Author Anniversaries for Jan 17


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Born:

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 LYTTLETON, 1st Baron LYTTLETON
1728: Ralph DARLING
1770: Charles JERRAM
1771: Charles Brockden BROWN
1781: Prof, Robert HARE
1785: Leonard HORNER
1788: John LONSDALE
1798: (Isidore Marie) Auguste (François Xavier) COMTE
1800: Caleb CUSHING
1803: John MAITLAND
1805: Henry Borren FIELDING
1808: Lewis POCOCK
1809: Charles Samuel SIMMS
1809: John WEST
1810: William HENDERSON
1814: John Mix STANLEY
1814: Mrs Henry, (Ellen) WOOD, nee PRICE
1815: Benjamin Bridges Hunter RODWELL
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: 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 WEISMANN
1837: Oscar BROWNING
1840: Prof, (Marie) Paul (Hyacinth) MEYER
1845: John Ames MITCHELL
1846: Sir, Harry Newton Phillips WOLLASTON
1851: Sir, James CANTLIE
1853: Col, Samuel John THOMSON
1853: Frederick SHERLOCK
1853: Frederick Swinford EDWARDS
1858: John LEWIS
1860: Anton (Pavlovich) CHEKHOV
1860: Douglas HYDE, aka 'An Craoibhin Aoibhinn'
1860: George Rice HOVEY
1861: Edward Potts CHEYNEY
1861: Lindesay John ROBERTSON
1861: Sir, Harry Gloster ARMSTRONG
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
1868: Prof, Ernst VON HALLE
1870: Arthur Henry Howard HEMING
1874: Msgr, Jean (Antoine) CALVET (&ps: Jean QUERCY)
1875: Florencio SÁNCHEZ
1876: Sir, Charles Frederick HIGHAM
1877: (Cecilia) May GIBBS, Mrs (Ossoli) KELLY
1878: Frederick A BLOSSOM
1878: Will Levington COMFORT
1879: Fannie Wych/Wyche DUNN
1880: Albert Eustace HAYDON
1880: Mikall SINNOTT (ps: Mack SENNETT)
1881: Alfred Reginald RADCLIFFE-BROWN
1881: Harry PRICE
1882: Louise BOWMAN, nee MOREY
1883: Sir, (Edward Montague) Compton MACKENZIE
1885: Irving (Newton) BRANT
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
1889: Sir, Ralph Howard FOWLER
1890: Stanley (Jack) RUBINSTEIN
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)
1896: Francis Archibald Kelhead DOUGLAS, 11th Marquess of QUEENSBERRY
1897: Ifor Leslie EVANS
1897: Prof, Lionel George CROCKER
1898: Rudolph Maurice LOEWENSTEIN
1899: Nevile Shute NORWAY (ps: Nevile SHUTE)
1899: Robert Maynard HUTCHINS
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: Louis ARMAND
1905: Sophie FRIEDLÄNDER
1906: Hiram Bentley GLASS
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, Michael John Sinclair CLAPHAM
1914: Gene(=Eugene Franklin) GLEASON
1914: William (Edgar) STAFFORD
1915: Ann KURTIN, Mrs RUDLEY (ps: Ann LORING)
1915: Prof, Eli SOBEL
1915: Roger (Windle) PILKINGTON
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
1918: Conrad C REINING
1918: Leroy OSTRANSKY
1918: {UK}!Keith (Sinjohn) JOSEPH, (life) Baron JOSEPH of Portsoken
1920: Georges PICHARD
1920: Melvin (Jonah) LASKY
1922: Betty (Marion) WHITE
1922: Konon Trofimovich MOLODY, aka Georgi LONOV (ps: Gordon LONSDALE)
1922: Prof, Robert EISNER
1923: Kenneth Jamieson PETERS
1924: Mary (nee?)Davies KELLY
1924: Richard (Douglas) HAIGH
1925: Robert (Edmund) CORMIER
1926: Moira Shearer KING, 1:Lady KENNEDY (ps: Moira SHEARER)
1926: Sir, Clyde (Leopold) WALCOTT
1928: Anita Clay KORNFELD, nee WALTER, 1:Mrs JOHNSON
1929: Donald KARSHAN
1930: Dudley (Allen) DOUST
1930: Jara(=Jaroslava) MOSEROVÁ, Mrs DAVID
1930: Monica (Mavis) FURLONG, Mrs KNIGHTS
1931: Bob GILL
1931: Jonathan (Walter) GOODMAN
1933: SADRUDDIN, Aga Khan IV
1933: Shari (Phyllis) LEWIS, nee HURWITZ, 2:Mrs TARCHER
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: Dick CLUSTER
1952: Darrell R PORTER
1954: Christopher ADLER
1956: Hubertus CZERNIN
1957: Paul MARTIN (ps: Paul MERTON)
1958: James (Lifford) HEWITT
1971: Richard BURNS

Died:

