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Born:
1748: Francesco AZOPARDI 1768: Rev, Samuel TAYLOR 1780: Edward HAWKINS 1786: Rev, Robert GORDON 1790: John LUARD 1792: William Alexander PROVIS 1794: Nathan SARGENT 1795: James HAUGHTON 1796: William Epps CORMACK 1798: Archdeacon, John RUSHTON 1798: Jonathan Edwards RYLAND 1799: John GUEST 1802: Alexander GORDON 1809: Prof, Frederick Augustus Porter BARNARD 1811: John William DRAPER 1813: Rev, John GROTE 1813: Søren Aabye KIERKEGAARD 1816: Dean, John Saul HOWSON 1817: Rep, George Washington JULIAN 1818: (Heinrich) Karl MARX 1820: Alexander FRASER, 17th Lord SALTOUN of Abernethy 1822: Rev, John Dury GEDEN 1823: Eusebio GUITERAS (y FONT) 1824: Harrison William WEIR 1824: William Henry THOMES 1826: William Henry BIRCH 1828: William Henry Davenport ADAMS (&ps: W H D A) 1830: Thomas Edward BROWN 1831: George (Charles) BRODRICK 1831: Sir, Robert Anstruther DALZELL 1832: Hubert Howe BANCROFT 1833: Freiherr, Ferdinand von RICHTHOFEN 1833: Rev, Richard Watson DIXON 1836: Albert Davidson MICHAEL 1837: James Burn RUSSELL 1837: Oliver CODRINGTON 1839: Henry NETTLESHIP 1839: Rev, Blomfield JACKSON 1841: Rev, Kristofer (Nagel) JANSON 1842: Rev, Calvin GOODSPEED 1843: William George BEERS 1844: Sir, Elliott WOOD 1845: George Francis ARMSTRONG (&ps: George Francis SAVAGE-ARMSTRONG) 1845: Samuel Edwin SOLLY 1846: Brig-Gen, George Frederick YOUNG 1846: Henryk (Adam Aleksander Pius) SIENKIEWICZ (ps: LITWOS) 1849: Thomas LANGTON 1850: Rev, Arthur John LOCKHART (&ps: Pastor FELIX) 1852: Freiherr, Friedrich (Maria Aloys Franz Karl) von HÜGEL / HUEGEL 1854: George Lewis DENMAN 1854: Sir, Ernest Fuller KILPIN 1855: William Swan STALLYBRASS 1856: Frederick George KITTON 1856: William Wallace DENSLOW 1857: Preb, John Price LEWIS 1859: Maj-Gen, Reginald Henry MAHON 1860: James A O'GORMAN 1861: Sir, John Edward LLOYD 1862: Prof, Hermon Carey BUMPUS (Sr) 1863: George John BENNETT 1864: David Russell JACK 1864: Rev, Herbert Lockwood WILLETT 1864: William Aldren TURNER 1864: William James TREMEEAR 1864: William Proctor Gould HARDING 1865: William Arthur Jobson ARCHBOLD 1866: Albert Allison REED 1866: Edgar Ravenswood WAITE 1867: Thomas Tertius NOBLE 1870: Canon, Allan Thomas CAMERON 1872: Cardinal, Georges(-François-Xavier-Marie) GRENTE 1873: Albert SOILAND 1873: Rollins Adams EMERSON 1874: Sir, Thomas Rainsford BAVIN 1876: Prof, John GARSTANG 1876: Willard Arthur GOODELL 1877: Maj, Robert Harwar GILL 1879: Alfred Hoyt BILL 1879: Max MARCIN 1880: Wilson Pugsley MacDONALD (&ps: [Frederick MacLEAN]) 1881: Abp, Richard DOWNEY 