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William Lyon Mackenzie (born March 12 1795; died August 28 1861) started a rebellion in Canada on Dec 5 – bio here
Eóin MacNeill (born May 15 1867; died October 15 1945): leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (Bráithreachas Phoblacht na hÉireann) on April 24 and the Eirish page
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron: dreaming of Charlemagne on Dec 25
James Madison (born March 16 1751; died June 28 1836): sent the flag of truce that prepared the way for the Star-Spangled Banner on March 3
Nicolás Maduro: – accused of tyranny on July 5
Albertus Magnus – not that Magnus was his surname, but no one knows what that was, so this will have to suffice; no one knows when he was born either, only where, which was in Lauingen in Germany; he died in Cologne on November 15 1280: he belongs with his student Tomás Aquino, and can be found doing so on July 10. The college named for him can be found here; and a splendid bio with all his major works here.
Nachem Malech (Norman Kingsley) Mailer (born January 31 1923; died November 10 2007): at war with Susan Sontag on March 15; an “old pile of bones” according to Tom Wolfe on July 11
Savva Ivanovich Mamontov (born October 3 1841; died April 6 1918): buying the Abramtsevo Colony on June 2 - Abramtsevo website here; Mamontov here ; the Private Opera here
Mani (born April 14 216; died on a date unknown in probably 274): the founder of Manichaeism on Nov 18 – a full essay in ”The ghetto of the xtians” at TheBibleNet
Bradley (not yet renamed Chelsea) Manning: the precise opposite of treason on Jan 3
Luis Muñoz Marin: entertained by Pablo Casals on Nov 13
Peretz Davidovich Markish (born December 7 1895; murdered Aug 12 1952) – link to a full bio on the blog-page
Andrew William Stevenson Marr: commenting on the BBC’s Orwell statue on June 25
Thomas Mason (I.X. Peck in his humourous columns): the very first human voice recorded on a machine of any kind, ever, on my page for Nov 20 because I couldn’t find the actual date; but now click here
Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti (Pope Pius IX) 1846-78: inventing that most immaculate conception “The Immaculate Conception” on Feb 3
Savaric de Mauleon (born 1181; died July 29 1233): one of the Troubadours who came under the matronage of Maria de Ventadorn on Jan 13
Lucien Maxwell (and his son Pete) provided a death-bed for Billy the Kid on Nov 23
Ralph May (Ralph McTell): doing the revised version on Oct 3 - the original “Streets” were in Paris, as you can [Mc]tell by the man with his war ribbons and the baglady: not London images at all in that epoch, but totemically Parisian: click here
Theresa Mary May: holding her nose on March 6
Hattie McDaniel (born June 10 1893 in Wichita; died October 26 1952): very much arrived with the wind on Feb 29
Alister Gladstone MacDonald: architecting the original Toynbee Hall on June 5
Mbande Nzinga (and sometimes Ana Njinga, but in Swahili they reverse it as Nzinga Ana de Sousa Mbande, so that is why she is listed under M) of what is now Angola but was then the Ambundu Kingdoms of Ndongo (which she ruled from 1624–1663) and Matamba (which she ruled from 1631–1663) - among the Supra Idesses on April 17; bio here and here
Festus Claudius (“Claude”) McKay (born September 15 1890; died May 22 1948): in the Kremlin with George Padmore on June 28 - poems and bio here
Thomas Francis Meagher - pronounced "Mahr" - (born August 3 1823; died July 1 1867): leading the “Young Irelanders” on April 24 and the Eirish page
Catherine de Medici (born April 13 1519; died January 5 1589): among the Supra Idesses on April 17 - bio here
Ferdinand II de' Medici, Duke of Tuscany (1610-1670): surely he could and should have done much more for his teacher on Jan 8 – click here for what he did do
Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici (Pope Leo X) (1513-21): excommunicating Martin Luther on Jan 3; fighting over Dante’s bones on June 24
Rabbi Meir “Ba’al Chanes” - “the miracle worker” (2nd century CE): husband of Beruriah – his bio here and here; but note from my text on Jan 12 that he went to earn his nickname because she sent him
Meir of Rothenburg: known as “the Maharam”: born circa 1220; died as a hostage in the prison at Ensisheim in 1293: listed among the ga’onim on Feb 19; teaching Mordechai ben Hillel ha-Kohen on March 30
Mordechaj (Markus) ben Samuel Meisel - Miška Marek Majzel in Czech (born on an unknown day in 1528; died March 13 1601): building most of the major buildings in Old Prague on March 11. Worth looking at “By Night Under the Stone Bridge” by Leo Perutz (here); otherwise just go here:
Luigi Federico Menabrea (born September 4 1809: died May 24 1896): taking detailed notes at a Babbage seminar on June 5; bio here
Menelaus (mythological characters don’t have birth and death dates): getting Helen back on June 11
Albert Laurence di Meola: jamming with Chick and Paco on June 12 - and then, if I could find a way to add Charlie, what a wonderful quartet that would make: Mingus and di Meola, Corea and Di Lucia: piano, bass and two guitars: blues meets jazz in partnership with Jazz Fusion
David Mercer (born June 27 1928; died August 8 1980): the golden age of TV playwrights on Dec 3 - bio here
Angela Dorothea Merkel: dreaming of a United States of Europe on Dec 25, and please can someone tell me how this fantasy-vision-dream is any different from the one that Hitler and Napoleon were driven by.
