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Born:
1609: Benjamin WHICHCOTE 1715: Richard GRAVES, the Younger (&ps: A NONAGENARIAN) 1733: Thomas CAMPBELL 1749: Charlotte SMITH, nee TURNER 1773: Denys SCULLY 1776: Johann Friedrich HERBART 1777: Baron, Louis-Jacques THÉNARD 1777: Sir, Richard BOURKE 1778: John SHAW (&ps: ITHACUS) 1778: Sir, Henry Edward BUNBURY, 7th Baronet BUNBURY of Stanney Hall 1784: Joseph GUY, the Elder 1785: Rev, William BEAL 1786: Charles William WENTWORTH(-FitzWILLIAM), 5th Earl FitzWILLIAM 1792: Rev, Miles Powell SQUIER 1796: Horace MANN 1799: Rep, Amasa WALKER 1800: Rev, John McLeod CAMPBELL 1801: Rev, Ezra Stiles GANNETT 1802: Charles Wentworth UPHAM 1803: John Hazlehurst Boneval LATROBE 1804: Thomas Henry DYER 1806: Cornelius Ambrosius LOGAN 1809: Benoît Jules MURE 1816: Thomas OLDHAM 1817: Nikolay Ivanovich KOSTOMAROV 1818: Edwin DE LEON 1819: Rev, Joseph Henry HILTS 1820: Rev, William Pakenham WALSH 1822: Sir, Charles Eugène Boucher de BOUCHERVILLE 1823: Thomas Caulfield IRWIN 1825: Prof, Thomas Henry HUXLEY 1827: John Hanning SPEKE 1828: Rev, Edward STEERE 1830: Col, James Henry MAPLESON 1830: Sir, Wilbraham Oates LENNOX 1831: Edward CUTLER 1833: Prof, James Bradstreet GREENOUGH 1833: Rev, Henry William HARPER 1835: Edmund Hart TURPIN 1836: William WHITAKER 1838: Charles WILLIAMS 1838: James ALBERY 1840: Sir, Edward Maunde THOMPSON 1843: Abp, Cornelius O'BRIEN 1843: Chester MACNAGHTEN 1845: William Kingdon CLIFFORD 1847: Clarence John PEILE 1847: Joseph Johnson KRAPS 1848: Henry Sydenham DIXON 1851: Dame, Henrietta Octavia (Weston) BARNETT, nee ROWLAND (&ps: Mrs S A BARNETT) 1851: Rev, Arthur James MASON 1854: Sir, Alfred Edward CODRINGTON 1856: Jesús María AMADEO ANTOMARCHI 1857: Claude Columbus GRAYSON 1860: Freiherr, Emil Nikolaus von REZNICEK 1862: Albert MOLL 1862: Edward William Dirom CUMING (&ps: Evelyn TEMPEST) 1862: Enrico CAVIGLIA 1862: Rev, Frederic Chambers SPURR 1862: Walt MASON 1864: Richard HOVEY 1865: Sir, David John GORDON (&ps: [WURONGA]) 1869: Sir, Wilkinson Dent BIRD 1871: Charles Grosvenor OSGOOD 1871: Rev, William MESTON 1872: Harold Bell WRIGHT 1873: Maj-Gen, Henry ROWAN-ROBINSON 1876: Harriet Margaret MacKENZIE 1876: John JEFFREY-WADDELL 1876: Marmaduke Stephen MAYOU 1877: Alfred Broadhead SEARLE 1877: Mordecai BERTIG (ps: Mordecai GEBIRTIG) 1877: Prof, David WILLIAMS 1878: Prof, John McKellar STEWART 1879: Clara (nee)Ingram JUDSON 1879: Kyösti(=Gustav Felix) WILKUNA 1882: Wilhelm LEHMANN 1883: Orlando Cyprian WILLIAMS 1884: Edmund Kurt HELLER 1884: Prof, Agnes (nee)Fay MORGAN 1885: John Austin GREANEY 1885: Prof, Americo CASTRO (y QUESADA) 1885: Prof, Matthew John STEWART 1886: Charles Lydiard Aubrey ABBOTT 1886: John Augur HOLABIRD 1886: Lewis Richard MACGREGOR 1887: Sir, Owen St Clair O'MALLEY 1888: Charles Frederick Ingram RAMSDEN 1888: Manning Marcus QUATTLEBAUM 1888: Nicolai MALKO 1889: Cardinal, Francis Joseph SPELLMAN 1889: Israel Moses SIEFF, (life) Baron SIEFF of Brimpton 1890: Carl Campbell BRIGHAM 1891: Mabel (nee)Otis ROBISON 1892: Edwin Booth SAYLES (&ps: Ted SAYLES) 1892: Prof, Harold Robert SMART 1893: Anne-Marie LEREBOURS, Mrs BOURAND (ps: Annie DESROY) 1893: Capt, Alfred Oliver POLLARD 1894: John CRAVEN (ps: Digger CRAVEN) 1894: Margaret MacVEAGH, nee ? 