1882: (Estelle) Sylvia PANKHURST 1882: Sir, Douglas MAWSON 1883: Archibald Percival WAVELL, 1st Earl WAVELL 1883: Prof, David THODAY 1883: Prof, Herbert Jennings ROSE 1884: Antoinette GURNEY (ps: Allen CHAFFEE) 1884: Prof, Solomon Leon SKOSS 1886: Capt, Angus BUCHANAN 1886: Margaret Brackenbury CROOK 1886: Prof, Sol Felty LIGHT 1886: Prof, Walter James DILLING 1887: Abp, Geoffrey Francis FISHER, (life) Baron FISHER of Lambeth 1888: Charles Dean HOLLAND 1888: Lt-Col, Vere Egerton COTTON 1888: Paul ELDRIDGE 1888: Robert Bruce RONALD 1889: Arthur Dighton STAMMERS 1890: Christopher (Darlington) MORLEY 1890: Prof, Henry Buckley CHARLTON 1891: Charles Humfrey Caulfeild OSBORNE 1891: Elmer Wallace HICKMAN 1891: Julius BRAUNTHAL 1891: Prof, Cyril (Beverly) HARRIS 1891: Prof, Esther Cloudman DUNN 1892: Catherine Anthony CLARK, nee SMITH 1892: Dorothy Annie Elizabeth GARROD 1892: Sir, Cecil (Pembrey Grey) WAKELEY, 1st Baronet WAKELEY of Liss 1893: Alfred Jackson HANNA 1893: Joseph Dewey SOPER 1893: Louis MERCIER 1893: Oscar LEWIS 1894: August DVORAK 1895: Prof, John Bright DUGUID 1895: Prof, Virgilio DÍAZ ORDÓÑEZ, aka Ligio VIZARDI 1897: Arnold (Joseph Victor) SHORE 1897: Kathleen GIBBERD 1897: Kenneth (Duva) BURKE 1897: Lt-Col, Harwood (Robert) Elmes STEELE (&ps: Howard STEELE) 1897: Raymond WEST 1898: Manuel LLANES 1899: Freeman Fisher GOSDEN 1899: Paul Fenimore COOPER 1899: Paul LAUNE 1899: Prof, Samson WRIGHT 1900: Bp, George SINKER 1900: Capt, (Stanley) Brian de COURCY-IRELAND 1900: Edith (nee)McEwen DORIAN 1900: Hans SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT 1900: Prof, Charles Shang HYNEMAN 1900: Prof, Mark Waldo ZEMANSKY 1900: Prof, Tom Burns HABER 1901: Louis/Lewis Augustus HARLOW 1902: Benjamin Gwillim ASTON (ps: Jeffrey HAVILTON) 1903: James Andrews BEARD 1903: Mabel Janice BUSBY, 1:Mrs GOODAN, 2:Mrs SPAGNOLI, 3:Mrs RAPP, 4:Mrs GUMP, 5:Mrs KENNA, aka Marsha OWEN (ps: Sally STANFORD) 1903: Prof, Livingston HALL 1904: Frank TILSLEY (&ps: X Y Z) 1904: Theodore Gerhardt TAPPERT 1905: Prof, Naphtali WIEDER 1905: Walter MOSAUER 1906: Eric Otto SCHLUNKE 1906: Jabez (Curry) STREET 1906: John Campbell BRUCE 1907: Lloyd Arnold BROWN 1907: Pat (Harry Hart) FRANK 1907: Prof, Kenneth (Arthur) MUIR (&ps: Louis CARTEL; Mark FINNEY; Sheila LATIMER; E G NEWBERRY) 1907: Rev, (Lei) (later)Florence Tim (nee)Oi LI 1907: Richard (Geraint) REES 1907: William B LEVENSON 1908: (Carol) Humphrey (Vivian) SUTHERLAND 1908: Prof, Reuben Arthur BROWER 1909: Arthur Clifton LAMB 1909: Carlos Heard BAKER 1909: Prof, Geoffrey Victor SMITHERS 1909: Prof, Mervyn Archdall