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Abdullah Osman Daar: the
first head of state when British and Italian Somaliland united to form Somalia
on July 1 1960 [Africa]
David Dacko: the
first head of state when The Central African Republic gained independence from
France on August 13 1960 [Africa]
Moktar Ould Daddah: the
first head of state when Mauritania gained independence from France on November
28 1960 [Africa]
Giovanni Daelli: the Milanese publisher of the Italian translation of
"Les Miserables” on Oct 18 [serious scribes]
Matthew Paige (Matt) Damon: winning
the rugby world cup on June 24 [the
world as stage]
William Dampier: (1651-1715):
variously described as “pirate”, “buccaneer” and “hydrographer”, which makes
him a classic exemplar of the Pulchrasaurus, he is mostly remembered as the
first European to undertake a seriously scientific exploration of the coast of
Australia; see Feb 1 [E,M&C2]
Arnautz Daniel: with the Trobairitz on Jan 13, as well as hymning Jehanne Darc on May 30; all the poems here; bio and maths here, recital here [The Poets]
Kamel Daoud: re-writing Albert Camus'
"L’Etranger" for a post-Colonialist age, on Aug 20 [serious scribes] - try here
Kassa Haile Darge (Ras Kassa): unified the warring
states of Ethiopia and crowned himself Emperor Tewodros II in 1855; his defeat by
the British at the Battle of Aroge in 1868, and his subsequent suicide, are
also on the Africa page
Joe Darion: tilting at windmills
on Nov 22 - he wrote the lyrics, Mitch Leigh set them to music: click here; I wonder what Jacques Brel thought of it [the world as stage and musical
maestros]
Jerry Darring: compiled the
catalogue of Christian anti-Semitism on July 14
Sa’ad al-Da’ula al-Qawasi; Saʿd al-Dawla al-Ṣafī Ibn Hibbatallah in some records (born
circa 1240): a Jewish Vizier (of anywhere at all is somewhat
implausible - Biblical Joseph, for example, turns out not to
have been Jewish at all, but a Hyksos conqueror - but this one was specifically the Hamdanid
Emirate of Aleppo, where Jews were not counted among the favoured peoples;
nonetheless it is historically verifiable; the full bio here; for his execution
on March 5 1291,
click here; he also makes a splendid pairing for that other verifiable
implausibility, Pietro Pierleone, the Jewish Pope, who can be
found among the purple cloaks
Jo(seph) Davidson (1883-1952): noted by Frieda
on March 2 as being
among the last friends to visit DHL
before he died;
you can see the bust, just, here [illustrious illustrators]
Humphry Davy: Dec 11 has “Anaesthesia first used
in dentistry, by Horace Wells, today in 1844”, but my note on the Scientific
Achievements list on Jan 1 insists
that “actually the pioneering work on N2O (nitrous oxide or laughing gas) was
done fifty years previously by Humphry Davy”, so this is on the Sherpa Tenzing list as well: start here or here [E,M&C2]
William Dawes Jr (born April 6 1745; died February 25 1799): not even
mentioned by Longfellow in
his poem, but had he got there first it would have been called “The Midnight
Ride of William Dawes”, not that of Paul Revere - see April 18 for him and all the other minor figures involved in the
tale: the Governor, General Thomas Gage, with Major John Pitcairn and Captain
John Parker; also Samuel Adams and John Hancock, the leaders of the "Sons
of Liberty", and Samuel Prescott. Click here for Dawes’ bio [on the page of The Poets]
Richard Dawkins: my cartoon provides the illustration on July 26, though I failed to include the suggestion that belief in the
actual, physical existence of the psyche might be termed a “deitic delusion” [E,M&C2]
Charles-François Daubigny: another of the scarcely-remembereds of Durand-Ruel’s discoveries on Feb 5; try here and here [illustrious illustrators]
Honoré-Victorin Daumier: ibid Daubigny, above; try here - Feb 5 [illustrious illustrators]
Anan ben David: at war, if only intellectually, with Sa’adiah Ga’on, on May 16; for him, click here; for more about his
Kara’ite movement, here [reverend writers]
Michael Davitt, in English; Mícheál Mac Dáibhéid in Éirish: established the
“Éirish Land League” on April 24 and the Éireland page; his full biography here and here
Daniel Day-Lewis: has a
mention in “A Journey in Time” because
of his wife; methodical on this blog on Jan 17 and Nov
17 [the world as stage]
Dr. Michael E. DeBakey - the Sherpa Tenzing of the
tale of the first artificial heart transplant on April 4, carried out by Denton Cooley in Houston, Texas, the
recipient Haskell Karp; but see Christian Barnard on Dec 3 [scientific achievements and E,M&C2]