Enrique Haroldo Gorriarán Merlo (born October 18 1941; died September 22 2006) I have him down as a GER on Sept 17, but is that US propaganda or was he genuinely? surely getting rid of the Somoza dynasty once and for all was a good thing to have done (unless you are building the US empire and want vassal states whose governments are under your control), and Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the one he killed, is definitely on that GER list: try here
George (1803-1880) and Charles Merriam (1806-1887): turning Webster’s Dictionary into their own on April 21
Joseph Carey Merrick (born August 5 1862; died April 11 1890): known as the “Elephant Man”; played by John Hurt on Jan 22; his full story, (CAVEAT: THE SITE INCLUDES PICTURES) here
Gautier de Metz, or probably Gossuin de Metz (13th century): his "The Mirrour of the World" (completed January 1245), quite possibly the world’s oldest encyclopedia, albeit written in rhymed octosyllables, can be found, translated and published by William Caxton, on March 8; background here, Project Gutenberg text here; as much as is known about him here
Jean de Meun (though some record her name with a final “g”): completed “Le Romance de la Rose” on Jan 13; see Guillaume de Lorris, above
Anna Michaels: even more "Fugitive Pieces” in the film than in the novel, on June 24; linked to my essay “Homage to Thomas Bowdler”
James Albert Michener (born February 3 1907; died October 17 1997): tracking down the source on Aug 3
Conyers Middleton (born December 27 1683; died July 28 1750): the step-grandfather without whom Elizabeth Montagu might never have become the salonneuse spectaculaire of Georgian England; Oct 2; his bio here, his library here
Leonard L Milberg: collecting Carvajal on Dec 8 (this link is also on the blog-page; this one is not, but it makes clear that wife Ellen may be just as significant to the collecting as husband Lenny)
Tanya Stabler Miller: beginning the Beguines on Jan 26 – and in conversation about the book here
Jean-François Millet (1814-1875): one of the Barbizon artists on Feb 5 - try here, and here:
William Chadbourne "Chad" Mitchell: My John Birch question on May 19 needs a follow-up, because I have now found the Trio singing Dylan’s “Blowin In The Wind” on the Ed Sullivan show (click here), exactly where he sang his paranoid version of “John Birch”. So clearly there is more than just coincidence going on here. And then there is the information that “In 1965, [John] Denver joined The Chad Mitchell Trio, replacing founder Chad Mitchell. After more personnel changes, the trio later became known as "Denver, Boise, and Johnson" (John Denver, David Boise, and Michael Johnson).” More on Mitchell here; (I'm afraid I haven't bothered to list John Denver)
Benjamin MiTudelo, which should have its Mi separate from its Tudelo, but this is how he tends to get written in the Jewish annals. Benjamin of Tudela in the English ones. Bin Yamin ben Yonah ha-Tudelati in the Hebrew. The Jewish ibn-Battuta rather more than the Jewish Marco Polo on March 5, and now the subject of a book in my own write, in partnership with both of those just-nameds. Bio here in the meanwhile.