ELLISON 1910: Baroness, Bridget Horatia PLOWDEN, nee RICHMOND 1910: Bp, (William) Gordon WHEELER 1910: Eugene O'NEILL, Jr 1910: Florence (May) (nee)Peterson KENDALL 1910: George Sessions PERRY 1910: Leo(=Leonard) LIONNI 1910: Prof, Arthur Bamford CRABTREE 1910: Richard Marshall EAKIN 1911: Andor (Arnoldovich) LILIENTHAL 1911: Johnstone PARR 1912: Dean, William Fenton MORLEY 1912: Edward Brodie FRENCH 1912: Gérald VAN Der KEMP 1913: Ruth G MONTALVÁN, nee WARREN 1914: (Helen) Charis WILSON, 1:Mrs WESTON, 2:Mrs HARRIS 1914: Frank (Avray) WILSON 1914: Harold William CAUTHERY 1914: Prof, George Joseph POPJÁK 1914: Sir, Charles (Fletcher) FLETCHER-COOKE 1915: Ethel Edison GORDON 1915: Prof, Homer Charles KILLEY 1915: Prof, Loren Daniel CARLSON 1915: Richard Halworth ROVERE 1916: Bp, John Paul BURROUGH 1916: Charles Hector Fitzroy MACLEAN, (life) Baron MACLEAN of Duart and Morvern 1916: Prof, Philip George ASHMORE 1917: Prof, Patrick LYNCH 1917: Sir, William (Drummond Macdonald) PATON 1918: Hugh (Reginald) JOLLY 1918: Ian GREY 1918: Irene (nee)Gut OPDYKE 1918: Joseph Putnam HENCK 1918: Prof, Hugh Reginald JOLLEY 1919: Prof, Charles WENDELL 1920: Bill(=William Dickenson) HUNTER, aka 'Wild Bill' HUNTER 1920: Judge, José TRÍAS MONGE 1920: Prof, (Harold) Homer ASCHMANN 1920: Sir, Glanmor WILLIAMS 1921: Del(=Dorothy L) MARTIN, nee TALIAFERRO 1921: Prof, Arthur Leonard SCHAWLOW 1922: David KARP (&ps: Adam SINGER; Wallace WARE) 1922: Jean SMITH 1922: Prof, Monica Mary COLE 1922: William J GILL 1923: James DILLES 1923: Miles (Barton) TRIPP (&ps: Michael BRETT) 1923: Prof, Richard Arthur WOLLHEIM 1924: John David Jayne HAVARD 1925: Prof, Michael BRAWNE, ne BRAUN 1926: Bernard LEVINSON 1926: Prof, John (Griffith) VAUGHAN 1927: Andrew Wilson DODDS 1927: Charles ROSEN 1928: (Arnold) Kit(=Christopher) DENTON (&ps: [JANUS]) 1928: Germano FACETTI 1928: Loring MANDEL 1928: Pierre SCHOENDOERFFER 1929: Kenneth (Bernard) COOK 1929: Prof, Charles (Bennett) GULLANS 1929: Prof, David MAYBURY-LEWIS 1929: Prof, Israel KOLVIN 1929: Prof, Michael Franz BASCH 1930: Roosevelt WARD, Jr, aka Douglas TURNER (ps: Douglas Turner WARD) 1930: William Harold HALBERSTADT 1931: David REEDER 1931: Rodick CARMICHAEL 1933: Barbara (nee)Taylor BRADFORD (&ps: Sally BRADFORD (1); Barbara SIDDON (1)) 1934: Prof, Walter CAPPS 1936: (Caroline) Mary EVANS, nee LANDER 1936: (John) Gordon (Picton) PHILLIPS 1936: Ian (Roger) CREDLAND 1937: Paul (Anthony) WEBSTER 1938: Prof, Roger F DASHEN 1939: Fr, Cormac John RIGBY 1942: Virginia Wynette PUGH (ps: Tammy WYNETTE) 1943: Michael (Edward) PALIN 1943: Prof, Malcolm (McNaughtan) BOWIE 1950: Greg GATENBY 1957: Jack D PRESSMAN 1957: Susan (C) BERGMAN, nee HECHE 1970: Naomi KLEIN 1972: James CRACKNELL
