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Born:
1522: Bp, John JEWEL / JEWELL 1544: William GILBERT / GILBERD 1640: John MAYOW 1760: Joseph EVE 1763: Sir, Robert ADAIR 1765: Elizabeth LEVESON GOWER, Duchess of SUTHERLAND, nee SUTHERLAND 1788: Sir, Charles MARSHALL 1790: John DAVY 1792: Thomas Jefferson HOGG 1793: Prof, Edward HITCHCOCK 1794: Frances STEWART, nee BROWNE 1794: Rev, William WHEWELL 1795: Rev, Edward RICE 1802: Robert Baldwin SULLIVAN (&ps: LEGION) 1804: Gov, Henry Howland CRAPO 1806: Rev, Francis Edward PAGET (ps: William CHURNE of Staffordshire) 1809: Edward Turner Boyd TWISLETON 1810: Robert Manley LOWE 1812: James Reynolds WITHERS, aka 'The Cambridgeshire Poet' 1812: John Edward DIBB 1812: Michael Pakenham EDGEWORTH 1815: Rev, John PENROSE 1816: Albert (Richard) SMITH 1818: Louisa (Annie) MURRAY 1818: Thomas Glazebrook RYLANDS 1819: Caroline FOX 1819: Charles Edward Augustus de BOOS (&ps: John SMITH) 1819: Henry Augustus WISE (&ps: Harry GRINGO) 1819: Queen, (Alexandrina) VICTORIA, of Great Britain (house of SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA), nee (house of HANOVER) 1820: Prof, William CHAUVENET 1822: Sir, Augustus PHILLIMORE 1824: Lucius Eugene CHITTENDEN 1824: Rev, John Gibson PATON 1829: Edward HOOPER 1829: Joseph KNIGHT 1831: Joshua Henry PORTER 1832: Rev, Philip Hankinson NEWNHAM 1835: James YOUNG 1835: Sir, John Eldon GORST 1836: Joseph ROWNTREE 1838: Frederick Victor DICKINS 1838: William John Leigh MAXWELL 1841: Sir, (John) Frederick MAURICE 1844: Col, Frederick (Arthur) WELLESLEY 1844: Isaac B HAMMOND 1844: Thomas Finlayson HENDERSON 1846: Archdeacon, George ARBUTHNOT 1848: Otto LILIENTHAL 1849: Sir, Charles James JACKSON 1850: Henry Woodfin GRADY 1850: Rev, William Hayne LEAVELL 1852: Prof, Maurice Francis EGAN 1852: Robert BONTINE (ps: R B CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM) 1854: (Alice) Mona (HENRYSON-)CAIRD, nee ALISON (&ps: G Noel HATTON) 1854: Louis Alexander MOUNTBATTEN, ne BATTENBERG, 1st Marquess of MILFORD HAVEN 1855: Alfred Cort HADDON 1855: Sir, Arthur Wing PINERO 1855: Thomas Rice (Edward) HOLMES 1860: Arthur SMITHELLS 1860: Dean, William Holden HUTTON 1860: Rev, Hervey De Witt GRISWOLD 1861: Albert Peter LOW 1861: Gerald STRICKLAND, 1st Baron STRICKLAND of Sizergh Castle 1862: John HENDERSON 1862: Sir, (William) Arthur BOORD, 2nd Baronet BOORD of Wakehurst Place 1864: Canon, Thomas William DOWNING 1866: Paul Mortimer FRANCKE 1868: Francesco FLAMINI 1869: Maurice Walter BROCKWELL 1870: Enrico(=Henryk) GLICENSTEIN 1870: Gen, Jan Christiaan SMUTS 1870: Judge, Benjamin Nathan CARDOZO 1871: Rev, Richard Gwylfa ROBERTS 1871: Robert HENDERSON 1871: Sir, (Thomas Herbert) John (Chapman) GOODWIN 1874: Henry Gascoyen MAURICE 1874: Hermann (Ludwig Rudolph) DUNCKER 1875: Prof, William Alfred MORRIS 1876: Prof, Roger Bigelow MERRIMAN 1877: Robert Hood BOWERS 1878: Lillian (Evelyn) (nee)Moller GILBRETH 1878: Mary(=Minnie) Grant BRUCE, Mrs BRUCE (&ps: [M G B]; [COOLIBAH]) 