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (born July 12 1884; died January 24 1920): sharing a lover with Osip Mandelstam on his birthday; painting Max Jacob on August 19
Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov (born March 9 1890; died November 8 1986): creating the Russo-Germanic martini on Aug 23
Sir John Monash (born June 27 1865; died October 8 1931): not exactly clear how he got to be related to my late wife on May 7
Admiral Michiel de Ruyter of Holland (1607-1676) versus Admiral General George Monck of England (1608-1670), the original battle of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) on June 4; apparently the latter was “the chief architect of the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660”; more on that here; a rather ominous-looking Ruyter here
Simon de Montfort (born circa 1208; died August 4 1265): set up the first English Parliament on June 23: start here but there is also this
Jean de Montreuil: typical male chauvinistic pig on Jan 13
Michael Francis Moore: the heir of the protest singers on Oct 3 - his website here
Charles Morice: writing about Verlaine under the pseudonym Karl Mohr on Feb 8
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (1841-1895): signed up by Durand-Ruel on Feb 5 - she is also in "Woman-Blindness" with her sister Edma Pontillon (1839-1921) - try here:
Lord Nuffield (1877-1963), the other William Morris (the designer is on the Index: William Richard Morris): giving even more of his wealth to worthy causes than Thomas Guy (see Feb 23 to understand that); look here to discover he was Morris Oxford cars, and the reason for Cowley (though he did use Fordian production lines, so a pulchrasaurus, just like Guy)
Chloe Anthony Wofford (“Tony”) Morrison (born February 18 1931; died August 5 2019): amongst the banned books on Dec 6
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (born April 27 1791; died April 2 1872): in code on Jan 4; also mentioned on June 23
Edgardo Mortara: his tale is told on July 14
Moses, who should be listed as Moshe ben Amram (though “Moses, son of a great people” is a most unlikely name!), and that Hebrew patronym should be enough to alert us to his true identity; as an Egyptian, Mousa [adopted?] [grand?]son of ibn Ra-Mousa, or in English Rameses!: all this, and he gets no more than a passing mention on Jan 3. However, there are also April 1st 1375 BCE, the date on which Moses left Egypt for Mount Sinai, though this is on the June 22 page and even more questionable than his Hebrew name; he can also be found conducting a census on April 29, and crossing the Nefud desert on Aug 15
Jacques de la Mothe captained the ship that took the Jews of Recife to New Amsterdam on Feb 1: very little data about him on the Internet, but start here
Jordan Lawrence Mott: his New York ironworks provided Marcel Duchamp with a convenient urinal on April 11; click here for some rather more arty items
Jean Pierre Moulin (born June 20 1899; died July 8 1943, buried at the Panthéon in Paris): in the Picasso-Max Jacob meet-up group on August 19, with more on him and the Jacob circle here; and if you thought what happened to Max Jacob was bad enough, you may need to prepare yourself for the first part of this link; but believe me, it’s worth the momentary anguish, because this turns out to be one of the true heroes of the French Resistance Movement
Archbishops Moussaron of Albi and Saliège of Toulouse, alongside Bishops Théas of Montauban, Delay of Marseilles, and Vanstenbergher of Bayonne, as well as Cardinal Gerlier of Lyon, have messages read out in their churches, in August and September 1942, protesting the deportation of Jews from France: see July 14. I have placed this here, partly because Archbishop comes first in the hierarchy, and Jean-Joseph-Aimé Moussaron then comes first in the alphabet, but mostly because he is in Albi, the home of the Albigensian Crusade, of those purists the Cathars, and what a shame there wasn’t a bishop or an archbishop let alone a Cardinal to defend them when they were treated by the church rather like Jews under the Nazis (see Oct 13 for more on this)
Edouard Moyse (born November 27 1827; died June 1 1908): providing the Illustration on Feb 3 – more detail here
Charles Alfred Mozley (born May 29 1914; died January 11 1991): designing Penguin book-covers on May 16 - his website here
Thea Musgrave (alive and well at 96 at the time of writing this): amongst Nadia Boulanger’s distinguished list of students on Aug 21 - Scottish apparently; her website here
Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa: fighting Holy Roman Emperor Leopold under a green light on May 21
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