1705: John RAY
1786: Capt, Edward THOMPSON, aka 'Rhyming Thompson'
1830: Wilhelm WAIBLINGER
1841: Adriaan van der WILLIGEN
1848: Rev, William ADAMS
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: Eliza Rosanna GILBERT, Mrs JAMES (ps: Lola MONTEZ)
1861: Thomas Hill Peregrine Furye LOWE
1866: George PETRIE
1866: Sir, John HALL
1867: James SMITH
1867: William BRINTON (&ps: W B)
1874: Edmund KELL
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: Henry Blair MAYNE
1892: John NOBLE
1893: Philip Henry EGERTON
1893: Rutherford Birchard HAYES
1894: Robert Fuller MURRAY (&ps: A St Andrews MAN)
1898: Lady/Countess John, (Frances Anna Maria) RUSSELL, nee ELLIOT-MURRAY-KYNYNMOUND
1899: John Russell YOUNG
1901: Frederic William Henry MYERS
1903: Alexander AKSAKOF
1903: Quintin HOGG
1904: Sir, Henry KEPPEL
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 J LISH
1928: Sir, George Anthony KING
1929: Canon, William Leslie LOW
1930: Bp, Beverley Dandridge TUCKER
1930: Maj-Gen, Arthur FORBES
1932: Bp, Charles GORE
1932: Rep, John Wesley LANGLEY
1933: Charles Henry COOK (ps: John BICKERDYKE)
1934: Ada Irene BIDGWAY, nee CREWS (ps: Rene RETCLIFFE)
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
1938: Archdeacon, John Daniel JAMES
1939: Prof, Robert WALLACE
1940: James Granville LEGGE
1942: Field-Marshal, Walter REICHENAU
1942: John Alfred GOTCH
1945: Édouard BOURDET
1945: Arthur CORBETT-SMITH
1945: Arthur Thomas BOLTON
1945: Eugène SEERS
1945: Everett Parker LESLEY
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
1951: Léon GÉRIN
1954: (John Edward) Gunby HADATH
1954: Leonard Eugene DICKSON
1954: Sir, Ernest John Pickstone BENN, 2nd Baronet BENN of Old Knoll, Lewisham
1954: Sir, Noel (Brooks) LIVINGSTON
1955: Jonkheer Rene de MAREES-VAN SWINDEREN
1958: Mary Ethel Muir DONALDSON
1959: Capt, Henry Theodore Augustus BOSANQUET
1961: Leslie Frederic CHURCH
1961: Patrice Emery LUMUMBA
1962: Gerrit ACHTERBERG
1963: Prof, Charles BRYSON (ps: Charles BARRY)
1963: Prof, Walter Marshall William SPLAWN
1964: Arthur Augustus ALLEN
1964: Carl Addington DAWSON
1964: Terence Hanbury WHITE (&ps: James ASTON)
1966: Lella (Faye) (nee)Secor FLORENCE
1966: Prof, Reid Merrifield BROOKS
1967: Evelyn NESBIT, 1:Mrs THAW, 2:Mrs CLIFFORD
1969: Arthur Stanley BOURINOT
1970: Ramon d'ABADAL i/y (De) VINYALS
1971: Julius Rudolph WEINBERG
1971: Prof, Louis Albert PIPES
1972: (Dorothy Estelle) Esmé WYNNE-TYSON, nee ?
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
1973: (Marshall) Louis MERTINS
1974: David L CRAWFORD
1975: Cleveland Bruce CHASE
1975: Rev, Arthur Bruce ALLEN (&ps: Borough TRICE)
1977: Adam FOX
1977: Dougal HASTON
1982: Varlam Tikhonovich SHALAMOV
1983: Colin WATSON
1984: Geoffrey Foxall BELL
1987: Prof, Renato GUTTOSO
1988: Hugh (Joseph) SCHONFIELD (&ps: Hubert FIELDING; HEGESIPPUS)
1989: (Charles) Bruce CHATWIN
1990: Charles HERNU
1991: Prof, Chad WALSH
1991: Prof, Giacomo MANZÙ, ne MANZONI
1992: Henry Melson STOMMEL
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: Prof, Charles (Henry) MADGE
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 D McCONNELL
1999: Joyce COOMBS, nee ?
2000: Philip Mark JONES
2000: Robert L STERN
2001: Gregory Nunzio CORSO
2002: Édouard NIES-BERGER
2002: Camilo José CELA (TRULOCK)
2002: Harvey (Marshall) MATUSOW, later Job MATUSOW
2002: Prof, Brian SIMON
2003: Alden (G) BARBER
2003: Annie (Madeleine) BARNES, nee SESSELY
2003: Anthony WOODHOUSE
2003: Prof, Ilham DILMAN
2003: Rev, Gerald B SMITH
2004: James R TOWNSEND
2004: Martin HARDISTY
2005: Morris SIMON
2005: Prof, Albert (Israel) SCHATZ
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