998: Edgar (Henry) BOHLE 1998: Joan (T) Weiss HOLLENBECK 1998: Raymond (N) BUSHELL 1999: Frank DeMay McCONNELL 1999: Joyce COOMBS, nee ? 2000: Alastair Hamish Tearloch ROBB-SMITH 2000: Philip Mark JONES 2000: Robert L STERN 2001: Gregory Nunzio CORSO 2002: Édouard NIES-BERGER 2002: Camilo José CELA (TRULOCK), Marquis of IRIA FLAVIA 2002: Harvey (Marshall) MATUSOW, later Job MATUSOW 2002: Prof, Brian SIMON 2002: Prof, Bullitt LOWRY 2003: Alden (G) BARBER 2003: Annie (Madeleine) BARNES, nee SESSELY 2003: Anthony WOODHOUSE 2003: Herbert CRÜGER 2003: Prof, Ilham DILMAN 2003: Rev, Gerald B SMITH 2004: James R TOWNSEND 2004: Martin HARDISTY 2005: Prof, Albert (Israel) SCHATZ 2005: Prof, Morris SIMON 2006: Giles (Arthington) WORSLEY 2006: Mark LINTELL 2007: Andrew KOSTECKA 2007: Art(=Arthur) BUCHWALD 2007: Prof, George DUNCAN 2007: Prof, Lyman C WYNNE 2007: Sean Séamas Criostóir MAC RÉAMOINN, ne REDMOND 2007: Uwe NETTELBECK 2008: Bobby(=Robert James) FISCHER 2008: Edward Dentinger HOCH (&ps: [Anthony CIRCUS]; [Stephen DENTINGER]) 2008: Madeleine MILHAUD 2008: Prof, (William) Austyn MAIR 2008: Sir, (Henry) Edney (Conrad) CAIN 2009: Bart(=Hobart Kelliston) McDOWELL (Jr) 2009: Edmund (Leopold) de ROTHSCHILD 2009: Gayton E GERMANE 2009: Malcolm (Cook) MacPHERSON 2010: Felice QUINTO 2010: Kurt BARTSCH 2010: Norman Nicholson LEWIS 2010: Prof, Daniel J FREED 2010: Prof, Erich (Wolf) SEGAL 2010: Prof, José HEREDIA MOYA 2011: Brian BOOBBYER 2011: John CONSTABLE 2011: John ROSS 2011: Maharaj Kumari Binodini DEVI, aka Princess WANGOLSANA 2011: Prof, David (Henry) BRADBY 2011: Sir, Bernard CROSSLAND