Achille-Claude Debussy (born
August 22 1862; died March 25 1918):
merely mentioned on Feb 9;
influencing Lily Boulanger on Aug 21; and me, listening to his “La Mer”
and Pink Floyd’s “Echoes”, alternately, as a 17 year old; bio here [musical maestros]
Jean-Baptiste
Defernex:
sculpting a bust of Mme
du Boccage on Oct 5
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix: discovered by père and mère Durand-Ruel, setting the
tone for son Paul’s later
career, on Feb 5; another of the Etretat crowd on
Oct 6; try here [illustrious illustrators]
Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche: provides the illustration, twice, on July 19 [illustrious illustrators]
Mathieu Delarue: vainly pursuing freedom on Feb 21 [philosophers]
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon: No one makes movies like the French, on Dec 3
[the world as stage]
Claude Étienne Edmond Marie Pierre
Delvincourt (born January 12 1888; died April 5
1954): shared the Prix de Rome with Lily Boulanger on Aug 21; bio here [musical maestros]
Cecil Blount DeMille (born August 12 1881; died January
21 1959): making Hollywood epics on July 10 [the world as stage]
Alfred Thompson (Lord Tom) Denning: the senior lawyer in the UK in the latter years of
the 20th century, defending Magna Carta on June 15 [political
ideologues]
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu co-starring
with Delon and co on Dec 3 [the world as stage]
Jeanne-Françoise
Deroin (born
December 31 1805 in Paris; "emigrated" to England August 1852; died
in England April 2 1894): with Eugénie Niboyet
on March 19; mentions there also for Suzanne Voilquin, Desirée
Gay, and Amélie Pray
in the 1848 section, plus Colette Reynaud and Louise Bodin in 1917
Shri Moraji Desai (1896-1979): succeeded Indira Gandhi as Prime
Minister on Feb 29; bio here
François-Hippolyte Desbuissons: painting Théroigne de Méricourt on May 15
Camille Desmoulins: husband of Anne-Lucile-Philippe Desmoulins on Aug 13
Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the
successor to Toussaint L'Ouverture, declares Saint Dominque
independent and renames it Haiti on January 1 1804 [Africa and responses
to bullying]
William C. DeVries: the first artificial
heart on Dec 2 [but see my note to Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, above
and on the E,M&C2 page)
Blaise Diagne (born in Senegal on October 13 1872; died May 11 1934): won
a seat in the French National Assembly in Paris in 1914, representing Dakar,
Senegal; the first person of full West African descent to be elected to the
Chamber of Deputies. He remained a member until his death, recruited Senegalese
troops for the French Army during World War I, and in 1934 became the the first
African to hold a position in the French government, serving as Deputy Minister
of the Colonies [Africa]
Abel Joseph (“Jack”) Diamond: simultaneously building Toronto’s Opera House and
refurbishing my school on Feb 28; here and here [illustrious illustrators]
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (born
July 30 1898; died October 9 1944): one of the Bauhaus artistes who was imprisoned at Terezin on April 1 [illustrious illustrators]
Martin Franz Dibelius (born
September 14 1883; died November 11 1947): revolutionising Bible text criticism on Oct 10; here for his bio [reverend writers]
Rabbi Max Dienemann: (born September 27 1875; died April 10 1939): his horrible bio here; here for his works. The key text from the first link reads: "Max
Dienemann, prominent German Jewish rabbi who came here three weeks ago, died
today from the after effects of maltreatment in Nazi concentration camps. He
was 64 years old." Dec 27 [reverend
writers]
Albert Hermann Dietrich (born
August 28 1829; died November 20 1908):
contributed to the FAE Sonata on Oct 27; the piece can be heard here [musical maestros]
Alioine
Diop:
established "Présence Africaine" in 1947, a journal devoted to
African culture, based in Dakar, Senegal [Africa and serious
scribes]
Hamani Diori: the
first head of state when Niger became independent from France on August 3 1960 [Africa]
Phyllis Selina Dixey (1914-1964): produced the first dedicated strip show
in London on March 13; try here, though this may be better [the world as stage]
Samuel Kanyon Doe (born May 6 1951; died September
9 1990): led the military coup in 1980 that ended one hundred and thirty-three years
of political domination by the Americo-Liberian élite in Liberia [Africa]
Giovanni dei Dolci: building the Sistine Chapel on Nov 1; try here for him, though more and better here; here for it [illustrious illustrators]
