I
Marianne Christine Stang Ihlen: saying “so long” to Leonard Cohen on Nov 28 [musical maestros]
Alfred
Ilq: Swiss adviser to Emperor Menelik
II of Ethiopia [Africa page], telling off Rimbaud in no uncertain terms, on Oct 8 [on the page of The Poets]
Shulamit Imber: teaching how to
teach the Holocaust on Feb 12
Fanny Imlay: daughter
of Mary Wollstonecraft and “Captain” Gilbert Imlay (mum's first “partner”, they never married; more on
him here) on April 27; some years later the half-sister of Mary Shelley [on the page of The Philosophers]
Jules Isaac: quoted re
anti-semitism on July
14
Archbishop Simon Islip: appointed John Wycliffe as Head of Canterbury Hall on May 4; there is a street bearing his name on Thorney Island, right by Westminster
Abbey, but that’s for distant descendant Abbot John Islip not Simon [reverend writers]
Count Isoard II of Diá: father of Béatritz de Diá on Jan 13 [Trobairitz]
Israel ben Eliezer: the besht of the
besht on Oct 10 (but see also Elijah bar Aaron Judah Ba'al Shem (no Tov) of Chelm on March
11
John W. Ivimey: his full version of “Three Blind Mice” is on March 15, with illustrations by Walton Corbould [musical maestros]
J
Andrew Jackson (born March 15 1767; died June 8, 1845): re-elected President of US, with
Martin Van Buren as his VP, on Dec 5 - bio here
Glenda May Jackson: debuting as Charlotte Corday on July 13 [the world as stage]
Louis (Yehuda Leib) Jacobs: reforming
orthodoxy on Feb 21, converted to Masorti on Oct 10; his website (the one set
up in his name by his followers) here ; the book that caused all the trouble here [reverend
writers]
Amy Euphemia Jacques (Garvey) (born December 31 1895; died July 25 1973): journalist and activist,
co-founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in
Kingston, Jamaica in 1914 with her husband Marcus Garvey [pre-Columban Americas]
Michael Philip (Mick) Jagger: performing
at the Cavern Club on Jan 16; nimble
and quick on March 15; in Cheyne Walk with Marianne Faithful and Ronnie Wood on Sept 29 [musical maestros]
C.L.R
(Cyril Lionel Robert) James, but sometimes J.
R. Johnson (born in
Trinidad & Tobago on Jan 4 1901; died in London May 31 1989): befriended
George Padmore on June 28 [historians]
Robert Sympson Jameson: attorney-general of Canada and husband of Anna Brownell Jameson on May 17
Leo Eugen Janáček, though he is remembered as Leoš Janáček (born July
3 1854; died August 12 1928): performed by Gideon
Klein on April 1
[musical maestros]
Belle Jangles: definitely
not related to Mr Bojangles, nor to
the horse that later bore her name (click here), though all three had their ways of dancing; on March 13, and try here [the world as stage]
Greville Ewan Janner (born July 11 1928; died December 19 2015): former
MP for Leicester West; honouring a truly righteous Gentile on May 7 - try
here [responses to bullying]
James Jackson Jarves: with the Brownings and Anna
Brownell Jameson in Florence on May 17
Dawda Kairaba Jawara: the
first head of state when Gambia gained independence from Britain on February 19
1965 [Africa]
Michaëlle
Jean: English
Governor-General of Canada; listed among the women who achieved national
leadership on April 17 - more data here – her website here; at the moment on the Africa page but really she needs a listing of her own [pre-Columban Americas]
Thomas Jefferson (born April 13 1743; died July 4 1826): writing "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the
Citizen" with Gilbert Lafayette on Sept 18; re-elected
US President with George Clinton as his VP
on Dec 5; bio here [political ideologues]
Rodrigo de Jerez: accompanied Luis de Torres on Feb 1, though he isn’t mentioned on the page. How then do I know? Because it
turns out that he was the unnamed smoker on Nov 15, Torres on that
occasion the second man with him (I wonder if he declined the baccy because of
something in Jewish law?): the verification is at the green light on Nov 2; also click here [pre-Columban Americas]
Gonzalo
Jimenez de Quesada: founded Bogota in 1538
[pre-Columban Americas]
Tom Joad: Steinbeck’s book-version on Oct 3, with Woody Guthrie’s song-version linked on the page as well as here [serious scribes]
Patrick
Roland John: first
head of state when Dominica gained independence from Britain on November 3 1978
1978 [pre-Columban Americas]
Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf: the first woman in
modern times (see April 17!)
to lead an African nation; she was elected president of Liberia in 2005 [Africa]
John Arthur ("Jack") Johnson: defeated
Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia on December 26 1908 to become the
first African American heavyweight boxing champion of the world; two alpha
males beating each other up for money - how ridiculous - and normally I
wouldn't include it in this blog, but he makes a highly personal appearance in
my novel "A Journey In Time", and so he gets in here as well [Africa]
Lyndon Baines Johnson (born August 27 1908; died January 22 1973): affirmed affirmative action
by executive order on March 6
Maurice Joly: writing what would be turned into "The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion" on August 26
Bishop Jonah of Moscow (born
somewhen in 1390; died March 31 1461): bio here; known as “the Wonderworker” on Dec 5
Devora Jonas and Hemda
Jonas: sisters,
and wives of Eliezer Perelman, on Jan 7 [librarians of Babel] I wonder
if they were related to Rabbi Regina Jonas?
Leabua Jonathan: the
first head of state when Lesotho gained independence from Britain on October 4 1966 [Africa]
Catherine Jones: one of the Mary Astell circle on Nov 12
David Bowie: was
still called Davy (David Robert) Jones when I heard him do the warm-up for P.J. Proby at the Marquee Club (still at
90 Wardour Street back then), even before he did his Ziggy Stardust act there.
His website here; on the blog on Oct 3 [musical maestros]
Walter Jones: bought
Chastleton, where the Gunpowder was Plotted, on Nov 5
Rabbi Jose the Galilean (birthdate unknown; died on the 15th of Av, but no one knows in which
year): extremely rude to Beruriah on Jan 12; elsewhere it is recorded that she responded to his insult by calling him a “stupid Galilean”; his
bio here [mediaeval page of Woman-Blindness]
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