1895: René MAYER 1896: Mary Ellen PELTZ, nee OPDYCKE 1896: Prof, (Edward) William Alton OCHSNER 1896: William Edward McCULLOCH 1897: Col, Raymond Humphrey QUILL 1899: Prof, William Brooke GRAVES 1900: James Wallace HAMILTON 1901: Aubrey Hickes Lawson GIBSON 1901: Nelle Portrey DAVIS 1901: Sir, Charles Carnegie MARTIN 1902: Cola DEBROT (&ps: Chandi LAGUN) 1902: Sidnie Milana MANTON, Mrs HARDING 1902: William Clement STONE 1903: Anna (McLean) BIDDER 1903: Hettie(=Harriet) GRIMSTEAD (&ps: Marsha MANNING) 1904: Leon ZUCKERT 1905: James Frank BRAMLEY 1905: Thelmar (nee)Wyche CRAWFORD 1906: Esmond (Pennington) KNIGHT 1906: Frank DOGGETT 1906: Harry Edward NEAL 1906: Mary (nee)Eakin LAUGESEN 1907: Dorothy Lucie/Lucy McCLEMANS, Mrs SANDERS (ps: Shelly DEAN; Lucy WALKER) 1907: Lincoln (Edward) KIRSTEIN 1908: Daniel Thambyrajah NILES 1908: Robert Gerald RIDDELL 1909: Dorothy (F) RODGERS, nee ? 1909: Eric Raymond DELDERFIELD 1909: Harold SILVERBLATT (ps: Howard da SILVA) 1910: Barry WOOD 1910: Margaret (Mary) MASTERMAN, Mrs BRAITHWAITE 1910: William Barry WOOD, Jr 1911: Meda Carlotta (nee)Leschen CLIFTON 1912: Amy Bess(=Elizabeth) (nee)Williams MILLER 1912: Derek SENIOR 1912: Sir, Asher (Alexander) JOEL 1913: Carroll (Byron) MOORE (Jr) 1913: Hisaya MORISHIGE 1913: Per MONSEN (ps: Bjarne HAGEN) 1913: Prof, Charles Granville ROB 1914: Emmanuel François ROBLÈS 1914: Frank Wesley LANHAM 1914: Hilgard MULLER 1915: Keith (Archibald) SMITH 1915: Maurice ZINKIN 1915: Prof, James Robbins KIDD 1915: Walter (Hadrian Marshall) CARRINGTON 1916: Jane JACOBS, nee BUTZNER 1916: Prof, Elliott Waters MONTROLL 1916: Robert Green SACHS 1916: Rose (nee)Laub COSER 1917: Prof, Charles Kingsley BARRETT 1917: Prof, Edward Toner CONE 1918: Gastón BAQUERO (y DÍAZ) 1918: Prof, Frank John CHARVAT 1919: Maj-Gen, Allan Elton YOUNGER, aka Tony YOUNGER 1919: Prof, Morton I GROSSMAN 1921: Alan (Jay) PIFER 1921: Richard DEACON 1921: Sir, Stephen (Lewis Edmonstone) HASTINGS 1921: Suzanne Marie Adèle BEAUCLERK, Duchess of ST ALBANS, nee FESQ 1922: John Alexander ARMSTRONG (Jr) 1922: Prof, Magnar RONNING 1923: Assi/Asi RAHBANI 1923: Eric SYKES 1923: Walter MERTZ 1924: Gene(=Eugene Kantor) KLAVAN 1925: (Heloise) Ruth FIRST, Mrs SLOVO 1925: Anthony (Michael) WALTON 1925: Prof, Robert Buchan DUTHIE 1925: VE Pres, Luis (Antonio) HERRERA CAMPINS 1926: David Allan BROMLEY 1926: Prof, Allen MANDELBAUM 1927: Jacques LANZMANN 1928: Prof, Stanley Dale KREBS 1928: Timothy Edward Patterson HEWAT 1930: Art (D) SEIDENBAUM 1930: Richard Robinson NELSON 1930: Ron(=Ronald James) PICKERING 1930: Sheila KIERAN, nee GINZLER 1932: Beverly