Marco Antonio de Dominis: born in
1560, he published a scientific explanation of rainbows on March 29 – bio here, and note
that he ended up declared a heretic, his corpse was burned, and such of his
works as were findable, on 21 December 1624 [scientific achievements and E,M&C2]
Antoine Dominique Caliste Domino Jr, better known as “Fats” (born
February 26 1928; died October 24 2017):
rattling them keyboards on Jan 5 [musical maestros]
Valentin Doni: leading the National Radio Orchestra of Bucharest
on June 2 [musical maestros]
John Donne (born
circa 1571/2; died March 31 1631): Dean
of the fleas at St Paul’s on July 3, and among the reverend writers on Nov 28
Ali Dorani (Eaten Fish): Iranian born but now
living in exile in Australia. Why? Take a look at his cartooning on Sept 27 [illustrious
illustrators]
James
Francis (Jimmy) Dorsey: blowing
his own clarinet and saxophone (I don’t think he ever did the trumpet) on Feb 29 [musical maestros]
Alfred Bruce Douglas: apparently “Bosie” was his mother’s nickname, west country pronunciation of
“boysie”, for “little boy”, long before Oscar used it; “aiding and
abetting a pederast” on April 5; lots of
his own writings here [serious scribes]
George Downing (1625-July 22 1684): scathed by Pepys on Jan 1 and Dec 4
Peter Doyle: Walt Whitman’s "Bosie" on March 15; but also Abraham Lincoln’s unnamed witness on April 14 –
click here for more on that
Judith
Drake: one of the Mary Astell circle on Nov 12; the debate as to whether she or MA or both together wrote the essay "In Defence
of the Female Sex" is not helped by Project Gutenberg (click here) giving Judith the name
James by mistake; though also interesting to note that the authorship on the
original is given as "By A Lady" - see Jane Austen to
understand the significance of that
Nancy
Drew makes a
guest appearance with the
Hardy Boys on Oct 4 [lighter writers]
Jean Dubernat: Jeanne
Baret's second husband on Nov 15
Jacques Barbeu Dubourg, doctor: providing
dead bodies for Marie-Marguerite Biheron on April 28
Isidore Lucien Ducasse - Comte de
Lautréamont was his
pseudonym (born April 4 1846 in Uruguay; died November 24 1870 in Paris): a
mere passing mention on Jan 5 , but the hint at his works is what matters: “Les Chants
de Maldoror” and “Poésies”, two of the most influential works of modern lit,
and what might he have achieved had he lived beyond the age of twenty-four (why
did he die so young? look at the date: Paris was under siege and living
conditions were disgusting; but in his case there may have been police
involvement: click here [The
Poets]
Les Frères Duchamp: Jacques Villon (born July 31 1875; died
June 9, 1963); and Raymond Duchamp-Villon (born November 15 1876; died
October 9 1918): the third brother being Marcel Duchamp on April 11. Jacques focused on Cubism and
Abstract, when not print-making; Raymond was a sculptor. Jacques on his birth-certificate
was Gaston Duchamp, and mum’s maiden name was
Nicolle (click here), so I wonder if they took Villon to identify with an earlier
rebel! click here for Jacques, here for Raymond) [illustrious
illustrators]
Georges Dudach: married to Charlotte
Delbo on Jan 26
Guildford Dudley, husband
of Queen
Jane (Lady Jane Grey-Dudley), with
brother Robert Dudley (more
famous as Queen Bess’ Earl of
Leicester and mentioned on March 15 and Sept 2), and Sir John Dudley, her
father-in-law, can all be found ruining her young life on July 19 [Aenglisch list]
Philip Dukes: playing the viola on April 1 [musical maestros]
Alexandre Dumas: in Tolstoy’s diary
on Jan 21, though I’m
not sure if this was père or fils; the Isaac Laquedem reference on March 12 is
definitely père; a
reference to his fictionalised version of the life of Marguerite de Valois can be
found on May 14, and I
must remember to add Sarah Bernhardt making her
name in père's play "Kean" to her Oct 22 listing; he
also gets a mention on Caroline Lamb's page, May 9] [lighter writers]
Ghislaine Dunant: intervewing Charlotte Delbo on Jan 26
Jules
Louis Dupré (1811-1889): yet another of Durand-Ruel’s discoveries on Feb 5; try here: [and I must
investigate if he was related to cellist Jacqueline?] [illustrious
illustrators]
Jean Durand and Marie Ruel, wife Eva Lafon, all making up the family of Paul Durand-Ruel on Feb 5 [illustrious illustrators]
Reginald Kenneth Dwight (Elton John): played the Cavern Club on Jan 16; (Bernie Taupin, who wrote the only decent songs Elton
ever sang,
gets a mention on June
20 (and definitely merits a listing of his own - start here) [musical maestros]
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