Died:
1766: Prof, Jean/Joannes/Johannes ASTRUC 1789: Joseph(=Giuseppe Marc Antonio) BARETTI 1808: Comte, Pierre-Jean-Georges CABANIS 1819: Maj, John SCOTT, later SCOTT WARING 1821: Emperor, Napoléon BONAPARTE, ne Napoleone BUONAPARTE, aka NAPOLÉON I 1822: Thomas TRUXTON 1837: Niccolo/Nicola Antonio ZINGARELLI 1837: Queen, HORTENSE (Eugénie Cécile), of Holland (house of BONAPARTE), nee de BEAUHARNAIS 1840: Thomas Burgeland JOHNSON (&ps: T H NEEDHAM; B THOMAS) 1846: John PICKERING 1851: Henry MARSHALL 1852: William Henry Wood MURRAY 1853: William SHAW 1855: Sir, Robert Harry INGLIS, 2nd Baronet INGLIS of Milton Bryan 1857: William WALTON 1858: Barbara HEMPHILL, nee HARE 1859: (Johann Peter Gustav) Lejeune DIRICHLET 1859: George SUTTOR 1859: Prof, Charles Robert LESLIE 1862: Carl August (Albano) ADLERSPARRE 1863: Charles BASS 1865: Samuel Charles BREES 1866: John Critchley PRINCE 1866: John Dawson RAWDON 1868: Rev, Charles Thomas PENROSE 1869: George HEATH 1871: Anna Delicia HOOK 1872: George Robert GRAY 1873: Charles LYNE 1877: William COULSON 1879: Prof, Isaac BUTT 1879: Trenham REEKS 1881: Abbé, Jean-Eugène DECORDE 1881: Archdeacon, Richard Brindley HONE 1881: William Ross WALLACE 1882: Rev, Charles KENDALL 1882: Richard TUDOR 1883: Henry Samuel BOASE 1884: Henry Arthur BRIGHT 1887: James GRANT 1888: Prof, Johann Carl Friedrich KEIL 1888: Rev, Samuel HEBDITCH 1889: Eugeen Edward STROOBANT 1891: Bp, William Connor MAGEE 1891: Peter Hately WADDELL 1892: George Henry MOORE 1892: Sir, Henry Leland HARRISON 1896: Horace/Horatio Noble PYM (&ps: H N P) 1897: (James) Theodore BENT 1897: Jemmett Jemmett BROWNE, later JEMMETT-BROWNE 1897: Rep, Elbridge Gerry SPAULDING 1898: Harrison HAYTER 1898: Joseph Mazzini WHEELER 1899: Philip Thomas MAIN 1902: (Francis) Bret(=Brett) HARTE 1904: Maurus/Moritz(=Mór) JÓKAI 1906: Mrs, (Eliza) BRIGHTWEN, nee ELDER? 1906: Robert French (Algernon) WALLACE 1907: Robert St John CORBET 1909: Bindon Blood STONEY 1909: Edwin Delos COE 1910: Rev, Alexander MACLAREN / M'LAREN 1911: Bp, Charles Edward CAMIDGE 1913: Alice Maud MEADOWS, aka Mrs WILSON 1915: George Upton ROBINS 1916: Arturo Bautista PELLERANO CASTRO (ps: BYRON) 1917: Harold FIELDING, later FIELDING-HALL 1918: Georges HÉNOT (ps: Georges OHNET) 1920: Edwin Joseph Lisle March Phillipps DE LISLE 1920: John Hyslop BELL 1922: Carl/Karl (Sofus) LUMHOLTZ 1922: Prof, John EDGAR 1922: Sir, Thomas FRASER 1925: Charles Allan La Touche BROUGH 