1878: Rev, Harry Emerson FOSDICK 1879: Edward Steptoe EVANS 1880: Sydney Ernest HOOPER 1882: James OPPENHEIM 1883: Bp, James Ingall WEDGWOOD 1883: Prof, Cecil John CADOUX 1883: Rev, Victor William Thomas CLARK-DUFF 1884: Garnet Ruskin WOLSELEY 1884: Logan CLENDENING 1884: Prof, John James VAN NOSTRAND 1885: Frank Victor Gordon SCHOLES 1885: Susan (Sutherland) BRIERLEY, nee FAIRHURST, 2:Mrs ISAACS, aka KOHL ? (&ps: Susan ISAACS) 1887: David Cushman COYLE 1888: Alex F OSBORN 1889: Harriet (nee)Works CORLEY 1889: Purcell James MANSFIELD 1891: Prof, William Foxwell ALBRIGHT 1892: Arthur Thomas ELLIS 1892: Dean, Cuthbert Aikman SIMPSON 1892: Loris INGAMELLS 1892: Prof, Alan Dugald McKILLOP 1892: Ronald Acott HALL 1893: Dean, Walter Harry de VOIL 1893: Prof, Herbert John DAVIS 1893: Prof, Merritt/Merrit Yerkes HUGHES 1893: Sir, Francis Alfred ENEVER 1893: Sir, Sydney Martin STADLER 1894: Henry Hardin NEWMAN, aka 'Zipp' NEWMAN 1894: Prof, Edward Chase KIRKLAND 1894: Prof, Herman Hollis CHAPMAN 1895: Eric Aldhelm Torlogh DUTTON 1895: George Hervey HALLETT, Jr 1896: Eleonora Frederika Adolphina GEACH, nee SGONINA 1897: Maj-Gen, Ronald Nicholas Lamond HOPKINS 1897: Nat(=Nathan) Brazzall HATCHER 1897: Rev, Joseph Guy COTHRAN 1898: Capt, John Everard GURDON 1898: Helen (Brooke) TAUSSIG 1898: José Maria FERREIRA De CASTRO 1898: Kathleen HALE, Mrs McCLEAN 1899: Cuthbert FITZHERBERT 1899: Gregor Athalwin ZIEMER 1899: Henri MICHAUX 1899: Herbert (Arthur) SHAPIRO (Sr) (&ps: Burt ARTHUR; Herbert ARTHUR; [Cliff CAMPBELL]; Arthur HERBERT; Herbert SHAPPIRO; Wayne SOTONA) 1899: Kazi Nazrul ISLAM 1899: Suzanne (Rachel Flore) LENGLEN 1899: Willard Long THORP 1900: Eduardo DE FILIPPO 1900: Eduardo PASSARELLI (ps: Edouardo de FILIPPO) 1901: Prof, Nathan Anthony WOMACK 1901: Rev, William Frederick FLEMINGTON 1902: Julian (Thomas) DUGUID 1903: Arthur Martin VINEBERG 1903: Peggy(=Margaret) GARLAND, nee WITHYCOMBE 1903: Prof, Ernest Geoffrey CULLWICK 1903: Prof, Majl EWING 1904: (Denis) Sefton DELMER 1904: Kenneth Francis BATES 1904: Prof, Arthur Roy CLAPHAM 1904: Prof, Frederick Perez BARGEBUHR 1905: Prof, Elizabeth French BOYD 1905: Robert Bruce SINCLAIR (Jr) 1905: Ronald PEDDIE 1906: Louis Isaac RABINOWITZ 1907: Prof, Gwyn/Guyn JONES 1907: Prof, John King FAIRBANK 1908: Reginald Murray(wrongly Murphy) WILLIAMS 1908: Victor (Cecil Froggatt) CLARK 1909: Louis FÜRNBERG (ps: NUNTIUS) 1909: Wolf W ZUELZER 1910: Jimmy(=James Newton) DEMARET 1910: Vincent(=Vincenzo) BUGEJA, aka Censinu BUGEJA 1911: Tom(=Thomas Garrett) ASKWITH 1912: Dame, Joan (Hood) HAMMOND 1912: Joseph DEUSTER (ps: Joseph ANTHONY) 1913: Douglas W GORSLINE 1913: Francis Alfred LEPPER 1913: Sig(=Siegried) MICKELSON 1914: Edward Alan BLOOM 1914: George(=György) TABORI 1914: Gerhard DENGLER 1914: Hedley (Williams) DONOVAN 1914: Lillie Marie PEISER, 1:Mrs HARRISON, 2:Mrs THOMPSON (ps: Lilli PALMER) 1914: Prof, Arthur Llewellyn BASHAM 1914: Sir, (William John) Granville BEYNON 1915: Arnold Harry JENNINGS 1916: Kenneth Richmond ANDREWS 1916: Prof, Nathan DANE 1917: Alan Robertson CAMPBELL, (life) Baron CAMPBELL of Alloway 1917: Barbara (B) TAFT, nee ? 