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Marianne Christine Stang Ihlen: saying “so long” to Leonard Cohen on Nov 28
Alfred Ilq: Swiss adviser to King Menelik II of Ethiopia, telling off Rimbaud in no uncertain terms, on Oct 8
Fanny Imlay: daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) and “Captain” Gilbert Imlay on April 27; some years later the half-sister of Mary Shelley
Gilbert Imlay: first “partner” (they never married) of Mary Wollstonecraft on April 27 - try here
Archbishop Simon Islip: appointed John Wycliffe as Head of Canterbury Hall on May 4; there is a street bearing his name on Thorney Island (see P’s London) click here [but on reflection I think that’s wrong: the street is named for John Islip not Simon: need to follow that up]
Count Isoard II of Diá: father of Béatritz de Diá on Jan 13
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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
Louis Jacobs (born 17 July 1920 ; died 1 July 2006): 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
Michael Philip (Mick) Jagger: performing at the Cavern Club on Jan 16; nimble and quick on March 15
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
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
Michaëlle Jean: English Governor-General of Canada; listed among the women who achieved national leadership on April 17 - more data here – her website here
Thomas Jefferson (born April 13 1743; died July 4 1826): re-elected US President, with George Clinton as his VP, on Dec 5 - bio here; best remembered for writing the Declaration of Independence
Roy Harris Jenkins (born November 11 1920; died January 5 2003): Labour politician (click here): egotistical about Mountbatten on August 27
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; and click here
Tom Joad: Steinbeck’s book-version on Oct 3, with Woody Guthrie’s song-version linked on the page as well as here
Joseph Johnson: (born November 15 1738; died December 20 1809): publisher and salon-host to a quite extraordinary group of intellectuals, on April 27 - more here. Not to be confused with his contemporary James Johnson (born 1753?; died February 26 1811): also a publisher, of books as well as music, and best known for co-writing the songbook “The Scots Musical Museum” with Robert Burns.
Lyndon Baines Johnson (born August 27 1908; died January 22 1973): affirmed affirmative action by executive order on March 6
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
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; Oct 3
Walter Jones: bought Chastleton, where the Gunpowder was Plotted, on Nov 5
Rabbi Jose the Galilean (birthdate unknown; died on the 15th 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” - try here
Yesha-Yah ben Yoseph, known by his Latin pronunciation as Jesus, rather than by his Greek pronunciation as Isaiah; born either December 21 1BCE or January 6 1CE, on the threshing-floor of the corn-god Tammuz in Beit Lechem Ephratah, on June 22 as it happens in this blog, though for some reason it is usually listed on modern Christian calendars as December 25 (probably it got moved when the introduction of the Gregorian calendar shifted everything by four days: see the Calendars page); died Erev Pesach 32 or 34 CE. Also mentioned on Jan 5, and on April 29 where Yoseph his father, Mor-Yah his mother, and Herod the king, also get included, alongside quotes from Luke and Matthew.
Flavius Josephus: recording history as propaganda for Rome on March 10 - when he was still known as Yosef ben Mattityahu (born 37 CE in Yerushalayim; died circa 100 CE in Rome) he led the Jewish Zealots as a resistance army against the Romans, then showed the Romans the back way into Yodfat (Jotapata), and was rewarded by being appointed Titus’ personal interpreter, which gave him a rather unique perspective on the destruction of the Temple in 70CE.
Joshua: how odd to find liberator Yehoshua ben Nun immediately after traitor-defector Josephus in this list: crossing the Nefud desert on Aug 15, and all over TheBibleNet, starting here
Jean-Claude Juncker: 23rd prime minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013 and 12th president of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019, on Jan 3 and Dec 25
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