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Giovanni Daelli: the Milanese publisher of the Italian translation of "Les Miserables” on Oct 18
William Dampier (1651-1715): variously described as “pirate”, “buccaneer” and “hydrographer”, which makes him a classic exemplar of the Pulchrasaurus (see my novel “The House On Shaftesbury Hill”), he is mostly remembered as the first European to undertake a seriously scientific exploration of the coast of Australia: Feb 1
Arnaut Daniel: all the poems here, Dante’s praise is on the Wiki page; bio and maths here, recital here – and he’s with the Trobairitz on Jan 13, as well as hymning Jehanne Darc on May 30, so surely he should be on the Index, not here.
Kamel Daoud: re-writing Albert Camus' "L’Etranger" for a post-Colonialist age, on Aug 20 – click here
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
Jo Davidson (1883-1952): noted by Frieda as being among the last friends to visit DHL before he died, his fabulous bust of him can be seen, albeit only in thumbprint, here – March 2 on the blog, here and here for more
Jefferson F Davis: president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865; hater of John Brown on Dec 2
Humphry Davy: Dec 11 has “Anaesthesia first used in dentistry, by Horace Wells, today in 1844”, but my note on the Scientific Achievements list, and 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
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.
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”. Does he merit a follow-up here? If so, start here. Or maybe it would be amusing to have me as an MM, and do a satirical mock-biography.
Charles-François Daubigny (1817-1878): another of the scarcely-remembereds of Durand-Ruel’s discoveries on Feb 5; try here, and here
Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-1879): ibid Daubigny, above; try here - Feb 5
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
Michael Davitt, in English; Mícheál Mac Dáibhéid in Eirish (1846-1906): established the “Eirish Land League” on April 24 and the Eirish page: his full biography here and here.
Daniel Day-Lewis: has a mention in “A Journey in Time” because of his wife; but on this blog Jan 17, Nov 17, and Thespian World
Dr. Michael E. DeBakey - the Sherpa Tenzing of this tale of the first artificial heart transplant on April 4, carried out by Denton Cooley in Houston, Texas, the recipient Haskell Karp (but click here)
[But this seems to conflict with what I have in my notes for Dec 2:
“1982: First permanent artificial heart transplant (Barney C. Clark) (only here): bio here - link to Barnard on Dec 3; make sure it’s reciprocated: click here: the surgeon was William C. DeVries, who needs to be named on the page (I have placed him among the MMs)”
need to sort this out, and I am leaving DeVries blank, below, until I have done so]
Achille-Claude Debussy (born August 22 1862; died March 25 1918): bio here; 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.
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863): another of Durand-Ruel’s discoveries on Feb 5, another of the Etretat crowd on Oct 6; try here
Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (1797-1856) provides the illustration, twice, on July 19
Mathieu Delarue: vainly pursuing freedom on Feb 21
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 - here
Cecil Blount DeMille (born August 12 1881; died January 21 1959): making Hollywood epics on July 10
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
Shri Moraji Desai (1896-1979): succeeded Indira Gandhi as Prime Minister on Feb 29; bio here
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (born November 10 1565; executed February 25 1601): see “The Plausible Tragedie of Roderigo Lopes”, and here for the coup attempt which he staged on Nov 5, and which is why he really belongs where Queen Bess sent him when it failed, which is on the GER page
William C. DeVries: Dec 2 – see my note to DeBakey, above
Jack Diamond: simultaneously building Toronto’s Opera House and refurbishing my school on Feb 28
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (born July 30 1898; died October 9 1944): one of the Bauhaus artistes who was imprisoned at Terezin on April 1: click here and here
Martin Franz Dibelius (born September 14 1883; died November 11 1947): revolutionising Bible text criticism on Oct 10 - here for his bio
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
Rabbi Dienemann, who was a leader of the Union of Jewish War Veterans in Germany and a well-known author, was an early victim of the Nazi regime. A resident of Offenbach, he was first arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held two weeks in the Osthofen concentration camp for having described in a sermon the atrocities perpetrated in Biblical times and declaring that “to Jews it is the same thing whether the atrocities are committed by a French general or by the German police.”
His last experience with a Nazi concentration camp was during the period following the pogroms in Germany last November. He was among the first Jewish leaders seized and was held in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp for more than a month. Rabbi Dienemann was author of “Jewry and Christianity” and a number of other books on religious topics. He also contributed to periodicals.”
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
Phyllis Dixey (1914-1964): produced the first dedicated strip show in London on March 13 - try here, though this may be better
Giovanni dei Dolci: building the Sistine Chapel on Nov 1 - try here for him, though more and better here; here for it
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 [so he needs to be added to the burned books list on Dec 6]
Antoine Dominique Caliste Domino Jr (born February 26 1928; died October 24 2017), better known as “Fats”: rattling them keyboards on Jan 5
Valentin Doni: leading the National Radio Orchestra of Bucharest on June 2
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
Eaten Fish (Ali Dorani) cartooning on Sept 27 - Iranian born but now living in exile in Australia
Lord Alfred Douglas: “aiding and abetting a pederast” on April 5; apparently “Bosie” was his mother’s nickname, west country pronunciation of “boysie”, for “little boy”, long before Oscar used it, he was a poet (click here) and journalist;
George Downing (1625-July 22 1684): scathed by Pepys on Jan 1 and Dec 4
Nancy Drew makes a guest appearance with the Hardy Boys on Oct 4 – click here
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 24 (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
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 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) and focused on Cubism and Abstract, when not print-making; Raymond was a sculptor
Guildford Dudley, husband of Queen Jane (Lady Jane Grey-Dudley), with brother Robert Dudley (more famous as Queen Bess’ Earl of Leicester), and Sir John Dudley, her father-in-law, can all be found ruining her young life on July 19
Philip Dukes: playing the viola on April 1
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.
Jules Louis Dupré (1811-1889): yet another of Durand-Ruel’s discoveries on Feb 5; try here: [is he related to cellist Jacqueline?]
Jean Durand and Marie Ruel, wife Eva Lafon, all making up the family of Paul Durand-Ruel on Feb 5
Reginald Kenneth Dwight (Elton John): played the Cavern Club on Jan 16 (click here); apparently The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, Kinks and Who all graced that same stage (Bernie Taupin, who wrote the only decent songs Elton ever sang, gets a mention on June 20)
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