Kathleen BUTLER 1932: Lee (Jonathan) LOCKWOOD 1934: William MILLER 1935: Angus Donald MACINTYRE 1935: José VIEIRA MATEUS Da GRAÇA (ps: José LUANDINO VIEIRA) 1937: George HUGHES 1937: Tony(=Anthony) FIRTH 1938: Carlos MONSIVÁIS (ACEVES) 1938: Leslie (Donald) EPSTEIN 1939: Klaus EICHNER 1939: Paul (Xavier) GLEASON 1939: Prof, Amos KLAUSNER (ps: Amos OZ) 1940: Prof, William Wayne TALARZYK 1940: Robin COOK 1942: Leon (Andrew Patrick) KANE-MAGUIRE 1944: Michelle (nee)Zimbalist ROSALDO 1945: Jacques Roumain CHARLIER 1947: Terrence MOAN 1948: Prof, Grace Marion JANTZEN 1948: Prof, Hugh Gurney BEALE 1948: Sue(=Susan Katriona) INNES 1949: Gáspár NAGY 1949: Graham (Colin) SWIFT 1949: Prof, Lindsey (Audrey Jennifer) HUGHES, Mrs CUTSHALL 1952: Michael BARRYMORE 1955: Lynne (Irene) SPEARS, nee BRIDGES 1956: Lonny(=Marlon) GERUNGAN 1958: Keith HARING 1961: Chris(=Christopher Gary) PACKHAM
Died:
1655: Giovanni Francesco ABELA 1673: Richard BRAITHWAITE / BRATHWAITE 1677: Isaac BARROW 1702: Rev, Oliver HEYWOOD 1737: Eustace BUDGELL 1797: Christopher MARSHALL 1820: Benjamin AUSTIN (&ps: HONESTUS; [Old SOUTH]) 1824: Joseph JOUBERT (&ps: [LANGEAC]) 1845: Thomas MITCHELL 1847: Alexandre Rodolphe VINET 1852: Rev, Theyre Townsend SMITH 1854: Abp, John HEAD 1856: John Collins WARREN, the Elder 1856: Judge, Charles ELLIOTT 1860: Abp, Thomas MUSGRAVE 1862: Archdeacon, George GLOVER 1862: James Ormiston McWILLIAM 1862: Samuel LEWIS 1863: Edward John LITTLETON, 1st Baron HATHERTON 1863: Thomas Goodhurst GOODBAN 1865: Henry CHRISTY 1866: Gilbert James FRENCH 1866: Thurlow Weed BROWN 1869: Thomas Langlois LEFROY 1870: John NEVAY 1873: Prof, William Holmes McGUFFEY 1874: George Collyer HARRIS 1874: Prof, Beriah GREEN 1875: Rosalie LOVELING 1877: John Macleay PEACOCK 1877: Rev, Charles BERRY 1877: Rev, Thomas Hanly BALL 1877: William MURDOCH 1879: Sir, Mutu Coomara SWAMY 1881: Charles HUDSON 1882: (John) Fennings TAYLOR 1884: Rev, Alexander Fernie KEMP 1889: Robert DAMON 1890: Joseph COOPER 1891: Lord, James Edward Sholto DOUGLAS 1891: William Newsham BLAIR 1892: Ellen Webley PARRY / WEBLEY-PARRY 1892: Thomas Suter ACKLAND 1893: Francis BAYLEY 1895: Mrs John Kent, (Lilian) SPENDER, nee HEADLAND 1895: Roundell PALMER, 1st Earl of SELBORNE 1897: Henry Vandyke CARTER 1897: Isabella VARLEY, Mrs BANKS (&ps: Mrs G Linnæus BANKS) 1898: Horatio Nelson LAY 1898: William Henry TRESCOT 1899: Emma MARSHALL, nee MARTIN 1899: William THORN (&ps: THETA) 1900: Augustus Henry Lane FOX-PITT-RIVERS, ne FOX 1900: Edmund ATKINSON 1900: Lt-Gen, Augustus Henry LANE-FOX (ps: Augustus Henry PITT-RIVERS) 1901: Henry Harrison LYMAN 1901: Rev, Thomas WEBSTER 1901: Stanley LEIGHTON 1903: Bp, John Fletcher HURST 1904: George Deedes WARRY 1905: Ven, Edwin Hamilton GIFFORD 1906: Charles SIBTHORPE 1907: Albert Henry SMYTH 1907: John Cumming MACDONA 1907: John MACKINTOSH 1907: John Watts DE PEYSTER 1908: Jefferson Pickman STOW 1912: Bp, Charles William STUBBS 