David Prashker's Book Of Days: The Merely Mentioneds: N

Rabbi Nachman of Breslau (Wroclaw) (born April 4 1772, but in Medzhybizh in the Ukraine; he only moved to Breslov later on, and died in Uman, back in the Ukraine, on October 16 1810): : great-grandson of the Ba’al Shem Tov; processing life through allegories on July 3. His followers’ website here

Nancy: no known last name, and no need to publish it if it is known; her tragic suicide is honoured by Leonard Cohen on Nov 28; and click here to read her even deeper honouring by her nephew

John Napier of Merchiston (born February 1 1550; died April 4 1617): inventing logarithms on March 29

Graham William Nash: lauded with holly on Jan 13

Lucy Negro: the Dark Lady of the Sonnets on June 29

Nehemiah (Nechem-Yah ben Chachal-Yah): quoted on Jan 7; mentioned on March 5; fully historicised, translated and commentaried in “The Book of the Return from Exile” section of The BibleNet.

Nefertiti: among the Supra-Idesses on April 17 - bio here

Jan Nepomuk Neruda (born July 9 1834; died August 22 1891): see Feb 8 – bio here

Yonatan (“Yoni”) Netanyahu: born March 13 1946; shot dead on the steps of the plane, at Entebbe, on July 3 1976 - Bibi, his younger brother, left New York for Israel because of his brother’s heroic death, and swore to fulfill his life for him: why else do you think Hamas took so many hostages in 2023?

Helmut Neustädter (Helmut Newton) (born October 31 1920; died January 23 2004): among the great photographers on Feb 20; his website here

Laura de Neves, or maybe Laura de Noves, Laura de Novalis, Laura de Noyes, and definitely Madame de Sade (born circa 1310; died April 6 1348): unknowingly playing both Siren and Muse to Petrarch on Jan 16, and again on April 6

Thomas Gibson Nickerson (born March 20 1805; sunk by a whale but survived on November 20 1820; died February 7 1883): providing a source for Herman Melville's "Billy Budd, Sailor" on Nov 20; bio and other “Essex” related materials here and here and here

Jack William Nicklaus: being the “Golden Bear” on Dec 12

Barthold Georg Niebuhr (born August 27 1776; died January 2 1831): added to the Oxford history curriculum by Matthew Arnold on Dec 24: click here for the Arnold connection, here for the Niebuhr bio

David Nieto (born 1654 in Venice; died January 10 1728): amongst the first and most significaant of Cromwell’s Jews, on Sept 30; bio and writings here

Major General Iona Timofeevich Nikitchenko: chairing the Nuremberg trials on Oct 18, in partnership with Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Fedorovich Volchkov for the Russian side: why was he chosen? bio here, a Denmark eye view here, US eye view here, American Jewish eye view here, Anglo-Jewish eye view here – the British, French and American judges can be found here

Robert Anthony De Niro: thoroughly methodical on Jan 17 and Nov 17

Mehr-un-Nissa was her birthname, but she is remembered as “Nur Jahan - light of the world” (born May 31 1577; died December 17 1645): the twentieth wife and chief consort of the Mughal emperor Jahangir, though no question who wore the pantaloons in that marriage. Listed among the Supra Idesses on April 17; bio here

Guibert de Nogent (born April 15 1055; died at the splendidly named Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique at some time in 1124 or 1125): his last-name taken from the abbey at which he was the Benedictine father from 1104 until his death. Chronicler of the massacres of Jews that took place during the First Crusade, on July 14

Francis Kwame Nkrumah (born September 21 1909; died April 27 1972): starting to recover Africa from European conquest on June 28; his bio here (and yes, I’ve chosen a propagandistically British website, not an African one, just so you can see how much it hurt); rather less propagandistic here; his own version here

Vítĕzslav Augustín Rudolf Novák (born December 5 1870; died July 18 1949): impressionist composer who influenced Hans Krása on April 1; bio and works here