1928: Barry (Eric Odell) PAIN 1928: Dr, (Auguste) CABANÈS 1929: Guernsey JONES 1930: Frederick Grenfell BAKER 1933: Francisco CONTRERAS 1936: Beatrice HARRADEN 1936: James Frank SULLIVAN 1936: Mary Effie SHAMBAUGH 1937: Charlotte Anne Elizabeth MOBERLY (&ps: Elizabeth MORISON) 1937: Philip George Lancelot WEBB 1937: Thomas Raffles DAVISON 1938: Sir, Montagu de Pomeroy WEBB 1939: Sir, Henry John ORAM 1940: Fred MACISAAC 1941: Rev, Edward Anderson Seymour SCOTT 1942: Harold Barr GRIMSDALE 1942: Harold Horsfall HILTON 1942: Qemal STAFA 1942: William Warrender MACKENZIE, 1st Baron AMULREE 1943: Gordon HEWART, 1st Viscount HEWART 1943: Robert Osborne McCULLOCH 1943: Wallace Alexander NELSON 1944: Archdeacon, John Luce RAMSON 1944: Edwin Hurry FENWICK 1945: Edith (Chaplin) (nee)Ayrton ZANGWILL 1946: Bhulabhai Jivanji DESAI 1949: (John) Halcott GLOVER 1951: John FLYNN 1951: Rev, Walter WYNN 1952: Alfred Fowell BUXTON 1952: Andrea DE CHIRICO (ps: Alberto SAVINIO) 1952: Prof, George Rapall NOYES 1952: Wilfrid Lawson RANDELL 1953: Robert Lloyd PRAEGER 1954: Ethel Mary ELDERTON 1954: James Atkinson WALKER 1956: Miklós NYISZLI 1957: Mary Ella LYNG 1957: Sir, Howard Karl KIPPENBERGER 1958: James Branch CABELL (&ps: Berwell WASHINGTON) 1958: Otto ABETZ 1958: Prof, Frederick BEDELL 1960: Charles Edwin ATKINSON 1962: David Doig PRATT 1963: Per JACOBSSON (ps: Peter OLDFELD (2)) 1963: Sir, Howard Morley ROBERTSON 1964: Bertrand Meigh PEEK 1964: Sir, (Percy) James GRIGG 1966: Alex F OSBORN 1966: George Cecil LIGHTFOOT 1967: Prof, Owen Thomas JONES 1968: Harold Vincent SCHOEPFLIN (ps: Harl VINCENT) 1968: Josiah WEDGWOOD 1968: Warren Royal DAWSON 1969: Prof, Waldo Hilary DUNN 1970: Humfrey MICHELL 1971: Bp, Charles Harold Wilfred de SOYSA 1971: Prof, George LaVerne ANDERSON 1971: Sir, (William) David ROSS 1971: Violet (Constance) JESSOP, Mrs LEWIS? 1972: Hilda (Frances Margaret) PRESCOTT 1972: Prof, Ernest Clarence ROLLASON 1973: Prof, Burton Seely KEIRSTEAD 1974: Rev, John Trevor DAVIES 1975: Prof, Edward Z ROWELL 1975: Sir, (James Reginald) Howard ROBERTS 1976: Clarence Francis KELLY 1976: Mark-Edo TRALBAUT 1977: (Bertram) Don(=Lindon) WHITINGTON 1977: (Maurice) Christopher HOLLIS 1977: Prof, Ludwig ERHARD 1977: Sir, Cecil (Robert) HAVERS 1978: Lionel Batley BULL 1978: William Walter MASTERS 1979: Sir, George William RENDEL 1980: Leonard Woods LABAREE 1980: Prof, Robert Galloway DIXON, Jr 1980: Sophie RUSKAY 1980: William Leonard GROSSMAN 1981: Bobby(=Robert Gerard) SANDS (&ps: [MARCELLA]) 1981: Sir, Martin (Alexander) LINDSAY, 1st Baronet LINDSAY of Dowhill 1982: Irmgard