1913: Sir, Tatton SYKES 1914: Paulo GIORZA 1915: Sir, William Richard GOWERS 1916: Charles Stewart CROLE 1921: Marcus Bourne HUISH 1921: Melville Madison BIGELOW 1922: Dean, John Brookes Vernon PENFOLD 1922: George (Edward) Simonds BOULGER 1923: Sir, William Robertson NICOLL (&ps: Claudius CLEAR) 1924: Edith NESBIT, 1:Mrs BLAND, 2:Mrs TUCKER (&ps: Fabian BLAND (2)) 1925: George WHALE 1925: Giovanni Battista GRASSI 1926: Sir, Robert HANBURY BROWN 1928: Prof, Jinzo MATSUMURA 1929: Sallie (nee)Southall COTTEN 1930: Gerald Cecil DUDGEON 1931: Ellis ASHMEAD-BARTLETT 1933: Edith Louisa FLOYER, Mrs BUTCHER 1934: Edmund EDEL 1935: Prof, Thomas OKEY 1936: David Middleton GREIG 1936: Prof, Alfred Cardew DIXON 1937: Boleslaw LESMIAN 1938: Carl von OSSIETZKY 1939: Arthur Octavius PRICKARD 1939: Sir, Herbert Frederick COOK, 3rd Baronet COOK of Doughty House 1941: Percy Granger SKIRVEN 1941: Prof, (Carl/Karl) Heinrich ZÖLLNER / ZOELLNER 1941: Prof, (John) Ramsay (Bryce) MUIR 1942: Delfino CINELLI 1942: Edwin PRICE 1943: Herbert Edwin HAWKES 1944: Dave (Hennen) MORRIS 1944: Harold Adye PRICHARD 1945: John Augur HOLABIRD 1945: John BORG 1945: John Munro WOOLSEY 1946: Fred Albert BRITTEN 1946: Sir, Jesse (William) HIND 1947: William Walter CROTCH 1948: Clyde YOUNG 1950: Herman SHAW 1950: Prof, Daniel LAMONT 1950: William Rose BENÉT 1951: (Percival) Macleod YEARSLEY 1951: Arthur Reginald DYER 1951: Frederick Colin TILNEY 1953: (Alexander) Gordon DEWEY 1953: Edward (Richard Buxton) SHANKS 1953: Thomas Tertius NOBLE 1955: Maj, James Hanna McCORMICK 1955: Prof, Richard McGillivray DAWKINS 1957: Erich SCHEURMANN 1959: Cardinal, Georges(-François-Xavier-Marie) GRENTE 1959: Prof, Ashley DUKES 1960: Sir, Kenneth Samuel FITZE 1961: Marcel MERLEAU-PONTY 1961: Prof, Herbert Westren TURNBULL 1961: Sir, Archibald SAFFORD 1963: Kazuo KAWAI 1964: Prof, Henry HAMILTON 1966: Amédée (J) OZENFANT 1966: Dermot (Gordon) Chesson SPENCE 1967: Eliot Cecil CURWEN 1967: Frederic Sutherland FERGUSON 1969: Prof, William Edward COLLINSON 1969: Sir, (Francis) Osbert (Sacheverell) SITWELL, 5th Baronet SITWELL of Renishaw 1970: Helen Christina Easson REES, nee EVANS (ps: Jane OLIVER) 1971: Donald Dexter VAN SLYKE 1972: Christopher Robert Druce PULLING (&ps: Christopher DRUCE) 1972: Maurice SAMUEL (&ps: Frank K NOTCH) 1972: Prof, Edward Calvin KENDALL 1973: Cecil Henry BAILEY 1973: Eugen HANISCH (ps: Anton ACKERMANN) 1973: Jane (Sydney) BOWLES, nee AUER 1974: Ludwig KOCH 1974: William Maurice EWING 1975: Denny Crane (O'Connor) STOKES 1975: Edward Joseph DOHERTY (&ps: Eddie DOHERTY) 1975: Robert Alexander HOUSTOUN 1975: Stewart Wolfe JAMIESON 1976: Henri Fernand Joseph Marius BOSCO 1976: Manuel LLANES 1976: Prof, William Owen Lester SMITH 1977: Richard (Pike) BISSELL 1980: Siegfried BÖHM 1980: YU Pres, Josip BROZ (ps: Josip Broz TITO) 1981: 'Prof', Paul (Eliot) GREEN 1981: Prof, Henry Burnand GARLAND 1983: Shuji TERAYAMA 1984: Diana Mary FLUCK, 1:Mrs