1917: John Robert RUSSELL, 13th Duke of BEDFORD 1917: Judge, Walter Derek Thornley HODGSON 1918: Cecil (Hilton Monk) GOULD 1918: Itzhak AKAVYAHU 1918: Jack EDWARDS 1919: Andras KALMAN 1919: Betty CARLSON 1919: Dennis BLOODWORTH 1919: Stanley H KAPLAN 1919: William Edman MASSEE 1920: David Ramsey FOSTER 1920: Edward White OVERTON, Jr 1921: Frederick TYE 1921: John David LEGGE 1921: Prof, (Thomas) Peter (Huntly) McKELLAR 1921: Prof, Dan Fenno HENDERSON 1921: Prof, George STAMBUK 1922: Kevin (Barry) LAFFAN (&ps: Kevin BARRY) 1923: Elwyn JONES 1923: Siobhán (Giollamhuire) McKENNA (=Nic CIONNAITH), Mrs O'DEA 1924: Charles Arthur LEWIS 1924: Charlotte HOUGH, nee WOODYADD, 2:Mrs ACKROYD 1924: Edward Barry BISHOP 1924: Patricia (nee)Castles ACHESON 1924: Peter (David) SHORE, (life) Baron SHORE Of STEPNEY of Stepney 1924: Prof, Charles (Burton) MARTIN 1924: Vincent (Archibald Patrick) CRONIN 1925: Alf(=Alfred Roy) PARSONS 1925: Mai (Elisabeth) ZETTERLING, 1:Mrs LEMKOV, 2:Mrs HUGHES 1927: John Anthony Benedict STEWART 1927: Judge, David Humphrey WILD 1927: William Ennis THOMSON 1928: Roger (Andrew) CARAS (&ps: Roger SARAS) 1929: Mary (nee)Beacock FRYER 1929: Prof, Gilbert MORRIS 1930: George GARSON 1931: Eric Moses JAVITS 1931: Herbert B MAX 1932: Prof, Albert ADU BOAHEN 1932: Sir, Arnold WESKER 1933: Anne MUSTOE, nee REVILL 1933: Marian (Ruth) ENGEL, nee PASSMORE 1933: Nathan (Noble) BARRETT 1935: Prof, Paul Allan DAVID 1937: Archie SEPP 1937: Prof, James (Ronald) MULRYNE 1938: David Steven VISCOTT 1938: Margaret (Elizabeth) RYLATT, nee BRIGGS 1940: Prof, Joseph(=Iosef Alexandrovich) BRODSKY 1941: Robert Allen ZIMMERMAN, aka Sergei PETROV, aka Jack FROST (ps: Bob DYLAN) 1942: Jean-Claude FIGNOLE 1944: Frances C CHAPMAN, nee ?, 1:Mrs MOORE 1944: Ruth DUDLEY EDWARDS, Mrs COSGRAVE 1945: Bärbel BOHLEY, nee BROSIUS 1945: Peter (Anthony Charles) JAY 1954: Michael DONAGHY
Died:
1089: Abp, LANFRANC 1543: Nicolaus COPERNICUS 1751: William HAMILTON, of Gilbertfield 1792: Jakob/Jacob Michael Reinhold LENZ 1816: Rev, Richard ORMEROD 1827: Fr(SJ), Roger BAXTER 1847: John Christian HÜTTNER 1848: Annette von DROSTE-HÜLSHOFF 1850: Jane PORTER (&ps: A RECLUSE) 1858: John O'CONNELL 1862: Edward STANLEY 1864: Alexander McLEAN (ps: A PROTESTANT) 1864: James Stuart BOWES (ps: Alfred DUBOIS) 1866: Rev, John Wesley ETHERIDGE 1871: David WILLIAMS 1872: Rev, Charles O'Neil PRATT 1873: David Prince MILLER 1874: William JOHNSTON 1876: Henry KINGSLEY 1878: Gerardine MACPHERSON, nee BATE 1879: Henry JACKSON 1879: William Lloyd GARRISON (&ps: A FRIEND of Liberty) 1881: Samuel PALMER 1881: William Patrick ADAM 1882: Rev, William HANNA 1883: James Fitzjames WEST 1884: Dean, Henry Thomas EDWARDS 1888: John SNODGRASS 1889: George Henry CALVERT (&ps: An AMERICAN) 1890: Georgiana Huntly McCRAE 1892: Sir, Alexander CAMPBELL 1895: Louisa Catherine SHORE (&ps: L) 