KEUN 1982: Sir, (John) Denis (Nelson) HILL 1983: MT Pres, Anton BUTTIGIEG 1983: Wilfred Glassford McNEILLY (&ps: William ARTHUR; William Howard BAKER; W A BALLINGER; Wilfred GLASSFORD; Martin GREGG; Joe HUNTER; Errol LECALE; Richard WILLIAMS) 1984: Harry Waldo YOXALL 1985: Alan Geoffrey YATES (&ps: Carter BROWN; Peter Carter BROWN; Tex CONRAD; Tom CONWAY; Caroline FARR; Sinclair McKELLAR; Dennis SINCLAIR; Paul VALDEZ; Peter YATES) 1986: William Donovan JOYNT 1987: Felicjan BILOCCA 1987: Wg-Cdr, (Roland) Robert Stanford TUCK / STANFORD-TUCK 1988: Katherine Du Pre LUMPKIN 1988: Michael (Joseph) SHAARA (Jr) 1988: Robert John UNSTEAD 1988: Ronald Thomas (Andrew) DEADMAN 1988: Willi BARTH 1989: (Arthur) Neville WARD 1989: (Charles) Augustus (Carlow) MUIR (&ps: Austin MOORE) 1989: Marion Vera CUTHBERT 1990: William Hugh CARLSON 1991: Katya GILDEN, nee ? (ps: K B GILDEN (2)) 1991: Laura (nee?)Kerr RIVKIN 1993: Prof, Irving HOWE 1995: Prof, Mikhail Moiseyevich BOTVINNIK 1995: Sir, Anthony (Richard) WAGNER 1996: AI Qing/Ching 1996: Beryl BURTON 1996: David LASSER 1996: Prof, Marvin ZETTERBAUM 1997: (James) Murray KEMPTON 1997: Alan GUSSOW 1998: George Bird EVANS (&ps: Brandon BIRD (1); Harris EVANS (1)) 1998: Prof, Arthur Roy ECKARDT 1998: Prof, Edith Marian LEONARD 1998: Prof, Garff B WILSON 1999: Jack HOWLETT 1999: Vernon (Newbury) ELY 2000: David Coxe COOKE 2000: Fred/Frederick E CASE 2000: Hugh Peter James HANNING 2000: Rolf MAGENER 2000: Ruby Aileen (nee)Hiday JONES 2001: (Gerald William St) John CHADWICK 2001: Prof, Charles Lund BLACK, Jr 2001: Prof, Philip Seaforth JAMES 2002: Bp, James Clinton HOGGARD 2002: Brig-Gen, James Lawton COLLINS, Jr 2002: Franklyn Mansfield BRANLEY 2002: Michael TODD, Jr 2002: Prof, Barry Edward JOHNSON 2002: Prof, Beverly J ROBINSON 2003: David Benjamin LEWIN 2003: Edward A DOWEY, Jr 2003: Roger (Windle) PILKINGTON 2003: Waly SALOMÃO 2004: Diane J GINGOLD 2004: John CORNFORTH 2005: Barry William CHEDLOW 2005: Brian DOE 2005: Fr, John GILLICK 2006: Larry (E) ATTEBERY 2006: Naushad ALI, aka NAUSHAD 2006: Stephen JORY 2007: Brig-Gen, Edwin Howard SIMMONS 2007: Prof, Joanne (Victoria) TRAUTMANN, nee BELFIORI, 2:Mrs BANKS 2007: Theodore Harold MAIMAN 2008: PARK Kyung Ni, Mrs KIM 2009: Celestine Joseph NUESSE 2009: Elsie Bernice WASHINGTON (&ps: Rosalind WELLES) 2009: Geoffrey DEARNALEY 2009: Henry Anthony Vaughan BULLEID (&ps: D COLLINS) 2010: Callie(=Caroline Sergeant) ANGELL 2011: Arthur LEVINE (ps: Arthur LAURENTS) 2011: Claude Stanley CHOULES 2011: Leslie (John) AUDUS 2011: Peter (Findlay) THOMSON 2012: Prof, Dafydd JENKINS