HAMILTON, 2:Mrs DAWSON, 3:Mrs LAKE (ps: Diana DORS) 1984: Maria VOROBIEV (ps: MARAVNA) 1984: Paul Darcy BOLES 1984: Roger TROUVÉ (&ps: Roger KARL) 1984: Sir, (Frank) Kingsley NORRIS 1984: Sir, George (Alexander) CURRIE 1985: Gen, Clarence Dexter WISEMAN 1985: Jocelyn (Mary) BABER, nee DODD 1985: Prof, Edward Louis PROEBSTING (Sr) 1986: Prof, Edward Allen WIGHT 1987: Ernest James VAUGHAN 1988: Lillian Estelle FISHER 1988: Stanley William HAYTER 1988: Wilfred Frank Flexmore HUDSON 1989: John Roderick HELLER 1989: Lydia (Elizabeth) (nee)Pasternak SLATER 1989: Marian (nee?)Tyler CHASE 1989: Prof, Daniel A BINCHY 1990: John Ormond THOMAS (ps: John ORMOND) 1991: Nicholas DANTE 1991: William Mobile ASHBY 1993: Rev, James Stevenson McEWEN 1994: Mary Elizabeth COUNSELMAN, Mrs VINYARD (&ps: Mrs Horace B VINYARD) 1995: Prof, John William Roger GRIFFITHS 1995: Prof, Murray Llewellyn BARR 1995: Prof, William Bradley SLOTTMAN 1995: Thomas Anthony HARRIS 1996: Helen WATERFORD 1996: Preb, Douglas William CLEVERLEY FORD 1996: Stanley William REED 1998: Gordon George BENINGFIELD 1998: Prof, Vernon Joseph BOURKE 1998: Sir, Alan GLYN 1999: Ioan (Bowen) REES 1999: Prof, Joseph Allen BRYANT, Jr 1999: Sir, (Richard) Brinsley FORD 1999: Sir, Leo PLIATZKY 2000: Diana (Patience Beverley) ROSS, Mrs DENNEY (&ps: GRI) 2000: Fred(=Frederick George) RICHENS 2000: Prof, Frederick Wolverson COPE 2000: Prof, Hans JUERGENSEN 2000: Prof, Hendrik (Brugt Gerhard) CASIMIR 2001: Prof, Anne ANASTASI, Mrs FOLEY 2001: Prof, Cedric (David J) PUGH 2001: Prof, Francis William CARTER 2002: Prof, Florence (nee?)Garfunkel ROSWELL 2002: Prof, John Barrett HASTED 2003: Arthur William OLDHAM 2003: David Arthur THOMAS 2003: Michaela DENIS, nee HOLDSWORTH, 2:Lady LINDSAY 2003: Mohit SEN 2003: Prof, William Josiah GOODE, aka Si GOODE 2003: Sir, Peter (Colpoys Paley) JOHNSON, 7th Baronet JOHNSON of New York 2004: Prof, Haruo KURODA 2004: Ray Wallace GIFFORD, Jr 2004: Tage FRID 2005: Col, David Haskell HACKWORTH 2005: Evelyn (Lutman) ROBERTS, nee FANNESTOCK 2005: Luis (Poblete) TARUC 2005: Michael (Jenkins) KERNAN (Jr) 2005: Prof, David (Somerset) SHORT 2005: Prof, Michael Courtney ROGERS 2006: Eugene J HALL 2006: Luba KADISON, Mrs BULOFF 2006: Raymond John ADIE 2006: Richard MAGOFFIN 2007: Prof, John (Cuthbert) BEVINGTON 2008: Prof, Leonard Francis NEAL 2008: Richard Gordon HOLME, (life) Baron HOLME Of CHELTENAHM of Cheltenham 2009: (William) Frank (Niemann) GREGORY-SMITH 2009: Dom(=Dominick) DeLUISE 2009: Gerald William SCULLY 2009: Martha (Ann) MASON 2010: Carlo (Lorenzo) CAZZULLO 2010: Jonathan Philip GROSSMAN 2010: Juan ARCOCHA 2010: Julian ANDREWS 2010: Peter Henry Bruce ALLSOP 2011: Prof, Hugh Lionel FREEMAN 2011: Richard (Virgil Dean) STEINHEIMER 2011: Terence (Brian) WYNN 2012: Angelica (Vanessa) GARNETT, nee BELL 2012: Edward Watson SHORT, (life) Baron GLENAMARA of Glenridding 2012: John (Philip) BUNKER 2012: Prof, Crawford Hallock GREENEWALT, Jr