1895: Thomas William Shafto ROBERTSON 1896: Conte, Luigi Federico MENABREA 1897: Canon, William Ralph CHURTON 1899: Rev, Richard WALL 1902: John BEAMES 1903: Rev, Hugh MACMILLAN 1904: Rev, George Cunninghame Monteath DOUGLAS 1905: Charles Henry WEBB (&ps: John PAUL) 1906: William Franklin SWITZLER 1908: François (Édouard Joachim) COPPÉE 1908: John FULLEYLOVE 1909: Georg Balthasar von NEUMAYER 1910: Helen (Tomlinson) (HARRISON) DAVIS, nee CORRIGAN 1910: John Shiress WILL 1915: George Frederick CHAMBERS 1917: Rayner STORR 1919: (Jose) Amado (Ruiz de) NERVO 1919: Charles Chamilly de LORIMIER 1919: Helen (nee)Hardin OSBORNE 1921: Rev, Herbert SYMONDS 1925: John William Morton MACARTNEY 1926: Rev, William MORLEY 1926: Sir, (Thomas) Erskine HOLLAND 1926: Sir, Charles (George) WALPOLE 1928: Alfred Rosling BENNETT 1928: Frederick Mollwo PERKIN 1930: Arnold F GRAVES 1932: Isaac GAMMELL 1933: Adm, Rosslyn Erskine WEMYSS, 1st Baron WESTER-WEMYSS of Wemyss 1933: John SWIRE 1933: Rev, James William PEDLEY 1934: Mayor, Brand WHITLOCK 1935: (Albert) Sidney GALTREY (&ps: [HOTSPUR]; [RAPIER]) 1935: Albert Christopher ADDISON 1937: Canon, Edward Cunliffe OWEN 1938: Joseph William MELLOR 1938: Nikolai (Christian Grove) PREBENSEN 1939: Rafael PALMA 1940: Prof, John Henry MUIRHEAD 1941: (Clyde) Wilson COLLISON 1941: George Brodie DUNCAN 1941: Roden Horace Powlett ORDE 1941: Sir, Horace George Montagu RUMBOLD, 9th Baronet RUMBOLD of Wood Hall 1942: Walter George BELL 1943: Alejandro E BUNGE 1943: Emile (Eugene Joseph) SERGENT 1944: Bernard Henry NEWDIGATE 1944: Harold Bell WRIGHT 1944: Sir, Cuthbert Sidney WALLACE, 1st Baronet WALLACE of Studham 1944: Vernon Llewellyn DENTON 1945: George Ricker BERRY 1946: Joseph Henry SINCLAIR 1947: Harry Edward WELLS 1947: John Oakley SPENCER 1948: Arthur James GRANT 1948: Edward George HEMMERDE (&ps: Edward DENBY) 1948: Sir, Charles George MATHESON 1949: Charles Alexander BUCKMASTER 1950: Archibald Percival WAVELL, 1st Earl WAVELL 1951: Sir (Louis) Amherst SELBY-BIGGE, 1st Baronet SELBY-BIGGE of King's Sutton 1952: (Charles) Fulton OURSLER (&ps: Anthony ABBOT; Anthony ABBOTT; Samri FRIKELL) 1953: Helene CHRISTALLER 1953: Prof, Oliver Mitchell Wentworth SPRAGUE 1954: Sir, Lewis Leigh FERMOR 1956: (Marie-Josèphe-)Valentine BENOÎT d'ENTREVAUX (&ps: J de CHEYLUS; Éric de CYS; V d'ENTREVAUX) 1956: Charles THOM 1956: Martha Annie WHITELEY 1958: William Lewis (Rowland Paul Sebastian) BLENNERHASSETT 1959: John Foster DULLES 1960: Clara (nee)Ingram JUDSON 1960: Norman George BRETT-JAMES 1960: Rev, William Edwin Robert SANGSTER 1960: William MOODIE 1961: Sen, George Wharton PEPPER 1962: Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall TILLYARD 1964: Maj, Arthur (Hamilton) GIBBS 1964: Prof, Ralph William AIGLER 1964: Thomas Vernor SMITH 1965: David MASTERS 1965: Eric Arthur BARBER 1965: Homer CROY 1965: Walter Joseph LYONS (ps: Don ATHALDO) 1966: Pierre (Denis) de Lagarde BOAL 1969: Prof, Robert Henry KINVIG 1970: Frederick Douglas DAVISON (ps: Frank Dalby DAVISON) 1971: Edwin Bateman MORRIS 1971: Elizabeth Maud PEPPERELL, Mrs BREWIN 1971: Walt(=Walter J) COBURN 1973: Gerhardt William NEUBAUER 1973: Robert Utley HYNDMAN (ps: Robert WYNDHAM) 1974: Edward Kennedy ELLINGTON (ps: Duke ELLINGTON) 1974: Gerard Kennedy TUCKER 1975: Bertha May WALKER, nee LAIDLER 1975: Edward (Dobbyn) GRIERSON 1975: Prof, Edward Chase KIRKLAND 1976: Cyril William BEAUMONT 1976: Mary HANDLIN, nee FLUG 1976: Sir, Reader (William) BULLARD 1977: Prof, William Arthur BROWNELL 1979: Geoffrey Reginald Gilchrist MURE 1979: William Aubrey (Cecil) DARLINGTON 1980: Florence (May Grier) HIGHAM, nee EVANS (&ps: Mrs C S S HIGHAM) 1980: Heinz ULRICH 1980: John (William) KINNAIRD 1980: Margaret B FREEMAN 1980: William GAUNT 1981: George Albert JESSEL 1981: Horace John WATERS (ps: Jack WARNER) 1982: Sidney Henry HAUGHTON 1984: Sir, Stanley (George) HOOKER 1985: Geoffrey (Edgar S) GORER 1986: Enos Edward CANUTT (ps: Yakima CANUTT) 1987: Hermione (Ferdinanda) GINGOLD, 1:Mrs JOSEPH, 2:Mrs MASCHWITZ 1987: Niklot BESTE 1988: Gregory M LUEBBERT 1988: James HAMILTON (ps: Hamish HAMILTON) 1989: Georgy Aleksandrovich TOVSTONOGOV 1990: Victor WOLFSON 1991: Donald Piers CHESWORTH 1991: Nadya OLYANOVA, nee ?, 2:Mrs CARUTHERS 1993: Bp, Harry James CARPENTER 1994: Arthur Coulton HARTLEY 1994: Hans-Albrecht FREYE 1994: Kenneth Francis BATES 1994: Prof, John (Barrington) WAIN 1995: (James) Harold WILSON, (life) Baron WILSON Of RIEVAULX of Kirklees 1995: (Walter) Ryerson JOHNSON (&ps: Brett HALLIDAY) 1995: Prof, Paul Jackson KRAMER 1996: Joseph MITCHELL 1996: Prof, Ian Douglas CARRUTHERS 1996: Sir, Harry CAMPION 1997: Francis Bertram PINION 1997: Frank Northen MAGILL 1998: Charles (Frederick) RYCROFT 1998: John (Sidney Thomas) LOOMS 1998: Prof, Alan MILNE 1999: Kenneth (MacKenzie) DODSON 1999: Robert Woody TAYLOR 2002: Antonia PANTOJA, nee LOPEZ 2002: Brian Monty WALTHAM 2002: Eleanor (nee)Ernst TIMBERG 2002: Joseph BAU 2002: Kurt-Reinhard BIERMANN 2002: Stella RICHMAN, 1:Mrs CLUNES, 2:Mrs BRUSA, 3:Mrs ? 2002: Wallace (Arthur) MARKFIELD 2003: John Clayton ALLEN, III 2003: Leonard Perry VIDGER 2003: Prof, Anthony Guy Everson PEARSE 2003: Rachel KEMPSON, 1:Lady REDGRAVE 2003: Richard (Elgin) McGARVIE 2003: Sir, Robert Evan Owen WILLIAMS 2004: Prof, Edward (Charles) WAGENKNECHT (&ps: Julian FORREST) 2004: Robert Philip SHARP 2005: Christian Anton MAYER (ps: Carl AMERY) 2005: Katy(=Katherine M) ABRAHAM, nee ? 2005: Prof, Benjamin David PAUL 2005: Vivian (Dorraine) (nee)Liberto DISTIN, 1:Mrs CASH 2006: Fritz(=Fred) KLEIN 2006: Judge, Brian (John Francis) GALPIN 2006: Prof, Albert ADU BOAHEN 2006: Prof, William VAN TIL 2007: Brownlee Jean KIRKPATRICK 2007: Harvey Radin COLTEN 2007: Henry BOYLAN 2007: Philip Mayer KAISER 2008: Carmelo ABELA 2008: Robert CALHOUN 2009: (C) Jack LEWIS 2009: David STICK 2009: Robert A TRUAX 2010: George (Ingham) BROWN 2010: Helen (nee)Krich CHINOY 2010: Ray ALAN 2011: Glyn HUGHES 2011: Nasa BEGUM 2012: William RATHJE